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  • London shelter resident says he’d rather return to streets than stay at modular site

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  • Per the article, it's money the government gives these people in the first place, so it kinda is.

    It does raise the possibility that if the government had just not made it legally impossible to build these things on a normal property, they'd already exist, and probably in a less dumb place.

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  • Sure, absolutely it's a great skill to have just in case. Ditto for preservation.

  • London shelter resident says he’d rather return to streets than stay at modular site

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  • Yes, but he has four walls now, so he's not homeless and can't complain/can be removed from the statistics.

    /s, although that's the vibe of how a lot of systems for poor people work, probably because they're designed by never-poor poiticians.

    Edit: And for what they're charging and in what area, I wonder if these are actually profitable rental units.

  • Canadians could face tax hikes as Ottawa scrambles to fund defence target

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  • Carney is still left enough I'd guess it will be hiked progressively. Maybe flat.

  • Canadians could face tax hikes as Ottawa scrambles to fund defence target

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  • and they made a really astute point that the US’s immense military budget does not exist to produce the most effective weapons (as we can clearly see in their war on Iran)

    Sooo what's the casualty ratio right now?

    They have great weapons, it's just that weapons can't occupy a country.

    Also notice that military contractors give the same average long-term returns as everything else.

  • Canadians could face tax hikes as Ottawa scrambles to fund defence target

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  • Yup. Cutting federal staff worth 3.5% of GDP was never going to work.

    That's fine. Spending on the military is mildly redistributive anyway.

  • relatable

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  • And there's other babysitting-type jobs out there, if that's what you want. Actually that's one sector poised to grow a lot do to AI, because AI needs hella babysitting.

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  • If you're not eating anything else, but still have a year-round growing season, it takes an acre or two for modern agriculture to feed a person. That's a lot by city standards, but not in general (it was more like 60 in pre-modern times). It's basically what the Ethiopians mentioned are doing, plus the cocoa so they can have things that don't grow on trees, as well.

    and will like 30min of effort a day you can have more than enough for your own needs.

    Mountains of human experience suggests it takes a lot more effort than that. Have you had to deal with pests, drought or disease yet?

    You might still come in under 8 hours a day, but then you add in the cash crops... Again, this is something only white people generations away from subsistence farming seem to think will be easy.

  • Avi Lewis is on to something with his plans to nationalize everything from pharmaceuticals to groceries

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  • Well, the people paying the most taxes are doing just fine.

    This specific policy seems like it's trying to alienate people, though. They could have gone with anything besides nationalisation, or at least used a bullshit name for it.

  • Avi Lewis is on to something with his plans to nationalize everything from pharmaceuticals to groceries

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  • Like, radical policies can win, and sometimes aren't even a bad idea, but it just doesn't seem like this one has wide appeal. Unless they win it means about as much as our hot takes on here.

    You know how the Conservative party has gotten further and further right to appeal to their own activists, at the expense of appealing to anyone else? There's a similar vibe with this.

  • BC Premier Eby says changing Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Act is 'non-negotiable' and will be pushed into law

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  • Is it not loading for me, or are there actually just two sentences?

  • Avi Lewis is on to something with his plans to nationalize everything from pharmaceuticals to groceries

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  • Poor people 40 and up tend to vote more Conservative. They strike the same angry tone without any of the complicated or uncomfortable stuff.

    Actually, poor young people are to the right of affluent young people, as well.

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  • So do you have a kind of mixed farm + social media presence thing going then?

  • World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

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  • I did see that report. How embarrassing for the BBC.

    Excellent news, though.

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  • At the end of the day, farmland is going to earn a similar basic return to whatever other capital asset, and while farming labour isn't unskilled the amount of people raised in it means it earns like it is.

    Nobody who says this is picturing manhandling half-dead battery chickens, and it's usually someone white who isn't going to move to the mountains of Ethiopia to farm subsistence crops and cocoa. That pretty much leaves something land-intensive.

    I did talk to someone on Lemmy who made it work with ranching, but ranching is definitely not a good earner right now, and a lot of people are leaving the industry. Modern crop farming seems a lot like a desk job on wheels. Mainly, I think people just want space and fresh air, and have no idea what rural life is actually like.

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  • This Lemming rural-s.

  • Russia wants to legalize cars stolen in EU

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  • I'm not sure that's infuriating at all, when they're already blowing up and hacking neighboring countries. It might mean Europe has to spend more or regulate more to protect their cars, that's it.

  • Moving to rust

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  • Not sure I believe you, TBH.

  • Why this won't be ending anytime soon

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  • They get fantastically accurate results about what they study, which is large-scale voluntary exchange. Much more so than the other social sciences. The trick is just that war isn't voluntary exchange (although it does include it), so other disciplines become really important when it breaks out.

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    Premier says Alberta will withhold funding for judges without more input on selection

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/edmonton/alberta-withhold-funding-judges-9.7072804
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    About That (Venezuela Invasion Episode)

    inv.nadeko.net /watch
  • Would You Rather @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Would you rather glow in the dark, or slowly get bigger when in water, and then shrink back to normal when dry?

  • Geopolitics @sopuli.xyz
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    Xi made his most consequential call to a US president ever. Trump missed the entire point.

    open.substack.com /pub/arnaudbertrand/p/xi-made-his-most-consequential-call
  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    What is there to know about magnetic storage mediums?

  • Futurology @futurology.today
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    Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/ckgyk2p55g8o
  • Commercials I Hate @sh.itjust.works
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    Apparently this car opens up extra parking spaces

  • Commercials I Hate @sh.itjust.works
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    A classic all across North America, at least

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    Carney says a U.S. trade deal without some tariffs is unlikely

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/carney-trade-deal-tariffs-unlikely-1.7585280
  • Computer Science @lemmy.ml
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    What's a concrete example of LIN ⊊ NLIN?

  • math @lemmy.world
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    What's a concrete example of LIN ⊊ NLIN?

  • math @lemmy.sdf.org
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    What's a concrete example of LIN ⊊ NLIN?

  • Polandball @lemmy.world
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    Is there a chance of getting a Reddit repost bot set up?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    What about AT protocol?

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    An article about Project Arrow, an all-Canadian EV

    www.guideautoweb.com /en/articles/76498/project-arrow-gets-an-additional-7-million-from-ottawa/
  • History @lemmy.ml
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    A chain of contemporaries, featuring guys (and gals) I've heard of.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    So how is not buying American going for you?

  • Speculative Evolution @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Has anyone ever done a Speculative Evolution book or work on Carcinisation?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    What's some good FOSS news?