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OT: The News Thread

anne25 said:
Don't kid yourself.

I lived in N.S. for a few years and found very little difference in attitude towards minorities than here in Ont.
One thing I did sense was that if you are not born a maritimer, you could live there for years but will still be considered an outsider.

That aside, I loved my time in living in Halifax and spending considerable time visiting friends and relatives in Antigonish.
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This is a really big thing. And I'd agree with anne's overall sentiment, although she obviously has more lived experience in this respect than I do.

I have a friend who was born and raised on Cape Breton. He is considered to be an outsider because his family has Hungarian roots. Fellow Cape Bretoners do not consider someone born and raised on the island to be a true Caper.

Come from aways are still a big thing. Obviously it depends where you go, as that is not the attitude everywhere, but it certainly is in places.

Halifax is a little different though. More progressive than most other places in the Maritimes, but still really lacking in diversity or culture. I mean I love Halifax, but its homogeneity is one of my least favourite things about it.
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...mordaunt-toilets-changing-rooms-a8414771.html

Just for reference this is how the UK does it.

Under current laws, trans people have a default right to use whichever single-sex area they choose, but can be turned away if doing so can be justified as proportionate. Ministers said they would not change the law to make single-sex spaces completely illegal.
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I have a feeling like this is something that's going to need to be decided by the supreme court.
 
Volcanologist said:
It’s always fun when two social justice causes clash. what’s more important, respecting women’s safe spaces or tranny tolerance?? somebody has to win here
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yeah it is funny watching that

was like in the 2016 Olympics when the intersex women won G S B in the 800. Usually women are the defended class but in that one, the intersex women were defended by SJWs as being women with lives even though they have balls
 
Altair said:
Usually I just say the more marginalized group wins nice times out of ten, but women make up 50.4 percent of the population and as such aren't a group anyone really wants to alienate. Not to mention, after making great strides forward for women rights and safe spaces I don't think women are going to all that willing to make sacrifices on those gains for trans women.
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remember this point

male privilege includes the right to become women,

My wife is pretty progressive but she said she would not want a trans woman in her gym as she doesn't want to see dick in the change room at her gym. Naturally born women are at the front line of the trans battles.
 
I love driving...but I'm seriously looking forward to autonomous vehicles. Most people are shit and dangerous behind the wheel.
 
anne25 said:
Cell phone??
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Worst thing to happen to traffic since the inception of the merge lane (which people in Florida have no idea how to properly use. Hint: do not come to a full stop because you don’t want to accelerate that quickly).

How many times have you guys seen a driver not move when a light turns green? Then they move after getting honked and the light goes red screwing everyone behind them.

Or the lane drift.

Driving 20 while holding the phone straight out in front of the driver texting.

It goes on and on. All phones should be restricted to Bluetooth and hands free discussions. Texting should be outlawed while driving.

People need to put the phone down, it’s really not that important. Especially in comparison to a moving vehicle that can kill.
 
MindzEye said:
I love driving...but I'm seriously looking forward to autonomous vehicles. Most people are shit and dangerous behind the wheel.
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yeah with the volume and speed of modern traffic as high as it is in some places nothing else makes sense. it has to be taken out of people's hands for their own good.

I for one want those Futurama tubes.
 
Altair said:
**** that.

I'm like a guns rights activist, nobody is taking away my ability to drive.
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maybe not that, but you won't be allowed to drive on massively busy urban roadways and highways anymore at some point, it will be computer-controlled traffic only.
 
Habsy said:
Worst thing to happen to traffic since the inception of the merge lane (which people in Florida have no idea how to properly use. Hint: do not come to a full stop because you don’t want to accelerate that quickly).

How many times have you guys seen a driver not move when a light turns green? Then they move after getting honked and the light goes red screwing everyone behind them.

Or the lane drift.

Driving 20 while holding the phone straight out in front of the driver texting.

It goes on and on. All phones should be restricted to Bluetooth and hands free discussions. Texting should be outlawed while driving.

People need to put the phone down, it’s really not that important. Especially in comparison to a moving vehicle that can kill.
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not sure how it works down there but merging in alberta does not give the right of way to either car...but nobody understands that either

my biggest pet peeve is idiots turning very slowly left....like a few of us want to get thru before it changes again

love taking the train to work
 
worm said:
not sure how it works down there but merging in alberta does not give the right of way to either car...but nobody understands that either

my biggest pet peeve is idiots turning very slowly left....like a few of us want to get thru before it changes again

love taking the train to work
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The problem with the merge lanes is that you're supposed to get up to full speed, but I don't want to get to full speed and then the ******* next to me doesn't let me in. So that's why we need cars that can talk to each other so they know when they can let people in.
 
UWHabs said:
The problem with the merge lanes is that you're supposed to get up to full speed, but I don't want to get to full speed and then the ******* next to me doesn't let me in. So that's why we need cars that can talk to each other so they know when they can let people in.
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true and the point is....it is actually on the person to let you in

also people do the same thing on free flow lanes
haha

also people that turn a corner and go into the far lane


driving sucks

auto cars for life!
 
Volcanologist said:
maybe not that, but you won't be allowed to drive on massively busy urban roadways and highways anymore at some point, it will be computer-controlled traffic only.
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100 percent going to be grandfathered in, and I'll continue to drive the antique human controlled cars till I die.
 
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