Arkouda

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I am a muse. They also call it “being an ideas guy”. While I can utilize some, I am far from knowledgeable enough on every subject to use them all, so I share. Like you, a Human… Or so they tell me.

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Arkouda ,

I really hate these CBC articles where they talk about a huge, legitimate issue, but undercut it by choosing a crazy/unrelated example

So a Woman is forced to sell her home in a divorce, and to ensure her children don't get upended in a very difficult part of their lives, sacrifices every cent she makes to stay in the same area for them and you think that is an "unrelated example"?

Even 30 years ago, I had friends who had to change schools/share a room when their parents divorced. Putting someone who refuses to make tough decisions and try live within her means in the same category as adults who have to live with multiple roommates, face homelessness, etc. is insulting.

What is insulting is your complete lack of empathy for your "friends" who were forced into that growing up, and your attack on this Woman for not putting her children through that.

Also, I’m pretty sure most would say child support is income, even if it’s not taxable income. She’s spending 100% of her employment income/paycheques on rent.

Yes, and 100% of that support is supposed to go to the children it is paid to. Not for her to use on other things.

In case it isn't clear, your comment is absolutely disgusting and tone deaf. You should reflect on why you feel the need to attack people who are struggling when it is clear to me from your lack of empathy you have no idea what a real struggle looks like.

Arkouda ,

It is a good example because it shows everyone that who is next on the block.

Ya'll didn't give a fuck until now and I am the poor kid trying to hold their empathy while everyone cries about their last 5 years that has been my last 35. If I can have empathy for this Woman who very likely would have crossed the street for me back in the day you can to. I had nothing and was homeless as a result numerous times in my childhood, teen years, and early adult life. One shouldn't have to hit the bottom to be heard.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good and stop competing in the Trauma Olympics.

You aren't helping anyone by doing either.

Arkouda ,

When one refuses to speak, the other is forced to make assumptions. Frankly, I don't care if you say I am wrong. I can read, I have heard these words from others, and know who I am dealing with.

I would bet 3:1 that you have nothing serious in your past that you could prove to me. I would bet 100:1 that I could not prove my bullshit life to you and I lived it. Get the point?

I don't think you will, so the point is, you attacked a person for being a bad example because they are struggling and not at rock bottom because people exist at the bottom.

If you had ever been there you would know better, so I stand by my assessment. Don't bother responding, I won't waste further time with you.

Stay well.

Arkouda ,

CBC didn't post this article to lemmy, OP did. If you care so damn much about tent cities, the homeless, and the struggles of the lower class how about you take initiative and post the articles yourself?

People are struggling, and one last time for you and your lack of empathy, One shouldn’t have to hit the bottom to be heard.

Arkouda ,

There is more than enough funding for healthcare.

Mismanagement of that money is the biggest problem and always has been.

Arkouda ,

Now now now, let's not get crazy and expect a reasonable idea to be the right one.

Obviously the only way forward is privatized healthcare, and maximized profits, until the lower class revolts and we do it all over again.

Everyone who gets it needs to start explaining to everyone who doesn't why public services should never be expected to make profit, should be expected and accepted that public services generally operate at a loss, and that none of that is a bad thing. Canada is in desperate need of a narrative change and a legislative overhaul if we are going to survive what is coming as a intact country.

System failure is a fun thing. We need to trim the bloat to try and avoid it.

Arkouda ,

Yes there is and I will not argue about it. You are free to look up the exact amount of money that is paid out by the Feds to the provinces in health transfers, and free to see exactly where every cent goes. You are also free to look at provincial budgets and do the same.

We have billions going to healthcare, and management of that money is the problem. Stop being willfully ignorant to that and maybe we can start trimming the ridiculous amount of bloat that the healthcare system has in middle and upper management positions.

Every time funding is increased those positions take most of it. So keep crying "More funding!" because that is what "they" like to hear. Gives "them" an excuse to create new jobs for their friends that serve no purpose and add no value to the system so "they" can claim it is too expensive to run and gut it for the sake of privatization. Which only involves removing Doctor, Nursing, and Auxiliary positions until the system collapses to ensure their friends positions are safe until the bitter end.

