I don’t like the implied false dichotomy between opening up the kernel and better security. You can definitely have both. Otherwise it’s a good report.

I hope so. Subscribe to !georgism@kbin.social if you haven’t already.

Land value tax would fix this.

Qatar’s ghost flights – an open secret within the aviation sector – are “taking the piss” out of Australia’s strict aviation laws, industry sources say, and are occurring despite the Albanese government rejecting the airline’s formal request to increase flights out of concern the extra capacity would go against Australia’s “national interest”.

Honestly, I don’t blame Qatar Airways. Good on them for getting around this protectionist nonsense policy.

Air travel is already quite expense and carbon heavy. Actively blocking routes makes the system less efficient, expensive, and will emit more carbon. Isn’t that also against Australia’s “national interest”?

Why are comments even open on this article? They’re just terrible tabloid trash.

I’m very glad Hussein is out but I don’t know if Sean Fraser will do a good job. His previous role as immigration minister let the country consistently exceed its immigration targets, which only made the housing crisis worse. He’ll be looking into the consequences of his own actions on housing.

He already refrained from building more houses directly and “subsidizing”, not investing, “below-market” housing instead, so that’s not a good sign already.

From a structural standpoint, merging housing and infrastructure into a single ministry makes sense. These two issues go hand in hand.

When the guy who made the AI hype wants us back in the crypto hype…

Where’s that attitude with Big Grocery stores or Big Oil?

Wtf is that caption image lol

You are right, land should not be a good investment. A land value tax supports this as it decreases the value of the land, it won’t be seen as an investment. Wealthy people and investors hoarding land will only increase their tax burden and thus will not be profitable for them.

6. Maintain a central registry of who owns what housing and who lives there (necessary for the policies below). This can be used to audit abuses

7. Raise property taxes on vacant housing

8. Introduce a new yearly anti-speculation tax that depends on the owner of the unit:

• Canadian citizens: 0%.
• Permanent residents and people with work permits: 0%.
• Companies established in Canada:
• Single-family dwelling: 5%.
• Dwelling between two and 6 units: 2%
• Housing with more units: 0%
• All other assumptions: 10% <-- this includes foreign investors

Why all this bureaucracy? We can simply just shift property taxes to land value taxes. Much more equitable and it would disincentivize speculation and incentivize density. You only need to know who owns which parcel of land so its much less bureaucratic.

Its a separate platform. It could be used to cache YT videos but that’s not its primary purpose.

Also its a separate okatform. Could be used to cache YT videos but that’s not its primary purpose.

Partially correct. You can self host peertube instances. What differentiates it from YouTube is:

• Instances can share their video lists with other instances via ActivityPub. Even to Mastodon and Lemmy.
• PeerTube video player is peer to peer. You can download the video from the server directly or from another peer watching the same video. This may be helpful for livestreams.

I might be too pedantic, but Odysee/LBRY is a blockchain-based decentralized network. But its not federated and it doesn’t use activitypub like Lemmy and mastodon. I would only call Peertube to be part of the fediverse.

Why is a 2 year old post on my front page?

I doubt this is true. The hull is made out of carbon fiber. It doesn’t “crack”, it shatters.

That’s weird, I removed the link formatting and now it works on Jerboa. But yeah, that’s what I meant, Thanks!

You can find a list of sub alternatives at sub.rehab

Land value tax would solve this. If the city doesn’t want oversized units, tax land.

…and get rid of development charges altogether. Why are we punishing homebuilders with more taxes?