Tom

I’ve used the Canadian, British, German, Belgian and Spanish medical systems (all universal health care). In two cases they were very serious problems with bills that came to well over 100,000 euros or dollars (I don’t know the total cost because they never told me…I just know it was a LOT). The services were top quality. I never paid a cent,…[Read more]

Vaccine guilt is totally reasonable and understandable in essence. I have friends who qualify for vaccines because they super occasionally work with people at a medium risk. Meanwhile there are senior citizens who are still waiting for vaccines. My friends have gotten the vaccines either because it is mandatory or not taking it now would mean…[Read more]

We have regulations and anti-trust laws and have arrived at massive corporate power that creates a shocking gap in wealth.

Most countries have relatively weak anti-trust laws though some European countries can be very strict depending on the industry. Canada has pretty weak ones…especially when it comes to things like Banking and Telecoms where…[Read more]

I’ve spoken with many liberterians who think that the only moral form of society is one where the government takes care of the most sparse infrastructure (roads and maybe a couple basic utilities), protection (the most minimal first responders and military) and the lightest taxation. And to guarantee a few basic rights. Everything else is up to…[Read more]

What would I do with a whole pie to myself?

Mmmm….it’s safer to just get a nanaimo bar 🙂 Then you aren’t tempted to eat an entire pie.

Eastern Canada have great maple syrup festivals. Best part was the “ice sculpture race” where they have a competition to see who can make a sculpture out of ice with a chainsaw the fastest. Total riot those festivals. Thing is…the syrup is so intense and sweet I really think one helping on top of crepes a year and I’ve had my fix! Do you like…[Read more]

Encoginator,

I’ve lived in five countries with generous funded programs. Reg also lives in one and Ireland actually has a very low tax rates, is a tiny economy and population compared with the US and yet funds robust social programs. Canada’s tax rate isn’t that much higher than the US and is a 10th the population and economy of the US and is…[Read more]

To corn just means to preserve (in a brine). It’s a form of curing. No relation to Cornwall or with actual corn. It is definitely not for everyone. Cornwall does have a nice food: the Cornish Pasty (similar to a Spanish or Latin-American empanada but I think better). If you see one in a bakery or hipster food truck…try it! Or make some at home.

Europe:

They add sun dried tomatoes into their pesto in Sicily? Interesting.

You make your béchamel with olive oil in Portugal? Curious.

The Spanish don’t put cherries in their Black Forrest Cake? What do they add?

You make your crepes with a 1-1-1 ratio of ingredients in Holland? Hmm

They distinguish Brussels Waffles or Liege Waffles in…[Read more]

Indeed Kristina. I don’t know any European country (the land of sausages) that look on their versions of sausage as any kind of high cuisine that must or must not be served in one way or another. In Spain we add sausage in tons of combinations (on bread with cheese, boiled in a pot with potatoes, meat and chickpeas, thrown on top of pizza), its…[Read more]

What is this barbarous nonsense about not mixing butter and jam?

Unseen,

Everybody knows you threaten to clobber the head of a guy holding the bread with a hunk of gold if he doesn’t hand it over. It’s the most efficient way to acquire goods with precious metals.

…that’s why I have all my savings in gold. Everything will crash except Gold. Do I hide it under my mattress? Of course not…I had my bones replaced with Gold. That way they government can’t come and steal it. Nobody aint gettin at my hard earned income!

Newsflash: Massive deposit of one million tons of pure Gold found in Northern Canada.

There was actually a very good article on the CBC today about the difficulties in replacing the monarchy in Canada. First is whether or not to have an elected governor general role which would be difficult because if they did try to use their rare veto more frequently there would be nothing we could do about it and Canadians definitely do NOT want…[Read more]

I need a quote, otherwise I think it’s fake news.

Intellectual hypocrisy Simon. You cite a paper you’ve read that discusses fearlessness in psychopathy but doesn’t (which is fake news if anything is) and then expect me to prove why you’re wrong when you haven’t even proven why you are right? Jesus holy shit.

Paper 1 Simon:

“these patients s…

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Uhh…I don’t think we are reading the same articles Simon. The third one says nothing for or against psychopaths “experiencing fear”. It discusses their recognition of fear in others. The first two articles (the only ones I mentioned in the previous post) directly discuss psychopaths experiencing fear. So, the first two articles you cited…[Read more]

Simon the first article clearly discusses psychopaths experiencing fear. The other article is 100 pages so I certainly didn’t read the whole things but I did read the only section that mentions fear (Limitations of Previous Research on the Common Core of Dark Traits) and in that section it discusses those with dark traits fearing repercussions.…[Read more]