It's a cease fire, not a seize fire. Just for the future.
Um? Yea...
How can someone who's technically aware enough to be using lemmy have no awareness of what a SSD is.
Also, "what is a ssd" in Google would have answered the question instantly.
I'm not saying it's a stupid question, it's a good question for a lot of people who don't know much about computers, I'm just confused as to how it was posted here.
It's just going to take a bit of time. They're focusing on luxury right now because it's the highest profit per unit, and you always want to exploit the highest profits as a corporation. As they scale up, they will overflow the luxury market, which is why were starting to see cheaper options start becoming available. It's a profit maximization strategy that has been around for a very long time for the introduction of new goods.
The housing thing is a different problem, because that's dealing with a finite supply of land in places people want to live and the fact that people want things to stay the same "in their neihbourhood"
I own an EV, I will never buy another ICE vehicle.
That being said, they don't make sense for everyone financially speaking, even if they come down in base price. They also don't make sense for certain use cases, like towing long distances.
In places with high electricity prices, the cost to charge an EV one can be the same as paying for gas. Where I live, electricity is super cheap. It costs me about 2 cents per kilometer to drive my EV (I pay a little under 10 cents per kwh) and a gas equivalent model for my EV would cost a little over 10 cents per kilometer with current gas prices.
If I had to pay the electricity rates in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, etc. around 0.30 USD per kwh, that would mean I would be paying about 10 cents to drive a kilometer, the exact same as the gas price.
Blanket country wide adoption is not optimal in my opinion. Push EVs into the places that benefit from them most, congested commuting in cities with low electricity prices where they're cheaper, more efficient (EVs are better in traffic), produce less emissions near where people live, etc.
Use that demand to give the industry time to solve the upfront pricing issues to get them on par with ICE vehicles. Once they come down to the price of a new ICE vehicle, then mandate those people in higher electricity areas because it won't cost them more to do so.
You're advocating for something that isn't realistically possible, that neither side even wants, from the comfort of a country where you all but exterminated the locals and stole 99.9% of their land and now all you want is "equal rights".
Bare minimum, the American way.
A one state solution is a pipe dream, even Ireland couldn't figure that shit out and their differences are much smaller.
History is littered with failed one state solutions, from the USSR to the Roman empire.
America is a settler colonialism project started by British imperialism.
Equal rights and reparations for native Americans? Give me a break, how is that in any way acceptable after slaughtering them to take an entire continent?
If that's all that's needed, then maybe Israel should just eject all Palestinians entirely into Egypt, Jordan, etc, then send them a gift basket for a housewarming in their new location. They wouldn't even need to kill anywhere close to the 95% of native Americans that died during the takeover of North America.
Yea, that's what happens when your country chooses to support the wrong side in a world war and get stomped so bad the entire country collapses and is redistributed to the winners. Then Britain suggests using it's chunk to house a group of people that literally just went through the holocaust and needed a place (and it just so happened they had a historical claim to much of that area anyways)
So yes, pushing people out was part of the plan.
You act like this hasn't happened before, yet you(probably American based on your posting) live on land that was taken by force in an even more violent way from the native population. You planning on leaving and heading back to Europe anytime soon? Or are we only trying to stop new situations but old ones are allowed to persist?
Albertans heavily cheered on Trump up here in Canada.
Ready the leopards, faces need eating.
Example...
Democratic Republic of Korea a.k.a. North Korea
They won't just pay in the meantime, the local companies have very little reason to try to undercut foreign imports by a significant margin. Not enough manufacturing will come back to generate enough competition to drive down prices on most items.
You don't talk to US customs on your way out via land borders.
If you fly out, there would be a flight record, but most of the other methods don't get recorded. If you go to Canada, the canadian immigration shares that data with the US, assuming you use the same passport (some people have more than one)
If you go to Mexico though, there's no record and the Mexican government doesn't share that info with the US. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47541 Page 14
And then 5 neighbouring countries invaded Israel the day after the British protectorate ended because they weren't happy with the UN defined borders.
I think he's referring to international citizens using the Canadian-US border to illegally enter, rather than Canadians themselves.
I've heard (through the news mind you) that there is some number of Indian nationals flying to Canada ostensibly for tourism because it's easier for them to get a visa for that in Canada and then walking across the border.
As for the drug use, there is definitely a massive problem going on here, the drug overdose mortality rate in British Columbia was 45.7 per 100k, which is about 50% higher than California (but still lower than a dozen "bad" states)
We just don't have quite as much violence associated with the drug trade, but there's plenty of addicts and overdoses.
There's a few things here.
The government doesn't actually know who's illegal or legal unless they specifically check a physical person. It's not like they maintain a list of "illegal" people. Your name gets recorded when you enter the country legally, but it's not recorded when you leave. If you fail to leave, they don't really know until they find you and match you to the entry. If you entered illegally, there's no record at all.
Second, You could easily use a fake ID or fake identity to get a cellphone and the carriers wouldn't give a shit as long as the bill gets paid. It doesn't even have to be under your name, maybe it's under your friend's account.
Third, I'm not sure how prevalent this is, but you don't need a "cell" phone to have a phone. A lot of poor people just have a device that can connect to WIFI, and make calls through an app or just message.
Switching out progressive taxes for regressive taxes, nothing to see here.
People earning under $50,000 actually get double fucked, since they were exempt from the income tax of 4.25% before, and now they will have to pay the new "lower" 3% income tax AND the new sales tax.
Fuck you poor people.
All of it.
He controls the house, the senate, the supreme court, and the presidency.
