Assuming you are talking about in the US, shelter is included in inflation calculations. You can argue about the methodology, but the cost of having a home is in there and does contribute to inflation. It is about 30% of the overall basket.

Via Rail is a complete disaster imo. They take the bad from air travel and bring it to rail. They act like their service is a premium luxury one, with huge numbers of staff per train, multiple checks of your tickets, etc.

One example of how bad their operations are (not to get into reliability which is a whole other problem) is that when arriving at a station they ask that you remain seated until the train is fully stopped, and then slowly help people get off. Contrast this with trains in Japan as an example, where the announcement says a stop is coming up soon, please be ready to get off as soon as the train doors are open.

In my opinion we don't just need politicians riding Canadian trains. I want them to travel to Europe and Asia and then come back and suffer on via rail. It's not just new dedicated tracks that are needed, it's a complete restructure of the passenger experience!

The original cities skylines had atrocious performance after a certain city size as well, especially on hardware available at launch. Hopefully they can deliver on better performance over the next few months, I expect it to improve before they do their console release.

Yeah very confused about that first one as it was clearly a foul, he completely takes Diaz out and doesn't get near the ball. If Diaz isn't fouled he is completely free on goal (albeit at a not great angle)

I think you're misreading it. In the same way as there are people that need to ride on planes (for example for their job, or to move to where they have a job, etc), there are people that need to use social media.

For example, if you own an online store you really need to have a social media presence. Same if you are an artist, and live off of commissions. I'm sure there are plenty more examples.

I try to live by the rule of I would rather be alive than dead. Being "right" is no consolation when you're in a hospital bed dying.

The same goes for cars and especially bikers. You may be right, but being right doesn't stop the giant SUV next to you from flattening you.

The whole point of this sub is advocating for changing that and getting rid of car centric development.

This is an android enthusiast community. For a lot of people here the answers to that are going to be yes, yes and yes.

Registering to vote is pretty normal. You might not have to because the government already has records of you and that is the same in America for a lot of people. For immigrants in Europe you still have to register!

If you change municipality or state in Europe you might also have to register again so they have you voting in the right local elections.

I find the wait times have gone up as they prioritise both drive thru and delivery options ahead of people actually at the counter.

Oh definitely, it's just a matter of quantifying that and having a useful resource to point to to really drive that home!

I would love to see this further contextualised with a per capita value as well as a property value comparison. The latter would be difficult but it is quite common that more expensive properties get assessed more under their value than "cheaper" properties do!

The floor at one of the spaceports just fully disappeared permanently for me, and bounties seem bugged in that they are not removed even after killing all witnesses. One of the transport pods in the main city is also just permanently gone. This is on top of all the issues you pointed out!

This just sounds like an unemployment insurance program. Love that they call it "universal" when it isn't at all.

How about they make the monthly pass a more compelling option for people by making the break even point 20 trips? Even before the pandemic I would have to evaluate if I wanted the monthly pass because I wouldn't be going in to the office enough days to make it worth it.

In an ideal world we would have a system that just caps fare usage when you get to certain breakpoints, with a daily, weekly and monthly caps so you never have to try to guess how much transit you use, you just use it and if you use enough it just stops charging you (because you've paid enough for a monthly pass for example).

I would disagree with a big part of this characterization. Specifically that prices are out of control beyond housing (which is completely fucked), but outside of that Canada has done better than most comparable countries when it comes to inflation over the last few years.

Taxes are not that crazy unless your only comparison is the US, which is a bad comparison.

nay

I mostly agree with this but more than shorter code I value readability, I would rather take 3 lines to be clear to any developer than use some obscure or easy to misunderstand structure to write it in 1.

I just hope it works so that people can shut up with the high speed rail only works in other places garbage. Just tell them to go visit california and see how good it is... Only works if they finish it so I hope they do.

But without main population centres is it going to be done successfully? Imo they should have started with one of the ends, so that at least there is a big trip destination.

Too late for that now and I really hope it works out and we get a good example for north american high speed rail projects to point to despite everything.

It's 90% on gen z with investments, the article has a link to the survey they're getting the data from (or at least another article with more specific numbers about the survey)

Its a shame because it is something I am actually really good at, and now it's a completely useless skill!

Whatever helps you sleep at night I suppose

"The Great Slump was an economic depression" the first paragraph on that Wikipedia page once you fix your link.

If we exclude mixed economies and state capitalist countries we are left with basically looking at historic record so let's do that.

There were recessions in 15the century England, not a capitalist economy at all! There was also a recession in Rome in 33 AD as well if you want to look back further. This is just from 5 minutes of googling.

It is not possible to have an economy that never contracts, just to have one where it happens nowhere near as frequently as our current systems and with far better outcomes for most people.

It is also ergonomically horrible, to the point where I prefer to use the magic track pad over the mouse.

This whole conversation now makes so much more sense!

Gonna ask them to specifically pay for it with your taxes 💉 ☺

As long as I'm paying in cash for the boosters, right? 😉

Yes boss! I queue up every day at a different pharmacy to get a new booster. I'm on number 478 at this point because a few days I managed two or more!

The only side effect is that I can now do a rectal prolapse at will and frankly looking at it, it reminds me of you 😘

No you see I'm against helping old ladies cross the street because I think we should abolish streets entirely!

You never are going to read the comments or care what I'm saying, you aren't trying to learn or understand, so let's have a bit of fun shall we?

Was the pandemic also a communist plot to do something nefarious as well?

Amazing, enlightened, groundbreaking response here. I suppose we should not wear clothes because communists wear clothes too?

Tell me, are you against restrictions on child labour or is that too much for you because it is also mentioned in the communist manifesto?

I'm specifically referring to your pandemic talk.

A transitional communist state will use the power of a central bank to abolish private capital (other banks) and bring about a communist society eventually. Central state controlled banks are just a tool, like a hammer or a car.

Your definition of communism is like Plato's definition of man, a plucked chicken would also qualify.

Fantastic, I could barely have imagined a more unhinged reply. Frankly I'm surprised you haven't started talking about Chinese space lazers.

This is the original picture from the artists twitter. Not sure if it's my screen but it seems less yellow but I don't think there is a version that is not a bit yellow. You might be able to ask the artist if they have the files and make your own edit though!

This is absolutely hilarious, no matter what I say you will still reply.

Not only do you think central banks are not just a part of but one of the defining features of a classless, stateless, moneyless society, they're the key indicator that a state is communist! Add to that that you confuse different people replying to you with each other (or assume everyone is the same person) and you get this wonderfully entertaining mix.

Tell me, what else have you done deep research on? Next you're going to tell everyone that the earth is flat or something aren't you.

I don't think you know what communism is, but you're not going to listen to anyone that explains it are you?

By all means, go get scammed with crypto. Meanwhile the rest of us are living in the real world where not a single developed western nation is a communist state.

This is exactly my experience as well. It doesn't help that my peripherals are purchased based on if they work with windows so half the functionality is missing on linux, and I'm not about to go buy new ones.

That and fixing any issue can be such a frustrating experience because when you search you end up with fixes for every distro except yours, or the fix for your distro that worked 5 years ago but now doesn't.

My current forray into linux is going well except for taking all day to configure the dual boot though, so maybe some things have gotten better!

This astro turfed guy again? Yikes