Yeah I remember watching/ listening to an analysis of this I don’t remember who it was though. Maybe it was on Nebula?

That’s a risk. Yeah I don’t really know why you’d need a parental attestation. Forget that part.

… then just pay the higher tax rate? You already grossed a million dollars in sales.

From your link:

In the study of race and health, scientists organize people in racial categories depending on different factors such as: phenotype, ancestry, social identity, genetic makeup and lived experience.

Overall, racial health disparities appear to be rooted in social disadvantages associated with race such as implicit stereotyping and average differences in socioeconomic status.

Cool cool I’m now totally convinced race is meaningful. How many races would you say there are? I probably agree.

You know what’s super good for a kid? Putting their parents in jail. It leads to all sorts of great outcomes.

This past weekend I witnessed a grandmother advising her 7 year old granddaughter to be mindful of her bread intake, (it was something like: “two slices of baguette is enough, you should watch your bread intake”).

It’s my understanding that at least 1 (probably more) of the daughters of this grandmother (ie the 7 year old’s mother, and aunts) developed eating disorders as a result of their upbringing. (I’ve inferred this from other conversations in the family)

Would you like to enlist the grandmother in your crusade?

Should people with ‘undesirable’ genetic characteristics be financially discouraged from having children? Maybe we should sterilize them just to be safe.

It’s kinda hard to illustrate them taking turns picking the fruit and equitably sharing what they pick each time. What happens if a third person shows up. Or if one of these people is selling the apples for export to a prosperous country and the other is feeding the destitute in their village.

But you don’t need to know the co-ordinates of perfection to know which direction is better.

Lol

It would probably just result in games not being for sale in Canada.

Maybe a progressive tax, not a ban, eg if your game grosses say $1M sales in Canada you pay a higher tax rate if you don’t attest that you’ve set aside enough cash to do this when you sunset the game. Then if you said you’d do it but don’t, the CRA can come after you. Revenue from this tax could be earmarked for computer education or indie studio grants or something.

I think 16 year olds should be legally allowed to drive with guardian supervision. I think they usually are able to.

I think 16 year olds should be legally allowed to drink with guardian supervision. I think they usually are able to.

I think 16 year olds should be legally allowed to smoke with guardian supervision. I think they usually are able to. 16 year olds can’t buy them, but parents could give them. I can only think of one situation where parents should facilitate their 16 year olds smoking (as part of a smoking cessation plan).

I think that if a guardian attests that their 16 year old is ready to vote, they should be allowed to.

And I think parents that overfeed their child with alot of food everyday are morally a bad person and should be put in prison for child abuse

I agreed that 16 year olds should be allowed to vote until I read this sentence. Congrats on poisoning your own well.

I’m with you approximately %100.

One thing I’ve done when arguing with a person that insists race is real and meaningful is to ask the other person how many races they think there are.

It gets the gears turning a bit.

European, African, East Asian, Arabic, South Asian, Indigenous Australian, Indigenous New Zealander/Pacific Islanders (same or different?), North American Indigenous, South American Indigenous? are Mexico’s Indigenous people the same race as Amazonians? Peru? Are they the same race as the Inuit of the arctic?

etc etc

Avoiding cultural appropriation is a easy as treating people and cultures with respect.

If you don’t have trouble doing that then great. It’s not something most people need to worry about.

These are aspects of genocide not stages.

For example:

1 Discrimination can start before symbolization

2 The government doesn't need to create specific groups to perform actions

3 Genocide doesn't need to include extermination

Fantastic analysis

The developers of a game similar to Among Us would be forced to update the game with bots to be compliant?

I’m not a programmer or IT specialist or anything but I think the ask would be more like,

when discontinuing multiplayer service they must roll out an update to allow gamers to specify private server addresses

They don’t need to program bots, they need to open the code enough for fans to keep the game functional. Like when I was a kid I could play multi player games with my friends by typing their phone number into the game. Our computers would connect through the phone lines and we could battle for the fate of Azeroth. I still remember the phone number of the friend I did that with.

“Use my tax money to actually help people” doesn’t really roll off the tongue.

Yeah I thought that headline might be satire too

My impression has always been that the bc liberals (now bc united) were between the federal conservatives and the federal liberals, and the BC NDP were just a smidge left of the federal liberals.

Now, where that falls on a “true” political spectrum can be debated but I’m not really interested in a clinical definition because I don’t live in a clinic.

Lol, yeah they’ve just learned to pretend to be too avoid being everyone’s tech support.

It’s why I tell everyone to get a mac: I don’t know anything about them.