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6of1_halfdozenofother

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  1. Take it for what it's worth, but it's expected that Boeser will sit Game 7.
  2. I'm just glad the fucking zebras actually finally called McFuckface for his Tim "Dr. Hook" McCracken antics.
  3. Not to mention - as is the M.O. appears to be from that poster - the burial industry is regulated under Provincial jurisdiction and not federal, as the poster would have us believe. Those Ontarians and Quebeckers and Albertans (oh my!) really should have a talk with their right-of-centre provincial governments.
  4. Canucks win 6-4, Podkolzin GWG, assists to Silovs, Irbe, and Skriko.
  5. The drawback of that approach though is that due to the sudden slowing down of information transmission (flawed and tinted - and in some cases, perverted or intentionally mis-told - as it was), people would also be overly insulated and presumably ignorant about the current happenings of the world (bad or negative as they were). We'd be less inclined to make decisions that would benefit society and other members of our species, because perspective would be both narrowed to only what we can see, hear, or encounter locally, and those decisions we'd make would be poorly informed due to the lack of bigger-picture details. I think what's missing (or what's being lost over time) is the ability to discern between fact and opinion, and the ability to separate objective from bias. Critical thinking is perhaps what's becoming lacking as time goes on, and I'm not sure that removing the primary conduits of information transmission would necessarily fix that.
  6. Problem is, a lot of people view the NDP as one step removed from communism.
  7. Which puts them in the 3rd category - inexpensive abundant expertise. You're kind of right though, I should have qualified the statement with an additional word: the former two are historically the domain of plunderers/colonialism.
  8. I think the reports that came out was that it was his knee, the same one that had issues, but it was a "different" issue this time. Whatever that means.
  9. Not gonna happen, man. The NHLOA would raise a hissy fit if you were to reduce the on-ice officiating by 25% and have their members correspondingly reduced in number on the active roster (owing to lack of officiating spots to be filled for games). If anything, they'd be pushing for four linesmen and three refs. Because membership counts. $$$
  10. The other part of that equation (at least from my layman/non-expert perspective) is the point @Boudrias made about capital leaving. Capital is likely to get invested when one or more of three things exist: inexpensive abundant resources, inexpensive abundant labour, or inexpensive abundant expertise. The former two are the domain of plunderers/colonialism, while the latter can sometimes be a bit of a unicorn. Not really sure I have a point to make here, but just my observation by the untrained eye.
  11. You actually sound supportive of the NDP in this post! Who are you and what have you done to Jimmy?!
  12. Some bedtime reading, should you feel so inclined... https://time.com/5175704/andrew-wakefield-vaccine-autism/
  13. Yup. There was a whole (bowel) movement about how immunizations were giving kids autism.
  14. I don't think "saving money" is their M.O. More likely their goal is to get priority service for the haves, so that the filthy have-nots can rot in the public system queue. As with most things right-wing, it's all about entitlement and preferential treatment. For them, of course. Not for the have-not scum.
  15. Almost as if the CPC's "plans" are of the form: 1. Farm rage about "broken" Canada 2. Fuck Trudeau 3. ??? 4. Profit!
  16. Maybe time to move this thread into the big team's subforum? @-AJ- @Roger Neilsons Towel
  17. “Obviously, this year our [World Championship] team is trying their best, we’re also following Šilovs because you know, he already has a World Cup medal and we want him to win the Stanley Cup.” Andrejsons says that while the country also loves Šilovs teammate and Latvian national Teddy Blueger, the Latvian national team doesn’t have a good defence, and so “our goalies have to be really good to carry us all the way.” “We’re really glad that the team he’s playing for is the Canucks because it would be much harder if it was something like the Florida Panthers because we don’t like Ovechkin much,” he explained. Andrejsons says everyone, “literally everyone” in the Baltic country roughly the size of the Lower Mainland, with almost 2 million people, will be watching Šilovs in Game 6 Saturday night. “Please do make it to the finals,” he said. “We’re going to be super excited for this.” He says Latvians already have plans in the works for if, and when, Šilovs has the opportunity to bring the Stanley Cup back home to Europe. “We will be super excited to have that in Riga, because we want to see it and then everyone’s gonna take the day off. There’s gonna be a massive picture-taking event and massive partying. “It’s going to be a great achievement to see Lord Stanley’s trophy back here in Riga. That’s something that almost everyone wants to see.” With rumours that first-string goalie Thatcher Demko might start in the net on Saturday night after being out with injury, Andrejsons says this of Šilovs: Andrejsons says Šilovs love of ice packs in the locker room helps him stay calm and cool. “That’s a common thing in Latvia that you’re recommended to do — when you’re stressed out and everything.” The puck drops at 5 p.m. Saturday for Game 6 in Edmonton. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/05/17/vancouver-canucks-arturs-silovs-keeping-lativia-up-playoffs/ There are bunch of "tweets" embedded in the article that probably won't display in the quote above, so I'd suggest going to the URL above to see those (there are too many to try to embed separately in this post).
  18. https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/05/17/People-Love-Watching-Grizzlies/ Copying and pasting the whole article (due to its formatting) is a real pain, so excerpts it is. Excerpt 1: Excerpt 2:
  19. You also have to remember that for them, every accusation is actually a confession.
  20. At the very least, they seem to be tone-deaf.
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