you can’t fool me that’s a lanternfish
This is transhumanist.
No. Toolmaking is just humanist. Transhumanism is a fantasy genre that looks like hard scifi to people autistic enough to think the no-cloning theorem couldn’t possibly apply to consciousness.
I mean, Transhumanism isn’t just upload civilizations. It’s also robot arms.
And we already have robot arms, so it’s likely just a matter of time before they exceed regular arms.
Singulitarianism, on the other hand…
A LOT of right-wing stuff right now is designed to wind people up.
This is part of why some Left/Liberal organizations are having identity issues over whether they’re the Cool Subversives still. It used to be that the right wing were the uptights and the left wing were the shitposters, but not anymore.
I prefer being the uptights.
Understandable, but it’s partly to move the Overton Window to make room for more uptightness later on. The goal is to loosen the grasp of progressivism.
Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.
Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.
“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]
amazing
Why were they empty?
they’re meant to be investment properties, bought, left empty, and then sold a year or few later for huge profit as housing values continue to rise. it’s a massive part of the bc housing bubble, and why despite so much new construction it’s still so difficult to find rental housing
the fact that these landlords are panicking because they might have to actually use their housing properties as housing rather than finance capital is deeply funny
See THIS is a good idea to do, because far too many people leave property vacant rather than let it be used.
they’re essentially hoarding empty properties to drive the price up, and everyone suffers for it. now it’s not profitable anymore. good job, canada.
I don’t understand how this is supposed to work. An individual person or group doesn’t benefit from buying property to make the price go up unless they manage to get a monopoly, right?
Also, what’s the logic between not renting them out? Is it about being able to sell on a moment’s notice?
Most likely, but also renting is a headache that often doesn’t have great margins, and renters can damage the property. That they’re even able to do this, however, suggests that there are still issues with insufficient housing construction.
My family used to own a set of small storefronts in the middle of a small town, which we rented to a number of small businesses, including an old-fashioned barber shop there since before I was born. It wasn’t really a net source of income.
A LOT of right-wing stuff right now is designed to wind people up.
This is part of why some Left/Liberal organizations are having identity issues over whether they’re the Cool Subversives still. It used to be that the right wing were the uptights and the left wing were the shitposters, but not anymore.
Of course, part of the issue with whether the guy in the CNN story is an actual wannabe doxxer, is that there is no reason to trust that Leftists (that you don’t know personally) are telling the truth. They lie so fucking much as a group. They lie about the conditions in Europe. They lie about sexism. They lie about who is and is not a Nazi, and then commit violence based on those lies. They twist statistics, by, for example, making “made to penetrate” not be counted as rape and then using those same stats to claim that sexual violence by women does not exist.
The issue here being that for the correction to go around, there has to be some credibility. That credibility has been burned repeatedly, much like we shouldn’t trust anything non-trivial that former President GWB says (or many of the GOP pols generally).
It isn’t that the Trumpists don’t care about the truth more than other ideological groups, it’s that they know their enemies control the loudspeakers and non-governmental institutions, and they expect their enemies to always lie and not care about the truth. It’s similar to the phenomena of right-wingers shitposting because they know they’ll be called Fascists regardless, so they’ve decided to wind people up over it and make them look ridiculous.
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.
Ezra Pound (via palingenesis144)
This reminds me a bit of Mezangelle, which I could never get into but always loved the aesthetic of. It’s easy to imagine a religious or magical permutation of Mezangelle.
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Excellent, now I can tell people the reason I don’t like poetry is that it’s a branch of mathematics.
the halls of Moria… or that flood channel under Tokyo, possibly
Nah it’s that level from Mirror’s Edge. Noob.
yo ngl but I’ve been getting better avant-garde content from Facebook than from Tumblr lately
am-am I not edgy enough, kontext-san?
