Basic evolutionary and technological processes, I guess. Combustible fuels are the simplest step a species can take.
The evidence in the geological record shows that this level of ocean acidification has never been hit this quickly before. This level of ocean acidificaion is the highest its been in 300 million years and there is nothing indicating it has any intention of going down.
It's a great show, I've seen it. The problem is the rate of ocean acidification is unprecedented at this speed in our geological history, and that our current level hasn't been hit in 300 million years, and we're still trucking. This could create an irreversible change.
The other thing to factor in is this will be it for intelligent life. We won't get another chance at a species progressing the way we did because much of the world's easily accessible oil has been used up.
"Realism"
They were testing the shot by pointing it directly at the DP and Director so they could see what it looked like if he drew the gun. There was no reason Baldwin wasn't using either of the two non-firing guns during the rehearsal other than wanting it to seem more real. Yes, the armorer was inexperienced, but who hired the armorer. Yes, the 1st AD called cold gun and supposedly handed it to Baldwin without checking it. But who chose to then point the gun at people while simulating a quick draw motion?
It was completely reckless and there was a pattern of dangerous behavior on Baldwin's part, which coupled with his role as producer, and the fact that the production had numerous complaints about safety and corner cutting, doesn't look good at all.
The situation was so bad, that the DPs entire camera department WALKED that day, and had previously complained about gun safety being an issue. They were replaced by non-union scabs. When leaving, a producer threatened to call security if they didn't hurry up. Others on set previously complained because prop guns had already accidentally discharged TWICE before the shooting.
Additionally, rather than finding suitable nearby accommodations in Santa Fe, as they were initially promised, crew were forced to travel 50 miles away to Albuquerque every day. For anyone unaware, film set days are usually around 10-15 hours per day of physically and mentally demanding work.
Everything that transpired was because of a perfect storm created by the production department. It shows all the hallmarks of the systemic abuses that occur between above the line and below the line players, and in my opinion the production department is responsible and should be found criminally negligent at the very least.
Currently: Alec Baldwin has gotten to walk away from this mess, all charges dropped. Gutierrez is now the sole person still being charged and being blamed for drinking and smoking weed after her shift, as well as new testimony from an anonymous witness who claims a bag of cocaine was handed off after she was interviewed by police. I guess production has found their lamb.
No, I absolutely do not. In fact, that's my most optimistic outlook. If ocean acidification continues at the rate it's going, we'll have complete collapse of the oceans, which are the core and source of our entire planet's biosphere.
It's also beyond fucking stupid to read some asshole playing the "gotcha" game when the answer won't be visible in our lifetimes, and the solution needs to start happening today.
It can't be solved on an individual level, but that's exactly where it has to start. Any movement begins with one person convincing another, who convinces another, and so on until it weaves its way through the zeitgeist. Nothing will ever be accomplished if we just say "nuh uh, it's the companies and the government's fault!" Once a critical mass is reached, the corporations and governments will have to bow to the people's will or face a revolution. It's the only way it works, and it's the only way it has ever worked.
Nuclear power is opposed because people are afraid of it. People are not logical and they're definitely not smart, so when they think of a nuclear reactor, they imagine an atomic bomb blowing up over and over while it powers a generator, like a more powerful combustion engine.
Russia will simply destabilize anything it can. They tried to get all of Africa, but it turns out they can see through their bullshit like everyone else, so they've decided to fuck with a handful of countries instead. These countries, by the way, are often responsible for vast diamond mining operations, with Russia being the number one country for both sourcing and laundering blood diamonds on the planet.
The people organizing this shit are the ones who are becoming African mining oligarchs. It's essentially the same as Russia's attempted playbook in Ukraine.
No it will not. There is absolutely zero evidence of that, and if anything, the ocean warming levels point to the contrary. It can just as easily spiral into the opposite direction and create a greenhouse style system like you see on Venus. Even if we died today, biodiversity levels would take millions of years to get back to pre-industrial levels.
They will never collect. This is like busting a guy selling grams on the corner, releasing him the next day and claiming you've shut down the entire drug running operation.
These aren't some rinky dink operations, these are huge shell companies housed in office buildings with cubicles employing hundreds of scammers. It's part of an organized crime syndicate, and somewhere along the line there's some near-billionaire and a number of politicians behind the entire scheme. That's what they mean by the nebulous statement of it being "transnational."
Things will never get better. When we can't sustain an industrial society then people will start murdering each other for the dwindling resources we have left. This is the best it's going to ever be in anyone alive's lifetime.
Remember when climate change was identified for the past 60 years and people just ended up buying bigger houses, bigger cars, and consuming more?
Awesome, hopefully they'll do it to all the others. Maybe take a few oligarch yachts with them along for the ride to the briny deep.
