These are interesting to me, I never got a chance to experience this stuff myself. I have only 1 ex and it was from a relatively short relationship in high school, I got married to the second girl I ever dated and we’re still married decades later.
That first girl did cheat on me, so that sucked, but we never spoke again and I have no idea where she even is at this point.
but not the fork…
Not sure which part you’re asking for sources on but:
Eby planning to amend the law: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/eby-dripa-gitxaala-ruling-9.7005087
Original law passage in 2019, with unanimous consent from all MLAs https://www.leg.bc.ca/learn/discover-your-legislature/2019-undrip-legislation-enacted#%3A~%3Atext=Visit-%2CMobile+Menu%2Cfuture)%20are%20consistent%20with%20UNDRIP.
David Eby was an MLA at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_British_Columbia_general_election
Undermine the rule of law?
Wtf. No.
He’s literally going to change the law because the courts interpreted a currently written law in a way that wasn’t intended. And he should know, he voted for that law so he can definitely remember his intentions.
That’s well within how democracy works. He’s the fucking premier.
He isn’t, it wasn’t, and you’re an asshole.
It was a picture of Trump with a quote that he had said about a school shooting saying “We have to get over it”. This guy also added “This Seems Relevant”
As he should, absolutely his first amendment right was violated.
If the right can spout pure hatred and bullshit with impunity, so can everyone else.
I would extend that concept to land itself.
Land should be nominally “owned” by all citizens of a country, and leased to specific people on an ongoing basis with similar rights to use it as currently, but without the right to “sell” it. You can choose to stop leasing it, and lease somewhere else instead.
Then the proceeds of that should be used to fund the UBI.
I mean it’s pretty obvious that people don’t tend to stop working.
All you have to do is look at groups of people who either don’t need income. Take a look at retired people for example, and you see many of them doing something productive with at least part of their time.
They may choose to do things that aren’t a paid job, like childcare for grand children, taking care of a home, or volunteering, but those are still work in my opinion.
Hell my own grandmother retired from being a grocery cashier for 40 years, then got bored and went back to work for another 5 years because she liked being social (it was a smaller town where she knew most of the customers).
The top 10 wealthiest people in the world only have a fortune of around 1.8 Trillion dollars.
The estimated global personal wealth for everyone in the world is around 450 Trillion dollars.
The top 10% of the world controls a massively disproportionate amount of wealth, but definitely not the top 10 people/families.
My wife tries to be a good mother, and much of it she does extremely well, but then she goes and makes some extremely illogical decision that have no basis in reality. I support her to show a united front in front of the kids, but the kids aren’t stupid and have figured out that it isn’t coming from me and are starting to resent her.
She’s always been like this, and it’s just something I’ve understood and accepted as part of the package that she is. The kids didn’t choose it though so it’s tough to understand why this happens.
When I say illogical, I mean things like they’re not allowed to go swimming at indoor pools. Outdoor pools or the lake are fine though. I have never been given a reason for this, it only started during/after covid.
Specific video games are banned for violence, despite other more violent or graphic games being approved. Usually just because they asked at a bad time, and instead of changing her mind later she just holds the line.
I’ve talked to her about it. She ain’t budging.
Sorry for the rant.
What?
Yes, but also, there’s no reason to move 2000 people 500 miles in less than 3 hours in the US.
For the sake of argument, I’ll pick two reasonable cities to connect. San Francisco and Seattle (which would probably be more like 750 miles away, but close enough)
I just checked Seatac’s website, there are 16 flights today to San Francisco, at what, 200 people per flight.
That works out to 3200 people transported the whole day, or double that at 6400 if you count the return trips, and many of those are just going to be connecting flights, rather than people trying to specifically get between those two places.
So… a train system that can move 2000 people in each direction every 30 minutes, running 16 hours a day, would be about 128,000 people transported per day which is literally 20x more people than currently fly between those two places.
Why would an extra 100,000 people a day want to go between those cities? What purpose would they have for doing this that isn’t currently being served by a flight?
Google says it’s less than $200 return for the flight between those two cities. Would a train be significantly cheaper? Clearly no. There’s no way it’s going to be much cheaper than that.
Would it be significantly faster? Nope. It would probably take about the same amount of time.
It would likely leave from a more convenient location near town, and the seats may be a bit more comfortable. Those are really the only two benefits I see.
So the argument isn’t “America dumb” it’s “America has no real reason to do that”
Yup, the whole generation grew up having been too distant from the horrors of WW2.
Most of them don’t even know what happened the day after the British protectorate ended in Israel.
Hell most of them don’t even know when, how, or why Israel was created.
History repeats itself because people forget.
The argument is that it’s not billionaires causing the primary issues with affordability.
It’s almost entirely the pyramid scheme that is the 8.5 trillion dollar real estate market, which is majority owned by the average Canadian citizen, not corporations and billionaires.
I mean feel free to eat the rich at the same time, but if we want to make things affordable and our economy competitive again for anything, we NEED to reduce property values.
Currently, my home consumes approximately 45% of the combined wages of my wife and I, and we’re lucky enough to have it half paid off already. If we dropped the cost of housing significantly, it would hurt the equity of everyone, but also it would mean that I could work for a lower wage, and still take home more disposable income.
An 80% drop in real estate values could mean paying me 30% less and me still being ahead financially, especially once you account for the multi-stage effects where most of the things I buy are made using land and labour, both of which would now be cheaper, so the prices of most products (like food) could drop too.
All of that would need significant government regulation during the transition period to ensure companies play nicely, but it’s totally possible.
If you take the top 10 billionaires in Canada, and take every single bit of value they have and manage to get every single dollar while doing so. You would still only give each Canadian $3000.
Once.
I’m not pro-billionaire, but if instead, you took every single piece of residential property in Canada, and took that value and divided it between all Canadians, each person would get $212,500.
The biggest problem with distribution of wealth in this country is not the billionaires, it’s the appreciated property values of real estate and the vast majority of those are your standard every day Boomer house.
I have given more thought to what I would change my name to if I was trying to hide as a criminal than I have for if I switched genders.
I’d argue home assistant with some smart LEDs and a few sensors would be great.
Having a bulb that let’s you know the outside temperature/weather when you’re getting dressed in the morning is neat. Having a dimming pattern for sleeping time. Tons of other really simple stuff available too.
I mean, the text on a website isn’t the problem for not being able to use 56k.
It’s only images and video that take up space, the libraries used on websites are all cached at this point so that’s hardly relevant to ongoing usage of a website.
So glad my electricity system is government run.
Despite some problems here and there, they have managed to keep rates for consumers very low.
And they do an excellent fucking job of restoring power during outages, massive windstorm? no worries, they got crews working around the clock and most urban and suburban power outages are less than 12 hours. Rural areas can be a bit longer, but still impressive.
Thanks BC Hydro.