[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago

I live in a city where property values have increased by an order of magnitude over about 40 years.

Yes, we have a lot of speculators and wealthy landowners who need to be taxed out of existence.

But we also have a problem where seniors on fixed incomes who have owned their homes for 30 - 50 years cannot afford their property taxes because the land their homes are sitting on has exploded in value.

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is going to keep happening as long as governments keep outsourcing new "affordable" housing projects to developers.

It makes far more sense to me to administer the projects publicly and source materials and trades directly instead of through the obnoxious matryoshka middleman system that is public-private partnership.

Also we badly need to fucking build non-market housing.

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago

Analogous structures? I don't even know her!

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

Nobody gets clean while sleeping rough.

https://homelesshub.ca/collection/programs-that-work/housing-first/

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/data-visualization-the-evidence-on-housing-first/

And here is a podcast by and about drug users where people speak about their experiences with the system in BC and elsewhere as is has been, is, and is becoming: https://www.crackdownpod.com/ Includes interviews with researchers and doctors.

I have found it extremely worthwhile and necessary listening, but it is heartwrenching.

Nothing about them without them.

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

We needed one fifteen years ago, but better late than never.

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

Kingdom Death: Monster-lookin-ass turkey.

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

EXPERIENCE BIJ!

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago

I just think he's neat.

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One of my favourite performances from VOY (S05E10 Counterpoint).

Hats off to the makeup team for that prosthetic- and to actor Randy Lowell.

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 25 points 2 months ago

This has ruined my day.

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago

There are multiple copies of this posted in the cabinet shop where I work. In Canada.

[-] parapsyker@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

The novellas are great too!

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