For a better tomorrow.
- Nairn5
Meme of the day
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memories of staying at a friend's place when I was 13 or so - they were building their home so lived in a campervan on the construction site. I had to do the deed, and then was utterly flumoxed by the flush mechanism, which hadn't been explained to me.
turns out there was some slide out thing to let the slop fall through, which my friend's dad had to do with my pile of shit with a flustered mass of tissue pressed on top, soaked in multiple pressings of panicked water flushes. oy vey.
- imbecile4
- Fucking legend.garbage
- He's got an art show at Long Beach Museum of Art https://www.lbma.org…koma_
- nb5
canada
As a former Canadian, what I see from my outsider perspective is this:
The country is falling behind rapidly due to a few simultaneous things going on.
1. Weak leadership. Trudeau’s government appears to make some big decisions based on idealism rather than pragmatism. Political correctness occasionally wins over what is actually good for Canadians.
2. Weak monetary policy leadership. Historically Canada has done well by following in the footsteps US Fed, staying 1-2 years behind and using the US economy as a bellweather. However, the lack of a similar real estate collapse in ‘09 and then entering the pandemic under very different conditions than the US has meant that the Bank of Canada now needs to act alone, without a clear model to guide them. BoC clearly has not risen to this challenge.
3. All levels of government and regular Canadians turning a blind eye to the corruption, money laundering and bubble in real estate. For nearly 30 years; the length of a mortgage! The RE industry convinced homeowners that market corrections aren’t necessary and that rapidly rising prices is like winning the lottery. This isn’t true if you only own your primary residence. Eventually you get to be about 60 and your adult children are priced out of their own cities. Then you hit 75 and can’t retire because your property tax is almost as much as your mortgage payment was. The government did nothing to intervene. Canadian homeowners stayed willfully ignorant and the next generation is fucked. Young people can’t afford to have kids because they can’t afford to get them a home. Simple as that. That leads to population collapse and a new desperation for immigrants.
4. Lack of investment in emerging industries. Canada focused on service sector and resource extraction instead of green energy, technology sector, etcl. It’s amazing that in the blackberry years, most Canadians didn’t even know Blackberry was Canadian. How about Shopify? Shopify is an extremely successful tech company and it’s known as having some of the lowest salaries in tech. Big tech pays about 30% less to Canadian employees than US employees. Canada missed a massive opportunity to grow the tech sector by leveraging the cheaper dollar and encouraging US tech workers to immigrate to Canada. This would’ve changed the entire economic outlook of Canada. Instead, there’s a massive brain drain as anyone who can be successful can do even better in the States. US immigration policy dictates Canada’s ability to retain doctors, software engineers, business consultants, etc. Canada doesn’t appear to even be trying to solve this problem.
5. Lack of diversity in immigration policy. Canada is putting all its eggs in one basket: population growth. However, in order to use new immigrants to lift the country, you need immigrants that can generate productivity at and above the level of the current population. In simple terms, you need to attract doctors, engineers, businesspeople and you need to make sure they can get certified to do their profession in Canada. What you want is a highly competitive immigration process that has all the strongest candidates trying to get in. The US is pretty great at this and you can see the results after many decades of competitive immigration policy. Also, in order to stabilize your country, you need diverse immigrants. Otherwise your culture will soon be overtaken by a new culture. You want immigrants to bring their cultures and ADD to Canadian culture, to improve it via diversity, not replace it. This means limiting immigrants from the highest population countries (India and China). Trudeau would never do this because it would be perceived as racist (*one can argue that it IS racist but one can also argue that it’s about respecting diversity.) anyway, strong economies are built on diverse populations. Especially in a country that REQUIRES immigration for economic growth.
6. I left long before weed was legal, but I think legalizing weed was bad for the country. I know many people enjoy weed and it can be a life saver for some but it does suck the motivation from a lot of people. For others it’s a daily escape from their problems. That can be good for an individual but bad in the long run.
