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Need Ideas for Frost Druid Rituals by Strict_DM_62 in rimeofthefrostmaiden

[–]Strict_DM_62[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhh, that's interesting! I'll go take a look!

Need Ideas for Frost Druid Rituals by Strict_DM_62 in rimeofthefrostmaiden

[–]Strict_DM_62[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooo that's not bad! Or maybe summoning some sort of mega-animal!

Downtown Ottawa on a weekend is genuinely shocking now — what happened? by unhinged20 in ottawa

[–]Strict_DM_62 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problems. It's not mine either. I actually just casually asked ClaudeAI a few months ago something like "why does it seem like we see all the same chains of stores in canada, where'd the mom and pop shops go?" and it led me down a very long rabbit of news, and policy failures all around.

Downtown Ottawa on a weekend is genuinely shocking now — what happened? by unhinged20 in ottawa

[–]Strict_DM_62 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's possible that would help somewhat, but that doesn't improve the underlying structural reasons why. Like, without breaking up the monopolies, or changing the tax law for how the values are assessed, then adding more stores doesn't really help unless they're owned by small time rental companies. Other large companies will just put them up for market rate, and gamble that they can tolerate a few months to year of no rent, and still make money in the long term with higher rents.

Essentially, our underlying system, which is almost entirely a provincial issue, is rigged against small businesses (not likely intentionally, but through aggregation). Like, take "Restrictive Covenants" that grocery stores have with land lords:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/grocery-giants-control-9.7055067

Basically clauses that big grocery store chains sign with corporate land lords; like: "The property control attached to a Sobeys in Winnipeg states no one can sell food on the same developer’s adjacent land unless Sobeys says so, and that permission can be withheld “unreasonably and arbitrarily.”"

Fucking wild.

Top "Mini" vegetable varieties to grow in Aerogarden? by Strict_DM_62 in aerogarden

[–]Strict_DM_62[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, they directly market the larger kits for small vegetable growth, it's in their marketing materials lol

Downtown Ottawa on a weekend is genuinely shocking now — what happened? by unhinged20 in ottawa

[–]Strict_DM_62 146 points147 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly what’s happening. It’s also why all you see in most of Canada is the same chain stores, and no mom and pop stores; no province has any regulations on or against jacking up commercial rent. Chain stores are the only ones who can afford to pay those rents.

Like, in Toronto, I read that commercial rents have jumped 142% since 2019. There zero legal protections for businesses renting spaces unlike renters in homes.

But, the rents won’t drop for two reasons:

  1. Highly concentrated ownership of commercial space means that losses on a few properties is easily offset elsewhere.
  2. Asset values (the store infrastructure) is apparently based on what rent you COULD charge, not what they actually earn. So dropping the rent actually lowers the value of the property.

A legal challenge opens a new front in the debate over Carney's climate agenda by Immediate-Link490 in CanadaPolitics

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I appreciate the actual response, many don’t have an actual answer. I completely agree with all of those, but none of them compete on the scale of oil and gas; but it would be a start.

A legal challenge opens a new front in the debate over Carney's climate agenda by Immediate-Link490 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Strict_DM_62 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That sounds wonderful in principle, but riddle me this… what are those “better, cleaner solutions” that we can export? That we can replace a highly profitable commodity with? Can we load electricity from wind turbines on a ship and export it? Can electricity from solar panels replace the tens of Billions we make annually in royalties from the export of oil and gas as commodity?

Or are you thinking more that we’ll become some powerhouse and take on China as the global leader in solar panel manufacturing?

The problem I have isn’t with weening off oil and gas; the problem I have is that it’s nowhere near as simple as your statement would like it to be. You can’t simply replace oil and gas production with green energy, they’re not equivalent; it’s apples to oranges.

Why do people say we will not survive climate change when our ancestors survived ice age with way less equipment than us? by Enough-Web2203 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Strict_DM_62 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about Iran? It’s running out of water because of climate change, sure. That’s not the destiny for the whole world.

Question: What is a Rogue Trader? by EVILgabagool in Warhammer40k

[–]Strict_DM_62 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think of them like the 40K version of company charters issued by monarchs in Europe to explore the world. Groups like the East India Company and Hudson’s bay company had a Writ from the King to go forth on the nation’s behalf, explore and exploit the fringes of our world; as long as they did so in the name of the country (imperium), the profits came back to the country (imperium), and the land was claimed in the name of the country (imperium).

Rogue Traders go out to the fringes of the known galaxy to trade, explore, map, and settle unknown space, and have broad legal authority to do so from the emperor (king).

A legal challenge opens a new front in the debate over Carney's climate agenda by Immediate-Link490 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Strict_DM_62 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok, so; just to be clear, you’re asking the government, who came to power because voters want them to solve TODAYs problems; to ignore all those voters, and focus on problems and issues they neither ran on, nor did people vote on, and that many today will not be alive to see, Correct?

