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If you just have policies and leave it to private companies, you end up with Vancouver.

Where we have tons of policies and initiatives for affordable housing that only result in private developers stopping construction until the price has increased enough for them to profit, and then abusing loopholes to reduce/remove the amount of affordable housing in the actual building.

E.g. during the post-covid boom, Vancouver was a world leader in housing starts. Now that the price has cooled, starts have plummetted, so cons and US-Media are crying out about regulations. But no new regulations exist.

Because the only viable way to increase supply is to have a public construction company that builds at cost.

And thanks to Alberta and US media, that will never fly.

Also: dont overlook that media hounds women about everything.

Oh, the “year” of 1776 that involves them going back to the rampant corruption of the 1750s which paved the way for the post-war lack of corruption that was seen as so bizarre that it led to the revolution?

Used to be a plugin called StumbleUpon.

People who used it could submit websites to it, tag them. Then htting the button on the plugin would take you to a random website from your selected interests. Like/dislike/report as needed.

The internet used to be magnificent.

Three? It is one in every 55k miles.
The published rate of American driving says one in 500k. Estimated non-reported is one per 200k

The last reviewer stating that the movie is worse than Cats.

And that movie drove Andrew Lloyd Webber to get a dog.

Never heard of Polish chocolate. Will have to find and see if I can get any way over here.

Can recommend Canadian choc as well: Purdy’s and Laura Secord at the very least.

Personally this reeks of being a shadow lawsuit by Epic games.

With the end goal being to let people buy and play the games on Steam, but then buy the addons via EGS.

When the team I was working with at the time used it, it constantly dropped calls, some people couldn’t share their screen sometimes, randomly mics would stop working, it was a bad experience.

He’s threatening Canada with the same threat they used decades ago to strongarm us into NORAD.

Meet was so bad compared to hangouts it drove people to MS Teams

Fair, it was over a decade ago that I used it.

A long, long time ago, there was an online messaging tool called ICQ. You didnt even have callsigns in it, you had a randomly generated number you shared with your friends. You chatted. Had fun. Life was good.

Then there was AOL instant messenger. It largely replaced ICQ in the US. It added emoticons.

Then there was MSN Messenger. It tied into the MSN gaming zone(Before MS killed it to make Xbox Live. You could play games with your friends through it. You could do rudimentary video chats.

Then you had Skype(pre-MS. Better video, not tied to MS).

MS makes MSN Messenger into Lynx and adds it to office. Its not good.

Then you had Google Hangouts. Better chat, fun features, tied to your google account.

Then you had MS owned Skype as Skype for Business. Largely replaces Hangouts because Google enshittifies everything, not because it is good.

You also have former Vancouver startup Slack. Its fantastic. Until Salesforce buys it.

Now we have the bastard officespring of Skype for Business: MS Teams.

Then Europe itself rose to prevent them from getting Vienna(multiple times before the whole Sabaton song stuff).

Because every time the Ottomans marched on Vienna, the environment pulled a Russia and forced them to either turn back outright or abandon their heavy guns or some other critical issue that led to them losing.

The last time is when the Winged Hussars come into play and was basically the only time in 150 years that they managed to get all of their full force to Vienna.

No, weekly world news was always patently ridiculous.

They’re the ones that had all of the really crazy conspiracy theory stuff. Used to see them every week for sale at a place I worked. Best cover was the one of a bad photo edit of the heads of Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden over two guys going at it.

My bet:

Its the crowd control microwave weapon they were developing under Dubya and Obama.

The article needs some work.

China will not be flooding Canada with EVs.
In 2024, China sold 41k electric cars to Canada.

The deal lets them import 49k cars at the 6% tariff. Canada buys roughly 1.8 million cars per year.

49,000 1,800,000

Oddly enough, fucking Costco has been good for Canadian products and not overcharging like Superstore.

Farmers markets havent seen an increase other than sheer number of people.

The stated reason for cutting it is that the ring was already destroyed, Sauron already dead, it was somewhat bizarre to have a 2nd, smaller final battle.

Yes it adds to the story and gives Wormtongue/Saruman a sendoff the theatrical release lacked. Its great wordbuilding but just like Tom Bombadil, doesnt add to the overall movie.