- Thanks for coming to my Massey Lecture ;)nb
- well written summary, cheerseveryangle
- the biggest issue with Canada and Canadiens is that we're too polite and we don't stand up or protest anything. Redneck trucker convoy aside_niko
- Probably because we realize that we still have it better than 99% of the planet, especially better than whatever shithole country we emigrated from._niko
- So we weather the storm, grin and bear it with great resolve in typical Canadian fashion._niko
- Our banking is stable, probably one of the best in the world, we've got tons on natural resources and a highly skilled and educated population...so our general_niko
- mindset is ...what me worry? lol_niko
- and yeah agree with the weed thing though I don't think it's changed since it was illegal, the same people that smoked before smoke now_niko
- I stopped smoking when it was legalized. Didn't feel as cool anymore.garbage
- We have a D-list celebrity clown that has just now triggered his base by talking about the need for a "bloodbath" if he doesn't win the election.garbage
- Sorry about your problems Canada, but we're too busy forging a shithole down here. (Can I move in please?)garbage
- unlike the shit hole of country called the USAutopian
- @garbage can't stop you. also wouldn't recommend.pango
- 6. any study to show which way it's going?pango
- So we all go to Mexico then. Gonna have to learn how to surf.garbage
- we're all staying at moldy's placepango
- Lol. Shhh, don't tell him. He'll lock the doors.garbage
- utopian12
- Nothing hits the spot like a dip into grandma's chocolate brownie.Akagiyama
- god dammit akagiyama. fuck. no no no. just no_niko
- Awwww :(Akagiyama
- I'm hungry and hornycrazyprick
- big-papes17
making beats
I just released an album today if you want to check it out. A mix of a lot of different stuff, some drum-n-bass, some ambient, some house-ish stuff. Alright, love ya, hope you are well.
- Dude... LOVE IT. Damn. It's a little bit Apex Twin, a little bit Prodigy, and a lot of other things and it sounds AMAZING.mg33
- Oh damn, Thank you!big-papes
- very very good album. lots of great tracks.
I really liked Ritwd! thanks for sharingfuturefood - Congrats on the release! Just starting but already sounds EPIC!mantrakid
- Love it!
-and Doomtree as well!-dyspl - holy shit! paper tiger is on QBN?! i listened the shit out of False Hopes back in the day and have a lot of catching up to do. fuck yesscruffics
- Can I just repeat what scruffics said? Why do the cool folk keep quiet here? Oh wait.. answered my own question.garbage
- This is so good. Can I ask what you use for master/bus compression? Such a glued and punchy soundFennero
- Ha! yeah I'm mostly a lurker around here. @Fennero, I've been messing with Ozone a bit, but for these tracks, I worked with a great engineerbig-papes
- Loving this.skinny_puppy
- OBBTKN9
blog
Tomorrow I have lunch at a cider house with "lifelong" friends whom I have not been with in about 15 years!
At the very least, it's going to be fun...
- "So, do you have any pets?"bainbridge
- Txotx!!!Miesfan
- The cider was too sour for my taste, but it didn't stop me from drinking liters of it, lol. But the meat was realy bad, badly cooked and bad quality in origin..OBBTKN
- Enjoyed a lot, but don't remember how I've come back home. Now I'm going to check it with my wife...OBBTKN
- BuddhaHat0
FMT 031523
Ahh man I remember those FMT days fondly. RickBenedict you are the man.
- Memories of Jazx. No one seemed to like him but he was a huge contributor.CyBrainX
- I used to research and buy music specifically to share on Fridays, lol.Nairn
- what des FMT stand for?Krassy
- Friday Means Thursdayimbecile
- Friday Music Thread if I'm not mistakenBuddhaHat
- cool, tnxKrassy
- It originally meant Friday Music Thread but many people will tell you it meant Friday Means Thursday because we usually started it on Thursday.CyBrainX
- prophetone5
- <- that's what tiktok is forsted
- ahaha HELPsted
- like this duh https://i.imgur.com/…_niko
- milfhunter0
- *palimpsest busts a nutNairn
- I really don't get that random symbol. Also it gives me Asics vibes.milfhunter
- quoi!omer
- what is the icon supposed to be?dbloc
- cool clipart symbolutopian
- https://wolffolins.c…dmay
- I'd love to know how much Wolff Olins charged for this.Continuity
- Also, that they managed to make that CA ... err ... ligature(?) look even worse than it did on the old logo is astonishing. That's talent I really don't have.Continuity
- the lettering is much better, the icon... well, it's usable and distinct enough to use across all the products they havedmay
- Logo of the Day shows it without context; meh.
