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As Steph Sterling has said multiple times, they’re making the games boring and grindy so they can sell you the convenience of skipping the boring and grindy parts. How fun.

Hope he suffers and dies from multiple organ failure in the most painful way humanly possible.

How do you suppose Israel will be non-violently forced away from Palestine, the place they’ve been ethnically cleansing with the explicit help of other nations for over 70 years? Together, we’ll… ?

Canada won’t even put out a statement saying there is a genocide and that it’s wrong. We are sending weapons and other aid directly to Israel to help them finish the job.

If you can’t speak Russian, you have no business in Russia. Very few of the people there can speak English at the level you would need to get by. And he actually believed he could join their military as a non-combatant foreigner during wartime? What a dumbass.

I’m not advocating for paying income tax being a requirement to vote, that’s ridiculous.

I’m arguing that people who are 16 are already afforded many of the rights and responsibilities (such as being able to work, join the military, get married with a parent’s permission, etc.) that come with the concept of “adulthood” and so they should also be allowed to vote.

You’re entirely missing the implicit reasoning behind my position with this comment. Hopefully you’ll understand it more now that I’ve spelled it out, but if you still disagree, honestly I don’t care and this is happening regardless.

I basically use Mbin as though it were Lemmy, so personally that would be fine. Thanks for the quick response.

Would you consider supporting Mbin in the future? I like Lemmy, but I’ve become used to Mbin (I was originally on /kbin) and I’m somewhat attached to my instance.

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You definitely have a talent for writing. Thanks for sharing.

Okay, so keep looking elsewhere? Not sure what I’m supposed to do about it.

Try WOSONHJ or the Nexus/STC Telegram group. There’s also /r/scholar.

Sorry, I meant income tax. So little Billy will not be able to vote. My bad, Billy.

If you pay (edit: income) tax, you should have the right to vote. I’m not convinced by all of the catastrophizing about it. Turning 16 unlocks a lot of rights and privileges in the UK and I have faith that teenagers won’t be the reason that quality of life worsens.

Can you explain more about what you think is the issue? I’m aware that a lot of the work and support programs we have are incredibly unstable and exploitative (seen pieces of it secondhand with TFW), but I’m curious as to what you’re thinking of.

Probably not. Toronto city council is bought and paid for by developers and Dougie loves to interfere when the stars align and they try to do the right thing for once.

Seems convenient that it’s happening now, under a conservative Labour PM, at the same time that data show that the generation currently around the age of 16 is generally more conservative than their parents.

But aside from that, this seems like a good thing.

The problem isn’t really the immigrants. It’s that politicians don’t want to spend any money on public infrastructure and services so that we can continue providing for everyone adequately.

I keep saying it: we aren’t even prepared for the mass flooding that will be caused in Canada by climate change in the coming decades despite civil engineers sounding the alarm for years. We will not be investing in mass transit, basic income, and affordable housing if we can’t even fucking commit to anti-flood measures.

It’s not about immigrants.

First of all, supply and demand is not a concept bound by natural law, like physics or something. It’s a framework of understanding, not a hard and fast rule. For example, let’s say I’m selling something. It costs me $5 to produce each one and I sell them for $8 each.

A foreign producer comes along and sells the exact same item for $5 each because it costs them $2 to make. Now the market is flooded with this product, but mine cannot be sold for $5 or less (since it would be sold for either no profit or at a loss), so there is direct financial incentive to buy the foreign product.

By adding a tariff, the price of the foreign product becomes higher, artificially driving demand of the domestic product, the price of which generally cannot be lowered without damaging local industry. You can see this in retail markets as well with stores like Walmart and Dollarama, who price other stores out of the market due to their unbeatable prices, which are the result of Chinese manufacturing infrastructure and subsidies.

There is much less flexibility in pricing in heavy industries like steel manufacturing compared to retail, so it doesn’t really make sense for prices to fall significantly enough for Canadian companies to be able to compete with a manufacturing powerhouse like China.

Chinese steel is cheaper than Canadian steel, even in Canada. Since Canadian steel is being targeted by tariffs in America, we need to make sure that as many Canadian companies as possible are using Canadian steel in order to make up for lost revenue on orders that were cancelled or were expected but are now economically impractical.

The practice is called protectionism and is an important tool when two countries have vastly different trade circumstances, such as when one can cheaply manufacture and ship products globally and another cannot. A good external example of this is the protectionism of Ghanaian oranges in order to stimulate the local industry.