i make time. i also work in film which is a feast or famine, contract based industry. you make quite a bit of money, and i value free time more than material things. so i can stretch my dollar quite far.
i invested in a gaming PC, and a home gym. i work out at home, cook at home, play vidja at home. i really only go out to shop for groceries or visit friends and family.
video games have always been a social outlet for me, and a comfort as well. so i make time for it.
its like being a wizard, or a mage. and black hat hackers are the ones who chose to learn the dark arts, and use them for personal gain.
“and i have a piece of cardboard thats worth more than your watch” whips out a charizard
if your unsure how to swim, just do it.
you do make valid points. and i agree with many of them.
however a bill like this, even if applied altruistically by the current government, doesnt mean it cant be taken advantage of by another government in the future. we nearly got a conservative government that played hard on anti immigration, anti asylum, and anti refugee policies, among other less tasteful ones. they wanted to go hard on crime as well, and what they may think of crime tomorrow may not be a crime today. retroactively punishing people who are immigrants, or use the internet in a way that is legal today, but may not be tomorrow, is pretty fucked up.
for instance, just one example, a horror story what if scenerio, unlikely, but still very possible. what if we get an american compromised PM? or just a homegrown asshole who likes trumps work? And they want to start going after trans people, purchasing their meds online? or just looking into it? we are currently seeing parties in BC and alberta forcing people into rehab clinics and psychiatric care against their will, through new or potential policies. at the discretion of the police, and whoever may or may not control them now, or in the future.
with a law like this, they could comb records, finding trans people, gay people, political dissidents, etc. and send them away to clinics, even prisons, forcing them against their will to take medication they may not need, effectively sedating, and potentially killing some, just for their search history.
also, we are likely heading towards a new world war, and climate change will increase climate refugees and asylum seekers as well. this could lead to the deaths of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of others who likely might have survived otherwise. just because in 2025 a government passed a law that made it easier for a less compassionate or maybe even fascistic government to block aid, or even hunt people they dont like.
thats my main issue with the content of this bill. its a glaring issue that shouldnt be pushed to the side for the sake of percieved safety in this moment. things could get better, but they could also be much, much worse.
language do be crazy sometimes. edited it to “toss” just for you, sir.
the Strong Borders Bill is being sold as a security measure but it tramples over basic rights. First off, it retroactively disqualifies asylum seekers who crossed irregularly and didn’t file within a year, even if they had legit reasons like trauma or no legal help. That alone throws out the idea of fairness and due process. Instead of a full refugee hearing, they’re shoved into a weaker risk assessment process with low success rates.
Then you’ve got the cabinet getting sweeping power to cancel or suspend immigration documents and stop applications, just by citing “public interest.” No oversight, no clear rules, nothing stopping them from targeting whoever they want.
They also gave themselves the power to open mail, including letters, to “combat drugs.” That’s a huge privacy red flag. Once you open that door, it’s hard to shut it again. Add to that expanded info sharing with U.S. agencies, and suddenly personal data is flying across borders with no way to track how it’s used. (this alone is enough to toss this bill, ESPECIALLY now)
Worse? The bill barely allows for appeals. If you get caught in the gears of this thing, there’s almost no legal way out.
This undermines core Charter protections, Section 7 (liberty and security), Section 8 (protection from unreasonable search), and Section 10 (rights upon detention). They say it’s Charter compliant, but that’s just PR. In reality, it’s a blueprint for unchecked executive power and a direct hit on civil rights.
yea, if anything CARBON TAX CARNEY paid LIBERAL GOON SQUADS to START THE FIRES, so they can have another LOST LIBERAL DECADE and make money…somehow?
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6 targets in BC. check.
if i chose six, i wouldnt need any of the others.
id do it in a heart beat. and then get robot hands. spend the rest of my life being adored, with robot hands that can have like darts or lighters in the fingers or something.
plus, all my needs would be taken care of as a result. and the poor would be better equipped to tackle inequality further without worry of starvation or loss of healthcare and various other listed issues that currently hold us back.
a bit warmer
war is cringe, but the US is the cringiest nation right now, and they want to annex us, which is super duper cringe. they are slowly prepping their population and military to do the cringiest war(s) possible. its dumb as hell. we dont want it. and because of that, we have to do cringey things to stop the worst case cringe, or maybe even deter it entirely in case the cringe comes over the boarder to do cringe stuff.
you may not like it (neither do i) but if someone came into my house to sexually assault me id rather be wearing jeans and a belt, than no pants at all.
we are just “trying” to put the jeans and belt on right now. there is nothing cringe about defending our home and rights from a foreign invader. much like it isnt cringe to defend yourself from being assaulted.
trust me im with you, i hate war. but id rather be canadian than american.
war is cringe. so lets deter it.
re read what you quoted, and then re read op’s question, then re read what i said.
dont give him any ideas lol
pesticides, pharmeceuticals, PFAS or forever chemicals. all can be made much worse by boiling at over 500c, just forna few examples.
they can get even worse than previous forms, so yes.
Because you’re essentially cooking a cocktail of complex chemicals, many of which were never designed to be heated, and the result is often airborne toxins and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are far worse than drinking trace amounts of the original chemicals.the chemicals dont vanish or turn into pure air when vaporized. they degrade into other more harmful chemicals. which are carcinogenic and more toxic.
never going to happen. they will cut free health care entirely before they even glance at a tax like this.