thisorthatorwhatever

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We need to have extremely strict recycling laws. i) Packaging should not have lead in it, and should be easy to recycle. ii) Huge fees for anything not sorting their garbage/ recycling.

The youth unemployment rate is so bad. i)Just create a grade 13 to bring up everyone's education level.
ii)Make college free.

Building an apartment building without parking is dumb. Maybe not have 1 space per unit, maybe have 1 space for every two units. Why does everything have to be one extreme or the other. Have an apartment building with only 50% of the units having a parking spot, is a really big win for a car centric city. It's a good way of pushing the ball.
Also working class people that need affordable housing, probably also need a car as they can't work from home.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Car industry starts just before WWI.

Roaring 1920s. 10 years good.

Bankrupt in the 1930s. 10 years bad.

Good run from 1949 to 1979. 30 years good.

Almost bankrupt again in the early 1980s. 10 shaky.

Dirty 90s, with bailouts. 10 years shaky.

Sputtering along since 2000-2025. 25 shaky.

Equals:

40 good years.

10 bad years.

45 shaky years.

Might as well just boil up a handful of grass from the local park, about the same.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Institutional investors own roughly 2% to 25% of single-family rentals

2% seems like a large number, that is 1 out of every 50 homes. That's 1 house on every street.
25% just seems insanely large.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Why not buy a sedan and use a utility trailer?

All trucks and SUV should be forced to be sold with a proper trailer hitch setup, to be considered a truck or SUV. This would encourage people to use utility trailers.

With all his talk about STEM, he's done nothing to actually help with the teaching of STEM.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
 

Since the 1960s America has taxed light trucks being imported. Because America didn't have to build light trucks to compete internationally they lost the international market on light trucks. Now nobody wants to buy American cars and trucks because they are not as good as what others countries build. So now America has put up high tariffs to make itself even more isolationist, since they can't compete.

 

N. American cars are garbage. Our garbage car economy is garbage.

What about all the other industries?

 

Ridings in Ontario were historically about 5000 people, with very large ridings hitting 8,000, and nothing in the double digits. Today ridings are 100,000 people.

Look at the difference between 1908 and 2022 Ontario general election, in Toronto.

1908 Ontario general election Toronto South - Conservative win with 5,202 votes of 6,965 cast (75% of the vote). 74.69

2022 Ontario general election Toronto Centre - NDP won with 15,285 votes of 34,921 cast (43.77% of the vote).

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