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On 12/21/2023 at 10:07 PM, CdnFox said:
1. Nope. They pay for it once and only while they use it.
2. Then maybe they should be tbankful as hell someone else is putting up THEIR money and offering a place to live. And there's fewer and fewer doing that.
1. I have no idea what you mean. Hope YOU do.
2. "Thankful" you mean? You make it sound that someone is "putting up THEIR money" to help people and save the world.
No. They don't! They put up money only to make MORE money at the detriment of someone else!
Don't make me teach you capitalism. You should know better !
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On 12/19/2023 at 1:04 PM, CdnFox said:
Really. See - i'd heard a rumour that they got to have a roof over their head that they didn't buy. I'd heard that they were protected against price increases from things like sudden 200 percent increases in insurance costs on the property and sudden interest rate increases and such. I've read that they have a right to 'use and enjoyment' of the property.
IF what YOU say is true -they should stop paying rent and go somewhere else IMMEDIATELY.... seeing as they get no benefit at all from that money.
You're being a bit of an 1diot.
They are paying that roof over their heads many times over and are also paying the landlords roof.
You know they cannot stop paying rent because they will be on the street.And they cannot buy, because they either do not have the down payment money, or were not employed by the same employer in the past 3 years or something else.
Seems like you are being that bit of an 1diot
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On 12/17/2023 at 6:01 PM, CdnFox said:
Nonetheless - the renter enjoyes all kinds of protections. Their rent increase is protected, they are granted rigths the homeowner doesn't have, they usually don't have to pay for their own repairs, etc etc etc.
So there's a big difference. But if you disagree - become a homeowner and there, problem solved.
The renters enjoy nothing other than blowing their hard earned money away.
Don't talk to us about renter protection. The news is full of cases of evicted tenants for no good reason other than to allow the landlord to get a 50% rent hike.
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On 11/27/2023 at 9:31 PM, Aristides said:
So build your cabin in the middle of nowhere, grow your own food and make your own clothes. Enjoy yourself trying to survive. Do you think all 8 billion people in the world could live like that?
Maybe not exactly like that, but thing need to wind down for all 8 billion, which by the way should go down to 3 billion or less.
And by the way our government is not going to let me live in my cabin in the wilderness - they will take it from under my feet and ask for taxes.
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22 hours ago, Aristides said:
How are the things you need going to be made and get to you? What are you going to offer in return?
What "things" would I be needing? If my wooden cabin is built and I have enough food , clothes and wood for heating, there will be very few "things" I might need.
In general we are looking at A*B=C, where we want to reduce C to survive. I was so far looking at reducing or bringing B down to zero, but we can also bring A down without making changes to B, if you know what I mean. (which I know you do)
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On 11/22/2023 at 11:49 AM, Aristides said:
So you can't use cards and you can't use cash because you have no way of doing it yourself or building the system that allows you to use them. Good luck trading that chicken for a tank of gas. Oh wait, who is going to develop the resources and infrastructure to provide that gas or build that car.
Again, wrong assumptions. I will not need a car, neither gas.
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4 hours ago, Aristides said:
You are posting this on some kind of device, phone, tablet, PC. Good luck with building one and all its parts yourself. Good luck building the infrastructure that allows you to post.
Why do you think my ability to post is one of my paramount needs?
I do not need to communicate with lost souls in a lost civilization over an internet.
All I want is for those lost souls to stop f-ing up my world.
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11 hours ago, Aristides said:
So do you think we should just destroy all our cities and put 40 million people into subsistence living with a barter economy just to avoid using money. How do we pay for all the stuff we need to import?
Simple. We do not import, because in reality a human being does not need to import.
What I think is the cities will eventually get destroyed by nature (upset by us), as our society has been so brainwashed by the concept of money and growth for now many generations on end, that nobody knows how to transition to something else, or something that may be "sustainable".
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On 11/19/2023 at 4:17 PM, Aristides said:
Kind of difficult for your average city condo dweller.
Yes, it is. And that's because we have been sold an unhealthy model of existence. Those condo dwellers don't even know where food comes from, or what it takes to produce it.
On 11/19/2023 at 4:28 AM, OftenWrong said:That must be true then. As soon as there is a gun around, it makes me want to kill.
