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Michael Hardner

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  1. True brainwashing means that one believes day is night, black is white, wrong is right. You can't get right there in an open society. We're going to see instead is something we haven't seen in a while. People having to come to terms with being wrong
  2. Why do you guys make less than the dishwasher Guy? Makes no sense to me.
  3. I'm going to quietly wait for you to admit you were wrong on this statement.
  4. Logical fallacy futures are actually down also...
  5. I get you now. I made the bad assumption that Sweden had similar population to ours. I didn't realize they were much smaller. Abandoning platitudes and useless habits is a must. Furthermore, when a politician makes a promise of a program it needs to be accompanied with a tracking dashboard audited by a third party, or the auditor general. That way we can follow up. People are getting much better at tracking things via numbers, however, there's no objective truth yet so you'll get clashing statistics. Also governments have to start admitting mistakes, and we have to forgive mistakes when they try something new. You get somewhere by failing a few times than succeeding.
  6. Exactly. What is there to be learned ? One party has a core of motivated and engaged followers, even if it's a smaller number.
  7. https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/blog/2024/what-canada-potential-capacity-housing-construction We do more than that but our immigration has been much higher.
  8. Well it's difficult to understand the appeal of Carney, the most boring politician we have seen in a country of boring politicians, we should note that Poilievre was only ever popular in relation to Trudeau. His numbers were never good, in terms of likability. As for this West versus East thing... We are behaving as a nation more than we have in years, in the face of the tariff threat. Separatism in Quebec is down. And based on 338 seat projections, the Liberals are healthy... Tied with the CPC in Manitoba, and ahead in BC based on seat counts. Poilievre is a Rebel, and Canada is culturally loyalist which is the opposite... The USA was formed by rebels, we defer to authority. Carney is an insufferably dull authority on the economy.
  9. American. Must boycott.
  10. Did I say that the sky is falling? Did I take a position on a detailed response? You keep coming at me from these angles, I think because you want to make an argument where we don't have one. Sometimes there's nothing to say.
  11. 1. No, it's not resolved. If you don't want to continue, that's fine but it's not resolved. 2. I suppose. But the analogy doesn't work for me.
  12. 1. You told me that I stuck out on science, so why would I continue to pester you? 2. Well at some point fossil fuels will be gone. I'd like to see more nuclear power for one. And as I mentioned before, the quality of dialog needs a major shift.
  13. 1. Not very gracious, especially since you're the one changing a subject, but okay. 2. I'm 100% against tripe. 3. Ok.
  14. We're on to a new topic, it seems. I welcome that. I think that we should try to mitigate climate change, but whatever we do needs to be based on consensus around a real solution. All the parties have climate policies I believe. Maybe not PPC.
  15. We haven't talked about response. So how can you say I'm not interested in negotiating or compromising? And I don't think interpretation should be subject to negotiation. Facts point to a conclusion, what would be the role of negotiation in that exchange? "The thermometer shows it's -20. I interpret that to mean that I would feel cold if I went out" "Let's compromise on this" ?
  16. Well ok, but an encyclopedia entry is not authoritative when it comes to providing the complete evidence of climate change caused by humans. Furthermore, you're nitpicking one word in that article and trying to work backwards to say that we can include there's not enough evidence. I would say look at summaries of the scientific papers, how often they're cited by other papers etc. There is enough evidence, though ,and as I mentioned, there are no other factors that add up to causing climate change on the level that it's happened other than human produced CO2
  17. The Democratic Party May soon be banned. Anybody here think that's a bad idea?
  18. All the factors can be quantified. Human caused CO2 is the largest factor.
  19. Sorry I don't usually respond to you because I have you on ignore. I don't know where you got that but I didn't say it. You're arguing against something I didn't say.
  20. You said that there was one fact. All of those other factors are understood and aren't causing the increase in temperature. Those are either 1990s theories or discounted ones, such as volcanic activity causing the increase.
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