I didnt claim they were adorable all the time, but they're cute as shit when they're floating on their backs and washing themselves. Dolphins are cute too, and they'll rape anything that isn't bolted down.
They're fucking adorable, are you kidding me? That just doesn't bypass the fact that it's a wild animal that doesn't give a fuck about your instagram stories or your need to pet it.
What do you mean? I can't think of anything more stable than a grown man burning children's dolls on the internet after watching a movie based on a toy designed for 6-12 year old girls.
Christians are often times the least Christ-like people you'll ever meet.
It didn't "infect" anything. It was always here. I noticed it when I moved from Vancouver to Calgary as a kid. If you live in one of Canada's three major cities, you just aren't exposed to it, but the second you get into the suburbs or further, it's on full display. There's a reason we had Harper for an entire decade, gagging scientists, cutting corporate taxes, cuts to education and health care, and driving profits into the hands of the rich.
Latinos subscribe heavily to the machismo personality = good, and that any threat against it is a threat to their existence. They are raised religious with heavy incentive on strong family structures, something that conservatives use as a weapon to curry favor.
Asians tend to be extremely conservative, particularly Chinese immigrants. They grew up in an authoritarian world, and view the progressive policies of the West as antithetical to their own. They don't care if Trump is a racist, or blames them for the Kung Flu, because he represents their views on what a government should be.
Swiss rents are set to increase further after the hike of reference rates was announced this week.
After the Federal Housing Administation (BWO) announced in June that rents will go up by about 3 percent this year for tenants whose leases are based on the reference rate — about 54 percent of contracts overall — another increase is on the way.
The central bank announced on Thursday that it was raising the key interest rate further by 0.25 percentage points to 1.75 percent to counter "inflationary pressure, which has increased again over the medium term."
Rent-stabilized apartments have enabled many people to stay in a city that grows ever more expensive. But for the second year in a row, rents are set to rise.
But many landlords of rent-stabilized buildings are big companies. They include developers like Cammeby’s, Lefrak and L&M Development, who each have several thousands of rent-stabilized units in their portfolios, in addition to market-rate units. The companies either declined to comment or could not be reached.
John A. Crotty, founding member of the Workforce Housing Group, which has about 1,500 rent-stabilized homes in its portfolio, said increases were justified because during the tenure of the previous mayor, Bill de Blasio, the panel largely rejected major increases, placing landlords in a difficult position.
The 2021 survey found that one-third of New York City tenants spent more than half of their income on rent. For them, looming increases will force difficult choices about where else to cut back on spending.
There were just 1.4 million homes for sale in the U.S. in May—the lowest level since at least 2012, according to real estate brokerage Redfin.
The number of homes for sale in the U.S. fell 7.1% year-over-year in May, real estate brokerage Redfin reported on Wednesday.
With 1.4 million homes on the market, May represents the lowest number since Redfin began keeping records in 2012.
Redfin attributes this shrinking housing inventory to homeowners feeling trapped by rising mortgage rates, adding that new listings are down 25% to the third lowest level on record.
Additionally, 37% of homes sold in May went for above listing prices, according to Redfin, sparking concerns that this tightened market is fueling bidding wars.
Sydney to lead recovery with 6%-9% increase by next June while Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane will surpass or come close to record highs
Sydney, which led the fall in home prices last year as the Reserve Bank began lifting its cash rate, will also power the rebound. By the end of June next year, the city’s houses are forecast to be 6%-9% higher than at the end of last month, lifting the median price to a record of just over $1.6m.
Spring listings were 11% lower than the five-year average across the major cities. “This signals rising competition between buyers helping to stabilise or improve prices in certain markets,” the report said.
However, a net-migration surge that added 400,000 people this fiscal year and will add another 300,000-plus next year, helped to stem and then reversed the slide in values.
Economists and property experts have called upon the Chinese government to stimulate home prices and resolve local debt problems that were highlighted when housing markets slumped last month. The P…
“China’s current economic slowdown is not related to external trade, which has remained stable over the past three years despite the negative impact of the trade war, the Russian-Ukrainian war and the epidemic,” he says. “The real cause of the crisis is that we have a big debt problem on our balance sheets.”He adds: “Since July 2021, property markets have been suppressed by policies, leaving a lot of homes and land in the markets. In this situation, families, companies and local governments dumped their assets, resulting in further contraction in asset prices and a vicious cycle of debt problems.”
He says the central government should bail out the heavily-indebted local governments – because it was the center that had capped land prices and that also had taken away some of the local governments’ land sales revenue in the past, making them unable to repay their debts. He says the central government should purchase the local governments’ non-performing assets and revitalize them.
