Maybe they redid it after a flood.
And, ahem… you’re not allowed to take photos in there.

It’s going to imprint on you. You will have a hard time getting it to go back wild.

Oh the creep to the right is certainly a problem, I don’t disagree. I personally have voted ndp in both federal and provincial elections except when clear abc strategic voting came into play. I’m just explaining why the liberals as the closest to centrists are the default and what most Canadians want. Especially as our neighbours to the south go crazy, people want as stable as possible. The ndp does have some potentially destabilizing ideas; I personally trust them just as I trusted the bob Rae Ontario ndp and when they got power they were very responsibly (which pissed off lot of radical lefties and made them hate him, so we bounced back to the right, sigh).

He’s stimulating the economy. I agree that lowering federal workforce isn’t good - unless it’s very specific cutting at inefficiencies, and it never seems to be. Giving developers a time limited incentive is to boost building and help with employment as well as the housing crisis. Oil development sucks, but it’s a huge contributor to the government’s budget - if that dries up, we will be forced to shut down more social programs. It’s all a balance. That’s what a centrist government does, and it’s never going to make everyone happy. But the alternative is to have diametrically opposed radical sides and we ping pong back and forth causing untold damage.

Well there’s different types of fiscal conservatism. People look for keeping government costs down. Taxes for everyone lower. Balance the budget. Invest in needed infrastructure. Invest in needed education and research . Reasonable taxes for the rich - not the scare them off but get them to pay their share. So, like, old school fiscal conservatism.

Most Canadians want fiscal conservatism with a safety net, and social progressiveness. The liberals sit in the center and when they get their messaging right, they tick this big box. So they do win by default. I would personally love more progressive fiscal policies, but only if I trust who’s doing it not to tank the economy, and that’s a bit rare.

Luigi time!

That was great. I wonder who made it?

I can live with that.

Patient walks into a psychoanalyst’s office and asks, “So, how does this work? Do I just lie on the couch?” The psychoanalyst responds, “Actually, it works much better if you tell the truth.”

With proportional representation, the liberals would likely form minority governments for the foreseeable future. Small groups would be king makers. Except they wouldn’t - all they’d do was cause the government to fail and then a new election would again always give us a liberal minority.

You may not think they did. But they did - then they dropped it, which was weak, I agree. I’m not sure proportional representation is all that great, but he should have followed through with a referendum.

Not really what happened. Trudeau and the liberals wanted preferential ranked ballots as election reform. They formed a committee to do research and establish facts on this. The committee said they’d never get it off the ground. The other parties, and other players wouldn’t accept it and it would be a disaster. They didn’t want proportional representation, so they gave up. Their messaging was terrible, but they would have gone with ranked ballots if they thought it would be reasonably doable. It wasn’t, so instead they concentrated on other things.

Yeah that sounds bad. But it’s completely untrue. Like the skin on a knuckle? Haha. If you have to make up stuff why even bother? Conversly, if your dick is really like a knuckle, you should really see a doctor about that.

It creates stability which is good for the economy. And Canada needs that.

Yes but they’re victims of crime too. So even if the absolute number of crimes goes up with immigrants, citizens will each experience less crime.

Sushi is raw fish. Cookie dough is raw cookie. And some people eat raw cookie dough as a thing; there are cookie-dough ice cream flavors, for example.

I think the mechanism in question is more on the brain side. Where certain sets of nerves are processed, if some are missing that area of brain simply adjusts the input strength of others. I suspect adult amputation is different from amputation of a newborn since the brain elasticity is so different. But all we can do it make educated guesses anyway since we can’t do controlled experiments. Studies involving watching brain activity can only go so far to really reflect experience. So we can’t know. I’m just pointing out that the common sense approach you indicated isn’t matched by some clear data. So it’s not cut and dry. It could even be that men circumcised at birth experience more sexual pleasure.

There’s plenty of signals coming from the nerve bundles in the area. Phantom pain seems to need larger sets of nerve bundles removed/unstimulated. Is s not fully understood, but that seems to be how it works. People who lose fingers often do get increased sensitivity on other fingers and they can also get phantom pain.

It’s bribes / pay to play. People lose as a way to funnel funds without traceability.