FireRetardant @ FireRetardant @lemmy.world

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People love to point fingers and say this is all trudeaus fault but the truth is the housing crisis has been decades in the making. Could Trudeau have done more to slow and reverse the trends? Probably but it is still a problem decades in the making with inaction from several leaders.

Have you seen the state of the development in this country? Builders would replace the walls with cardboard to turn more profits if the law would let them. They definitely need more incentive.

Love how the law lets the private company making the profits decide when a product should be pulled off shelves. Defintely no conflict of interests there.

I guess technically they pay the company that designed the self checkouts then pay their upkeep in electricity and maintaince. But just you wait for the AI self check outs. It will become self aware and start taking a cut for itself to buy memecoins.

Wastes vasts amounts of urban land on parking instead of housing or more businesses

Is often so deep in parking lots and strip malls its impossible to walk to

Cheap prices and cheap chinese manufacturing to help eliminate local competition

Massive corporation has more bulk buying power than local competition

Designed to be a one stop shop, fix your car, buy a tv and grab some food

Self checkouts pays robots instead of people in the community the store is in

The people who do work there are paid shit wages for life, often not even keeping up with inflation meaning they actually get paid less every year

Probably paying less taxes than they should be for the amount of space the business takes up and the amount of traffic generated

Helps promote car centric design which is a terribly ineffecient and expensive way to move people within an urban area.

Fossil fuels are already protected and subsidized beyond economic sensibility for the profitably of oil barons and corrupt polliticians. Until the oil barons cannot afford bribery and still turn a profit the USA will be hooked is what I'm getting at. They'd rather keep the exploitation going until collapse happens than find a way to transition to cleaner energy sources.

Edit: I'd also like to add, it isn't just fossil fuels setting the USA back, it's also the development pattern. Even if everything went electric today with green energy, the USA would be wasting tons of that energy due to cultural and devlopmental patterns. This isn't just an oil issue, it is also a land use, zoning, gabage/waste and 100s of other things that are just so damm profitable we can't stop.

Until it is more profitable in the short term to build sustainability, America won't do it. Profits over a liveable planet.

Bioaccumulation concentrates more pollutants the higher up the food chain you go. It is part of why most meat we eat comes from vegetarian animals. The fish we eat are often predatory so common advice is the keep the smaller and younger ones that are still big enough to be worth filleting. You don't actually want to eat a trophy sized fish because they've accumulated more pollutants. Trophy sized fish are better off being realsed, they are often good breeders and help keep healthy population numbers.

Yeah, they'll probably harvest your organs first so that process should kill you before they start eating.

I know several people who will take roadkill if they can confirm the freshness by either witnessing the accident or knowing that the kill recently appeared. I myself almost took a deer once. It was a cold night and the deer wasn't on the corner at midnight. But it was there at 6am while still cold outside. If I had the time and space id have likely brought it home to at least assess the meat.

Probably about a gram in the joint/blunt and there is a fair amount in the jar on the left. I'd bet its about 3-4 grams just in the jar on the left. They also probably included the full weight of the roll with filter, not just the herb.

2-3 grams is defintely selling it short. We also have no idea how dense the buds are. Tightly packed buds can be surprisingly heavier than loose buds.

Proper biking infrastructure could let bicycles an e-bicycles work year round. Some scandinavian countries have busy bike lanes year round and they get plenty of snow.

Agreed. Even the big lotto 649 ads in my area are just so in your face like "what are you doing? Don't you know a life of luxury and private yachts is as easy as buying a ticket"

And continues suburban sprawl and promotes the housing crisis. Our ruined citites and the social and economic state of this country are interconnected. The longer we wait, the harder it gets to fix.

Loblaws stock kept going up. Doesn't seem like the shareholders noticed the boycott at all.

Per capita china release less carbon than Canada. People love to say why bother changing here when china is pumping out tons of carbon.

Realistically, one of the best things we can do to phase out fossil fuels in transportation is build transit and promote active ways of traveling like cycling and walking. Unfortunately, places like Ontario are making it increasingly difficult to build better places.

I can't even listen to the radio without constant ads about either sports betting or online casinos.

There is so much "I've got mine" attitude that solving the crisis has become such a political issue. Everyone wants to fix the housing crisis but only if they keep seeing 10% annual returns on their real estate. I agree that a crown corp buying land and building housing would be good, but many people would argue the government is subsidizing and "handing out housing" while others have had to struggle for a mortgage. This bubble has gotten so big its becoming impossible to deflate until it bursts catastrophically.

The best thing we could do for the housing crisis is focusing on infilling and upzoning density, as that could set us up for better transit projects that could snowball into more density and upzoning while also putting us in a better position to become more environmentally friendly and far less car dependant.

The provinces have more power than the federal government does. The federal government doesn't have the current power to force a province or municipality to build or even zone for housing. The biggest issue is the restrictive zoning. There is a lot of political and NIMBY resistance to any amount of density. Even a 4plex that looks like a regular home will get significant push back. Provinces however have power over their municipalities. The provincial government could do a program like the one you suggest and ask for federal funding for it, but my province of Ontario would rather focus their resources on making it illegal to build bike lanes province wide, which is obviously the best use of our political resources.

Of course the bigger problem is that anyone in politics owns a home and they don't want to see their property values drop. A significant portion of our politicians are also landlords, essentially profiting off the housing crisis they refuse to solve.

America's housing crisis isn't as bad as Canada and their wages are better for highly skilled or highly educated workers. It is common for someone to get a decent education in Canada then go work in America and pray they don't need any serious healthcare.