[CTV reporting housing affordability crisis increasing at alarming rate.]

49 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

You do know what forecasts are, don't you? It's a big word that means looking to the future.

You do know what actual means right? THat's non imaginary numbers that actually exist Which is what i posted. And the forecasts from reputable sources aren't looking better any time soon. 

You just go from stupid to stupider to stupidest don't you. 

 

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And now you're quoting  and talking back to yourself. What doers your therapist say about that?

Uhh no,,, that was quoting you   LOLOL  go back and look again   ROFLMAO!

Holy shit kid, you're a walking Indictment of our educational system   

 

[Mark Carney: No Charisma]

45 minutes ago, Legato said:

Yeah but donkeys have big dicks, how's yours?

He literally is a big dick so he figures that counts  

[Mark Carney: No Charisma]

44 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

Why don't we try your logic for a change:

Did they say they didn't remove them for errors?  

That's not actually my logic. Nor is that anybody's logic

Let me explain basic logic and reason to you. Or at least as it applies here

You are making the claim that the books being removed are a sign that they were inaccurate or untrustworthy.

Therefore the onus would be on you to demonstrate that this was the reason the books were removed.

If you can't then your point is invalid.

I have made no claims as to whether or not the books are valid or invalid, therefore there is no onus on me whatsoever to discuss why the books were removed. You made a positive claim as to why they were removed when you Tried their removal to their accuracy

 

I know that may be a lot for you to digest in one sitting. Give it some thought, maybe someone in grade five to explain it to you a couple times, come back and see if you've got it

How's your math lesson's going btw?  

[The next great disaster for young people that the liberals don't give a crap about:]

41 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

All of this wailing and gnashing over being confronted by your own words:

You're the one doing the wailing in the gnashing of teeth   

Moonbox :  "Im So uPsEt I'm GoInG to TAlk iN oFFset CAPS!!!!! "  

So upset in fact that you accuse me of something that didn't happen. And you're yet again desperately and feverishly trying to justify your own statements and actions to score some cheap cheesy points so that you can sleep at night with the fact that intellectually you're a failure.

 imagine being so emotionally insecure with yourself that you have to pretend I said something I didn't to try and make yourself feel bettereven worse being so buthurt that you keep a file of things I've said so that you can try and use them even when inappropriate   

I never told you you lost. I told you the way you behave when you lose is it pretty bad. I think you've proven that point for me nicely

 

You're a broken little person kiddo. 

27 minutes ago, eyeball said:

When I was 12 I landed a paper route. Soon I was mowing lawns, raking leaves and shoveling snow all along the same route.

 

[For right wingers who use China as an excuse to ignore climate change mitigation in the West]

2 hours ago, Aristides said:

I’ve never said they are a victim, just that we are being two faced when we buy all the stuff then blame them for the emissions it took to make it.

You totally say they're a victim when you suggest that we pass the problem on to them and they're suffering as a result and don't have to make their own choices. That is literally what you're doing and let's not pretend otherwise. This isn't a kindergarten class

Like every other person on the planet, they want to make money and live. They seen an opportunity in selling goods to other people. That is absolutely their choice, that is not us downloading anything on anybody

And their choice of how to produce the power that they use to make their products is their choice 100%. It has nothing to do with anyone else. They're cheap crap will still be cheap crap whether it's made from electricity from coal or nuclear power

It is 100%, they're blame for any emissions.

If you want your argument to be true then you would have to also accept that they're downloading their requirements for coal to us and forcing us to produce coal to sell to them to make money therefore any coal that we harvest is their fault. There you go, no matter how you want to slice it it's still there for responsibility

[The next great disaster for young people that the liberals don't give a crap about:]

55 minutes ago, herbie said:

Oh FFS how long did it take you to dig up an entirely conjectured scenario on which to use to accomplish your goal of solely being contrary to anything anyone else posts?

Your question appears to be "how long did it take to realize Herbie's story was full of crap". 

About 8 seconds.  I did the math twice just to be sure  

It's not my fault that you make statements that are obviously nonsense. What you said was clearly not true, and even a moment's thought would demonstrate why it's not practical for any significant number of kids who are looking for work this summer. The best they might make a few bucks, a few of them, and that's fine but that's not the same as actual employment.

Maybe stop lying your ass off to try and make useless points and stick to the truth and addressing the points and you won't have that problem

[Mark Carney: No Charisma]

1 minute ago, Moonbox said:

Riiight, and that's why all three books were removed from sale by the vendors,

Did they say they removed them for errors??

No?  Not because of that?

