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FireRetardant

@ FireRetardant @lemmy.world

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  • A conundrum

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  • To be the devil's advocate here. Rental payments vs mortgage payments is not an accurate comparison of the true financial burdens.

    With many rentals some if not all utilities are included in the price of rent, whereas homeowners must pay the full cost of utilities. There is also the additional cost of home insurance and property taxes. Most rentals have the majority of their maintaince covered whereas the homeowner is responsible for lawn cutting, gutter cleanings etc. The cost of repairs and maintaince is not negligible. While renting if the heat quits or an appliance breaks, the landlord is supposed to cover the cost but owning means you must take that full cost.

    In the posted example, having double the mortage payment in rent payment is probably adequate to cover the additonal costs but the comparison of renting vs owning is not black and white. Several financial managers have even studied that depending on your needs and income, you can actually be getting ahead financially by renting if you don't actually need the full benefits of owning and are able to maintain a store of wealth through other investments. This is especially true if you are in a rent controlled unit.

  • England wants to ban high-caffeine energy drinks for kids under 16. Should Canada do the same?

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  • Maybe closer to coffee shops than bars. The use case of energy drinks is a bit different than that of alcohol. Sometimes I'll need a little boost while driving during a long or late shift, i like the the taste of coffee so I'll usually get a coffee. Some people don't like coffee or it isn't always available so energy drinks work as well. The overconsumption of energy drinks is their main issue.

  • Declawing cats causes them lifelong pain. It’s time to ban the practice

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  • If your cat hasn't drawn your blood, is it even your cat?

  • Declawing cats causes them lifelong pain. It’s time to ban the practice

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  • I'm gonna lose a limb just trying to get those onto my cats murder mitts.

  • England wants to ban high-caffeine energy drinks for kids under 16. Should Canada do the same?

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  • Regardless if we ban them, we should be taxing them at a rate that helps cover healthcare costs related to heart health.

  • Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken

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  • If it was city water and they maintained adequate residual chlorine levels, 5 minutes should be enough to santize any germs or pathogens from the pee.

  • Back in my day, we didn't stop the game unless a bone was broken

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  • For rural houses, many garden hoses bypass their treatment systems to save on filter capcity, so its possible hose water in that situation is unsafe due to bacteria or water borne illnesses.

  • Rinse & Repeat

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  • So we just send the police to go deal with the military hardware that civilians have access to with nothing? We need more accountability for when and how they use their tools and weapons rather than just taking them away.

  • Rinse & Repeat

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  • Any tool can be misused. I'd be curious what the percentage of wrong use cases of MRAPs is. There is a massive accountability issue with America's policing. We need to address the accountability issues, not just take all their tools away.

    When a tradesman fucks up a job do you blame the tools they used or the company they work for?

  • DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns

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  • Just don't be LGBT+, don't be not white, don't be a woman, and follow christ and Donnie the diddler won't take your guns. Anyone else, maybe start trying to hide them before they come for yours.

  • Rinse & Repeat

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  • Civilians in america can also buy several fully automatic and semiautomatic weapons in a large caliber. I usually see police using MRAPs as deployable cover during barricaded suspect situations. Most of the time they don't just show up and drive it through the building guns blazing, they use it as cover while giving commands, often holding down the area until the barricaded suspect gives up or a SWAT team can enter and try to arrest. Typically they attempt to use non lethal methods like flashbangs and bean bags unless the suspect becomes lethally violent like charging at officers with a knife or a rifle.

  • Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say

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  • School shooters: GOP sleeps

    Trans people: GOP makes gun control their top priority

  • Grocery Segregation

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  • I don't want some filthy poor persons grocceries touching my filthy poor person grocceries

  • Are fruits getting sweeter?

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  • I know when i cut out excess refined sugar and barely ate any candy, fruit suddenly tasted better and sweeter. Now things like cola or candy are too sweet for me to enjoy. I'll maybe have a handful of candy when previously i could eat a whole meals worth.

  • Metal

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  • We don't know for certain if thats a pork, chicken, beef, or mystery meat weenie

  • Trump cuts to climate satellites will make weather prediction harder, scientists say

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  • He wants weather to be inaccurate so they can deny climate research and say the world has always had this many wildfires, hurricanes and storms. You can't trust those old temperature numbers the weather service has always been inaccurate.

  • Without unions, they'd have us working around the clock

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  • I'll skip god and thank the union directly

  • This hipster in an airplane safety panphlet

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  • Dude looks like a character from that total drama island show

  • It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it

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  • Technically only true if you're maxxed out on the hot, usually the hot is mixed with the cold water supply.

  • Homeless census records highest number of people on Winnipeg streets

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  • Unless the city also doubled in population, the percentage of homeless people have increased.