@Dynastus@Empty_America The real thing to do that is extra permanent is to make the wall out of boulders only equipment can move and use stainless steel pins and bow ties to prevent them from shifting.
Then you have a wall nothing short of equipment or an ice age can move.
@Dynastus@Empty_America Climate dependant. Primarily problem is frost heave. If I wanted to build a solid stone wall and have it truly last I would need to go 4ft down and build back to grade then higher. Drystone is similar but it has the flexibility to move and if made correctly might not fall down
@GlobalTrlr Oil not so much because your refineries require specific grades. Heavy oil is currently in an international deficit. So it would not be easily replaced.
Although it is a stupid idea. It would wipe 3-4 million barrels off the market which would create a price spike in oil.
@DoDeportations The United States is unique that it classifies Arabs as white due to an early 1900’s Supreme Court case. To segregate the data you would need to work on reforming that legal classification system.
@AgroNationalism As someone who has grown oilseed flax… there’s a reason it sells at a premium. It is a pain in the ass. Drowns easy, intederminant growth. And the shive is sharp enough to poke through leather. For fiber it’s a little different but not much. No good herbicides either.
@JamieHaDov@polishbongwater@michael_the_iii It’s really because all our banks are shareholders in the private company called interact which runs our e-transfers and debit cards. We also really only have 7-8 banks. The USA has 30,000 something banks. And a couple big ones. 8 companies have an easier time cooperating.
@suspendedbybibi@KronisTamara As it stands if people who over extended themselves on a HELOC then yeah, they also deserve the correction. We have inflated the market and a return to a reasonable price to income ratio would be just as stimulus to the economy when households interest expense drops.
@xofreyr Don’t know how Ireland, Iceland and Finland got “oppressing others” title. They are all countries that have been ruled by someone else until WW1 or WW2 in the case of Iceland. Same with the Baltic states that had independence for about 20 years before getting oppressed themselves
This is what it has always meant. Just look at England in the 50s
The Earls Fitzwilliam spent generations building a prosperous coal mining industry in Northern England, and were beloved by the miners because they cared about safety, paid very well, provided schools and such for the kids, and otherwise were great employers in a way that essentially none of the oligarchic rather than aristocratic coal miners were
In so doing, and building up a stable and prosperous coal extraction industry that was worked by loving and loyal employees, they became immensely wealthy. That wealth was used to build Wentworth Woodhouse, one of the grandest and most gorgeous English country houses, and its beautiful parklands
That state of things lasted for over a century, with the Fitzwilliams and their workers having remarkably good relations even as labor agitation elsewhere was a disaster
Then, in the aftermath of WWII, Attlee's Labour regime was elected, and it nationalized pretty much all of British heavy industry, from the steel mills to the coal mines to the railroads
That meant the Fitzwilliam mines were expropriated from them. Yet worse, it meant a spiteful mutant named Manny Shinwell ordered the strip mining of all the coal on the estate, including through their beautiful and beloved parkland.
The workers still loved the Fitzwilliams, and they revolted, and in a genuine outpouring of love and support, refused to follow Shinwell's orders and begged Attlee to reverse the decision. He didn't, the strike was broken, and the grounds were irreparably destroyed. So too was the house, which had its foundation destroyed by the open-cast mining, which went right up to the doorstep. Now it can't be lived in, and the Fitzwilliams had to give it up. The government of course refused to pay for the damage it has done
And what was gotten from all that destruction? Nothing. The coal mined from the Fitzwilliam parkland was essentially valueless, the stolen mines were largely shut down by the Thatcher years, and all the capital that could have funded Britain's post-war rebuilding was instead stolen and wasted on the welfare nanny state
Priceless forms of English heritage were destroyed, and noblesse oblige not just ignored but punished, all to fund the NHS for a few days
@JustinD8787@Marielaina3 The problem about reforming the constitution is that it requires unanimous consent. All provincial governments and a majority of voters in every province.
To achieve true reform is impossible when it requires the agreement of the current benefactors of the system.
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@Jason However for the American citizen, 30m deportations would be equivalent to a windfall. Lower the price of housing, traffic on roads, competition for services. While increasing the value of labour and wages.
Bad for corporations who want low wages high consumption. Good for people
@bruce_barrett The system is a tariff rate quota. Every country is allowed then for a handful of agricultural products. The United States has one on sugar for example and another on steel. Canada has one on dairy and poultry products. China has one on wheat.
@trevortombe I’m not sure how removing resource revenue changes equalization by a billion but by forcing the revenue potential of Quebec hydro moves it by 4.
Equity would be that provinces with natural wealth who oppose its development should be punished for their non market choices.
@ShortnBluntTho The lambs in this instance are not likely headed to slaughter. They’re likely to get the vet treatments regular for lambs. Their shots and hopefully a vitamin/mineral shot as well.
So far as their use for food, clothing and lamb skin. They are delicious and soft.
@Chewypilot22@aasingleton17 1. Reserve do not equal production or price. Alberta produces double an realizes a price 15$ a barrel lower or at the moment 25% lower.
2. A non insignificant portion of the oil revenues are sent to the federal government though, income, corporate and dividend taxes.
@shagbark_hick At present coal companies regularly pay 10% dividends even now with low coal prices. Due to ESG divestment. There’s some Canadian oil companies with a 8-9% dividend at the moment. US treasury 10 years are over 4%. Corporate bonds can yields higher. 3% is low.