Rentlar @ Rentlar @lemmy.ca

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To give you a better idea, the comments for these were like:

• they deserve it
• bad choice carney
• no they should lol

Without elaborating beyond that.

Check the fellow's profile... whatever the headline of the post, imagine the removed comment saying the opposite sometimes with a 'lol' in there.

I question what that policy will look like though. All house listings must be set to 20% of their 2024 assessed value or last MLS listing?

What I'm hoping to see is government creating non-market housing, but even if not, the government spurring building new affordablly built and dense standardized homes will provide enough places for homeless and struggling people to live.

It's not just creating the market conditions and then sitting on our hands whistling, but actually acting as a housing developer that forces the rest of the market to compete that will bring prices down. Legislation won't, it will just be a boon to the "can we find a loophole around this" business.

I'm not using an app that lets me tag users, but I've marked you in my head as a contrarian.

I watched this episode last night and I found Robert struck a surprisingly optimistic tone. It suggested to me that Mr. Reich has more of a sense of trust in the American system than I do (and that could be because I'm not American).

On one hand, my gut tells me that sitting back, looking smug and saying "Trump’s approval rating on everything is through the floor" is not going to fix anything and is not going to stop the administration from trying to assert the Presidency as a dictatorship.

On the other, when courts had come to the conclusion that Trump's "trade deficit emergency" tariff power was illegal, was a rare moment of Trump that might actually be put in check for once. It felt like a turning corner, and what I can hope for is that Americans learn the purpose of what democracy's nominal guardrails were supposed to protect against, by seeing what happens when you let someone enact Republicans' pipe dream. As Robert said, Americans are learning "from first principles" on why we don't make President's kings (the Unitary Executive Theory).

If democracy survives, this is the Republicans' ship that will sink with Trump. Perhaps Democrats will follow Republicans down to ruin (as a matter of fairness and decorum), but they have right in front of them a golden opportunity to reform themselves, if there ever was one.

They will be setting off on another sailing soon.

People here in Vancouver talk a lot more about how terrible the "heat dome" summer was than any of the atmospheric river rainfall events from the last few years. Canada's no stranger to the negative warming effects of climate change.

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That's what I call making use of Nature's gift.

I don't think there's an amount of ketamine that would have me doing this, though, even by accident...

Use ten words in your post without CAPSLOCK in a row if you're under duress, Mr. President.

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You forgot that for whatever reason we have to have an acronym in our acronym.

Okay good, as he should. Minister Hadju is on a better starting track with this than MacKinnon.

Oh. Tariffs are back already, kinda, kinda not (an appeals court granted a temporary stay, so the tariff halting has halted).

Your comment highlights one of the difficulties I find with going between treating someone exactly as you would anyone else, while also dealing with particular sensitivities or sensibilities of that person. Even trying to describe how to be less offensive, includes wording that can sound offensive to some, justifiably so based on experience.

But all in all, I think most people will recognize good faith efforts and accept quick apologies and corrections when we make mistakes. We're not perfect.

So the whole thing about FOSS is that at its core, someone could add malicious features or whatever to a codebase, but it can be discovered if people notice adverse effects and dig into it.

Like that one supply chain attack by "Jia Tan" on xz tools, that was quite nefarious, well planned and executed, yet some nerd noticed a slightly longer than normal response time and looked into it (a gross simplification, some luck might have been involved but you get the point). If it were a closed-source proprietary tool, the owners would shrug their shoulders and gaslight people into believing it's nothing.

That's why people make a fuss about binary blobs in FOSS code, if anything unwanted was happening, it could always be from there.

My personal level of checking is ensuring that I have gone to the correct official source, but I will generally have to trust the builder that was linked from that source did not modify or inject anything.

This sounds like something a programmer would come up with as a joke, but because it's Microsoft, I believe you.

I could scrape by with $16k a year, even in a high cost of living area. I'd have to get a roommate or find other creative living arrangements, and sacrifice a lot of my current life's comfortable trappings, but I could do it.

My main question is, should it be one minimum income across Canada, or adjusted by municipality through its own metric or using the military stipend rate as a baseline?

Carney wants to talk a big talk on efficiencies. Streamlining welfare to achieve the basic goals of: is an individual's health needs met, is an individual's housing needs met, is an individual's basic expenses needs met, would likely reduce a lot of the duplicitous services that oversee small segments of people's needs.

I know MP Leah Gazan would be happy to see this come to the House of Commons. If it does I'll let my local MP know I support it.

Where's Ron Vara when you need him?

Your opinion is obviously not very popular, and I also think it is flawed, but I will say I appreciate you coming here to try to discuss it.