OT: 'Off topic' thoughts

[Confucius]

You know that you can go to University in Canada and then move elsewhere, right?

That does seem to be the issue with the foreign student controversy.

 

[thewave]

But most of the ice is over land, so it occupy zero space in the oceans. When it melts it moves into the oceans causing levels to rise.

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By volume, there is significantly more land ice than sea ice, with land ice containing enough ice to raise global sea levels by 57.9 meters, while sea ice covers about 7% of the Earth's surface.

That's just joke science scenario out of the gate because the sheer implausibility of it all. For one it's not possible for it to happen at once. I just looked into it. The odds of a volcano going off and giving us 5 years mini ice age are far greater than the rate of ice melting at a rate of concern (regardless of how much ice is above the waterline). Obviously that would offset the melt in a big way.

Almost everything that comes out of the bankers and politicians lips are deception to make more money, unless they are warning you for your own good because if they didn't... They would make less money.

 

[Confucius]

That's just joke science scenario out of the gate because the sheer implausibility of it all. For one it's not possible for it to happen at once. I just looked into it. The odds of a volcano going off and giving us 5 years mini ice age are far greater than the rate of ice melting at a rate of concern (regardless of how much ice is above the waterline).

Almost everything that comes out of the bankers and politicians lips are deception to make more money, unless they are warning you for your own good because if they didn't... They would make less money.

I see. God bless

 

[Sypher04]

I’d argue that the bigger issue is the government fees/permit costs to builders

That’s part of what I was getting at with the lack of construction. The cost and red tape leads to less homes being constructed, the over allowance of immigration creates more people vying for an insufficient amount of homes and the result is housing costs skyrocket.

 

[Leafs87]

That’s part of what I was getting at with the lack of construction. The cost and red tape leads to less homes being constructed, the over allowance of immigration creates more people vying for an insufficient amount of homes and the result is housing costs skyrocket.

Yeah. I think the other issue is poor financing guidelines. A lot of the mortgages people got into should have been rejected

 

[CelticDruid]

Try Mark Carney's book Values, for starters. Sam Cooper, has a book on the Fentynal epidemic and triad connections.

Carney has been well-documented with his WEF connections.

Loads of foreign articles and information on X.
Yes, there are many reputable journalists throughout the world posting on X.

I read the Telegraph, a British paper for world events.

 

[ThrowDemTongs]

That’s part of what I was getting at with the lack of construction. The cost and red tape leads to less homes being constructed, the over allowance of immigration creates more people vying for an insufficient amount of homes and the result is housing costs skyrocket.

As someone who holds a license for shits and giggles (I do 2-3 deals a year), I fully agree. It's a culmination of all of the issues listed so far. I see who buys and owns real estate in Vancouver.

Seconding @CelticDruid 's recommendation to check out Sam Cooper's work as well.

 

[Gary Nylund]

Of course. At the same time, as I know from personal experience, there is often a far greater advantage in getting certain positions if you graduated from certain schools.

Sure, that's something different altogether from what you originally said which was "they all have to go to university outside of Canada.".

 

[Gary Nylund]

That's just joke science scenario out of the gate because the sheer implausibility of it all. For one it's not possible for it to happen at once. I just looked into it. The odds of a volcano going off and giving us 5 years mini ice age are far greater than the rate of ice melting at a rate of concern (regardless of how much ice is above the waterline). Obviously that would offset the melt in a big way.

Almost everything that comes out of the bankers and politicians lips are deception to make more money, unless they are warning you for your own good because if they didn't... They would make less money.

Source? I hope it's not the same source where you got the "volume" nonsense from.

 

[Evilhomer]

Sure, that's something different altogether from what you originally said which was "they all have to go to university outside of Canada.".

I don't know if you did it, but it is not easy today to go to school in Canada and subsequently find a quality position outside of Canada, other than maybe certain fields of medicine.

