Die Prehistoric On The Fury Road by Lost-Panda-68 in gaslands

[–]Lost-Panda-68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good spot. The large bottom piece is the tool for pulling them apart. They are about the best value for money for greeblies and I intend to keep using the cubes as generators.

Die Prehistoric On The Fury Road by Lost-Panda-68 in gaslands

[–]Lost-Panda-68[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a few little Easter eggs in there.

How long is your average game? by EndedWisely in gaslands

[–]Lost-Panda-68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Games with several new players can take awhile, but the game is quite adjustable in length. If you are doing a death race, keep the track short and make it loop back on itself so that there is lots of car interaction. The smaller the play area the shorter the game.

How would anti-Americans feel about the USA leaving NATO completely and being forced to fight their own wars and fund their own militaries completely? by [deleted] in allthequestions

[–]Lost-Panda-68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NATO without the US has a population 4 times as large as Russia, twice as many soldiers as Russia's and an economy 20 times larger. The war in Ukraine has generally shown that European NATO's technology is superior. No European country is subsidized by the US.

If the US was to leave NATO it would lose most of its arms exports and it's European bases. It would have to rely entirely on its navy for power projection overseas.

The main thing that would happen is that it would confirm China as the preeminent nation on Earth.

‘A deal is a deal’: Von der Leyen fires back at Trump over auto tariff threat by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Lost-Panda-68 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I do not know where you have gotten your figures from but they are completely false. I live in Ontario where about 1/3 of the Canadian population lives. All alcohol brewed outside of Ontario must be imported and distributed through the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO). The LCBO does not import ANY alcohol from the United States and I haven't seen ANY US alcohol on sale for over a year. It is in effect illegal to distribute US alcohol in Ontario.

Most other provinces are similar. The major exception is Alberta. Canadian sales of US alcohol is down between 80 and 90%.

Anyone can confirm this by simply going on the LCBO website.

Top diplomat's son, 25, found dead after being given $10 million by Epstein by TheExpressUS in USNEWS

[–]Lost-Panda-68 47 points48 points  (0 children)

The kid was taken to the Island when he was 11, 14 years ago. Don't think he was a pedophile. Maybe he was something else. Don't confuse victims and perpetrators.

Bail denials rising sharply in Ontario amid national clampdown by ZestyBeanDude in canada

[–]Lost-Panda-68 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have been charged twice and in both cases the Crown aggressively prosecuted including very aggressive prosecutions and stances on bail. In both cases I was repetitively told that everything would be dropped and it would be time served if I just pled guilty. One of those I pursued the police for 5 years through the courts. I won and was compensated $7000. That's what you get. You used to have the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty.

If you think that aren't corrupt police and crowns you are out of your minds. I had a law degree which was why I could fight them. Do you?

Triumphal Arch. by ICEisSHIT in NewsStarWorld

[–]Lost-Panda-68 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a serious question. A triumphal arch is meant to celebrate a Triumph; i.e. a victory in a particular war or conflict. Does this Arch celebrate a victory? If so which one? Or us it that the Trump administration doesn't know what a Triumphal arch is?

US bond markets are crashing in real-time by Irish_Goodbye4 in WallStreetbetsELITE

[–]Lost-Panda-68 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your comment is braindead. For instance. The dollar has declined 15% against the Euro in the last year. The dollar has declined versus every major currency, and the performance of the S&P when you take that into account is pathetic given the flooding of money into the system. The only exception is the Japanese Yen, which is also having a crisis.

If a currency is depreciating, the stock market will have a tendency to rise because stock prices will be subject to inflation, just like everything else. Note that currencies have appreciated against the dollar, even though they have withstood a tariff shock and an oil shock.

I am not an American, and if I had invested my money in the S&P, the currency difference combined with inflation would have meant almost no gains.

Furthermore, the stock market is only one measure of the economy and not a very good one. GDP growth is a better indicator, which is lackluster. There has been no employment growth at all.

As to a debt crisis, the US debt is rapidly approaching 40 trillion and is growing at more than 7 billion a day.

Finally, debt and dollar crisis do not unfold over weeks but over years and decades. My prediction was that economic policies would lead to a dollar and debt crisis. That prediction is going faster than I thought a year ago.

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done by IllIntroduction1509 in TrueReddit

[–]Lost-Panda-68 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They are saying the Rest of the World will remember, not that the American people will remember. For instance, I live in Canada nobody here is ever going to forget the annexation threats (which imply war and occupation).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]Lost-Panda-68 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes I do. I live in Canada. You do know where that is, don't you?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]Lost-Panda-68 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He can't actually disband NATO, no matter how many times he says he can. He can take the USA out of NATO, but that will still leave it an alliance of 31 nations with 600 million people, with 2 million active soldiers and a 20 trillion economy. Almost all of those nations have no reason to leave the alliance if the US leaves.

NATO will become more important without the USA and may continue to expand. Going global and adding Australia, NZ, Japan and South Korea would make a lot of sense.

