I honestly didn't know Trudeau was not beloved. That is definitely not the narrative spun in the states
He's beloved by some. In a lot of ways he's like Obama; to some people he's like the fucking Second Coming, pinning all their progressive hopes on him to fix everything even though he's a centrist who won't actually do very much in the way of progressive policy.
For those of us on the Actual Left, we're like "don't believe his lies" and scowl hard at the rest of the world giving him a handy, especially on such hard hitting political analysis as "is pretty"
I'd give my left nut to have a centrist who is an enemy of perfect.
Yeah well, in Canada I don't have to settle.
I'm sorry things are like they are in the US. I genuinely am. I understand the "must be nice to have a genuine left wing" sentiment.
But it's really frustrating to see that sort of mentality infect my own countrymen, who are just happy Trudeau isn't Harper and I'm like
Jesus fuck you can do better, we are not our southern neighbors, not yet
Go back to the election, though. Who would have been better? If anything, I'm disappointed they didn't end up with a minority government, but generally speaking I'm pretty pleased with how things worked out.
I like how we started out the election with everyone being all, "YEAH NDP! NEW FUTURE FOR CANADA! WOOOO!"
And then over the course of the campaign the numbers kept slipping as Muclair slowly peeled back the flesh to reveal he was actually a poop golem masquerading as a human being all along. And all the die hard labor supporters couldn't for the life of them figure-out what was happening.
Sigh.
I honestly don't know what I would've preferred. I was thinking that Trudeau was the best selection because of election reform, but of course he bailed on that shit the moment he felt it was convenient to do so. Mulcair would've just cemented the NDP into another rote token 'left' party if he was elected, though, aiming to look oh so srs bsns rather than delivering actual socialism, so that probably wouldn't have been good either. And he wouldn't have been contested out of leadership because, hey, he won!
Getting me back on the NDP bandwagon would be a long, hard haul. Layton almost did it, which is just one of the reasons I have always had so much respect for him. But Mulcair didn't deserve to carry Jack's jockstrap, as the saying goes.
All it really took were the debates, for me. I knew Trudeau wasn't feeding us whole truths, and I'm disappointed about electoral reform as much as anyone else is (though I don't think the book is wholly closed in that regard), but watching those three on stage (four, when they deigned to invite May along) was watching the buffoon on the left, the scaremonger on the right, and the only rational-sounding human being standing center stage.
human nature is f'ing awful
electoral reform is only as hard as it is to do because the people that have to do it don't want to make it harder for them to keep their jobs
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
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I'm not really anxious or upset or anything right now
I'm just sorta staring off into the middle distance
waiting for a shoe to drop
Like the entire country feels like it's a tightly wound spring and it's just about to fuckin go ham
Reality, Ideology, and Tribalism are just starved tigers, pacing in a cage, watching each other
It's real weird, man.
Yeah it's terrifying too but it's also WEIRD.
It's like
it doesn't matter if this spring stays wound up for 4 years or 2 more weeks
We've already changed forever, and when it fucking pops off, we're going to change even more
Like do you really really realize that? History is written every day of course, but we're living in a time where we're going to be dragged into our grandchildren's schools to tell them about this time.
but an electricity supply would hardly be reliable enough that you'd be able to rely on refrigeration to preserve food anyway
One can just as easily make a wood gassifier power plant if needed. Wind power works on similar principles to water power, but it's far less predictable. Solar power isn't a good long term solution for electricity since you' need a manufacturing system in place to replace them. You want something that isn't reliable on battery power tbh.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Basically if you're on disability, and you get a job, and you are forced to quit that job because of your disability you can get SSDI (which takes some hoops to get)
If you can resume working again, your SSDI benefits remain unchanged for some rather long period before cutting off, so basically during that period you make $$$$$$$$$$$$, you get your full disability, full SSDI, and your salary
It's not nearly as bad as it sounds
You're supposed to report your income, if you make over like 1k a month you lose your benefits, and medicaid becomes a toss up (depending on your state) that might move you to a spend down plan.
