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Joey
@jbburant
Tenure-track researcher | phenotypic plasticity | population dynamics | seasonality | long-term studies | birds | 🇨🇦🇳🇱🇪🇺
Katılım Ağustos 2011
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@QuetzalPhoenix Canada also purged its national anthem of God and anything "gendered." It's incredible.
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@hackerjay @leeteehee @yfcherries I’m salaried and get paid monthly, the same every month. My annual income is 13.95 months of pay. What should I report as my biweekly income?
I think the point is not everywhere operates as US, Canada, etc — in fact, it seems most don’t!
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@leeteehee @yfcherries I’m salaried, but I get paid every other Friday. That means some months I get three paychecks and make 33% more than other months. What should I report as my monthly pay?
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i’ve never had a conversation with someone about pay using a metric other than hourly pay or annual salary and i’m not sure how it makes more sense to use any other metric
Ivy⸆⸉@idkwahatimdoing
Genuinely why do Americans either say “oh i make 20$ an hour” or “i make 70$k a year” BITCH HOW MUCH DO YOU MAKE IN A NORMAL HUMAN PAY PERIOD DPMO
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@AGuyInCanada @BrilliantMaps As a territory, they're only entitled to one seat regardless of population size.
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@BrilliantMaps Well the whole territory has a population of 42K, while the riding average is 121K (2021 number). Can't really split that up without affecting the electoral quotient even worse.
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Nunavut is the Largest Electoral District On Earth (8 Times Larger Than The UK)
brilliantmaps.com/nunavut-electo…
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@UrbanCourtyard Agreed, mixed use will always be win. I’ve seen Americans call NYC their only “real” city for this reason. Sadly, downtowns in many Canadian cities are similarly full of underused offices towers that technically *could* be converted to residential, but at obscene effort/expense.
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@jbburant Yeah the American downtowns suck and now have the unenviable task of converting a bunch of worthless office space into residences
Except Manhattan which has always also had people living in it
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I will never stop being astonished that so many Americans think downtowns aren’t for living in
Damián Iglesias@Damiandgi
@UrbanCourtyard That’s because no-one lives in downtown LA. Compare Copenhagen with Hong Kong
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@Barney55575756 @BBDaybreakEU British English in the sense of spelling or word use, vernacular, and phraseology? I’m a native Canadian English speaker and have heard Brits using combinations of words and sentence structures I rarely encounter otherwise. Dialects aren’t slang and more than just accents.
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@BBDaybreakEU This isn’t even remotely true, British English is the most commonly taught in schools around the world, “ta” and “you alright” are slang, which isn’t usually taught.
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I remember once reading about how, when Britain was still in the EU, many EU Parliamentary sessions would see e.g. some Dutch guy speaking English to the assembly, and most listening without translation. And then some MEP from Tyneside takes the stand and the headsets all go on.
Strategic Advisor@BBDaybreakEU
Because most non-Britons are more used to American English, Britishisms throw many foreigners off. They'll be slightly bewildered at "you alright?" as a greeting, or "ta" as thanks. L2 speakers speaking 'international English' are often easier for other L2 speakers to understand.
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@evelinesalario @Porkchop_EXP Duolingo would have me believe that “kroketten en frikadellen kan je tot aan de Spaanse kust bestellen.”
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@Porkchop_EXP no. frikandel. is made and invented in dordrecht, the netherlands, my birthplace. and we eat it with that saus and chopped unions. but much more then it is shown here.
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If you eat like this in the Netherlands it is entirely of your own making.
Dutch supermarkets are excellent, offering unparalleled convenience for a varied and exotic cooking, and the restaurant scene is vibrant and has one of the highest number of Michelin starred restaurants per capita in the world.
Campbell | bald arc@MrCampbell
Everyone saying I should just leave the Netherlands. Like I could walk away from food like this.
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I will never be able to understand how Americans can seriously think a week starts at Sunday..
Guys YOU also call it weekEND for a reason. Sunday is the last day, not the first.
Smarter Every Day@smartereveryday
This month fits perfectly into 4 week rows on a calendar because Feb 1 is Sunday. This won't happen again until 2037.
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@cian_elan @uncle_deluge I do not think more people living in the Canadian province of British Columbia can speak Mandarin than English.
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@jbburant @uncle_deluge Nope! Not true at all. It is the MOST spoken language. English is second.
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@alain_bercier @uncle_deluge You’re right. I suppose I was I thinking in terms of at-home speakers. But in that case, Punjabi is more common than Mandarin! (At least in 2021)
So that’s me wrong twice!
www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recense…
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@jbburant @uncle_deluge According to the most recent census, 312,625 people in British Columbia speak Mandarin and 327,350 speak French.
That said, if you're talking about mother tongues, then Mandarin wins by a lot.
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@kevinleewrites @moorehn If they need 30% pay increases, as suggested, they’re “only” 23% underpaid at present.
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Anna Wintour's soul visibly leaving her body as Chloe Malle talks about social media budgets...she truly hired a middle manager for this job
Amanda Litman@amandalitman
In less than 75 seconds, this exchange between Chloe Malle and Anna Wintour embodies everything I wrote about in “When We’re in Charge” on the difference between old and new styles of leadership. Couldn’t have scripted it better.
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This isn’t a suicide of a country, but a murder.
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@VoticEmo This is you rn
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Joey@jbburant
Nunavut flag has all the hallmarks of good flag design: - unique - immediately recognizable - easily replicable (an elementary student should be able to draw it!) - culturally symbolic - no seals or shields - no words - no flag-in-flag (ensigns are for ships not provinces!)
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Nunavut flag has all the hallmarks of good flag design:
- unique
- immediately recognizable
- easily replicable (an elementary student should be able to draw it!)
- culturally symbolic
- no seals or shields
- no words
- no flag-in-flag (ensigns are for ships not provinces!)
Crim the Half-Elf 🖤🍁@CrimCartier
I do not understand the love for this flag. It reminds me of Grade 5 and Crayola.
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@RealAlbanianPat Any ranking where MB and ON, or YK and NWT, end up in separate ranks is completely inane.
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