While I appreciate the personal anecdote, what was the cost paid by your insurer? Being covered by private insurance is great for you, but what happens to the people without the means?

The subtext of your post is an insinuation that it isn’t as bad as others make it out to be, but it sounds like it wasn’t bad for you because you have good private insurance, and the means to obtain and manage that insurance. Not everyone is in that situation, and those who don’t have access to good private insurance, or simply make a mistake in managing their insurance, shouldn’t be forced to pay absurd fees out of debt/pocket.

Sorry, was Carney Prime Minister in 2022? What kind of idiot take for a hypocritical gotcha is this?

Fuck Netanhyahu, but talk about poor reading comprehension and posting in and faith.

Why the fuck my man getting downvoted for actually doing the legwork. Thanks for all this.

How strange to dredge up a multiple day old comment to try and take some kind of win-loss stance. There’s no competition to win or lose. Yog spams Canadian communities with pro-China propoganda, and I call it out as I see fit. If you want to take some strange subjective approach on whether I won or lost a given argument, that’s your prerogative.

Unfortunately, gotta hard disagree here. The big problem is that this particular in-group does have a shared ideology and moral framework. The problem is that it’s Nazi ideology.

I remember binding forward, backward, strafe left and strafe right to the C-buttons in Goldeneye, so I could free up the joystick for quicker aim and Odd Job hate. Everyone thought I was crazy. Who’s laughing now!

The only way to get around this would be to verify your age, which Discord says can be accomplished in one of two ways. The first is to “submit a form of identification” to Discord vendors (i.e. scan your physical ID), or to use “facial age estimation.” Discord says that the latter process happens fully on-device, as “video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.” For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”

Between the features that are limiting being almost entirely things I don’t want anyway (random friend invites are literally just fucking scams and ads to begin with), and the entire process being completed on-device… What is this, some slow news day? Everyone is losing their minds about this being some insane overstep like Discord is asking for a blood sample, or even a photo of your driver’s license.

Don’t get me wrong, fuck this age verification nonsense, but it’s pretty clear this is some very specific government regulatory appeasement where Discord is attempting to avoid culpability for holding data at basically every juncture possible. They already have the useful, farmable data, like geolocation, age/gender demographics and interests. They don’t want our government ID. They only want a “yes” or “no” from their app.

Must be a slow news day. Everyone’s blowing this up in headlines for cheap clicks.

Emphasis mine.

A total of 69 results show up when Carney’s name is typed into a search feature in the DOJ’s so-called “Epstein library.”

Many of the results are from a daily newsletter on international finance that Epstein was subscribed to.

While his name appears throughout the files, there is no direct correspondence between Carney and Epstein.

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s name also appears in the files a total of 27 times, mostly in the context of news headlines and stories within various newsletters and roundups Epstein was subscribed to.

“In passing” is doing some absurdly heavy lifting in this headline. CTV should be embarrassed they published it. OP should be embarrassed that they shared it.

But Yog attempting to spread insubstantial, misleading articles and headlines because they hurt the Canadian government, and then getting defensive and abrasive about it in comments? What a fucking twist. /s

Call me when Carney is asking to visit the island, and I’ll turn my opinion on a fucking dime, but get out of here with this pathetically ungrounded, intentionally divisive, political propaganda.

This is the most deranged thread I’ve ever chosen to scroll through on here.

You can be against two genocides. Being against one genocide doesn’t make you for another. This is not a challenging moral conundrum. Anyone trying to paint this as “you either want to kill all Israeli’s, or you want to kill all of Palestine” needs some kind of social-emotional-moral help and development, at the least.

What I think is that you’re not capable of it. You don’t have to do anything.

So, that’s a no, then? It’s literally just Chinese propaganda and weak “lol so mad” trolling the whole way down?

In other communities, I’d agree. In a community dedicated to exposing their lies? I think I see it as a “give them enough rope to hang themselves” situation.

Though I absolutely take your point.

I do have to give it to you, you know how to demonstrate in very few words how little you know. I guess this makes you an expert on the topic.

But hey, no self-respecting Tankie would ever let a well-reasoned opinion slide by without spouting divisive vitriol. Honestly, do you post anything in Lemmy that isn’t anti-western democracy or pro-china propaganda? That’s certainly the only slop you post in Canadian communities.

Canada’s food safety regulations spits all over the American ones. When putting myself through university via the food service industry, I was shocked to learn how many hoops American companies have to jump through to meet our food safety standards.

Honestly, they get downvoted and mocked into oblivion, while simultaneously demonstrating the purpose of this community. Why ban them?

Fair enough. His ethnic background has to do with only a tiny minority of the crimes he enabled, then.

But, again, being Jewish isn’t the crime. Being a zionist is. Conflating the two is just racism.

Let me re-emphasize then: Epstein showed no indication of caring how many sources the money was coming from. Being a pro-isreal, zionist piece of shit doesn’t disclude him from being a Russian asset, and the insinuation that “he was Jewish so he MUST be a zionist” is, in fact, anti-semitism.

Don’t get me wrong, zionist trash should be named as such, but “he is Jewish” is not an argument. It’s racism.

What the fuck is this anti-semitist trash rolling around Lemmy right now.

Epstein did not give a flying fuck who the money was coming from and his ethnic background has nothing to do with the crimes he enabled, you propaganda spreading fuck.

I’ve seen some incredibly stupid Tankie takes around here, but this might be the most completely dissassociated, idiotic trash I have ever seen come out of any of their mouths. It is the picture of “our heroic adventurers; their british invadwrs” meme.

“Both Imperialist genocides were bad.” “We elevated the native peoples (when we destroyed their cultures and killed anyone who resisted); you’re denying genocide.”

Anyone who reads that comment and doesn’t immediately smell the hypocritical bullshit needs help, either developing critical thinking skills, or getting away from the brainwashing they’ve consumed.