tleb

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[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

They compete on prices just like the grocery stores competed on bread prices

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the same argument that my original comment is against. You just labelled the Liberal + NDP bucket as "left".

If we had a ranked ballot (I don't actually want ranked ballot, but it's useful for demonstrating my point), I would rank NDP as 1 and not rank Liberals or CPC because I don't like either of them. Just because the Liberals are left of the CPC does not make them "left", and does not magically earn them every NDP vote.

Likewise, I'm sure there are Liberal voters who would rather have CPC than NDP.

There is no collective "left" of all NDP + Liberal voters.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

That's probably true for NDP voters (i.e. they'd rather have a Liberal government than CPC), but I don't think it's true that Liberal voters would rather have NDP than Conservative.

We're both just speculating though, there's probably some actual info on this from people studying ranked ballots

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I hate this mentality of bucketing Liberals and NDP together. They're different parties with different policies, and one of the main benefits of PR is that leftists don't have to compromise our values and vote Liberal just to prevent Conservatives from winning. Treating it like left vs right just pushes us towards the Democrat vs Republican in the US.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bernie isn't senile

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca -3 points 4 months ago

It really isn't that much better, instead we should be periodically stretching or exercising

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago (22 children)

Standing desks - stationary standing is just as bad as stationary sitting.

Blue light filter stuff - it's my understanding that there's no evidence that blue light causes eye strain.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Immigration is a bandaid fix for work culture problems. People will have families and kids if they have the time and money.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hated that movie.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

Arena started it all, with the entirety of Tamriel generated for you to explore freely. Daggerfall moved that into a smaller region with political intrigue and a detailed character system. Morrowind took it to new exotic lands and introduced the series to both consoles and the world of modding and creators. Oblivion brought us to the heart of the Empire, realms beyond, and all new gameplay mechanics. Skyrim let you do battle with dragons in Tamriel’s harsh northern province.

Reading this paragraph kind of highlights when they stopped innovating

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 35 points 9 months ago (4 children)

As a developer, Safari is the browser that supports the least standards and is holding the browser ecosystem back.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

My point was about foreign investors avoiding the ban through international students

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