[–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

I mean, at one point I was cycling along with an angel in front of me, a bee beside me, a fairy (with fairy lights) in front of them and a guy with a Jason mask and a knife in front πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

*The mask on the back of his head so everyone cycling behind could see πŸ˜‚

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Fossil fuel companies and car manufacturers have been trying so hard to find any and every reason to say EVs are actually not better, despite all data saying to the contrary, and almost everyone that purchases one staying with them.

    First it was range anxiety, then it was batteries are bad for the environment too, then it is but they take more carbon to manufacture, I guess now it's rebound effect. All the macro data we have shows them being a massive reduction. This is just more propaganda from oil and gas and companies like VW

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Making it so people cannot be evicted when they don't pay anything just means that the only people that can afford to rent property will be massive funds that can hedge. We need to have rental properties, and we need them to be owned by private persons, not giant multinational companies with no soul.

    This also only creates more incentive to go for holiday rentals, or even empty houses.

    The problem isn't eviction, it's sudden spikes in rent. And lack of social funds to house people that cannot afford rent.

    If they want to freeze evictions, surely they should foot the bill for unpaid rent? (Effectively delivering social housing).

    I am all for a socialist system, but having a capitalist system and just fucking over the balance of power in a transaction limits the actors only to those who already have an exceedance of power in the market, without actually really reducing their power. Giant corporations will just continue buying up more and more properties, and raising rents to compensate for those that don't pay, averaged across their portfolio.

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