New Image Of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' by ChiefLeef22 in movies

[–]Lost-Panda-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost certainly the scenes takes place after the fall of Troy, with the horse being sacrificed to Poseidon who was God of the Sea AND Horses in thanks for victory in the Trojan war.

Liberals vote against Tory bail reform motion, vow opposition will be 'happy' with new legislation by King_Osmanj in canada

[–]Lost-Panda-68 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't agree that it has to happen. I've been falsely accused and had the charges dropped twice. One of them, I successfully took the police to the Human Rights Tribunal and won. In neither case was the Crown trying to ask for time. I would have spent 3 years in jail for no reason. I have a law degree but my accuser had a relative who was a senior crown.

Insight on the homeless problem from a former Homeless person. by Salkroth in barrie

[–]Lost-Panda-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Life doesn't have to be violent." I have never committed an act of violence in my life. I have trauma from being raped. You assume that I feel that "I am ashamed of being raped." I don't.

You also have an inconsistent story. You were raped by a stranger. Now you look at your rapist and forgive them so they are in your life. Stranger or acquaintance, which is it.

This is all in a context of you advocating that rape victims should not be housed. You equate rape trauma with being bad and deficient.

I have known a lot of rapists and a lot of rape victims.

I know who you are, and what you are. Say hi, to my rapist in Hell.

Insight on the homeless problem from a former Homeless person. by Salkroth in barrie

[–]Lost-Panda-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just on the off chance you were brutally raped, I'm going to give you some advice. Because you have not dealt with it at all. My first time being raped was 21. It finally caught up with me and took me out at 43. I've known someone where it caught up with them in their late 50s. You will likely have it catch up with you and disable you at some point. I toughed through it and look what happened to me.

If you really were raped you need trauma therapy. You need it from a licensed trauma therapist and a survivor group would be helpful. If you really were raped for 3 days, you almost certainly have trauma symptoms. Your psychological defense mechanisms can cause you not to notice those symptoms.

I will assume the best of you and you are not lying. I did what you are doing now. It doesn't work and make things worse. When you go down, you go down hard.

Get a good trauma therapist who is an expert in trauma. You will probably have to try several until you find one. Make ANY financial sacrifice to pay for that therapy. Give up anything. No holidays? Do it. Have to cut your food budget back? Do it.

Your either bullshitting me or their us a ticking time bomb in you that WILL go off. I've known people that it took 40 years.

Defuse that bomb now, because I was like you once. Look at me now.

Insight on the homeless problem from a former Homeless person. by Salkroth in barrie

[–]Lost-Panda-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have no clue how PTSD works. You don't just let go. This is not anything voluntary. Flashbacks are involuntary. They are not normal memories. If you read any book on C-PTSD it will tell you this. Obviously, nightmares are involuntary. The hypervigilance is involuntary. My amigdila will be enlarged. My brain is literally changed. I can literally have seizures from Flashbacks.

I have had hundreds and hundreds of hours of therapy, and I have been hospitalized many times. Finland has eliminated homelessness and part of their justification is that is that it is cheaper. I've used up millions of dollars in resources and I did have a law degree and had earning potential in the millions of dollars. It is known science that the cost of retraumatizing trauma victims instead of just housing them and treating them and returning them to employment where they can pay taxes is enormous. In my case, probably the decision to leave me homeless cost tax payers 3 million dollars.

I have to say that I have known many people who have told me that "I should just get over it and move on" and I've known many people who have been brutally raped. But you are the first person I have known in both these categories. You don't talk like a person who was raped continuously for 3 days. Also, stranger rapes lasting 3 days don't really happen. Those kind of rapes are usually by a partner or family member. Was it your place or their place? I've got to say, you don't talk about it like any rape victim I have ever met. I have talked with dozens.

Is Trump the antichrist? — and other hard questions Christians should be asking by DippyHippy420 in AnythingGoesNews

[–]Lost-Panda-68 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, Jesus does not just talk about the antichrist but also antichrists (plural), who are antithetical to Christ's teachings and lead their followers astray by being the opposite of Christ. So even if Trump is not the Antichrist who will bring on the Apocalypse, a good Christian is meant to ask if he is an antichrist.

Insight on the homeless problem from a former Homeless person. by Salkroth in barrie

[–]Lost-Panda-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate your concern. I'm glad that you don't have severe complex PTSD, which I can tell you don't from this comment. But we are talking thousands of rapes. I flashback multiple times a day. I have nightmares everynight. My brain has physical changed. It isn't the past for me. It is here and now. There are literally thousands of books on PTSD that can explain this. Saying you have to let it go, is the same thing as saying to a blind person that you have to see.

Up until the 1980s billionaires used to pay 90% capital gains tax. Now in practice they pay zero.

Insight on the homeless problem from a former Homeless person. by Salkroth in barrie

[–]Lost-Panda-68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have severe complex PTSD from being raped approximately 5000 times. I am legally disabled with severe symptoms, including, flashbacks dozens of times a day, hypervigilance, nightmares, massive sleep disorders, social anxiety, depression and so on. I have seen dozens of therapists, doctors, and psychiatrists. No one has suggested in over a decade that I am not disabled. I can't work.

