First off, you do have elective requirements you have to meet, for example you need 12 arts credits and 3 credits from each "category" of science minus one (https://science.ubc.ca/students/requirements/faculty, see academic calendar for more details). Speaking from a GPA perspective, I find that if you're actually interested in a subject you can probably do better in those courses than so-called gpa boosters (I heard ATSC 113 is no longer a GPA booster anymore, as well). Another thing to note: I haven't checked, but I would not recommend taking WRDS 150 with a bad professor because of how much the syllabus differs and the class sizes are small. Much better to take an ENGL course IMO.

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Hi, here is my program for both terms. I added EOSC111, ASTR101, and applied for the waitlist for PHYS119, and ATSC113. I actually took an ECON course but everyone told me to drop it and take easier courses for my GPA. I wonder do I really need those GPA booster lectures. It seems like a waste of money to take classes that do not attract me and does not meet any of my science reqs. Also WDYT about my program overall? Do you have any opinion?

Just for reference, how much would Google and Meta stand to pay if they didn't ban Canadians from reading Canadian news?

While we're at it, can we ban amp links and other url tracking in general?

No punishment for doing it, but maybe have a bot to remind people.

To clarify, I'm not engaging in whataboutism, I think both of them should be banned (though maybe sometimes affiliate links have their place).

I don't mean to be nitpicking but if the rule is zero-tolerance I think we should clear up the edge cases. I hope you don't take this the wrong way.

• What happens when the original title is misleading or clickbait? Personally I like how HN handles things in this case (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
• How about if you want to ask a question about a news article as the main focus of the post, but also want to include context about the article?
• Or if you're making the post to discuss a related topic, and include multiple articles?
• On that note, what even counts as a news article? What if I post a link to a reddit thread about a news article?

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