MapleEngineer
@MapleEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what you’re asking. If you’re referring to softwood lumber the profits of Canadian lumber companies were at record levels because the US needs Canadian softwood lumber with or without tarrifs. The tarrifs didn’t affect sales at all so with the increased demand despite the tarrifs Canadian companies didn’t suffer at all. US consumers spent more and the money went to the US government which presumably gave some of the money to uncompetitive US softwood lumber companies to subsides their unprofitable operations. It’s a tax on US consumers.
Canadian softwood lumber companies pay a stumpage fee to shiatsu/sustainably harvest softwood on public land. US softwood lumber companies pay much higher prices to harvest lumber mostly on private land is all about extracting the highest profit for the most wealthy people. Canada has a better system and the US is salty about it. The US had lost at the WTO energy time but refused to accept the result so it ignored its treaty obligations and just forges ahead with the illegal tarrifs which hurt US consumers.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
Everyone needs a lesson in how tarrifs work. Tarrifs are a tax on thing that us companies buy. They are intended to make foreign products more expensive to protect domestic producers. So, the abeyance company pays the tariff. They them passed that tariff on to their customer, either another company or an American consumer. Then, the country that the tariff had been applied to applies offsetting tarrifs on American good.
When the product that the tariff is applied to can’t be produced in the US think advanced microchips or Canadian softwood lumber, Americans pay more but still have to buy the foreign product. With the softwood lumber tarrifs the cost of building a home with candidness softwood lumber went up by tens of thousands of dollars and Canadian companies laughed all the way to the bank.
So, the price to American companies and consumers goes up and the cost of American goods overseas goes up. Americans pay the tarrifs and American companies sell less goods overseas.
America loses.
- Comment on How do I... Do court? I didn't realize my license was expired and got pulled over. Now I have court tomorrow. 5 weeks ago:
Renew your license today. Going in with your license renewed will help.
- Comment on Resistance to Public Health, No Longer Fringe, Gains Foothold in G.O.P. Politics 5 weeks ago:
Public health is so difficult to implement that only 22 of the 23 most developed countries in the world have done it.
- Comment on DeSantis, Dark Brandon, And CNN Hit Kamala With Laser Eyes Over Hurricane 'Phone Call' Stunt 5 weeks ago:
That is some delusional bullshit.
- Comment on Just a reminder... 1 month ago:
The owners/investors deserve to origin but so do the workers. All of the profit going to the owner/investors is theft. That’s why I say that there should be no profit, bunnies or dividends until everyone is fairly compensated and the profit should be shared with the workers in proportion to their contribution which is huge. No workers, no company, no profit.
- Comment on Just a reminder... 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Just a reminder... 1 month ago:
The classic definition is the wage needed to cover the basic needs of the family including things like rent, childcare, transportation, etc. I would go one further and say that the family needs to not be living paycheque to paycheque. They should be able to save for the future, go out once in a while, educate their children, save and pay for university, and advance themselves. They should be able to live.
- Comment on Just a reminder... 1 month ago:
There should be no profits, no bonuses, and no dividends until every worker (not employee, it doesn’t matter what your relationship with the company is if they benefit from your labour) is making at least a living wage with full benefits. Executive pay should be called at a multiple of the pay of the lowest paid worker and of the average pay paid to all workers.
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 1 month ago:
Like my wife, every day for 17 years, “That tree is going to fall down.”
Tree falls down.
“I told you so.”
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 1 month ago:
9-18-249-19-249-20-249-21-249-22-24I mean…if they keep this up they will be right eventually…right?
- Comment on What to do with glassware that is impossible to clean 2 months ago:
Strong acid, strong base. Bake at 500C if it’s borosilicate to bake off all organics. It won’t get much cleaner than that.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
I think that a lot of that will depend on how much shit his red hats fuck up and how fucked up they fuck it up.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
If not he will spend the rest of his life in court trying to avoid prison.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
If he doesn’t win he goes to prison, possibly for the rest of his life.
- Comment on stop 2 months ago:
I thought they were leaving and going to one of the tankie instances now that their banning of anyone who questions their misinformation to preserve the pure thought of their echo bunker has been exposed.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
I see the vegan brigade has arrived to try to silence me with impotent Lemmy downvotes. Welcome, everyone!
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Profiting off the suffering of others isn’t acceptable behavior. Establishments that do so should be boycotted where possible and practicable. I think protest is a justified response.
Abuse. Torture. Murder.
Vegan extremists throw those words around like they are universal facts of animal farming. They are in large concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) which is what the things that you might refer to as, “factory farms” are actually called. Small family farms, homesteads, and crofts treat their animals far better than CAFOs do. Animals aren’t abused or tortured on most family farms. When you use ridiculous niflammatory language like that most people stop listening to anything else you have to say.
Given two scenarios where I’m potentially wrong, the one where I’m mistaken and vegan is the one with a substantially more ethical outcome than the one where I’m mistaken and not vegan.
