I'm not using an app that lets me tag users, but I've marked you in my head as a contrarian.
We could save lives and slow down the harming of our planet. But then we'd get less demand for ONE of our product lines, oh no our profits, forget people's lives, we can't let this happen!!!! Spend money now to lobby the government!
I watched this episode last night and I found Robert struck a surprisingly optimistic tone. It suggested to me that Mr. Reich has more of a sense of trust in the American system than I do (and that could be because I'm not American).
On one hand, my gut tells me that sitting back, looking smug and saying "Trump’s approval rating on everything is through the floor" is not going to fix anything and is not going to stop the administration from trying to assert the Presidency as a dictatorship.
On the other, when courts had come to the conclusion that Trump's "trade deficit emergency" tariff power was illegal, was a rare moment of Trump that might actually be put in check for once. It felt like a turning corner, and what I can hope for is that Americans learn the purpose of what democracy's nominal guardrails were supposed to protect against, by seeing what happens when you let someone enact Republicans' pipe dream. As Robert said, Americans are learning "from first principles" on why we don't make President's kings (the Unitary Executive Theory).
If democracy survives, this is the Republicans' ship that will sink with Trump. Perhaps Democrats will follow Republicans down to ruin (as a matter of fairness and decorum), but they have right in front of them a golden opportunity to reform themselves, if there ever was one.
People here in Vancouver talk a lot more about how terrible the "heat dome" summer was than any of the atmospheric river rainfall events from the last few years. Canada's no stranger to the negative warming effects of climate change.
Good enough for the effort lol
Okay good, as he should. Minister Hadju is on a better starting track with this than MacKinnon.
Someone should make a set of Fediverse graphics/ads that are styled like this, like an explanation to people in a world before pervasive online social media.
I don't mind if people give their opinion no matter whether they have played 5 minutes before shutting it off, 1000 hours or not played it all.
But I do take issue with anyone acting like an expert, while making claims that shows their inexperience with a game or genre. One of the most egregious example is with people like Elon Musk, but you'll see it with IGN reviewers sometimes, or people on forums acting like hotshots. It's like a student who just passed Electronics 101 or Economics 101 acting like they know it all because of the four new formulas they learned. Anyone with more knowledge can see through it transparently, so just be honest with your experience in a preface before stating your opinion, then there is no problem.
Oh. Tariffs are back already, kinda, kinda not (an appeals court granted a temporary stay, so the tariff halting has halted).
This sounds like something a programmer would come up with as a joke, but because it's Microsoft, I believe you.
I could scrape by with $16k a year, even in a high cost of living area. I'd have to get a roommate or find other creative living arrangements, and sacrifice a lot of my current life's comfortable trappings, but I could do it.
My main question is, should it be one minimum income across Canada, or adjusted by municipality through its own metric or using the military stipend rate as a baseline?
Carney wants to talk a big talk on efficiencies. Streamlining welfare to achieve the basic goals of: is an individual's health needs met, is an individual's housing needs met, is an individual's basic expenses needs met, would likely reduce a lot of the duplicitous services that oversee small segments of people's needs.
I know MP Leah Gazan would be happy to see this come to the House of Commons. If it does I'll let my local MP know I support it.
I've been watching/listening, seeing Peter sub in for David is making me do double-takes, and aside from his voice made me question for a minute if they were the same guy, just that he grew hair all of a sudden.
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I question what that policy will look like though. All house listings must be set to 20% of their 2024 assessed value or last MLS listing?
What I'm hoping to see is government creating non-market housing, but even if not, the government spurring building new affordablly built and dense standardized homes will provide enough places for homeless and struggling people to live.
It's not just creating the market conditions and then sitting on our hands whistling, but actually acting as a housing developer that forces the rest of the market to compete that will bring prices down. Legislation won't, it will just be a boon to the "can we find a loophole around this" business.