No there isn’t. Gov’ts (both fed and prov) have consistently underfunded healthcare. Trudeau did try and help by giving billions to the provinces - tied to the provinces agreeing to spend ALL the money on healthcare - but the premiers stonewalled Trudeau and he caved. So provincial leaders get to spend those billions on whatever they want, just like the spoiled, snotty-nosed brats they’ve become.

To address this specifically, thank you for supporting my point that it is not about funding and all about money management. You made it very clear what the problem is and I find it funny that you think you disagree with what I said in your comment.

Take care.

Arkouda ,

Breaking Bad was amazing that is for sure. haha

I still will never understand how Canadians can look at privatization down south and be all "I want some of that!". I have to congratulate the consecutive governments who managed to turn Canadians against the very things they fought for decades to get.

Have to respect the game even if it is incredibly evil.

Arkouda ,

We don’t.

"Canadians" in this context is Canadians who support privatization. Are you a part of that group and trying to alert me to a misunderstanding regarding your ideology? Or did you miss the context?

Unfortunately, when Canadians go to the polls, the thing a lot of the less thoughtful are thinking is “I want [last administration that didn’t magically fix all the problems] out of power. I don’t care what their opponents actually intend to do with the province/country as long as they’re gone.” I have no solution for this.

Some Canadians aren't willfully ignorant useful idiots, and the solution is making more Canadians educated enough to grasp the fact that buzz words and anger don't get politicians who do good elected in to office. The solution is educating Canadians on the fact that no other party other than Liberal or Conservative has ever held Federal Power. The closest to that being changed was the NDP Opposition win under Layton, and now we could not be further away from breaking the trend.

It is the responsibility of those with the right information to provide it to everyone else. Get on it if you actually care. Start with understanding that "Canadians" vary greatly from province to province and coast to coast.

There can be no "we" while our politicians play American style politics. That is the point.

Arkouda ,

I don’t think the context you assumed is quite as clear as you thought it was. I’ll leave the rest of it.

You could have just not responded to my comment. Next time, you should do that instead.

Take care.

Arkouda ,

I’m curious, do you work in healthcare? Healthcare adjacent? Where did you acquire your expertise on the funding and operations of healthcare?

Appeal to authority to someone else. I am making a habit of avoiding speaking to people who open their comments with logical fallacy. Feel free to try again because I stopped reading here.

Arkouda ,

Where is the bill to make child marriage illegal if we want to speak about "protecting the children"? How about proper funding, staffing, and over site of Child protection services?

It is disgusting looking at how many lengths politicians go to ignore, and prevent changes to, those laws while making nothing issues the "solution".

I am going to keep saying this. Anyone down to form a party?

Arkouda ,

One does not need security clearance to discuss the actual important things like economics, social issues, and everything else publicly available.

One cannot be Prime Minister with out extensive security clearances. If The leader of the opposition wants to play this game he will effectively never be able to become PM even if he gets elected. My guess is that he is currently cleaning house before election season to ensure he can be cleared and "Lay the lie to rest" about why he never got clearances before.

Things that require clearances are not things that should be discussed in public, that is why they require clearance. The way our officials and leaders are treating intelligence operations and institutions is a damn joke and we will be lucky to keep our place in sharing alliances after this. Even if he got cleared he couldn't do anything with the "facts" and he can do more without the facts legally.

The problem is the bullshit is working and I am very disappointed in my fellow humans occupying this country.

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Arkouda ,

Why do you not find it weird to talk about a video you watched without providing a link to the video?

Arkouda ,

Normal people exclude context and relevant media when providing examples of the things they have seen or heard?

No wonder the world is on fire.

Arkouda ,

Chickens do not need to be crammed together in order to produce eggs, eggs are an incredible source of numerous nutrients, help with the bodies management of cholesterol, and getting eggs is also sustainable when not brought to mass production levels of crazy.

Red meat is an issue in large quantities. No one should be eating it on a daily basis for what it gives nutritionally. It can still be eaten, and does still have a lot to offer when it is not over consumed. Just like basically everything else one can eat.

The problem is scale and misinformation, not the food source itself.

Arkouda ,

How is this comment helpful or productive?

Arkouda ,

What are you doing to help solve the problem or mitigate your personal contributions to the problem?

