Anyone struggling to afford housing while making $190,000 (let alone more) is either grossly incompetent with money or is confusing “struggling to pay for housing” with “not being able to afford as big or fancy a house as they’d like”. If you go with the standard 30% for housing costs vs income (which to anyone making $80,000 or less is impossible), you’re looking at $4750/month. That’s not a struggle by anyone’s definition.
That’s why firing the executives would be so much more effective, I just don’t know how that could work with the government forcing a company to fire someone. That being said, I also don’t know how they should be able to force workers to work, so maybe that could be some sort of condition.
I am of the belief that any back to work legislation should come with a major penalty to the employer. For a private company this could be in the form of a huge fine, but if it’s a public body it should come with the firing of the executives. If a group of workers is too essential for them to have the right to strike, then allowing negotiations to break down shows gross incompetence on the part of the negotiation team.
If I’m understanding your sentence correctly, that is not at all what the article says. The 11% high confidence number is from the 17% that said they are not at all hopeful about democracy. Overall a very confusingly worded article.
Every American alive - minus Gen Z / Alpha at the moment,
Most of Gen Z were 18+ in 2024, they’re already carrying the torch.
I’m intolerant of the US in the same way someone might be lactose intolerant. When you find out, it doesn’t mean you immediately hate all dairy, you just have to start considering what items are worth the consequences.
I don’t know, they’re a very American brand, maybe not as much as Tim’s is Canadian (in the sense of brand perception/ cultural significance). Even though McDonald’s is American, it’s been here so long and is so global it doesn’t feel American.
Crimea 2
The problem is that once you get into lifetime costs the variables go through the roof and any numbers you come up with are almost meaningless to anyone but yourself. (Not to mention needing to calculate increasingly volatile energy prices over decades) I tried to do a bit of basic math. I calculated with BC Hydro home rates at $0.12/kwh and fast charger rates at $0.40/kwh, and with gas at its (local) year low of $1.40/L as well as rounding up to $2/L. I also am taking my basic search for efficiency data at face value.
Cost/100km
Kia Niro EV ~17kwh/100km = $2.04 home $6.80 fast charger
Hyundai Kona ICE ~7.5L/100km combined = $10.50-$15
Nissan Leaf ~18.9kwh/100km = $2.27 home $7.56 fast charger
Nissan Versa ~6.8L/100km = $9.52-$13.60
There’s no doubt there are many people saving tons by driving an EV, just as I have no doubt many people will never break even (and if they’re ok with that I have no issues).
$45k+ still isn’t what I’d call affordable, especially when their closest ICE equivalents (Nissan Versa and Hyundai Kona) are about $20k cheaper new.
At least it looks like used EVs with triple digit ranges are starting to show up around $10k. The state of EV affordability is improving but there’s still a long way to go.
That sounds like an argument the other way to me. I work rotating shift work, permanent DST is going to be awesome for me. I’m going to love having at least 1 hour of sun after my commute home after a winter morning, as well as not doing almost my entire night shift in darkness. I’m also thankful we won’t have standard time in the summer. I’m ok waking up in darkness, I already would for a morning shift 365 days a year. Right now I can easily make it to bed in darkness, but standard time it would be getting noticeably lighter by the time I get home.
You definitely have bigger toast.
Maybe regionally. From the west coast I have never heard of Second Cup as anything other than making coffee flavoured granola bars years ago, and up until now I thought Robin’s went out of business in the early '00s.
Once again they’ll carve out exemptions for the stuff they can’t get anywhere else. And for those things, we need to slap on an export tax.
That’s a very nice way of describing legal slavery.
It really feels like they’re trying to pull a Crimea. They’ve already been amplifying (if not outright fabricating) the voices of the very few sincere separationists to make it look like it’s a majority position. Now they’re setting up a referendum, which will likely be accused of being rigged if it fails or used as pretext if it passes, because it’s obviously not legally binding.
I mostly agree with that, except I think we’re missing a few steps in the middle too. I had a close family member struggle with mental health, to the point it severely affected their livelihood. In moments of crisis, every option essentially came down to “calm down and figure it out yourself, or call us back when you’re actually considering suicide”. Thankfully we were eventually able to find a counsellor, but even with decent insurance they’re very expensive. I’m sure a lot of people don’t have that option, especially if they don’t have a family support network to fall back on if they lose their job (and housing, and if they even had it, insurance).
I don’t mean to sound crass or dismissive, but making the choice to go out in such a public way is pretty selfish. I know a guy who used to be in the coast guard and he had to clean up a few people who missed. I’m sure it’s even worse for someone like a train operator. While you’re absolutely correct the prevention needs to be directed at the root cause, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t also try and prevent it where it’s happening.
No, too many Americans, we’d be a minority in our own country. I think we’d all be happy to visit Washington, Oregon, and California again and more often than before if it didn’t require travelling to the US though.
Yes. I think you fundamentally misunderstand what struggle means. $4750/month is enough to rent a super nice place or a mortgage on a decent detached house (nothing fancy but just under a million). And that’s not to mention the other $5000+/month leftover after taxes.