Kichae

"We can keep raising prices forever, right?

"Right?"

Hello 1998. I've missed you.

I just search autotrader for all of Ontario.

I'm going to stop you right fucking there.

Fucking Ontarians thinking they're the whole fucking country again.

Let me guess, when someone tells you their stove has stopped working, you counter with "mine works fine", don't you?

A Ford Lightning is one of those trucks that people living in cities and suburbs but who grew up on the edge of suburbs or in the exurbs while being hyperfixated on masculinity and "rural roots" drive. Theres a whole fleet of these things with ICEs. They're what the dad drives in SUV families.

Now you can find some all the way down to ˜$20K.

That's gotta be regionally specific, because there are no full electrics, used or otherwise, around here for under $30k.

This.

My next car will be whatever used car I think will get me through 4 more years. Maybe the one after that will be electric. But until people can walk onto a lot and drive away in an EV, or, especially, find one on Kijiji, then the number of people whose next car is an EV is going to remain low.

The fact that the number of people considering it right now is anywhere near 50% is a big deal.

The idea would be that you don't get to own somebody else's home. Why on earth do you equate that with not getting to exist somewhere on vacation?

Instead of looking for gotchas, why not imagine how that would work without someone at the top demanding a passive income?

"Owning things" is not a job, correct. Making a living owning property is not a service to society.

Doing the labour to repair property is a service. Doing the filing to keep records of usage and repair is a service. Taking a cut because your name is on a deed? That's just stealing from the people who did the work.

Size 42 shoes.

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How is that really a problem? Canada has always been a patchwork country. Why is that suddenly an issue?

Seems like it's only become an issue once the majority of immigrants stopped being white.

The fact that they're both spectrums is exactly the point, and why it's a good example. Notice how the character on the right immediately and firmly deny being at all gay, even though sexuality is a spectrum.

"Gay" and "autistic" are both social constructs layered over top of a spectrum of fluid differences and preferences from plastic brains. Yet the "we're all a little bit" folks have no issue using that underlying spectrum to invalidate the needs of groups who need them to behave differently while vehemently denying the fuzzy nature of other other spectra that would logically necessitate giving respect to people they don't want to humanize.

Classes higher up the social hegemony ladder are choosing how they view the fuzzy nature of human behaviour and needs so they can wield it as a weapon.