You realize all you're doing at this point is finding new and exciting ways to appear to be stupid using different language. You're back to the same point, you can't demonstrate that there's any substantial errors or give an example of one outside of one minor one for the three books.

So that's exactly the same as before. I'm actually a little disappointed in you that I would even need to explain that. You're desperate need to defend your echo chamber is clouding you're already subpar thinking even further. Is there or is there not something substantial about the book you disagree with as far as content?

[For right wingers who use China as an excuse to ignore climate change mitigation in the West]

1 hour ago, Aristides said:

And we’re still the ones buying all the stuff they make for us.

Ahh so it's YOUR fault   

We buy what they produce.  The costs environmentally with their production is their choice.  That is NOT our fault. 

They want to sell goods. They want to produce the goods. The way that they produce them is the decision that they make. If they weren't producing the goods then someone else would have to and we'd be right back to the same situation.

Nobody can take you seriously when you want to pretend that the Chinese have absolutely no responsibility for or anything to do with the production of pollution in china. They decide their power sources, they decide their standards, not us.

So you are not taking this seriously, china isn't taking this seriously, our federal government hasn't been taking it seriously but your panties are twisted over the fact that I'm having difficulty taking it seriously at this point

Trying to make china's decisions. China has decided that environmental issues like climate change are not a top priority. They like to look like they're doing something because it keeps people like you happy but other than that they obviously don't care. Until that changes there's not much that we can do except prepare to adapt. 

[For right wingers who use China as an excuse to ignore climate change mitigation in the West]

1 minute ago, Aristides said:

So you agree that offspring our CO2 emissions is a thing, yet you would blame China for it.

They're still the one doing the burning

[Trump wants to bypass immigration courts. Experts warn it's a 'slippery slope.']

1 minute ago, Aristides said:

Kangaroo courts with pre determined verdicts. Just like Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany. Or any other dictatorship for that matter.

No it doesn't. When did Hitler ever try anyone in a kangaroo court? Stalin maybe but even there it's pretty weak

In fact is if someone's in the country illegally they should be deported. It's fine to give them one last chance to make sure that they can present an argument if there has been some sort of error. But there's nothing democratic about allowing them to misuse the system to try and extend their stay.

Either they have documents to prove their legal or they don't. If they don't goodbye. If they do or they can demonstrate that they are in the country legally with some more time than fine.

[Mark Carney: No Charisma]

3 hours ago, Moonbox said:

You could have stopped there and we'd have had just as good a laugh as if you continued.  

I've always believed that nervous laughter is your specialty  

 

 

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Other than that they were AI-generated slop

Well then there must be a bunch of things it got wrong. Apperently despite looking they've only found one fairly minor bio error in 3 books 

So why is it slop?

The fact is you can't demonstrate that it is slop. So you're just saying it's slopped because you want it to be slapped because that suits your narrative.  Which makes what you're saying ... slop  

Bad news kiddo. The AI stuff is less sloppy than yours  

[Ontario needs to invest in EVs as a realistic Option.]

4 hours ago, Boges said:

The thing about PHEVs are that they usually aren't much cheaper than full EVs.

The price isn't the biggest problem. Charging is the biggest problem

People living in apartment buildings don't have access to charging that is anywhere near as practical or as easy as just filling up a gas tank. Even if you live at home and are willing to pay for the upgrade it's far less convenient.

If you're going on a road trip having to stop for extended periods of time while the battery charges is extremely undesirable, especially considering the fact that it might be that when you get there to the next charging station it's damaged or out of service.

This is before we get into any of the maintenance or insurance issues or the fire risk

At least with a plug-in hybrid if for some reason you haven't got time to charge it there's no problem with stopping and topping up the tank and keep going. 

And for the vast majority of people they are still going to deliver more than 90% of the savings on fuel. Most people don't travel more than 50 km in a day

 

[For right wingers who use China as an excuse to ignore climate change mitigation in the West]

51 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Alongside the point we also need to stop producing and shipping coal.

 

No we don't,  we paid our carbon tax for years so the problem is gone right?

Right? The problem is gone? Carbon tax solved our problems? Right?

 

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Queue the argument if we don't someone else will. Another argument right wingers like using when mocking climate change concern.

So what you're complaining about is that right Wingers prefer to speak the truth? It's a bit of an odd thing to be upset about.

But yes you're quite right, the end user will still be the end user. They're still going to burn coal  and no amount of carbon tax will stop it despite what Justin believes

So if you actually cared about the environment, which you don't, you would be calling for more investment or efforts to be put into the development of technologies that would either capture carbon or allow for an economically viable end to energy production from carbon products. 

But you don't.  