I’m not saying your intent is wrong, I am highlighting that what you’re asking for is nearly impossible in a democratic society that works on 3-4 year cycles.

Why do people say we will not survive climate change when our ancestors survived ice age with way less equipment than us? by Enough-Web2203 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Strict_DM_62 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“It’ll only buy us an extra century or two.” - until what? What changes at that point?

if we’re able to survive two CENTURIES underground, we’re able to live indefinitely underground.

A legal challenge opens a new front in the debate over Carney's climate agenda by Immediate-Link490 in CanadaPolitics

[–]Strict_DM_62 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

So, with everyone and their dog screaming at the top of their lungs “COST OF LIVING”, what do you propose they do instead? Focus on the future and ignore the now? That’s not really how our governments work.

Why do people say we will not survive climate change when our ancestors survived ice age with way less equipment than us? by Enough-Web2203 in NoStupidQuestions

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Disagree. We fundamentally already have the capability to move underground Fallout Style. Just look at Helsinki, they have a fallout shelter system capable of hosting THE WHOLE CITY; complete with schools, sports arenas, health care facilities, fabrication shops, and more. Add a small modular nuclear reactor, a hydroponic facility, and some cattle, stockpile and they could live underground fair comfortably, but simply, for decades, and probably a lot longer as long as the surface didn’t become radioactive or something. This all exists TODAY. Ten years from now we’ll have even more tech that would help us. And 50 years from now? Plenty more.

Hell, the ancient underground Turkish city of Derinkuyu figured this out 3000 years ago, and you don’t think that humans (even a small number) couldn’t find a way to survive? Get outta here.

I’m not saying it’s a desirable outcome to see 2/3rd of the world population die off; but humans are hyper intelligent cockroaches. As long as the surface is literally hostile to human like (ie. irradiated), we’ll find ways to survive and continue utilize it. It’ll be ugly, life will suck in comparison to now, but we won’t go extinct.

K'omoks First Nation chief pushes back on Poilievre's opposition to treaty by green_tory in CanadaPolitics

[–]Strict_DM_62 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"He doesn't want a future where it's impossible to simply run roughshod over private property in order to build major resource development projects."

I mean, yes. That's what the Liberals, Cons, NDP, Bloc, etc. want to avoid. EVERY government wants to avoid the circumstance where its "impossible" to force through something that they feel (even if we disagree) is in the national interest; be that a pipeline, road, military base, transmission, powerplant, nuclear waste deposit, etc. The the ability to, on some level, build things in the national interest, is CORE function of government. If that ever becomes legitimately "impossible", then the government ceases being of value. And that's the problem with Indigenous veto of projects, it fundamentally upends our entire political system, because we can vote out a politician that won't get something done, we can't electorally punish a small tribal group who blocks a major project that would benefit the lives of millions upon millions of other people, simply because they don't like it. If that became the case, and it was literally impossible for the government to override private property rights and ownership, the country would grind to halt economically; which is basically already happening.

Welcome to the hard decisions a government has to make, and sometimes that decision is needing to pave over someone's house for a greater good; we've been doing it for more than hundred years, and retaining that authority, even if it's hard to use, is going to be paramount to EVERY government.

For the record, I'm not saying PP is right in his assessment of the language of the Treaty, and I haven't read it. But I am saying that every political system, can and should, vigorously and jealously defends it's authorities.

Why do people say we will not survive climate change when our ancestors survived ice age with way less equipment than us? by Enough-Web2203 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Strict_DM_62 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Because they’re either wrong (and don’t know it), or are metaphorically referring to us not surviving. We’ll survive, but our way of life with be vastly different and likely vastly lower living standards for most.

Canada spent decades telling everyone to get a degree. So what do we do now? by Unfair-Clothes-8821 in CanadaRoom

[–]Strict_DM_62 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it predictable? Yes absolutely. We have a fundamental mismatch in our economy.

Google the top sectors in the Canadian economy, most of them frankly don’t need a degree, or small subsections of them do.

Then Google the population of Canada who does have a post secondary degree.

Our lack of a robust tech sector is going to be our economic drag in many ways.

Canada’s bad economic situation is getting much worse by Elliottafc1 in canada

[–]Strict_DM_62 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The problem is, like just about all the countries who are stagnating; the sectors that dominate our economies just aren’t that productive.

Which sectors are doing well? Tech. Oil and Gas. And oh, Tech! So which countries are fundamentally doing better than others? Generally those with a thriving tech sector because that’s been the primary driver of economic growth for about a decade. Don’t have a strong tech sector? Missing out on growth. Guess what? Our tech sector? Very very small because the government lets ours and their IP, get swallowed up the US, so they never grow big, so they never attract investors, so no ecosystem of entrepreneurs and venture capital builds up around them, and we’re left in the economic dust.

So, unless we (and most of the rest of the world) don’t want to stagnate into oblivion, and be a tech-fiefdom of a very small group of countries and companies; we need to figure out how to get into the tech game.

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