@Dr_Prodworthy @skdh By “provided” do you mean “if and only if”?
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Stephen Austin
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@skdh If the paper shows that string theory follows from QFT, provided maximal supersymmetry holds, is this equivalent to showing that it is wrong if maximal supersymmetry is found not to hold. You didn't address this in the video & I'm not sure Eric Weinstein's opinion is relevant.
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@jonkay That level of poetic and musical mastery demands an Order of Canada nomination, stat.
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btw, if you’re unfamiliar with the oeuvre of Tanya Tagaq, the main singer in this Juno clip, enjoy the lyrics to her song, “Colonizer” (the video for which features scenes of a burning church).
In Canada, we call this musical genre, “reconciliation”
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Jonathan Kay@jonkay
this is called "the juno awards" it's a hallowed annual Canadian ritual where government-subsidized Canadians pretend that ordinary Canadians enjoy listening to whatever this is supposed to be
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@TristinHopper Unlike eugenics and prohibition (in Canada), MAiD has been blessed with the status of a constitutional right by the Supreme Court. I don’t see how that could fall into a convenient memory hole.
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At this rate, Canadian-style euthanasia may come to be like prohibition or eugenics. An idea whose failures become so appalling we will eventually try to forget it ever happened.
John Ivison@IvisonJ
An eruption of “psychiatric euthanasia” beckons if Canada lets the MAID law stand, top psychiatrist warns. At present, we are on course to permit medically assisted dying for the mentally ill next March. nationalpost.com/opinion/john-i… via @nationalpost
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@DominicCardy @jkenney @JohnBouras3230 He does speak one of the two languages used by Air Canada in all its operations. He just doesn’t speak both of them.
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@jkenney @JohnBouras3230 Hard to focus on safety and reliability if you don't speak one of the two languages used by your company in all its operations.
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I await Governor General Mary Simon's condolence video in French.
Why do the Liberals hold the CEO of Air Canada to a higher standard of bilingualism than their own appointee as Governor General, who hasn't learned French after four years in the role?
TBH, I would rather have the CEO of our flagship carrier focusing his scarce time on safety and reliability than language training.
Tristin Hopper@TristinHopper
Air Canada has gone 43 (!) years without a fatal incident. My entire life up to this point has been lived in a country where the flag carrier never got a single person killed in a crash. The record is a totem to what serious people can accomplish. So naturally, Mark Carney is screaming at them to instead focus on nonsense.
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@aisauce_x @Sakshi50038 I’m not sure the law holds anyone. People used to enter management after years of experience. Now people increasingly seek out those roles after a few years on the job, with far less knowledge, experience and understanding.
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The Peter's Law one is the quiet crisis nobody fixes. we keep promoting the best individual contributors into management then wonder why teams underperform. the incentive to rise is built in. the incentive to stay in the role you're actually good at is almost never. that's a system problem not a people problem
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The 5 Most Famous Laws in The World:
1. Dunning-Kruger Law:
Stupid people think they're smart. Smart people doubt themselves. The less you know, the more confident you are.
2. Parkinson's Law:
You're not busy. You're just bad at managing time. A task expands to fill whatever deadline you set.
3. Pareto Law (80/20 Rule):
20% of your effort gives you 80% of your results. Focus on the few things that actually matter.
4. Hanlon's Razor:
People aren't trying to hurt you, they're just being careless. That person who didn't text back? They forgot, not ignoring you.
5. Peter's Law:
Good workers become bad managers. Being great at your job doesn't mean you'll be great at the next level.
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@RafeeqDeux @OliverKamm Would that be the same Newton who was the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge?
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@OliverKamm I don't trust professors, any professors. Thank God, they didn't call Newton , a Professor. Otherwise i wouldn't have trust his idea of gravity.
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Even the most credulous admirers of Noam Chomsky seem chastened by the Epstein emails. I’m less surprised given his record of arrogance & pathological dishonesty. Few non-linguists are aware of the full baneful history, which Geoffrey Pullum recounts here. nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/…
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@Cynthia31441378 @wesyang She may be extremely tedious, but she is not a boomer.
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@wesyang I've always found her novels bloated, tedious, and unreadable, and that, in classic boomer fashion, she has coasted her whole life on her early work with a wholly underserved reputation. These latest asinine pronouncements from her only confirm my beliefs.
