I do kinda have to wonder again exactly where the game is getting its weather info. Because it’s not noticeably snowing here, and the Met Office is just forecasting more rain.
(That would help explain why it’s feeling pretty chilly in here tonight, though. Colder outside than I thought, if still just above freezing. And drizzling as usual, so I’m really not wanting to get out in it much right now to play 🙄)
Blackfeet Nourish has been providing food for the Medicine Bear Shelter and Blackfeet Food Bank for more than six years. The month of February has been grueling. Blackfeet [Nation reservation] has been hit by blizzard after blizzard with hurricane-force winds. Many people around Blackfeet Nation are both trapped in their homes and trapped out of their homes, in shelters, and other people’s homes.
100% of the donations will go to food for the Blackfeet Nation and dispersed [by] the shelter and as directed by Blackfeet Tribe’s Incident Command Center.
Blackfeet Nourish has been providing food for the Medicine Bear Shelter and Blackfeet Food Bank for more than six years. The month of February has been grueling. Blackfeet [Nation reservation] has been hit by blizzard after blizzard with hurricane-force winds. Many people around Blackfeet Nation are both trapped in their homes and trapped out of their homes, in shelters, and other people’s homes.
100% of the donations will go to food for the Blackfeet Nation and dispersed [by] the shelter and as directed by Blackfeet Tribe’s Incident Command Center.
Why do (esp white) men love having fights about politics where they change topics 6x to confuse you and then try and make you look dumb because you can’t jump between the points bc you’re too busy arguing the separate distinct points bc you thought that’s what the fight was about
“The Gish gallop allows a debater to hit their opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths and misrepresentations in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate. In practice, each point raised by the “Gish galloper” takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place,[4] which wastes the opponent’s time and can cast doubt about their debating ability in an audience unfamiliar with the technique, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved.[5] …If one is familiar with an opponent who is known to use the Gish gallop, the technique can be countered somewhat by preempting and refuting their commonly used arguments before they have the chance.[7]“
Or sometimes it could help to point out that they’re doing it, though I suspect the kind of person who does this is the kind of person who responds to “Wow, you’re Gish galloping” with “ad hominem!”
People who do this know they look like they’re winning to the audience. They make lots of short snappy inaccurate points and you’re fumbling to refute with full facts and explanations.
add. to the previous response:
Oh my god there’s a word for it!???
My ex did this in every single damn fight we had and then wondered why I wouldn’t talk things out in person. I needed time and space to get shit straight in my head.
Also dental-care is not covered or vision-care, both of which can be expensive.
Some speciality services like Orthodontics also aren’t covered, and those can run into the thousands of dollars in cost.
In Canada people can and do go bankrupt (and/or live in poverty) because of medical expenses. I hate that chronically ill and disabled Canadian experiences are always discounted in those kinds of statements.
Though, I find recognizing the difference in impact and scale is also important. Canadians aren’t going to go bankrupt with one hospital visit, for example.
I just wish folks wouldn’t take those “no one goes bankrupt because of medical expenses in Canada” with the grain of salt they deserve, but I am frustrated that so many people cling to that statement though it were entirely true.
As a struggling disabled Canadian facing the specter of bankruptcy, I know that people do take it literally and it allows problems with our medical system to be swept under the rug.
Our healthcare system is good, but it still fails many Canadians and it is vital that we acknowledge that.
Usually when those sorts of statements are made by Americans I’ll give them a little bit of leeway because all they have to go on is our reputation which seems to be squeaky clean as long as we stand it beside their tire fire. But when Canadians absorb those messages and believe them true and tout on about how great the Canadian healthcare system is I just… get so frustrated.
Especially after Harper and especially after Ford is done with Ontario.
Our system used to be better. But our complacency has allowed it to become worse.
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