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Jordan7hm posted:I like this slightly more articulate and snarky CI. Ideally you want to strike some kind of balance between practicality and high minded idealism. So while I could sit down and work out on paper some kind of grand scheme for distributing housing outside of the market, it would be a pointless and masturbatory exercise if I don't have the slightest clue how my ideas will be implemented. So I start from the premise that housing shouldn't primarily be an investment but then I try to look at what I've sometimes heard called "the adjacent possible". To determine that I try to look at what our own government did in the past and what other governments are doing right now. And the short term answer would seem to be that some mixture of state built social housing and tighter regulation would be the most immediate solution. Part of that might be mandating that newly constructed buildings include affordable units. It would hopefully also involve the government directly stepping in to fill gaps in the market. Hopefully it would involve cracking down significantly on any law that is already on the books. So, for instance, in cases where AirBnB is flouting the law I'd like to see the state crack down hard on people and start enforcing the existing laws. I'd also like to see something more like this: quote:In World's Best-Run Economy, House Prices Keep Falling -- Because That's What House Prices Are Supposed To Do Of course what I've described is already straining at the limits of what could plausibly be called "the adjacent possible" in Canadian politics right now. You'd be upsetting so many different interest groups simultaneously that even implementing the kind of vague programme I'm calling for would require huge political effort. But as far as a guiding vision I don't think this would be a terrible one: a housing sector where the government is invested in low prices rather than sustaining high equity, a regulatory apparatus that enforces existing laws more stringently and that has an actively mandate to keep housing prices low, an overall government focus on supporting renters more and owners less, and a move away from the idea that planning on selling your home in retirement is a viable method of saving for the future.
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flakeloaf posted:Yes, the tax revenue collected from smokers oughtweighs their medical costs. This claim was made famous by Malcolm Gladwell, noted 3rd party tabacco industry shill, and was based off of a study that Phillip Morris (indirectly) funded in the early 90s order to argue against proposed cigarette tax increases, arguing that the taxes would end up costing the (US) government more by way of medicare/medicaid. It's total nonsense. Repeatedly damaging your body by smoking and being sick all the time uses up tons of medial resources. And, yes, you might die earlier in your life, but that means you lose more working years, and so the tax base takes another big hit. The garbage continues to be parroted by the usual subjects, but it's never been true. The tobacco industry does all it can to put all the blame and consequences for using its products on the users so that non-users, and their governments, don't punish the product or companies. I mean, what are the users going to do, quit? Not bloody likely. But, no, people being sick and dying earlier from both smoking and obesity costs our healthcare system and our society as a whole lot more money than otherwise. Oh, and also people die before they should! Square Peg fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Feb 29, 2016 |
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Outlaw the commercial sale of tobacco and let users grow up to 5 of their own plants.
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Jan posted:Cool, when you get cancer from secondhand smoke, do put on your big boy pants and tell us how that works out. *30% increased risk of developing heart disease or lung cancer. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44324/
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Trapick posted:The danger of secondhand smoke is significant if you live or work somewhere people are regularly smoking*. If I walk by a smoking guy in a park every day or two that's not going to do a drat thing to my risk of cancer. It should be heavily taxed and banned in workplaces obviously, but outdoors it's fine. If butts are a significant problem where you are, campaign for better enforcement of littering laws. Yeah, this. I don't like smoke either but if it isn't being blown right in my face I can probably tolerate it for a couple minutes.
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Count Roland posted:Yeah, this. I don't like smoke either but if it isn't being blown right in my face I can probably tolerate it for a couple minutes. If I were to flatulate in your presence of the sulfur type awfulness, would you still tolerate it for a couple of minutes?
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Rosie Dimanno wrote a racist article and when called out she declined to defend it claiming "some of us have to go to work" ...implying that indigenous people like him don't have to.
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THC posted:Rosie Dimanno wrote a racist article and when called out she declined to defend it claiming "some of us have to go to work" why does anyone feel the need to defend racist sports logos? Good god, let it go. For all of the grief progressive get for being "outrage addicts" no one does it better than dipshits defending this kind of stuff. People don't like that poo poo anymore. Choice quotes from Dimanno: quote:Only the bullies and bureaucrats of grievance could possibly find stereotyping offence in the noble profile of an Indian chief. Originally designed to honour an American army unit, the Black Hawks Division, formed in the First World War, in turn commemorating a Sauk and Fox Indian leader who actually fought against the U.S. government during the War of 1812. You lost. This isn't okay anymore. Let it go.
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THC posted:Rosie Dimanno wrote a racist article and when called out she declined to defend it claiming "some of us have to go to work" Or that whining on Twitter is the worst kind of activism. Or both!
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THC posted:Rosie Dimanno wrote a racist article and when called out she declined to defend it claiming "some of us have to go to work" Neither person involved here comes off well.
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Jordan7hm posted:Or that whining on Twitter is the worst kind of activism. Or both! He does a lot of IRL activism and action not on twitter, in case you weren't aware.