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"This seems implausible to me, so it isn't true, and I'm going to stick to this pronouncement despite a dozen people showing me evidence for months that the thing I claim can't be happening is happening, lecture lecture what about Donald Trump??!"
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@WeAreFairCop @SVPhillimore @wiltshirepolice @OPCCWiltSwindon If they lose again it will be public money that is being squandered. No one will be fired, demoted, or held accountable in any way.
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Just how much is @wiltshirepolice going to end up spending to argue their right to breach their statutory duty of impartiality? Wonder what @OPCCWiltSwindon thinks of that decision to fight?
Sarah Phillimore@SVPhillimore
Never forget that Wiltshire Police is choosing to fight my judicial review that it acted unlawfully by sending its Chief Constable to Swindon Pride, wearing a Progress Pride flag. I don't think that is a sensible decision at all, and it will cost them.
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@preta_6 Nurses, lab and imaging techs etc used to move into management positions in the later part of their career. But now I see younger people entering these roles with the intention of becoming managers a few years after graduation.
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My latest: No one who leaves the front lines ever wants to go back. More stress for less pay? You’d have to be insane, or a saint. The bureaucratic overlords of the health system can soothe their conscience with the party line — increasingly a comfortable lie — that their roles serve to improve patient outcomes.
(Remembering @big_figgot ❤️)
National Post@nationalpost
Hospital staff switching from hands-on patient care to pushing papers are worsening Canada's fatality-prone medical crisis, writes Amy Hamm nationalpost.com/opinion/health…
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@nationalpost Is Fumio Kishida no longer Japanese, or did you mean “Japanese ex-PM”?
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Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry have lunch with ex-Japanese PM and his wife: 'Katy and I were so glad'
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I am reading that, according to @NHS, 313 "women" have suffered hyperplasia (enlargement) of the prostate.
This is the degree of nonsense we reach when we accede to genderists' coercion to abandon the correct use of language.
"Women" with prostates, & enlarged ones to boot.
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@Forehead723 @CP24 Subway service stops in Tokyo at 12:00-12:30 at weekends. Bars stay open until 2am or later.
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‘Transit won’t wait!’: City, Metrolinx face criticism for not extending transit service for Game 7 cp24.com/local/toronto/…
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@Capflap_67 @CP24 But which was strangely not required during the weekend of Nuit Blanche when TTC operated an all-night service
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@CP24 Maintenance shutdown, typically from 1:30 am to 6 am on weekdays and Saturdays (8 am on Sundays), provides a critical window for crews to perform safety inspections and maintenance.
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@TimsDoubleD @CP24 TTC service ran all night for Nuit Blanche
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@CP24 They were able to get increased service for the Oasis concerts.
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@FluffyTheHen @cselley The TTC ran subways all night for Nuit Blanche
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@cselley They don’t give a shit about plebeian pursuits like baseball. If it doesn’t exist in Rosedale or the Annex then it’s worthy of contempt
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Imagine if they had won. 75k people (stadium plus bars?) need safe home and theres nothing. No one is in charge. No one cares.
CP24@CP24
‘Transit won’t wait!’: City, Metrolinx face criticism for not extending transit service for Game 7 cp24.com/local/toronto/…
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@EricDLombardi Again, the right to, and conditions of bail are consequences of SCC decisions, and it’s hard to see how they can be made stricter by legislation.
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May I be the first to say that no I don’t think the public will maintain confidence if you release someone WHO ALREADY FLED BEFORE on bail.
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Why does this keep happening.
If our judges refuse to enforce the law with real consequences for criminals, then why should criminals fear consequences ever?
CP24@CP24
Ontario semi driver granted bail after allegedly killing two in crash, fleeing country cp24.com/news/canada/20…
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@EricDLombardi @edwardtoronto @fordnation It was a consequence of an SCC decision, so any such legislation is likely to be struck down.
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@edwardtoronto @fordnation I mean I wasn’t levying this at one level or another, but the Feds could very well legislate that immigration status is not grounds for consideration in sentencing.
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@cselley @gelling_randy Birthright citizenship was enshrined in the Irish constitution, but the constitution was amended to remove it following a referendum(!) in 2004.
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@antirealist57 @gelling_randy All of Europe. Australia and New Zealand ...
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Ending birthright citizenship is a perfectly reasonable idea, but it's going to freak the usual suspects right the hell out.
Michelle Rempel Garner@MichelleRempel
I just moved this at immigration committee.
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