Your attitude is that its FINE for them to actually PRODUCE the carbon and ruin the environment as long as we don't make money off of it. 

Is that because the environment is too omnibus for you?

[CTV reporting housing affordability crisis increasing at alarming rate.]

4 hours ago, Barquentine said:

17 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Once again you've entirely embarrassed yourself. 

Yes 

Well there you go   Stop doing that. 

4 hours ago, Barquentine said:

If you haven't heard or read of workforce shortages, now and in the coming years, then you, as usual are stunningly under-informed, or just plain stunned.

I literally posted statistics information and outlooks from this year that are current as of last month showing that what you just said is false. Everything you posted was from years ago

Again, are you having accounting problem? 2025 is more recent than 2024 or 2022. I don't know why this is baffling you

4 hours ago, Barquentine said:

17 hours ago, CdnFox said:

You've got the brains and research skills of road kill.

Yes.

Well at least we both agree 

Are these little juvenile attempts to make yourself feel better working? Because honestly you just look stupid as hell even doing it.

 

[The next great disaster for young people that the liberals don't give a crap about:]

3 hours ago, Moonbox said:

"If yOU haVE to teLL thE otHEr gUy he lOst, then He PrOBAbly WoN:

 

BuT I DiDn'T HaVe tO TeLL YoU,  YoU jUsT aCt tHiS waY wHeN YOU ThInK iT  

 You -"I lost! ANd now i'm going to chase you and yap like a Chihuahua in revenge ! "

Me "It's not good to behave that way just because you lost"

You : "HA!!!! You told me i lost!!! HA!"

No punkin, what i said is behaving this way just because you lost is childish and dumb.  Unfortunately you were too childish and dumb to see the difference  

[The next great disaster for young people that the liberals don't give a crap about:]

4 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

don't flatter yourself.

 

How would that be flattering myself? You're the one that deserves the Emmy for most hysterical performance   LOLOL

All I'm saying is that your mental health problems are highly amusing to me  

[Carney was Trump's B-otch]

4 hours ago, ExFlyer said:

I respected and worshipped my Mother and you invoked her to make insults!! 

Liar.  Nobody who respected their parents would behave like you do.  And  you've insulted other's family and parents including mine , so it's pretty hard to believe you're terribly choked up about it.   

And quit posting your family photos, we don't need to see it  

[Joe Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer]

9 hours ago, Moonlight Graham said:

Because I don't think we should go around pi$$ing on an senile old man's cancer diagnosis?

 

And yet have nothing to say about people calling for the death of trump. 

I say both are inappropriate.  I guess someone could claim both WERE appropriate and claim neutrality. 

But when you see someone making that much noise about one and not the other...  

[For right wingers who use China as an excuse to ignore climate change mitigation in the West]

10 hours ago, Aristides said:

China is by far the larges producer of wind and solar but as long as the west downloads its manufacturing it will always struggle to generate enough electricity to produce what we buy from them.

Nobody downloads anything. They have power requirements the same as everybody. They have choices to fill that power requirements same as everybody. While they do fill a portion of it with Renewables one way or another, they tend to fill the vast majority with dirty energy producing sources.

I haven't checked this year but for a couple of years there they were adding basically the entire output of Canada every 15 months to their total

No matter how you want to slice it they're not super serious about reducing emissions. Their missions are increasing and will likely continue to increase for some time

[Meme/Cartoon of the Day]

[The next great disaster for young people that the liberals don't give a crap about:]

5 minutes ago, herbie said:

Kid showed up on the weekend to cut my lawn... was gonna do it myslef but the little shit did it all in 1/2 an hour. I usually do the back one day, the front the nexr and take longer for each. He did it still wet and still did such a good quick job I gave him $30.

Line up a few of those and that's more than his Dad makes at the mill. Meanwhile the grocery hires anyone who can walk OR chew gum... that's how desperate. And the tree planters are showing up this last week.
But this retail stall out is happening at the worst time for summer jobs. Hopefully if local tourism booms, there may be some.

 

Youth unemployment highest in 11 years: StatsCan | CBC News

For the majority of kids they're just aren't any jobs.

