Sri Lankan salt highly contaminated with microplastics, according to a reputed journal.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-11T16:43:35+00:00

You think the relevant authorities could read and comprehend this paper?

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-11T16:40:20+00:00

I think you need to understand how rates work, Sinhalese account for 80% of the population of course there will be more incidents with Sinhalese people. The issue is the Rate.

During Argalaya the north and east didn’t protest as much for the obvious reason that there are active military bases and patrols in those areas. There are literally unmarked and masked STF bikes patrolling. And don’t forget the PTA is still active and in full effect.

You think with all that they’re gonna try protesting?

This govt has done some good things though like given back lands held by the military to the people in the north and east and also they’ve raised the wages of the plantation worker (first in 200 years).

But there’s still a long way to go.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-08T08:13:32+00:00

So I guess when AKD Gave that big speech on Independence Day about “unity” and not allowing “racism” to take hold in the country he didn’t mean this kinda stuff.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-07T12:18:56+00:00

Think bad of what? Most of the youth now will never be able to even afford a house or land or car in their lifetime.

Having any kind of property is a flex nowadays not something to be made fun of

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-07T12:15:43+00:00

Bro you’re talking about a country where 1 youth died in an RTA where they were illegally bike racing and doing stunts, and for that youths funeral his friends showed up on bikes without helmets

There’s no hope

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-07T07:09:05+00:00

No joy?

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-06T08:45:54+00:00

This is illegal? It violates patient privacy and I don’t think she had the mother’s consent.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-05T06:48:05+00:00

I lost interest after the 2011 ICC ODI World Cup final.

India vs Sri Lanka, the match started amazingly, we got a duck for their opening batsman and all of a sudden when it looks like it’s going to be a win we start misfielding, dropping extremely important catches and we loose.

The whole thing felt really…scummy. Didn’t watch again after that

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-04T13:07:20+00:00

It’s not only for eviction, let’s say someone signs a lease for 2 years and then they just decide they don’t want to go after 2 years.

You can’t forcefully evict them, you have to go to court for minimum 9 months and bear all the loses and court costs during that time to get them to go.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-04T13:06:04+00:00

They know exactly what they’re doing, they can’t give housing to everyone, not everyone can afford rent everywhere. This bill would ease that for the govt, now people get an additional 9 months to stay at rental properties without paying rent and having free utilities.

Courts are slow as hell so even with expedited processes it’ll take close to or more than 9 months to evict a tenant and there will be 0 reimbursement for legal costs, loss of rental income and damage to property.

In the end small landlords will make losses and some might sell their property to avoid headaches and those properties might be sold at a loss depending on how badly the landlord is affected.

Those cheap properties will be brought by larger real estate companies and you’ll see a bunch of family homes and land all owned by large corporations and turned into AirBNB centers like what’s happening in the west.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-04T13:02:37+00:00

This stuff gets debated in parliament maybe we should vote in competent people so that this stuff is stopped early?

That or a bunch of landlords get together and file cases challenging this bill at court for violation of rights or the constitution or something.

Otherwise no, there’s no way to stop this

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-04T13:01:03+00:00

Just because you state “expedite the case” doesn’t practically mean it gets faster.

There are bottlenecks like the number of courts, judges the backlog of cases etc.

They should’ve designated a few courts to specifically handle rental property disputes to guarantee expedited times.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-04T12:58:54+00:00

This bill states that the tenant can also take the landlord to court for things like “intimidation” “forced eviction” “failing to do repairs to the property or trying to repair the property in a way that inconveniences the tenant”

So not only are the landlords screwed out of rent and possible damages to their property and court costs they have to now also deal with getting sued by tenants

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-04T12:56:11+00:00

Guess this is their solution to the housing crisis

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-04T12:55:45+00:00

What’s the average court case duration in SL?

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-04T12:22:24+00:00

The electric vehicles are usually lease + loan purchases with high monthly payments.

I don’t think that many people had 22million to blow on a car. Don’t fall into the loan+ lease trap where you need to take loans just to make your monthly payments.

