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  1. easy and hard are relative terms. This is why when you go to the developing world, you will see many who live in a thached shanty and eke out 3 meals a day are happier than those here who are crushed by credit card debts. Why ? Because those in the developing world have seen far worse and don't consider themselves to be super bad off. Same logic applies to cavemen era. It is a fact that all cave paintings are found in cave sites that show far greater than average dwelling numbers and duration. Aka, the stone-age version of 'having it better than the other cave down the mountain'.
  2. https://twitter.com/Adam4d/status/1134455653529993217?s=19&fbclid=IwAR0w9qgRe3O_Ggf8yx-rHTwxKBMhXgwO_fOIv98AsBTi6mLmoN2xOTZztoE 2016: Craig Telfer is ranked 200th 2017: Craig Telfer is ranked 390th 2018: Craig Telfer 'transitions to female' 2019: CeCe Telfer is national champion https://world.wng.org/2019/05/built_in_advantage … 6:44 AM - 31 May 2019
  3. 11-13 is still way too young to make such life-altering choices. Not to mention, there is clinical evidence that most teenagers undergoing gender dysphoria end up accepting their sexual identity and turning homosexual instead ( i can cite the actual papers if required). Therefore, treating the teens for gender dysphoria is directly also being anti-gay.
  4. When the dump happens to be in one of the richest cultivable zones on the planet, it is pollution, dude. Just because plastic floats around being an eyesore in H2O and sits below ground out of sight does NOT change the fact that disposing plastic freely in natural climes = pollution. Thats the whole point, its NOT safely buried in and it is of decisive ecological impact. Safely buring plastic would be so that it is removed FROM interacting ( aka getting in the way) in our food-chain. Which is NOT the case when you dig a hole and bury plastic in it. Its burying it in deep exhausted coal seams/ under bedrock etc. that constitutes safely removing it. Sure, if you mean 100% garantee. Expertise in heavy industries most definitely one of the surest garantee of a good economy, much more so than being a raw materials exporter does. Especially for economic comparables like us - Germany, Japan, South Korea, etc. are all. There are way more jobs in heavy industrial processes, there is way more life-cycle knowhow and the knowhow built brings a level of self-sustaining technological innovation & excellence that you'd have to work really hard to break out of. This is why Japan, Germany, SoKo have economies that are doing very well for so long, despite a massive demographic shock for Japan. Such a shock would kill Canadian economy far worse because we do not have high level industrial expertise outside of a few 'cute' fields like building a miniature robotics arm for space or half decent radar tech/quasi-decent aviation tech. If you want to be a resource exporter, its taking the low success rate, easy but less money route. For a nation that has decent universities at the world level ( at least a few when it comes to high end Science & Engineering), its the sure ticket to being ACTUALLY at the top. Indeed, this is how America or Soviet Union became super-powers - a resource rich nation that ALSO dominated the scene in heavy industries by consuming their own resources to sell the world heavy industrial goods. We are in a position to do so and also for far, far longer owing to our resource to demographics ratio/size.
  5. Or we can compare without getting sensitive about it and learn from others where the others are better than us. The path to the top is via learning from what others do better and incorporating it, to produce an overall, superior product.
  6. there are very few cave drawings. And always at sites with crap ton of remains of consumed foods, evidence of big human habitation. Aka, the paleolithic equivalent of 'having fun while having it relatively easy'.
  7. true. It depends on how much hours the Japanese F-15s have flown and what the metal fatigue on the airframes and engines are like.
  8. I can, if the data shows it as such. If you buy products in Canada, you enter top 10% of the most polluting people on the planet. And we know enough of your life story - you are a trades contractor- to know that you buy your products in Canada. If i had zero background in science, i wouldn't have made you run away faster than a fat guy trying to fight Rypen in a hockey rink. Want me to dig up the questions again you ran away from ?!? And if you think this TM pipeline is such a big deal, feel free to move to Finland or Sweden where they have time for your type of nonsense.
  9. Land pollution is still pollution, mate. We are not shooting plastic down active volcanic cones and incinerating them, we are stuffing them under few feet of soil or throwing them in the water systems. North America has by far the largest plastic pollution contribution of mankind in the entire history of plastic usage. Its because we refuse to support heavy industries. Resource exporting does not garantee one a good economy ( look at venezuela or Nigeria) but expertese in heavy industries does.
  10. Plastic pollution has been happening since WWII era. Asia did not produce half the plastic of North america till the mid 1990s and did not overtake it till the mid 2000s. Do the math. ? So we wont provide raw materials, nor build your own crap but still wonder why rest of the world is developing faster than us. Amazing.
  11. There is a big difference between being motivated BY feelings and shoving aside reasoning just because you 'feel' differently.
  12. Equally valid needs demonstration, not assumption. Perhaps i am not PC enough for you, hence the 'douche' tag, which I am okay with. This is pretty simple - come up with an idea--> cite rationale -->cite evidence --> cite the conclusion---> proceed. Do so and you will get respect from the skeptics ( like me), even when you are wrong. Don't do so and you will only find the echo chamber of dogmatists of your choosing thats all.