He warns that China will face an economic recession if no actions are taken.
According to China’s Ministry of Finance, the outstanding amount of local government debt grew 15.1% to 35.06 trillion yuan ($5.02 trillion) at the end of last year from 30.47 trillion yuan a year earlier.
Paris is in the midst of a housing crisis ahead of the 2024 Games, and LA is up next
In Mid-March, France began moving the homeless out of the capital ahead of the 2024 Games and the Rugby World Cup, which kicks off in September of 2023 in cities throughout France, asking local governments around the nation to provide “temporary regional accommodation facilities” for a stream of the unhoused ahead of the Games. The systemic relocation of “undesirable” populations has unfortunately become as much a part of the Olympic Games as ridiculous mascots and the boondoggle of massive stadiums that sit relatively empty once their two weeks of fame are up. In 2008, the Beijing Summer Games resulted in the displacement of 1.5 million people. In the five years ahead of the 2016 Summer Games, Brazil moved around 77,000 low-income residents out of Rio and forced the homeless out of tourist areas.
In Paris alone, the number of low-cost housing options being replaced by temporary rental units for tourists is staggering. The City of Light boasted about 4,000 Airbnb units in 2012. That number exploded to more than 40,000 units in 2015. Today, that number is closer to 60,000 and is expected to rise as the Games approach.
There’s nothing radical about regulating rents and smoothing off shocks, but self-interest will always override reason
In the face of rapidly rising rents in Australia’s capitals, the Greens are calling for the federal government to work with states on a national rent freeze to protect tenants from the “bill shock” of sudden rental increase of 20%, 30%, or more when they renew their lease.
Yet the actions of landlord and property lobby groups against any such change to tenancy laws would have you thinking that limiting the rate of rent increases amounts to “bombing a city” as economist Assar Lindbeck described rent controls back in 1971. Supply will dry up. Landlords will sell. Houses will disappear.
In fact, some economists have gone so far as to say that rent controls will backfire and raise housing rents and prices in the future.
Renters facing insecurity with almost half considering leaving their accommodation in next 3 months due to affordability, says Eurofound - Anadolu Ajansı
Renters in the private market are the most affected, but other types of housing tenure are impacted as well, said Eurofound, which works to assist in the development of social, employment, and work-related policies.
The costs for renters have risen while homeowners' costs have decreased, the report said, adding that private renters are facing insecurity, with almost half considering leaving their accommodation in the next three months due to affordability.
They report lower quality accommodation at higher rental or purchasing prices, with issues such as energy efficiency and lack of space being more common for renters than homeowners or social housing tenants, it added.
Rents in Warsaw and other Polish cities have risen to such a degree that the poorest are now having to live on allotments or squat in empty buildings.
Prices of housing, to rent and to buy, have skyrocketed in Poland over the last year, to the extent that it is becoming a major issue in the campaign ahead of the general election in the autumn. Both the government and opposition have come up with proposals to address what is now a housing crisis, but they’re primarily focused on the middle class, experts say, as that’s the category where most voters come from.
Renting an apartment in a Polish city like Warsaw has become increasingly difficult. Not only have rents risen by as much as 50 per cent, but any new offer disappears from the market after only a day or two.
Experts explain a perfect storm has led to this situation. Like other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Poland has been hit by inflation, which hit an annual 17.2 per cent in January. To counter it, the central bank has hiked interest rates, leading to a significant tightening of conditions for mortgages; with fewer people able to buy, there is increased competition for renting. Furthermore, around a million Ukrainian refugees continue to live in Poland, the vast majority of them using the regular rental market having been provided with no long-term alternatives by the Polish state.
A new book on the housing crisis in Canada poses the idea that the housing crisis is simply a result of the housing market working in exactly the way it was designed. To break this paradigm, the tenant class must organize and build political power.
He draws parallels between exploitative labor relations and the exploitative rental market to describe how property-owning landlords amass wealth on the backs of tenants — all thanks to government complicity dating back to the dispossession of indigenous lands and creation of property rights.
He then uses historical and contemporary tenant organizing stories — alongside his own professional and lived experiences as a political economist, policy researcher, and child of turbulent 1980s Brazil — to argue that the only solution is a struggle: the tenant class must organize to build political power and demand a more equitable, regulated, and largely nonmarket housing system.
Anger is rising in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, where affordable homes are rarer and rarer.
Georgina's circumstances are far from unique. Average rent in Lisbon is now just over €2,000, while the minimum wage is about €760.
Portugal is currently grappling with a severe housing crisis, triggered by an increase in foreign investment in property and a lack of affordable new homes.
But it's not simply an issue of supply. Researcher and activist Rita Silva, who helped set up the housing movement Habita, says there are "more houses than people, but prices don't go down".
