That $1 trillion he’s claiming also comes from the pockets of Americans, so it’s more like - 1 - 9 = - 10.

Yet, that’s exactly what happens sometimes. Big developers are professionals at putting in the minimum passable workmanship while putting enough lipstick on to sell it at a high price. The only inspections that take place are for code compliance for particular items, but they don’t inspect much of anything outside of that.

Not other than a structural engineer for the foundation.

There are no specific requirements for contractors, but the bank providing the mortgage will likely have some stipulations around bonding and insurance.

Of course you can have an architect design the house, but the designer doesn’t need to be an architect.

Do you have any specific examples?

From working in both municipal infrastructure and residential building science, I’ve found residential design and construction is really the wild west. There is a lack of simple building science knowledge, and there are even examples in code that go against best practice (like polyethylene vapor barrier on the interior of basement walls).

I’d prefer to see money go towards education of the industry so that comfortable, durable, resilient, and efficient homes are what is being built.

BC has figured it out, and a well built home with energy performance 70% better than code baseline can be only 10% more cost. An amount quickly recovered in energy savings.

Could be both planted and so inept that he believes he got there on his own accord and is doing a great job.

You won’t lose them if you back them up. SMS Backup and Restore can automate the task for you.

1. Don’t go to the United States

If you really have to…

1. Backup phone.
2. Factory reset (make sure you really backed up everything)
3. Install only essential apps (not from backup). Don’t log into anything.
4. Cross border. (you just got a new phone and haven’t set it up yet)
5. Restore backup.

To be fair, the market is roughly at where it was in September (pending further tanking). So, not a huge difference…yet.

I agree with this, though if you have something like Sonarr or Radarr, the titles you have (or had) would all be on there, so reaquiring isn’t quite as significant a task.

Unfortunately I’ve recently had to put this into practice because I didn’t understand hardlinks and zfs subpools…

I very much enjoy my Ioniq 5 over any Tesla I’ve driven.

Might you have a non-paywalled link?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group_chat_leak

E: A more complete dump with commentaries:

It’s no different from many other chat apps. Select the contacts you want in the group.

There’s no issue with the app, it’s actually among the most secure. The issue is the meatbag behind the thumbs selecting who to put in the chat.

There’s also the blockade that both established parties put up, as they very much enjoy their exclusive duopoly.

Perhaps time for a third party…

EVs have lower lifetime CO2e emissions, even when the grid is quite carbon intensive. I agree that walkable development and widely available transit alternatives would be better, but EVs are a step in the right direction. Transforming car-dependent cities is not going to happen overnight.

Ideas 1, 2, and 4 could come together with a permaculture food forest/farm. First task would be to cover crop the land to protect from soil loss and start replenishing some nutrients. Then, you have some time to make a good, phased plan of how you’d want to develop it.

Talk to experts and professionals whichever direction you take. They’ll often save you much more than they cost.

Yep, I’d agree with that. I know engineering licensing is governed by each province with Engineers Canada enabling some parity in standards across the country to improve mobility.

These provincial licensing/priviledging difficulties indicate provinces still have a significant say in who can practice in their province. I would guess the national standards are more around education.

It’s not dissimilar for engineers either.

Either way, a national board to administer a national Act would be necessary, which would need to develop the national licencing requirements. Unfortunately, there’s not many doctors with extra time on their hands to aid with this task.

Steam Link works well if they’re still around.