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I challenge anyone to read DiManno's trash article and then defend it here:quote:The Cleveland Indians have endured withering criticism for clinging to their cartoonish Chief Wahoo (actually a brave, one feather) emblem, though he’s been downsized in recent years, with the club emphasizing a blocky “C” on away uniforms. Naysayers object to the big nose and the red pigmentation, but he’s a caricature, and caricatures are always exaggerations. I don’t see where red skin is inherently racist, any more than black or brown. Nor are big noses a feature exclusive to any ethnicity. Yet small groups of Native Americans have staged protests on Opening Day for the past two decades. And every year, polls show an overwhelming majority of Clevelanders opposed to ditching the grinning ’toon. Again, the alleged stereotype is in the eyes of the perceiver. Twitter activism would be trying to measure your success by how many times someone retweets your stupid hashtag or whatever. Calling out a lovely journalist for writing a lovely article and happening to use twitter because it's (regrettably) now one of the main forums for such conversations isn't really "twitter activism" in any meaningful sense of the term, its just public communication. I'm not exactly thrilled with the direction of a lot of modern activism that is focused on this kind of symbolism, but in this particular case I don't see how any reasonable person could fail to see DiManno is full of poo poo here.
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Thanks for this, do you have any other resources to learn more about this kind of thing? As a 26 year old the housing marketing is increasingly becoming something of interest to me, while also becoming less and less accessible as housing prices just go up and up
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If I become an oligarch I'm going to buy the ice dogs and rename them 'the white trash' and change the logo to an image of a working class man sitting in a garbage can
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Helsing posted:I challenge anyone to read DiManno's trash article and then defend it here: I'm a Cleveland fan and would be very okay with a name and logo change. Maybe collaborate with a Native Americans rights organization if you want to come up with something that acknowledges Ohio's Native American heritage, I dunno.
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http://torontolife.com/city/life/john-hofsess-assisted-suicide/ By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead edit: by John Hofsess quote:We worked as a team, silently, efficiently. We had brought two helium tanks in bulky boxes labelled “party balloon kits.” Evelyn placed them beside Al’s bed. She attached plastic tubing to a Y-connection joined to both tanks, so the contents would feed simultaneously into a plastic bag. Our exit bag was 56 centimetres by 91 centimetres, with elastic sewn into a flannelette collar; a Velcro strip was used to seal the bag snugly around the neck. Kafka Esq. fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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THC posted:Rosie Dimanno wrote a racist article and when called out she declined to defend it claiming "some of us have to go to work" lovely racist article it may be, I'd take that comment as more of "It's been two hours since your last one I don't have time to instantly respond to every tweet why did you have to send another one instead of waiting" rather than "lol natives don't have jobs"
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Square Peg posted:This claim was made famous by Malcolm Gladwell, noted 3rd party tabacco industry shill, and was based off of a study that Phillip Morris (indirectly) funded in the early 90s order to argue against proposed cigarette tax increases, arguing that the taxes would end up costing the (US) government more by way of medicare/medicaid. It's total nonsense. Repeatedly damaging your body by smoking and being sick all the time uses up tons of medial resources. And, yes, you might die earlier in your life, but that means you lose more working years, and so the tax base takes another big hit. The garbage continues to be parroted by the usual subjects, but it's never been true. CHI says a Canadian over 50 uses about $4,000 worth of health care per year (PDF) - roughly the same amount as a woman of childbearing age - and things don't start to get really expensive until you get into your eighties when it balloons up to a whole seven grand, and all this time you're probably using that government pension to pay for things like utilities, sales and property taxes. A one-month course of cancer treatment costs way more than that, and you probably aren't doing any useful work while you're getting it.
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I just assume that someone using twitter a lot during the day probably doesn't have a lot going on at the office. It's the reason part of me never really believes PT6A when he talks about his job.
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Kafka Esq. posted:http://torontolife.com/city/life/john-hofsess-assisted-suicide/ I'd have an easier time taking it seriously if I hadn't read the article in a helium balloon voice.
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Canada Goose jackets are so loving ugly
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The Duggler posted:Thanks for this, do you have any other resources to learn more about this kind of thing? As a 26 year old the housing marketing is increasingly becoming something of interest to me, while also becoming less and less accessible as housing prices just go up and up What are you interested in learning more about? My first piece of generic advice would be, if you don't already, to dehumanize yourself and face to CI's Canadian credit bubble thread. Take everyone's opinions with a grain of salt and focus on just reading the articles that people post. In particular look for article authors or blogs that people post that are close to your interests and then read those. Most websites will let you click on an authors name and see a list of all the articles they've published on that site. You can typically find their blogs with quick googling or figure out what books they've written and look them up at a library or bookstore. Especially when reading about housing always check to see what the persons background is as many articles are written by people with a vested interest in seeing the market go one way or the other, or else they are selling themselves as investment advisers and are thus more focused on convincing you of their brilliance and insight than they are in actually giving you useful information. But yeah there isn't really a good starting point, just read a lot until things start to make sense to you. Also don't get too paralyzed by the fear of saying something stupid since it's better to get called out as an idiot on these forums, and thus have the chance to rethink your position, than it is to privately believe stupid things that you're never challenged on.
