The very definition of genocide.

You’d think that Israelis would be more self-aware, but there’s plenty of videos of them cheering the seige of Gaza and the bombing of children. I don’t want to paint them all with the same brush, but there’s a metric fuckload of people in those crowds.

I like the idea that politicians are held to a higher standard, but I can’t imagine it would be easy to enforce. If it was a financial penalty, it would encourage corruption. If the penalty was an exclusion from running in the next election, the group that makes that determination could be weaponized. It would be difficult to structure.

Heh… I like the idea of a ‘blue line’ ‘centre ice’ party… Every Canuck should know what it means, and it’s a nod to our Hockey heritage, but I can totally see it getting mixed up with the nazi police ‘thin blue line’ bullshit.

Then what’s the spin you want to hear from a politician that would make you vote for them? (That is, spin that isn’t full of racism and rhetoric about the other side.)

I think it’s a false division, which is stoked by far-right leaning politicians. I’d like to believe that even people who lean right politically are still for functioning public education and health care. The issue is that people aren’t doing as well as they remember doing 20 years ago for a variety of very solvable issues.

Nope, there’s a mad rush to get as many cargo ships through as possible before the Seaway freezes in January. The timing is perfect.

I clearly need to get better weed then… I don’t see, feel, hear, taste, or smell anything that’s not there when I’ve had some gummies. All I get it a good night’s sleep.

Par for the fucking course. Remember how his crackhead brother cost Toronto nearly $100M in cancellation fees, wasted work, and then probably hundreds of millions more in lost productivity by writing a one page memo on mayoral letterhead cancelling Transit City?

It infuriates me that people think conservatives are good with money. They burn through hundreds of millions in utter and complete bullshit while championing ‘efficiencies’ and burning the system down from the inside.

Its advantage, strictly speaking, is that it is not correlated very much with stocks, bonds, real estate and other things people owe.

Not that the bot made a mistake, but this is wrong…

Gold drops like a rock when markets take a shit. It usually bounces back quickly – often before stocks recover, giving you a chance to buy cheap on the dip, and sell at a profit three months later, and pick up some of the stocks that haven’t recovered yet… But it VERY MUCH moves in sync with the market during times of crisis.

Tax the fuck out of these ghouls.

He wasn’t afraid of fucking around in downtown Ottawa for 3 weeks… but the finding out… THAT part he’s afraid of.

Can we just sentence him to get a university-level education? It will effectively keep him out of society for the rest of his life.

Voter suppression is why the turnout was so low. For WEEKS prior to the election, all you saw in newspapers, TV, and internet was how dominating DoFo’s lead was.

Go check AirBnB for your nearest large city. Every one of those could be a home for someone.

Let me throw this out… My GF’s aunts and uncles want to have a “first time” party where they all try pot for the first time. I’ve made cookies and brownies in the past, with varying degrees of success, I guess depending on the quality of the effective ingredients.

Do you have any tips on what products would best be used for cooking/baking edibles like cookies or brownies? We’re just looking to have a laugh, get the munchies, and fall asleep. :)

We upgraded our furnace ahead of schedule because we kept having problems with the A/C. Our heating/cooling costs dropped by 55% over the following year. Moving the heat around is 4x more efficient than resistive heating.

Uh, how has he not been tried as a war criminal? Damn.

You deal with that by flattening the upward trend (or even reversing it a little) by adding more inventory. Corporate ownership of residential housing is a big thing, as is owning second and third homes as investment properties. My upstairs neighbour with a middle-management job and a stay at home wife owns the largest suite in my building, plus two rental condos. It’s way, way more common than you think.

The best explanation I’ve seen so far is that now that the abortion issue was crushed by a conservative supreme court in the USA, the next thing they’re trying to do is indoctrinate the youth, because church attendance is dwindling.

Of course, it doesn’t take long for that bullshit to bleed into Canada.

It’s time to double-down on the demand for free/cheap and secular education.

I’ve been telling this to anyone who will listen…

At the federal level, any income, personal or corporate, from property rentals or short term rental of any single family residental property is taxed at the highest marginal rate, PLUS a surcharge of 1%, increasing at 2x the rate of inflation every year. All taxes raised from the surcharge go to federal housing programs.

At the provincial level, any property that isn’t your primary residence gets taxed at 1% of the total property value. The tax rate increases at 2x the rate of inflation every year. All taxes raised go to provincial housing programs, including rebates for first time home buyers.

At the municipal level, cities should be able to tax any property used as a short term rental at whatever rate they feel is fair. Also, any vacant property is taxed at least double the provincial rate.