Arkouda ,

There is no Government on the planet doing anywhere close to enough to make real impact. Feel free to name any Government you feel is an exception and I will get back to you with a long list of shit they are doing or not doing to accelerate the problem.

Systemic social issues only begin to change on individual levels. If you aren't willing to take responsibility for what you are doing to contribute, and simply want to "Blame the system" for everything, you are the one being unproductive and contributing heavily to the problem.

I contribute less than 1 kitchen catcher worth of waste every week to landfills. I support local business' who source local materials whenever possible to ensure the products I use make as little impact as possible. I walk everywhere I can, which is basically everywhere up to 50km a day when I need to. I clean up garbage in parks, help plant new trees and gardens, and maintain my own at home to help the bee populations. I use as little electricity as possible, and this is even living in a place that is basically 100% green generated.

I go out of my way to do everything I can as an individual in an attempt to demonstrate how easy it is to do these things. Every day I am learning and changing in order to be better than I was yesterday and make less impact as an individual. I also have my partner doing all of this with me, so all the effort is two fold. All without relying on Government initiatives, aid, or even permission.

So again I ask: What are you doing to help?

Arkouda ,

Can you please explain how your comment is a response to mine?

I can admit my faults, and I am actively changing what I do in order to be a better human. You seem to want to blame anyone but yourself so you can remain comfortable and do nothing at all to help.

I refuse to let individuals off the hook when they choose not to put in the effort to be a part of the solution. If you wish to continue this conversation please respond to what I said previously instead of using my comment to soap box your own points.

Arkouda ,

I wouldn't say that no. That is minimizing impact, and in my opinion, the absolute bare minimum every single human should be doing with no excuses.

I would also say look in to recycling a little deeper and add that to the negative side of your impact because most "recycled" items end up in land fills. I would also ask why you do not walk more. I would also ask why you aren't adding green space and growing food on your balcony. I would ask why you aren't helping with community gardens instead of shopping essentially nullifying your food foot print with produce. I would ask why you don't go for a hike and forage the massive amount of foods found for free in a park.

I would ask why you need all the electronics you have in the first place, or if you know how much brought to an eco center winds up in a land fill.

I would not say you are even scratching the surface of "doing your part" because we have not even touched on everything and then we have to get to promoting the behavior to other humans.

The point is waiting around for others to do things is what will lead to extinction level events. Do it on your own and hope everyone starts following or doing better so you can do better.

Arkouda ,

Because even if all individuals stopped polluting today magically, it still wouldn’t be enough.

Over 8 Billion individuals not polluting the environment wouldn't change anything?

You seem to be holding everyone but the organizations that are actually polluting.

Tell me more about how multi billion dollar organizations can exist without a customer base. I am all ears on this one.

Arkouda ,

How my domestic recycling waste and e-waste ends up in landfills is not my responsibility. My municipality put in place a recyling program and my responsibilities stop at sorting my waste accordingly so it can be recycled. Even if I do my best to minimize waste, there is still going to be some. After that, its the responsibilities of the government and the companies they hire behind the programs to do their job.

It is your responsibility. 100% your responsibility. Just like everyone else.

If you think "I am doing my part by using broken systems that literally makes the problem worse" is a solid argument maybe you need the perspective shift here.

You want me to walk more?? I’m already walking everywhere except to work, which I go to by subway. I barely ever even use the bus becaue I rarely ever have to leave my neighborhood. My job’s office is 2 hours away by foot. You think I’m going to lose 2 hours of sleep to walk to work with my heavy backpack with my work laptop and shit? Get real

You can justify laziness all you want. I walk to work 2 hours every day back and forth. I also lose no sleep because I schedule my time well. I still have 6 hours every work day for anything else I want as well.

I got real. Real damn good at scheduling my time.

We’re already growing food on our 1.5m x 3m balcomy. But the sunlight is too strong and it burns our plants and barely grow anything. And we’re not going to survive on 5 green bean pods, 2 eggplants, 4 tomates and 3 strawberries and a handful of herbs. The neighborhood community garden is already full and we couldn’t get a spot this year. And that still wouldn’t be enough to feed ourselves over the summer. And what are we supposed to do in the winter? Turn our living room into a garden while we’re at it? Fuck it. Turn our whole condo unit into a greenhouse and sleep in the dirt?

