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.

I once ran the numbers, and it turned out that even if all my other bills are quadrupled, if my rent alone is halved in return, I'd come out vastly on top. How come one bill come out to more than double of all my other bills combined?

Few military assets are more expensive than fighter jets. Our CF-18s are verging on obsolete and the costs of just keeping them in the air is ballooning as every single part of them are going beyond their operational lives.

We basically won't have an air fleet in 2 decades if we don't buy the F-35s now, and trying to refurbish the CF-18s while we hold out for the next generation or something will cost us tens of billions in refurbishment and maintenance fees alone while running an air fleet that can only keep up with 3rd rate air forces. Even if we can somehow hold on until a newer and more cost effective jet comes to market, any discount we can get from that will be nothing compared to the extra cost of keeping the CF-18s running. Not to mention the pure reduction in capacity in the meantime. We still have to patrol the north, and anything we use for that can't be spending weeks under maintenance between sorties.

You know, the first thing I thought of is that you could build like 6x that many homes if you just didn't bother with the yards and added a second story. I mean, yes, what was done is nice, but it's basically just a trailer park. I bet that the land alone was like 70% of the cost if not 90% as well, so building the houses more densely would've provided for several times as many people for almost no extra cost.

Alternatively, a single mid-rise apartment building would've done the same thing on only a fraction of the land, and probably a lot more comfortable to live in, not to mention cheaper on amenities like heating and sewage.

No, I think such low density housing is actually the cause of the problem, at least around the big cities. Toronto already has some pretty terrible transit times at the average being something like 100 minutes each way due to the distance from one's home to their work place. Increasing density is the only option, though as a compromise, I think townhouses are extremely good.

Get rid of front yards and just make all the houses long, and you can fit as much as 3 units with the same or greater floor space as one of those houses on a single plot of land. Combine that with tons of mid-rise apartments and independent housing is accessible to even those stuck on minimum wage jobs.

Seriously. The amount of foam trays and plastic containers used is insane, and entirely because it would cost more to develop a biodegradable alternative than to accept a bad look and just say it's for the consumer's bottom line.

While I admit that some things are done better in traditional plastic until we can create decent and cheap bioplastics (we're getting close for low strength, though I don't know if transparency is good or not), many things can just be swapped with waxed paper or cardboard. We've been using waxed paper for cup for decades now, just adapt that for other uses.

The issue is that shrinking the population over a short period of time (and I mean more than 10% a generation) means that you have a lack of young people to take care of older people. And that's ignoring all the capitalism issues that come with all this.

Not every young person is willing to spend the majority of their free time taking care of their parents. Hell, most people aren't willing to do that more than once or twice a week, yet once you get past 70, a lot people need constant care. That's the original point of elderly homes. Of course, those homes are just plain shit and closer to cruel and unusual torture than actually a form of care (especially here in Ontario). And that's not to mention that occupancy is so tight that there's a wait list on them.

Then there's the fact that if our population drops too quickly, we'll have massive holes in essential services as well. There's already a massive hole in all blue-collar work as it stands as people would rather go into the service industry than skilled labour. And while pay is an issue, this is a problem in the States as well, where pay is far better. It's to the point that they've legalized child labour in several places just to make up for the shortfall.

Population decline is an easy way to destroy society, even ignoring capitalist needs.

While true, electricity works a bit differently from most other resources, in that you don't have to build it where you use it. Power lines can easily go for hundreds of km if you need to, so if one area refuses to get rid of their fossil fuel power plant, just build excess power somewhere that's willing to do it and send the energy over. You can force that power plant to shut down just by being unprofitable.

This works even across provincial lines if you need it to. Ontario provides a lot of power eastwards, and there's talk of redirecting Newfoundland power back to Ontario when we close one of our nuclear power plants in the next few years. Theoretically it can work, if we upgrade the power lines to be able to handle the reverse flow at least.

The vast majority of electricity generation in Canada is already net-zero. In fact, most of the national grid is powered by hydro, even taking into account the lack of waterfalls in the prairies. Between Niagra and the east coast, hydro is doing a lot of work, with nuclear being a strong #2 (almost off of which is in Ontario and Quebec).

If we just push SMRs a bit more and properly invest in them when production starts ramping up, we can easily do this by 2035, and we don't even have any of the usual pitfalls of green energy like storage problems, as wind is only like 5% our total generation, and we practically don't have any solar.

Extremely little of Canada's greenhouse emissions come from electricity generation, as we're one of the cleanest in the world. Our emissions mainly come from cows, cars, and heating. That last one is especially bad, and where we should really be targeting more than anything else.

But making our electricity generation net-zero is also a fine low hanging fruit for Canada.

This is only a small part of the problem. The issue is that corporations are bidding on an extremely limited number of lots. Like a hundred firms on five lots kinda insane. By bidding on each other over and over, the prices inflate, and the end result ends up having to rake in more money just to recoup the costs.

It's just plain illegal to build multiplexes on single lot residential. That's why you can get several square km in the middle of downtown of only single family houses with front and back yards, with 50 story sky scrapers a few blocks down.

Well of course the moment you've processed the crop it's too late to wash them. I was mostly just talking about fruits and vegetables.

But for grains and legumes, washing them before hulling them shouldn't be a problem. Of course there's the issue of added costs, but spraying additional pesticides is also a cost.

It's a free market because the guy with a bigger wallet gets to do whatever he wants until his wallet isn't the biggest anymore.