Tiktaalik

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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
The ideology of Democratic Socialism has always been focused on helping low income and working poor people live better lives, and that manifests in action to put more money in their pocket. I suppose you more often hear about more indirect
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
Decades from now we're going to look at the oil patch lobbyists as the villains that killed countless jobs in NA and enabled China to take over whole industries. You had some politicians like Justin Trudeau that tried to create a frame
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
> - The upcoming EREV (mostly electric extended range hybrid) F-150 truck? This is expected to have ~700 mile range, and of course no charging hassles. Its main advantage over the now defunct Lightning will be towing range. Interesting q
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
The explanation that I'm finding more and more compelling is that this is because there's actual competition in China, whereas in the west conglomerates have been able to carve up the market into fiefdoms and feast, with increasin
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
The EV market is booming outside of NA. EV growth share in Europe is remarkable and Tesla is flatlining there while everyone else advances.
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
Houston is able to scale even with the space inefficiencies of the car by leveraging sprawl. It is remarkably larger than NYC and has room to grow. This is the relief valve I mentioned here: > You simply have to give up and can't gr
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
I'm essentially parroting the (settled and not at all controversial) consensus view of the urban design profession so there's no real end of citation. Though there are few clear cut real world examples to point to because land use
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
No the most eco (and financially) friendly model is high density areas where you can walk and bike to school and work. The transportation costs under this model are effectively nil.
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
The regressiveness issue of tolls is effectively a nitpick compared to the broader more comprehensive issue of how to we create an affordable transportation system for the working class and how do we raise the revenue to fund that through t
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
Writing some xmas cards right now and going to mail them in a bit. It's fun. You should try it out. Fun to go shopping at craft fairs and give some money to indie artists for well made art. Send in the mail with a little note and stay
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
I write color when I'm talking to my American colleagues and colour when I'm talking to my Canadian ones lol.
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
Yes (though I feel it's always had an awkward air about its use, and it feels more polite and high class to use received)
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
Probably not too many! Chronotrigger would be one. But it is remarkable that Warcraft 2 would have been considered a game of the year contender for PC in that year, with similar acclaim to Chronotrigger, but these games have taken very, ver
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
Yes it was one of the most successful PC games of the 1990s, but that doesn't say much today. Have a look at its subreddit and it's a ghost town. Wasn't remade and re-released often since and little to no effort has been put
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by Tiktaalik 10mo ago
This is a really good and I think sadly under played and discussed game. It was very popular in the mid 1990s on release but it seems like it was immediately forgotten about once Starcraft arrived. It's unfortunate because yes it'
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
> Cook is denying that he has any current plans to step down This is one of those political things where people deny something right up until the minute when it happens.
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
This is the economist theoretical consensus justification though in real life tbh I dunno if I've noticed any real difference when looking at housing development patterns across Canada where there are many jurisdictions with rent contr
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
Vancouver has rent control and rents are going down. Though I think the likely dynamic that you're seeing here is rent growth of new build apartments is stalling and reversing, and on renewal with new tenants rents are being revised do
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
Coincidentally at the moment the Canadian government has begun yet again pushing the idea of a new oil pipeline to serve asian markets with the justification being boosting the economy. Remains depressing that somehow no one thinks for a se
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
SROs still a thing in Vancouver as well, though kettled into an ever smaller and smaller part of downtown. There are similar attempts to preserve them. You cannot rezone an existing SRO to a not-SRO, for the obvious reason that this would b
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
Yes I think Japan does this as well. For example in Shibuya Miyashita Park, a recent traveller would find a nice mall here, but not too long ago it was a genuine park, one full of homeless. The government pushed away people with nowhere to
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
> My understanding was that it was the tenant rights movement that killed SROs and boarding houses by making it practically impossible to keep them orderly, because it made eviction almost impossible and compliance with anti-discriminati
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
Unfortunately amongst the few that genuinely are calling for family homes because they need one, there are plenty more disingenuously using "family homes" as a tool to keep "undesirables" of renters, single people, young
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
This is a really great article. The root causes of our problems have been the destruction of affordable housing. Even back in 2007 when the housing crisis was only just starting to become noticible and we didn't yet have a full blown f
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
With the recent boom in tourism in Japan there's been heaps of people coming back after seeing no homeless people, pointing to Japan some utopia with all the answers, and grasping for vague socio and cultural reasons as the explanation
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
I'd heard the 3DO doom port story linked here before and it is absolutely wild stuff. Legend.
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
What's definitely not popular is the prospect of retired old ladies getting 50%+ rent increases. That's absolutely what happened over the pandemic in the Maritime provinces where there was no rent control at all when they suddenly
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
Yea this whole thing really revealed the hypocritical and disingenuous "fuck you got mine" mindset.
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
The new NATO funding requirements are so suddenly incredibly high that the government will probably have trouble actually finding the money to spend something on. So things like this are yeah probably a bit of a money sink to meet obligatio
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by Tiktaalik 11mo ago
It's all downstream of lack of investment. The workers weren't productive because they weren't getting better tools. They weren't out there smashing the new machines to stay in the past, they weren't bought in the f

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