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    Once again these are the best game as the most played then and no these are not the minimum requirement. Enjoyement is subjective, these are the actual requirement.🤷‍♂️ At this point you can believe what you want, your opinion is not invalid because of me. Have a nice day 👋



  • This is an old post i saved for this kind of moment so here ya go.

    About 6 or 7 years ago my college roommate told me: Conversation isn’t something any one person is good or bad at, it’s a skill like anything else. Everything changed once I thought about it like this.

    1. The more new people you talk to the easier it is. Especially the opposite sex.

    2. Everyone else has their own anxieties and fears. They’re just better at hiding it or masking it than you. Use this to your advantage to point out things you have in common and relate to them.

    3. When someone talks, LISTEN. Don’t worry about your posture, your dog, your clothing. Listen to them. If you don’t understand something, stop them and ask. Engage with them. Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know.

    4. Ask open ended questions. Don’t ask, “Did you have a good day?” Instead ask “What was the best part about your day?” “What’s your favorite and least favorite thing about your job?” Make them feel important. Everyone loves to talk about themselves. So do you. Take that feeling and shove it way down. When they ask about you, that’s your turn to shine. If they don’t, you don’t really want to be friends anyway.

    5. Never one-up people. Even if you are way better, or know way more than the person talking to you, build them up.

    6. If someone is telling a story or saying something and they get cut off, find the next opportunity to bring them back in. “Hey, _______ you were talking about X, what did you want to say?”

    7. Laugh at their jokes. Laugh at your jokes. We’re all weird brains walking around in these skin things. Don’t take it so seriously.

    8. You will remember your mistakes WAY more than anyone else. Stop taking yourself so seriously.

    9. My last and 2nd most important tip. Start every conversation with a compliment. I don’t care if they’re a dude and you’re straight as fuck. I don’t care if they’re mean, evil to you, or disagree with you politically in every way. Find something about the way they look, and compliment it. Someone did this to me once when I was a new guest at someone’s apartment. “Hey man, that’s an awesome jacket, where’d you get it?” I fucking loved that jacket. And I was self conscious about it. I felt instantly at home.

    Take the things you like, and be that person for someone else. If you’re on a date, be genuinely interested in that person.

    These are things that worked for me. Find your own style.

    The #1 tip!! Go into EVERY room as if people will like you. Seriously. Walk through any door, in front of any group of people and smile. They. Will. Like you. Keep that in the front of your mind and you will enjoy conversations with anyone.




  • Hello could you point to me where the leger firm statement about supply management is? I’m trying to find it and i can’t. The only thing i found about it is citynew aka rogers saying they translated a story from lapresse but i can’t even find this.

    It’s also stated that the poll were made in two days and pulled/asked 1001 person, so i doesn’t really represent the quebec population. Also when i try to find anything related to supply management, everything is 1-2 yeara old

    Tl dr: this seems like a shit report, and i’m unable to find any source. Do you have any?






  • I have 4 week of vacation per year can’t move them. Boss is pretty chill so he give us 2 extra. They are not paid vacation, but i get canada EI for those.

    We also have 13 (14?) holiday These are paid by money taken from my salary each week( ± 15%) and given back twice year a in a lump sum (btw 3k-5k depending on the hours you worked) a month before our 2 week mandated vacation.

    I’m also permanently on the canada EI. I just went and look it up, i could go 34 week without working (minus the 4 mandatory vacation week) and they would pay me 668$/ week, but i have to stay in canada to get that.



  • Well that was a great read

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canada

    The ongoing gap between the “have” and “have not” provinces is an ongoing economic concern and cause of regional tensions. Much of the gap stems from huge differences in geography, population, and economic activity among provinces, which make any attempt to “equalize” these differences challenging. As shown in the table below, PEI’s population is less than 1% of the Canadian total, while Ontario’s population is close to 40%. Alberta’s GDP per capita is 41% higher than the national average while PEI’s is roughly 24% lower—Alberta’s GDP per capita is 185% that of PEI yet the average personal income in Alberta is 159% that of PEI.

    However, the stated goal of equalization in Canada is not to equalize economies or ensure that economic outcomes are equal. As stated above, it is to “ensure that provincial governments have sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation”. Per capita data is central to measuring if provincial outcomes are comparable.

    Quebec’s high provincial taxes account for its budget surplus, although without equalization Quebec would have had a deficit. Quebec residents pay the highest provincial tax in the country but the lowest federal tax. Quebec residents pay 16.5% less federal income tax annually than other Canadian provinces due to the Quebec Abatement. This lower direct income tax for Quebec residents is factored in when the federal government transfers (Canada Health Transfer, Canada Social Transfer and Equalization) funds back to the Quebec government.