 

[Evilhomer]

And then there is the status of my profession in Canada, where woke will never die: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toro...ming-president-resigns-tareq-hadhad-1.7502991

 

[Gary Nylund]

I don't know if you did it, but it is not easy today to go to school in Canada and subsequently find a quality position outside of Canada, other than maybe certain fields of medicine.

So you're pushing your kids to move away from Canada, with the idea that wherever they go to school, that's where they'll stay? There's a lot of issues here but whatever, they're your kids so none of my business.

 

[thewave]

I see. God bless

Think about it.

We should be out of oil but are not.
Be under 10m of water around the coast.
Have no clean air to breathe
No Ozone left
"The Science" TM is not Scientific method.
Great depression. Totally exposed as rigged
Most wars, for resources and land and played off as for Religion quite often.

It goes and on the rich man's trick never ends and the biggest trick of all is convincing people to go to war.

 

[Evilhomer]

So you're pushing your kids to move away from Canada, with the idea that wherever they go to school, that's where they'll stay? There's a lot of issues here but whatever, they're your kids so none of my business.

I am pushing my kids to leave Canada. Society generally frowns on sending kids away on their own when they are 12, 15 or 16, so university is the time to do it.

 

[rumman]

I am pushing my kids to leave Canada. Society generally frowns on sending kids away on their own when they are 12, 15 or 16, so university is the time to do it.

Where are you encouraging them to relocate? I’ve looked into Belize, I’m too old to learn s second language so my options are very limited. If I could get accepted in the US I’d probably do that but the exchange rate would nit be kind to us…….

 

[Evilhomer]

Where are you encouraging them to relocate? I’ve looked into Belize, I’m too old to learn s second language so my options are very limited. If I could get accepted in the US I’d probably do that but the exchange rate would nit be kind to us…….

Truthfully, it's the US (although one kid wants to go to the UK for a specific engineering program), for a number of reasons. Because it's completely impractical for a lawyer in his 50's to change jurisdictions, I (and therefore my wife) are stuck in Ontario. From a geographic standpoint, the US keeps the kid relatively close to us, unless they end up in California. The US also provides infinitely more opportunity than Canada, and despite all of the current rhetoric, it is far more stable than most large European countries. I think there are some parts of Europe that are going to have serious problems over the next decade.

I know that housing is the big thing to complain about in Toronto, but I think it is something of a red herring. Housing in any major metropolis, and that is what Toronto now is, will be expensive. Go to New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, etc. - Toronto is probably still cheaper from a real estate perspective than all of those places. All of the nonsense from politicians about how they will create housing, lower rent, blah, blah, blah....it won't happen because it isn't how big cities work. What has to happen over time is that people have to embrace the idea that renting, and maybe never owning, is not the blasephmy that it is made out to be. The majority of people in the world's largest cities rent. Home ownership is hardly the gold mine it is made out to be. I would have made far more money - and I'm talking multiples more - if I had taken the money I put into my house and instead put it into the market in 2000, even with the dot com crash and the 2008 crash. Using that as the comparison, my home has been a miserable investment given the purchase price, the massive renovation costs over the years, property tax, maintenance costs, etc. But I am rambling.

 

[rumman]

Truthfully, it's the US (although one kid wants to go to the UK for a specific engineering program), for a number of reasons. Because it's completely impractical for a lawyer in his 50's to change jurisdictions, I (and therefore my wife) are stuck in Ontario. From a geographic standpoint, the US keeps the kid relatively close to us, unless they end up in California. The US also provides infinitely more opportunity than Canada, and despite all of the current rhetoric, it is far more stable than most large European countries. I think there are some parts of Europe that are going to have serious problems over the next decade.

