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It's in the linked source.

No, it is literally just comparing similarly sized jurisdictions.

Every state above 2M

He makes the case that we should allow high density towers because people want to live in high density areas near transit and jobs.

But that seems like a rather flawed argument, given that we do not have affordable low density areas near transit for them to choose.

People don't actually want that level of density, they mostly just want to live near transit and near to their jobs timewise.

If we built out reliable, two way, regional trains to other small cities, and built LRT and subway networks in them now, at their current sizes, then we would be able to see whether people actually want to live in high density towers, or whether they would choose lower density, still transit connected, options.

The idea that we don't have the resources to do that is absurd. We 100% easily do given that we did it before, we just need to tax the wealthy.

Tearing down dense townhouses and multiplexes to build towers is destroying optimal housing to race for the bottom. People simplifying the housing issue down to 'all nimbyism is bad and must inherently be equally bad' is absurd and just let's corporate developers build dystopias.

Whenever you buy Canadian made products, you're giving yourself a long term discount you don't see at the register.

It means that many more fellow residents will have a job and aren't taking EI and government services, and are instead raising the overall tax base, making the taxes you pay go even further.

If you're basing that on Subnautica Below Zero, it's worth noting that basically the whole creative team is different, not just the composer:

Subnautica credits:

Director(s)

        Charlie Cleveland

  

Producer(s)

        Hugh Jeremy

  

Designer(s)

        Charlie Cleveland

  

Programmer(s)

        Charlie Cleveland
    Steven An
    Max McGuire
    Jonas Bötel


  

Artist(s)

        Cory Strader
    Brian Cummings
    Scott MacDonald


  

Writer(s)

        Tom Jubert

  

Composer(s)

        Simon Chylinski


  

Subnautica Below Zero credits:

Director(s)

        David Kalina

  

Producer(s)

        Charlie Cleveland
    Cory Strader
    Max McGuire
    Ted Gill


  

Designer(s)

        Alex Ries

  

Artist(s)

        Cory Strader

  

Writer(s)

        Jill Murray
    Brittney Morris
    Zaire Lanier
    Tom Jubert


  

Composer(s)

        Ben Prunty
  

To be fair, they didn't gut the original creative team.

Max McGuire was CTO and a programmer on the original game, Ted Gill was President and a Producer on Below Zero.

Charlie Cleveland was current CEO, and the director and lead designer of the original game, so was the head of the origin creative team, and that does seem like a big loss, but no one else from the art, writing, or design teams seem to be leaving, so it's not really a 'gutting' of the original creative team.

My guess (especially given how buggy Subnautica was), is that they were missing their delivery milestones so the publisher wanted to replace the organization heads and move at least Charlie Cleveland back down to a creative role, but they refused and left together.

If this hasn't remotely been your experience, how do you know rainbow flicking fixes it?

It doesn't fix it, it's how you avoid letting get that close to you.

The game is widely known to have multiple bugs affecting gameplay, from lags and desync issues, to crashes and even teams changing colour mid-match. In this case, and this is the second time I've seen it, the ball glitched into the ground after randomly bouncing around the pitch following a shot against the post befote finally getting stuck. It couldn't be interacted with at all.

Well if this is a bug, you should probably make that clearer, because again, have not encountered a single bug.

This has not remotely been my experience. It's also incredibly easy to avoid getting into this situation by rainbow flipping.

F tier click bait. Literally nothing informative was said in here.

Costco is publicly traded and has a maximum markup of 14% for selling you physical retail goods. Apple tries to charge developers 30% for hosting a bunch of exes in cloud storage.

Apple is a piece of shit company run by piece of shit people. They have for their entire history disregarded environmentalism or fair pricing, and have continuously built intentional incompatibilities to try and gouge consumers out of more money.

They still owe society at large hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in wasted time and costs for their decision to reverse headphone jack polarity for no reason 20 years ago when they introduce the iPod. Let alone every other walled garden bullshit move and 30% app store mafia fee they've charged in the two decades since.

Apple is such a piece of shit company.

While I agree that we should allow more six plexes and multi plexes in general, the entire housing problem is in reality a transportation problem, not a housing one.

If we built reliable, 24/7, two way trains out to Barrie / Peterborough / Guelph, and those cities had streetcar networks within them, then we would have an exponential amount more space to work with, and density would naturally follow the train lines as people try to live close to them.

It is problematic that our "solution" to the housing crisis is to tear down reasonably sized single family homes and replace them with cramped shoe boxes sized condos and apartments. Really rushing to all be miserable living in Tokyo and Manhattan rather than trying to build out more of the rather ideal streetcar suburbs.

Yeah for new installs but service for the existing unit might be like $200 for a cleaning and it’s certainly going to be cheaper to run in the long run

No, it's not necessarily.

From an electricity usage standpoint, it's cheaper to inefficiently cool one room than it is to efficiently cool a whole house.

Cleaning it also may solve nothing, it's $200 on a chance of it solving the problem. If cleanliness wasn't the issue, then you just wasted $200. On the flip side, you can find a used window AC for $200 easily, or buy a new one for $400 and then sell it when you're done with it and get $200 back, and it is guaranteed to solve your problem assuming you're concerned with a specific room.

Fuck off with this bullshit.

Showing support for people who are being genocided is not politics, it's human.

It is bullshit right wing false equivalency nonsense that tries to convince everyone that everything is politics and thus everything is subjective and equal.

It's not. There are very clear core human values and it's not hard to support them. People who call that politics tend to be evil.

Lmfao. The audiophile community would burn you at the stake.

The original paper's not on sci-hub so I can't read it, but I highly doubt that.

It seems to be based on survey data, so it's already suspect, and none of the coverage of this mentions the obvious question: did they also track for increases in purchases of grocery sized bags by consumers?

Because we got rid of plastic grocery bags here, but people still need to line their small home garbage cans, so they end up buying a box of small plastic grocery sized bags instead.

It may still have helped reduce their usage overall, as MD bags optimized as bin liners might be able to be thinner and less robust, but I seriously doubt they're tracking all that if they're seeing numbers like 91%.

He signed a contract with a fake company to build a private spa on public land, and part of that contract mandated that the government build them a massive parking lot within 650m of that spa.

Of course, because the spa is on a man made island in the lake, that vastly limits where that parking garage can go, and makes burying it extremely expensive, so instead they're proposing a massive wall of a garage that will block the view of the lake.

Flat out incompetence.

Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control, and Alan Wake 2, are all some of my all time favourite games.

Going to wait for the next patch before trying out FBC Firebreak, but I'm excited and can't wait for the Max Payne remakes and Control 2.