For regular disability, SSDI is a different thing
If you have been qualified for SSDI, you have to basically continually prove you can't work, it is a much higher payout than regular disability
SSDI comes with something called a trial work period, during which you earn your full benefit amount regardless of your work income, after which you lose your SSDI, the program is designed to financially assist disabled people putting forth a good faith effort to work.
It can be gamed, it can screw you, but it's actually a pretty solid program!
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amateurhourOne day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered Userregular
Also some of you are getting entirely TOO comfortable planning things at my compound.
SSDI actually has a hard cap where if you make too much money you don't count as disabled and are no longer eligible
Inability to engage in substantial gainful activity means that if a person works, they earn less than a certain amount of money.
spoilers: this is incredibly dumb and our benefits programs should not penalize people for working as much as they are able
SSDI isn't disability as you're probably thinking
SSDI is specifically an additional amount of money disabled people can get if they are both disabled AND unable to work
SSI also has an income limit (although wages only count as half for the purpose of this limit), so I am not sure what disability benefits you are thinking of.
SSI has income limits but it is not a line you cross over from full to no benefits, it ramps down as you earn money and not a 1/1 rate
This is correct, but SSI also has the substantial gainful activity limit when you first apply to be on it which is a hard limit and it is lower than the normal income limit once you are on SSI
If an SSI applicant has monthly earnings of $1,170 or more in 2017, the applicant is considered to be engaging in “substantial gainful activity,” and won't be considered disabled. (...)
However, after one month of receiving SSI benefits, an SSI recipient can work and make more than $1,170 without losing disability benefits (under Section 1619 of the Social Security Act), as long as the recipient is still considered disabled. But continuing SSI recipients are still bound by the $1,500 limit discussed above (if the recipient lives in a state that doesn't pay an SSI state supplement; in states that do pay the supplement, the limit may be higher). But remember, an SSI recipient's countable income will be deducted from his or her SSI payment, meaning that the SSI payment will be less than the full amount.
P10 on
Shameful pursuits and utterly stupid opinions
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
"Block Quebecois (Racism)" is the most perfect and succinct summary of that party that I've ever seen.
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
I have to drink a lot to feel any different waking up the next day
like, well beyond drunk a lot
it's good cuz watching babs while hungover is the worst thing in the world
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I'm not really anxious or upset or anything right now
I'm just sorta staring off into the middle distance
waiting for a shoe to drop
Like the entire country feels like it's a tightly wound spring and it's just about to fuckin go ham
Reality and Ideology, and Tribalism are just starved tigers, pacing in a cage, watching each other
It's real weird, man.
Yeah it's terrifying too but it's also WEIRD.
It's like
it doesn't matter if this spring stays wound up for 4 years or 2 more weeks
We've already changed forever, and went it fucking pops off, we're going to change even more
Like do you really really realize that? History is written every day of course, but we're living in a time where we're going to be dragged into our grandchildren's schools to tell them about this time.
it's nice to see you're still optimistic enough to think we'll have grandchildren
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
I'm not really anxious or upset or anything right now
I'm just sorta staring off into the middle distance
waiting for a shoe to drop
Like the entire country feels like it's a tightly wound spring and it's just about to fuckin go ham
Reality and Ideology, and Tribalism are just starved tigers, pacing in a cage, watching each other
It's real weird, man.
Yeah it's terrifying too but it's also WEIRD.
It's like
it doesn't matter if this spring stays wound up for 4 years or 2 more weeks
We've already changed forever, and went it fucking pops off, we're going to change even more
Like do you really really realize that? History is written every day of course, but we're living in a time where we're going to be dragged into our grandchildren's schools to tell them about this time.