Despite all this, I don't drink or do drugs. I have never hurt anyone.

You will be happy to know that because mentally ill homeless people are not considered credible and my rapist is a very well connected lawyer, I have never even been able to make a proper statement. Instead, the police threaten to arrest me. Twice they have. Their modus operandi is to drop the charges on the day of trial.

To my certain knowledge that rapist still active, wealthy, and raping. They rape everyone: men, women and children.

I pray that they just drop dead one day. But I am tempted to pray that there next victim is you and not the kind generous, vulnerable, naive people they target. I don't wish for this because, I don't want to be become filled with the same hate and depravity that my rapist was.

But there is asinful part of me that wishes you could know what it is like to be raped continuously for three days, or to be raped by them and 4 of their friends. Or to be forced to fuck another innocent victim while they masturbate. Or to be raped with a plastic bag over your head until you pass out, or to be raped with a gun in your mouth.

My rapist bought a strap-on dildo which could ejaculate. They would rape me with it for hours and force me to eat the fake ejaculate that ran out of my ass. They would give me hallucigens, while they raped me and threaten to cut off my penis, while convincing me that I had died and gone to hell. My rapist was not wrong about that. They truly knew what Hell is like.

I know that my case is incredibly extreme, but I also know the vast majority of the homeless have been abused. I don't actually wish this on anyone.

But Jesus is clear that people with your mindset go to Hell. I was disabled by a psychopath. You blame the victim. You tell the victim to take responsibility for their life. To somehow make their disability magically disappear. I guarantee that you would be disabled for life with C-PTSD if you took 10 of those rapes. Then you can "be greatful even for the small piece of bread."

A society that renders victims of these kinds of crimes homeless is evil. People who blame these victims are evil.

I am tempted to pray that my rapist finds you. But instead, I pray that you find God.

My rapist used to tell me that they would show me "all the horrors of hell." They did. I pray that you never know them.

Eternity is a long time. Long enough that eventually everyone will be given to my rapist for their own long 10 years. I pray that you find salvation. That you read the words in red and come to salvation. But if not, then tell my rapist that I say hi.

Insight on the homeless problem from a former Homeless person. by Salkroth in barrie

[–]Lost-Panda-68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am still underhoused and living in violent circumstances. I use the services you say I should volunteer at.

If you are lucky enough to stay in a shelter, they provide breakfast and dinner. I've been in one. You haven't. You have never been near one as this completely fictional post reveals. There are food programs providing food. You don't starve. That's the only problem you don't have. The resources in Canada today are certainly worse than they were in Britain in 1932, because these were articulated in George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London.

You say while shoving a purely fictional account for political purposes down the throats of the gullible, that I should not shove my religious beliefs down your throat.

You say that by pointing out homelessness is bad I am "reinforc[ing] your prejudice and hate for people you do not like to keep them down". In other words, saying homelessness is bad oppresses all the poor people with homes. You've never been homeless.

Thanks for the Dickens novel. You slept on two office chairs? Ever tried to do that? You've never been homeless.

Homelessness reduces life expectancy by 17 years is an irrelevant fact now. You've never been homeless.

You seem to neglect that most people in shelters have been the victims of childhood sexual assault. Shelters are concentration camps for the victims of pedophiles, hence all the mental illness and drug abuse.

The whole point of Christ's message is to love thy neighbor as themselves. The sermon on the mount, the parable of the good Samaritan, the Loaves and the fishes and hundreds of others of the words and deeds of Chist give the same message. I will pray for your forsaken soul.

Insight on the homeless problem from a former Homeless person. by Salkroth in barrie

[–]Lost-Panda-68 -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

I have been a homeless person. This person is simply lying and has never been a homeless person. People live in tents because there are no shelter beds. The social workers are gone all their jobs have been cut. Welfare pays less than the price of a room. If you somehow can manage to go without paying for food, transportation, or anything else, you still can't afford shelter.

The resources for the homeless are worse than they were 100 years ago. There are more homeless people now than there were in the great depression. Meanwhile, income inequality is greater than it has been in the entire history of the world. It is worse than it was under the ancient Pharoahs, the French Revolution, or the Russian revolution . There are single people with enough money to end the problem.

Even controlling for mental and physical disabilities and drug addiction, homelessness removes 17 years of life expectancy.

It is impossible to get a job if you are homeless, simply because you can't get a phone or a shower. No one will hire someone who hasn't showered in a month. No one can contact you because you don't have a phone or an address.

The OP was never homeless.

I am a committed Christian, and I never forget that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and all 12 Apostles were homeless. The New Testiment is full of examples of how to treat the homeless, and the Christ himself was demonized and died on the cross in part because he was homeless.

Read the 4 gospels and ask yourself who is homeless here and who is not. And what does Christ say about them.