This kind of hyperbolic straw man building is helpful to no one. Honestly, what point are you trying to make here?

I assure you food will be a lot more scarce and life a whole lot harder if you and everyone else holding this attitude keeps doing so.

You know, when you walk into any kind of store, even grocery stores, you look at all the shit they sell and how much of it is wrapped in plastic for no reason, that’s the company’s responsibility to stop using plastics to wrap everyting. It ain’t my fucking fault if the only available lettuce where I live is wrapped in plastic. It ain’t my fault if the company that made my clothes use sysnthetic fibers that add microplastics to the environment. It ain’t my fault if the pair of scissors I bought from a local brand was actually made in some manufacture in South Asia and was shipped here by container cargo boat.

Your fault you bought it. You are the consumer and by the sounds of it you believe you are not responsible for what you choose to consume. Not sure how you manage to rationalize that one but I won't pretend like you aren't clearly a huge part of the problem based on what you have said to me so far.

I do my best to avoid all this shit, but in the end, companies have a fucking responsibility. I’m doing my fucking part. Now it’s up to them to do theirs. Especially when they’re the ones responsible for the vast majority of the world pollution and greenhouse gasses.

I am really tired of this narrative. The companies can only exist if you and others support them. They are not autonomous beings who can live independent of anything else. Even if legally speaking some countries consider corporations "people", they aren't actually people. It is interesting how that narrative informs your opinion though eh?

You need to change your perspective.

I have. Take any longer to play catch up and you are going to bore me into no longer responding.

Arkouda ,

Companies do not pollute, people do. Companies require people to exist as Companies do not exist independently of anything else. It is a concept.

Companies are not people, therefore "Companies" cannot pollute. Groups of people pollute.

Don't be a part of those groups.

Arkouda ,

Yes I do. Can you explain how I was some how unclear? This will be to my benefit in the future because I really do not know how I could have been more explicit.

Corporation literally means "Group of people". Your citation is worthless to your argument because it ignores that fact, which also supports my point. Thank you for that and have a wonderful day.

Arkouda ,

"They" don't get a free pass, I never said "they" did. I don't support "them", and if every one else did the same, "they" wouldn't be a problem.

Quite simple when you think about it.

Arkouda ,

Go argue for the sake of it elsewhere and come back when you have a real point to make.

Arkouda ,

Keep crying about companies, I will keep doing what I am doing. Meet back in a year and we can see who is happier at the end of it. Deal?

Arkouda ,

Always has been.

Arkouda ,

The sad part about all of this is that it really does not matter what facts are released, what reports are corrected, or what expert sides with who.

For every one piece of real information there are 100 false or misleading pieces around it. That is what I am noticing anyways. I can barely find a news article from a week ago without going direct to source and even then the search option on News sites leaves much to be desired.

I don't even know what I am trying to say anymore. Anyone interested in forming a new party before next federal? I am serious if you are.

Arkouda ,

They have always had great ideas and the big issue is a complete inability to present even a basic frame work to accomplish anything they come up with. I also strongly disagree with the parties stance on Nuclear Energy.

Arkouda ,

I agree that Nuclear has become a bit of a moot point as it should have been a transitional solution ages ago. I can admit a lot of that one is the salty taste left in my mouth from it all.

You do raise some fair points, especially in regard to priorities within the other parties and their stances on environment. What you cite with the NDP is one of the reasons they have potential to lose my vote as soon as the issues I see with the Greens aren't so damning to me.

What I would love to see is a party that walks the good parts of both the Green and NDP platforms and getting rid of the non sense. I am legitimately trying to determine if I have the time and ability myself because I am quite sick of what has happened to Canadian Politics. I even have a rough draft platform. haha

Arkouda ,

How about we just feed everyone for free instead? This is 100% possible right now in Canada. Canadian Food waste alone could feed every single person in Canada for 5 months. About 4.82 million tonnes.

Gross right?

Next in line add Water, Shelter, Education, and Medical. Fully covered for every Canadian citizen and no exceptions.

Again this is 100% possible tomorrow without changing anything other than where tax money ends up and I am done pretending like all of the scraps Canadians are given for our money are worth what our "Leaders" get in their own pockets.

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