  13. Clearly comprehension is not your best suite. I wasn't judging YOUR past, i was commenting on MINE. If you think most immigrants have not had a taste of the hard, bitter life, you are clearly ignorant. This was pertaining to having a 'sweet life'. I've had both, FYI. As i said, debating - a very lost art in the western education system. Ideas do not represent you, they simply represent the rationale or emotion behind it. Perhaps lessening your ego might go a long way towards cultivating a competent debating style without getting personal for you. Afterall, it may not be a coincidence that the Buddhist monks invented the art of ego-reduction ( or at least trying to) while also being the most prolific debaters in history of mankind.
  14. and persistence comes from logically shoving aside feelings that get in the way of honing your craft, not caving to feelings everytime. If it did, then there would be like 1000 mathematicians in the entire world and the ice cream sales of the world would be 100x than what it is now.
  15. if being captain for 2 hrs and then messing up is what makes someone a crap captain, then i guess Kirk should've never gotten a second chance after his early debacles, either. I just dont see how you can compare Spock vs Kirk, given Spock was hardly ever a captain. A better comparison would be Kirk vs Pickard, where Pickard almost always sided with logic and reasoning over impulsive emotions. Sure. But one gets to the top by listening to logic and reasoning, not caving to feelings. I didn't become someone who's good at math by caving to my feelings of 'its boring, gawd' for the first ten years of my life. I guess the biggest difference is, i just dont have first world entitlement issues such as being super duper happy and fulfilled in a job I do vs just being good at a job and taking pride in excellence.
  16. I don't have to consider what other people think about objective facts. The color of the sun isn't subject to opinion of the masses, neither is the fact that math skills are more relevant in day to day lives than ability to generate sound via an instrument or splash around paint. Here's a news tip for you - those of us who come to a foreign country to live in our early 20s, all by our own, usually have 'seen it all' in terms of the hard life. The 'rich immigrant kid who's daddy is a mega-industrialist at home' does not represent even 0.1% of the immigrants, FYI. Saying system X is better than Y does not pertain to saying I am better than the rest. If you think i come across as that, perhaps the problem lies in how i do not adhere to your accepted modalities of conversation deferrence ( eg: all subjects being equally hard). Well, perhaps in another ten years you will learn that there is a lot more to soft skills in people management than discussions of ideology vs rationalism. Debating is a lost art in the western world for the last 20-30 odd years, which is why often the standard mode of debating gets slandered and misunderstood by the likes of you. This is not personal at all for me, but i guess it is for you. I see where you are coming from. You are still wrong, however.
  17. Ironic that I have the bigger ego apparently but you are the one yet to prove what you've been asked to re: nonsensical thoughts. Still waiting. Crickets.
  18. Dunno,since Spock was never really the captain. Its like asking who'd make the better engineer- Spock or Scotty - we don't know either. Sure. But we are also drven by reason & rationale. In fact i can say that we are one of the very few creatures that are driven by rationale and reasoning while vast majority of animal kingdom are driven by feelings. Err, i certainly do. Which is why i don't have party loyalty, i have policy loyalty. Those candidates who better represent my policies get my vote, which is why I've cast a vote for all 3 major parties in both Federal and Provincial elections at one point or another. and if we were NOT a species that prioritized logic & reason, we'd still be a crappier version of a raccoon species scavenging & occasionally hunting to survive. Our brain size is the biggest in body to brain ratio of the animal kingdom is because we prioritized reasoning as a species, not random emotive behavior.
  19. Its ironic that standing firm on the basis of objective evidence is 'ego-ism'. Being a good manager & the soft skill it takes, certainly does not involve buying into the idea that all ideas are equal or that all subjects are equally hard or any such. Maybe YOU should check your ego at the door to try and extrapolate what kind of a manager a person is or isn't from discussing the importance of arts vs math for high school education over the internet. But then again, you do sound like a young person who is quick to judge people and weak to judge ideas.
  20. People skills are quite different soft skills than learning how to make noise or splash paint that people like. Surely you must know that.
  21. perhaps if you'd had the 'hard mode' education in sciences as a kid, like i did, you'd see that scientific objective validity is far more relevant than emotive ideological assumptions ( such as all subjects being equally hard).
  22. Saying i am right about something that can be objectively measured, is not ego, its a statement of fact. Someone who says the sun appears orange-ish yellow isnt being egotistic either. We got this far off topic solely because i noted how math education is superior outside the western world at high school level and you started saying its professionally unnecessary.. LOL. Funnily enough i've spent almost as much time in the soft-skills of people management as hard science skills in my career. you are talking to a 40-something man, not a young adult.
  23. I too am a programmer and i completely disagree. The fundamental to programming is mathematical logic in all aspects and the 'art' in programming is simply figuring out the logical/mathematical pathways. That, unless you are literally a front end designer playing around with CSS and photoshop. The problem solving ability in programming is massively enhanced by mathematical skill, which is perhaps why i advanced much quicker in this field than i should've given my actual experience programming.
  24. sure. Math is just a notational form of problem solving. Just like how music notation didn't exist before music itself but massively improved music, same applies for problem solving and math.
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