I'm trying to figure out what you mean by this. Is your experience that Alberta is a particularly racist province, more so than other provinces in Canada?
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14 is code for 'the fourteen words', a racist white separatist slogan that I won't reproduce here. 88 is a symbol for nazism - h is the 8th letter of the alphabet, hence, 88=hh, or heil hitler. If you see someone with an 88 tattoo, this is what they are signaling.
I'd be curious to know your experience with that game. Me and some friends have been playing it and the grind is just insane, to the point that I can't really enjoy it because progress feels so glacial. Whenever people speak positively about it I feel like I must be missing something.
It's a curious gamble. Imagine if very few people show up and it ends up being shit tier. That would look terrible for a company that apparently is trying to excite investors right now.
I mean, their team is horrifically bad at hockey, so there's that. I wonder if they were higher up in the standings if there would be more light shining on them with regard to the sexual abuse scandal.
Just to provide a counterpoint here - anyone can play hockey, it's not a requirement to be in the sort of physical shape that elite athletes maintain in order to step on the ice.
Lots of people watch sports simply for entertainment, and that's OK. Maybe someone enjoys the strategic aspect of it, or they follow their hometown team, or a team that has an interesting or good build. I find it fun to have a beer and watch a game. I don't personally want to endure the hardships of training, damage from playing and emotions bundled up in a competitive game to pursue it very far. But I'm glad to be a spectator to this sport being played at a high level.
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I must have missed that episode of Hometown Hockey.
That just seems so crazy as they ramp up to an IPO. Yes, let's alienate users. reduce our overall active users, and throw hissy fits at our mods who are volunteers without whom, this site cannot operate. That should establish confidence in the marketplace. I just don't understand the thinking here.
People will say 'enshittification', well okay, but even on paper, all their moves have been so bad lately, and they don't seem to care. It's weird. Seems to me for example a platform with 100 users and 40% monetization is inherently more valuable than a platform with 40 users and 100% monetization. That's just my stupid opinion though.
I agree, everybody who can vote should.
This article from the BBC linked elsewhere in the thread goes into detail about the recall, specifically regarding the caffeine content of the product which is 200mg, which exceeds Canadian regulations.
"Beverages as consumed must not contain more than 180 mg" Source: Health Canada
This love for high dosage caffeine sounds like macho silliness to me
Could be. 200mg of caffeine would kill me. But for people who drink 10 cups of coffee per day, 200mg might give them the desired effect.
This “news” works probably more like an ad for these brands than anything else
Yep. These brands know what they're doing.
If you care to share, what has been your experience?
I have to say I am surprised by your top line assertion, but I'm open to change my mind if you have an argument you can substantiate here about the similarities between Alberta, and Kentucky or Alabama. I also don't think comparing different cultures is necessarily productive if our goal is to deal with the real world effects of racism. I think racism exists in Canada and it's something worth talking about and trying to address in our context.