Chip_Rat @ Chip_Rat @lemmy.world

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What's the problem? The surgeon I assume knows the timeline (which the insurance company came up with via decades of expertise), they just need to work faster.

F-ing ~s in case it's needed....

Yeah wait doesn't he look like the really good looking guy meme?

I wasn't really talking about affordability over all, which won't get better while governments allow corporations and "mom and pop" to buy and hold hostage the housing supply. But if reality were to actually affect the market, condos would crash hard, which maybe would help a bit with affordability?

But yeah, I wouldn't live in Toronto either if my industry didn't pay so well (film and TV production). It's wack.

Practical and hardly any fun, I'd start looking for a local charity I trust. I have one in mind but I'd get a lawyer and hire a couple experts I trust on charity management and basically private detective them.

Once I had one charity I was happy with I'd start feeding it what it needs. In this example, it's a local food bank style community center, so I could blow that place up with maybe 10 million.

I'd be fairly involved for the next 6-12 months as things got going, while also researching and finding the next, larger scale charities. Most of the money would sit in fairly safe investment accounts and depending on what I learned over the first 1-2 years I'd try and have it all out into the world within 15 years.

When I signed the last cheque for the last couple million, I'd hope to have a coalition of well funded, well run charities all over the world that would have the cashflow to maintain their new service levels and the oversight to continue that good work for the next 100 years.

I have been saying this for at least 15 years: the condo market and the home market shouldn't be the same market.

I live in Toronto, but this applies to every large already developed city:

There will never be more single family homes in Toronto than there are today AND There will never be fewer condos in Toronto than there are today

So how are those two asset types tied so closely?

I thought it was gonna happen 5-10 years ago, where condos would crash down to 20-40% of the value of a comparable home (which I know is hard as condos are so friggin small) but so far... Nothing? The only reason some condos are cheaper is because you can't buy a studio house with no backyard or parking...

Please help. I have nightmares of being in a room where everyone else is just waiting patiently for me to remember the thing I forgot/figure out what is happening.

Help

Fellow below got down votes for saying it, but it's because they called themselves that.

Just like how Trump currently accuses mainstream media of lying non-stop. Like he accused the Democrats of trying to steal the election. Both things that he does/did, and that the people who he accused of doing it did not do. See how easy it is to muddy the water?

It's the same reason every draconian handmaid's tale esque bill is called "the helping mothers" bill or every anti-workers bill "the great perfect bill to help workers" bill. (Right to work!)

It's a load of crap. Listen to what people tell you. Then compare it to what they actually do. Or if you are too lazy even to do that, just ignore what anyone says and only look at what they do. That's who they are.

Watch what Pollieve does. Look at what he has already done. That's it. That's who he is. It's a little cheat code you can use.

My leige. I had no idea such royalty would be scrolling the hellish depths of lmy of all places.

Why do you think it won't happen?

Until your neighbour does it. Houses are for living in. Having a little Christmas display is great. Having an automated light show that last 17 minutes a cycle and took 500 hours to set up is something that should be done at a venue with the proper infrastructure.

Haven't told anyone this and it's peanuts compared to other stories, but I was driving home the other night and had to stop quickly at a red light. I didn't "have" to but it was that perfect timing of "do I squeeze through and the guy turning left shakes his fist, or do I stop (noone behind or in front of me) and just chill."

So I stopped, and holy shit an 8' square tube of steel I'd had strapped to the rack of my truck launched itself into the intersection, clattering to the ground 30' away.

Nobody noticed. Not the lady in the lane to my right, not anyone driving cross traffic (they all started driving by it like it wasn't there) and not even the guys coming towards me turning left, who did drive over it.

I could have killed someone. If there had been a car in front of me I could have been the villian in a real life horror movie... Like that video of the guy who's mother gets killed in the passenger seat beside him when a brick comes through the windshield.

I don't believe in God. But fuck me, if I never win a lottery ticket or raffle or even a coin toss again I'll still consider myself damn fucking lucky.

Stupid. And there wasn't a reason for it.. I checked those straps before I left that day. Something about the rain and I don't know what caused it to come loose. But I didn't have to be carrying that thing around. I was just lazy and storing it there until I could use it.

I'm sorry to everyone. And I'm so lucky noone was hurt.

What percentage of Canadians have to walk to a box down the street right now?

I'm curious, because during these discussions there is all this talk about how having to do that will bring down the whole system, will unfairly affect the elderly or disabled. Yet as someone who grew up in a semi-rural setting, 80% of the people I went to school with had to walk (or stop on the drive home) at a green box for their mail. It's a very city centric idea that mail has to come right to your door. And in cities, your communal boxes could be fairly close to your house anyways.....

I am not and don't usually propose cutting services.

I am not suggesting this as a good option now.

But it confuses the hell out of me that people think this would be the end of civilized society.

And I would like to fantasize on a future where Canada Post took over all Amazon deliveries. Forcing Amazon (and the consumer) to pay fair wages to unionized post officers and not abuse temporary "independent contractors". Huge increase in unionized secure jobs...

I like that.

Can I get an A MEN!!!!!!

Now now! What would Capitalism say if it heard you?!

Thank you for taking the time. I find it interesting that it is so important in some cultures for the woman to take the husband's name, and yet in this example there seems to be zero problems with it ...

I'd like to pile on. You don't owe them an apology and you don't owe them an unapology. You are done wasting your time on them and if they ever come around like "you know, I think I finally accept your apology " you can think to your self "oh my no, get fucked" and you can inform them with.... Radio silence

Sadly Canada also has never elected a woman to that position. We had one via retirement/internal leadership ballot very briefly as often happens when things go in the shitter and no man wants to take the job because it's a Kobayashi Maru. She and her party were then obliterated. Not because their policies were shit and Canada was tired of them, but because you can't have a woman Prime Minister.

I am unsure how much or what part of that needs a ~s

That's something I didn't know. Do you have time to explain how that works in China? Or if there's a good video essay on the subject I'd take that.

Damn it... I was sure he mentioned them briefly in one of his heat pump videos but I trust you over Chatgtp...

He should do a video! I am constantly enchanted by his heat pump explainers... I don't know why but it's one of those concepts that's just a bit out of my wheelhouse. So I always "knew" how it worked. But the lightbulb moment. The aha! Pure crack.

I don't want to believe any hype! I just want to be able to ask "hey Chatgtp, I'm looking for a YouTube video by technology connections where he discusses dryer heat pumps." And not have it spit out "it's called "the neat ways your dryer heat pumps save energy!"

And it is not, that video doesn't exist. And it's even harder to disprove it on first glance because the LLM is mimicing what Alex would have called the video. So you look and look with your sisters very inefficient PS4 controller-to-youtube interface... And finally ask it again and it shy flowers you....

But I swear he talked about it ?!?! Anyone?!?