Moonbox

It doesn't seem like you understood any of my claims in the first place. The fact that higher concentrations of helium-3 were discovered on Baffin Island years ago doesn't change the fact that they're still microscopic trace amounts and not even remotely viable for mining or harvesting. I'm not sure how you think this challenges anything I've said, but then I'm also not sure how you keep falling for click-bait on Youtube.

"The 2023 study details the findings of a 2018 expedition to the region by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the California Institute of Technology and their discovery of the highest helium-3/helium-4 ratios on Earth so far — between 65 and 69 times the atmospheric ratio." So in Baffin island, they've found concentrations in lava flows between 65-69 times the atmospheric ratio (of 1.37 parts per million)? Do you understand how that math works? Do you understand that trying to harvest microscopic, barely measurable pockets of gas from rocks and crystals isn't actually a realistic idea, and that nobody anywhere is proposing to do it? Use your brain and think about that for a minute.

This is almost all just regular helium isotopes (He-4). The He-3 isotope is the one useful for fusion applications, and is mostly cosmic in origic and comes from interaction with radiation. We get a few kilograms a year of this, in total, and it's not something you just dig out of the ground.

You do realize that this is almost certainly AI-generated click-bait, right? The person talking in the video doesn't even look real. Most of the Earth's helium-3 is locked 3000km below the Earth's surface, with tiny trace amounts leaking as a gas to the surface through the ocean and lava and/or getting frozen deep in ice. For perspective, the Moon is considered a more realistic source for plentiful He-3 fuel. This information isn't hidden or secret. You could read at length about it if you wanted, and the wealth of available information on this would do you a lot better than AI-slop from Youtube. Regardless, the technology to actually contain and sustain plasma-state reactions (regardless of fuel source), is still likely decades away. This is the more important point.

I think I am. Next in line for discussion: Banks HATE it when customers do this ONE TRICK.

I don't think it really matters right now. I am at work and not going to watch the video, but there's very little Helium-3 in the ground and from what I recall the best terrestrial source is coming as a by-product of other processes (particularly CANDU reactor). Either way, the biggest challenge for the technology is containing the energy of the sun and extracting as net-positive power. It's something I've been following since I was in highschool but it seems to be an engineering and materials problem rather than a fuel problem for the forseeable future.

As with everything, I think it depends. Having grown up around the GTA with and around plenty of Muslims, nothing about them seemed much different than the rest of my friends other than that they didn't eat pork. The fact that I was in a very white collar community might have something to do with it, but there's nothing inherently awful about Muslims or their "values", IMO. That doesn't mean I think we should have open-doors to Somalians or whatever, and I think we could be a lot more strict in refugee filtering, deportations etc. I recognize the problems and agree with a lot of the conclusions around western immigration policy. Some people are just a lot more reasonable about it than others. By most accounts, the refugees from Syria a decade ago have by and large integrated extremely well into Canada. I don't know exactly what the difference was, but already being a mixed population of mostly muslims living alongside christians and druzis or whatever probably helps. Escaping warzones with young families probably helped too.

No, but unless you think the Chinese model where mono-ethnic, mono-cultured and religiously suppressed allegiance to the Party is the best model, you probably have to acknowledge that a certain level of diversity is pretty good.

I think the issue is that both private and public healthcare care system are prone to inefficiency or abuse. The American system is the best warning we could get for how the private sector fails, and why public healthcare is overall a superior mode. They spend more than almost anyone and (AFAIK) don’t even crack the top 25-30 for overall healthcare service standards. Australia is a good example of how private medical care can be used to support the public system. The key here is that you don’t want the private system to reduce support and funding for the public one. The concern most Canadians have is that it would.

It really depends how it’s implemented, but unless it’s properly regulated it can very easily end up siphoning resources from the public systems (doctors, donations etc) and leaving the poor with much worse access.

Wastecanman should go on a date with Jeffery Spetch, primary factual fundamentalist and world-class activist.

I'm just looking for any evidence of this phantom $4.5B deal you've claimed exists. The only place it's shown up anywhere is in your imagination and in your junk AI-chatbot outputs. It certainly doesn't show up in the useless links you provided. The key point that underlines your buffoonery is that you could take 30 seconds to find a simple quote that references that number and the deal in question, and then paste it here with a link cited. That'd be the end of it. Any time I tried to dispute you, you could just copy and paste that cite again. Instead, you're just uselessly pleading and insisting that your claim has already been proven, and we'll get pages and pages of worthless bullshitting about why you won't provide that simple slam-dunk citation. It's because you're full of shit and you can't. 🤡

Right. You posted "the deal" that "Westinghouse did", cited from an AI chatbot and noticeably absent of any specifics, details or actual evidence. Again, here's what we're looking for: "So - canada greenlights a loan package that will allow ukraine to sign a deal with westinghouse (brookfield owned) for 4.5 billion dollars" You've shown nothing to confirm the above. You do understand that AI tools are notoriously bad at distinguishing facts from social media commentary and opinions, right? Not only that, but they often hallucinate and make shit up out of thin air (like you!).

