phillmv.bsky.social
perfect and upright, eschews evil (they/them)
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i’m just impressed that we finally moved past infinite libxml buffer overflows just so we could invent new ways to mess up parsing xml
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i feel like Go’s authors made a lot of decisions that, though i may quibble with some here and there, are on the whole sensible
and then just to keep things spicy they made (de)serializing intentionally confusing and subtle
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last night’s #raverevelations:
- i am alive
- i am ALIVE alive alive alive alive alive alive alive alive
- every day is a victory against those who want to eliminate us
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gorgeous!
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they have no ideology beyond getting to “win” and being smug about it
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the only thing holding these people together as a coalition is status and power. right wingers don’t fundamentally challenge those structures that so they’re OK but people that want to change things freak them out.
when power and status is the only goal it’s extremely threatening
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not quite. i think telling kids that their life is worth living and that if they stick it out they will turn out OK is a better approach
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you severely misunderstand this conversation if you think i am not aware of this
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dodgy liar continues to spread dodgy lies?
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yeah about a year ago they installed lights where before it was an x crossing. i dunno if ppl driving the wrong way was an issue before
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has to be a huge pickup truck. if it can’t mow down an entire kindergarten class in a single gulp how will you even get around???
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the crazy making thing is the people fighting us would be better off, too
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cos they’re tariffed or?
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contextually it makes sense cos there’s a weird little one way side street right there that merges onto lansdowne
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if i were god-empress, i'd go with:
- from ~1955-94 about 10% of all new housing in Canada was social housing, so do that again (hashtag abundance)
- every city over 100k people gets a world class transit system
- zoning obv
- somehow redirect speculative investment $ towards productive industries
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basically anglosphere gov'ts kind of pretend that they have no control over the housing system, and the political economy of housing (~69% of cdns own RE) demands perpetually increasing real estate prices.
construction costs are growing WAY faster than inflation but we just shrug (cc Alon)
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why haven't these big land-rich countries been able to stabilize housing prices?
they constantly pump up demand (subsidies, immigration to some extent, fin and other deregulation, tax incentives) while ignoring supply (social housing, zoning, improving construction productivity)
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toronto is kind of still coasting on fumes from post-war investments in housing, transportation, culture etc. i live in a walkable paradise with world-class access to transit – but most of the province is a suburban car wasteland.
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re: 👇
ish, pre-covid there was a sharp discontinuity but peri-covid (as money sloshed around the rest of the country) outlying areas are catching up quick.
imho price statistics imho reflect a scarcity in *public investment*. amenities are grossly unequally distributed
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social transition doesn't require a doctor's sign off! we're not yet at the point where they're legislating that men must wear certain clothes and women must have an approved haircut.
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i really did not read it as gaslighting. but i will say you're the one who went out of her way to message me 😅. take care, this is a shitty time for all of us.
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narrowly i read the thread as trying to say "it's not helpful to tell your kids that their only alternative is suicide".
i'm a trans woman AND a parent, so that is why i feel like the advice tracks.
like, i have a pretty good understanding why someone might want/need to go on HRT!
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the other replier blocked me so idk what she(?, i forget the account name) was saying, but i really don't think it's a "positive spin", it's like, a pedagogically appropriate way of responding to your kids. i fully understand the suffering and pain, i feel it too. i hate reading this news everyday
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at no point is anyone saying that, or even that we will stop fighting.
it's not that the problem isn't real, it's that you gotta pick yourself up and put one foot in front of the other.
transitioning at 18 is a lot better than suicide.
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as an oldshit who honmodes it chafes my ass quite a bit to see folks freak out 'cos they can't be perfect stealth passoids, like,
it sucks!!!! i don't want this either! but you gotta keep living. you can still be happy.
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"this sucks and it's not what we wanted but listen kiddo: we're going to get thru this, and you are still going to live a life full of joy and love and move through the world how you want to"
is i think a better message than "SUICIDE IS THE ONLY OPTION" (i'm being facetious but not by much)
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do you have children? i do. i think it tracks.
kids need to be told they are deserving of love, and that their life is not over.
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i transitioned at age 35, my love. i not only went thru the wrong puberty, i had to deal with the indignity of being an adult man.
my life was still worth living.
should kids get HRT? yes. in the meantime, i think shielding children from panic and despair is totally the correct response.
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as someone who transitioned at 35, reading the very angry replies to this thread is a bit confusing.
it sucks, but you're going to be OK if you get hormones at age 18! life is still worth living.
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i keep thinking about this: www.todepond.com/wikiblogarde...
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i’ve a meeting now but this plus no more social housing investment for forty years plus all the normal yimby complaints
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then you have:
- airbnbs taking supply away
- financialized real estate speculation means all condo units are miniscule speculation vehicles
- development industry has consolidated so they only want to do new tract development in the burbs OR micro condos for investors to rent on airbnb/students
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it’s overdetermined imho.
we had a massive and kind of dumb boom in *student visas* and semi-indentured labour which put a lot of pressure on the lowest end of the market
when they moved to cap student visas:
1) predatory diploma mills began collapsing
2) rent price growth dropped overnight
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my main contribution to this is “it’s hard to compare different regions because the problems are kinda different”, ie we have imported california’s yimby discourse but they *wish* they produced housing at the same rate we do
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insanely leptokurtic is about right. 30 story condos next to SFH.
as a stylized fact conservative politics & development industry here are dominated by real estate conglomerates so all policy fwd momentum is towards “sprawl and tall”.
meanwhile all growth is concentrated in lefty areas
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urbanism microblogging kind of always runs into this: there’s a thousand different tradeoffs that get flattened into Y/Nimby
and certainly a lot of blanket deregulation gets smuggled under the Y camp
multiplied by the lenses of local politics and geography that are hard to generalize
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i spent 5 days there in November and for the 5 seconds that issue crossed my attention it seemed like it was about preserving access to such a unique space 🤷♀️
i haven’t looked up the stats but wandering around the S Bahn there was a level of density that outmatched equivalent ‘hoods in SF or Toronto
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vendo os estados unidos é engraçado como invés de “pf respeitem como quero ser tratada e não sejam racistas” esta gente gosta mais de “a pide vai atrás de ti se escreveres num jornal contra a israel”