Don't know about you, but in 1 out of 1,000 gun owners this is exactly what happens. Then if 1 in 1,000,000 becomes crazy enough to disregard any legal repercussions they become the next mass killer.
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12 hours ago, OftenWrong said:
Money does not create exploitation, people do.
Just like guns, do not kill...
Is this a point of some sorts?
Take away the guns from people and see if anyone will be shot. Take away money and see if exploitation can continue.
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12 hours ago, bcsapper said:
Actually, a lot of them are extinct now.
Still, until the day comes that I can chase down a tin of beans on the savannah I'm going to stick to giving someone a buck fifty for one at Save On.
Yes, extinct because they had no money to buy their land from our governments and then start paying taxes, I guess.
You do not need to go to SaveOn for beans. You can grow your own food. No bananas and oranges , of course.
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14 hours ago, bcsapper said:
What would you use instead of money?
I am not tasked with solving the world's problems
I can only see the obvious - money, or the medium of exchange, allows the masses to be exploited while those who can take advantage of money are given land and wealth disproportionate to their worth.
Nature has it working well for all other species with no money needed.
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21 hours ago, August1991 said:
Agreed, and clueless.
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People who oppose money - well, they don't understand numbers, mathematics. And to me, they don't understand life - the universe.
My take is that people who oppose money are the ones who understand life better than anyone else.
20 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:You need to understand more than math to understand money deeply.
History, for example. In ancient Sumaria, money was developed as a centralized system of exchange to address "want". Fast forward four or five thousand years, and digital global money doesn't address want in some quarters.
It's time to talk about why.
Well, one can start with understanding math and if their knowledge and reasoning are sound, it wouldn't be long before they understand we live in a scam and money is the medium.
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22 hours ago, Perspektiv said:
Don't want Gaza bombed, don't invade a country, and mutilate innocent civilians in Israel.
This isn't a tit for tat body for body war, this is a "you entered our country and killed innocent civilians" "we will completely disable and cut your head straight off your shoulders, and render you as inoperable as possible" (Hamas).
Looks like the Brits messed up this part of the World too by creating a country out of thin air and dispossessing the local Muslim population of their land.
With this in mind what you claim to be "invading a country" may just be a rebellion by the Muslim to liberate and retake their lands.
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On 11/1/2023 at 1:58 PM, CdnFox said:
The injustice happened when a bunch of murderous scumbags decided to kill a lot of civilians in the name of Gaza.
Period.
You can put the start and the period where it suits you, but the history you cannot cheat.
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On 10/24/2023 at 7:28 AM, Gaétan said:
Volunteering makes you happy. By measuring hormones and brain activity, researchers have discovered that being helpful to others delivers immense pleasure.
Those researchers studies the "wrong" individuals. A normal (good) person may derive pleasure from volunteering.
Our society is not run or managed by this type of people. Our whole system is not based on this type of people.
The people I commonly see is those who will want to make more, ask for more, scoff at the idea of giving anyone more or doing anything for free. If they did do anything as a volunteer, they would later declare it as wasted time and will have a hard time getting over it.
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24 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
The gaza people are just horrible people and have no respect for life, and they demonstrated that.
You may want to read some history.
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During World War I the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, favoring the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The British captured Palestine from the Ottomans shortly thereafter. The League of Nations gave Britain mandatory power over Palestine in 1922. British colonial rule and Arab efforts to prevent Jewish migration into Palestine led to growing sectarian violence between Arabs and Jews, eventually causing the British government to announce its intention to terminate the Mandate in 1947. The United Nations General Assembly recommended partitioning Palestine into two states; one Arab and one Jewish. However, the situation in Palestine had deteriorated into a civil war between Arabs and Jews. The Arabs rejected the Partition Plan, the Jews ostensibly accepted it, declaring the independence of the State of Israel in May 1948 upon the termination of the British mandate. Nearby Arab countries invaded Palestine, but Israel not only prevailed but also conquered far more territory of the Mandate than envisioned by the Partition Plan. During the war, 700,000, or about 80% of all Palestinians fled or were driven out of the territory that Israel conquered, and were not allowed to return, in an event that became known as the Nakba ("Catastrophe") to the Palestinians. Starting in the late 1940s and continuing for decades thereafter, about 850,000 Jews from the Arab world immigrated ("made Aliyah") to Israel.
