thisorthatorwhatever

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Still, people eating too much meat.

You're going to flip when you find out that some people eat 10 x 6oz of meat a day.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That's the problem with the politics of the USA One group wants higher prices of meat, and gas. Laws about safe working conditions. Environmental laws about dumping chemicals.
Second group wants lower prices on everything, wants bigger trucks, bigger houses, overseas vacations 4x year, eat more meat.
Though they both complain, they're complaining about two incompatible things.

...and it screwed EVERYTHING up;

  1. People can't afford kids because the rents are too high,

  2. Rents too high for cool spaces to hangout in, so everybody's at home and miserable.

  3. Rents too high for a cheap restaurant to open, so everybody's mad and pointing fingers,

  4. Can't find daycare, because it's too expense for the daycare to rent a commercial property,

You really need two different laws about driving, one set for urban, and one set for rural. In large downtowns, the speed limits are under 40km/h, and a start/stop traffic. In such places an electric golf cart would be fine. Getting city drivers out of gas guzzling SUVs should be a priority. You don't need a dually pickup in downtown Toronto.

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

Electric golf carts should be legalized in most major cities like Toronto. It's good enough for the city, to commute and get groceries.

For rural areas in Canada people need very fuel efficient transport. Encourage people to use motorcycles in good weather. Allow Kei trucks.
Also for rural kids: Sweden: agricultural vehicles allows kids 15 and older to drive cars without a proper driver's licence, as long as the vehicle has been altered to have a maximum speed of 30 kilometres per hour. France: sans permis cars are not allowed to go faster than 45 km/h, but can be driven by anyone with a license.

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

The vast majority of car trips are about 10km. A bicycle would work for most of them. I personally think that electric golf carts in major cities should be legalized. They'll be the ideal grocery getter, and short commuter vehicle. Speed is limited to 40km/h on them.

The car industry spends billions of dollars a year convincing people that cars are freedom. That you can drive anywhere and do anything in a car. Sadly the reality is that most of the time people are stuck in traffic or looking for a parking space, in cities. Once you start thinking out the car mentality, you realize you can hop on a train for a vacation, do most of your shopping close by if you live in a city.

Harder to shot down a sub? Almost all countries can now make missiles that travel at Mach7+, 3x faster than fighter jets can fly. Like a Porshe vs. a Beetle, the Beetle doesn't stand a chance.

Carney should trade RRSPs for underwater condos owned by ma and pa's.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Defunding the police and using that money legalize all drugs...is an idealist plan that won't end well. Police reform sure, legalized drugs sure. But some explanation between the two positions needs to be thought through.

About 10% of society is made up of people that are evil, like to pull wings of flies, kick dogs, laugh at handicapped people. The left has no way of dealing with them.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Progressives are 100% on board with changing the way law enforcement is done

The left can't communicate what it wants law enforcement to be.

[–] thisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

unmanageable levels

We went from 47 to 25. Toronto has a population of 3.3 million. That's 132,000 per councilor, currently. Previously it was 70,000 people per city councilor. Nothing is being done in this city because there are too few councilors! Currently a handful of very rich developers get to decide most things.
Even the few things that this city council managed to decide, those decisions were still overturned by Doug Ford.

Collingwood Ontario has 9 city councilors and has a population of 30,000. That's like 1 representative for every 3,000 people!!!

 

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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