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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Well, except maybe chaos and malice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

The one good thing about this mindset is that building high density housing actually increases the value of any one specific plot of land, since the land is worth like 80% of a home's sales price in the first place nowadays. Even a low-rise apartment will increase the number of units of a single plot of land by a dozen or more, even if each individual unit is worth a tenth of the original plot, it will still come out to an overall higher value. Hundreds of times more if you build a high rise.

So if you can convince people that if you can approve the building of a high rise in any neighborhood at the place of a handful of houses, that those who sell can get double the value of their plot all at once, we can do this.

Even when people think of housing in the insane way as an investment, there are ways to spin things so that they can be convinced it's a good thing even for them. Either that, or we go the way of Japan and China, and the housing prices will collapse to only a quarter of what they are currently worth in less time than they can notice what's going on and sell them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That said, I do believe that Teslas actually contain very little if any Canadian parts, so even a flat-out ban on Tesla imports will likely do little harm to Canadian workers. And while we don't really make much electric vehicles locally, we can import European ones which would help tighten our relations with them as a bonus.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

He's an independent, so unfortunately nothing can remove his candidacy unless if he gets arrested again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

This is why I mentioned France and UK's nuclear umbrella. It's effectively the power of having nuclear weapons without actually having them.

Ukraine had the unfortunate fact that they only got a promise of nonintervention rather than a security guarantee backed by arms when they gave up their nukes.

Either way, while not having nukes might not entirely prevent others from pushing harder to get nukes of their own, at the very least, I believe we shouldn't be the ones starting this trend. It only takes one country with an itchy trigger finger to normalize using nukes in armed conflicts, which is one step away from preemptive nuclear war.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago

Incredible. His plan is to make us more economically dependent on our current greatest enemy, to make our military even more dependent on them.

I don't know if this is pure unawareness, or deliberately traitorous. But considering what Daniel Smith's been doing, the latter won't be surprising.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Personally, I feel like this is quite a level of escalation that I think is a bit too far for Canada. Nuclear proliferation is just incredibly risky, especially when it comes to normalizing the idea of more countries having nukes. If Canada gets nukes, then who are we to say that another country shouldn't also get nukes? What if that country is Iran, or Turkey, or some other country that has a notably loose concept of restraint while being next doors to a hostile country?

On the other hand, nuclear weapons is a form of protection that negates balance of conventional forces, and few imbalances are as great as that of Canada and the US.

For me, I think that we shouldn't get nukes, but a better idea is to help an existing nuclear power to reinforce their stockpile and come under their umbrella, like the UK or France. Canada is already one of the top uranium exporters and a major nuclear energy power, so there's little reason why we can't be a contributor to the building and maintenance of a friendly nation's nuclear stockpile in exchange for their protection.

Not to mention that it'll cut back the risk of proliferation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Since he livestreamed it, I'm a bit surprised that clips of his rants mixed with PP standing with him isn't circulating around.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are we doing Escape from New York on a national level? I'm for it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

As long as most of this money goes mainly towards high density housing, it's not a whole lot but infinitely better than what I was hearing just a few days ago. We don't need houses three hours drive away from work, but homes where people can not only live in, but around.

I really hope this new organization will have the power to ignore NIMBY organizations while listening to city councils for advice. At the very least I hope they get things done directly plotting out and signing building contracts rather than simply instructing and funding individual municipalities and delegating. We can't have people divert this desperately needed money for homes to be diverted towards private projects and making political buddies wealthier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's really unfortunate, but this is completely true. Microsoft has a virtual monopoly on the integrated business suite, and between cost and ease of use, nobody else, nor any combination of competitors, is even close.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mean, did any of those dealers manage those sorts of sales in any month?

I don't know that much about dealerships, but I find it hard to believe that any but the exceedingly most exceptional manage four digit sales in an entire month in general, let alone in three days for a single brand that's been hemorrhaging popularity over the last two years or so.

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