Something occurred to me while watching some news yesterday. It won’t take ICE raids removing people from farms for the effect to materialize. The fear from raids will cause people to stop showing up for work at the farms before that. That’s why I think we’ll see the effects on food prices quicker.

Thank you! 🙏

Shortly after, tradespeople across Canada burst in flames.

Oh yes I didn’t mean to deny the point on housing.

Don’t they have to rework their refineries in order to replace Canadian oil? Instead the refineries currently working with Canadian oil are specifically built to process dillbit, due to having been built to use Venezuelan dillbit originally.

I suppose Albertans in oil and gas should call Danielle and tell her to stop the clown tricks and join Team Canada now.

I think you understand it correctly. 😂

No disagreement.

While I do not want to vote for Singh, the leader, I would vote for the NDP candidate in my riding if the polls don’t show them far behind.

Perhaps not good but less bad is what we look for.

Well done keeping your composure while explaining!

Not sure to be honest. I only did the quality control. My partner did the work. 😁

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Paging Andy!

You’d like what I did with my current setup. It’s digital all the way, through a DSP, to the DAC. Then 15cm of analog cables connecting the DAC to the amp. All of which happens away from any other signal or power wires.

Asking the tough questions.

Do it. They said the next one will be in March.

Housing construction isn’t funded by existing housing investment. It’s generally funded by debt. Private or public, just like any other capital intensive endeavor. And debt isn’t created by lending people’s savings but by creating new money. By public or private lenders. (Private lenders create money too.) The only thing that is really needed ahead of time is labor, equipment and materials available. Financial capital is created on demand to mobilize those real resources.

Will do! If you like astronomy and you’re able to, drag your body in next time! 🥹

We have a bet with a couple of friends who pass through Bloor around Jane regularly. They think traffic is gonna significantly improve when the lanes are removed. I think they’ll be badly surprised.

Marxists believe Socialism is what Capitalism is necessarily leading to because decentralized markets form centralized monopolist syndicates with complex internal planning

Jesus fucking Christ, I was just talking to a friend about how big corporations with hundreds of thousands of employees resemble centrally planned economies, and how consolidations creates them all around us and the only thing stopping them from becoming fewer is the attempts of some governments that haven’t been regulatory-captured yet to stop it. But regulatory-capture increases with wealth accumulation so if you keep running the system, it tends to total central planning. I haven’t read Marx and neither has he.

On a separate but related point - what stops the system from being somewhat disrupted by labor in a way that redistributes huge amounts of the accumulated wealth, restoring the regulatory regime in favor of labor and restarting the cycle from that point, then repeat. In other words, what’s stopping it from doing a depression-FDR-redistribution every 100 years? I can absolutely see the inevitable end without labor intervention but to my current brain it seems possible to maintain it with. Is this wrong in some obvious way?