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CileTheSane

@ CileTheSane @lemmy.ca

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  • Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms

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  • Why are you quibbling over a rounding error resulting in someone getting door service? If your concern is taxes there are much bigger fish to fry. (Fish that don't occupy a statistically insignificant portion of the budget)

  • TIL When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

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  • When a .gif file tells me itself that it is pronouced "hif" then that is how I will pronouce it.

  • TIL When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

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  • is not currently widely accepted in either pronunciation

    It is widely accepted in both pronciations. "Aluminum" has a different pronouciation in the UK then it does in the Americas. Both are correct depending on where you are. If you hear someone use the pronouciation you're not used to it might take your half a second to mentally adjust, but you'll understand just fine and can continue the conversation.

    How is this different from the argument that GIF being pronounced with a hard G is incorrect and stupid? It was wrong then and over much time became right.

    Correct. Over time the hard G became right because that's how it was used. Notice how I am not arguing the people should actually be using "Iegland".

    it doesn't happen because one person decides it should

    Which is exactly what you are arguing for.

  • Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms

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  • I don't see why it should be subsidized with taxes.

    I don't see why 0.2% of the annual budget should be a focus of cost concerns. The total expenditure in the 2024 Federal budget was $538 billion dollars. If we subtract the cost of Canada Post from that it would be... About $538 billion dollars.

    If this was a private company, they'd be willing to work it out because they'd be afraid of the business folding

    That goes for the business refusing to negotiate with the union. If it was a private company they wouldn't have the option of waiting until the government forces everyone back to work without an agreement.

  • TIL When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

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  • Language changes over time (like looong periods of time) as cultures grow and merge and I recognize and respect that

    How much time is required before something is allowed to change?

    When "Iegland" was first spelled as "Island" that was wrong. It was incorrect and stupid. It wasn't okay because "Iegland has been around long enough so we can change it now." It became correct because that is how people started using it.

    It's not the amount of time, it's how language is used and understood.

  • Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms

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  • We all need to set fire to billions of dollars a year...

    Funding Canada Post is less than 1% of the government's budget. This is not the place to focus on cutting costs.

    You should be returning to a desk to pick up such an important document, and providing proper ID to a properly trained individual to receive such a thing, in a controlled environment.

    How much is that going to cost? The amount of wasted money and man hours to do that justifies the cost of Canada Post.

  • Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms

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  • Well I mean they were until the postal union led their employees off the job once again for the umpteenth time.

    Canada Post continuously refuses to negotiate with the union and relies on the Government forcing them back to work instead of coming to an agreement, and you're surprised that they go on strike again?

    I'm surprised that it took this long and that the service I was receiving was decent.

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  • Unless the government is going to make Internet access an essential service and make sure all homes have access the same way they have access to electricity and water...

    Yes, it is vital that everyone have access to mail.

  • Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms

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  • Canada post's costs are less than 1% of the government budget.

    If we're looking to save money there's better places to look.

  • Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms

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  • The only people that benefit from competition, are the ones who own the company.

    Ask people in BC how much they benefit from ICBC having a monopoly on car insurance...

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  • Best I can find the government gave a $1 billion loan to Canada Post.

    The toal expenditures in the 2024 budget was $538 billion.

    This is having $500 in wallet and being concerned that the $1 you loaned to someone could have been spent better.

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  • Their shortfall was 841 million last year. Who is supposed to pay for that?

    Taxes. It's a government service.The Department of National Defence had a shortfall of $28.8 billion last year, who is supposed to pay for that?

    The 2024 Federal budget had a revenue of 498 billion. The Canada Post "shortfall" was less than 0.2% of the budget.

  • TIL When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

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  • When the guy that names it

    The original name for "Island" did not have an 's' in it. Some scholar added the 's' as a stylistic choice to make the word look more Latin (despite not having a Latin root).

    Unless you're also arguing with people that "It's spelled 'Iegland', because that's how it was originally named" you can STFU about how it was originally intended.

    Sorry, I'm using language that has been changed from it's original intented form, let me fix that:

    Þæt ǣrest nama þæs "Īglandes" næfde nāne 's' on him. Sum wita ēcde þæt 's' swā stīllic gecēosung tō macienne þæt word līcian Lǣden (þēah hit næbbe Lǣden wurt). Nymþe þū ēac winne mid folce þæt "Hit is gespelod 'Īegland', forþām swā hit wæs ǣrest genemned," þū meaht swīgian ymbe hū hit wæs ǣrest gedōn.

  • TIL When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

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  • I also often say it the right way just to irritate people who sound as insufferable about it as you, though.

    Irony is dead.

  • 'This affair is far from over': Disney shareholders are now revolting over Jimmy Kimmel

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  • A news article being posted is not demanding you care.

  • Disappointed Christians say God is delaying the Rapture until Epstein Files are released

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  • Define "anyone".

    My statement was clear, and instead of addressing it you are trying to change the subject to arguing about definitions. I'm not biting.

  • Disappointed Christians say God is delaying the Rapture until Epstein Files are released

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  • Oh shit, Jordan Peterson is on Lemmy.

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • A company taking responsibility for the ads they serve? That sounds like communism to me!

  • Disappointed Christians say God is delaying the Rapture until Epstein Files are released

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  • If the only reason you're not doing those things is out of fear of eternal punishment then you're not a good person.