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What is an average, Boges? Does it exclude extremes? Please ? make our day ? From my link: During summer heat waves, Lytton is often the hottest spot in Canada

I'm using facts, calm down with the meltdown. It has been known as one the hottest place in Canada for about 100 years.

I do not believe an Ice Age did occur. I do not believe the ice melt on all of Canada. It did happen. It's a fact.

Incredible how facts go above some heads. Did you learn about Ice Age in primary schools too, or did you skip that as well?

Hello Boges, I'm here to educate you on top of your Youtube diploma. During summer heat waves, Lytton is often the hottest spot in Canada, despite being north of 50° in latitude. Due to the dry summer air and a relatively low elevation of 230 m (750 ft), summer afternoon shade temperatures frequently reach 35 °C (95 °F) and occasionally top 40 °C (104 °F). Lytton holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada with a record high of 49.6 °C (121 °F) on June 29, 2021, which was set during the 2021 Western North America heat wave Lytton, along with the nearby community of Lillooet, shared the second-highest temperature ever recorded in Canada.[12] On July 16 and 17, 1941, the temperature reached a then-record 44.4 °C (112 °F) on both days in both communities

I can't get beyond the fact some people believe there aren't eras to climate. But hey, lack of education I guess. Did it take an industrial revolution to melt all the ice above our heads that was floating all above Canada?

Wasn't Australia supposed to be a hellpit by now? Where are the doomsayers? Have they all emigrated to this thread?

It is actually very low in altitude and gets very hot out there. I don't know if you learned geography along those great science classes you had (on youtube) talking about global warming.

So, what about the impending doom hellfire coming from Australia?

Look at this Mike; Another Ice Age? Monday, June 24, 1974 In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection. As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age. Telltale signs are everywhere — from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round. Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds — the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example. http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,944914,00.html

A British man took great lengths to look like his idols who sing and dance in front of thousands of fans. According to him, he felt connected to the Korean group so much, that he felt he was not belonging to his original ethnic background -British White- but was indeed, according to him and many activists on the Left on twitter, a trans-Korean. By great lengths, he meant taking plastic surgery, to make himself look asian. It goes as followed; Him on the left before surgery, him on the right just after. His name is Oli London. He received lots of death threats after appearing on Twitter with this appearance. https://www.tmz.com/2021/06/30/oli-london-british-influencer-identify-korean-plastic-surgery-death-threats-bts-singer/ Do you feel like this is the next big cause of the Left?

For me, taking the reader for a dumb person is one of the worse things you can do. Fact checkers have done just that. Appearing mostly during the months after Trump's election, fact checkers are pundits or journalists who work for a mainstream media and try their best to present arguments delegitimizing a theory that is contrary to the establishment's beliefs, or ridiculing an outrageous theory to paint in a same brush those on a political side whose not for establishments' gain. They came as faith in media hit an all-time low, with good reasons, after they predicted Hillary Clinton win in a landslide, a hard No for Brexit, and other predictions which ultimately failed. What I just wrote is my take; I think the media just engages in fact cheking to try to look good. Not to say the truth. One example would be the what so called fact checking on a 'doctored' cover magazine for Time. According to the Time magazine, there was a doctored TIME magazine cover depicting a false claim; Global Cooling was about to happen according to scientists in the 1970s. This doctored image is in fact a doctored image, to make an article about here; https://time.com/5670942/time-magazine-ice-age-cover-hoax/ The image is as followed; So what is the problem, exactly? Well, according to the Time Magazine, they have been victim of a negative campaign, depicting their magazine as falsely claiming Global Cooling could happen. In their fact check, they say specifically ; Ads, jokes and protests are one thing, though — hoax covers are something else entirely. And that’s the problem with a faked TIME cover about global warming that’s been floating around the Internet for some time According to their story, they are telling the truth. They have a totally objective view on this, and physical evidence of said mischaracterization of their cover. BUT. Even if I am born in 1995, I had access to the Internet. Most critiques were referring to this, not doctored at all version of Time Magazine, published in 1973; What are your thoughts about this little peace of dishonesty I found on my free time?

1. True, in that regard, what I think could have happened, is that the building owners wanted it to be in that state, somehow, for their personal gains, by not making the repairs on time. 2. It is, in the cynical view I gave you on this thread, a gamble. People gamble their homes on poker. Some gamble on other things. Don't take the 'rational' route for granted in that case. 3. An inspection from 2018 in the least impacted State for COVID (measures-wise, not the death toll, there are virtually no measures in Florida), lead them to postpone works for three years?

