sugarfoot00

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I hope that Avi can raise the profile and electoral chances of the NDP. I voted for Heather McPherson in the leadership, but my heart isn't broken by Avi winning. I met his father 35 years ago at a speaking event I hosted, and I have to say that that family are certainly deeply committed socialists. Avi comes by those bona fides honestly. I think the grocery thing is a bit nonsensical in practice, but having a conversation about it (and threatening suppliers with it) isn't the worst idea ever.

on po-tay-toes · c/science_memes · 1 pts · 163d

I never understood why people did this. You can also turn an empty pop or beer can into a pipe so much easier. And they're ubiquitous, unlike apples and potatoes.

on beaver · c/ehbuddyhoser · 2 pts · 166d

Lol. That's weirdly specific. It's probably closer to 'old leather chair in a log cabin with a roaring fire whilst smoking vanilla tobacco', but yeah there are both vanilla and dried fruit undertones. I wouldn't be putting castoreum on my banana split though.

I'm in the PV area. Trust me "all the stuff going on in Mexico" was a brief temper tantrum that lasted a few hours and some cars were burned after the head guy was taken out. Despite what English media wants to tell you, Mexico is safer today than it was before the events of Sunday.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 8 pts · 211d

I love it. No commute, optional shower, no pants. I'm not a very big pants guy, and that's a huge seller.

All the well deserved vitriol aside, there's a really straightforward explanation for this. The Maroun family owns the competing Ambassador bridge, and has been using it to extort cross border traffic for a generation now. This competition is bad for them. And guess what? They're Trump donors. So this is just standard, run-of-the-mill gangster capitalism again.

I agree with letting air out of the balloon slowly. That's what rezoning and densification shoots to do. It is slow because development is slow. But limiting available capital (ie: competing for mortgages)? In what world does that make sense? And if primary residence cap gains aren't exempt, then anybody that had to move for work would get screwed. That's a corporate friendly policy, not a people friendly policy. The goal here is for people to own houses, and for there to be penalties for owning more than one. But that's exactly where policy is right now.

The irony is that decreasing the value of homes really is the inevitability. Because rezoning encourages redevelopment, that redevelopment generally includes more dense and theoretically more affordable housing types. But developers still want to make money, so they are built to maximize profit, not affordability. So it suggests that if they sell, other houses have less demand, and demand will fall. But that hasn't been borne out.