Wolff Olins over contextualizes it, BUT man it looks good!ideaist - that will be 895,734.76$
Our team worked very hard in the last 6 months to bring your logo to the next level.HAL9001 - I think it's smart to have a "mark" that you can use without the type. Clip art or not, it works well on their clothing and on tiny applications.monospaced
- It evokes movement, it's like a D, it locks up nice. Don't need to read too much into it beyond that.monospaced
- Pecathalon.Nairn
- Weird forced ligature that looks like C4bulletfactory
- ^ For whatever reason, that CA ligature thingy reminds me of a dog lifting its leg up to piss on something.Continuity
- The icon is the P for decathlonimbecile
- The selected blue color is not working, previous was way more "positive" than the new. The new logo looks like the LADA of clothing...OBBTKN
- Taking into account the price increase that their products have experienced lately... This is not going to help them to sale moreOBBTKN
- The icon makes sense in that it is reminiscent of the CA ligature, although that could be pushed harder. Very useful to have something small for buttons and >>skinny_puppy
- >> other small touches. I liked the old font though has character, the new one is ... dull. They could just have tweaked the original lettering.skinny_puppy
- @cont Like a lone elephant washing itself with the self-knowledge that it is a dying species, because it fits in with nothing that surrounds it.garbage
- The new font is boring, generic. The icon looks like a random korean or chinese car company. The old color is also way better. Don't get it.sandpipe
- I do not approve.
I agree with sandpipe, the old color is the best thing they had.palimpsest - The tension between the top right of the C and the A makes me very uncomfortable.maquito
- We want it to have movement, so italicise the ligature.
More.
No like they did in the 90s.
PerfectionProjectile
- utopian5
- https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- knock yourself out https://i.kym-cdn.co…_niko
- ^ lol made me spitpango
- ideaist5
- Gah; where's the edit button @QBN?!
Apple Music: https://music.apple.…ideaist - I listened to this during lunch today. Very good, as always. It's a bit more low key than usual.CyBrainX
- Downloaded album for car, it soundtracks my journey from Edinburgh to NewcastleGardener
- He delivers yet again!Krassy
- what des FMT stand for?Krassy
- It originally meant Friday Music Thread but many people will incorrectly tell you it meant Friday Means Thursday because we usually started it on Thursday.CyBrainX
- It was a download sharing thread before everyone had streaming services.CyBrainX
- cool. Tnx!Krassy
- Gah; where's the edit button @QBN?!
- crazyprick4
blog
"About 50 people have died in Angola after being forced to drink an herbal potion to prove they were not sorcerers".
All cultures are equal!
- They would have been fine had they eaten an albino beforehandGnash
- Psshhh, that’s nothing. More than half of the US died in 2020 after forced to get vaccinated. Oh, wait. Pr2 is a fucking retard.monospaced
- Fuck off, losercrazyprick
- @Gnash furiously taking notesskinny_puppy
- Witchesbainbridge
- lol prickmonospaced
- neverscared0
- freelon the universe..neverscared
- Don Lemon is quite annoying. Can imagine the combo of him and Melon being quite brutalPhanLo
- Lemon vs. Melon.Nairn
- Man Child Musk is Upsetutopian
- the dont call him ...https://www.youtu...neverscared
- https://www.youtube.…neverscared
- lol. Lemon is even worse than he was on cnnGnash
- That interview was a parodyGnash
- good enough to hold elmos feet to the fire and make him tense... good journalism right there... elmo is still fucked since grimes left him for chelsea manningneverscared
- no inner peace but wants to be overlord... never works out ..neverscared
- lol. Lemon looked like an idiotGnash
- Holding feet to a fire? Lemon, at best, is a warm, moistened toweletteGnash
- nb3
canada
Canadian Standard of Living Plummets Lower, Approaching Lost Decade: NBF
https://betterdwelling.com/canad…
“The country received a number of warnings from prominent agencies, that building an economy focused on credit creation and housing isn’t sustainable. Rather than acknowledging these issues, the country doubled down on trying to stimulate housing demand. In the process, it’s also managed to send global investment fleeing for greener pastures in record volumes.
The OECD previously forecast real GDP growth that indicated quality of life would stagnate. Canada would occupy the growth spot that Greece did during the financial crisis, but for decades. That forecast is looking generous these days.”
Doom n gloom eh
- The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money.everyangle
- The problem with you is you have no idea what socialism is.i_monk
- loleveryangle
- the problem with that quote is that you got it wrong and anyone who uses it is a twat.face_melter
- Ramanisky24
Suggest a bad movie
Octopus (2000)
Please watch this one and report back in the note section. It’s Incredible.Full Movie
- lol the art, very suggestivefuturefood
- needs some MST3K!YakuZoku
- it does lolllfuturefood