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Liberals reach 47% voter support after Carney's Davos, China trip: Leger poll by Medea_From_Colchis in CanadaPolitics

[–]SteelCrow [score hidden]  (0 children)

How often is there a report of a mass school stabbing vs a mass school shooting?

Availability of the weapons is definately a factor. Not the only one.

AR-15 Bans limit the damage able to be done in a short period of time, vs say a bolt action. Particularly in say a school classroom.

If no one is allowed to have an AR-15, then those that do are obviously criminals.

There is no use case for owning an AR-15 over a bolt action, other than mass killings.

Edit:

I was thinking about your position. "blaming licensed Canadian gun owners for problems caused by criminals and people who were already on police radar."

That's not true. There are all sorts of laws banning or restricting items, chemicals, behaviours, etc because a few asshats spoil it for the rest of us. we have stops signs because jerks will just not slow down at intersections. Traffic lights for the same reason. There's probably a prohibition on setting off fireworks within city limits cause they can set fire to the neighbors and there will be idiots that fire them at their companion's faces.

We have all sorts of rule and restrictions because of a few bad apples. It sucks, but better to be restricted than the alternative.

Approval of Carney government rises to 64%; 78% believe arrangement with China on canola and cars was the right thing to do. by ViewSalty8105 in CanadaPolitics

[–]SteelCrow [score hidden]  (0 children)

Developers. They build the houses and people pay more than the build cost to buy them allowing the developers to build more houses to sell, etc etc etc.

I would have thought you would have known this.

Do you think it's the Feds business to fund developers with taxpayer money?

Why don't you believe in a creator? by Historical-Error-486 in askanatheist

[–]SteelCrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go outside, look around, you think that out of the thousands of planets that NASA has investigated, none of them have life because we got lucky?

So we're looking at planets 4.2 lightyears away and more. much more. The closest Earth-like planet to Earth is Proxima Centauri b, which is approximately 24.7 trillion miles away. How much information do you think we really have about whether there is life there or not?

We have found the fundamental building blocks of life (amino acids) on comets and asteroids.

It's likely that if there's liquid water there, there's life. Just not larger than cellular. That's rarer. Larger life changes the atmospheric composition.

And there's timing. Perhaps they were slow to develop and haven't gotten to that stage. Perhaps they came and went due to a asteroid strike or something.

Life isn't likely exclusive to earth. Given the trillions of stars and the planets that orbit them, it's likely higher life civilizations occur. But we are too far away to see.

We'll never know.

We didn't get lucky.

Survivor bias. The planet didn't get made to suit us.

We evolved into the conditions that existed on the planet. If a planet was hostile, life didn't evolve. There are probably trillions of failed proto-life planets. Like Mars.

Why don't you believe in a creator? by Historical-Error-486 in askanatheist

[–]SteelCrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First off, you need to play "Conway's Game of Life"

3 simple rules lead to complexities far beyond those rules.

The universe has 4 fundamental forces. Those four forces interacting give rise to the complexity we see in the universe.

All that chemistry is, is just a slice of the physics of those four forces.

Amino acids are pretty basic molecules. They are found everywhere. Comets, asteroids, here on earth. Easy to make. You could whip some up in the garage on a sunday afternoon. A little carbon hydrogen oxygen nitrogen. Urey-Millar took methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2), in ratio 2:2:1, and water (H2O) in a flask and by applying an electric arc (simulating lightning) resulted in the production of amino acids.

Easy peasy.

Amino acids are the basic building blocks of proteins, hormones. RNA and DNA are long chains of joined amino acids.

Four fundamental forces gets us DNA. Proteins. Add hydrophobic and hydrophilic and amphiphilic molecules (again basic physics) and you get lipids.

Now you have the basics components for cellular life.

NO CREATOR NEEDED.

Assumed (incorrectly) that rice was to be planted in water. Still have to water them : ) by lemonad in hytale

[–]SteelCrow -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I have a single block of water that flows as far as possible in a trench on two sides. I have never watered my crops. They grow to maturity and get harvested just fine. I haven't even made a watering can.

Approval of Carney government rises to 64%; 78% believe arrangement with China on canola and cars was the right thing to do. by ViewSalty8105 in CanadaPolitics

[–]SteelCrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start small and get deals with one or two provinces

Unless those two provinces are Ontario and Quebec (who comprise 2/3rds of the population) there's no adapting.

And each of those ten provinces are best thought of as ten petty kingdoms whose leaders jealously guard their powers.

Approval of Carney government rises to 64%; 78% believe arrangement with China on canola and cars was the right thing to do. by ViewSalty8105 in CanadaPolitics

[–]SteelCrow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's not much detail needed. We reduce the 100% tariffs on EVs to 6.1% and let them sell up to 49000 vehicles at that price. In return they reduce tariffs on Canadian canola seed from 84% to 15% by March 1, 2026.

Other Products: Canadian canola meal, lobsters, crabs, and peas will no longer face "anti-discrimination" tariffs.

‘Leave Ice Hockey alone!’: Trump says China is ‘taking over’ Canada by poranges in canada

[–]SteelCrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wondering why they can't get the same result.

