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I would hope you have considered the reverse issue that rent control causes. Rent control disincentivizes moving in general, not just forced moves, because if you've been in one place for a significant amount of time and rents have gone up significantly, you won't be able to find anything remotely comparable within your budget. That disincentivizes good landlord behaviour, since they can get away with much more before their long-term tenants give up and find somewhere else (and in the case of an overheated rental market they can have someone new in there quite quickly, paying much more rent). Obviously landlord and tenant dispute resolution systems exist and do help alleviate this problem, but they don't solve everything, especially for low-income people who may get evicted for living in a place that technically isn't up to code if they try and resolve their dispute through official channels (to say nothing of the time it takes and the need for expert advice, which many people can't always afford or know how to access). By making exit harder, you prevent the market from filling its role in punishing crappy landlords.

That's one that I've run into. Seeming like a straight-up person who admits they screwed up and demonstrates empathy gets you quite a ways, sometimes. Ideally, it's a bit more than just seeming, though.

I'm really curious about the role of ethics in your work. In your place, I could see myself simply refusing to provide advice to or negotiate for a business that behaves in ways which I find ethically questionable. Furthering their ends with knowledge of those actions seems to imply that I approve of their means and I would therefore feel somewhat culpable for further harm they did because I gave them an advantage. Similarly, are there things that you won't even try to talk people into, even if doing so would be good for you?

My guess is three things. First, the current suite of planets covers most of the bases in terms of characteristics and many, many people can't get farther than Mun or Minmus (so further content would be somewhat niche). Second, the modding community has somewhat satisfied the desire for more planets at the moment. If you want them you can have them. Third, they have a ton of other features that need working on.

On a separate note, Squad probably wants to either finish the 64-bit Windows version (which is waiting on a new version of Unity as per their announcement) or rework their memory management before they put a huge ton of extra texture work into the game.

Besides, it's always been fun trying to figure out how to get crew into your command chair-helmed monstrosity.

Speaking as a Canadian who's lived in the US and has made something of a hobby of observing this, it really depends. The generic suburban white anglophone accent from Canada is nearly indistinguishable from comparable accents native to the northeast of the US and the west coast. You can tell them apart if you're looking for it, but the differences between a Canadian's accent and the accent of an American from the state immediately to their south are often very subtle. The slightly different word choice is usually the actual giveaway in casual conversation ("pop", "washroom", "grade 9" instead of "9th grade" or "freshman", stuff like that). I lived in upstate New York for 6 years and people basically never twigged to my nationality until I actually used a canadianism. Hell, think about all the Canadian actors and actresses who find work in the US. They're hard to distinguish and it's often not because they had a good dialect coach. Many of us don't say "out" and "about" differently enough for you to actually notice.

The big difference is accent diversity. Canadians have much less accent diversity on the average than Americans, if you ignore the Francophone accents. Even if you put the francophones back in, we still have far less. Toronto and Vancouver don't have different accents the way New York and Boston do. Hell, they don't have different accents the way Brooklyn and the Bronks do! There's a big urban-rural divide (and sometimes an ethnic divide) and most of the differences are along that axis, with rural dialects differing more from each other and from the city accents. My guess is that the CBC played a big part in homogenizing our accents. Our TV and radio stations have quotas for Canadian content, but we aren't big enough in terms of population to produce enough content that it can get divided up based on target region (aside from language).

In terms of specifics, look for how someone says "niche" or "clique". If they pronounce them the French way, they're likely Canadian. The "o" in "sorry" has a slightly different sound to it in Canada and there are a few other little vowel changes, but a number of them are shared with different American dialects. Lieutenant is another departure and it comes along with a few other Britishisms such as the pronunciation of words like "schedule" or "composite". However, many Canadians use the American pronunciations of those words either occasionally or exclusively (with the exception of "leftenant", which gets hammered into you pretty hard as a kid).

People from more isolated areas or subcultures vary more from that very similar mean. There are regional differences as well. Travel across Canada and you'll hear a bunch of accents. However, there are often big commonalities between accents in the two countries. The rural Ontario accent (the extreme form of this being the stereotyped "Canuhduh, Eh?" accent) is very close to the accent of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Albertans sound more like people from the Midwest. People from BC probably match pretty well to people from Washington state (actually, most of Canada shares a good bit of overall with the west coast of the US). Black people from Toronto will sound a lot like the average of black people from a few American cities north of the Mason-Dixon Line. You'll hear a bit of an Acadian (New Brunswick francophone) accent in some people from Louisiana because a bunch of Acadians got shipped there. The Boston accent and a few others from New England are echoes of the accents of the Canadian Maritimes, especially those along the south coast of Nova Scotia, where a lot of the British Loyalists from New England settled after the American Revolution (including a lot of freed slaves).

There are a few big accent groups that have no easy parallels. The Quebecois accents are of course not represented south of the border at all. Same with the Hispanic accents in Canada. And the whole span of Southern accents have many characteristics that are absent from almost any Canadian's speech. The groups of colonists that brought the components of those accents seem to have largely missed Canada. And the stronger Maritime accents (like the Newfoundland dialect or the lower-class rural Nova Scotian one the Trailer Park Boys use) are very different from anything in the US, often having more in common with the historical accents in some part of Ireland or highland Scotland than anything else. It's there where there's the most diversity, in my experience, but even there the accents of people from towns and cities are more similar to the accents of people from Vancouver or Guelph than the people from rural areas.