We’ll have to wait a few days for the official results as special votes haven’t been counted yet, they might end up being able to form an alliance with the Greens if they reach 171 seats. Otherwise NDP will be their option.

Well that and Lil’PP not being able to distance himself from his “Trump-lite” image because that would have turned away a big chunk of his base.

That’s the crazy part, unless they’re “outlawed” billionaires should try and improve people’s lives since it means they would have more money to spend on the crap those billionaires are selling! It’s hard to sell stuff on Amazon if everyone is struggling to afford housing and food.

Should we really care about that guy’s opinion?

With the numbers as they are? I doubt it. If the US becomes sane again the NDP will retain its seats and the Liberals must understand that.

Although a Bloc opposition would have been pretty funny

If every time you drink you do it to the point of getting drunk then yeah, you’ve got a problem with alcohol… Even if it’s not frequent.

If you drive once every 6 months but when you do you go twice the speed limit because you just enjoy the thrill of speed then you’re a problematic driver.

Guess I’ll spoon feed you

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/understanding-alcohol-use-disorder

In the past year, have you:

-Had times when you ended up drinking more, or longer, than you intended?
-More than once wanted to cut down or stop drinking, or tried to, but couldn’t?
-Spent a lot of time drinking, being sick from drinking, or getting over other aftereffects?
-Wanted a drink so badly you couldn’t think of anything else?
-Found that drinking—or being sick from drinking—often interfered with taking care of your home or family? Or caused job troubles? Or school problems?
-Continued to drink even though it was causing trouble with your family or friends?
-Given up or cut back on activities you found important, interesting, or pleasurable so you could drink?
-More than once gotten into situations while or after drinking that increased your chances of getting hurt (such as driving, swimming, using machinery, walking in a dangerous area, or unsafe sexual behavior)?
-Continued to drink even though it was making you feel depressed or anxious or adding to another health problem? Or after having had an alcohol-related memory blackout?
-Had to drink much more than you once did to get the effect you want? Or found that your usual number of drinks had much less effect than before?
-Found that when the effects of alcohol were wearing off, you had withdrawal symptoms, such as trouble sleeping, shakiness, restlessness, nausea, sweating, a racing heart, dysphoria (feeling uneasy or unhappy), malaise (general sense of being unwell), feeling low, or a seizure? Or sensed things that were not there?

-Any of these symptoms may be cause for concern. The more symptoms, the more urgent the need for change.

Nope, that’s personal alcoholism.

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-topics/alcohol-facts-and-statistics/alcohol-use-disorder-aud-united-states-age-groups-and-demographic-characteristics

You can get drunk once a week and not drink otherwise, that’s still alcoholism, every time you drink you lose control of it.

You sound like someone who is defending their own bad habit and that doesn’t want to admit that it’s alcoholism.

If you get drunk every weekend for years you are an alcoholic and you just don’t know it.

The % of alcohol drinkers who are problematic drinkers is extremely high (about 25% of alcohol drinkers in Canada to give an example), people just don’t understand what is problematic drinking. 10% of the US population over 12 y.o. has dealt with alcoholism in the last year.

Ok, but that has nothing to do with my original point which was simply that saying they’re being exploited because they work so much when they’re probably the ones who wanted to work 72h/week is ridiculous.

What I’m saying is that even if these workers are not forced to work that many hours, they want to do it (as long as they’re paid to do it). Even with a union they negotiated to work 75h and even wanted more and it was their employer that prevented it.

If you read again and pay attention this time you’ll realize that I mentioned the US and gave a Canadian example of agricultural labor laws because the same logic applies, it’s not centralized in the federal government’s hands.

Well these days Android asks for more permissions so I guess it would prevent it in many cases by preventing access to the microphone for apps where you don’t want to allow it…

Go to settings and try to reset to default settings

Again, don’t talk about labor laws as if they were the same everywhere, even in the US there’s federal and state laws, in my case in Canada it’s federal and provincial laws and OT exists in the agricultural sector outside of harvest season in my province (which doesn’t apply to greenhouse work since it’s always harvest season, so no OT in that sector unless it’s not agricultural work you’re asked to do)…

Ublock origin on Firefox and that’s the only one you use?

I use revanced on mobile so good question but it does on PC

Depending on jurisdiction OT might not be payable on time that isn’t outside of their regular schedule. I used to work 12h shifts and by law it was ok because that’s the schedule I was assigned and I agreed to, past that it would become overtime and after 4h of OT I could simply refuse to do more (by law).

So yeah, labor laws vary, keep that in mind.

Yep, people don’t understand that these guys are moving temporarily to work, not to hang around and go in leisure walks or whatever. I mentioned it in another comment but they might even want to work more than 72h and it might be their boss setting some limits.