At this point, it’s just virtue (vice?) signalling.

To be a good member of the right-wing-nutjob club, you have to know all the shibboleths: anti-climate change, vaccine denialism, performative bigtory, anti-urban, performative environmental abuses, transphobia, etc. Tribalism is fundamental to human psychology, and–despite people bitching about purity tests on the left–the right has been purity-testing it’s members, purging non-conformers and othering enemies for a while.

Poillevre knows he must go all-in, lest he be replaced by someone with even less shame.

I disagree.

Jail the CFO and COO too. Maybe the veep of HR while we’re at it.

Taxing their employers to pay for services for everyone?

When I was younger, this was the case on the TTC, and it still pisses me off to this day.

I was a university student, I barely had any money at all. There were more than a few days where it was “do I take the bus this week, or do I buy some extra groceries?” and a full-price Metropass was out of the question. Older people, who owned their homes, had jobs and incomes, and, in many cases, cars, could get a discount. And this was in the 1990s, when old people, as a cohort, had less money than they do today.

Now, I’d rather see lower fares for everyone and congestion pricing for cars, but if I can have that, scrap the seniors discounts before scrapping ones for young people.

For sure.

Tax the rich.

You know what’s interesting?

This is also good counterpoint to the “if we tax the rich, they’ll leave!” argument because, when the supply leaves, the demand doesn’t. Just like here, where Canadian (and central/south American, European, African, Asian, etc) products step up to fill the gap, if a rich person fucks off because we’re asking them to pay their fair share, there’s a really good chance that someone less greedy will step in to fill the gap because the demand is still there.

We spend far, far too much time lionizing the supply side of the economy, but it’s the demand-side that really matters.

Are we going to either ensure people get paid enough to afford houses, or build homes that people can afford to live in?

No?

Then no, it won’t get fixed. Right now, the market is making too much money off of exacerbating the problem, and the idea of government providing solutions went out of fashion in 1992.

This and Marathon were why I almost didn’t make it into University.

We’ve been using “bribe developers” to fill the gap since we stopped building public housing almost fifty years ago. It’s never worked, and it isn’t going to start now

Maybe, and hear me out, here, maybe governments should just build homes directly instead of bribing developers to do it?

The market has no interest in solutions whent there’s very good money to be made on the problem.

Young Americans Are Spending A Whole Lot Less On Video Games This Year

We can increase taxes. It’s an option.

I spoke with a guy who has the Shimano Di2. One of the main benefits is that you don’t have to index the derailleur… it automatically does it and always puts you in gear without any BS.

^^^ This.

Cables work fine when you’re dealing with nine or ten rear gears, but going up from that to eleven or more gears, indexing becomes a problem, and an electrically-operated derailleur that can hit a gear correctly, quickly, every single time is nice.

For casual riders this probably doesn’t matter, since people ride around on badly-tuned derailleurs all day long and just put up with it. Heck, even recreational racers probably don’t need it. This is for guys wearing yellow or polka-dot jerseys around France, for whom milliseconds lost to shifting make a real difference.

I’m nowhere near good enough for this to make a difference for me, and I wouldn’t want the complexity, which is why my commuter has no gears at all–I was tired of fiddling and wanted something that would never, ever break.

I feel a wired solution would be better, more reliable and more secure, but wireless is the new black.

I hate to say it, because it sounds like conspiracy-mongering, but the reason is “Money”.

A lot of people want the narrative to go a certain way, and those people have a lot of money and thusly a lot of influence. That they’re losing control of the narrative has caused them a kind of narcissistic injury, and they’re lashing out.