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Another great example of why letting corporations sue governments for lost profits is a really good idea.quote:A $15 billion lawsuit by the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline against the US government shows the serious threat to democracy posed by special privileges for investors, a new report has said. TransCanada is suing under investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to demand damages following rejection of the controversial pipeline due to its climate impact.
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Andrew Coyne is weird https://twitter.com/acoyne/status/704484423283183616
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brucio posted:Andrew Coyne is weird Rich kids will invariably choose to gently caress everyone else over, the only difference is the degree to which they think we should get hosed
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Hagborn posted:Canada Goose jackets are so loving ugly Oh no, coat chat.
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Kafka Esq. posted:Oh no, coat chat. You know, Frank and Oak have some really handsome coats and I like their embroidered shirts. That's my contribution to Canadian Coat Chat.
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brucio posted:Andrew Coyne is weird conservative>conservative>principled>competent>crazy>stupid>crazy stupid
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Yeah I really love the texture of technical cashmere from the latest wings + horns~
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In case you're all wondering what I really mean to say is, because I can buy such stupidly expensive garbage I am definitely much better than any of you
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Kafka Esq. posted:Oh no, coat chat. Cultural Imperial posted:In case you're all wondering what I really mean to say is, because I can buy such stupidly expensive garbage I am definitely much better than any of you
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Is the Canadian goose new or am I just oblivious. I swear I've never seen that logo before but now I see tons of people wearing it
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Helsing posted:If you read through old planning documents you'll find some really heinous stuff. I remember reading one of the documents setting out a master plan for the Jane Finch area (somewhat unusually the entire area was bought by the province in the 1950s with plans to use part of it for social housing and part of it for what became York University. In the original version of the master plan York's main gate even opened onto the Jane and Finch intersection). The document says something like "Since this area (Jane and Finch) will be noisy and high traffic it will be ideal for low income housing". It's that blatant; this is gonna be a noisy, dirty area, so it's perfect for the poors. I have! Well some of them. The trifecta of the Spadina, Scarborough and Gardiner Expressways would have really reshaped Toronto, and it's impressive that two of the three were stopped. It's a small miracle that Toronto didn't completely eliminate its streetcars. God knows how bad things would be without them. Although I think the real transformation of the city can't be seen in grand infrastructure projects and sweeping building developments but the gradual widening of city streets, the growing pathways of concrete, reclaiming more of the lakeshore, etc. It's boring and difficult to track but you really see modern Toronto take shape in those little changes, even if they have long-term consequences (green to greyscape, restricting pathways to and from neighbourhoods, the economic consequences of plazas and malls). Although by the early 1970s there was a growing resistance to state infrastructure projects for a variety of reasons, from environmental to heritage. Jack Granatstein of all people wrote a community history of one neighbourhood that resisted part of the Spadina expressway that would have knocked over dozens of houses. David Crombie ran on an anti-developer platform and won.
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I have a danier jacket that has been lined. Very comfy, and have had it for like 4 years.
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Whiskey Sours posted:conservative>conservative>principled>competent>crazy>stupid>crazy stupid This is pretty astute. Rubio's jumping on the crazy train now too though.
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Dreylad posted:I have! Well some of them. The trifecta of the Spadina, Scarborough and Gardiner Expressways would have really reshaped Toronto, and it's impressive that two of the three were stopped. It's a small miracle that Toronto didn't completely eliminate its streetcars. God knows how bad things would be without them. Although I think the real transformation of the city can't be seen in grand infrastructure projects and sweeping building developments but the gradual widening of city streets, the growing pathways of concrete, reclaiming more of the lakeshore, etc. It's boring and difficult to track but you really see modern Toronto take shape in those little changes, even if they have long-term consequences (green to greyscape, restricting pathways to and from neighbourhoods, the economic consequences of plazas and malls). This video about tearing down Strathcona provides a good look into the mindset of that era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5I8h1lJjs. I'd love to see something similar about Toronto. They only really did one apartment block before I suppose neighbourhood activists stopped them.
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Helsing posted:Another great example of why letting corporations sue governments for lost profits is a really good idea. Make rules. Populists change the rules for some, but not for all companies. Companies, like all people argue for bias and win damages. Did you take the dumb pills again Helsing?
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Cerepol posted:Is the Canadian goose new or am I just oblivious. I swear I've never seen that logo before but now I see tons of people wearing it They've been around for ages but for some reason over the last 2 years or so they've become super in style and now everyone and their dog has one. I personally think they're super ugly, but to be fair if I still lived in Ottawa and it was -30 all the time and they were the warmest jacket I could find I would definitely buy one and wear it everywhere because gently caress being cold.
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HookShot posted:They've been around for ages but for some reason over the last 2 years or so they've become super in style and now everyone and their dog has one. Hal_2005 posted:Make rules. Populists change the rules for some, but not for all companies. Companies, like all people argue for bias and win damages. Did you take the dumb pills again Helsing?
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peter banana posted:
4 legs good! 2 legs bad!
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