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Well that’s good news — at least it’s one-and-done and won’t divert resources and money from SNW.

Whaaa… Wasn’t this going to be a show? When did that happen?

My expectations for this show could not be any lower.

Their premise is that the free market drove up the price of houses. Deregulation that is to say end of social housing programs led to this.

Yes and no - lack of supply led to this. It doesn’t really matter where the supply comes from. More social housing would certainly be good though.

Is that not neo-liberal? High construction costs come mainly from high cost of labor. The market driving up costs isn’t free market?

Do… do you think that business owners like having higher labour costs? I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone on the left complain about higher worker wages.

What protectionist policies are there?

Try building a residential property and see how many hoops you have to jump through.

When have property values been under threat of dropping.

If supply were to increase, prices will drop. This is good for everyone except those who think their house is a retirement fund.

They’ve been ever increasing due to market demand.

You forgot half of the “supply and demand” equation.

You say “lack of good investment”. Others say investors determined housing was a prime investment.

Exactly… Whereas housing shouldn’t be an investment. If its value outpaces inflation, it becomes less and less affordable to new buyers.

It sure would be nice if folks on the left stopped using the term “neoliberal” as shorthand for “something I don’t like”. Words have meanings. A neoliberal housing policy would be a bunch of 5-over-1 in mixed zoning. The housing crisis is caused by many factors:

• sky-high construction costs
• restrictive zoning
• lack of co-op condos due to insufficient startup finding
• protectionist policies designed to shield homeowners from any drop in property value
• too-low interest rates for the past few dacades
• lack of other good investment options
• increased prominence of REITs and real estate holdings in pension funds etc

I don’t know how price sensitive you are, but check out Asket.

Huh?

I don’t know enough about New Brunswick politics to be certain if the cruel and needless anti-trans policies Higgs imported from the Benighted States of America are the reason he’s finished as premier of that beautiful Maritime province and even as MLA for the riding of Quispamsis.

In large part, yes. It even triggered a near-coup in his party last year. The Sask Party also barely eked out a win this week, which is hardly an endorsement of this brand of nonsense.

Then again, it’s Alberta we’re talking about. They’ve always had the most right-wing dirtbags ruining it for the rest of the country.

Last time someone did that it triggered a conflict between Serbia and Albania!

Worse still, Hasan isn’t Arab at all. He was born in the UK to Indian parents.

I can absolutely see how the greedy would get scammed by this.

Really? The only way that could sound more like a scam is if there were a chyron at the bottom spelling out THIS IS A SCAM.

I must be of a generation before yours, because my mind went somewhere likely very different than what you expected when posting this…

Kirby

I wish they had agency pricing. Buying a license for every install is a bit much.

AI-assisted technical analysis

I’m definitely going to use this euphemism from now on.

Geddy Lee devoted an episode to her in his show: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29623935/

Thanks for clarifying, I didn’t know that. Seems like a bit of an overreach to me, but I suppose in this particular case it’s best to err on the side of caution.

I think this was a crime because he modified images of actual kids. If the images were 100% AI (not of real people) I’m not sure on what basis that would be considered a crime, no more than a handmade drawing of a nude minor drawn from imagination.

This isn’t a war crime — you may be thinking of the war crime of transporting military personnel in vehicles with medical markings (red cross, etc)