Right but only some are the government targeting a price (e.g. the lower downpayment for mortgages under $1.5million), but the bid to build housing does not have a similar target or parameter for housing prices on the market, since ostensibly the crown corp built housing will be a mix of market rate apartments and condo units, below market rate apartments, and supportive housing.

Probably the answer is in the sense that the government’s focus should not be where the prices should be but whether there are sufficient homes people can house themselves in.

Journalists across the country and the world right now are grilling everything Carney and his team are doing, trying to catch them in a lie or something despite just being elected this past month. To be fair it’s their job to ask hard-hitting questions that people want answered but I find their questions’ focus frequently misplaced (e.g. asking Carney about stuff Trump talks about).

Klarna: Fire Now, Pay Later.

I called them both this, so I see how it could have been interpreted in the opposite way I meant.

This looks like Part 2 of this comic

Yeah, thanks State Department, I’ll stay in Canada.

The cost of a 150k SUV to Shaq is like the cost of adding a side of fries to you or I.

It’s been about 3/4 of a year since I have stopped hearing excuses about how the life-supporting infrastructure, facilities and children Israel is attacking is somehow Hamas.

Now in the last couple months, Israel seems to have dropped most pretenses and are clearly stating plans to annex Gaza and kill its former inhabitants en masse. Ceasefires have been proposed, agreed to mutually then broken by Israel. Those facts have finally percolated to our institutions which is why I think you are seeing more negative action.

No. I overcook my meat but I don’t really care since I don’t eat it that often at home. Just another thing to wash up afterward.

The excuse is that they rotate products to what’s on sale but not the buy local sign. And on an offhand note I also notice there are a lot of deals on American products since demand is plummeting and retailers are a bit desparate to clear their shelves of them.

But still, that is misleading marketing to put the buy local symbol next to a product that is not local. Each province has a consumer protection office, probably take it up with them.

May is really getting into peak travel season so if this continues it will really show in the year over year numbers.

Lemmy.ca is currently feeling smooth as butter for me, though there is indication that lemmy.world is having issues at the moment and some pictures are loading halfway. Not sure if it is related to or isolated from last night.

Hitting an adjacent location: “Miss, but my F18 just fell off”.

I did get a motion grey height adjustable desk, made in canada and they’re great quality.

It’s riskier, but Carney’s got 20 years experience in managing financial risk. It’s a bet I’m willing to take, since incentives to private developers have only gotten us so far. High risk high reward and all, and you can’t get anything big done if you don’t think big.

Fraser Institute: “But what if, we could get tax breaks for the rich and disguise it as nation-building? Hohohoho, delightfully devilish, Fraser.”

Okay. I respect that that’s your decision. Have a nice day.

I find that trashing on all of Lemmy development and lemmy.ml from nutomic’s one questionable stance to be a little idiotic, but that’s just my opinion. Those things are the work of more than just one person. Dessalines is a heavy lifter in moderation and development, and they’re pretty decent. Various contributors have provided code/features, translations, apps and interfaces to Lemmy. Moderators of all server types have their own opinions on stuff.

But to an extent we all have to put that aside, because face it, perfectly sanitized opinions have nothing to do with code quality. We all have a couple shitty opinions, but what makes someone a decent human being and not a bigot is recognizing where their actions and opinions cause harm unto others and try to minimize that. This harm reduction can include changing actions and opinions, but it can also be keeping harmful actions and opinions away from people it would harm. This is where Ada probably sees banning nutomic from the instance as sufficient rather than all of .ml

Yeah, the whole China/Russia can do no wrong sort of thing is a pervasive problem on Lemmy.ml, but likewise they keep moderation of that to within the confines of their instance. The running costs of a server are virtually nothing compared to cost of working full-time to maintain software, so most donations don’t really go to hosting the .ml server itself but rather to development. I don’t personally agree with the .ml admins on many things, but I’ll defend them for allowing others to run online communities how they want in return for letting every one of us do the same. I’ve likewise defended Ada’s decisions on how they want to root out transphobia from their server, that’s their choice, and so far it seems to have served Blahaj users well.

With the Nazi-bar argument that I presume you are making with Substack, where’s the line?

Should we stop using the Internet because Nazi views are expressed on it? Should we stop using our toilets because Nazis also flush their shit on the same sewage system?

Don’t let Musk or his companies anywhere near these projects. He and his team are experts at turning actual infrastructure into vaporware.

1. I think the congestion pricing zone is a step towards making the core of manhattan a car-free zone.
2. Jason (NJB) already says in that video that some trams are often a precursor for larger-capacity metros. Ridership volumes across the city are beyond what trams can effectively provide. Much of Manhattan already is crisscrossed with metros galore, but need funding to keep it in a good state-of-repair and maximize service capacity and uptime.