Glassnoser
1yr ago
When has Trudeau opposed Canadian sovereignty?
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Why should they come down in value?
It doesn't help the younger generation of Canadians now if their parents will eventually croak in 25 or 30 years and leave them the house (along with god knows what owed in deferred property tax. Have fun with that, kids! Edit: actually, maybe this is only a BC thing), nor does it help those who can't bank on an inheritance.
Of course it helps them. They don't have to save as much for retirement or their parents can take out a mortgage and provide them with a downpayment. Their grandparents also own property and their parents and grandparents own REITs and rental properties.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
One of the things thay largely discredited Eliezer Yudkowsky in my eyes is when he, only about a year or so ago, said he had been worried about it being too difficult to align AI for it to be safe and hadn't considered that people might just deliberately design unaligned AI. It should have been obvious that this would happen and so the primary concern should always have been what to do about adversarial AI, not how to align AI, which I have never believed would be difficult anyway, and have become less and less concerned about over time.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Reddit prevents you from commenting too much if you get too many downvotes, and it causes your comments and posts to be autoremoved in many subreddits. Comments are also sorted by scores and comments with significant downvotes are hidden. Personally, I don't care when I find out that a lot of people disagree with me when I know it's because I'm just expressing an unpopular opinion. But I do mind being prevented from participating and I mind that it causes others who with unpopular opinions to leave, which leads to less diversity of opinion and more biased voting. The results speak for themselves. Reddit's famous hivemind results in communities with very little dissent and a sometimes shocking level of agreement on even highly controversial topics, resulting in an artificially narrow Overton window that makes people much less comfortable expressing disagreement.
How can the average Canadian not benefit from higher property values if the vast majority of property is owned by Canadians?
t's generational warfare, and our politicians have picked the side their votes come from.
It's not generational warfare. People are free to give the proceeds of higher property values to their children, and most of them do. It's not the government's fault if some people don't want to help their children. But when the government does intervene and artificially suppresses property values or taxes them to redistribute to the young, a large share of that is redistribution to immigrants or their children. This is the opposite of what the government should do if it wants to help Canadians at the expense of foreigners as so many claim it should.
I have talked to a number of recent immigrants on dating apps, and a huge number are students or recent graduates of a very low ranked local university that I've never even heard of any local going to, and whose student body seems to be about 90% international students. I don't think it's bad enough to be called a diploma mill, but it's not good. It makes me doubt that we're really attracting the brightest people. The standards of the higher ranked universities themselves are dropping. All of these universities have a huge problem with cheating from what I've heard and the lower ranked ones have pretty low standards for passing.
I don't think the immigration rate should take the price of housing into account though. The average Canadian benefits from higher prices. The problem is that cities refuse to allow development. The median voter supports immigration but doesn't want his own neighbourhood to change. And they don't want urban sprawl either. But even if they doesn't happen, the average Canadian is still better off with high property values.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Nova Scotia is also getting a lot of immigration. Most my life, we had very little and there was basically no population growth. Now, it seems like half the population downtown is Indian. I also see a lot of immigrants in smaller towns. Most of them are only here temporarily to get their PR though before they move to Toronto. But the immigration rate of any Canadian province is about as high as any US state.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Yes, but it doesn't count land purchases.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
I don't think they're that concentrated. Every province is getting a lot of immigrants.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
That's not typical though. A lot of that is temporary residents. The government is targeting 500,000 a year, so you can expect that to be the long run average.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Then you're just paying through your taxes, and you're getting far less for your money.
Technically, the NDP and the Liberal Party are not in a coalition which would be if they were both part of the government, but only the Liberal Party is. They support them in votes of confidence, but they don't have any of their caucus in the cabinet, so it is not a coalition government, which we've never had.
high land costs mean new building also consumes more and more GDP
Land costs have no effect on GDP because GDP only counts the production of new goods and services. Existing assets like land aren't part of GDP.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Kulak is a man.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
I thought the only thing that was illegal was that the campaign contribution was not reported. I didn't think the payment itself was illegal.
It seems like a bit of stretch to call this campaign contribution just because it makes him look good. Is them anything you do to make yourself look good a campaign contribution? Alao, reporting the contribution would defeat the purpose of the payment, which was to conceal information. Is it now illegal to conceal information about yourself to make yourself look good while running for election?
Twitter is noticeably worse for me. About 40% of the time the app is in a state in which no images or videos will load. It's full of bots, which I never noticed before. I get follow requests from bots several times a week, even though I have a private account and have never posted anything.
There are more ads and oftentimes I am shown the same ad three or four times in a row. The recommendation algorithm sometimes does weird things. Recently, about a third of the recommended Tweets were in Turkish. I don't speak a word of Turkish.
I do like that there is less censorship, but I don't believe for a second that firing so many people hasn't caused serious problems.
Other companies that have done mass layoffs are having similar problems, though not as severe. Most software I use has gotten worse lately. Facebook Messenger is especially bad.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
No, it's through contact with the Britons, not the French.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
England lost a lot of people to emigration in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Maybe the ambitious ones mostly left.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Nova Scotia does have a lot of people of Scottish descent (including me), but it was actually given its name when the colony was granted to a Scottish Earl at a time when the inhabitants were all French or indigenous and 150 years before Scots began to settle there in significant numbers.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
These don't look like hipsters at all though. They look like preppy rich kids.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
I was describing my own experience, not that of others at my university. I actually didn't really make friends with anyone in university. My friends were all friends from high school and were mostly guys. Most of the women I knew were my friends girlfriends.
I was in engineering at a mid-sized school, so about 85% of my classmates were men. I didn't really know much about the dating life of my classmates, but among my friends, there wasn't a huge amount of hooking up that I was aware of. People mostly pursued relationships that would last about a year to a few years.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Thankfully, I encountered very little of this sort of thing, maybe because I didn't know any geeky women. Good thing, because I was already shy enough as it was. I didn't need any more reasons to be afraid of approaching women.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
In Canada at least, the indigenous fertility rate is 2.7. The Inuit have a fertility rate of 2.8. From what I've heard, they have a completely different attitude towards having children than the rest of the country does. Teenage pregnancy followed by single motherhood after a few years is common and many very young people really want to have babies.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
I don't think that explains much of it. I don't find the women on there to be noticeably higher class on average than the ones on Hinge or Bumble, and despite there not being many East Asians here, most of the women on there are East Asian. The vast majority of educated upper middle class career having women here are white.
It may affect more people than you think. In many cases, it affects men who later go on to have active sex lives, but this delay means they don't make the most of their youths.
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