All cops are human, and humans tend to have terrible memories, lie regularly, are morons, and put self-interest over everything else.
The issue is that humans aren't held accountable for what they do and say in proportion to the amount of power they wield.
While I think this is an issue, I think it's a minor one. If it was a big problem, we'd see a whole bunch of 2 storey apartments sprinkled amongst single family homes. But I've never seen one in all my time in Toronto. Because there's a whole ton of regulations that make it impossible by just plain making it illegal without jumping through a whole ton of other hoops that make it far too expensive.
I'm not saying fixing this won't help, but it's just one of dozens of issues, and a minor one compared to some of them.
Well, that, and Musk's been torpedoing his own reputation by opening that mouth of his more and more these last few years. Tesla owners always though he was one of them, but he's been proving them wrong more and more every time he opens that mouth of his, so it's no surprise that people who are pro-EVs are seriously thinking about ditching Teslas.
The faster the charger, the more powerful of a charging station you need, and the more expensive they are. No matter how fast your car is capable of charging, it'll be limited by the charging station so the speed itself won't change.
On the other hand, solid state batteries are supposed to have quite the increase in charge density so there's the hope that they can be a lot cheaper since you don't need as big of a battery.
On the other other hand, isn't the car market slowing down as a whole? Sales seems to have slowed dramatically these last few years as people are relying on other ways to get around more and more, so rather than replacing cars with EVs, it's more like cars are just plain disappearing, even it's only at the rate of partial replacement levels.
Promises mean nothing. We'll start talking once we get some contract written up.
That, and why 2050? It only takes 10 years to build nuclear plants, so why can't it be 2040? Or just pump in more money into the joint effort into SMRs?
Honestly, until I see money exchange hands, this is no better than China commiting towards climate change goals while simultaneously building up a dozen new coal power plants.
Specifically it's bad for rich people who own offices, but good for rich people who own businesses that don't need offices and now aren't expected to waste money on them.
The issue is that office space is leased for several years at a time, with the shortest leases being something like 5 years. It looks bad on the spread sheets when you have 3 years left on your lease, yet you're not using those offices because people want to work from home, so a lot of companies are trying to force people to go back to offices so they can get their yearly bonuses, even if it costs the company millions doing so.
Probably more like 4x that, but on the other hand, this is finally a project that is starting to get a little close to the level of added housing that is needed in a single city (presuming this is concentrated around central Vancouver, not being placed around smaller towns or something stupid like that.
Most proposals only amount to 10% those numbers, and 10 years is a realistic time scale as building homes takes time in the first place.
I remember reading about a particular speeding camera that is actually turned off the majority of the time due to the sheer number of speeding tickets that are produced from it alone. It's so much that it clogs up the entire system so they just gave up and turned it off for like 2/3rd of the time so the people processing those tickets have time to work on other cameras.
Raising the fines is good and all (rather it really should be done), but I think the entire ticketing system needs to be overhauled as well so that it's far more streamlined to handle massive loads without hiring thousands of more people to brute force the problem.
The number of people who brag about their fines is staggering, treating them like badges of honor. If you check out automotive forums, you'll see it all the time, with people trading tips on how to push the limits of the demerit system to avoid having their license revoked without actually fixing their habits. There's even tips on how to legally obscure your license plate so you can't get caught on speed cameras.
Also regarding those highway speeding cameras, normal speeding cameras just take two pictures and measure how far the vehicle has moved during that time. Though if you just equip the camera with a doppler radar, you can just directly measure the speed that way.
Rather than the most engagement, it's starting to become the emotion that creates any engagement at all.
Political apathy has gotten pretty ingrained in the democratic world, let alone here in Canada. And frankly, I can't blame anybody when it feels like even going out to the polls is a lose-lose situation. Not a single viable candidate you really want to back means that why should you even bother to show up to vote? No matter who gets in the seat, they'll screw over the majority of the population and hold back any of the real change that's needed to actually fix any of the prevalent problems that hurt not only the regular folk, but the economy, health, safety, and any number of other things that make a good and prosperous country.
This isn't China, yet why does it sometimes feel like the upper echelons are growing to more and more resemble the CCP? Or the oligarchy of Russia?
Yup. But it still has brand recognition and most people order something like a triple triple nowadays so it's little more than liquid coffee crisp. At that point, the quality of the coffee hardly matters, and Tim Horton's is way cheaper than Starbucks.
What we need isn't thousands of detached single family homes, but hundreds of low and mid-rise buildings that each house dozens. There is no system in the world that'll make single detached homes viable for the entire population. Not to mention that suburbs cost the government more in taxes than they take in, whereas high density neighbourhoods with mixed use buildings are second in economic revenue to downtown cores while providing massive amounts of housing.
I work at a place that spends over a million a year in rent because it uses space from the mixed use first floor of a 30 floor condo. There's dozens of stores like mine that do the same in the area. Imagine how much property tax the city gets from this? How much money must pass through each and every store to be able to afford such rent? And how pretty much every store in the area is doing pretty well despite stores just a few blocks away are crumbling and dying off because there's almost no housing in the area unlike this neighbourhood.
People wanting detached homes is fine. But what about us that don't care about such things? Why don't we get an option for a small but low cost home?
To be honest, I'm guessing that they're trained to push their body weight into the person's back, but only trained in a controlled environment with compliant trainers, rather than someone out in the open with others yelling, screaming, and throwing objects while the subject is trying to resist.
Ten guys try to do it with minimal training in terrible situations, and at least one of them is going to fuck it up like this. While on camera since everybody's got one in their pocket nowadays.