Good resource management means long-term protection and stability, often at the expense of short-term profits. Boom-bust "jobs" vs stable careers and trades you can pass on to the next generation.
likely to gain Trudeau sympathy and/or support as not. The ‘bozo factor’ had sunk Conservative fortunes in the past and seems set to do an encore.
My only concern here is when this gets bad enough, it incentivizes the centrist party to mostly ignore the misinformation and radicalization rather than trying to stamp it out. In the states, the Democrats seems to be just a little too content fundraising on the fringe Republicans. Then you end up with a Trump and/or stochastic terrorism.
Yeah, and don't forget, they won't give up citizenship, because they will keep that safety net, despite railing against paying for it. They come back for the last 10-20 years of their life because that "low cost of living" country they are moving to won't be a good deal when they are old.
For sure. There are countless new industries that could pop up if there was transient super-cheap energy. Basically, anything that could be totally automated and is energy limited. Some things require more predictability than others, but there are lots of opportunities. And in the end, you get a more stable grid with less need for storage or "peaking" plants. "Make hay while the sun shines."
Yes, and especially with solar and wind, it's so cheap, you overbuild so it covers more baseload, and when you have excess, you can create whole new industries like Hydrogen production that can ramp up quickly and make good use of it.
Yes, a grocery store contains thousands of items, and as always, inflation hits the necessities worst, and luxuries the least (because demand for the latter is "elastic").
That doesn't scale, and it's sometimes even illegal. We /used/ to deal with market failure and make sure basic services were met by creating crown corporations. Imagine that the Westons had to compete with a public company that got basic food goods from the farms to stores at industrial scale and at break-even costs. Heck, it could even lose money in remote areas where people can't currently access healthy food as the healthcare savings would be a great investment. It wouldn't have to be fancy, and it wouldn't have to include anything highly processed -just basic, healthy grocery goods that meet our needs.
The capitalists would do fine, but would have to either actually be more efficient than the publicly owned system, or rely on premium goods for their profits (which they already mostly do anyway).
Fyi, these estimates almost always wildly over-estimate the amount of power needed to electrify everything. When carefully calculated, it's much less because fossil fuel infrastructure is just so damned inefficient. You burn most of it up just getting it from the ground to the engine or furnace, which themselves are wildly inefficient compared to electric versions. The book Electrify! has a detailed breakdown. It's America-centric, but applies to Canada well enough.
Not just the Bruce refurbishments but the ongoing Darlington one. I would definitely not call the grid upgrades mismanagement either. The new corridor from Bruce to the GTA makes expanding Bruce nuclear and escarpment wind possible, and ice storms aren't going to be taking down hundreds of 50 year old hydro pylons anymore. We under-invested for 2 decades, and then had to play catch up, which, yes is an example of poor management, but lets give credit where it's due. There's plenty of success to point to.
This comes across as apathy apologetics. I can tell that's not where he's trying to go, but that seems to be the outcome.
It's also a false dilema. Not wanting to see state-sanctioned abuse of certain groups, for instance, doesn't mean I need to plaster my car in party-affiliation stickers and join the campaign team as a true believer. It just means I might need to temporarily ally my efforts with other people in that particular goal. And that group of people might have a political party. Because that's a system for large numbers of people to have serious policy leverage. I'm not going to do shit all on my own.
This right here. The primary benefit of the matrix protocol would be that a community would keep on chugging as any particular instances go up and down. There would be no "home" instance that goes down and takes the community with it.
This choice is going to see some communities get really big, but then the "home" instance goes belly-up, or makes some, ahem "management decisions" that really hurt the community, and they are going to have to painfully jump ship again and again.
The downside would be higher resource demands for instance owners -but that's a problem that will get better over time, instead of worse.
This is about risk to staff doing the work. Its not like flying back and forth to a makeshift flotilla in a patch of remote ocean might have any risks... err... oh wait.
It can't be reliably enforced (drunkenness can, yes, but anyone can hide a drink), so it just sits there on the books to incriminate normal activities, and occasionally serve as useful tool for police to harass certain people.
Classism isn't just hate, it's ignorance too. What are "normal" ways to use a park are completely different if you only ever see them briefly when you walk through them on your morning dog walk, or maybe to let your kids play on the playground after school. It will take a lot of deprogramming to change the perspective to parks being a place to be, and live life.
Mid density is extremely resource efficient (both in terms of building it, and the infrastructure serving it), and desirable -considering the property values in cities with lots of mid-density housing. It's a shame we lost so many years not building it.
Everyone who is currently about to fail to stay afloat passed those stress tests. Staying "within your means" is entirely relative to the borrowing environment. There's no reason to gloat. You won't win in this scenario -only cash-flush corporations that can swoop in and convert housing to rentals.
I don’t know who is downvoting you because you are completely right.
There's a contingent of jaded people who just want to see slightly better-off middle-class people punished for taking any risk in buying their house, rather than actually seeing the housing market become more affordable for everyone. There's always someone celebrating the upcoming foreclosures.
Good resource management means long-term protection and stability, often at the expense of short-term profits. Boom-bust "jobs" vs stable careers and trades you can pass on to the next generation.