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  • The very definition of genocide.

    You'd think that Israelis would be more self-aware, but there's plenty of videos of them cheering the seige of Gaza and the bombing of children. I don't want to paint them all with the same brush, but there's a metric fuckload of people in those crowds.

  • I like the idea that politicians are held to a higher standard, but I can't imagine it would be easy to enforce. If it was a financial penalty, it would encourage corruption. If the penalty was an exclusion from running in the next election, the group that makes that determination could be weaponized. It would be difficult to structure.

  • Modern heat pumps work down to -30C, at which point the furnace supplements with electric heat which is built into the unit.

    My electricity costs dropped 50% over my builder-grade piece-of-shit electric furnace & AC unit -- and I even increased from a 2 ton to a 2.5 ton system. The initial cost was about $12k, and it will take 8 to 10 years to break even, less if the cost electricity keeps increasing the way it has over the last 10 years.

    Also, you may not want A/C now, but you will shortly -- heat waves are getting more severe each year.

  • Heh... I like the idea of a 'blue line' 'centre ice' party... Every Canuck should know what it means, and it's a nod to our Hockey heritage, but I can totally see it getting mixed up with the nazi police 'thin blue line' bullshit.

  • I think it's a false division, which is stoked by far-right leaning politicians. I'd like to believe that even people who lean right politically are still for functioning public education and health care. The issue is that people aren't doing as well as they remember doing 20 years ago for a variety of very solvable issues.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    TemporaryBoyfriend @lemmy.ca

    Canada needs a new political party... What is its platform?

    I think a majority of Canadians are kind, hardworking, and want what's best for their families, friends, neighbours, and the country.

    What does a brand new political party platform look like to appeal to an overwhelming majority of Canadians?

  • Par for the fucking course. Remember how his crackhead brother cost Toronto nearly $100M in cancellation fees, wasted work, and then probably hundreds of millions more in lost productivity by writing a one page memo on mayoral letterhead cancelling Transit City?

    It infuriates me that people think conservatives are good with money. They burn through hundreds of millions in utter and complete bullshit while championing 'efficiencies' and burning the system down from the inside.

  • Its advantage, strictly speaking, is that it is not correlated very much with stocks, bonds, real estate and other things people owe.

    Not that the bot made a mistake, but this is wrong...

    Gold drops like a rock when markets take a shit. It usually bounces back quickly -- often before stocks recover, giving you a chance to buy cheap on the dip, and sell at a profit three months later, and pick up some of the stocks that haven't recovered yet... But it VERY MUCH moves in sync with the market during times of crisis.

  • He wasn't afraid of fucking around in downtown Ottawa for 3 weeks... but the finding out... THAT part he's afraid of.

    Can we just sentence him to get a university-level education? It will effectively keep him out of society for the rest of his life.

  • So... 175,000 square kilometers of Canada was on fire this summer... Eclipsing all recorded records... Most of it in the west... And they're STILL pushing to extract more oil & gas.

    I'd ask how fucking stupid they are, but I'm pretty sure this summarizes it sufficiently...

  • A HELoC doesn't have strict repayment terms, and usually has a capped borrowing limit. My original mortgage was $200k. I paid it down to $100k over 10 years. I switched to a HELoC (the rate was about the same) and ended up with a $100k line of credit. I paid it down some more, and then received an inheritance, wiping out the balance completely. I lived mortgage free for a few months, then borrowed to invest in my non-registered savings, writing off the interest expense.

  • Personal Finance Canada @lemmy.ca
    TemporaryBoyfriend @lemmy.ca

    Renegotiating the distribution of an estate...

    It's a long story I'd rather not get into, so I've simplified it into a single long question...

    Assuming a will is valid, but circumstances have changed dramatically since the time the will was written, and there was no opportunity for the person to re-write the will due to incapacity, is it possible to renegotiate the distribution of the proceeds of an estate with other beneficiaries?

    Just wondering aloud if anyone's been through this.

    Ask Me Anything @lemmy.ca
    TemporaryBoyfriend @lemmy.ca

    I'm an IT consultant specializing in digital archiving. AMA.

    I work in a niche inside a niche. I deal with terabytes of storage, massive servers, a variety of storage tech, and I've been in interested in computers in general for... Around 40 years. (Yeah, I'm old.)

    I have my own single person company and have worked in 40+ US states, done assignments in the UK, Norway.

    AMA.

    Canada @lemmy.ca
    TemporaryBoyfriend @lemmy.ca

    Yet another reason to replace your gas stove...

    Turns out gas stoves emit benzene in non-trivial amounts... Damnit.

    Condominiums @lemmy.ca
    TemporaryBoyfriend @lemmy.ca

    Welcome to !condos

    This will be a place to discuss the pros / cons of purchasing a condo, links to condo-related information, and discussing ownership and management of condos.

    No ads / promotions please.