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Clearly humans that tolerated being around wood smoke (fire) and eating food flavoured with wood smoke (preserved and disinfected) would have an evolutionary advantage.

Most other types of smoke (Plastic, Hair) smell awful so I don't think it's a coincidence that we enjoy wood smoke.

Is this due to the benefits that wood smoke and it's consequences provided to early humans?

I cannot believe this. I had to rewatch the game and literally I do nothing even remotely close to intentionally trying to lose. I had the highest kill participation, most farm, 2nd highest vision score etc. I was there for every play and just played this as I would any other game.

I submitted tickets to riot support but I just get AI slop response. The manual review is fake.

1 day isn't long but I don't want this bullshit on my record when it's completely false.

Game was League of Legends, user is JimmyJoJR#NA1 and game ID is 5623420800

Watch for yourself, you'll see this is a complete error. How do I get a human at riot to review instead of an AI?

Genuinely what the fuck is wrong with this automated system. I never ever try to lose and now I'm suspended for a day.

The game in question I was carrying our team too while they ran it down. I assume they spam reported me because I was pinging their terrible positioning, but that's totally seperate from intentionally trying to lose.

The appeal is going to take longer than the ban. How is this ok? Meanwhile I get others crashing out actually running around stealing my camps every 3 or 4 games and they don't get banned.

I keep seeing this comment pop up online whenever there's a post about the latest winner.

What the heck is "still life" and why would the winners be that?

Sorry if this isn't super on topic, but I think it speaks to the massive gap between the economic opportunities available to the older generations and the generation of today.

So last weekend we had a big family BBQ and I had various cousins, uncles etc all together. One of my younger cousins (24) was discussing the bidding process for a townhouse rental in Mississauga.

One of my older aunts overheard this and initially thought she was BUYING the townhouse. She was absolutely shocked that people compete with different bids for a RENTAL property. My aunt said something along the lines of "in our day you just went to the rental place, put up last month's rent and signed".

She was so surprised to hear that the real estate market has changed so much that young people have to compete just for the right to be a renter.

After hearing what the rent was (2800 for a 2 bed townhome) she was even more shocked and was asking my cousin why not just buy at that point. We then had to explain to her that such a home would cost around 850K on the market and need about 200K down to get the mortgage payment even remotely affordable.

She told us she bought her detached home (also in Mississauga) back in the 90s for less than that downpayment amount. Mind you, this woman doesn't have kids so she hasn't necessarily been keeping up with what young people are doing on a regular basis.

Anyways, just goes to show you how much times have changed and also how unaware many older, voting aged people are, about the landscape for young Canadians.

For the longest time. The suggested videos page was where I found cool new videos that aligned with my interests.

Now it's full of videos I've already seen. Endless shorts. Slop content and complete irrelevant garbage.

I tried using YouTube signed out on my browser and suddenly I've been getting AMAZING suggestions for channels that align with my interests and make amazing long form content.

Clearly YouTube can find stuff you like, they just prefer to keep you on the slop pipeline.

So from my understanding of REITs (real estate investment trusts) - they don't pay corporate taxes so long as they distribute 90% of their profits to shareholders as dividends.

Because of this; their dividend payouts aren't given the usual tax discount (to account for the typical corporate tax already paid on the profit), and thus they are taxed fully as income.

But in a TFSA, none of the gains are taxed, so you effectively avoid corporate tax because it's a REIT, and you avoid the consequent income tax because the dividends aren't taxable in a TFSA.

Isn't this a very tax efficient strategy?

Extra payments can massively reduce the duration of your mortgage. I want to understand how much the average Canadian is throwing extra each month.

I get the extreme emergency case. But credit card debt is held by nearly half of all Canadians. What's the reason?

Do people only make minimum payments? Do they think paying it all off lowers their credit score? Do they spend money they don't have? What's the cause.

For the mods - this is NEW INFORMATION RELEASED LATE LAST NIGHT. IT IS NOT A DUPLICTAE POST.

I feel like I prefer Trinity over DnD as my second item. If I'm doing the AD build I'm going to get more out of the AD over the tiny bit of AP from DnD no?

Whether it's a hose or some stream, it seems like dogs are programmed to bite and attack water that's flowing.

Why is that?