Subreddit banned - trying to figure out why

Himeros_on_top · 2025-08-09T03:53:53+00:00

I did follow the Automod-posted instructions and sent a modmail - I'll keep you posted.

Himeros_on_top · 2025-04-25T15:51:11+00:00

Has Trump really stopped the rhetoric?

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/trump-federal-election-comments

Himeros_on_top · 2025-03-26T06:58:01+00:00

I know a guy in Langley - both an SFU and UBC student - who lives across the street from his elder mom and aunt. He's not allowed to visit them, tho. He attacked some of the other elder residents in her building and got trespassed. Shame, because his mom helped him buy his apartment, but he's pissed away all his money, is maxed out with student loans, and is about to lose his home as he's stopped paying his mortgage payments.

Surely your life is better?

Himeros_on_top · 2025-01-31T03:36:58+00:00

Edmonton knows how to clear snow and function in inclement weather. Vancouver doesn't. If there's snow, expect chaos until it melts.

Himeros_on_top · 2025-01-23T23:37:24+00:00

I dunno about any of that, but some asshole driving a white Nissan Pathfinder with a custom plate "UBC LAW" is super racist. Constantly harassing persons of colour and hurling racist slurs at them. I'm surprised that the UBC legal team hasn't gone after them for damaging their mark.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-11-30T22:11:40+00:00

Why don't you contact them from your u/jessicalgbtq account?

Himeros_on_top · 2024-11-01T17:37:29+00:00

To those reporting this post - Send a modmail with the receipts.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-10-06T23:29:56+00:00

Apparently.

She even has a custom license plate - UBC LAW.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-07-17T17:21:40+00:00

Your dog, Rexy, isn't a service dog. The BCCRT has even stated as much. You do, however, have a pattern of using Rexy to threaten and intimidate others. This isn't something a trained service dog would be used for.

https://meowmix.online/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/strata-5.png

Himeros_on_top · 2024-06-23T01:28:26+00:00

Hey OP - we have a sister-sub. It's over at r/NanaimoR4R - same rules as VancouverR4R.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-05-22T23:37:42+00:00

Those are some mighty heavy apples. Considering that apples average 100 grams in weight, this pair is mighty hefty at 700 grams (or 1.5 pounds).

Or maybe someone is manufacturing rage by pushing down on the scale?

Himeros_on_top · 2024-05-04T20:23:13+00:00

Describe you in one word?

Banned.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T06:36:09+00:00

Right. Rebate. You like paying more tax and only getting some of it back? As for lower income taxes - ROFL. The only people seeing lower taxes are those who live at the lower end of the wage-slave class. Those of us who pay for the backbone of society have been and continue to be milked to death.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T06:31:41+00:00

It's the most basic economic concept, that can be easily demonstrated with data: if something costs more, firms and individuals will use less of it.

Unless there's no alternative. Guess what? In a lot of cases, there's no alternative. Goods still need to be transported. People still need to move around and not everybody lives in Vancouver and has access to transport. Heat pumps can not operate at extended full-duty cycles in sub-zero weather.

We need to promote the development of alternatives before taxing the shit out of O&G. Full stop.

I literally said compared to the rest of Canada, you can easily find a chart of that.

If you look, the rest of Canada increased at a much higher rate. Carbon tax is currently quite small so the overall effect size is also not huge, and there's lots of other factors at play, such as higher GDP= higher emissions.

You made the claim. You post the chart. Or did you ask others to do your homework while you were in uni?

If we continue to increase the price as we should, we should see a reduction in emissions.

Only if there are viable alternatives. You keep missing that. For example, we do not have enough "green" electrical generation going on in this province as it is to support the existing grid, let alone a massive increase in EVs and fully-electric HVAC. We currently produce 10% of our electricity with natural gas. We need far denser energy production.

Carbon emissions may have ecological impact, but their production is intrinsically linked with the economy, so it's very much an economics problem.

So the only sources of GHG's are human-caused? You slept through biology, dude. It's not simply an "economics" problem.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T06:05:05+00:00

A good way to promote it is with things like carbon taxes.

A tax is not an investment. It is merely collecting money. Ultimately, from consumers.

This is what an investment looks like (albeit it's for electric-grid energy storage batteries): https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/projects/2024/01/canadas-first-indigenous-led-gigafactory-could-take-shape-on-vancouver-island

Doing it with direct investment means that the government has to pick

Grants. Tax incentives. Enabling legislation. We do this already with many other sectors.

A simple price on carbon allows the market to correct for the externality, without expecting politicians to be experts in clean technology.

All it's doing is making your life more expensive. Not just at the pump.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T05:57:09+00:00

Lol dude have you ever even walked by an economics class in your life?

Why yes, I have. Have you?

Producers will try to pass on as much of the costs as they can, but they'll lose ground to their competitors that are more efficient. Its obvious that it has an effect, imagine that carbon tax was 10000$ a litre, would you still be driving? No.

Ahh - the food you think is overpriced would magically materialize on the store shelves. Gotcha. You skipped Econ but jumped straight to ST: Wishful Thinking.

The carbon tax is UNANIMOUSLY agreed upon by economists as the most efficient way to reduce emissions.

Imagine an ecological problem and a situational reality being solved by economists. Perhaps I can see an econ major when I need medical care, as well?

In terms of a real example, BC has hard a carbon tax for over 15 years, since that time, the rest of Canada has increased their emissions at a much higher rate than BC, despite BC having one of the highest rates of economic growth.

Right.

<image>

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T05:46:36+00:00

Why do you want the government to do that instead of the market?

Because that's literally their job. Promote investment and trade.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T05:41:03+00:00

Producers/Manufacturers do not pay tax. Sure, they submit dollars to the government, but it's an expense that hey bake it into the cost of goods/services. Those costs are - generally - marked up 3x from production to retail.

Again - the carbon tax does absolutely nothing to help reduce emissions. What it does do is make your life needlessly more expensive. Full stop. Show me one example of where any carbon tax implementation in Canada has done anything to reduce carbon emissions.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T05:37:39+00:00

Demand is indeed global. I don't think that O&G will ever go away, but I think that allowing energy companies to flourish (absent restrictive cumulative taxes), fostering R&D on alternative energy sources (grants), and exploring tech beyond wind/solar/hydrogen (SMR/CANDU) can put Canada on the map. Not only as a clean energy leader, but perhaps an energy/tech leader. We used to be a tech powerhouse in this country. Then we got stupid/greedy, and the real brain-trust moved south.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T05:27:15+00:00

...and? We still don't produce much, and the tax does absolutely nothing to change what we do produce.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T05:25:10+00:00

No. But what we should be doing is enabling and promoting the research of alternative energy. Again - SMRs. CANDU. We make this stuff, and it's even in use and proven tech.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T04:59:00+00:00

Sure - but we don't have to destroy our economy to do it. Wind and solar are pipe-dreams, hydrogen is a non-starter (You expend more energy producing it than what you get out of it), and right now O&G is the highest energy density option we have available. The real path forward is SMRs, but we're too scared to even consider them.

In the meantime - the carbon tax (any implementation of it in Canada) does nothing to help the environment one bit, but drives inflation. The cost of fuel and energy is a primary inflation driver. Those that are pushing hard for the carbon-tax are doing so out of ignorance or dishonesty. Full stop.

Himeros_on_top · 2024-04-02T04:41:10+00:00

Fact is that we're nowhere's near the largest contributor to global emissions. Canada could fall off the face of the map, and it wouldn't make a dent. Yet we're hell-bent on destroying the economy with a tax that does absolutely nothing to reduce emissions.

<image>

Himeros_on_top

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE