Is there a sample instance so we can see it in action?

That looks neat! Thanks for posting it!

We need shelter, but our governments have stopped ensuring it’s attainable.

Tax policy encourages people to treat their home as an investment by exempting it from capital gains. Other tax policy has made the construction of rental units less attractive to developers. Our federal, provincial, and municipal governments stopped building affordable and low income housing. (There’s also the zoning/NIMBY crap, but that’s been discussed to death)

I haven’t seen stats showing businesses own a large amount of single family dwellings or apartments in Canada. Individuals seem to own a lot of condos for investment (with businesses owning a bit less).

Do you have stats showing corporations owning a significant portion of Canadian real estate?

The run up on housing prices forces most Canadians to put too much cash into rent or home ownership. I think the piece is more pointing out there’s a problem. The fix has to come from policy makers, not individual buyers.

I’m pretty sure the Globe has had thick pieces about the housing crisis since the run up before COVID. And they’ve been calling out our shit productivity for decades.

OMG three pieces from the Globe about Canada’s fucked up housing policy and how it’s screwing us.

A connection between two parts of the polycrisis?!

One of the reasons our wages are stagnant is that we aren’t investing in stuff that’ll make us more money - because our housing is too expensive.

Imagine if we had federal, provincial, and municipal governments actively trying to lower the cost of housing.

Did they ever not? They’re both right-leaning establishment parties that represent the interests of the wealthy.

I subscribed to !pacmemes@feddit.org from sh.itjust.works. Maybe you’ll get more traffic now.

It’s absolute bullshit. I’m not surprised, given Carney’s background. But I am disappointed.

Don’t worry! The new Build Canada Homes has 7,000 homes planned for this year, so it’s under control. /s

But what if I want to buy a painting?

I agree. Unexplained downvotes on posts that look like they’re in good faith weaken the platform - it’s slapping someone who spent time and effort writing their idea.

I’ve heard of other systems that require a reason (or comment) to go along with a downvote. That seems like a good approach.

The problem is that this strategy works, as evidenced by the fact that the supposedly environmentally conscious Trudeau government used $35.6 billion in public money to pay for TMX. Carney’s alleged environmental credentials were also easily pushed aside after Big Oil’s sustained anti-emissions-cap PR campaign. Ebel’s comments suggest we’re now facing yet another PR campaign for a West Coast pipeline being built with public money, even though experts have already determined it is highly unlikely Canada will ever recoup the public money spent on TMX.

Canada’s oil industry might not be great at building pipelines, but it has become expert at creating scapegoats for its failures and PR nightmares for even modest proposals to pay for its own pollution.

ChatGPT (in deep research mode) generated this text responding to the prompt: “Provide a list of claims that were originally dismissed as conspiracy theories but were later proved true”.

Well done, ChatGPT. Well done.

Sounds like a tough job.

That’s really sad. I hope the kid got away from that shit.

Does this relate to your AI grandmother post?

It’s gremlins. The cable twisting gremlins. They come at night. I stayed up to catch them. It took 72 hours, but then I saw them.