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When you're right you're right! Not all laws are good laws. Unfortunately these days we're heading in the wrong direction on that front too...

It absolutely, 100% is the only way to reverse the power of corporations. It worked fantastically for our (great-)grandparents to even out the scales; we need to organize to restore order.

Oh, HPPD is definitely a thing, but extraordinarily rare.

I may have misspoke about the brown acid - this was a legit warning resulting from "home-brew chemists" attempting to make their own LSD and failing to create it properly. Most of the supplies back then were direct from Sandoz (Novartis) and basically were being given away to the scientific community for novel testing. Fun stuff.

I'm talking about the hyperbole of "acid flashbacks" which was a narrative introduced to discourage and demonize LSD usage by the political and intellectual opponents of the Nixon administration. "Rots your brain permanently" and all that other garbage.

Turns out regular LSD usage by the "hippie" community and by many people involved in high-level education (particularly college and university professors) was making people feel more connected and empathetic towards one another, and that just didn't do for the Republicans who needed everyone to fear "the other".

What they also did with marijuana and heroin, and subsequently with crack cocaine, was truly abhorrent.

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

The most provable cause of inflation is the increase in talking about expectations of inflation.

In simpler language: Once we / the media starts talking about how we should expect inflation, corporations take that as permission to raise prices.

I hope this fuckin turd goes broke. Conservatives need to get a hobby that isn't just harassing other people. What a loser.

Obligatory of course it's the Christo-facists at Take Back Alberta.

No apology for Wyze's breach, but only 1500 of the possible alerts for not-your-home were clicked on/viewed. Gotta love sensational headlines.

Also, if you're using a cloud-based camera for private spaces? Well, that's kinda a decision you made for yourself.

Not at all shocking that Pump Hill, one of the most affluent neighbourhoods in town, doesn't want to see an absolutely cut and dry excellent urban density development. NIMBY jerks.

Sounds like a pretty clear cut antitrust issue

Sadly the two big cities are dramatically different from the rural areas. Almost as if we need some sort of voter representation that was proportional, instead of the garbage fire that is FPTP...

Because it is politically convenient for him to be a purposefully underinformed shitbird.

Little PP sucks at doing anything consequential, so the only space he can occupy is that of a whiny child screaming for ice cream.

Pundits love these charts, and we do have a huge housing affordability crisis up here.

Problem compared to America is that we have about 1/10th of the total population, and our two largest "international" cities, Toronto and Vancouver, have been overrun by global elite buyers and rental corporations that have massively driven up the average prices.

Drop those two cities out of the calculations, and the chart still looks bad, but less insane.

Not saying this analysis isn't correct, just providing some context that always seems to be left out of these conversations.