Very funny

Or better, help people transition away from American products. 50% tongue-in-cheek (it’s hard to help people make that change for a variety of reasons, but hey!)

Are they meant to “go somewhere”?

It’s not that simple though. Sure, they can buy new properties, but they can only buy so much. We’re talking 500k new homes per year.

You could aggressively tax people who own multiple homes, but it doesn’t address the fact that there’s a clear lack of housing for the population. Property investors are just one part of the equation.

And if the rich does snag up a lot of these units, we can then talk about taxing these people, or perhaps limiting purchases of affordable houses only to first-time buyers or low-to-medium income households, creating a sort of loose air gap between the two markets (luxury and affordable). In any case, your worries are without solutions, but those houses need to be built regardless.

We’re in a trade war.

But let’s reduce income taxes so that the government gets less money to run long-underfunded public services, maintain long-ignored public infrastructure, and fight the war. Oh, did we forget about the promise of some amount of financial support to people affected by the trade war.

Yeah, that makes sense.

/s

I took at look at the synopsis of The Cult Smashers, and I wonder if it’d be easier to reach a wider audience if readers were going into the stories not armed with their presumptions about Jan 6th, not primed with the understanding that they are reading a book about human politics. These are what many would consider “heavy topics”, that some would think they should set themselves up mentally before diving into them. Perhaps it’s easier to start the story with something close enough to life to feel relatable, evoking some sort of emotional familiarity and hence comfort with the initial premise of the story, as it unravels and reveals how that world, where things work differently from ours.

As far as decentralized and the open source movement goes, I’m glad it’s actually gotten to a place where it feels somewhat comfortable and isn’t just scaffolding all around, always at the verge of disappearing into nothingness. It is difficult for such a culture to continue surviving in the sort of… societal climate (shall we say) that we have today, but I do believe that the seed has been planted, and it will always continue to exist in some form.

That said, Nature (as in, Ziran, or shall I write 自然) will take its course, but I do think that even its destruction, at least in the context of Earth, is a very possible future, thanks to the extended deviation we humans have taken. Climate change is itself a way Nature presents itself due to the changes within, and we already know how it can be the most unforgiving and violent phenomenon we humans have witnessed. We will be eliminated, lest we as a species realize our connection to Nature and its Path / Principle / Order.

Of course, if we exercise some optimism, it’s not impossible that a more grassroots form of a more cooperative society that values knowledge, as a subculture, would take hold. There are forces that seem to try really hard at fighting it, many of which are people who are well-known to us today, and they do win some of their skirmishes, and seem to have gathered enough of their forces to have brought us into the turbulent times we’re in today, but it has also shone a light on what’s at stake and what do they fear. As always, as where there’s despair, hope can be found.

This was an interesting article. Thank you for sharing.

The final two sentences hit me rather hard, despite being someone who just got into their 30s.

I tend towards a more pessimistic opinion that people have very little control over the Dao and instead it simply follows its own path.

A lot of people are very emotionally driven, and inexplicably and unknowingly believe in some kind of destiny, and that some path is already set out for them and they are meant to only walk it. And we see this reflected in basically every major religion, and even the irreligious are sometimes bought into it.

I don’t know how exactly we can change enough minds to help people look at the world around them, and their relationship with it, differently. We could create a grand story with a fictional world that follows those principles, not really in a mythological or religious sense, but simply a story of a different world. It may not immediately garner a sizeable following, and would definitely take a good storyteller to come up with interesting and perhaps even gripping stories that could change how we view life, but perhaps I’m just trying to force myself to be optimistic about humans.

I think you’re either quoting the wrong article, or misread the article. The article talks about the new ownership of The Observer, which is a sister publication to The Guardian.

It’s odd that this “The Standard” publication is the only one that seems to talk about the selling of the Observer and how it was handled, with some even smaller publications. That said, The Standard is majority owned by a Russian oligarch, sometimes sensationalize titles and events, and don’t always have their facts right.