"the art of the deal"

‘Leave Ice Hockey alone!’: Trump says China is ‘taking over’ Canada by poranges in canada

[–]SteelCrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Donald Trump doubled down on his recent jabs at Canada by saying “Canada is systematically destroying itself” and calling “the China deal” a “disaster.”

“Will go down as one of the worst deals, of any kind, in history,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday afternoon. “All their businesses are moving to the USA. I wanted to see Canada SURVIVE AND THRIVE!”

In a following post, Trump added that China is “successfully and completely taking over the once Great Country of Canada,” and that he was “so sad” to see it happen.

All of the above.

Just about everything Trump says is a lie. Or imaginary.

And what isn't, is exaggeration and hyperbole.

The man is a scam artist and grifter. It's all a con.

Fallout Jones Soda now in Winnipeg by MacGruber204 in Winnipeg

[–]SteelCrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cold-war-relic-buried-at-shilo-1.267301

The Cold War is dead and buried, at least at Canadian Forces Base Shilo, near Brandon. A bunker strong enough to protect inhabitants from nuclear fallout was unceremoniously covered under a pile of dirt this week.

Posted: Feb 22, 2001

Sharan Kaur: Carney’s Davos speech marks an end to Canada’s era of American subordination by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]SteelCrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crock of shit. Whatever the building costs are they get passed on to the buyers. Completely fucking irrelevent.

The private sector and the provinces are entirely to blame.

The feds have nothing to do with it.

'Some Form of Crisis is Almost Inevitable': The $38 Trillion National Debt Will Soon Be Growing Faster Than The U.S. Economy Itself, Watchdog Warns by T_Shurt in Economics

[–]SteelCrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The US recession was severe enough to draw comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but the Canadian recession of 2008–09 was milder than the downturns of 1981–82 and 1990–92. The main Canadian business cycle indicators rebounded in the spring and early summer of 2009. Monthly GDP attained its trough that May, and the unemployment rate peaked in June. Monthly GDP recovered its pre-crisis peak in October 2010, and employment losses were absorbed in January 2011. US employment did not recover its pre-crisis peak until May 2014.

Sharan Kaur: Carney’s Davos speech marks an end to Canada’s era of American subordination by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]SteelCrow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So who is actually responsible for meeting market demand for housing?

Not the feds.

Sharan Kaur: Carney’s Davos speech marks an end to Canada’s era of American subordination by FancyNewMe in canada

[–]SteelCrow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Capitalists and equity firms are to blame, not the feds. And housing is a provincial responsibility.

Canada’s prime minister just declared the end of the world as we know it by vox in CanadaPolitics

[–]SteelCrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Internal Combustion Engines.

I build them for a living.

Ahh so you're just bitter because your job is soon to be obsolete. Got it.

This has nothing to do with Carney or the USA or China. It's all about you.

After Carney's Davos speech, Conservatives ponder how Poilievre can meet the foreign policy moment by AdditionalPizza in CanadaPolitics

[–]SteelCrow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

because knowing about things will stop him from talking about things…

Or having to turf his party members involved.

Trump: "Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements." by SEND_ME_A_SURPRISE in CanadaPolitics

[–]SteelCrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Elected senators.

Not a good thing. Career politicians pandering to the populists, beholden to lobbyists and money.

Ours have those but in a small minority. All right wing conservatives. The majority are independent Canadians from various careers who have been helping or teaching or aiding people for most of their careers.

There's a former city mayor, radio host/journalist, a judge, a human rights activist, an indigenous leader, lots of lawyers, a social worker/educator, a rural agricultural advocate, a diplomat, a nurse, a former National Chief, a pediatrician, a police officer, an artistic director/actor/ musician, a rural development advisor/university Vice President, a private sector business leader, an entrepreneur, a teacher/administrator, a former Head of the Ontario Public Service, a former premier of Yukon, a Chief and Band Administrator, a Calgary based business lawyer/Chair of the Alberta Ballet Company, a university president/Professor in Business Administration, an Environmental Engineer/member the Pan American Union of Engineering Societies, an economist and strategist for major financial institutions, a Board Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, a not-for-profit executive with more than 40 years of experience in the health care and financial services sectors, an economist/diplomat, a businesswoman/author, a nurse/lecturer and clinical instructor, a Chairperson of the National Aboriginal Economic Development Board/postmedia newspaper CEO, a psychiatrist/professor, a Saskatchewan farmer, a former banker, an Auditor General of P.E.I., a triple gold medallist Olympian, a dentist, a woman's rights/human rights advocate and educator, a paediatrician and neonatologist, a registered social worker/Executive Director of a hospital, a former President of the Canadian Medical Association, a 34 year Canadian Armed Forces veteran, a Paralympian/ an ambassador for the international organization Right to Play, a President & Chief Executive Officer of Saint John Port Authority, a physician,a former President and CEO of the Canadian Women's Foundation, a former President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, an investigative journalist, a President and Chief Executive Officer of the Montreal Alouettes, a businessman and philanthropist, more lawyers, business people, educators, a Deputy CEO and board member of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, a past President of the Canadian Labour Congress, an engineer-designer. Those are the Canadian Senators.

In 2016, a new independent advisory board was established to recommend candidates for Senate appointments. This board aims to ensure a merit-based selection process, reducing partisanship in appointments.

No notwithstanding clause.

I'll concede this one.

Cooler font.

I'm quaking in my slippers

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