Portugal is currently grappling with a severe housing crisis, triggered by an increase in foreign investment in property and a lack of affordable new homes.
But it's not simply an issue of supply. Researcher and activist Rita Silva, who helped set up the housing movement Habita, says there are "more houses than people, but prices don't go down".
Housing is key in this week’s provincial elections after years of soaring prices and government neglect
Years of government policy have stimulated home ownership and left building to the market, creating a situation where many are priced out and cannot find an affordable house to buy, or to rent. Dozens of people demonstrated last week in The Hague and presented a petition with 102,621 signatures calling for affordable housing to Hugo de Jonge, the housing minister.
The average home costs €424,681, more than 10 times the modal income. From 2015 to 2021, average household disposable income increased by 25%, but house prices rocketed by 63%, fuelled by low interest and a national shortage of 390,000 homes. By the peak of its housing boom last year, houses in hotspots had increased by more than 130% since the end of 2013.
Toronto mayoral candidates debate solutions as census data indicate spiralling costs are forcing young families out of the city
The families of Carissa MacDonald and Aaron Stone released a statement Thursday revealing the Ontario couple was just "days away" from moving into a new home.
A week before they were shot dead, an east Hamilton, Ont. couple were in a dispute with their landlord over mould in their basement apartment, according to police.
Homicide detectives say Carissa MacDonald and Aaron Stone were also just “days away” from moving into a new home before killed at a Jones Road home north of Barton Street East in Stoney Creek.
Top real estate CEO—and A.I. whiz—shares data showing America’s housing market is significantly overvalued.
Sean Dobson, founder and CEO of property powerhouse Amherst, has access to unique data as one of the largest owners of single-family homes in the U.S.
Potential 'time bomb' for US economy looms as $1.5 trillion in real-estate mortgages will come due within the next two years
Some $1.5 trillion in real-estate mortgages will come due in the next two years - paving the way for a potential financial crisis as higher interest rates push down property values....
... In comments to The Financial Times, Chad Littell, an analyst at a major research firm that tracks commercial real estate, added that prominent players such as HSBC's recent decisions to unload outstanding debts at a loss come as a red flag.
'The fact that banks want to sell loans is coming up in a lot of conversations,' Littell, who works for New York-based CoStar, said Monday in a similar interview.
The finance expert further remarked of what he said is a clear sign of the bank's determination to reduce their exposure to an increasingly unstable market: 'I am hearing more about it than any time in the past decade.'
At the time of writing, HSBC is in the process of pawning off hundreds of millions of dollars worth of held-up commercial real estate loans potentially as a discount, as part of a burgeoning effort to wind down direct lending to property developers - who many say are poised to default come 2025.
A new community for discussing the housing crisis
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It's something on nearly every young person's mind: the housing crisis. Once limited to places like San Francisco, NYC, Hong Kong and London, the real estate crisis has gone global.
With house prices at abnormal heights and rent prices following suit, it's only a matter of time before certain cities hit their breaking point.
Let's post information, discuss how we as individuals can make a difference, or even just vent about the complete absurdity of the situation and how we got here.
This is one of the defining issues of our generation. Don't just stand on the sidelines.
Qld’s scrapped land tax carnage: ‘Every renter should be fuming’
New research has found that Queensland’s failed land tax reform caused “serious, long-term damage to the state’s stock of rental properties”. Here’s why.
A survey of over 3700 property investors by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) recently revealed that more than 80 per cent were considering bailing on the Sunshine State due to recent and proposed tenancy law changes.
When asked for their primary reason for considering selling, many pointed to ongoing rental reforms, bad tenants, increasing holding costs and the stigma that all landlords were “greedy, wealthy people” as among some of their key gripes.
OPs note: Did QLD really just figure out the solution to the housing crisis? lol
Fewer builders are starting new homes amid high prices for materials and loans, threatening housing shortages.
Fewer builders are starting new homes amid high prices for materials and loans, threatening housing shortages
Real estate prices reaching record highs
The rate of house price growth is continuously exceeding record highs, according to data compiled by the Bank of Greece for the first quarter of this year.
The rate of house price growth is continuously exceeding record highs, according to data compiled by the Bank of Greece for the first quarter of this year. Indicatively, prices rose 14.5% year-on-year in Greece as a whole, with even higher increases in the two biggest urban centers, reaching 16.5% in Attica and 16.1% in Thessaloniki...
... In addition to domestic demand, Attica’s sharp price increase during the first quarter of this year is undoubtedly attributable to the fact that it is a major target for foreign investors.
This year there has been an especially abnormal increase in foreign investment through the Golden Visa program, due to the upcoming changes, which will make it more difficult to obtain a residence permit.