Funny, I feel the same way about Fallout and The Witcher. Just… don’t get the appeal. As always, to each their own. Hence why I generally try to avoid yucking other people’s yums.
Just this guy, you know?
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My tenants are living in a house that they wouldn’t be able to afford on their own in today’s market.
Yes, but: why is the market in the state it’s in? It couldn’t be because a large supply of housing is locked up by landlords, thereby artificially curtailing supply and driving up prices…
zaphod@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Housing Crisis, Packed Hospitals and Drug Overdoses: What Happened to Canada?English0·1 year agowhen taxes have increased dramatically since then too
No they haven’t:
In 1961, families paid 33.5% of their income on taxes, but by 1969 they were paying 39% and in 1974 they paid 43.4% of their income. So, if you compare the 2009 effective family tax rate to 1961, you will find a 25% increase, but you will only report a 7% increase since 1969 and an actual decrease since 1974.
(Note this analysis is circa 2010, but things haven’t changed substantially since then aside from the post COVID inflation spike that’s still subsiding).
But enjoy the alternate reality brought to you by your “friends” at the Fraser Institute™️.
zaphod@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Housing Crisis, Packed Hospitals and Drug Overdoses: What Happened to Canada?English0·1 year agoBut spending cuts in the 1980s and 1990s, along with a move to put more responsibility for economic and social well-being on the shoulders of individuals, caused low-income Canadians to fall further behind, the report says.
So neoliberalism. Neoliberalism happened.
Who could’ve guessed.
zaphod@lemmy.cato politics @lemmy.world•White Rural Trump Supporters Are a Threat to DemocracyEnglish0·1 year agoDidn’t actually read the article did ya?
Hint: the article isn’t saying all Republicans are a threat to democracy. It’s saying that those who hold anti-democratic views–e.g. election denialism, supporting returning Trump to power by force, etc–are predominantly rural white Republicans.
Those are just facts. You can either accept those facts or join those folks in denying reality.
zaphod@lemmy.cato Technology@beehaw.org•The rise and fall of robots.txt: As unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.English0·1 year agoYou know what?
I’m fine with that hypothetical risk.
“The bad guys will do it anyway so we need to do it, too” is the worst kind of fatalism. That kind of logic can be used to justify any number of heinous acts, and I refuse to live in a world where the worst of us are allowed to drag down the rest of us.
The idea of “self-hosting” git is so incredibly weird to me. Somehow GitHub managed to convince everyone that Git requires some kind of backend service. Meanwhile, I just push private code to bare repositories on my NAS via SSH.
Given his account isn’t even federating yet, and there’s no evidence of this post on Threads: yeah, I’m gonna guess it’s fake ragebait.
zaphod@lemmy.cato Technology@beehaw.org•Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents ShowEnglish0·2 years agoYou mean the front fell off? Damn, Elon should move into ship building…
Ahh yes, the old “sticks and stones” defense that completely ignores human nature and basic decency. I use the same logic when I tell other people their babies are ugly. “Look, if you ask me your kid is an eyesore but it’s just my opinion so I don’t know why you’re so mad right now…”