@WashedOutGundamPilot I just checked actually. >1 bed >1 bath >710 sq ft >in the part of town where hobos stab each other for meth >derelict, with boarded up doors and windows >$350,000 asking price
@WashedOutGundamPilot >affordable part of town Sir, this is Canada. Even absolutely gutted buildings in the hood are hundreds of thousands of Canadian Dollars
Parker Banks (parker@cawfee.club)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 06:55:30 JST
Parker BanksTalking to my mom about housing unaffordability and she is slam dunking every boomer talking point flawlessly. >younger people should save all their money instead of spending it all >we had immigrants buying houses when I was young too >do you really need a mansion, we all lived in small starter homes >I happen to know a young couple that owns a house so your statistics make no sense >A house, wife, AND kids? Maybe young people should be happy settling for just a couple of those goals
Parker Banks (parker@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 13:09:50 JST
Parker BanksJust heard back from the CRA (Canadian IRS). They have successfully reassessed my taxes for the last 5 years for the third time now with zero changes, wasting two months of their time. But egads, I think I may have overpaid last year's return by $4. It's my civic duty to file for another reassessment.
Parker Banks (parker@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 06:28:12 JST
Parker BanksI see people online often crying about female hypergamy, how it's impossible to get dates, and that online dating is dead, and then my friend shows me his dating profile and despite being very middle of the road, women are throwing themselves at him (though he keeps fucking it up by dropping spaghetti everywhere).
@jeffcliff@Shlomo@grey They were using that kind of argument against the Trans Mountain pipeline despite the fact that all they were doing was twinning an existing pipeline, there wasn't additional risk when a pipeline was already there. And all the reservations we talked to wanted it built because the pipeline was a big part of their revenue stream. But lobby groups got in the way of local native interests.
Plus I don't see how eastern Canada importing oil from Saudi Arabia instead of their own domestic, much more environmentally regulated product, helps the environment at all.
@jeffcliff@Shlomo@grey It was the the native reserves that were involved with the pipeline. They're not a bunch of hippies that want to run free with the buffalo. They have business and livelihoods and want to make money same as everyone else, and income from the pipeline going through their land (where there was already an existing pipeline, so no new land was affected) is a big part of that.
Conversely, it was American organizations funding much of the opposition to that pipeline. Because they profit from our dependence. All you're doing is repeating lines developed by foreign interests under the guise of environmental sustainability.
Quebec not wanting Alberta oil didn't mean they stopped using oil. They've been more than happy to import from foreign countries with less environmental regulation. Being dependent on and subject to foreign interests who don't give a shit about natives or the environment is much less environmentally or indigenous friendly than just extracting and refining our own product.
@jeffcliff@Shlomo@grey >You know I was invited to work on the green party of canada's strategy team during that period of time
Good for you. I work at an environmental company a certified Aboriginal Business under the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business, whose owner has Indian status, which works with both oil and gas companies and government regulators. So if we can both put aside our appeals to authority, that would be great.
@jeffcliff@Shlomo@grey Pipelines don't make sense when federal regulations make it so pipelines don't make sense. And Quebec being shits about it didn't help either.