Not directly comparable, but there are shared principles. The main one being “If you put everything on a credit card and just keep making those minimum payments, it eventually catches up with you and something catastrophic happens. If you don’t deal with it your kids will”

When we’re near the bottom of the barrel for GDP in such a resource rich country, there’s obviously something very wrong.

On what premise do you base that statement? I interviewed hundreds of parents who were seeking to enroll their child and never ONCE did I get that attitude from them. They enroll because they care about their kids, because they are worried about the decline of standards in the public school system, because they like a particular program in the school… but never THAT. And they definitely value education.

Conservatives consider math leftist propaganda

Lol. WHERE did you get that gem?

I strongly disagree. In fact if you look at who values education the most, its Conservative parents as they are, by far, the largest demographic who put their children in independent schools. Those schools still have to follow the provincial curriculum and have fully certified teachers, but the public system is ambivalent or openly hostile to conservative values and dont allow for specialties which is where independent schools come in. Its the parents who dont really care about education who leave their kids in public schools where standards are often lower and the parents are are less interested in educational outcomes.

Conservative parents are so committed they are willing to pay their full tax bill, PLUS pay for tuition on top, despite the average income being at or BELOW the provincial average - because they value solid education based on strong values, not the ‘dumbed down’ robots you’re suggesting.

Well, 10 years ago when the Liberals took control our national debt was 692 billion. Today its 1.46 trillion.

So we’ve doubled the debt under the Liberals and is there ANY metric that says Canada is doing better now with our ROI than 10 years ago? Are we getting a good ROI on doubling our ‘investment’ under their strategy?

The Liberals honestly believe that we can spend our way to prosperity. With our tax dollars.

Thats not working.

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I clearly fundamentally dont believe in casual sexual relationships where consent is an issue. The problem isn’t consent. Its that people have normalized hooking up with sexual partners they barely know, before they’ve even formed any kind of a bond, and then have to precariously navigate all kinds of sexual etiquette because there is little trust, little relationship and no commitment. Sexual assault from lack of consent is a problem created by people who have not made a commitment to love, cherish, protect and nurture the love of their life and made a lasting commitment to them. Its not rocket science to note that the people in this case only met each other a few hours before this whole sordid event happened and were only out for some ‘fun’. Its also not rocket science to note that the number of cases of committed couples who have been together for years dragging the issue of ‘consent’ into a courtroom is far far less, if you can even find those cases at all.

If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned. Just ask some hockey players.

And Im 100% sure that my opinion will be fully accepted here on Lemmy especially by those who love their bar crawling hookups so Im gonna leave it at that. lol. I’m out.

Yes Im in western Canada.

That situation in Europe would drive me bonkers. Im a firm believer in not hiring people to do things I can learn to do myself. I would hate being forced to hire people just because they have access to the paperwork that I dont.

We do have something similar to the paesaggistica, which are particularly intrusive if you own a condominium apartment. It can get quite ludicrous as they have an elected board who can make up whatever rules they like and impose fines. Ive heard of people being fined for having a flower box on their outside patio, or for hanging up Christmas lights before a set date because its against the condo rules. Just craziness.

Thanks. Ive actually been planning this for 10 years and have had half the tiny house sitting on a trailer in my yard for that long. Just couldn’t find the right place to put it where the town council would be open to the idea. Attitudes are finally changing though and the idea of tiny homes is becoming acceptable in many more Canadian cities.

Yeah you’re right about taking one step at a time. Thats a good point. I was looking at the chart for determining the size of built up beam I need to put under the house and its clear as mud. And the silly measurements are given in mm which is lovely except that no one goes into a lumber store and asks for a 38 x 184 board. Thats a 2x8. Dont know why they dont just call it a 2x8. Silly.

I couldn’t figure out the right size, so I put the link to the chart into ChatGPT and gave it my span and asked it to interpret the chart and tada! It figured out that a beam of three 2x8’s nailed together is what I need to pass code. Nice.

Calgary and Edmonton are the two main centers but not everyone wants to pay the price for living in a big city. There are lots of jobs in smaller centers.

But here’s the thing. You can move to Calgary but you’re going to need to buy a house for at least 600,000. OR you can move to a smaller center and get a house for one tenth of that price.

Now look at the difference in mortgage payments at 5.25%. The Calgary house is going to be 3400. The small town mortgage is going to be $340.

Which means in the small town, you can buy a house paying your mortgage working a minimum wage job and still have money to spare, but in Calgary you better be making over 100k if you hope to qualify for that 600k house.

Sometimes small town living just makes far more financial sense. Especially when youre in driving distance to a bigger city.

Nope. Its not the economy. Its supply. There are charts that track available units for each type (apartment, main floor, basement suite, whole house, etc) on the landlord menu of Rentfaster.com. I can look at almost every category and see that the supply is up from what it was a year ago.

eg. Last year on Sept 1 there were **1066 **two bedroom apartments available This year on Sept 1 there were **1468 **two bed room apartments available

Therefore, average rent for those apartments last year was 2335. This year its **2251 **and dropping. Currently the average has now dropped to **2137 **as of last week. Thats down 8.4%

The rental market is pretty simple. When there’s more supply prices drop. When there’s more demand, prices go up.

Eww. Not likely.

Im not the one dragging out this conversation looking for more things to criticize you about. Buh bye.

This is Lemmy and the topic was sex and consent and sexual propriety, which as a guy who’s been married twice, once the wrong way and once the right way, I happen to have some opinions on. Not a expert, just know the difference between a good sexual relationship and a bad one so my experience is applicable. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

I brought up the cheating because it was part of the case. The woman in question was at a hotel bar, got tipsy, picked up the hockey player and despite being engaged, went up to his hotel room for some fun.

I like the way you think. It works for selling houses, dont know why it wouldn’t work for inspections.

Are you trying to say that a blowjob is NOT sex?

:) This is Lemmy, not my doctor’s office.

No I meant sex. Intercourse is sex. Blowjobs are sex.

Of course I dont believe in consent. Its a mans world. We take what we want when we want it. That’s the way its supposed to be. /s

C’mon man, its not your first day on the internet nor mine. You know and I know exactly where that kind of personal question leads and Im not that dumb.