All of it.

He controls the house, the senate, the supreme court, and the presidency.

Even if he didn’t, controlling the presidency and the supreme court likely lets him bypass congress with a little bit of finagling.

47 is a majority, but 46 is still 50%.

The Speaker is the tie breaker, and votes for the government.

A coalition is not required

Don’t get me wrong, I’d prefer they did have to work with the greens, but they don’t.

No shit.

This is literally in the first paragraph of every economics textbook when they talk about tariffs.

Because our economic system is capitalism.

This is literally how it’s all supposed to work.

If you want real estate to be different, you’ll need to get the government to pick something else (for at least this industry)

You can survive on very little, it just will be a lower quality of life than previous generations which feels bad, but you do what you need to in order to get by.

The simplest way to deal with all of this is to actually perform the financial calculations to see what’s the best situation for you.

A $80,000 a year job in a city may actually leave you with a lower quality of life than a $40,000 a year job in the middle of nowhere if you’re spending $4,500 a month on rent for a two bedroom apartment in the city, and it would only be $1000 for a two bedroom house the middle of nowhere.

Calculate some possible budgets for different areas and different lifestyles, and find out what works best for you. Being in a city is not as good as it used to be financially speaking.

If you’re having trouble “surviving” either way, you need to figure out how to reduce your costs and/or up your income.

Common things like sharing a home (with a partner or roommate) can reduce your costs massively, trying to live alone is pretty stupid financially right now.

Learn how to cook things yourself, it’s not hard with Youtube these days, you can massively slash your food budget by not eating out or buying pre-made food. One of the stupidest things I see is people picking up a second job, making very little per hour, and then spending 6 hours of their income on a dinner from a restaurant (eat in, eat out, doordash, etc.). You would have been better off just buying decent meal ingredients for 2 hours of your wage, and then spending 1 hour cooking and cleaning. Then you’ve got 3 hours worth of time back that you can either use to work for more money for other things, or just not bother working at all to have more time for you.

If you’re stuck in a dead end low wage job, invest time in getting new skills that will enable you to get a better job. It’s never too late to retrain for a better position unless you’ve already retired.

We were out for around 18 hours, the longest outage we’ve experienced in a decade.

I know not everyone is back yet, but BC Hydro has always seemed to do a damn good job of coordinating for power outages.

The second part of your statement is pretty weak, those are very rare situations.

Far more useful to point out that a lot of people do it out of despair, peer pressure, or even just for fun while already intoxicated. Someone who’s massively depressed, being pressured by “friends”, or trying opioids for the first time at a party while already drunk are not in their right mind in terms of making an informed decision.

However, the first part is spot on.

We don’t usually blame people who become addicted to things, because it often isn’t as intentional as the OP is making it out to be in their question.

If you’re having trouble feeding your kids or paying rent, then you’re getting all of your carbon tax rebated back anyways in the regular cheques they issue to low and middle income families.

Are all of you anti trudeau people so stupid you can’t figure out how rebates work?

I want her to hire an aide to monitor Johnson’s bathroom activity, and then intentionally join him in the men’s room every single time to make him uncomfortable by grunting away in a stall.

Malicious compliance is the best revenge for this bullshit.

You asked for one example, I gave you one. Literally the incoming commander in chief committing a war crime 4 years ago.

I mean, trump pardoned a bunch of us government contracted (by the military) mercenaries who were convicted(by a US federal Court) of killing Iraqi civilians in 2014. The act of pardoning such criminals is in itself a war crime, and occurred in 2020.

Those of us who paid attention to the election are aware that leopards like eating faces.

If the logic is “selling these is causing war crimes” they’d have to defined the entire US military. The US regularly breaks the same laws.

The fix either has to be so slow “flat” that it takes longer than I have left to live, or it will be seriously damaging to the average family who owns their home.

That’s more just about picking which generations to fuck over, than it is about anything else.

Unfortunately voters tend to be selfish, so it’s most likely they choose to fuck over the future generations rather than themselves.

Vienna has something like 40% of all units as public housing, and decade waitlists where you have to already live in the city to be eligible to be on the lists. Singapore is closer to 90% and still has waitlists, requiring you to get married to get priority and even that can take a couple years.

How exactly does your proposal somehow fix that situation?

I’ve seen no situation in which building public housing of any amount becomes anything but a lottery for the poor, and here especially with all the land already privately owned it would be prohibitively expensive to get to even 10% public housing, let alone the larger amounts seen in some of these other places.

No, the real answer lies with crashing house prices directly. It’s just a Band-Aid we’re going to have to rip off at some point, and it’s going to fucking hurt.

I’ll enlighten you, It’s a bad idea. Engineering intentionally contagious things is far too likely to go wrong.

Can you show me a single place where buldinng public housing has kept prices affordable?

Even Vienna and Singapore, the kings of public housing, still have expensive private housing and decade long waitlists.

I’m not sure why people keep pushing public housing as sort of fix. Public housing is just a lottery for poor people, paid for by government taxes on everyone else. It doesn’t fix the problem at all.

That wouldn’t really work well, I did the math a couple years back, and waiting for inflation to correct housing prices back to “affordable” based on the standard definition in Vancouver or Toronto would take almost a century.

It’s better than nothing, but it wouldn’t significantly help anyone who’s struggling now, or really anyone who’s already been born. A new baby born tomorrow is looking for housing in 20ish years… And if rents stayed the same as they are today and wage inflation was fairly normal during thay period, minimum wage would be around $30 an hour or around $4000 a month full time and a one bedroom apartment in Vancouver or Toronto would still cost well over half their gross income.

If you turned up at their door randomly, and they’d feed you and let you sleep at their house for a night while you’re passing through, they’re family.

In some ways, friends are family too.

Just “finished” Factorio’s new Space Age expansion. Just a few more achievements to collect, but I need to start a couple new runs for those so I will be continuing on with that until Path of Exile 2’s early access in December.