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It's called "algebraic notation".

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Out of curiosity, what content in the video do you specifically disagree with?

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I would argue that it's due to people not making the distinction between the government policies that attract immigrants, and the immigrants themselves. The immigrants are simply pawns in the greater game, and they are therefore used as a scapegoat to detract from the government's own failings.

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I see no citations in the video description and I’m not too interested in listening to their argument if they can’t provide those citations up front.

Yeah, I agree that this is annoying, but, to be fair to the video, there are citiations within the video itself in the bottom right corner. I have no proof if they are provided for every claim, however.

The only measure they seem to be appealing to in order to support their claim that “no one wants to live in Canada” is that Canada has lowered in happiness index.

Aha, I would be very hesitant to justify clickbait, but, that being said, did the creator refer to that thesis within the video itself (I'm not disagreeing with you, necessarily — I could simply have missed something in the video)? One other claim that may be in line with that thesis is at 12:38 when they mention that, each year, Canada loses 0.7% (in the video, they misquote this figure as 7%, but, to be fair, the document that they were citing wrote the value as ".7%" which, arguably, could be easily misread) of its population to brain drain.

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reflect on how bad you colonized and fucked up my continent

By "my continent", I presume that you are referring to the idea that the indigenous peoples were the first ones to arrive in North America, and, by extension, you apply the first possession principle? Also, for clarity, what exactly does "my continent" refer to, in terms of lands?

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food prices are through the roof because we’re being robbed

Would you mind clarifying what you mean by this?

Higher education is unaffordable to anyone without wealthy parents

Based on what are you making this claim? The Canadian Government and the provincial governments provide loans and financial support to students, which should be able to cover all expenses for an average post secondary institution [source] [source]. Furthermore, the Canadian government provides extra support for Indigenous Peoples [source].

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It seems most the problems you’re talking about are global problems though.

Which problems that they mentioned do you think are global, and why?

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Is empty housing a prevelant problem across Canada? I was under the impression that it was really only a problem in Metro Vancouver. Furthermore, B.C. has a vacancy tax [source], which should capture the negative societal and economic impact generated by empty housing .

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Empty houses in the Metro Vancouver area have certinaly been an issue [source]. The B.C. Speculation and Vacancy Tax was implemented to discourage this behaviour [source]. Theoretically, it should also capture the negative impact that vacant housing has on society and the economy.

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My child will have to take out loans for like x10 that amount and it will destroy her future before it even begins.

It depends on where one goes — not all post secondary institutions charge the same amounts. Generally, the fancier/more reputable schools will charge the most. It is quite possible to complete undergrad in Canada for <30k CAD (not including living and transportation expenses). Also, keep in mind that inflation is innevitable — the Government of Canada targets an inflation rate of 2% per year [source].

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The original comment that I responded to was about inflation, food costs and housing costs.

Those are all global problems.

How would you argue that they are global problems? (please don't interperet that as condescending, or accusatory — I am simply curious. It is hard to convey emotion through text)

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I would guess that it is extremely difficult to quantify how much of an effect the tax has had on the housing market. Anything beyond a guess, however, would be outside of my qualifications — I would defer to those who have looked into this more appropriately. After a very quick, and cursory websearch, I found a paper that stated the following:

From the empirical analysis of overall market, we cannot detect the significant
effect of Speculation and Vacancy Tax on the price of housing property in Vancouver after
the implementation. Only the parameters of GDP of real estate growth and unemployment
rate are reexamined to be statistically significant. We could observe the decrease of housing
price in Vancouver from the price chart after the tax policy entered into force. The decrease
is also reflected by the negative coefficient of City*Time although it is not significant. [...] Focusing on a specific region’s housing price, we still cannot detect that British Columbia’s Speculation and Vacancy Tax has significantly impact on the housing price of
Vancouver West compared to Toronto Central. All the other factors mentioned by other
researches are not statistically significant neither. [source (archive)]

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I think I may have misinterpereted your argument. When you said

It seems most the problems you’re talking about are global problems though.

Where do you think you’ll have a better quality of life? [source]

were you arguing that most countries have the same problems as Canada, so to immigrate elswhere would be futile? I was under the presumption that you were arguing that Canada can't do anything to fix it's issues, and that it would instead require some global collaborative effort.

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So what were we talking about before you started trying to derail this conversation with endless questions?

Is that rhetorical? I don't understand the purpose of your seemingly condescending question.

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The title is certainly classic clickbait — disingenuous and sensationalist. It also doesn't really match the content of the video, imo.

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Why do you constantly ask questions without adding anything to the conversation?

That's a loaded question; I disagree with the premise — I feel that I have provided useful information and context. You, however, have not provided anything but seemingly non-constructive and condescending content for your past 3 comments [1][2][3] in this thread.

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Thank you!

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Hrm, this is maybe more of a post for !trippinthroughtime. As far as I can tell, this community is for really old and stale meme formats. I would argue that anything containing Wojacks hasn't reached that level of staleness yet.

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That was a very informative and interesting read. Thank you for sharing!

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That's a loaded question.

I'm looking for a task time tracking app (android, and/or desktop Linux)

I'm trying to keep a log of the time that I spend doing specific tasks throughout the day. Currently, the way that I am doing this is by constantly running a stopwatch and filling out a spreadsheet for the day — when a task is completed, I lap the stopwatch and add the task and the time spent on that task in a row in the...

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I've been using this for the past day, and it is a great app! It seems to cover exactly what I'm looking for, and it's a pretty well designed app. Thank you for the recommendation!

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You still running into trouble?

Yes.

Are you able to run ss -alnp as root?

I have already tried checking if something is listening on 53 in about 10 different ways. That command yields the same outcome as before — nothing appears to be listening on 53.

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