Just to add to your comment, case in point, The Guardian sometimes covers Canadian news, and has recently published a bit more about current Canadian political events. They operate mainly in the UK but have a US office. They are independent and don’t have a corporate backer, and have been working relentlessly covering the events in the US since the new admin took power.

Digressing a bit, I’d urge people to use tools like GroundNews to find out the political leanings and maybe even the corporate owners of news outlets that you come across, and use that to your own judgement.

They’ve been spamming some attack ads about some fake strawman Carney on YT pretty damn aggressively. And idk if I’d ever call whatever they’ve had these last couple years a platform.

Thank you for the message. I don’t find your message to be as much of doomerism than you’ve warned upfront, and if anything, I think you’re being really optimistic, though not in a bad way.

On the topics mentioned under The Carrot, as someone’s who’s technically inclined, I’m not sure if I agree on finding new companies here just to replace the American ones, as it feels like we’re possibly leading ourselves down a similar path where few options exist and money, and power, ends up getting centralized and controlled by random individuals, leading to a possibly oligarchic scenario. What would stop the stakeholders from these companies from installing someone who would place profits before people, if not slowly replacing CEOs over CEOs as they slowly go down that slide? And we already have great decentralized options to replace many, if not all, of these services. Sure, they still have usability issues, but I think things, in this alternative tech landscape, are already in the right direction, even if they aren’t great and may even require a complete rethink. “There is opportunity, but we shouldn’t seek to just replace what’s lost as is,” is what I’m trying to say. If anything, Canada’s been a bit behind as we’ve relied on the US for so much for so long.

Never subbed to Netflix so don’t know the shows there, but that exists, that’s funny as hell.

I just thought the “flying” part was apt when I heard it cause chickens don’t stay in the air for long enough to be a menace.

There’s an even better name: whispers flying cobra chicken

You’re the kind of Trudeau lover that no matter what evidence is presented, you’ll always believe that he’s just some kind of freaking god. He’s gone, good riddance. May we never hear from him again. Go cry in your cereal lol.

Quoting your comment for posterity.

I didn’t even talk about Trudeau or how much I like him or not, and literally gave you a chance to explain what you’re trying to say through the link.

But I think we all see what kind of person you are now.

How about you go back to your little hell hole?

Sending a link to some opinion piece that doesn’t even discuss the topic at hand is kinda weird. Care elaborating on how these two things are related?

“Let’s give the CEO big bonuses instead of investing it back into our failing business that desperately needs that money.”

Says, apparently, no one at Intel.

Edit: I just realized my punchline was off but I’ll leave it as is anyways. You get the point.

More like most of the suburbs and small towns just outside larger cities did. Most large city centres all voted for either Lib or NDP.

弾幕 (read: danmaku) is literally translated as “bullet curtain” to refer to a barrage of bullets that are so close together they form some kind of veil, or curtain. But yeah, it’s what we know as “bullet hell” in English.

I’ve seen Vampire Survivors referred to as “reverse bullet hell” at some point, but didn’t look like that stick.

Says the guy who literally decided to slap tariffs on Canada over a flimsy pretext.

If his goal is really to depreciate the USD, he’s doing a fucking good job while sabotaging Canada at the same time. Not sure if he thinks this’ll make Canadians consider moving their businesses there, which is one of his goals, but this is also a man-child who doesn’t understand empathy and assumes everyone works like the stone-cold (failure of a) businessperson he is. There’ll be some who’d do that, but idk if they’ll find a depreciated USD all that alluring to earn. Trump essentially wants the US to become China though, as the global factory of sorts, and wants to force others to buy US products, in a way that so far seems to be more heavy-handed than China, who typically looks more for weak points and pressures other nations into buying their products if they don’t already buy enough. He claims that this’ll make Americans rich, but in truth, this only enriches the rich, just like, well, right in China.

Might be my dumb 2 cents but it’s what I’ve gathered from the material consequences of his actions so far.

“Investing in public infrastructure” is not a term I’ve heard from any government in a long time and it saddens me.