Treating roads as a common collective good is a mistake. That precludes tolls and parking fees to regulate demand for driving, and encourages sprawling subdivisions and prioritizing free flow and driver comfort over safety.
Electricity? Better example.
I really wish people would stop using the roads example for a lot of reasons. Too much road is why we can’t have nice things.
Desssstro where’s the Amontilllllllllado?
We’ve created Robert Asprin’s “by offloading all my work to the demon Aahz I’ve wound up over my head with all my plans in shambles” from the classic book “don’t offload all your work to the demon Aahz or you’ll wind up over your head with all your plans in shambles”
Cobra Commander-ass plan here. It’s the full Sears Wishbook Action Feature Checklist for the new GI Joe Cobra Battle Ballroom Play Set.
If you're complaining about the price of beef you never, not for one moment, cared about climate change.
“Dunk on corporations” may be good for getting the serfs and other left slopulist social media accounts to repost your clips but it’s really easy to accidentally back into counterproductive tax policy if you don’t understand what you’re doing.
One pressing question here is whether a company could dodge a windfall profits tax by turning more of that revenue into new oil production capacity before the tax got to “see” it. Seems like that would be counterproductive to climate goals?
bsky.app/profile/sara... not really collapsing per se but just there’s already a cyclical element here and that’s being amplified by drought and other factors in western North America
It’s especially baffling because the story on beef is super left friendly? A combination of climate change and shitty business practices has led to herds collapsing, which is fine because beef farming is environmentally devastating.
But no, instead we get fast food 🤪 affordability 🤪 discourse.
I've been more pessimistic lately. The most likely path I see is that various flavours of NIMBYism and rent-seeking hollow out any real industry from our country and eventually the Yankees acquire us on spec.
Cyclical ass reasoning
I mean yes an audit will potentially resolve this but in the meantime Fillmore is literally using the audit as evidence that he’s right lol
Morse: why did you audit Halifax water's hiring?
AG: for funsies mostly
CBC’s coverage of Miller’s comments includes more in depth quotes and I think shows that he’s aware of the limits of age verification: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
But ofc LeBrun didn’t post that. 🤔
Similar idea to what I wrote about last summer, Via's Ocean service is bad, and doesn't even try to serve the Maritimes actual population centers
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“Where there’s smoke there’s fire” level trash.
andyfillmorehf× • ... Mayor Fillmore's Statement on the Auditor General's Review of Halifax Water Today, the Auditor General confirmed that an audit of Halifax Water will proceed. This is an important step to strengthen transparency and accountability. Given expected demand driven by federal defence investments, we need to make sure our systems are ready to keep pace with growth. Halifax Water plays a critical role in our city, and my hope is this process will help ensure it is well-positioned for the future. We owe residents, industry, and government partners confidence that the systems supporting growth are strong, transparent, and built to last. MAYOR ANDY FILLMORE Halifax Regional Municipality
Wait I have IG here we go
Screenshot that garbage and feed it into my eyeballs 🧐
What. Spill.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Evan Solomon opposes social media age verification, Bluesky heads explode.
Miller's stance on the matter - "legislation should focus on preventing online harms in the first place" - is 100% correct.
Top: People complaining that a proposed 18-storey development in Old Montreal would be too big.
Bottom: People complaining about rent increases in older, more affordable neighbourhoods.
These are connected! Blocking new buildings puts pressure on the rest of the housing market.
This coincides with a broader move to point-based forecasts versus county/region "zone forecasts" currently used. From what I understand, this will allow EC meteorologists to put a greater focus how significant weather will impact people (such as with the new confidence vs impact alerts).
The logic on the carbon tax side seems to be that the industrial price is where the real meat is, so push that as hard as possible.
On the consumer side, this is why I'm cranky about "affordability" framing that focuses on price level over everything else. You can't do a consumer price with that!
I was also a bit confused by the claim in that post that the EV rebates are paused, but I couldn't work out how to post anything about it without being combative.
Carney seems to be trying to take a different route to the same goal, and I think it's reasonable to question that, but honestly!
"Also a pony"
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Lots of uncertainty and the spectre of various bizarre rolling shortages moving from one industry to another like we saw in late 2020 / early 2021.
Real immediate risk to developed countries seems to be shortages of derived products - are we going to have a plastics shortage? Some product (chips?) whose industrial process relies on helium?
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