Housing growth that is led by investment strategy is always going to favour higher margin options, which means a focus on higher end homes. To have low cost, affordable housing, government supported public ownership is almost always necessary, then it is fine to let the high margin developers chase bucks not justice.

Housing is a right. It is a common responsibility, corporations are exempt from larger responsibilities like this, and whenever the barter zoning approach is used, like amenities for building rights, developers mostly fudge or shirk. They don’t care about that, they have one priority.

So yes, bring back the well-proven, successful economic stimulus and social stability of public housing, whether through a revitalized CMHC or more modern systems. Long history of mismanagement and successful management practices from around the world to draw from.

ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR

Contextually, it’s not ambiguous, as it confirms an exact quote. Reader error.

Mucking about with dozens of extensions instead of users just installing an app seems pretty old skool, lol, brings me back to bbs life.

A discord replacement needs to have notifications, respond to calls, as well as share multiple screens.

It also needs to have enough upfront simplicity so that it garners adequate critical mass for network effects. This means a set and forget unified interface and standardized features.

So, Onomatopoeia there is wondering why xmpp isn’t standard, and I’m getting the sense that it is targeted at oldskool usage.

Discord is popular because it’s easy to start using, it has collaboration features like group screensharing, and it doesn’t assume an ubernerd is the target audience.

Maybe we’ll get a more unified, feature rich xmpp implementation, but until then, sounds like matrix/element is closer, despite its warts.

Neither of those client promo pages mention group calling. le sigh

Does it do screen sharing, group calls, etc.?

I’m using etke.cc in Germany. It’s a relatively easy setup and the hosting is matrix dedicated. Payment is a bit odd through ko-fi but otherwise it has been solid. They don’t have element calling fully enabled, it’s a bit conservative. Admin is easy and staff are responsive.

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Food sovereignty isn’t that complicated.

Here’s a clue: an unregulated market will undermine your food security and sovereignty, and prices are cheap until the market consolidates around the winners.

Wisely selective hunting in the absence of adequate predation can be important for an ecosystem, it’s old wisdom. (Not that that is how hunting regulation works in Canada of course.)

But in an interdependent origination view of living in a web, hunting like that is not totally different from how we manage plants that evolved with herbivorous megafauna. Those megafauna are extinct, so now part of the web is broken. So people coppice willows, and they live three times longer and are more resistant to disease. Pruning by teeth is what many deciduous trees and shrubs evolved for, so we have to fill the gap to get a really healthy orchard.

It was impossible to garden until we put up a skookum fence, and with only a few occasional predators (gulf islands) the deer are shrinking in size yet browse in greater numbers. The forests are out of balance because they are overbrowsed.

Not much hunting locally due to restrictions, I think it was only shotgun slug and bow a few years back, and there’s not much crown land around, so we have a bad deer problem.

We pulled one part of the ecology out, predation, and people object to replacing it or any fix. It’s going to make wildfires worse and reduces biodiversity.

Huge shoutout to Errol Nazareth, his worldly playlist is like my favourite part of my music collection, but mostly new to me.

Had to move a small team away from skype/teams quickly so renting dedicated matrix hosting in Europe and not federating the instance has been working great, except for some issues like group calls over jitsi not working properly and users reluctant to learn more odd interfaces.

Jimmy Pattison is a billionaire and got there by being a colossal asshole. His loyalties are not with you or me. He’s a net negative for BC. I avoid as many of the Pattison assets as I can, but it’s hard to track all of them. The Buycott app helps me trace ownership.

Large scale media has studiously avoided saying ‘treason’, so having a political leader say it is helpful.

Again not reading what I wrote FFS! I did not call you uneducated but said you were kneejerking by intentionally missing the point, which looks suspicious, then said you are being anxious, because you were not reading the comment, and making it about you instead of the previous commenter. It’s not an insult.

I didn’t even imply that, so I will now call you anxious.

I was defending people who write well and craft long detailed answers. Read it again.

Really, kneejerk somewhere else, some of us paid attention in school and actually format things properly while using decent grammar. Bonus if you’re an organized thinker. Definitely a touch grass moment, the internet is wearing on you.