Also, unless your yards are actually insanely tiny, it is not possible for a kid to do a really good job of mowing the lawn while it's wet in half an hour and do all the proper trimming that goes along with it. You would basically barely have time to just push the lawn mower at high speed around the lawn and if it's wet you're probably doing it damage. I doubt you'd be aware enough to understand the difference

Now let's add on some travel time between jobs and getting set up and so on and so forth and basically even at the rate you have proposed you're looking at roughly $30 an hour not including the cost of lawn mowers and gas. And that's after doing all the work necessary to go and set all of these places up. And they would need 40 customers in relatively close proximity to earn a full-time wage for the summer. That's not a few people, that's a lot of work and a lot of customers

So as usual your fake ass examples don't hold up in the real world. A kid could start up a little business like that and get a handful of customers and fortunately most people aren't quite as exploitive as you are and wouldn't pay as little as $30. But you're not going to make that much money and if every kid I was out there trying to get lawn mowing gigs the market gets saturated pretty quick

The reality is they're just aren't a lot of gigs for kids right now. It's getting really hard for them

Meanwhile carney is off traveling the world on $1,000 a plate meals making more than half a million a year and can't even be bothered to put in the energy necessary to do a budget that might help these children's future at some point

[8647]

5 minutes ago, herbie said:

What absolute pr1ck is happy to see Biden get sick?

 

Maybe they're related to the losers here who are hoping trump gets shot? Who shall go nameless. Because they're you  

 

Herbie:  "8647!!  8647!!!!!  FFFUUUUKKK TRUMMMP DIIIEEEEEEEE  hey, did someone DARE to say they're happy biden is sick? Who would do something like that? "

LOL god man, it would require a team of researchers to figure out how to be more pathetic than you   

[The next great disaster for young people that the liberals don't give a crap about:]

8 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

I'm just really glad that you kept yourself busy over the long weekend with friends/family/life activities.

....

Oh wait...you're a complete no-life and you were pounding away at your keyboard the whole time.  

You know I was just about to post in the other thread how seeing is your angry about losing once again I could expect to see you following me around and making random comments and here you are    

And on top of it you were trying yet again to blame your failures on my post count   

What a broken little man you are  LOLOL

[Mark Carney: No Charisma]

6 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

I've demonstrated that it was it was written by AI,

And as we discussed AI is actually a very powerful tool for writing and there's quite capable of writing a book that is both correct and even insightful. You're trying to blow AI off as being junk but at this day and age I don't think you understand the power that it has and what is capable of. You might refer to an AI book as being plagiarism or the like considering how it creates its content and the debate does range but you can't pretend that just because something is written by AI it has no accuracy

 

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that Bloomberg discovered right at the beginning of the book that the AI couldn't get a detail as basic as where Carney went to university correct

And I pointed out that's not uncommon in books written by beverage run in the middle people. Seeing as they were checking it for errors you would think that if they're found any other errors they would come comment on it

Which is why my question to you was what in the books did you feel was inaccurate. And so far you've come up with absolutely nothing. The fact that it's AI does not in any way shape or form take away from its accuracy

 , and I've demonstrated that the book has been removed from sale/circulation by the vendors. 

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Your donkey-brained conclusion:  

"Yerp yerp tortally legit source!" 🤡

 

My intelligence and learned conclusion is that you have no basis or grounds for dismissing the rest of the content of the books of which I believe there were three? To make completely ridiculous and illogical arguments to support your echo chamber bias

 

If you can't come up with anything wrong about the rest of the books or why you would disagree with them then you are conceding that's the best of your knowledge they are accurate and relevant. That is the intelligent and reasonable conclusion. Trying to dismiss it because it was written by AI is in no way shape or form reasonable or logical

[Trump wants to bypass immigration courts. Experts warn it's a 'slippery slope.']

On 5/15/2025 at 6:43 PM, eyeball said:

The question is why they shouldn't be on board and the answer is in their constitution.

No, it isn't.  The goal isn't mentioned in the constitution in the slightest. For god's sake, at least PRETEND you're following the conversation.

Ok, fine ... show me where it says in the constitution that the goal of removing people  who are in the country illegally should not be approved of by the pubilc.  FFS. 

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If that's up for amendment then so be it but there's a process for that too and I doubt an executive order will cut it.

Apperently you can amend it just with the power of your imagination, and stick in all sorts of things about the goals of the public  

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I expect the SC will probably kick the can towards the legislative branch. What else can they do?

 

Well at the end of the day it depends on the nature of the ruling and what's involved with "working around" it. Which might include no changes but perhaps appointing special 'justicies' or people with such powers to blow through the backlogs. The devil will be in the details. 

At the end of the day as i noted the goal of removing illegal residents is supported by people and why not. (no, not the constitution),  and the gov't wants to pursue that aggressively.  So it's going to boil down to what's the quickest and easiest way to get there. 

If the court says that there's a requirement for notification and a chance to appeal they may set up an expidited process for that which meets the bare minimum and hire on a bunch of 'special adjudicators' or the like and accept the one month delay or so.