Did the public transit investments stop? From what I've seen they have been throwing money at public transit projects, is there news that they are pulling back from that?
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The "dream" is decentralized ownership. If you buy an item in a game, you could resell it to someone else outside the game (in theory this could mean that a game wouldn't need to create its own marketplace). In theory items could be used across multiple games or platforms.
In reality, game publishers have little incentive to actually do the above things. Why would game x want to support items sold in game y? Why would a platform want to support a secondary market if that would only eat into the primary market.
There are some neat ideas, but the player base is too jaded against it for it to go anywhere anytime soon.
The transition from rural to urban has been happening for the last 100 years and it's going to keep happening.
But we can't just ignore the 15-20% of the population who are currently rural and act like they can just move into a city and it would solve all problems.
If someone lives 20km outside of a city, they are barely rural.
I appreciate the desire to have better public transit whereever we can, but ignoring the existing realities isn't helpful.
I'm wondering if that's what this legislation will do.
It's focused on ensuring that a target % of all cars a manufacturer sells be electric. And in order to do that, they need to get more people to choose to buy electric.
They can achieve that by raising the prices of their ICE vehicles and selling less overall volume, but the proportion of EVs would be higher. or the seemingly easier option would be to create more cheaper EV options that people are interested in buying.
Does fdroid have the update? The latest version it'll give me is 52.
And in your case you're likely breaking even or getting a little back from the carbon pricing system.
You as the consumer isn't been told fuck you. You're being slightly incentivised to make better choices, and rewarded if you do, but not penalized if you don't.
It's not wrong headed at all. There is always an alternative.
In some cases that alternative is transit. In some cases that alternative is cycling. In some cases that alternative is carpooling. In some cases that alternative is driving an existing car more efficiently. In some cases that alternative is choosing to buy a ICE smaller car. In some cases that alternative is buying a BEV.
In all those cases, even a small step will reward someone for making that choise.
It's actually the opposite.
While yes it looks like things are more expensive, it's still effectively a wealth transfer where the poorest get more money back from the system.
It's sorta genius in that way, poorer folk are still rewarded for picking the less polluting option, but in the end don't actually end up payijg more after the quarterly rebate
The article says this
The modern-day version of the catalogue will instead focus on low-rise builds, such as small multiplexes, student housing and seniors' residences, then explore a potential catalogue for higher-density construction.
So it sounds like that's sorta the plan
In much of Canada flu shots are provided for free annually. So ya it's typical for us to have comprehensive booster programs for all ages.
I imagine regular COVID boosters will continue until COVID is integrated into the standard flu vaccine.
Don't forget that COVID is still killing significantly more people annually than typical influenza.