disneygibson (u/disneygibson)

disneygibson commented on Tell HN: Can't Leave Canada After Nov 30th, If Not Vaccinated · Posted by u/xil3

xil3 · 4 years ago

I posted this on here because I thought I can open an intellectual dialog, where we can have a mature chat. Instead, my post gets flagged, for who knows what.

Seriously losing all respect for this site - it's the same as every other place that is supporting this mass hysteria.

At this point, not sure what to do.

disneygibson · 4 years ago

Try posting / searching here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/

disneygibson commented on Tell HN: Can't Leave Canada After Nov 30th, If Not Vaccinated · Posted by u/xil3

xil3 · 4 years ago

Yeah, this is some serious mass hysteria, and it's not getting better.

They are pinning one side against the other, and it's propelled by the government.

You can't even search COVID related terms in Google without it being regulated. Try searching anything related to anti-vax. They have pushed up all the government sites at the top of the rankings for any searching that have the word COVID in it. Things are bonkers.

disneygibson · 4 years ago

Indeed. Any mild criticism is immediately flagged, downvoted, and deleted. I don’t care how serious the pandemic is, it doesn’t justify mass hysteria.

As I said, I don’t see this changing anytime soon. Your best bet is likely Mexico and/or a way into certain US states like Texas or Florida. Not sure if you can get a permanent residence card from abroad, but it may be something to investigate.

disneygibson commented on Tell HN: Can't Leave Canada After Nov 30th, If Not Vaccinated · Posted by u/xil3

disneygibson · 4 years ago

Of course it’s horrifying, especially since these actions are supported by a majority of the population.

There are a few countries with little or no entry restrictions. Mexico in particular is fairly close to Canada and is open. If you are able to work remotely, I’d strongly suggest looking into it. Canada is not going to change its policies anytime soon, sadly.

I’m not sure what the restrictions are, but can they actually prevent you from leaving if you are flying internationally? What about for a medical or other “official” purpose?

Edit: seriously scary that this post is flagged. Not cool.

disneygibson commented on In major shift, EU says vaccine boosters should be considered for all adults reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/bryan0

disneygibson · 4 years ago

This isn’t going to end. There is no point at which things will return to normal. If you think otherwise, I’m sorry but you simply haven’t been paying attention.

If vaccine mandates bother you, I strongly suggest moving to a rural area or to a region/country with less restrictions. Otherwise you will inevitably be forced to receive yearly boosters in order to participate in society.

disneygibson commented on Clean Streets: People taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands missionlocal.org/2021/09/... · Posted by u/avyfain

pwthornton · 4 years ago

One of the things that causes littering is a lack of trash cans or a lack of non-filled trash cans. Not all littering (or throwing recycling in the trash) is done out of pure malice. If you make it easy for people to throw trash out, they generally will. If you make it hard to throw trash out, many will litter.

Stronger fines and other enforcement would help, but the first thing is to make sure that you actually have accurate places to throw stuff out (or have the culture where people bring stuff with them and throw out at home, like some non-American countries). This article mentions how the streets got really bad during the pandemic when the city stopped doing certain things.

SF, NYC, and other cities with trash problems could significantly solve this just by having more trash and recycling cans and by changing them more often. You'll notice how much cleaner DC and its surrounding urban areas are than SF and NYC and that's because they have a bigger commitment to making it easy to not litter and they do more cleaning.

disneygibson · 4 years ago

Tokyo has very few trash cans yet not much litter. It’s a cultural problem, not an engineering or city planning one.

disneygibson commented on I Was Illegally Fired for Trying to Unionize Tesla youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0aC... · Posted by u/jasonhansel

tluyben2 · 4 years ago

I watched this John Oliver[0] a few days ago which shows that apparently (I am not from the US and also have never had to deal with unions) it does not matter anyway illegal or not.

[0] https://youtu.be/Gk8dUXRpoy8

disneygibson · 4 years ago

John Oliver is a biased comedian out for laughs. You should never take his “investigations” as anything more than entertainment.

disneygibson commented on Ask HN: Why can’t big cities buy up small towns? · Posted by u/b0ner_t0ner

disneygibson · 4 years ago

About the last thing people in small towns want are arrogant city folks coming in, kicking them out, and moving them to a nightmarish megacity. It might come as a surprise to denizens of coastal cities, but no one in a small town looks at NYC or SF and thinks it’s a successful, nice place to live.

If you want to help small towns, push for more remote work. There is absolutely zero reason why millions need to be crammed in a single geographic location when we all work online anyway.

I’m honestly not sure if this post is satire.