I get the need for them, to pay for shared building services. Strata fees pay for exercise rooms, pools, grounds maintenance, whatever. I 100% am behind them, as long as the Strata council is responsive to needs and not corrupted, but there’s the rub.

I’d generally be happier with few services and low strata fees tho.

Yeah. I’m pretty much resigned to living in our rental until we get renovicted. No kids, double income, a lot of savings… but the mortgage payments would be way more than it’s worth to have a minor upgrade. Strata payments alone are often more than our rent!

Not Vancouver. Nothing that size would go less than 2 million until you hit Coquitlam. MAYBE.

Im assuming you’ve looped in @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca?

Former Port Alberni city council, fediverse advocate

Largest? Implying there are smaller, ie more than one?

I’ve found that changing my email address works better than unsubscribe sometimes. Just change it to a tagged address and set up a filter. Shields you against future sales as well.

All the Trump emails go rbos+fucktrump now. Probably a hundred a day. Unsubscribe did not work.

Also, Canadian. Incompetent jerks.

Encoding h.265 on a small enough camera might be a problem? But if they have money …

The cheaters and cheat developers will just move to Windows, and the legitimate Linux users will quit. I don’t see the upside, this doesn’t solve the problem.

Hey cottage cheese on toast is great, that’s my breakfast most days. With pepper and nutritional yeast usually.

Yeah, that’s about what the Broadway tunnel is going to cost for the Skytrain extension in Vancouver.

Edit: Though of course an urban tunnel cut down an extremely busy street is worst-case scenario. That money would probably buy you a lot more rail elsewhere.

The Broadway corridor has possibly the busiest transit line in North America and the per-passenger cost will be quite low, when it’s finished.

I’d like you to please step down a little bit from DEFCON 3. :) I feel like you’re reading me say “all” regulations when I mean “some” regulations. There definitely exist stupid rules that aren’t science-based, or have been ideologically-motivated, or created in response to temporary panics, that could be rolled back.

Like, property setbacks and parking minimums are examples of regulations that I personally think could be removed.

The important thing is that any proposed service cut, or regulation cut, be well-justified, at least as well-justified as the introduction of new ones. We have to consider the consequences of introducing a new rule, or repealing an old one.

Not all regulations are “WRITTEN IN THE BLOOD OF PEOPLE HURT OR KILLED”, some are pushed through by (say) lumber companies afraid of losing profit, or tech companies trying to make life more difficult for smaller tech companies. Some simply have unintended consequences and turn out to be worse than not having them.

Ditto government services and spending. There are good government services, and honestly, services that could be redefined, or rebuilt to be more effective.

Yeah. I’m 100% open to cutting government services, regulations, and spending, but you gotta make a case for it. How would it be better? Could it be done better and more cheaply by private services? How would you avoid the downsides?

Like, we never should have sold BC Tel. We’re paying more money for less service now, to out-of-province entities taking huge profit margins at the expense of BC citizens. I honestly think we should nationalize all the fibre, copper, and cell towers in the province and force Telus et al to be resellers for wholesale access to lines. That would minimize the monopoly rents and allow innovation and competition on the front end, where currently, they use their monopoly access to the networks to force us to accept shitty front end service.

Anyone planning to sell a government service to the private sector needs to answer the question of how to prevent us from being fleeced by oligopolists and increasing our costs.

0, -7, -14, -22… dangit

It has stayed funny this whole time. WoW provides a lot of fresh material, even if you’re not playing.

I agree mostly, even without reusability Starship would be pretty cheap, though. Mass production techniques and cheap materials.

I’d expect a sudden inflation, with suddenly expanded after tax income chasing the same or reduced goods due to less imports.

Then SpaceX is forced to adhere to political considerations and budget priorities. NASA oversight and intensely risk averse culture would not have allowed spacex to build a rocket factory, or risk throwing away prototypes for rapid iteration.

They may have some good engineers still?

So, not The Long Dark.

Yeah,and this one shows a lot of promise since it’s passive. It doesn’t solve the storage problem which is a shame, but combined with something like enhanced weathering, maybe.