Even if he didn't, controlling the presidency and the supreme court likely lets him bypass congress with a little bit of finagling.
John Rustad's platform — which does not list any tax hikes — said its increased spending and budget deficits will be offset by an additional $10.4 billion in annual revenue by 2030 due to the forecast of growth of 5.4 per cent a year.
The party of fiscal responsibility ya'll
They say it will be caught up to with growth, which they've predicted to be above 5% per year... no way that happens, major banks are predicting sub 2% growth.
B.C. Conservatives Leader John Rustad says it will be up to voters to judge his party's candidates as he stood by a pair whose remarks on Indigenous and Muslim people drew condemnation from election rivals and other critics.
He stands by the party member who made derogatory comments about indigenous and Muslim people.
Please judge him and find him wanting.
Conservative leader John Rustad is unveiling his party’s plan to address a key issue for the majority of voters in this election: affordability.
The title is a bit misleading and makes it sound like it's a one time payment. It's very different, he's promising to exempt up to $3000 a month towards your housing costs from income taxes. Starting at $1500 a month in 2026 and going up $500 a year for 3 more years. At the max, it would be a $36,000 a year tax deduction which is absolutely massive, that's half of the average family income.
Great idea? It's complicated, but probably not a good idea.
When you make something "cheaper" for everyone like this in a supply constrained market, all that does is drive up the prices of rents and housing sale prices since people can now use that freed up money to pay more for those.
Also, his plan to pay for this multi-billion dollar plan is:
“Obviously, we need to take a look at this reckless spending that David Eby has put in place in terms of how to sort of rein in some of that spending,” said Rustad.
So that's not really "fiscally conservative" at all.
The NDP has shared a video of B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad saying he regrets getting the "so-called vaccine" against COVID-19.
This asshole is literally a conspiracy theorist. He says it was about controlling the population, not stopping the spread of the virus.
Which countries (and even provinces) had the fewest covid deaths per capita? Oh.. the ones with the highest vaccination rates.
Everyone with a brain knows vaccines reduce illness, that's why we have the fucking things.
Ride-hailing company Uber is slamming the British Columbia government's decision to impose minimum wages and basic labour protections for gig workers, saying the province is set to drive up costs for residents and drive down demand for local businesses.
Uber's reply to the new laws.
Since-deleted posts by Damon Scrase, who was nominated in January, include a 2022 post calling some Pride parade participants “degenerates”
Surprise surprise, a Conservative who's got a past full of hate.
Awakening Chinatown showcased cultural diversity of Chinese Canadian society
This is the true Canada, open to all ideas. Let's keep it this way.
The board plans to invite commissioner Kasari Govender to an open board meeting to hear a presentation from VicPD and the mobile youth service team
Personally, it seems stupid not to have a liaison in high schools. This is where teens establish "bad" patterns, and every single one they manage to save early is one less problem for decades in the future.
Boy, 11, dies after being struck in neck by puck at hockey practice in Saint-Eustache, Que.
Extremely unfortunate situation.
Vancouver Canucks forward Nils Hoglander was assessed a match penalty and ejected from the game against the San Jose Sharks for intent to injure forward Kevin Labanc.
Intent to injure?
Based on that call, any sort of pushing or shoving should be called.
The leader of the federal Conservative Party of Canada has wrapped up a two-day tour of Vancouver Island, trying to swing votes in an NDP stronghold well ahead of any mandated election in October 2025.
Unfortunately, it looks like he's going to elected in a couple years. I just hope people remember after a term of the Conservatives cutting important environmental policies like the carbon tax, that they will have failed to make like more affordable AND fucked up the environment more.
The conservative parties that won in the UK didn't manage to make things more affordable, the conservative party that won in Australia didn't manage it either, no party anywhere has managed it.
This crisis isn't caused by local government zoning policies, approval red tape, or anything else that the parties are talking about. It's caused by landowners (including people who own only one property) using a home as an investment.
You cannot have homes appreciate in value faster than inflation (investments) and also have affordable housing. It's impossible. That's literally just a pyramid scheme.
Until the government starts implementing policies that start reducing existing home prices, this will not be fixed. Building more units doesn't do this unless you build impossibly (literally impossible) large numbers.
So stop voting with your emotions and vote with your brain.
Island Farms milk products were in short supply in some capital region grocery stores over the weekend
In case anyone was wondering what happened at the grocery stores over the last couple days.
The regional district says it will work with local First Nations and consult the public in developing a long-term management plan for the 27-acre property, which is adjacent to Elk/Beaver Lake Regional Park
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The 30-unit community of shipping containers provided temporary housing for those at risk of homelessness for the last two years
Milking spiders to make guitar strings in Madagascar
I love Mattias Krantz and his wacky music projects.
Motorists looking for a shortcut to the Malahat end up on the road, which is filled with surprise inclines and a hairpin turn or two.
$1.2B Colwood development(Royal Beach) renamed the Beachlands
Land in the development is still being set aside for a potential ferry terminal, a commitment that will last another three years or so, the developer says.
Because reasons?
High land prices and rising building costs due to inflation and other factors have combined to drive construction of apartments rather than single-family homes
Somewhat clickbait title, it went from 80% to 89% of new unit starts for this one month period compared to last year.
Apartment units have been the majority of new units for more than a decade now.
BC Ferries cancelled two sailings between Metro Vancouver and Victoria Monday and warned further departures may be in peril due to a mechanical issue.
More technical issues. The ferries are starting to become a real issue here on the island.