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franklin

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I’m just a man with a guillotine

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My area in particular gets a lot of housing market “investment”.

The going rate for a one bedroom is $1400 a month or $460,000 for a single family home in the suburbs with no access to public transport.

It’s rough out here.

franklin,
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It does get that high $1400 are basements in tare down neighborhoods

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Yeah it’s an inelastic demand.

Our zoning codes, car centric infrastructure, and investment firms having control over supply have priced an entire generation out of a human right.

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I wasn’t trying to build a statistically significant argument, just giving my anecdotal woes of the local economy.

However median income for my area is $62,000. Rent range is $1400 - $3000 I gave the low end. Average is about $2,300. Hopefully that gives context.

franklin,
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I wish it was possible, a citizen’s co-op sounds amazing.

I will say I’ve seen it tried with varying degrees of success so It’d have to done carefully.

franklin,
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Listen voting is a blood pact, and I’m only complicit if I vote so if I don’t and bad things happen it’s everyone else’s fault. I have the best moral compass.

franklin,
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Oh no, you should always fight for a better world! Just don’t staple it to accelerationism in the mean time.

Which to be clear I’m not accusing you of but is often the underlying thread on Lemmy in particular.

franklin,
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I’ve found most people here are fairly respectful honestly. Not always but way better than most online spaces.

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Wait Cabracadabra is real!?

I agree with your comment though, taking special care for vulnerable populations is important and when in a privileged position can (incorrectly) feel like exclusion.

I think young men who are at a particular vulnerable and formative age seek community and to make their impression on the world.

That feeling has been weaponized by alt-right influencers to start a culture war in order to stifle class conflict.

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Everyone has a right to be heard.

Everyone has a right to their pain.

Someone else’s pain being acknowledged and addressed does not invalidate yours.

Comparing pain leads only to a race to the bottom when we should all be lifting each other up.

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RISC-5 is a CPU architecture like x86 (AMD and Intel) or ARM (Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, Google).

It’s main differences are that it is an open architecture. It is still early in it’s life cycle but it’s already showing promising advancement.

I’m not as well educated on this part of it but I remember reading that it is more efficient for a certain types of common calculations that have long since been an issue for x86. As noted though citation needed.

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The second! Thanks I’m not the most well versed on the subject but I help where I can

ajsadauskas, to auspol
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So despite climate change, Australia's federal government has just committed an extra $3.25 billion into building a toll road and a 20-lane freeway widening.

For those who wonder why Aussies think toll roads are a scam (https://aus.social/@LesserAbe@lemmy.world/112405373613706682), here's a great example of why.

"Pouring an extra $3.25 billion worth of federal funds into Melbourne’s North East Link is a good use of taxpayer money, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has insisted, despite the project’s cost doubling just a few months ago.

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"The North East Link – which includes 6½ kilometres of tunnels – will stretch from Bulleen to Greensborough. It will widen the Eastern Freeway by up to 20 lanes.

"Allan revealed in December that the 10-kilometre toll road had more than doubled in cost since it was first announced.

"The toll road was initially budgeted at $10 billion and reassessed in 2019 at $15 billion. But the government revealed last year that the updated cost estimate was $26 billion."

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/federal-funding-to-boost-victorian-road-link-by-3-25-billion-20240509-p5ii7b.html

@fuck_cars

franklin,
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No surprise, Australia’s government has been outright climate hostile.

franklin,
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I don’t think it’s fair to lay current economic landscape squarely at Trudeau’s feet.

Everywhere is poorer, corporations have been taking an unfair share for a long time and it is only ramped up in recent years. The United States is in a similar spot

franklin,
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It’s definitely true that we’re lagging behind other G7 nations and I don’t think our leadership is blameless just definitely not the only blame.

I’m skeptical we’d be in a better spot under different leadership but with climate change, war and late stage capitalism in full swing I won’t hold my breath.

Sorry for the depressing comment!

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I think our housing markets biggest problem is twofold outdated zoning laws that only allow for single-family homes to be built and carcentric infrastructure that requires huge roads and parking spaces that require enormous amounts of public funds to maintain.

franklin,
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That was really strange for me because ranked choice voting would almost guarantee the NDP a lot more votes and power than it currently has.

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I’m a bit of a loop here, I tried to look them up and I mostly got some corporate BS about them rebranding. When you have time are you able to enlighten me?

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The reasons I listed I believe are a big reason that it is so expensive. You can’t find a solution without first correctly identifying the problem.

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And they still feel the need to have a legal team that rivals Disney hunting down and harassing every fan project and emulation team.

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This is incorrect they actually issued dmca take down notices to about 20 emulator forks, Gary’s mod content, a couple home brew projects and an out of court settlement with Yuzu. This is just recently.

Nintendo has a history of being hostile to the emulation, homebrew and modding community.

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I feel like you’re arguing semantics about that one emulator. At least three of those forks had completely independent teams from yuzu.

The previous commenter implied that the only hostile thing Nintendo has done recently was the yuzu settlement, which is leaving out a lot of the picture

Shell sold millions of carbon credits for carbon that was never captured, report finds (www.cbc.ca)

Shell sold millions of carbon credits for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that never happened, allowing the company to turn a profit on its fledgling carbon capture and storage project, according to a new report by Greenpeace Canada....

franklin,
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Breaking news oil company that lies at every opportunity wasn’t held accountable and choose to lie for bottom line.

franklin,
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I’m not saying that batteries don’t I’m just saying they don’t have the current technology to be the backbone of our grid.

The issue with batteries currently is that they aren’t able to ramp up and down instantly despite what it may seem, so sudden spikes in usage can’t be addressed, a pivotal part of electric grid infrastructure.

franklin,
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You’re correct I had misremembered and had to revisit my sources. I was not able to find sufficient data support my claim that batteries have any inherent delay.

However, In Australia which gets relatively consistent wind and solar I think it is more beneficial to invest in batteries.

Conversely in North America where the efficacy of wind and solar vary significantly by season and local climate, it is necessary to oversize generation and use batteries needed in order to ensure grid stability during periods of high demand and low supply.

This is attainable on the small scale and absolutely could be used to stabilize a grid with a steady backbone provided by something like nuclear or natural gas.

However without the stabilization of another steady source the cost quickly becomes unfavorable if you wish to maintain absolute grid stability as excessive over building is necessary with the highly volatile production.

I do think this is shifting more in the favor of battery storage with every new advancement.

My apologies for my previous misinformation it has been a long time since I’ve visited this topic.

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