I’m just here to say what a fantastic channel/magazine name.
I’m just here to say what a fantastic channel/magazine name.
Sorry, should have been more clear. I meant at the federal level. I get that they are somewhat limited in their abilities, but again, everything they have done thus far has _only _made it worse.
A reflection of the state of the world then?
I’ll take my slightly good news where I can get it. I’m begging for scraps over here!
Raising rates will lower prices to some extent. So it should help somewhat. The issue is that’s it’s a very very blunt instrument. It just happens to be one of the only tools the BoC has to use. Ideally the feds would have stepped in at some poi t in the last 15 years to stop this madness…
I mean yeah. Once other “financial assets” become more attractive (bonds at 5.5%?) maybe less parasitical activity will happen in the housing market. The whole thing started going off the rails when rates dropped to essentially nothing.
If you think current home owners have it bad, imagine anyone trying to get in the market now. Not only are mortgages 3X the price, but the houses are 2X the price they were before. The entire thing is completely unsustainable, and yet the Feds have done fuck all. Well no, actually they have made it worse every single step of the way (see the first time home buyers savings account for the latest idiotic idea).
It’s at the point where it’s clear no single measure will solve this issue. What is absolutely infuriating is that NOTHING is being done. Actually scratch that, they are actively making things worse with crap like the “First Home Savings Account”.
Why not ban anything past a primary home? It’s like at a wedding where everyone gets to eat first before going for seconds.
I guess it’s a political non-starter given the number of people who own more than one home…
I just want to know what the actual fuck happened to him. I know a lot of people will say he was always a man-child and there’s some things to back that up for sure. But I swear COVID does something to some people and they just turned into complete unredeemable asses.
Spare some knowledge stranger? That’s a dark path I don’t wish to travel.
Honestly surprised there isn’t more. There’s a lot of money that would be lost if the fediverse became more mainstream.
Just keep kicking the can down the road until there’s literally no other option…
We’re going to need to do something as heavier electric vehicles become the norm. It’s actually kind of insane how many microplastica come from vehicle tires.
Ever feel like you’re just a subject in a giant plastic and forever chemical experiment? Yikes.
It’s poisoning the well though, even if I don’t see the ads. Also they will prioritize inflammatory content to drive engagement, which would affect other instances as well (you know, like they do for all their other apps/platforms).
And corporations are not good or bad, but the for profit ones… are for profit. And I’m sorry but there is no justification for a profit motive in social media.
I see no way they aren’t a competitor. Meta is a company. Companies exists to make money. Meta makes money by driving engagement and then monitizing via ads or user data sale for others to target ads.
Like are we all supposed to pretend a company, Meta of all companies, is an altruistic entity? Because that’s not how it works… At all.
Remove corporations from social networks.
A company exists to make money - period. I struggle to see why Meta making money off ActivityPub is a good thing.
There’s just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn’t need to be there.
The idea of adding a filter between human connection that will distort the message for profit is crazy for a few reasons. Most of all because it simply doesn’t need to happen.
I mean how many of the current worldwide ills are a direct result of algorithms designed to increase engagement through ragebaiting? Disinformation is effective in no small part due to these algorithms making sure you’re made enough to engage and doom scroll. As long as you have a profit motive in these discussions this will be inevitable as far as I can see.
When you imagine a world without Fox/Twitter/Meta/Reddit/Google (not all as culpable of course) force feeding things intent on making you engage (most easily though anger/rage - thanks evolution) it’s hard not to picture a better world. The internet pre-corporate control was a very different place due to a number of factors. I would argue mostly due to a lack of profit motive on social connection.
Honestly, fuck proprietary systems and corporate control. Algos and corporations are literally destroying the world. The fediverse might be one of the most important technologies on the I internet in a very long time. This is a hill I will die on.
It’s crazy (sad) how much we are all starting to have to rely on the EU to save us from the BS.