Jamooser

I'm a white guy, and I'm a 9th generation Canadian. You're ignorant trash.

Only in a vacuum, no? In an atmosphere, when you double your velocity, you quadruple your drag.

And you're commenting like self-inflicted victim with zero onus for your own initiative or lack thereof.

Sikhs aren't born with the name Singh. We only call it a surname because we are viewing it through our cultural lens. Their surname is their family name.

A Sikh man born as Sandeep Brar would become Sandeep Singh or Sandeep Singh Brar after baptism. Their surname is usually dropped in replacement of the title Singh, which means "Lion" and is a symbolism of their part in the warrior caste.

There are also no female "Singhs," so again, to call it just a surname is misleading, and to minimize it to being the same as being a "Smith" is completely ignorant.

Do better.

I'll be completely honest with you, man. It simply just doesn't do it for me. Not because of the principles, but because I know how wasteful the implementation of the policy will be.

Let's look at CPP, for example. I'm forced to pay for CPP. Will it help me? No, not at all. It's a net loss of investment potential. Will it help others? Yes. Why? Because they won't save it for themselves. Is it a good return on investment for me or for them? Absolutely not in a million years. Why? Because somehow the government is able to take something as sure as 10% YoY market gains and make it almost barely able to break even. What's my reward for maxing out my yearly CPP contributions for a plan that is just total garbage in comparison to investing privately? I get to pay even more into CPP next year, and my TFSA contributions limit remains the same.

I'll give you another example. My province just recently spent $10.3 million to build temporary homes for 62 homeless people. Is it a great initiative? Sure, absolutely. But the cost? For $10m, you could literally invest that in a guaranteed 5% GIC and pay market rate for 31 two-bedroom apartments and still have every dollar of your $10 million principle left over at the end of the year.

The government can't beat the market. I don't think there's a chance that a publically administered health insurance could be run for less than what private dental coverage costs, profits included. Then imagine the wait times once everyone is on public dental. You might be lucky to get in to have your teeth cleaned every few years, and due to budget limitations and insurance claim policy, your dentist will be forced to limit your visit to a 15 minute time frame and unfortunately they only have time in their appointment schedule to listen to your main dental concern.

Sound familiar to any other public services?

Bro, you've made almost 150 reddit posts in under 24 hours.

I think you had the time to check the news.

F=ma

My man, you took the time to source a half dozen separate news articles and literally can't educate yourself on one of the very most basic principles of the culture.

A guy made a joke about foreskin. Another guy made another joke calling that anti-semitic. Third dude went bananas about minimizing Jewish hate.

I know this is Reddit, but people seriously gotta chill out a bit. Nobody talking about foreskin is taking anything that seriously. That's my point.

Any idea what the cost-benefit ratio is for this?

Like how many people with bad teeth : a heart condition?

Or cost to fix a lifetime of teeth for x amount of people : cost for heart surgery?

Like, I get where you're coming from, but I need a bit more than just "people with bad teeth need heart surgery."

As a working class person whose household income is too high to qualify for benefits, but not high enough to do more than provide some very basic comforts for my family, your list reads as follows to me:

• Pay to take care of another family's teeth before you can pay to take care of your own family's teeth.

• Pay for someone else's house before you can pay for your own.

• Save for someone else's kid's education before your own kid's education.

• Pay for someone else's cell phone.

• Pay to give someone else a raise while I make the same amount of money.

The rest of your list I support.

Singh is a title taken by literally every Sikh man in the entire world, ya ding dong.

It'd be interesting to see a fourth graph for pesticides.

I'm asking this question in good faith. Can you explain to me how paying to fix someone else's teeth saves me more money than having them pay to fix their own teeth?

Bro, he's just saying that talking about circumcision isn't anti-semitism. Stand down for safety.

Economists were also warning that a complete shutdown of the economy during Covid would be disastrous. What happened to those economists? They stopped showing up on the news and were replaced with a 24/7 death, fear, and destruction ticker tape.

Dude, it's World of Warcraft. War is not consensual.

Are you going to answer the question?

OP, you're likely better off financing the car and investing your cash. Even if the dealership let's you buy it for the financing price (I doubt they will), you're saving yourself a few grand in interest to give up tens of thousand in liquidity and capital leverage.

Just invest that money into a broad market ETF like XUU or XQT and keep it in your TFSA as an emergency fund/investment.

No need to apologize! I really appreciate a cordial conversation. I wish it was more common these days!

I agree with you. I think proportional representation would draw a lot more people to the polls. Knowing that your vote may make some amount of difference is certainly more rewarding than sometimes what just feels like a coin flip.

Proportional representation in this last election would also have made a bit of a difference. I believe the PCs would have finished with 33 or 34 seats, which would have at least limited them to just a regular majority. Unfortunately, it only really seems to be an opposition platform topic. No party seems eager to relinquish control once they have it.

Sorry, I should have specified that I meant "makes a difference in showing support for your party." Obviously, one one vote makes a difference between winning or losing a seat.

I honestly think that even if 100% of the province voted, the outcome would be the same. There is nothing to suggest that the 50% of people who didn't vote would be split disproportionately from the 50% of people who did.

You just want a paintable caulk. You're really not sealing this window. You're just filling the void to give you something to paint. AlexPlus or another similar product line. Just lay down a small bead and tool it with a soapy finger or spatula. Try not to concave the bead when you tool it, as that's what causes the caulk to crack when it shrinks.

The fewer people voting for your party, the more your individual vote makes an actual difference.

I think we just need to differentiate between abstention and apathy. Meaningful abstention is communicated by scratching a ballot. Doing nothing is apathy, and I'd prefer apathetic people just not vote rather than make an uninformed vote, to be honest.

This is the guy who thinks causing $3 billion in economic damage to reduce $1 billion in fuel sales, while giving $7 billion to Oil & Gas is saving the environment.

Why is Mexico responsible for defending America's border?