I know that housing is the big thing to complain about in Toronto, but I think it is something of a red herring. Housing in any major metropolis, and that is what Toronto now is, will be expensive. Go to New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, etc. - Toronto is probably still cheaper from a real estate perspective than all of those places. All of the nonsense from politicians about how they will create housing, lower rent, blah, blah, blah....it won't happen because it isn't how big cities work. What has to happen over time is that people have to embrace the idea that renting, and maybe never owning, is not the blasephmy that it is made out to be. The majority of people in the world's largest cities rent. Home ownership is hardly the gold mine it is made out to be. I would have made far more money - and I'm talking multiples more - if I had taken the money I put into my house and instead put it into the market in 2000, even with the dot com crash and the 2008 crash. Using that as the comparison, my home has been a miserable investment given the purchase price, the massive renovation costs over the years, property tax, maintenance costs, etc. But I am rambling.

For what it’s worth you can’t look at a home solely as a investment, it’s kinda a living thing, but I agree home ownership isn’t the be all and end all of wise investments, I learned that decades ago reading the wealthy barber……..

 

[Evilhomer]

For what it’s worth you can’t look at a home solely as a investment, it’s kinda a living thing, but I agree home ownership isn’t the be all and end all of wise investments, I learned that decades ago reading the wealthy barber……..

If I were to do it over again and live in a big city, I would rent a house rather than buy. But if I really had to do it over again, I would be hundreds of miles from any big city. Instead, I would be on a massive plot of land far away from any big city, where I could hunt and fish with my kids and my dog(s) and ideally see stars in the sky every night.

 

[thewave]

Source? I hope it's not the same source where you got the "volume" nonsense from.

No source. I can search that one, we had a mini ice age couple hundred years ago or so.

Within the last 1000 years, there have been three distinct cold periods that are considered part of the Little Ice Age, occurring around 1458–1552, 1600–1720, and 1840–1880

John F. Clauser, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, has become known for his stance against the scientific consensus on climate change. He joined the board of directors of the CO2 Coalition, a group that claims both CO2 emissions and associated global warming would be beneficial, in May 2023.
Clauser has described himself as a "climate denier" and has claimed that "there is no climate crisis".
His belief that cloud cover has a more significant impact on Earth's temperature than carbon dioxide emissions is not supported by the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change

It's not settled and historically, the majority get proven wrong. Especially on matters like this where there is obvious gains to be made by corporation, govs and bankers.

 

[Gary Nylund]

Truthfully, it's the US (although one kid wants to go to the UK for a specific engineering program), for a number of reasons. Because it's completely impractical for a lawyer in his 50's to change jurisdictions, I (and therefore my wife) are stuck in Ontario. From a geographic standpoint, the US keeps the kid relatively close to us, unless they end up in California. The US also provides infinitely more opportunity than Canada, and despite all of the current rhetoric, it is far more stable than most large European countries. I think there are some parts of Europe that are going to have serious problems over the next decade.

I know that housing is the big thing to complain about in Toronto, but I think it is something of a red herring. Housing in any major metropolis, and that is what Toronto now is, will be expensive. Go to New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, etc. - Toronto is probably still cheaper from a real estate perspective than all of those places. All of the nonsense from politicians about how they will create housing, lower rent, blah, blah, blah....it won't happen because it isn't how big cities work. What has to happen over time is that people have to embrace the idea that renting, and maybe never owning, is not the blasephmy that it is made out to be. The majority of people in the world's largest cities rent. Home ownership is hardly the gold mine it is made out to be. I would have made far more money - and I'm talking multiples more - if I had taken the money I put into my house and instead put it into the market in 2000, even with the dot com crash and the 2008 crash. Using that as the comparison, my home has been a miserable investment given the purchase price, the massive renovation costs over the years, property tax, maintenance costs, etc. But I am rambling.

Breaking up your family because you think USA>>>Canada is nutso.

USA might be better than Canada for some people, but overall Canada>>>USA. JMHO.

 

[Gary Nylund]

No source. I can search that one, we had a mini ice age couple hundred years ago or so.

