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Lord of Oop North

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  1. There are lots of engineers. In Canada we probably have too many if we are being honest. The problem is we didn't and don't really encourage people to go into technical fields where they actually know how to build things. I don't just mean skilled trades, but technicians of various disciplines. You do not need to be a P.Eng to go that route. This is changing slowly.
  2. I haven't watched the video, but it may be based on a study that NPR reported on this past summer, where they analyzed the energy emissions overall. They found that when methane leakage rates were taken into account, the overall emissions were basically the same. However, I don't believe the study said anything about other particulates that are released, which I am sure are worse with coal. Here in Ontario, after they shutdown the coal plants, the smog problem ended.
  3. Isn't the Dutch paper reporting on this, De Telegraaf , basically a tabloid?
  4. One of the most useless legislatures we have ever had. So much legislation passed and then repealed or struck down. Bunch of total clowns.
  5. Who on this thread is saying that? Or defending slavery? I think what people are saying is that people of the past are products of their time. You and I would be too, I'm sure. So yes, you can look at someone and say that they are totally shitty based on universal morality. There are some that are obviously beyond any redemption too. But understanding the context of the time can help to understand why those people turned out that way. Ultimately people are products of their society - nurture is a strong force in shaping human personality. With regards to rationalization, humans are so different that you will run the gamut from those with conscience that use the rationalizations of society to ease that, to those with less conscience that are in essence true believers in the rationalizations of society.
  6. Sure, and then he turned into a fucking wanker. Great character, for sure, but he certainly did awful things.
  7. The current staffing crisis has nothing to do with the miniscule about of nurses that refused to be vaccinated. Everything that I have read has said that 99% of "employees" complied. That includes non nursing staff. In Ontario, we literally need to hire like 10-15k+ more nurses per year to actually have safe staff to patient ratios, and to offset retirements and turnover.
  8. I worked a project in Ottawa through most of the COVID shutdowns, and through the Convoy. It was a shitshow. From what I saw, citizens of Ottawa hated it. The municipal government and Ottawa police were both useless. The Provincial governments also fucked up big time, probably on purpose as a political ploy against the Federal Liberals. We regularly had drivers being stopped by Convoy suppliers on Wellington west of downtown (we were working at Chaudiere Island / the Zibi site), trying to get them to join in and eventually getting into verbal arguments with each other. Newsflash, we from Toronto, we don't give no fucks about your convoy. And boy did those convoy losers find that out when they met the local coppers in Toronto. They were crying and whining all over Twitter when they were led in a merry circle around Toronto, away from the Hospital row, all while my fellow citizens told them to get fucked all day. I remember a lady in a truck in tears while the circus folk at Dundas Square told her off. So proud. God bless them. One good thing about that I will say about the Convoy - they had a lot of diesel, and we stole a ton of it for our zoom booms. Thank you for your service! I'm not totally up to speed on this court decision, so don't feel comfortable commenting on that quite yet.
  9. Air Pakistan was banned from the EU a while back. From the USA too. Maybe that lifted? There was that scandal where it turned out 1/3 of their pilots had fake credentials. They also have one of the worst safety records in the world. Totally sketchy airline. Anyway, as to the cabin crew, I don't blame them at all. This kind of thing has been going on for a long time. I can remember stories about it from over ten years ago. I believe this also used to happen with Cuban airlines long ago.
  10. China is not stupid. They should be worried, because if the US decided to support Taiwan, a US retaliatory strike could destroy the entire Chinese navy. The key to any victory is either convincing Taiwan they don't want to be separate, or ensuring America doesn't support them.
  11. They have already begun. Until you pin me, Festivus is not over! Let's Rumble!
  12. Stop stalling and fight your father.
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