?
there won't be schools lud. devos remember
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
SSDI actually has a hard cap where if you make too much money you don't count as disabled and are no longer eligible
Inability to engage in substantial gainful activity means that if a person works, they earn less than a certain amount of money.
spoilers: this is incredibly dumb and our benefits programs should not penalize people for working as much as they are able
SSDI isn't disability as you're probably thinking
SSDI is specifically an additional amount of money disabled people can get if they are both disabled AND unable to work
SSI also has an income limit (although wages only count as half for the purpose of this limit), so I am not sure what disability benefits you are thinking of.
SSI has income limits but it is not a line you cross over from full to no benefits, it ramps down as you earn money and not a 1/1 rate
This is correct, but SSI also has the substantial gainful activity limit when you first apply to be on it which is a hard limit and it is lower than the normal income limit once you are on SSI
If an SSI applicant has monthly earnings of $1,170 or more in 2017, the applicant is considered to be engaging in “substantial gainful activity,” and won't be considered disabled. (...)
However, after one month of receiving SSI benefits, an SSI recipient can work and make more than $1,170 without losing disability benefits (under Section 1619 of the Social Security Act), as long as the recipient is still considered disabled. But continuing SSI recipients are still bound by the $1,500 limit discussed above (if the recipient lives in a state that doesn't pay an SSI state supplement; in states that do pay the supplement, the limit may be higher). But remember, an SSI recipient's countable income will be deducted from his or her SSI payment, meaning that the SSI payment will be less than the full amount.
I don't think I ever said you can earn unlimited money and keep your SSI? It has a "Hard cut off" sure but if you're making $1 under that cutoff, you're only getting $1 in benefits a month
The ACA program I was discussing earlier literally can have thousands in benefits locked on either side of a single .001% of your income that if you pass, you lose them
Neoliberal: a person who fights the man, but doesn't mind a few innocent security guards getting blown away because shooting people is totally sweet
i am confused i thought the 'actual left' was all about punching nazis and the neoliberals were the ones wringing their hands and going i don't know about this
Shameful pursuits and utterly stupid opinions
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
I honestly didn't know Trudeau was not beloved. That is definitely not the narrative spun in the states
He's beloved by some. In a lot of ways he's like Obama; to some people he's like the fucking Second Coming, pinning all their progressive hopes on him to fix everything even though he's a centrist who won't actually do very much in the way of progressive policy.
For those of us on the Actual Left, we're like "don't believe his lies" and scowl hard at the rest of the world giving him a handy, especially on such hard hitting political analysis as "is pretty"
I'd give my left nut to have a centrist who is an enemy of perfect.
Yeah well, in Canada I don't have to settle.
I'm sorry things are like they are in the US. I genuinely am. I understand the "must be nice to have a genuine left wing" sentiment.
But it's really frustrating to see that sort of mentality infect my own countrymen, who are just happy Trudeau isn't Harper and I'm like
Jesus fuck you can do better, we are not our southern neighbors, not yet
Go back to the election, though. Who would have been better? If anything, I'm disappointed they didn't end up with a minority government, but generally speaking I'm pretty pleased with how things worked out.
I like how we started out the election with everyone being all, "YEAH NDP! NEW FUTURE FOR CANADA! WOOOO!"
And then over the course of the campaign the numbers kept slipping as Muclair slowly peeled back the flesh to reveal he was actually a poop golem masquerading as a human being all along. And all the die hard labor supporters couldn't for the life of them figure-out what was happening.
Sigh.
I honestly don't know what I would've preferred. I was thinking that Trudeau was the best selection because of election reform, but of course he bailed on that shit the moment he felt it was convenient to do so. Mulcair would've just cemented the NDP into another rote token 'left' party if he was elected, though, aiming to look oh so srs bsns rather than delivering actual socialism, so that probably wouldn't have been good either. And he wouldn't have been contested out of leadership because, hey, he won!
Getting me back on the NDP bandwagon would be a long, hard haul. Layton almost did it, which is just one of the reasons I have always had so much respect for him. But Mulcair didn't deserve to carry Jack's jockstrap, as the saying goes.
