Victor Villas

housing isn’t an acute problem and thus not a crisis

Who’s to say that is the one true definition of crisis anyway? People call “crisis” anything they feel highly impacting, no matter the acuteness.

It isn’t, really. Barely newsworthy, but it’s something.

Also being openly asshole was not a proven model pre-Trump so most assholes showed some restraint in public

IIUC it’s because the BBC has had some dabbling with transphobia. A few admins are inferring that their Mastodon moderation policies will be similar to their editorial practices so it’s just a matter of blocking yet another instance that has a mismatch in moderation policy.

Business as usual on Mastodon, that’s why it’s decentralized in the first place. mastodon.art users who want to participate on the social.bbc instance can just go do so using another instance.

I’d get back to listening “The Secret Life of Canada” podcast if there was an active lemmy community for it :-P

The goal is not price reduction, though. It’s very clearly about making cannabis companies more profitable, so that means less tax burden with constant prices. I don’t understand why the journalist decided to raise that possibility.

IIRC research on the effectiveness of those labels is already kinda thin (would love to be corrected on that).

And if graphical diseases in the packaging like that gangrenous foot is not enough to discourage someone from smoking, I’d bet that adding more and more death threats has veeery marginal gains if any. My intuition says it’s much easier and effective to keep raising taxes on it until it’s more and more stupidly expensive.

It’s funny because in South America, at least countries I know, we don’t have to deal with credit score like we do in Canada. Pretty much everyone has access to credit and most banks just have their own credit system that works better than Equifax. In Brazil there’s Experian doing something similar but banks don’t blindly rely on it and most people don’t even know or care this system exists.

There’s no “spend about 30% of your credit” bullshit. Want a credit card? Here’s one. Want to spend all of it? Go ahead, just pay for it on time. No adults waste time tracking or worrying about credit scores, unless you reach real bankruptcy.

People don’t need the government telling them which forms of caffeine are acceptable.

But they do need the government telling food companies to properly label the shit they sell

I hope too, but I don’t think we’re lacking in examples. People will whatabout any amount of successful examples with the most absurd excuses. Vancouver has had many successes with bike infrastructure and yet the current mayor and park board are still against any meaningful project to advance biking infrastructure.

Indeed, as literally spelled out:

The report states that the decline is largely related to productivity. Regions like Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador, where the economy relies heavily on the exchange of commodities, used to have the highest GDP per person, TD says. Over the past ten years, however, their lead has been challenged. Following the pandemic, only B.C. and P.E.I. have been able to raise their GDP per person levels they had in the years prior to COVID-19, TD reports.

This is a headline just because there’s this catchy tradition of saying “standard of living = GDP per capita” which is misleading.

but perhaps it’s a positive sign hidden in there that insects in general are making a comeback?

I like your way of thinking, but unfortunately that’s not the case :-/

Cheers to more understanding and less aggression in all spaces. I’m sorry for coming across as dismissive, I guess everyone has their things to be adamant about. In the social spaces I’m most often, my guard is up against people who weaponize the imperfection of social movements.

So what prices specifically you think might be affected? Oculus Quest and Pixel phones? Cost per ad on Instagram? YouTube Premium monthly subscription?

Me too, but non ironically.

but i believe they are important and disagree with you that they aren’t.

I’m not disagreeing that your grievances are real or important. I did not say it takes energy away from important issues either. I acknowledged multiple times that everything you said is logically sound.

I just wish you’ll take note of this exchange as one more data point evidencing that maybe it’s not your beliefs that might attract negative responses.

EDIT: I think this is a good moment to short-circuit our conversation, as I feel we’ve just repeated ourselves at least once. As a final word, I also invite you to meditate on why your positioning has attracted pushback while oneofthemladygoats articulated something you resonate with and at the same time managed to have a different perspective on this “both sides” picture. Surely there’s something to learn from them if not from our discussion.

I do think one of them has a pick up point at least, none offer delivery, but I’ll have see if I’ll be able to make that work with a small bicycle basket at a time late enough for me to go after work. I’m also afraid of committing to cycle a few extra kilometers every week with the added weight, but we’ll see.

That’s harsh. But also rings true. I’ll try looking around for CSA nearby again, thanks for the nudge.

i think my experience, even if it were the only one of its kind, should be enough to excuse saying “maybe just make sure you aren’t doing the thing the people you criticize do, while using the same excuses they do.”

That invitation for introspection is a homeopathic dose of the picture you’re drawing, though.

You literally started this discussion with a sentence that puts zero nuance into the claim that both sides bring hate to gender studies discussions. Intentionally or not, you’re framing both sides as spewing comparable amounts of hate. We know that one side is a fire-hose aimed directly at our faces, so I think the criticism that you get is not because people fundamentally disagree with you that “the left can be intolerant” but because that’s tone deaf in this context.

Let’s step back and remember: this is yet another news article about extremist bigots attacking people, and here you are investing most of your energy in this thread to argue that the left can be intolerant. Technically valid, sure. But do you not see the message it sends?

Join a CSA / buy direct from farms.

Sounds good but I can get all my groceries from Walmart and have next day delivery for like $7. I would love to ditch Walmart, but not having a car makes me value the logistics a lot.