FireRetardant @ FireRetardant @lemmy.world

Posts

2

Comments

1,317

Joined

2 yr. ago

I agree, and in my opinion, women and partners in general need to get better at leaving piece of shit men (or shitty partners in general). Many of them keep acting like this cause they get away with it after some small talk and a nice dinner just to be a piece of shit again next week. I've known girls who date men who genuinely claim that women shouldn't be allowed to vote and all i can think is "why is this girl staying with someone who hates them?"

I think part of why she didn't seen men fighting some of the shitty stuff online is due to the echochamber effect of those communities. Any resistance is downvoted, dogpiled with hateful comments, and maybe even removed by a biased mod. A lot of the good men who would defend in those comments don't even browse those specific forums because of how toxic and shitty they can be.

I heard a podcast speculate that Doug Ford would be PM one day and tbh i shudder at the thought of that. A canada wide bicycle ban? Selling national parks to build mcmansions? Public funding for private amenities only the rich can afford?

All of that is possible under Ford as PM.

Education to inform voters? I wonder which party routinely tries to reduce education funding....

All the more reason to kick him out as leader. He can't even keep the seat hes had for years in an election that just months ago looked to be his by a landslide.

I never played cs1 on release, only played after it was nearly 10 years old, but my understanding is it vastly improved over updates and dlc (which unfortunately did cost more but did at least add meaningful changes for the most part).

Im curious to see where CS2 stands in 3-5 years when mods have really taken off and the devs had made most of their major tweaks.

They could also try working with the BQ since that party is in 3rd and has more seats than the NDP

A couple of studies have shown this doesn't reduce car trips nearly as much as some would think and in some areas actually increases car trips due to less clumping of errands, less adherence to rush hour times, and an increase in delivery services like ubereats and amazon.

The only solution to traffic is alternatives to traffics like transit, and nearly every form of transit is more energy effdcient than private EVs. EVs are still good, but electrified transit should be a bigger focus.

Maybe if you feel you can't get back to sleep, do your exercise early. Maybe it'll save you time later for a nap or an earlier bed time. I find if i wake and feel decently rested even if its not wake up time i prefer to just start my day there than interupt another sleep cycle.

It would be easier if we had ranked choice voting. My mom wants to vote green but she feels like her vote is worthless (I'm not sure how the cons are her 2nd choice given her environmental concerns but i guess no one is immune to propaganda).

Dougie deserves it. Half the shit people are upset about in this country are provincial responsibilities anyway, like housing supply. Policies like the housing accelerated fund can be painted like government over reach, but when a whole nation is blaming the feds for something that is more realistically their premeirs problem, the feds have to do something and i think the fund is a good middle ground. I hope it ends up spurring more density within cities and villages across the country.

This is one of my biggest complaints living in Ontario. So many people blamed JT for things that were more realistically Doug's responsibility, yet they voted Doug back in cause its easier to just blame Trudeau than it is to actually change the ways we build housing (housing accelerator fund to spur rezoning and devlopment), move people (Doug building hwys instead of rail and transit while also ripping out bike lanes), and generate energy (remove the carbon tax instead of investing in green energy that wouldn't be subject to the tax).

America wants the minerals and oil under the ground. They had military power in the artic. Next they want to own the artic.

Probably the whole DOGE thing with the mass firings and all.

Yes smaller government, like the ones telling you that you cant be gay, wear certain religious articles, and meddle in lower governments affairs like bike lanes or zoning.

Yeah i could get it for free from the government if i need it, but wouldn't it be better if i constantly pay a fee even if i use no health services then get denied when i do need them and have to pay out of pocket?

They may need to invest in dedicated transit stations and parking garages to accomplish this but IMO thats worth it to keep less cars within the city.

Canada has a ton of untapped natural resources that he wants to irresponsibly harvest and sell for the fastest profit and growth. A lot of these resoucres are hard to access due to how northern they are but melting sea ice is making northern ports and shipping routes more feasible, increasing access to these remote resources. The times he refers to as "america being great" were times of heavy natural resource extractions and little to no environmental regulations. He is also eying Canada's vast fresh water supplies.

The Colorado river has customers purchasing more water than the river even has flowing in it. On top of this, very poor water regulation policy means farmers are encouraged to use as much water as they can rather than preserve water when possible because unused water may be taken off of next years allotment. Instead of reworking these policies and discouraging water intensive agriculture cash crops in the area, he'd rather just take Canada's water.

A big part of this may have started from his ego but strategically America absolutely stands to benefit economically, militarily, and food security wise from annexing Canada. Canadians cannot afford to take these threats lightly.

Sure, if you want your grandkids to swelter in heatwaves and droughts while drinking water contaminated with oil.

We really should be working towards depending on oil less, seeing as it is a finite resource and damages any part of the planet it touches.

Maybe if we are so economically dependent on a finite substance that damages every part of the planet it touches, we should think of changing the priorities of our economy. Quebec is great at producing energy with its hydroelectric plants generating about 1/3 of all electricity generated in Canada. Quebec is also decent at saving energy being only the 8th largest energy use per capita of the provinces.

It is just wrong to claim Quebec imports all its energy from the US when Quebec actually exports a lot of electricity to the US while importing fossil fuels. Quebec could be far more energy independent if it focused on electrifying more stuff, the opposite is true for fossil fuels in Quebec.