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What would you do differently from what was talked about in the article?

What drives me crazy is that the population growth we're seeing now isn't even all that crazy.

It's a bit higher right now, but it's not a significant outlier when plotted on a graph going back 50 years.

Yes over the last 20 years immigration has been consuming a larger portion of that fairly consistent pie, but assuming we didn't stop having kids 20 years ago we would be in a similar spot as we are today.

The real problem is that we stopped building housing. The rate of houses being built slowed down a few decades ago, and that was always going to be cause us problems, regardless of if we had stopped immigration, but had we done that, our population stagnating would have caused us other problems.

I tried to find a source for your comment and couldn't find anything based off the limited details you gave.

Do you have a proper source? Or are you by chance just making things up like so many on this platform?

Seems unlikely

End of the pandemic. Which in this case means we have an effective vaccine, and as long as people get the damn thing COVID seems to stop killing people at such a high rate.

It's sooooo frustrating that we're in the tail end of a global pandemic and people still don't understand how community immunity works.

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.

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?

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.