In my opinion, the main driver is the financialization of the real estate market. Since Canada is largely deindustrialized, banks and hedge funds started investing into real estate market, and it spread down to the residential housing market.

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/real-estate-investment-firms-financialization-housing-1.6538087

On top of that, 40% of Canadian MPs are landlords or invested in real estate, and 80% of Canada’s federal party leaders are invested In real estate. So, there’s a huge conflict of interest from people driving policy.

• https://www.landlordmps.ca/data-analysis
• https://www.readthemaple.com/80-of-canadas-federal-party-leaders-invested-in-real-estate/

that tracks

same

Canadian values right there.

If you don’t think that people owning the results of their labor is morally correct, then what else is there to say about you.

Uh yeah, and we’re completely and utterly unapologetic about it because it’s the morally correct position.

Oh I lived in Prague for like 3 years at one point. Czech and Russian are fairly similar, so I could pick it up relatively fast if I started speaking it again. My Russian is still fluent.

Never hurts to keep it up, I’m cautiously optimistic with how things are developing in Belarus actually. There’s a lot of cooperation with China nowadays, and it looks like they might move toward having a similar system eventually.

I can say basic things in it now, but not exactly fluent yet. I tend to study 15-20 min every day with this app. It does a mix of vocabulary building, grammar, and pronunciation exercises. I want to get to the point where I have a bit of a base to start from, and then once I’m using it on day to day basis it should go smoothly from there.

And it’s my fourth language, I’m fluent in Russian and English, and I used to be fluent in Czech, but haven’t used it in decades so forget most of it now. Mandarin is a very different experience though. In some ways it’s easier because you don’t have to deal with stuff like conjugation, and grammar is pretty straight forward. On the other hand, reading and writing takes a lot more work, and a lot of words sound similar or even the same while having completely different meanings. So, context becomes really important.

I’m certainly not a fan of where things are heading in Canada. I’ve started learning Mandarin last year and seriously thinking of moving to China at some point.

shocking how that works eh

The government in USSR very much represented the working class. Maybe actually spend a bit of time learning about USSR instead of regurgitating propaganda points you’ve memorized?

edit: I love how mad libs of lemmy get when faced with basic historical facts

And a relevant passage from This Soviet World by Anna Louise Strong

While the vid is talking about disk space, I find that the games are also getting way too big in terms of length with most of the game just being filler. This is especially true for open world games where there’s very little actual content to be had. Most of the game ends up being repetitive fetch quests, or grinding for levels with a handful of hours of actual story sandwiched in here and there. Once in a while you see a game that can genuinely justify its length, Last of Us series is a good example of this, but more often than not games feel long for the sake of being long. Another aspect I’ve come to resent is how games have to pile on different mechanics like crafting because it’s just what’s expected. A lot of the time it doesn’t really add anything and just forces you to do more scavenging quests.

Nowadays, I pretty much exclusively play indie games precisely because they tend to be shorter and more focused. Sometimes less really is more. Viewfinder is the latest game I’ve played. It’s like 6-8 hours in length, and it’s just perfect.

guy should do an AMA on what it’s like to live a life with a single brain cell.

thanks, I hate it 😄

The most disturbing part is how quickly the idea that poor people should just off themselves got normalized in Canada.

I think that it was absolutely unjustified. The only reason emergency powers were invoked was because business was affected by the bridge closure. The government didn’t see it fit to invoke emergency power during the pandemic to help people, but as soon as a bridge gets blocked that’s real shit. This also sets the precedent for is using emergency powers to break up labour strikes when they start affecting business.

:)

You gotta love how every single communism trope actually becomes realized under capitalism sooner or later. Turns out it’s the capitalists who want to take away all your personal property and turn everything into a rental. You don’t own your media, your books, or your computer. Everything, is an internet connected subscription nowadays. As soon as you stop paying, or the company decides to cut service you’re shit out of luck.