[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

Every single thing you just pinned on the Liberals or suggested we do was done or attempted by the Conservative government and the UK is just as bad as Canada is right now.

Unfortunately, no party in Canada is suggesting the policies changes that would actually fix any of these issues. So despite the likely Conservative win next year, we'll still be worse off in 2029 than we are today. Plus we'll have regressed socially into permitting hate of certain groups again.

yay!

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

No, you have to be not stupid and realize they are sneaky little fuckers.

It's not like most gun safes are just sitting out in the kitchen or living room, especially in a household with kids. So kick them out of your bedroom and close the door while you're retrieving the firearms so they can't see the combination.

Also biometric safes are pretty common these days, then you can keep the backup physical key in a safe deposit box at the bank or even with a friend.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

Hard disagree, we should be reducing our reliance on China, not increasing it.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

I'll say this again, there's no such thing as a labour shortage.

There's an infinite demand for labour by companies, the only thing preventing them from hiring is what people are willing to work for.

Just imagine it this way, if a company offered a million jobs at $1 per hour, but couldn't fill them. Is that a labour shortage or just a stupid company?

Companies who can't sell their product/service while paying the wages required to fill the positions are supposed to fail and close. Freeing up any workers they have attracted to work for companies who can fill that.

Companies failing this way isn't bad. It's literally how the economic system we are using works.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago

I always ask these people how many kids they've adopted. It usually turns out to be 0.

In which case I don't care what they say, because they won't back it up with action.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago

Fucking teenagers.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago

It says this includes things like helping with grandkids schooling.

My parents started a university savings account for my kids the day they were born because they wanted to, I hardly consider it "supporting" me and my wife in any way. The kids won't need it for a decade still, and we could cover their costs without it just fine.

Helpful, sure, but the headline is misleading at best if it's including that in the 60%.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I see both sides on this, we really shouldn't be accepting international students (on international student visas) who need food support in the first place.

Yes that means some people will not be able to come here. There's still more applicants than available slots, so no real problem there.

The whole point of exporting education is to make money for Canada though, just like any other export, which doesn't work if they aren't able to pay.

Now if someone is here on a refugee or PR visa, I don't have a problem helping them with food and cost of living.

Also, threatening someone is never the right way to go about discussing policy.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago

If the pension is for 6 years of service, and they get voted out at 5.99 years just due to poor election timelines, I don't see a problem with giving them a pension. This is a non-issue for me.

I would wonder whether 6 years is enough for a pension, but that's a separate discussion point. It seems like it was set based on someone serving two terms, with some wiggle room built in for elections being called early or such.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

Go read a history book. The French revolution is a good place to start, but these kinds of things have happened hundreds of times in history.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

I've lived in Wakayama, and even taught in the public school system there, but only as a temporary english teacher. Wakayama prefecture has so few foreigners to begin with that this rule can't be affecting more than a handful of people.

This rule probably got written a hundred years ago and forgotten about because it wasn't really impacting anyone. Japan still has a lot of work to do on cleaning up racism, but It's nice to see small progress steps like this happening.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

How so? It's just laying out the fact that the man has never had a real job, or struggled with cost of living.

It's an opinion article, that's pretty standard stuff.

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