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Time for the Calgary Stampede to Evolve... ?
canuckistani replied to kingofsurrey's topic in Off-Topic General
Lol. Fact is if you feed your animal farm waste cellulose and eat that animal, provided the animal you eat survives only on such farm waste, omnivore diet is decisively more environmentally friendly than vegan diet. This is because vegan diet wastes the calories of cellulose that other animals can digest but we cannot. Fact is, asiatic or at least non modern western omnivore diet is the most sustainable and healthy diet for us. -
Time for the Calgary Stampede to Evolve... ?
canuckistani replied to kingofsurrey's topic in Off-Topic General
That’s like saying it’s more ethical to support your criminal family member over the innocent stranger coz you relate to your family more. While that may be true(relatability to animals over plants), it doesn’t make it more ethical. We are vertibrates. We relate more to vertibrates. It’s not that plants don’t react to pain, they do. We just relate pain response from vertibrate animals more than non vertibrates and even more them than plants. That’s called cognitive bias. Not ethics. -
Time for the Calgary Stampede to Evolve... ?
canuckistani replied to kingofsurrey's topic in Off-Topic General
Meat based diet that is asiatic in its meat consumption is more eco friendly than vegan diet. That is mathematically proven. -
Let’s ot get over excited people. Puljularvi is a very low probability Canucks acquisition for two reasons: Right now we don’t actually have room anywhere but the 4th line (long term for this season), to try him out. Yes, we can develop him more in the AHL but Poolparty is not gonna prefer a trade that gets him consistent AHL time vs consistent but sheltered NHL times, also to develop. Ie, someth8ng Tampa did last year with sergachev. And that’s perfectly fine, good on him for that. Reason #2 and this is probably the big one: we don’t have much in line to offer, than an extremely risky low value Goldobin, that’d work as trade. Our trade candidates for firinge player/spare parts and mid end expendable prospects are simply not there. THere will be better offers out there than we can give EDM.
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Chris Higgins to join Canucks in player development role
canuckistani replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
This Is not how coaching and player development works. Gretzky was a crap coach. So was Maradona. This is because genius and creativity cannot be taught. Neither can geniuses communicate or teach the mere mortals. What would say Horvat do with the advice of ‘ just do what I did with Kerri in SCF... no look rink wide saucer pass to his tape, while you fade away the other direction to fake the goalie, throwing in a little leg pump-fake ‘ ?? But what can be taught to anyone, including geniuses, is hard work, efficiency, consistency etc. This is why low end plugs in sports end up being hall of farmer coaches. -
Goodbye Hong Kong. Nice knowing you....
canuckistani replied to Lancaster's topic in Off-Topic General
Well, China did conquer the Hong Kong region from Nanyue in 100 BCE and again from the Yuan dynasty under the Ming in 1300s. Contrary to popular Chinese propaganda of one China tracing to Yuan dynasty, the Yuan to Ming was not a change of government( as it is in several other cases of dynastic overthrow). It was a war of independence and the Yuan were evicted from most of China, surviving for hundreds of years as the Northern Yuan, which the Qing dynasty conquered finally along with rest of China. As such, Chinese official claims stating their territorial claims due to Yuan Dynasty(Mongols), is factually incorrect. The Ming didn’t defeat the Yuan and promptly take over all their holdings, extinguishing the Yuan and therefore, claim a ‘dynastic Change to the same polity/government’. The Ming ran a rebellion, which succeeded from evicting the Yuan from most of China, but Yuan lived on, controlling most of Inner Mongolia, Mongolia and large parts of Cinjiang(before the Uighur broke away from the Northern Yuan, as the Dzungar Empire a century later). It was a war of eviction of the foreign dynasty, which limped on in its own homelands as The Northern Yuan. China likes to ignore this point, mostly to deny independence legitimacy for Tibet and Dzungaria, the latter which it renamed in the Sinicized form of Xinjiang. In anycase, my point is, return of Chinese sovereignty to Hong Kong was not unconditional. It was contingent of the parameters set out in the agreement. As such, people are in legal right to dispute China’s sovereignty over Hong Kong, if China is non compliant to the terms of sovereign handover. -
To be honest, this depends a lot on actually where Bo and EP hit their celings(or look like they are) in 2-3 years. Ie, if say around 2022 summer we see EP being an elite 90-100pointer 1C and Bo having a 0.9-1ppg pace while doing a Selke like job for the team, then the need for other two centres effectively become that of ‘ do not screw it up, no flash needed 3C’ and ‘defensive dream/ideal 4C’ needs. In such a scenario, we are likely keeping Gaudette and trading Madden for other benefits. Or trading them both and trading for the Manny Malhotra and Jay Beagle of the current times. If however, EP and BO underachieve- say BOs ceiling becomes 50-60 pointer and EP is a 70-80 pointer guy, we may need the offensively flashy defensively reliable 3C and ‘ideal 4C’ guy. Then Madden May win out.