After the war, only two parts of Palestine remained in Arab control: the West Bank (and East-Jerusalem), annexed by Jordan, and the Gaza Strip (occupied by Egypt), which were conquered by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967. Despite international objections, Israel started to establish settlements in these occupied territories.[1] Meanwhile, the Palestinian national movement gradually gained international recognition, largely thanks to the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO, founded in 1965) under the leadership of Yasser Arafat. In 1993, the Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the PLO established the Palestinian National Authority (PA) as an interim body to run parts of Gaza and the West Bank (but not East Jerusalem) pending a permanent solution to the conflict. Further peace developments were not ratified and/or implemented, and in recent history, relations between Israel and Palestinians have been marked by repeated military conflicts, especially with the Islamist group Hamas, which also rejects the PA. In 2007, Hamas won control of Gaza from the PA, now limited to the West Bank. In November 2012, the State of Palestine (the name used by the PA) became a non-member observer state in the UN, allowing it to take part in General Assembly debates and improving its chances of joining other UN agencies.
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6 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
They are literally in the streets protesting. I feel that disproves your comment somewhat
Yes they can do that. Like the freedom convoy or the blockades on the logging roads. The final result is our society is falling apart. There is no unity, there is no nation, there is no common ground for anything other than chasing the $.
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2 hours ago, CdnFox said:
Anti-Israeli slogans of pro-Palestinian protesters reverberated through the downtown core Sunday as they marched to the beat of a drum, some crying, while waving placards and flags.
A result of our profoundly multicultural society. You can't be pro Hamas or pro Israel. You can't be pro Russia or pro US or China or India or the gays and lesbians or the ecologists or the FN's Anything that becomes political or controversial is not allowed.
You can only put your head down , say B-a-a-a-ah, and follow the other sheep that follow the $ , so we can grow our GDP (for whatever perceived stupid reason).
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19 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
And why should the landlords be responsible for that? Why are the landlords suddenly in charge of providing free social services?
On the outside they shouldn't. Social services as well are rent increases should be better managed by the government.
But in our society very few things seem to work well.
You have people spending nearly all of their incomes on rent, building no equity. Then you have others taking advantage of them , who own many properties and can sell them to comfortably retire.
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6 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
I think you misunderstand - i'm saying the idea that in 6 years we'll reach peak oil use and not increase our use beyond that seems optimistic. So - if you're agreeing with me that we won't stop using more oil in 6 years then you agree that it IS optimistic that we will as the story suggests, right?
My take is, the demand is like a bell shaped curve. We add 7 more years of increases to reach the peak, then possibly another 7 years of decreases to get to the fossil level usage of today and then it will be dropping down.
I will not see any improvement to the climate in my lifetime , it will be only getting worse.
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Just now, CdnFox said:
Looks like we did. The average person didn't know we let nazi's in en masse back in the day and maybe it's time to correct that mistake. There's no statute of limitations on genocide.
OK, Let's line up those 96+ year old nazis and send the firing squad to eliminate our political problem and embarrassment. This will be the most humane and cost efficient way to do it.?
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On 10/24/2023 at 10:46 AM, CdnFox said:
Frankly it feels optimistic.
It doesn't. Seven more years of growing fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions when we are on the verge of collapse already is not optimistic, but predictable.
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1 minute ago, CdnFox said:
I'm sure there are criminals who 70 years ago committed murder and got away with it. If we discovered it now, then we should still prosecute them.
The onus should be on him to prove he committed no crimes that would invalidate his original application. just as it would be today for someone coming to this country.
This is my take on it and leave it at that or we continue to beat old nazi's to death
Nobody discovered it now. It has been known all along. So you agree we should stop beating the old horse.
‘All I’m doing ... is working and paying bills.’ Why some are leaving Canada for more affordable countries
in Federal Politics in Canada
Posted · Edited by cougar
First of all, what is the meaning of "Canada's inflation RATE" and is this the inflation rate everyone in Canada is experiencing?
You are asking us to compare one pile of s*t with another to come to a conclusion you like.