This is a cynical speculation, I know. Because bad things happen, rarely, but it does. And it's for everyone's good that we should maybe start thinking that if what I wrote is the exact scenario, maybe we should review safety regulations for buildings, and not just wait for the good will of the owners.

The building has to be in a state where it is deemed too dangerous by an inspector. For me, the owners of the building did like a bad doctor would do; he would find a tumor inside a patient, and just wait. They had a warning about major repairs to make, and even if you had to bet it had a 1% chance of collapsing, this 1% chance was... dozens and dozens of lives at stakes. The owners didn't start the repairs three years after the inspection. It finally collapsed when they started to make repairs. All of that because they would have grounds for evictions if the building deteriorated just enough... and to make another building that would be much pricier.

The source at New York Times seems to contradict Globe & Mail's reporting. Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo Complex A consultant in 2018 urged the managers to repair cracked columns and crumbling concrete. The work was finally about to get underway when the building collapsed. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/us/miami-building-collapse-investigation.html

A cynical take; the building's owner knew of repairable structural damage as far back as 2018 but decided instead to dance on the wire until the building could be declared structurally unsafe (this next part is important) during one of it's regular, required inspections. By doing this they gain the following: they don't have to dump money into a pit trying to maintain an old and out-of-fashion building indefinitely, they get a free pass at evicting all tenants at the same time because oops the building is suddenly unsafe to live in by law, and the final goal to demolish the building and rebuild as a more profitable and modern luxery condo unit. They didn't actually expect the collapse but they were 100% gaming out the known structural weaknesses at the risk of the tenants lives. Thoughts?

The American approach is very interesting. It has its sights on other nations to fix them, hence your support for George W Bush and Dick Cheney in 2004, who destroyed Iraq because Americans are a nation of dipshit arrogant f*cks who think they can meddle with everyone, while not being criticized by a guy online. One can f*ck up entire countries and nations, but one can not denounce that, because hey, what's my take on American politics? I'm a foreigner. But Americans intervene everywhere and support that.

That's very interesting. You know I have the same degree of knowledge about the USA than I do with France. I do not see them as saviors whatsoever. What made you think I found Yankees as the could-be-my-saviours?

It is strange of you to say it is strange to find interest in culture and history, even foreign ones. Is it an American thing to despise that, culture? Because contrary to the American stereotype I'm referring to, you seem to be very invested in this forum which is involved in those domains, props to you by the way. 58K posts, years and years of activity. Don't make me say you look like a hypocrite and a fool, I wouldn't like to embarrass yet another American on the Internet, because my mother taught me to not beat on the handicapped.

Funny you're on a Canadian forum. Still, apart from the 'tough luck, loser', do you have any other tip for the working class?

It's a good pep talk to have to lift your mind up while persevering through the harsh reality of what is going on, but it does not give a solution to our social problem. You think the solution to a negative cycle we're going through is just individual, caricaturally speaking looking like this *'TOUGHEN UP BOI' WE BEEN THROUGH WORSE *Spits in bucket in Texan**... ... but the cause is clearly social in its nature. It's not the individuals who are at fault here in the Poor/Middle class backgrounds. It's the big banks, corporations and Wall Street who account for most of the events you talked about. Making it about people having to toughen up is just blinding yourself to find a solution. It works I'm sure to relieve the pain for a brief instant.

French is easier to learn if you have Latin background in languages. Be it Italian or Spanish, the way we phrase ourselves is so similar we could almost comprehend each other. I, for my part, learned English at 19, when I went to college. I had some basis and could understand most of what's been told to me, but I was far from being fluent. Still, I make lots of mistakes here and there, and I wouldn't say I'm totally bilingual, but I manage to speak and write in English because I get invested a lot in English/American culture, be it music, movies, books, etc. If you think French is hard, it is, but understand there are ways for you to make the learning easier and pleasant. Enjoy movies in French, try to sing French songs, get engaged in trying to find something in the French world you would like. Don't just read dictionaries or go on Duo Lingo, it doesn't work.

It is just the beginning of an era of instability and catch up. Many people did not graduate from their classes. Many research papers are on halt. Public debt is mounting, money printing has skyrocketed. Many careers were broken and businesses that were deemed profitable are now under the threat of excessive health regulations. Those two years were bad for children in classes who could not interact normally for two years. Meanwhile, the rich enriched themselves. And they made more than if it were a normal period. This is going to be a perfect cocktail for social explosion in a shorter span than we would like to admit to ourselves. When the government is going to stop pouring money in, dogs will be hungry.