The CBC reported on problems with judge-recruitment in Canada before. Basically they don’t have enough applicants, and while training resources exist for more senior-level appeal-court judges, they don’t at the junior levels.

What this means is that you’ve got people overseeing mostly criminal trials, despite having…

Socially it seems weird to insist on “Dr.”... but in terms of correspondences, “Dr.” is a pretty standard title? It’s like you’re asking for something patently strange like “Commander” or “Sir.”

Honestly, the pushback against the term “Dr.” is more eye-roll inducing than even the rare snooty doctors who insist on…

I think people falsely feel like it’s PhDs who are trying to take glory from medical doctors, and also North America has this anti-intellectual streak where people think “that PhD thinks he better than me, but he probably can’t change a car tire.” There’s this idea that PhD’s are kinda useless philosophers.

I think usually what happens is that the photographer gets booked by the company to do the headshots for everyone on a company photo-day. Doing individuals would probably be too small a scale for anyone but a student.

In Europe though, it’s typical to have a passport-style headshot on your resume. I’ve seen people…

I think the poster was complaining about PhD calling themselves “Doctor” which is actually the correct title. A physician has the title “Medical Doctor” which is a professional title and doesn’t denote that they’ve made the scholarly/academic contributions of a PhD... historically physicians started using the title…

I think VICE published a biography/opinion piece by a former airborne officer who served under Petraeus, and said kind of similar things, about him being petty, focused on appearances, and rather form over function.

This is pretty crazy... the East Coast in NOT European, and neither is the Midwest particularly Canadian in any way other than hockey/stereotypes. Some northern and coastal cities may be left/leaning enough to vaguely relate to Canada... but really, even if the U.S. fractioned, any of those regions are strong enough…

Yeah, Canadian dental care not being universal is kinda the glaring example of why universal is better.

Regular healthcare = you pay lots of taxes, but it works, and the quality is very good.

Canadian dentist office = Giant tvs and videogames. Oh you need a consult? That will be $150 (while in Europe it would cost $30…

I think it depends on the traveller... flying cheap is like taking a Greyhound: it sucks but its cheap and works.

If you’re a student/young person going on a cheap vacation and you know the stuff like no bags/maybe delays/short flights only, then it’s great, especially in Europe; sometimes it’s 20EUR to go Paris-Berlin.

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I’m saying the exact letter comes up, complete with all the information you blanked out. You know the specific regulations for your area, I’m not from or in the same country as you, just be mindful of people’s privacy.

Hey... I know you have good intentions, but typing portions of that letter into Google brings up a certain public university in a Republican state along the Mexican border, with a student population in the range you described. Next in identifying those people would be filtering social media with that university tag…

While that’s true, I think argueably that applies to all constitutions, since even the U.S. constitution is interpreted by the Supreme Court and by lawmakers as they draft policy.

What’s significant about the Canadian constitution, or rather the “Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” is that its recent, from 1982,…

Yeah, but friendly countries don’t mess in each others domestic politics. America is really far to the right by the standards of Canada or Western Europe... can you imagine how horrified we’d be to have you guys butting into our elections with your values, even in a minimal way? The agreement we all have is to respect…

In a serious way, other countries have their own local politics to focus on, and “the US” comes up probably only with the frequency at which “world politics” comes up in your political discussions. I mean, Trump’s not going to affect Germany in any really significant way, now on the other hand, if the racist German…

Probably... but it’s your jobs as Americans to change your political system, not the world’s. Scotland has it’s own stuff to protest, like Brexit, exploring another independence vote, trying to change the classist state of UK politics....

While internationally Trump is viewed as a security threat, we all have to keep…

It was originally presented as an art installation at basically the Berlin version of the Whitney Museum. As a piece you can walk around, it was fun (you can walk past the lame bits)... but as a movie it sounds painful.

The show was extended multiple times in Berlin... but I don’t know how it will work if they’re cutting it all into one film? The split version where you can walk around was nice.

The basic concept, is that through a variety of skits (many quite hilarious), different significant artistic manifestos are presented. On…

In Germany if you buy a house, and resell it before 8 (I think?) years, the government taxes the shit out of your profits so that it’s not worth it. This prevents people from flipping - it’s only worth it if you actually plan on living there.

Commercial property: go ahead, invest and play the market. Houses are for…

I agree with you; but housing density is kept low in some cities by building codes, and this exacerbates housing crises. No one’s saying you should build giant 500 unit apartments in a quiet side-street of San Francisco, but it’d be nice if NIMBYism didn’t prevent some more dense units, or granny-houses to be built.

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As I pointed out before, I explicitly don’t assert “equal citizenship in an unlimited unquestioning.” The arguement I’ve made here is that she’s being denied citizenship on grounds that are contrary to Swiss law, despite meeting other qualifications of citizenship in both a technical (years lived/taxes/legal status)…