All it really took were the debates, for me. I knew Trudeau wasn't feeding us whole truths, and I'm disappointed about electoral reform as much as anyone else is (though I don't think the book is wholly closed in that regard), but watching those three on stage (four, when they deigned to invite May along) was watching the buffoon on the left, the scaremonger on the right, and the only rational-sounding human being standing center stage.
human nature is f'ing awful
electoral reform is only as hard as it is to do because the people that have to do it don't want to make it harder for them to keep their jobs
And the reason we're (most of us) craving it so desperately is that we're like 99% sure it would ensure left-leaning policy up here in perpetuity :P
The right-leaning parties only get into party with minority governments or due to mathematical error
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
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Chanus' mom says otherwise
waaaay more efficient and super easy to utilize
and reliable
wind is unreliable and more difficult, solar is literally impossible to repair on your own
5ghz tends to have less range i think
you can try connecting to either band and see if one works better
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Wat
Yes ow
oh shit are you okay???
let us know right away if you start developing signs of autism
also for video games
human nature is f'ing awful
electoral reform is only as hard as it is to do because the people that have to do it don't want to make it harder for them to keep their jobs
I'm just sorta staring off into the middle distance
waiting for a shoe to drop
Like the entire country feels like it's a tightly wound spring and it's just about to fuckin go ham
Reality, Ideology, and Tribalism are just starved tigers, pacing in a cage, watching each other
It's real weird, man.
Yeah it's terrifying too but it's also WEIRD.
It's like
it doesn't matter if this spring stays wound up for 4 years or 2 more weeks
We've already changed forever, and when it fucking pops off, we're going to change even more
Like do you really really realize that? History is written every day of course, but we're living in a time where we're going to be dragged into our grandchildren's schools to tell them about this time.
One can just as easily make a wood gassifier power plant if needed. Wind power works on similar principles to water power, but it's far less predictable. Solar power isn't a good long term solution for electricity since you' need a manufacturing system in place to replace them. You want something that isn't reliable on battery power tbh.
For regular disability, SSDI is a different thing
If you have been qualified for SSDI, you have to basically continually prove you can't work, it is a much higher payout than regular disability
SSDI comes with something called a trial work period, during which you earn your full benefit amount regardless of your work income, after which you lose your SSDI, the program is designed to financially assist disabled people putting forth a good faith effort to work.
It can be gamed, it can screw you, but it's actually a pretty solid program!
like, well beyond drunk a lot
it's good cuz watching babs while hungover is the worst thing in the world
it's nice to see you're still optimistic enough to think we'll have grandchildren
I've always had signs of autism :P
I can help you write them off
I just need a red shotgun
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there won't be schools lud. devos remember
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
What about a red blunderbuss?
oh I thought the 2.5 ghz had the lower range
maybe i'll take my lappy down there and do some speed tests while fiddling with the router settings
actually a metal-salt solar generator could be done by hand
assuming you can scrap enough mirrors to get you started
i mean
if i'm drinking it's pretty much somewhere between a lot and way too much
or mein factory
they got you early
bastards
and that's also a huge chunk of the energy you'd need
2.5 is longer range but easier to interfere with
5 is shorter range but less easy to interfere with
whoa
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
oh
I enjoy being just reasonably buzzed/silly the most so that's usually where I stop
Wait am I uninvited now?
I don't think I ever said you can earn unlimited money and keep your SSI? It has a "Hard cut off" sure but if you're making $1 under that cutoff, you're only getting $1 in benefits a month
The ACA program I was discussing earlier literally can have thousands in benefits locked on either side of a single .001% of your income that if you pass, you lose them
The american government is basically a wing of the russian government. If anything we're late on planning.
pleasepaypreacher.net
::checks list::
no but you lost your +1
And the reason we're (most of us) craving it so desperately is that we're like 99% sure it would ensure left-leaning policy up here in perpetuity :P
The right-leaning parties only get into party with minority governments or due to mathematical error
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