No, it doesn't. It eliminates the need to for you, in your specific cases.
Weird how people on this sub seem incapable of imagining lives other than their own.
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I live next door to a grocery store, and a 2m walk from multiple green grocers. I live the walking grocery lifestyle.
But there are still situations where I have to drive to the store to pick up a large amount of supplies. Like say, when hosting a birthday party, or wanting to pick supplies up at a grocery store that doesn't have exorbitant prices.
Oh this case for sure 100% without a doubt has to prove out the point you've been obsessing over.
No possible way it could be a situation that contradicts your pre-conceived notion, adds nuance, or just isn't really relevant to it. I mean what are the odds of that ever happening? /S
As I've said, I live in a walkable city near grocery stores, that still doesn't eliminate the need to occasionally drive to one.
This is naiive and dumb (like a lot of posts in this community).
If you drove to the grocery store, then you almost certainly have more groceries than are going to be comfortable to carry back by hand.
You said servicing the central AC will certainly be cheaper in the long run. That's wrong.
It might be, but it depends on a lot of other factors.
You seem to be biased against window ACs for some reason, and seem hell bent on misinforming people about them.
Decent modern window ACs will have a higher baseline efficiency than older full house units, and cool just the room you want. Conduction losses through the wall are minimal compared to trying to to cool literally 10x as much space. They are incredibly easy to DIY, and cost $500 up front, but you'll get half that back when you sell it when you're done with it. Literally the same price as the AC tech who's gonna come out and say that you need to install more return ducts, insulation, or another unit to keep up with the increased average outdoor temperature.
Like literally everything else, some are built cheaply, some are built well. Look up reviews before you buy.
Anecdotally it seems to be the case for me. I switched from the A series to the Pixel and I'm pretty disappointed in how quickly my battery life has degraded.
It's in the linked source.
No, it is literally just comparing similarly sized jurisdictions.
Every state above 2M
He makes the case that we should allow high density towers because people want to live in high density areas near transit and jobs.
But that seems like a rather flawed argument, given that we do not have affordable low density areas near transit for them to choose.
People don't actually want that level of density, they mostly just want to live near transit and near to their jobs timewise.
If we built out reliable, two way, regional trains to other small cities, and built LRT and subway networks in them now, at their current sizes, then we would be able to see whether people actually want to live in high density towers, or whether they would choose lower density, still transit connected, options.
The idea that we don't have the resources to do that is absurd. We 100% easily do given that we did it before, we just need to tax the wealthy.
Tearing down dense townhouses and multiplexes to build towers is destroying optimal housing to race for the bottom. People simplifying the housing issue down to 'all nimbyism is bad and must inherently be equally bad' is absurd and just let's corporate developers build dystopias.
Whenever you buy Canadian made products, you're giving yourself a long term discount you don't see at the register.
It means that many more fellow residents will have a job and aren't taking EI and government services, and are instead raising the overall tax base, making the taxes you pay go even further.
This is a horseshit analogy.
Stealing money from your account is theft, it's not still there afterwards.
The concept I think you might've been looking for is opportunity cost in that pirating deprives an artist of potential sales. Which is a fair point, but it is still not the same as stealing since it does not deprive the artists of their original copy.
It's also all done in the context of a system that is not run by artists and does not primarily benefit artists, but is instead run by and benefits middlemen.