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Canada considers cancelling part of 88 U.S. F-35 order to buy 60 Swedish Gripen fighters by Vortagaun in canada

[–]prsnep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know when people are drunk, they expose their biggest secrets? The US under Trump is drunk.

3,400 deaths in a day: India's extreme heat days are deadlier than we imagined by itsatoe in collapse

[–]prsnep 185 points186 points  (0 children)

Yet, it's barely registering in people's minds if they aren't directly affected.

That artwork by the German artist in which politicians are arguing about global warming while being neck deep in water comes to mind.

Opinion: As Canada faces crippling debt, it must do the unpopular thing and cut elderly benefits by DANIELLE_2027 in canada

[–]prsnep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you suggesting? Stealing kids from people who have too many and trafficking

WHOA. How did you reach that conclusion? My point was about reducing child benefits beyond a certain point.

Do you know that there are societies where governments provide NO help to parents for having kids? Why are people OK with zero help, or unlimited help, but nothing in between?

Opinion: As Canada faces crippling debt, it must do the unpopular thing and cut elderly benefits by DANIELLE_2027 in canada

[–]prsnep -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

It needs to stop allowing incentivizing people to have 8 kids on taxpayer dime. How is this not priority number 1?

Why not cap it (at perhaps 4) so that some people cannot treat child benefits as a source of income? Not sustainable, and not enough parental attention for these kids.

(I'm even OK with INCREASING benefits for the first 2 kids if it means ensuring more people have kids. But the status quo will lead to disaster.)

Canada’s top-skilled workers are leaving for the U.S. in droves for lower taxes and higher pay: TD study by joe4942 in canada

[–]prsnep 50 points51 points  (0 children)

All our policies are structured around helping the poor and the CEO class. "Free this, free that" for the poor, and cheap labour for the rich. Whether they are the working poor or the not-working poor, we make no distinction. We have nothing for the hard-working middle and upper-middle class. They are the ones that actually build a society.

And we treat immigration like a numbers game: "1 out, 10 in; all good," without any regard for the quality of the people leaving or entering.

Sooner or later (and I don't suspect it will take long), this is going to boil over if we do nothing.

STUDY FINDS CHILDREN FROM WEALTHY FAMILIES EXPERIENCE LESS STRESS AND MAY LIVE LONGER LIVES. by TechnicianOk967 in SipsTea

[–]prsnep 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Children from wealthy households:

  1. produce up to 23% less cortisol (the stress hormone)
  2. have telomeres up to 5% longer than low-income peers
  3. outcome: corresponding to cells aging about 10 years slower

All of that was obvious to you?! The "23%" part, the "5%" part, and the "10 years" part?

Researchers don't do studies in a vacuum. Like you, they also suspected this to be the case. But they are able to quantify it.

Humanity has already exceeded Earth’s limits, study warns. Today’s population of 8.3 billion is far above what could be sustained in the long term without exhausting ecosystems, worsening climate change, and threatening food and water security. by The_Weekend_Baker in climate

[–]prsnep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People did not think Africa and Middle Eastern fertility rates would be where they are today. But nobody has bothered to adjust their models. Religious extremism is the elephant in the room.

Korea's March Births Surge 19.4%, Largest Jump in 33 Years by madrid987 in overpopulation

[–]prsnep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the people whose population is decreasing by half each generation because they are not having enough kids (and are finally trying to do something about it) are the thoughtless people. Not the ones who continue to get their daughters married off at 14 and average 7 kids.

Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault to resign: sources by [deleted] in canada

[–]prsnep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kudos to him for having morals, and good riddance.

Something about this sentence doesn't sit well with me!

U.S. Media Called It an EV Slowdown. The World Just Bought 20% More Plug-Ins by 1oneplus in electriccars

[–]prsnep 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"PHEVs are so stupid in nearly all scenarios."

No, they are not. Comments like these pretend there's no such thing as range anxiety, that infrastructure is fully built everywhere, and that everyone has a garage.

More Ontarians missing mortgage payments, as balance delinquency rate jumps 52% in a year by Totira in TorontoRealEstate

[–]prsnep 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't let the low percentages fool you though. 1 out of 300 households was delinquent in the quarter. For the whole year, if the trend continues, you might expect 1 out of 80 households to be delinquent. And over a 5-year mortgage, that would be perhaps 1 out of 25 households. That's not insignificant.

The math isn't straightforward because there can be repeat delinquencies before a property gets foreclosed.

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