    Alberta Premier Kenney added that, since the inception in 1957 of equalization payments, “Quebec has received equalization money every year of the program, totaling 221 billion dollars or 51 per cent of all payments.” According to the Library of Parliament report, Quebec receives a larger proportion mainly because of the large population in Quebec representing almost a quarter of the population of Canada. It is much larger than most other equalization-receiving provinces, In 2007 changes were made to the equalization formula based in large part on the way the formula used property tax revenues as one of the factors. As a result, Quebec’s proportion of the total amount increased even more since 2007.

    On February 28, 2001, Bernard Landry, Parti Québécois leader who took office as Quebec premier on March 8, said that it was “degrading” that Quebec was receiving an extra $1.5 billion in equalization payments in 2001 and that the province had been receiving these payments for over 40 years. Quebec received the “lion’s share” of the 2001 equalization payments. In 2000, Quebec economic growth was slower than that of the other six provinces that were also eligible for payments. Landry blamed the federal government for failing to redistribute “real wealth”, saying Quebec had been “short-changed” for decades because the federal government did not “spend enough in Quebec on research and industry.” Paul Martin, federal finance minister, said Quebec’s separatists “pursue political agendas as opposed to economic agendas” and this did not have the “beneficial results for their population”.

    In 2017, the Coalition Avenir Québec said that since 2003, federal equalization payments to Quebec had tripled to more than $11 billion. The party’s leader, François Legault, found it “shameful”. In 2019, CAQ Finance Minister Eric Girard wrote in a Financial Post op-ed, argued reiterate the party support to “raise Québec’s potential GDP growth to two per cent in order to close the wealth gap with the rest of Canada and assume greater economic leadership within the federation”. He ended the article by stating “Someday, Québec will no longer receive equalization payments, and this will be a great day for Québec and Canada.”

    Ps: i’m a french canadian from quebec, im also a plumber, so i see alot of people everyday. I have to either go to different houses to work or go in commercial, instutional buildings to build bathroom and stuff… anyway i see many different types of people. None of them talk about this, maybe the politicians do, but the common people don’t. No one gloat about how much money they stole from alberta, because they don’t know about that and they don’t care about that. Most of us are just trying to get to friday with enough energy to have some fun in the week-end dude.

    Happy easter 👋



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    Shiny were introduced in gen 2? The odd of a shiny in fire red was 1 in 8192. Fun fact: you could techically get shiny pokemon in gen 1 but the value for wild pokemon was bugged and i’m pretty sure they had no shiny sprite. Which mean they would only become shiny by trade.

    Just imagine it: your best pal whip out his new pokemon silver cartridge he got for christmas, sadly your momma didn’t have money this year for you, so you put your yellow one in and start semi playing while looking at your friends game. You begin some rando trade after his second badge , his team is getting wrecked by a cow…? bam! He show you the electrode you just traded, THAT DAMN INVERTED POKEBALL BECAME GREEN WTF!!

    Nowaday you would probably have to pay an extra dlc for that kind of stuff.

    https://bluemoonfalls.com/pages/shinies/gen-1-shiny-hunting






  • No he doesn’t because trauma, aka emetional or mental distress caused by experience have nothing to do with it.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5501015/

    Few would dispute that the causes of ASD include both genetic and environmental factors. Indeed, more than 100 genes are known to confer risk1,2 and 1,000 or more may ultimately be identified.3 A wide range of potential environmental challenges have also been associated with autism, although studies in this area lag behind genomics research. A short overview of data supports genetic and environmental contributions to ASD etiology. A focus on prenatal events will hopefully clarify that the cause of autism, in the vast majority of cases, occurs prenatally, even if behavioral signs first appear several years after birth.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6901292/

    ASD is a heterogeneous disorder, both etiologically and in terms of clinical presentation, and individuals with ASD demonstrate a wide spectrum of abilities and challenges. While the etiology of ASD is complex and still remains largely unknown, this condition is likely the result of the interactive effects of genetic and environmental risk factors (Lai et al. 2014; Schaefer 2016; Tchaconas and Adesman 2013). ASD is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder, with a high concordance rate among monozygotic twins (Bailey et al. 1995) and an increased risk of sibling recurrence (Ozonoff et al. 2011; Risch et al. 2014). ASD is largely not a single-gene disorder. Rather, there are likely hundreds of genes that contribute to its etiology (Gilman et al. 2011; Levy et al. 2011). A number of environmental factors, particularly during the prenatal period, also present an increased risk for ASD including maternal diabetes, infection, fever, and inflammation (Ornoy et al. 2015); maternal asthma and allergies (Croen et al. 2005); the use of certain drugs during pregnancy (Croen et al. 2011; Gidaya et al. 2016;), extreme prematurity (Johnson et al. 2010), and maternal exposure to air pollution (Raz et al. 2015; Volk et al. 2013). Advanced parental age (Idring et al. 2014) has also been associated with an increased risk of ASD.

    Tl,dr; genetics and prenatal disposition are the only known causes.

    What i think op describe is more likely the masking autistic people do which is a defense mechanism they use after living traumatic event.