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They pretty much agreed to what I said, and went on to wonder why we do not refine our own crude, but sells them out for cheap, then goes on to import refined products at much elevated prices.
I told them our refineries built ages ago were not built to be able to process the thick shale crude produced from the Alberta oil sands. "Then why not build our own refineries to process our own crude?" And we went into the flip flopping of government policies, how a newly elected government can change/put on hold/cancel previously approved permits, construction projects, long term investment projects, etc. on a whim, in the name of saving the environment. A new refinery is a capital intensive, long long term investment that no sane investor will commit to a nation with this kind of unpredictable political climate.
Then we went on to discuss how Canada is a democratic communism. How it's tyranny of the majority. How the unproductive are voting to take from the productive through force enforced by the government. How the system is incentivising more people to be lazy, to take from the productive ones; and driving away prodctive people. So yea, in summary, we're fucked.
"... but the people are retarded." On full display.
I had a gathering with a couple of my friends last night and I was telling them how we should be rich as fuck as a nation because of the recent oil price surge. But through stupidity in government policies, we as Canadians are just fucked, economically, socially, and any other way. I guess this will only speed up the collapse and bring us the much needed rest? This is a good thing, right?
The kids have to stay interested for there to be a next game. We will see how it goes tonight. But my little guy had already expressed disinterest, telling me last night at bedtime that he wants to go to the park tonight, but don't want to play soccer anymore, because there's too much running and he's tired. I told him to not decide so quickly and see how he feels after dinner. Hopefully I'm able to somehow psyop him into still wanting to play...
Whatever sport it is, I think it's just great when your kid wants to join you and play with you together.
Baseball is really popular in Japan. You should definitely drop by and go play a game with them. Let us know how it went.
It's awesome that you've gotten into a few pick up games with your kids too. The difficult thing with getting a soccer game started has always been the number of people needed to play a full field game. Do you have the number of bodies in your neighborhood park to get a real game going?
I asked my son if he wanted to join a team or take lessons, and he gave me a straight up no. He just wants to kick the ball around with me. Big bro also joined in on the kicking around last night, so that was fun. But yea, in terms of team play, I guess we're sticking to ringette.
Lots of moving/steps today. Went for a 3km walk with wife this morning after dropping kids off at summer camp.
Went on a 12km run after watching Argentina's amazing comeback. Steady pace, not too fast, not too slow.
Ended the day with playing soccer with the little one. He's gotten into the beautiful game lately, after seeing me watch too many world cup games. Last Saturday, he asked if we had a soccer ball at home, and that he wanted to try to play. I dug up our old size 3 ball, inflated it, and had been kicking it around with him at the park every night after dinner ever since he asked. On a 4 night streak now, looking forward for more.
Got 60 push ups in then had a cold shower.
27542 steps.
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