Alberta takes every opportunuty to sniff its own farts. They believe they are better than the rest of us, and that they have a divine right to tell us what to do.
Not necessarily at the individual level, but at the provincial, cultural level.
They're into the same wild self-egrandizing as the Americans. They can't say anything good about themselves without sneering at someone else. They are selfish, they are bullies, and they are a national embarrasment.
Hah! The NDP threatening the stability of the government again will end them. There is no appetite right now for playing games. The NDP already looks like the party of failed and dangerous opportunists after they tried to hand thr government to the Conservatives as Trump mocked us.
And to engage peoples hard, negative feelings. The conservatives keep capturing the NDP's natural base because they refuse to actually reflect their feelings and perceptions back to them. This whole "let's get along, and cancel your bank fees" thing doesn't resonate.
You have to soft launch your fascist dictatorship. People need time to accept the possibility.
It took a lifetime to turn the Roman Republic into the Principate. You gotta ease into these things to keep peope from shanking you on the senate floor.
This data allows you to see if children of sales assistants, restaurant workers, janitors, are underrepresented. It allows you to measure social mobility and meritocracy.
But can't the same thing be said about melanin levels? "There is no data suggesting there is a problem" is a door bad actors hide behind all of the time.
Personally, I'd just like to see up/downvotes replaced wholesale with emoji reactions.
Downvotes are a dark feature designed to excuse Reddit (and YouTube, etc.) from actually moderating their platforms under the guise of "social" moderation, but it's actually something that stifles speech that challenges the consensus, rather than preventing toxicity.
Meanwhile, custom emojis are another way for instaces to differentiate themselves.
That would be interesting, since PM is elected by Parliament. What's he going to do? Argue that the honourable member from St. John's wasn't actually standing when counts were being taken?
This. Even if people have a basic understanding of how elections work in principle, in practice they vote for who they want to (or who they think will -- people love backing a winner) be PM.
My home price has doubled since Covid, but so have all the others around me. The gains are fake. The only benefit is to the real estate agent, and my ego.
There's nothing secret about it. They told us up front.
It's why I stopped using Windows.