https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOBp3v-_cPa2f05inQWNrm0KMd6VHSgyc

Youtube says there are only 441 videos in the complete series, I'm sure you'll find your cousin eventually.

Although it is weird, wikipedia and archive.org are telling me there should only be 65.

"Google" is just the generic term for a web search, kind of like how velcro means all hook-and-loop fasteners and xerox is a (photo)copy

Do online multiplayer video games count as a commercial use? I kind of like those

Protesters accuse Raytheon of abuses, block plant entrances

It's amazing how protesters already tried that and nothing happened.

18 people facing charges for allegedly defacing Raytheon sign during protest in Tewksbury

Somehow, the "effective" protests you recommend don't seem to be doing anything. Do you have any other bright ideas? Maybe something that the average person will actually learn about?

They actually changed that a while back, new heroes aren't in the battlepass any more, everyone gets them for free. I don't know how that works with the "new player experience" where you needed to win games to unlock the base heroes on a new account though.

I never watched the show, but I did visit its wiki page.

It looks like they did 6 races against public transportation, and the car won 5 of them. They also did 2 four way races between car, water, bike and public transport, and car and bike were the two first place winners.

It's a little different. The Upside Down in Stranger Things is a kind of alternate dimension, whereas in the movies Upside Down and Patema Inverted it's that gravity is reversed for some people.

If that plan worked perfectly, you'd solve the land use and, giving you an extremely generous benefit of the doubt, the emissions from manure problems.

All you have to now is figure out how to build and maintain these high-rises cost effectively, and how to generate enough power for a matrix-like experience and all the VR headsets and treadmills for the cows. And even then you'd still be wasting a lot of food by feeding it to animals rather than just eating it directly.

None of those benefits came close to the cost of the program

How do you measure the cost-to-benefit of longer maternity leave? Or higher high school graduation rates? Not everything the government does needs to directly make a profit. Just look at roads for an obvious example of that.

once initiated productively decreased. Likely would have even decreased further but people knew the free money would eventually end.

There was only about a 13% decrease in hours worked for the entire family on average, and most of that was women going back to work after a pregnancy later and teenagers not working (probably so they could keep going to school).

How do you pay for a program when the local area taxes don’t cover it particularly when the tax income actually decreases once instituted?

It's not about Canada, but you can always find a way to pay for things if you really want to, even if they're objectively bad for tax income.

From the source of link 3:

Figure 17 Primary Reasons for Leaving Last Housing, All Participants

• Lost or reduced income: 12%
• Conflict among residents: 9%
• Didn't want to impose/wanted own space: 7%
• Conflict with property owner: 7%
• Someone else became sick, disabled, or died: 6%
• Building was sold or foreclosed: 6%
• Violence or abuse in the household: 5%
• Breakup between residents: 4%
• Participant's substance use: 4%
• Other needed more space: 4%

and also:

To understand what participants believed may have prevented their homelessness, we asked them to engage in a thought experiment about the likelihood that their homelessness could have been prevented had they received financial intervention. We provided all participants with three different scenarios and asked them whether each intervention would have prevented their becoming homeless for at least two years.29 The interventions were: (1) a monthly rental subsidy worth $300-$500; (2) a one-time payment of $5,000 to $10,000; or, (3) a voucher that limits rent contribution to 30% of their income (such as a Housing Choice Voucher).

FIGURE 21 Participant Report of Effect of Hypothetical Homelessness Prevention Interventions by Family Structure

All

• $300-$500/month shallow subsidy: 70%
• $5,000-$10,000 one-time payment: 82%
• Housing voucher: 90%

So while "not enough money" might not have been the most common cause for people being homeless, the vast majority of people think having more money or cheaper housing would have prevented them from becoming homeless.

It wasn't me that said that, and that's not what they said.

Edit: I should really refresh the page if I'm going to spend so long reading the sources.

Addiction Disorders: The relationship between addiction and homelessness is complex and controversial. While rates of alcohol and drug abuse are disproportionately high among the homeless population, the increase in homelessness over the past two decades cannot be explained by addiction alone. Many people who are addicted to alcohol and drugs never become homeless, but people who are poor and addicted are clearly at increased risk of homelessness. Addiction does increase the risk of displacement for the precariously housed; in the absence of appropriate treatment, it may doom one's chances of getting housing once on the streets. Homeless people often face insurmountable barriers to obtaining health care, including addictive disorder treatment services and recovery supports. Source

It is believed that only about 20 to 40 percent of homeless have a substance abuse issue. In fact, abuse is rarely the sole cause of homelessness and more often is a response to it because living on the street puts the person in frequent contact with users and dealers.

The prevalence of mental illness and substance use among those experiencing homelessness is clear, but Kushel cautions that the vast majority of mental illness among the study participants is anxiety and depression. It’s likely the lack of resources exacerbates those conditions, rather than the illness causing the homelessness, she says.

“I think that the driving issue is clearly the deep poverty, that the median [monthly] household income for everyone in the household in the six months before homelessness was $960, in a state with the highest housing costs in the country,” she says. Other studies have noted that the end of pandemic stimulus payments and rising inflation has led to rents outpacing wages. The study notes that in 2023, California had only 24 units of affordable housing available for every 100 extremely low-income households.Source

Just because you know one or two people that were homeless and also had problems with addiction, doesn't mean the addiction caused their homelessness.