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Goodbye Hong Kong. Nice knowing you....
canuckistani replied to Lancaster's topic in Off-Topic General
The comparison between tibet and Hong Kong is that both are formally annexed by China. -
Centres are not just for face offs. It’s actually a bonus perk in the large scheme of things for elite centres. The physics of hockey is very simple in this regard. Center of the ice offers most options of any other regions on the ice surface. As such, you want your most creative player in the center if possible. If your most creative player is a natural center, that’s the last person to get moved from preferred position for skaters. Period. Petey is gonna be a center for all his career and when he isn’t, it’s gonna look like a mistake. Plus Peters game is all about Iq and smarts. Especially in the defensive zone. He is going to be a defensive stalwart due to his tenacity but mostly by way of his positioning, stick placement, anticipation etc. Playing him in a wing is gonna force him to make far more staple to the board moves in the defensive zones, which not only diminishes his most valuable quality in the d zone, it also mak s him far greater injury risk. If Rookie Petey in NHL , after one year of SHL wingman duties didn’t play as a winger, he won’t moving forward. It’s Gaudette or Madden who have to shuffle,period.
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Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
Because those institutions are knowledge institutions. In a knowledge institution, it’s criticsl that each and every idea, fact, etc. Are critiqued, shown the supportive and non supportive evidence, etc. To come to a knowledge based positions. University, libraries etc are kind of obligated in principle to platform any conceivable thought. Else it’s just a propaganda machine, which is the antithesis of education( which always is the end product of discourse). -
Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
Ok. I thought you meant that scientists have opinions on what data matters and what does not. Which is clearly not Th case -
Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
Sorry my sarcasm meter is very broken lately. -
Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
Standing up for myself does not involve snatching rights from others. Authoritarianism in social ideology is not what I condone but that’s par for the course for most leftists or rightists. -
Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
Lol. This almost never happens in empiric data collection fields. Differences arise in studies not because of bias of data collection, but due to different set of instruments used for phenomenal observations. Until 20 years ago we did not have the tech to gather data from ice core samples. Until 3 years ago we did not have the means to gather radar data on space based satellites for ground or sea level changes. In empiric fields, we almost never disagree on what data should be measured. We simply evolve with the instruments at our disposal. The so called difference we have, is agenda driven controls difference, which takes scientific people to discern and often if the controls and the premise are consistent to each other, the study is deemed a success even if it’s overall incomplete or misquoted in media. -
Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
It’s definitely a thing and it’s sad that a Colored person like me have to point it out to the loony left. -
Time for the Calgary Stampede to Evolve... ?
canuckistani replied to kingofsurrey's topic in Off-Topic General
Not to digestibility, it makes difference in terms of microbial/parasitic exposure. For most veg, it’s digestibility issue since our diet has evolved with meat and fruit far longer than with vegetables. There are no obligate vegetarian species that cannot digest cellulose. But like obligate carnivores, we can digest raw meat. This makes us omnivores which are empirically closer to meat based diet than veg based diet. -
Time for the Calgary Stampede to Evolve... ?
canuckistani replied to kingofsurrey's topic in Off-Topic General
We can all live exclusively on meat. Most mongols barely ate grains too and subsisted in meat and milk products. -
Time for the Calgary Stampede to Evolve... ?
canuckistani replied to kingofsurrey's topic in Off-Topic General
We can all digest uncooked meat of any kind. Including raw chicken. We cannot digest most vegetables raw, period. Rice, wheat, potatoes, beans, etc. Eaten raw is straight up undigestible for species Homo sapiens. Meat not being good for us is a false statement, meat in western portions is not good for us, which could be true for any and all food in excess quantity. -
Time for the Calgary Stampede to Evolve... ?
canuckistani replied to kingofsurrey's topic in Off-Topic General
Meat in appropriate portion is good for you and is integral to diet. Empirically meat is way easier to digest than vegetables for us. -
Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
Being able to stand your opposition or not does not release you from the ethical burden of substantiating your claims. Red herring, since I don’t accuse everyone who disagrees with me as a communist leaning. Anyways, a cop out is par for the course. This is not for my benefit but for everyone who reads these threads, to see that your statement is unsubstantiated. -
Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
Ergo, your claim is unsubstantiated. Thanks. I am not surprised that communist leaning folks tend to run away or shut down conversation with those who have experience with communists. Correctness is not a need, by the way, its an ethical obligation to strive for. Something extremists from both ends forget. -
Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
Welcome to the center in the west, it’s practically non existent because of ridiculous adherence to good vs bad model of ethics. -
Has the Western World Lost Moderate/Centrist Politics?
canuckistani replied to Rob_Zepp's topic in Off-Topic General
Qualitative proof please that right wing govts have expanded all levels of governance. -
Except it’s not a first rounder for just short term gain. It was for a player who has 3 consecutive 20 goal seasons , playing on the second/third line, who has killed penalties before decently, can play any forward position, non perimeter type,is in his mid 20s and signed for 4 more years at a contract just a shade over 5 million, aka 1/16 of the cap. That’s extremely good value for a non lottery pick. Far bigger risks are taken via 1st round trades. Banning has not sacrificed the future for his own contract imo.