The issue isn’t you being vegan. Take the back of your hand off your forehead and calm down. I don’t care what you eat. If you want to eat vegan eat vegan. The problem is that the extremists start throwing around words like carnist, corpse muncher, blood mouth, cadaver, murder, etc. and no one takes them seriously anymore. I do the same thing when the extreme right uses the word, “woke” or the trans extremists use the word, “terf”. It immediately causes me to stop caring about anything else they have to say.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
What exactly do you think I’m misrepresenting? Have you heard of the Antler Kitchen and Bar in Toronto and the months of threats, harassment, and abuse that was hurled at the owner and patrons in attempt to bully them into not eating meat?
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Yes, I’m definitely picking the worst examples to illustrate my point just as someone else used the word, “murder” (the killing of one human being by another) four times when referring to non-humans.
I haven’t seen any posts come up in All where I said, “That looks really good. I would eat that.” I remember several photos of puddles of lumpy goo where I thought, “Ew”.
I’ve eaten plenty of vegetarian and vegan meals that I thought were delicious. I have no problem with vegetarians or vegans. I have a real problem with extremists no matter how they mistakenly believe that they are absolutely superior.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Its not really the eating meat part thats the bad bit, its that you have to murder an animal to get the meat. Notice there is no problem with lab meat or plant based meat.
The word you’re looking for is, “kill”. “Murder” is the killing of one human being by another. Using the word, “murder” ro refer to the killing of an animal is a bad faith attempt to use inappropriate inflammatory language to push your agenda.
I would hope everyone would aspire to exceed the standard of “does not murder things”.
Again, it’s not murder. It’s killing, but it’s not murder. If you want to be taken seriously use the correct word.
And yes I would argue that someone’s morals that allows them to murder anything, is almost always worse than someone’s morals that does not allow murdering.
You’re really fixated on murder but it’s the wrong word. It’s killing. You will plants when you eat them. You kill bacteria when you wash. Things die. It’s part of the cycle of life. Some things die and are consumed by other things.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Most people only ever hear anything from the extremists so you get painted with the same brush. I have friends who are vegans who are amazing people. I go out of my way to accommodate them. You are getting hate because of a very small group of fanatics who believe that they are absolutely morally superior and that that absolute moral superiority justified doing and saying anything to anyone who doesn’t agree with them in an attempt to shame, harass, and intimidate them into doing what they are told.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Have your consisted simply minding your own business? No one wants you to serve them anything. The simply want you to keep your false sense of moral superiority and sanctimonious comments to yourself. It’s really quite simple.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
I’ve seen some of the pictures that have been posted in c/vegan. Some of them were literally brown slop. My family eats a number of vegetarian and vegan dishes along with those that contain meat. I don’t care what anyone wants to eat, even if it is brown slop.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
What if your behaviour towards other humans demonstrates a complete lack of any morality?
Who are you to force everyone else to do what your say? That sounds like slavery. Who are you to discriminate against those who eat meat? That sounds like the discrimination suffered by LGBTQ folks.
Who decided that you were morally superior and that anything you do is justified in the name of your moral purity?
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
That’s self-serving nonsense. Vegan extremists have been harassing and intimidating restaurateurs and their patrons attempting to drive them out of business or to comply with their demands to stop serving meat. That is not, “the terrifying act of talking”.
What if you’re mistaken about being morally superior? What if your actions toward other humans demonstrate a complete lack of any morality?
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Self-absolution. I understand it but it is a logical failure.
Should anti-LGBTQ fanatics who are absolutely convinced that they are morally superior be able to discriminate against LQBTQ people?
Should anti-abotionists who are absolutely convinced that they are morally superior be able to harass and threaten women making the most difficult decision of their life? Should they be allowed to fire bomb clinics? Shoot abortion doctors and nurses?
Should white spremacists who are absolutely convinced of their racial superiority be allowed to refuse service to people of color? Burn crosses on lawns? Hang people of color from trees by the neck?
Where does the vegan fanatics self-absolution end? Fire bombing restaurant? Pipe bombs wrapped in nails in crowded restaurants that serve meat?
The ability to self-absolve is very VERY dangerous. It permits fanatics to justify any ammoral horror in the name of their mistaken moral purity.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Yup, that’s exactly the mistake that extremists make. There is a great quote from a judgement out of a court in the UK. Let me find it…
“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.
“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”
This really sums it up. Sometimes fanatics are right. Often, they are wrong. Their ability to self-absolve their abhorent antisocial behavior is why so many people so violently hate them and it’s the reason that many vegans feel like they are being painted with the same brush. They’ve appointed themselves holy crusaders who will bully, harass, and intimidate anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Precisely. They make the same mistake that all extremists make. They believe that they are morally superior which justifies anything they say or do to anyone they see as inferior. The problem is that the rest of the world does not agree with them so they are reviled for their antisocial behaviour then constantly whine about how the people they harangue treat them badly.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Pretty much.