Within the last 1000 years, there have been three distinct cold periods that are considered part of the Little Ice Age, occurring around 1458–1552, 1600–1720, and 1840–1880

John F. Clauser, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, has become known for his stance against the scientific consensus on climate change. He joined the board of directors of the CO2 Coalition, a group that claims both CO2 emissions and associated global warming would be beneficial, in May 2023.
Clauser has described himself as a "climate denier" and has claimed that "there is no climate crisis".
His belief that cloud cover has a more significant impact on Earth's temperature than carbon dioxide emissions is not supported by the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change

It's not settled and historically, the majority get proven wrong. Especially on matters like this where there is obvious gains to be made by corporation, govs and bankers.

None of this answers the question that I asked. That's cool though, you are of course free to believe whatever you like.

 

[thewave]

None of this answers the question that I asked. That's cool though, you are of course free to believe whatever you like.

People been getting baboozled since the dawn of days. In the wild deception is considered one of the greatest signs of intelligence and humans love to lie. The world's been here for a long time little ant like matching puffing smoke does not compare to the thousands of under water volcanoes, methane ponds, forest fires etc.

It just doesn't compare but if you want to be outraged or worry, I can confidently say that Lithium, Solar panels, wind farms, dumping toxins into water ways or down mine shafts. Not practicing forest management and controlled burns etc are the real issues. Heck they are even burning chemicals off into the atmosphere but... BUT

It's a crisis for you and me because we like a steak and to go for a boat ride or on vacation. We must stop apparently, no evidence of real climate change is seen and they even moved the thermometers lower to the earth to show higher data. Meanwhile people are sampling soil and finding contaminants like heavy metals. That's not from your gas car or plastic packaging or coal fired power plant. It's just not, but carbon is the enemy not the toxic EV batteries or the wind farms that kills thousands and thousands of bird, aquatic life etc because the ELF sounds they emit.

You should dig in. These Nobel winners are not idiots. They have nothing really to gain.

 

[rumman]

If I were to do it over again and live in a big city, I would rent a house rather than buy. But if I really had to do it over again, I would be hundreds of miles from any big city. Instead, I would be on a massive plot of land far away from any big city, where I could hunt and fish with my kids and my dog(s) and ideally see stars in the sky every night.

That’s what we did, five plus acres backing onto the Niagara Escarpment, we love it, but I’d move further away from society if I had my druthers……

 

[Evilhomer]

Breaking up your family because you think USA>>>Canada is nutso.

USA might be better than Canada for some people, but overall Canada>>>USA. JMHO.

If giving my kids better opportunities for their future is nutso, then judge me guilty.

 

[Gary Nylund]

People been getting baboozled since the dawn of days. In the wild deception is considered one of the greatest signs of intelligence and humans love to lie. The world's been here for a long time little ant like matching puffing smoke does not compare to the thousands of under water volcanoes, methane ponds, forest fires etc.

It just doesn't compare but if you want to be outraged or worry, I can confidently say that Lithium, Solar panels, wind farms, dumping toxins into water ways or down mine shafts. Not practicing forest management and controlled burns etc are the real issues. Heck they are even burning chemicals off into the atmosphere but... BUT

It's a crisis for you and me because we like a steak and to go for a boat ride or on vacation. We must stop apparently, no evidence of real climate change is seen and they even moved the thermometers lower to the earth to show higher data. Meanwhile people are sampling soil and finding contaminants like heavy metals. That's not from your gas car or plastic packaging or coal fired power plant. It's just not, but carbon is the enemy not the toxic EV batteries or the wind farms that kills thousands and thousands of bird, aquatic life etc because the ELF sounds they emit.

You should dig in. These Nobel winners are not idiots. They have nothing really to gain.

I agree with much of this but again, that has nothing to do with my original question. I am asking what your source is for what you said earlier - The odds of a volcano going off and giving us 5 years mini ice age are far greater than the rate of ice melting at a rate of concern

If you have no source that's fine, just say so but stop trying to distract me with all this stuff that has nothing to do with my question.