Joe Rogan. I described him many years ago as “the reality TV equivalent for podcast dudebros” and my (largely well educated, liberal) friend group jumped down my throat for it. Apparently I was being judgemental and shouldn’t judge people for their entertainment choices.

Called my shot.

Indeed - stagnate prices and drive wage increases until the ratio is back down.

The scary part is even on the surface, a meaningful reduction in housing prices would have pretty rough consequences for us economically. We’ve spent 40 years building our entire financial system to the point where the majority of the median citizen’s net worth is in their home’s equity. Seeing any short term devaluation of housing in a significant way would effectively be reducing the median citizens ability to retire.

Probably the best we can hope for is price stagnation and modest but consistent decreases in housing prices while we decouple our economy from the false growth of real estate.

Hey remember when Biden actually did something about this and Trump repealed it immediately?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/15/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations/index.html

I’m sure declaring “drugs are cheaper now” will work just as well as it did last time he signed this EO.

? This isn’t the giving pledge, which is ALSO still active. The Gates Foundation is massively increasing its budget so it won’t survive in perpetuity, trying to fill a portion of the gap created by the death of USAID.

There are many things to be mad about. This is not one of them.

He’s also very clearly not just a neoliberal central banker - the housing plan calls for a new government agency that actually produces homes which is like, radically not neoliberal “let the market work” type solutioning.

Trades in Canada get you a decent number of points in the immigration system for PR applications, especially depending on the province. If you’re fine with smaller cities, the prairies are pretty affordable and have easier immigration pathways, and reasonable (but not amazing) job opportunities.

Canada needs electricians - I moved north 10 years ago and have not looked back.

try to cancel student debt, Republicans block it

“Democrats just aren’t trying hard enough!”

Democrats suspend payments while they figure out a way around the Republican blocking measures

“This is purely performance, if they cared they’d cancel it! Both sides!”

Republicans get majority control over Executive and both halves of the Legislature, start collecting again

“Democrats just aren’t fighting Trump hard enough!”

It’s amazing how Trump could literally do anything on stage and still get votes but Kamala had a single major flaw with Gaza that was STILL less unhinged than Trump’s Gaza positioning and got absolutely torn to shreds. Amazing.

Word hard, picture easy, me angry!!!

Yeah idk why people get mad about shit they clearly didn’t read.

Per the email text and Plex’s policy, they are correct - only Server Owners need the Pass.

That said I moved to Jellyfin months ago when they announced it.

Yeah I hope the fact that both the NDP and the LPC got screwed in BC on so many ridings causes their hopeful coalition government to actually implement voting reform this time.

That’s not unreasonable. Religious types trend conservative/fundamentalist globally.

And Noem bragged about shooting her dog. And RFK Jr is the bear roadkill guy.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

Romney did WHAT??

In ordinary circumstances I agree but with an external threat I kind of wish it was a majority.

At this point I hope they form government with NDP, and NDP agrees to not interfere with foreign policy at all but get concessions domestically, which is probably the best outcome of this election for Canada overall. Hopefully the number of seats that went Con off of vote splits for both NDP and Liberal actually causes voting reform to happen.

I completely agree to be clear.

But “major party” means something in election parlance, and unfortunately because of all the required strategic voting, it means NDP won’t be at the next debate.

The election results (and polling on leader specifically) do not back that claim up.

Pierre is very not popular - when Trudeau quit he had a higher approval rating than Pierre. People this time were voting for the party, not for Pierre.

NDP aren’t even a major party anymore with 7 seats, sadly