Brampton Real Estate is BROKEN!
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Let’s talk about these Paradise Homes protests in Brampton, near Jacuzzi and Williams Parkway. Apparently, buyers are demanding delayed closings or reduced prices, as the market has fallen 40% in Brampton. Appraisals aren’t coming in high enough, and banks are saying, “Yo, we’ll give you 40% of what you wanted; come up with the rest.” Honestly, you just gotta eat that L. People in the ’90s and ’80s ate that L, now it’s your turn. If 2008 didn’t scare you about the housing bubble, I don’t know what to say.
Some people are calling it developer greed, but the developer set a price, you agreed, and now it’s greed? Nah, stop with the buyer greed. I say this as someone who’s lost a ton of money on over-leveraged trades. Accept it, and move on. The Bank of Canada didn’t put a pistol to your head and say, ‘Buy this house.’ It was your choice. Eat the L. Paradise build homes, do not destroy. I’m empathetic, but not sympathetic. What do you want, Paradise? “We don’t want to be homeless!” Well, live within your means. You don’t need a two-million-dollar house if you can’t float the mortgage. Down payments just need to be way more.
Real estate agents are all over this. Some people bought these properties for huge losses. Bank account, you try to fiction; they just got better work to do. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. If you’re about to lose everything, Hail Mary that thing! Get on the road, protest, do whatever. This isn’t just a Brampton thing; it’s happening everywhere. Brampton just makes a little more noise. It is what it is.
Did you guys see Zion Williamson keeping receipts? I’m here for petty wars. You need rivalries in the NBA. Someone made a great video showing how the Phoenix Suns are the worst for raising this as an issue. Teach your man how to squabble! I think Zion’s coming back to the league with the right energy. I’m a big fan of pettiness.
Elon Musk confirms that Twitter’s character limit will be raised from 280 to 4,000 characters. Seriously? Imagine scrolling through dissertations on Twitter. You’re going to kill Twitter with this. Turning Twitter into Facebook is not right. Elon, I know you watch my podcast, don’t do this!
And what’s with Ravi Singh versus Amritpal Singh? Apparently, Ravi Singh is going after Amritpal Singh of Khalsa Aid. Singh is calling out Khalsa Aid for only giving out Korans, and for not getting money into Punjab. Singh says, “We’ve been searching for a leader who has a vision and humility, and who unites all Sikhs. The search continues.” Maybe he’s one? I don’t think Amritpal Singh needs to go after Khalsa Aid as much as he did here. Sometimes you just gotta chill. Khalsa Aid does so much work in Punjab, and during the farmers’ protests. Singh needs to realize it’s a stumbling block that he’s got to chill on. If you don’t like us, list other organizations that people can donate to.
Honestly, a big chunk of Khalsa Aid’s stuff comes from the fact that they raise a ton of money. Other orgs are like, “If we had a fraction of what you guys were raising, we’d be putting it here.” Well, set up your org internationally and do the leg work. I don’t think Khalsa Aid has ever misled people. It’s just weird that we’re beefing.
Speaking of Amritpal Singh, what’s with getting rid of chairs from Gurdwaras? It’s a bad PR look. I understand wanting to get rid of chairs, but you need to accommodate everyone. If someone has bad knees, you can’t just say sit outside. Make the Gurdwara welcoming for all people. This chair thing is a distraction. This is small stuff that would be better left alone, because it just gives ammo to the enemies who don’t want to see the Gurdwara succeed. You have to weigh it: is this the hill worth dying over? Are you uniting the people, or are you dividing them?
Have you guys seen ChatGPT? It’s awesome. It’s a chatbot where you can ask questions and it responds. I don’t understand the technology for making AI. I used to mock AI, saying it’s just a bunch of if statements, but they’ve got the linguistic stuff down. You want an essay? Tell it to write an essay and it will. The future’s crazy. A lot of marketing is just going to be this. ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness. It’s a mistake to rely on it for anything important right now. It’s a preview of progress. I love AI art and chat. All the avatars I make for these little segments are AI-generated.
What’s with the price to rent a one-bedroom apartment in London, Ontario doubling? International students are driving London’s economy right now. It’s a great place to set up shop, not too far from Toronto, a university town, a great place to raise a family. They should overlay this graph with enrollment at the various colleges in London. But rent’s going up, less money for food. You got to pay for shelter first.
Did you guys see Elon Musk getting booed off stage? Dave Chappelle brought Elon Musk up on stage at the Chase Center, and the boo’s intensified. He says, “Love me, people. I am your Twitter Overlord and I’m bringing you freedom!” And they booed him. Great recovery by Dave Chappelle, the master comedian. Maybe there are a bunch of Twitter employees you fired in the crowd. Elon removed the video and kicked off the person who posted it. So much for Elon Musk and freedom. You know, one step forward, one step back. He couldn’t get a word out. He must not get enough feedback in real life. It’s kind of funny that he ended up removing the account.
Apparently in Qatar, there’s no hooliganism, no fights, no thuggery because alcohol was banned at stadiums and drugs are banned in the country. Women, children, and opposing supporters can have fun without the worry of violence. Imagine if every place just banned alcohol and drugs from all stadiums. I’m for it, but it would probably kill the vibe. We need a non-alcoholic section in stadiums.
Have you guys seen this commercial for artificial wombs? This is the next level. I don’t know how I feel about it. The fact that they’ve chosen an infertile couple here because they could have just as easily said same-sex couples, or you don’t need to foster your own baby. But they knew they were going to get hit with homophobia and transphobia, so they went the safe route. Something about this just makes me super uncomfortable. This is so Matrix. This is some things I just don’t get. It’s the world we’re leading towards. Straight cyberpunk vibes. Mass-producing babies. It’s just this imagery is weird to me. Maybe I just watched way too many dystopian movies.
In other news, some youngsters tried to kidnap a man who had made a video of them creating a ruckus a few days ago over a Snapchat story. Some guy filmed them, they saw who filmed it, and they came back for him. The guy just freaking took out a 2x4 from the trunk. The guy made a video of these people fighting over a Snapchat story.
Also, Kiru Singh Sahota won his tenth MMA fight! Look at this guy! Second round knockout. Keep an eye out for this guy.
Finally, what’s with people thinking having a same-sex Anand Karaj is okay? This guy got murdered for this tweet. There hasn’t been a same-sex Anand Karaj in the history of Sikhi. If Sikhi was pro same-sex Anand Karaj, we’d be having them. And you can’t just be like, “Well, it’s cultural.” Will we see same-sex Anand Karajes get normalized in the future? I think likely. But to say that it’s part of Sikhi right now, no, it’s not. You can’t twist history to say that Sikhi has a precedent for something that it doesn’t. I don’t know why this guy’s getting so much hate for this. I guess I do understand why he’s getting so much hate.
And that is all that we have written for today. With that, we conclude this week’s episode of Everything Bagel. We were all over the map. That was a lot of stories because I’ve been saving these stories for the entire week. I wanted to make Everything Bagel shorter, but it went long.
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