No, it's really not. All we're looking for is this supposed $4.5B contract from 2025 that you've told us about. Westinghouse has been working with Ukraine on nuclear energy for something like seven years, with tens of billions worth of business between them ($30B for reactor construction and refurbishment in 2021, for example). The VVER fuel and fuel manufacturing contracts from 2025 you scraped off your AI query were worth $50-70 million. That's about 99% short of the figures you were quoting in your OP. Thanks for confirming again that you have no idea what you're talking about, and you're completely and utterly full of shit. 🤡👍

Except it literally couldn't have been. It is literally impossible for anyone to factually claim what's going on in someone else's mind. Suggesting otherwise is retarded - full stop. This by itself exposes how much of a useless clown you are. I've asked him the same question you did at least a dozen times now, and he won't answer it because he's a deluded MAGA clown and the cognitive dissonance would shatter his alternate reality bubble. Why would Trump knowingly and repeatedly lie about the Ukraine war and promote Kremlin propaganda if not to help the Kremlin? We're probably 10 pages into this debate now and he still can't answer this very simple question.

What we discovered is that the supposed $4.5B contract your OP describes seems to be based on nothing more than phantom reports from phantom sources you scraped off social media. 10 paragraphs of useless nattering nobody is going to read doesn't magically substitute for this lack of evidence. 🙃

It literally couldn't have ever been anything but a conclusion. For your accusation of dishonesty to work, I’d need to be posing as a mind reader capable of objectively verifying Donald Trump's thoughts, and imagine that I could fool anyone into believing that. That's such an impressively incoherent premise that it disqualifies itself right out the gate, along with the notion that you have any intellectual credibility. 🤡

Funny thing for you to say, since you made a fool out of yourself right out of the gate with your opening post. Yes, I'm aware, but how does that change the fact that you've once again been caught scraping balogna off your feeds for which no evidence is provided nor available? Perhaps you have some links or citations for the phantom reports and the phantom sources referred to in Google AI overview you copy-pasted here? This is the same AI tool that suggested people put glue in their pizza to make the cheese stick, btw. Congratulations on being bamboozled by misinformation...again. 🙄👍

I think I was pretty clear that my disdain was for First Nations' leadership, particularly those that feel even the barest minimum standards of financial transparency shouldn't apply to them. Since that's the topic of the discussion, I'm not following why you keep wanting to redirect the focus of the topic away from the First Nations and instead towards the RoC, which is already passing this "lofty" bar.

Awkward claim, considering your opening post included: "Brookfield company was awarded a reconstruction contract in Ukraine valued at approximately $4.5 billion" and The Contract/Funding: Brookfield reportedly secured a contract related to Ukraine's reconstruction. The amount is frequently cited as $4.5 billion or a related figure, with some sources linking it to a $4.3 billion aid package pledged by the Canadian government. It's always like this because you're generally full of shit. Show us some evidence of this contract. Where are these supposed "reports" coming from and who are these phantom sources the AI is referring to? 🙄

Says the same AI chatbot that also says: There is no official evidence or public contract announcement that Brookfield Asset Management has been awarded a specific, large-scale Canadian or international government-funded contract to lead the general reconstruction of Ukraine. Claims to the contrary often originate from political debates and social media, stemming primarily from the following points:

Yes, it's good they're trying to do something. Points for that. Finally acknowledging and pushing back against the absolute absurdity that their leadership wasn't required to even go through the pretense of financial transparency and accountability is a really noteworthy step we should all take a cue from. 🙄 Except, haven't we always required our governments to provide financial records, and don't we already have the RCMP investigating and trying to catch white-collar criminals?

Look, it's obvious that engaging the logic is frustrating for you. I'm not asking you to disprove my conclusion. We are talking about something that literally cannot be objectively proven or disproven. We are using evidence to make inferences and draw conclusions. I'm asking you to provide a counter argument to my conclusion. Can you provide an explanation for why Donald Trump would knowingly and repeatedly lie about the Ukraine war and spread/repeat/promote widely debunked Kremlin propaganda, if not to help the Kremlin? This is at least the 10th time I've asked you, and you'll undoubtedly run away again.

Well they're already getting accountability and transparency galaxies ahead of what many of the First Nations members are from their leadership, so the relevance of your point is questionable. The absurdity of refusing to provide even basic accounting of tax dollars spent cannot be understated. Even worse is the fact that many of these First Nations need to be sued by their membership to enforce this disclosure. That suggests tin-pot dictator levels of corruption.

This is a non-sequitur. An ill-defined level of transparency from the federal government is not a pre-requisite for transparency from the First Nations chieftains towards their members. If anything, transparency should be much easier to achieve. The scope and the scale is far smaller, more tangible and thus easier to digest, and the people in charge are local(ish). Regardless, federal, provincial and even municipal finances are generally already head and shoulders more transparent than what we see from a lot of the First Nations bands. There are certainly lots of issues in terms of transparency and accountability, but let's not pretend we're even in the same ballpark here. Nobody has to sue the federal government to get basic financial records.