[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

This makes a lot sense, but the obvious question is how do you prevent people from being forced out of their homes, just because the government decides to spend it's money on the military instead of building more cities?

Like right now, if you were to implement that in Toronto, a whole lot of people would be taxed out of their homes so that a developer could buy the land and build denser housing on it.

All the most valuable housing that's near subway lines is already at a relatively ideal density, consisting of townhomes, rowhouses, and semi-detached houses, whereas our suburbs and in-city suburbs are generally not near transit, and thus not nearly as land valuable and not as well suited for density.

It seems like we would end up tearing down all our ideal housing and replacing it with over dense housing, rather than building transit out to the less dense areas where it's needed.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Then youre miss informed about where our housing supply is going and who's driving up rent. Here it is predominantly private landlords.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

It's so wild. I vacationed in Northern England, about an hour south of Scotland, in Tynemouth, and our whole family found the offshore turbines to be magical.

There's ruins of like a massive 4-6 story monastery from the 15th century, and it's wild because the remnants of the one wall, are the tallest thing in town, and have been for centuries. There's literally paintings and drawings going back centuries showing it, and centuries and centuries of people living in the shadow of this partial massive monument that no longer exists.

It's super interesting, but there's also something kind of inherently scary and depressing about feeling like you're seeing ancient remnants of some massive great thing that can no longer be done.

But then at a foggy sunset we saw the off shore turbines it was genuinely uplifting and magical in a solar punk way. Just the blades peaked out of the fog, and similar to the monastery ruins, they looked too big to be created by humans, but these were actually still working. It felt like it was providing a glimpse into our future massive endeavours, and was one of the most magical moments of the whole trip.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

America is not the only place in the world. In places without mass corporate landlords, private landlords happily fill that void and are absolutely still the problem.

Show me a landlord that genuinely finds efficiencies that arent just 'hire a cheaper contractor than they would hire for their own home'.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

This is the first time I've ever actually intentionally saved a comment on Lemmy or Reddit.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

No they don't. They've been profiting off of doing no work for decades. They can sell their cottage if that's what it takes for their tenants to have a single reasonable home.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The French Revolution didn't prevent the rise of French billionaires.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

You're missing the actual issue at play.

That has literally nothing to do with not believing women, and everything to do with buying into a cult.thagvis not an instance of people not believing women, thats a case of people politically othering those women (or men, or whoever) so much that they would always defend their teammate.

Every non-ideologue believed those women, including conservatives in other countries that aren't in a trump cult.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

I'm pretty sure half these articles are issued by the companies themselves just to get people outraged and talking about this, just so that they can test the waters and see how many people will defend it.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 18 hours ago

You haven't actually proven anything, you've just modelled a possible scenario.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

The point is that no publisher demanded anything.

The developers made the game they wanted and launched it and didn't go the way they wanted.

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Business owners on Bathurst are running an astroturf campaign using AI generated videos of fake people to try and stop on-street parking being turned into dedicated transit lanes.

They claim they just want their voices heard, when in reality they're upset that others' collective voices are louder than theirs. They also make nonsense statements like it shouldn't be trade-off, when it inherently is since there is limited street space on Bathurst.

The owners of Summerhill Market seem affiliated with the group but are trying to pretend they're not, and the owner of Minerva Cannabis appears to be one of the leaders of the group, and decision makers behind the AI videos.

A little more info on Blogto: https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/05/bathurst-bus-lane-rapidto-toronto/

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Don't buy those crappy plastic bag-clips to hold chip bags, flour bags, etc closed. They're unsatisfying, they wear out and bend, and they just add more plastic pollution to the world.

Instead buy more binder clips. They're made from spring steel, they're strong as hell, they almost never wear out, they can be used to close bags, as small clamps, as hangers for almost anything in a pinch, and they're amazing for building pillow / blanket forts.

I have some from my grandma that she bought 30 years ago and they work just as well as the ones I bought a year ago. The only risk with them ever is rust, and you can just scrub that off with vinegar, add a brush of paint and it's fixed.

Truly some of my favourite robust little items.

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I can't be the only reddit migrant who often instinctually goes to a given community by typing /r/community, only to be 404d. If the /r/ path isn't being used for anything else, is it possible to have it dynamically redirect to /c/ instead?

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The federal New Democrats backed Conservative demands Wednesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau take part in a televised "emergency meeting" on carbon pricing with Canada's premiers.

The federal carbon price is not the "be-all, end-all" of climate policy, and New Democrats are open to alternative plans presented by premiers, NDP environment critic Laurel Collins said Wednesday.

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