I'll jump in and offer my (uninformed) opinion. It seems that housing is seen as more of an investment. Developers build higher end houses rather than lower income housing because the profit margins are higher. In this context, reducing the value of housing as an investment by making it harder for owning multiple properties while making it easier for people to own one house could go a long ways to settling out the cost of housing in the mid to long term simply by changing the incentives on what to build.
Short term, just getting some housing supply out of short term rentals and absentee investors hands could put some more housing on the market now.
Is it enough? I doubt it, but we can do more than one thing.
I think it's kind of a Rorshach Colonialism or Schrödinger's Colonialism. My impression is that people parroting the "Israel is a colonial country" statement aren't specifically referring to settlements in the West Bank, but to Israel as a whole. The rationale being one of the following:
Rationale 1
Jews are white¹
Palestinians are dark²
Colonialism is something that whites do to darks
Rationale 2
Israel is more powerful, Palestine is the underdog
In colonial vs. indigenous conflicts, the indigenous people are the underdogs
Therefore the Israelis are the colonialist team and the Palestinians are the indigenous team
It should also be noted that Hamas (and Fatah as well IIRC) explicitly use the colonial framing with themselves as the oppressed indigenous group, so I'm fairly certain that those repeating it uncritically are somewhere along the Hamas propaganda pipeline.
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Perhaps in these troubling times, we should remember the words of Nobel Peace Prize winner Yassar Arafat:
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
In his speech "The Impending Total Collapse of Israel" at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, January 30, 1996
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¹ Even though most Israelis are approximately as dark (q.v. Mizrahi Jews) or darker (Beta Israel).³
² Palestinians have a lot of Arabic heritage, whereas Mizrahi Jews are more Levantine (even if from Morocco or Iran orginally). This is probably due to historic isolation of minority communities within the Arabic world.³
³ This is all a stupid basis for determining the worth of someone. I'm pretty much a pure "mudblood", my ancestors were very open minded apparently. Genetic descent studies are kind of interesting for mapping the migrations of people around the planet, but at the end of the day, we are all just people. Also, talk about perpetuating racism, and looking at it through a modern US lens. Way past my level of expertise. Just my impression.
That's what I would expect. Basically a fancier RSS.
They'd still need to give some thought to federation management though. They might want to de-federate from instances with incompatible moderation standards.
At first, I would take issue with what do they mean by "colonial"? The majority of Israel's population is of Mizrahi descent, Jews from the Middle East. Jews didn't leave Lebanon and Libya as part of some colonial project. Without further clarification about how they are using the term, my assumption is that they are attempting to imply that the Jews in Israel are somehow "white settlers" there at the behest of European and American powers, which seems to the a popular narrative, although not accurate.
There's more, but I'll start with that. A further point would be what do they consider the consequences of "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"? Hamas and Fatah have a pretty clear picture of how that would work, clearly presented in their Arabic media. With the availability of automated translation, are they endorsing that stance? What about the the non-Jewish citizens of Israel? From the SU's statement, I would assume that they endorse the consequences of Hamas getting their wish.
But whatever, sure. "It's not antisemetic, it's antizionist" (while ignoring any obvious and inevitable consequences).
Also in BC. Similar experience. My eldest daughter was in French Immersion though, and it's served her well. As for myself, I have my high-school French, but also naika tenas kumtuks Chinuk wawa.
I've got two PDP X-Box controllers and a Power A X-Box controller. I got them from the Wal-Mart clearance rack, presumably returns. They all work great.
You kind of already have that. I'm pretty sure that the mass of anything in the grocery store includes the maximum amount of allowed cheap mass.
Standardised packaging sizes would just reduce wastage from inconvenient package sizes and streamline packaging operations. Remember the giant plastic clamshell packaging of 10-15 years ago? Takes up more space on the shelves, can make a small product noticable, and was annoying as hell and wasteful too.
My local library uses some sort of Linux for the card catalogue. I don't use the general purpose library computers, but I think they are some flavour of Linux as well.
My impression was that they were probably sold as a low maintenance plug-and-play solution.
My local library is part of a larger library system, so I'm pretty sure the librarians won't know anything about them, that any computer maintenance is handled by somebody dispatched from the head branch. I'll still try and have a look here in a bit.
I ended up looking it up. I think it was the Air Force, and it was the "Condor Cluster". I believe it was the 33rd most powerful supercomputer at the time of it's activation.
Sony removed the Other OS feature around the same time, so PS3 clusters needed to source older PS3s with older firmware.
Her Majesty, Queen Roman Dildo Romana Didulo I, Queen of Canada? I'm getting a little worried that she and her courtiers might go Waco, but as long as they stay on the wacky side of crazy instead of the Waco side of crazy, I always get a kick out of her escapades.
I'm starting to get a little worried, but so far it's been entertaining.
One of the reasons I refuse to refer to the Qonvoyers as "truckers". Every union that is active in the trucking industry and all trucking trade associations released statements disavowing the Qonvoyers. Actual working truckers were often caught up in border blockades by weekend "trucker" cosplayers with Dodge Ram 2500 dualies.
I'll jump in and offer my (uninformed) opinion. It seems that housing is seen as more of an investment. Developers build higher end houses rather than lower income housing because the profit margins are higher. In this context, reducing the value of housing as an investment by making it harder for owning multiple properties while making it easier for people to own one house could go a long ways to settling out the cost of housing in the mid to long term simply by changing the incentives on what to build.
Short term, just getting some housing supply out of short term rentals and absentee investors hands could put some more housing on the market now.
Is it enough? I doubt it, but we can do more than one thing.