I guess we disagree, but I’m not going to stop people from voicing their opinions and linking them to their official identities.

The problem with the internet is that it doesn’t always forget. That’s exactly why I do my best to keep my accounts separate. However, yes, semantic analysis could demask me in the future, who knows. At least it’ll give me the opportunity to say “that’s not my account”. If something is officially linked to my account, my “genius” thoughts will be bound to me and could easily be found by friends, foes, employers, whatever.

What I’m getting at is: privacy is important. Giving it up should be carefully considered, not simply done by default or thoughtlessly or “because everyone does it”.

I’d like to live under that rock you call home.

There must be a reason why there aren’t enough Canadian doctors. If that isn’t resolved, getting more doctors and medical staff from the US is just going to be a stop-gap solution. It might actually convince politicians that “nothing is wrong” and reduce or eliminate their willingness to fix the existing problems.

Could somebody explain why Canada has a doctor’s shortage? And maybe also how they imagine it should be addressed?

Someone should tell the /r/canada mods to promote lemmy. Reddit is just a propaganda platform for the rich.

Snickers is a US brand…

Wordpress supports federation. Or are you looking for something else?

Europe could also send over our USA-lovers to MAGA-land. I like the way you think.

No worries, as a European, English isn’t my first language either :P

And as a response: if my job depended on being on the “right side of things” I wouldn’t make such controversial statements. Not only is it dumb in the moment, but also for the future. People are very polarised and even if she had changed her mind by now, there’d still be outrage “omg, look at what she said years ago! I don’t trust that she changed!”. Of course she supposedly doubled down, which is even dumber IMO, but you get the point.

I use this anonymous account because what the opinions I express here will probably evolve and I don’t want any future employer putting me into a box due to a comment made in jest, rage, or whatever. Revealing your identity online for anything other than business is just asking for trouble.

It’s their “god given right”, didn’t you know?

Would you if it’s something you care about

Did you forget a word?

I’m having trouble with the rest of your post too. Autocorrect must’ve struck or something.

That’s great. Since when and does everybody take psych 101?

And just to give a wider perspective (regardless of her origins), not every language makes the distinction and some up until recently did not. Look at the translations on (wiktionary). Many of them are transliterations of the English word. Which is not a surprise since the concept of gender is quite recent (1950-1960s) and was most likely very US-centric.

I don’t understand why people don’t keep such comments to their anonymous, unofficial accounts. You can hold such views in private and still treat people with respect, but saying these things officially changes everything. The co-organiser is in a space where she should know better. She then even doubled down

When asked whether she still held her more problematic views in a follow-up comment, Young responded ambiguously with “I fully stand by the statement you are commenting on.”

In for a penny, in for a pound, eh?

The first link you posted is the same as I posted and doesn’t reveal the percentage of 3+ home owners. Additionally, the second link you posted reveals that Vancouver has 53.6% of multiple home owners and Toronto 43.0%. If you have 3+ homes out in the sticks, its way less aggravating to the rest of the population that if you have it in a densely populated city.

The data show that nearly half of multiple-property owners who lived in the Vancouver CSD (44.8%), Surrey CSD (45.8%), Richmond CSD (44.2%) and Toronto CSD (46.8%) also owned properties within the same CSD.

Do you really think such a measure wouldn’t be important in such cities? The rich and wealthy thank you for your service as their defender. They definitely need it.

Show me the numbers. I only found numbers on multiple home owners, but not how many homes they have.

• Landlord Nation: Over 1 In 6 Canadian Homeowners Own Multiple Properties : Multiple property owners held more than a third of Nova Scotia’s housing stock (40.9%).
• Single and multiple residential property owners: Demographic data and value of properties owned

Also, I wasn’t saying it should be the only measure. Nowhere did I say that.

Force the rich to sell their multiple houses too. Tax their wealth and they won’t have a choice. 3rd homes should get taxed at 10% of their value or more. Let’s stop kidding around. That’ll force them to divest fast as fuck.

Awesome, thank you!

Oh shit, really? Do you have a source for that?

I wish they worked with opensource projects like Heroic to provide an easy and fast way to run their games on Linux like in Steam. And if they provided a donation option or something to fund that work.

It would another Vietnam or Afghanistan. They’d invade, kill a few thousand maybe million people, mire around, and then retreat again with their funds drained and thousands of crippled veterans with PTSD.

Busy consooooming