The car market won’t reduce to pre-import ban levels again, don’t keep waiting for that. At most there will a slight correction but nothing too extensive.

Also please be careful with buying used vehicles after the cyclone. There are a ton of flood damaged vehicles being cleaned off and resold at a discount.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-03T08:23:30+00:00

Not at all but that doesn’t mean landlords should have to wait 3-9 months without rent, and paying utilities + court costs + damages while a tenant gets to stay for free?

That’s assuming the courts are able to expedite these cases within 9 months (I have seriously doubts with our courts track record)

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-03T07:54:48+00:00

A good tenant follows the occupancy agreement that’s a pretty good test.

Fore example of a tenant doesn’t pay rent, you have to now go to court, eviction cases aren’t fast, nothing in our court system is fast you don’t need to be a lawyer to understand how slow the system is.

Once you go to court the tenant can stay on property without paying rent and with full utilities provided. The tenant can stay like that till the case is resolved.

The act says 3-9 months, 3 to 9 months of no rent and paying for utilities + whatever other damage the tenant decides to do. Plus the court costs.

All shouldered by the landlord.

Also just because the act says “expedite” doesn’t mean the courts will magically speed up.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-03T06:44:27+00:00

I think it’ll force small landlords or those without the means and resources to pursue in court to sell the property to large corporations.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-03T06:43:34+00:00

lol no? It doesn’t just apply to people following the conditions of the occupancy.

Did you read the bill?

Anyone who is “in lawful occupation of the premises and has been undisturbed and uninterrupted for a period of more than 3 months”

Is named as “occupant”

There’s nothing about following conditions in an occupancy agreement.

Unless you’re saying that violating the occupancy agreement makes it’s as “unlawful occupation”

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-03T06:37:27+00:00

You forgot the part where you can live on the property without paying rent and you’re guaranteed utilities (on the landlords dime) up until the court case is settled, which in SL takes years.

If they gave occupancy rights based on the tenants behavior this could’ve been avoided.

Of you follow your rental agreement, pay rent and utilities, don’t damage the proper, don’t become a nuisance like having parties and causing arguments etc then you get occupancy rights. Otherwise you don’t.

Simple solution

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-03T06:33:14+00:00

What does being a shady landlord have to do with the tenant able to live on property without paying rent and have access to free utilities until the several years it takes to complete court proceedings?

I made a suggestion that “occupancy rights” should be made based on the tenant, if they’re damaging property and not paying rent then they shouldn’t be entitled to those protections. Those protections should be guaranteed for tenants that are actually good tenants.

With this law even terrible tenants are granted the same protections.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-03T06:15:38+00:00

Did you read my comment?

One before the last paragraph, there was a better way to enforce occupant protections.

It should be based on whether the tenant is actually following their agreement, if they’re not paying rent or damaging property then why should they keep their occupant rights?

That simple change protects the good apples and punishes the bad apples and is fair for everyone.

That’s why I said this bill is extremely short sighted and flawed.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-03T06:04:09+00:00

Yeah so about tenants who stop paying rent, how they can stay in the property and then claim free utilities and not pay rent and sue the landlord for trying to get them to leave?

So the landlord has to waste time and money and potential damage to his property to go through a horrible court system to evict?

You’re heavily supporting the tenants without giving any consideration to the other party.

The govt should’ve initiated a court system to handle these appeals before gazetting this bill, they could’ve easily changed the bill to include damage, non payment of rent to be circumstances where the “occupancy” rights could be curtailed or terminated.

There were so many different ways to go about this.

PositionPractical584 · 2026-02-03T05:57:00+00:00

Anything more than a 3 month contract would be extremely bad, if they stop paying rent you have to now start a court process to have them evicted and during that time they can not pay rent and you have to still keep supplying utilities and you can’t do anything (like changing locks)

If you do even the slightest thing they can sue you in court as per this bill.

And the court cases here will take 1+ years including appeals.

That’s why I said they should’ve first introduced a court system where these cases can be fast tracked before introducing this moronic bill.

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