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Hacksaw

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  • How many cars are needed

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  • People ARE assholes like that, but they will take nice public transit if it's convenient. Especially if you want to have a drink or two going out or to a friend's house.

    Sometimes if it's really convenient people take it instead of driving in rush hour which helps everyone!

  • Portland police order ICE protesters’ tents cleared, warn of stepped-up enforcement to come

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  • Cops are always on the side of fascists, even in blue cities.

  • 2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"

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  • Yup. I hope they start something BIG!

  • Danielle Smith to striking teachers: Go back to school for classroom concerns to be addressed

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  • They said this strike was about class size limits and you said the problem is too complicated for simple class size limits, disagreeing with the union position.

    Do you really think the teachers asking for class size limits don't understand the nuance you pointed out? Do you think you're the only one who understands the complexity of the situation. And yet they're all asking for class size limits anyways, because although it's imperfect it's better than the current approach.

    I don't see where you're confused. When you respond against a statement you're disagreeing with it, as I'm disagreeing with you. Stop pretending context doesn't matter and each of your statements should be taken and debated independently. That's nonsense!

  • 2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"

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  • Good luck to those two. Unless a significant portion of the military and national guard reject orders they're just going to get court martialed.

    https://youtu.be/TwPLqGkYnBA

    Basically if you're in the army you HAVE TO obey orders. "I was just following orders" is enshrined as a legal defense for everything except overtly criminal acts like genocide, killing babies, etc... even if the order was otherwise illegal. On the other hand, disobeying an order you think might be illegal means you will be arrested and held until a judge decides if the order was legal or not.

    The only way this works is if their fellow military members and National guard all refuse to obey these illegal orders to hurt their fellow countrymen.

  • Danielle Smith to striking teachers: Go back to school for classroom concerns to be addressed

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  • I like how you know that some classes are too big to manage. You list several considerations a teacher may use to determine what is and isn't a manageable class size. Then you turn around and use that to argue AGAINST class size limits.

    You apparently oppose any class size limit because "it doesn't perfectly resolve every situation", leaving the teachers with no class size limits and no tools to resolve the very real issue of managing large class sizes.

    This is a perfect encapsulation of conservative logic.

    1.You see a problem you agree is real 2. You see someone's proposed imperfect solution to the problem which certainly would shrink the size of the problem but not perfectly solve it. 3. You oppose the solution because although it would shrink the size of the problem, it's imperfect and doesn't solve the whole thing all at once. 4. You don't propose or support any replacement. 5. The problem continues to grow unresolved, and you're satisfied having done a good job stopping any kind of progress whatsoever.

  • Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to send striking teachers back to work

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  • LMFAO the amount of union cope in this post is WILD.

    "I used to work for an non union school and we got fucked by the government. Luckily they sent someone down to convince us this was okay. Then after I left the teachers there realised it's NOT okay, unionized and immediately got the same better pay that I was told simply wasn't possible. Now the government is trying to fuck the teachers again including by the tyrannical use of the NWC and the unions are standing up for it but I'm confused, could it be the unions were good all along and the government was bad?!?"

    Bro, I'm sorry you were so easily separated from the fair wages you deserved and could have had if you were unionized. We need unions to protect teachers like you, who are willing to give up their fair wages for a sad story. The very same gentleness that likely makes you great with kids is used by the government to exploit you. You need protection from people who are going to fight for what you deserve from a government who has been fucking teachers over from day one.

    Edit: in case it helps the reason the teachers union is refusing the agreement isn't wages, it's because they want a class size limit. As a teacher you should know what it's like teaching classes of 35+ kids. The government won't budge because they don't care about teachers or kids. They see teachers as overpaid government funded babysitters so parents can go to work, and the more kids they can throw in a class the cheaper it is for them.

  • Good Samaritan Overdose Act upheld in Canada’s highest court

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  • This is excellent news. The ends don't justify the means, just because the person committed crimes doesn't mean the police can ignore the law to find evidence and arrest them.

    The police showed up at an overdose case, and found people with drugs, which is obviously true, people without drugs don't overdose. The Good Samaritan act prohibits the police from arresting/investigating people on drug charges during an overdose call. As a result of the arrest the police found evidence of other crimes on his person and charged him with those crimes instead. The judges ruled that because the arrest was illegal, all evidence gathered during the arrest was also illegal. This is EXACTLY the role of judges, to reinforce the law and prevent abuses of power.

    I literally can't understand the opposing view because it sounds a lot like "illegally gathered evidence should be admissible in court" which if you know any history at all is a bonkers take.

  • Ontario’s plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list

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  • These businesses are dumb as fuck. The data is in: around 10% of purchases at downtown businesses come from people who drove there. Making streets more welcoming to pedestrians, transit users and cyclists boosts local and small business revenues even when it's at the cost of being less welcoming to cars.

    https://tcat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Bike-Lanes-On-Street-Parking-and-Business_-A-Study-of-Queen-Street-West-in-Toronto%E2%80%99s-Parkdale-Neighbourhood.pdf

    These people just don't understand the science and data behind who their customers are and how to cater to them.

  • Halloween costumes

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  • This is a bullshit take that Monika Lewinsky denies even now

    This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through.

    If you can make a criticism it's that Clinton blamed the whole thing on her being a seductive harlot including in his book after the presidency. But you certainly can't just decide she's a victim in a sexual relationship because you feel like it's true, that's the opposite of believe women and you're undermining her agency

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Lewinsky

  • ‘My Face … Is Still Numb’: Cops Brutally Beat and Arrest Black Man for Recording Them — A Jury Let Them Off the Hook, But a Judge Just Flipped the Script

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  • Where did these cop lawyers find a jury of 12 bootlickers?

    At least the judge was based af!

  • These 49 Canadians Have Served In Israel’s Military Since Oct. 7

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  • Lol the guy is literally "I got nothing better so here is an ad hominem"

  • These 49 Canadians Have Served In Israel’s Military Since Oct. 7

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  • Wow, commit war crimes or renounce citizenship? Such a hard choice!

  • The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

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  • To honestly compare the efficiency of cars you have to consider that the car might weigh 2000kg, but when it's only transporting a 100kg occupant you have to divide the efficiency by 20. Only when you're fully utilizing the vehicle to transport many passengers and cargo are you going to approach the efficiency values on the graph. All the vehicles have the same problem, they assume you're not just trying to get to the destination, but that you also want to bring your mobile living room (with couch and recliners and HVAC system and a storage locker) to the destination as well.

    By comparison, walking has the full efficiency since you're transporting yourself in full to the destination.

  • They were made in a factory. A bomb factory. They're bombs.

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  • Oh yeah I'll drop it... With my NO ARMS ... you insensitive piece of poop

  • Those monstrosities should be f*ing illegal

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  • I thought this was about the freaky little mankins, I was like "yeah they're freaky, but banned is a bit harsh" then I saw that the background was a modern truck grille, not a building.

  • They were made in a factory. A bomb factory. They're bombs.

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  • Insuranace is a joke

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  • The minimum liability insurance isn't a scam. If you hit someone and cripple them you'll be glad for insurance to pay their medical etc...

    Comprehensive is absolutely a scam. Just take the money and save it, maybe buy some bonds. Then when it's time to buy a new car (or when you get your car totaled) you're already half way to a new car.

  • Best stay away from that guy

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  • But don't stay TOO far away, otherwise you can still be a victim of arrows. There is in ideal distance to THAT GUY to minimize your arrow related risks.