This immediately stops individuals and companies from investing in single family residential properties, forces individuals and companies to divest their residential property portfolio as they become unprofitable as the tax rates increase, and slowly creates a steady flow of residential homes onto the market. It shouldn’t create a housing crash, it should stop and slowly reverse the upward trend of housing over the course of 5 to 10 years.

Please steal this idea.

“Yes.”

I wish it I could say that it’s hard to forget that safety regulations are written in blood. Yet here we are.

Got any recommendations on teaching someone empathy, when they are clearly already a sociopath?

Short of the whole clockwork orange treatment?

Looks like there are two varieties - IR or Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE).

These idiots can be heard as soon as they finish a high-school sexual health exam.

I’m willing to bet that all of them would fail spectacularly.

Huh. Now you’ve got me wondering… Could you leave a device hidden in store that receives the IR signals that program the tags, capture that information, then parse it out later? You could literally log prices changes at the shelves, in real time.

Yeah, when the convoy crew ended up in court, they kept talking about their ‘amendment rights’, and the judges had to ask what they were talking about. These people are so dense that black holes are jealous. It’s more proof that they’re being purposely misled and manipulated in order to sow anger, disharmony, and fight against ourselves instead of the real sources of our problems.

It makes way more sense for this to be released in late August, before the return to school and after summer vacations… Anyone know why it’s so late arriving / getting approved?

Because the media is owned by the far-right billionaire class.

One more time for the people at the back: POLLS ARE VOTER MANIPULATION

Polls and their news coverage gives people the impression that the outcome has been decided and demoralize / frustrate voters. It’s why Thug Ford won a majority in Ontario with just 17% of eligible voters.

SHOW THE FUCK UP TO VOTE, AND BRING THREE FRIENDS.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

“I’m less worried about COVID, and more worried about your lung butter in my drink.”

In other news, water is wet. Heat… hot!

Remember folks: Polls are voter manipulation. Look at what it did for Ontario… For WEEKS before the election, polls kept predicting a landslide for the CPO… Which demotivated voters – and 17% of eligible voters gave them a 66% majority.

Fuck the polls – show the fuck up to vote, and take three friends/neighbours with you. Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

narrow the audience to only the most stupid.

This is a totally legit method for filtering out the people too smart to fall for the scam. That’s why scam eMails are so poorly written – to entice only the dumbest segment of society to find out more.

If it’s less painful to pay the tax than to do the right thing, then the tax isn’t high enough. Keep doubling it until it works, and in the meantime, use the tax revenue for the city to use as low-income housing.

Wow. Why shouldn’t people of all economic classes have a place that’s close to all the amenities and conveniences that cities offer? Why should they have to travel from outside the city for an hour to work, or school, or for entertainment? Why would you advocate for creating ghettos? Why shouldn’t someone who works 40 hours a week at a

The snag is that the ‘micro’ in ‘microplastics’ means they’re too small to reasonably or reliably capture without great expense - even at the industrial scales of sewage treatment plants.

Heh. Mom moved to Alberta with her idiot boyfriend last year after I had enough of her COVID isn’t real / those people were sick anyway / antivax shit. Good riddance.

Especially tragic is that she has very rare (potentially suddenly fatal) health issues that were being well managed by specialists in the Toronto area – there’s no way in hell she’s getting a similar level of care where she is.

I suspect this would crash the housing market immediately.

1% annual tax on the total value of a property, increasing at 2x the rate of inflation, first for corporate owners & foreign individuals of residential properties, then individual owners of any residential property that’s not their primary residence. The money raised goes directly to build affordable housing and first time home buyer rebates.

This doesn’t shock the system, and frees up homes over a period of time, rather than eviscerating demand after a particular date, and slowly releases homes into the market over the course of years, as individual properties fall into non-profitability.

Someone PLEASE steal this idea.

The car charging argument is so stupid… Cars typically charge at night, when demand is usually lowest. If you need to charge when demand is high, you’ll simply pay a higher price for power – which will still be a fraction of what gas costs.

When car-to-home smart grid solutions roll out, there will be even less of an issue – the grid will feed into your car overnight to charge it up to 80-90%, then ‘borrow’ back 10-15% when it’s most needed (5am-6am in the winters when it’s coldest, 5pm-6pm in the summer when it’s warmest). Add in solar roofs and in-home battery storage, and it smooths out the demand.

People still need homes to live in, and they still have mortgages to pay. If housing prices decrease modestly, nobody is going to riot. The only people who might get hurt is those who are already over-leveraged.