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Every developer has opted to pay Montreal instead of building affordable housing, under new bylaw
  • From the article: "Those fees have so far amounted to a total of $24.5 million — not enough to develop a single social housing project, according to housing experts."

    I don't know about construction costs in Canada, but in many cities in the United States, 24 million dollars could renovate at least 120 homes, assuming a cost of $200,000 per renovation. Renovation is more expensive than building new. You could easily build 240 modest homes on undeveloped land with 24 million dollars.

    I've left them half a million for administrative costs.

  • It's time to take advantage of Reddit's decline
  • The main reason I'm still posting and reading on Reddit is that I belong to a lot of small subreddits that haven't had any reason to migrate elsewhere. You can dislike what Reddit leadership is doing, but lots of people belonging to small subreddits haven't been impacted as much.

  • Know the difference
  • There’s a difference between saving money so you can live and hoarding it.

    Okay, what's the difference? 100,000? 500,000? 5,000,000?

    f you have so much money that you could trivially buy people out of poverty, but you don’t because you’d rather have seven yachts and a bigger bank account, we have a problem.

    Who has seven yachts? Most wealthy people invest their money. The only reason you know the names of billionaires is that Forbes magazine publishes their names. You have no idea who all the millionaires are and what they do with their money.

    If we're speaking of social consequences and eliminating people, it makes more sense for the populace to go after crooked politicians and judges than rich people. Just saying.

  • Know the difference
  • Which make[s] the statement, "much more likely to rob you themselves than save you from being robbed" true.

    In Chicago, sure. What are the statistics for Lafayette, Illinois? Harvel, Illinois? Kell, Illinois? I could go on, but astute readers already get my point.

  • Know the difference
  • That said, [the police's] main job at the moment is to protect hoarders of wealth from the social consequences of wealth hoarding.

    We are all wealth hoarders. What are the social consequences of wealth hoarding? Is it okay to steal? How much does a person have to have before it's okay to steal? Most of the people of the world live on a couple of US dollars a day. Is it okay for them to steal your wallet when you have 40 dollars?

  • Can chatgpt make video games? or at least simple ones?
  • This question had me trying to get ChatGPT to code a simple game.

    My prompt was "Create a Tetris game using Java Swing". ChatGPT provided code. I copied the code into my IDE and found an entire missing class.

    ChatGPT is basically a natural language search engine. If what it finds is wrong, its code will be wrong.

  • What would you put in a meal if wanted something special from each US state?
  • You could have a month (or quarter year) featuring food from the different states. Louisiana is known for boiled crabs and crawfish, as well as Cajun and creole cooking. Maryland is known for crab cakes. Utah is known for gelatin salads. Nebraska (Omaha) is known for its steaks. North Carolina is known for two distinct types of barbecue sauce.

  • What should I do about cracks in the foundation/crawl space?
  • When you bought the home, what did your home inspector say about the foundation cracks?

    Call a professional to do a foundation inspection. Your cracks might be nothing or they could be serious. Only a foundation expert can tell you for sure.

  • Demand Responsive Transport - Buses With No Timetables
  • I've ridden many buses and trains. I've seen plenty of YouTube videos where people are attacked on buses. I've seen plenty of light rail trains where the homeless ride around the entire day.

    Ride out to the suburbs, burgle a house, and steal a car to bring the loot back actually happened in Baltimore, Maryland, USA when they extended the red line light rail to Hunt Valley. The Hunt Valley Mall died and was torn down a few years later.

  • Demand Responsive Transport - Buses With No Timetables
  • So, a criminal can sign up, get on an on-demand bus, rob people, and get off. I wonder what safety features they have in the UK because, in the US, criminals would love this service. Ride out to the suburbs, burgle a house, and steal a car to bring the loot back. Rinse and repeat.

  • How there are no consequences for politicians lying or being inept
  • The consequence is that people are supposed to stop voting for politicians that lie or are inept.

    However, politics is now a team sport. As Nancy Pelosi once said, "This glass of water would win with a D next to its name in those districts".