Important Update: How To Solve The Housing Crisis... I just realized that I had came with my own ideas to solve a housing crisis in any country a long time ago! Basically, groups like Atelier Non-Electric and Low Tech Magazine and Amish Mennonite commune whatever could all be responsible for giving input! So, one big part is simply not requiring that a home be connected to a 24/7 power supply, because having everything be powered by "McDonald's biofuel" when alternatives such as wind-up, compressed air, some solar motors that automatically move when exposed to sunlight that I once saw on YouTube, Stirling engines, or maybe I AM A COMPUTER ARTIST AND I AM AGAINST AI when aromatherapeutic painting would allow you to relax more, may be unnecessarily wasteful, and my prior snarky comments about K-TOR should actually be an honest request to introduce a wind-up mechanism so people who have difficulties moving can relax. Because... I don't know if Canada is known for places without 24/7 access to electricity without such places being automatically deemed SUBSTANDARD HOUSING, because they don't know that "substandard" actually means that it poses a risk to human health, and I also expressed concerns that having everything being electrified is actually a risk to human health because of unproven EHS theories or whatever. But I guess Australia or Texas has problems with slow internet and makeshift dunnies, and that's accepted as a normal part of life. There's also "composting toilets" or "bio toilets." There's "Dasher washers" which could similarly have a wind-up clockwork mechanism implemented in them. I also mentioned mechanical computer games and such which could a great way to entertain the kids even without a 24/7 power supply. As well as wind-up movie players which could play both a "film stock" and a "groove track", like record grooves, to have a similar audiovisual experience without requiring electrical power. And hand powered blenders, though the solutions for heat and cold might be a bit more complex. Heat in particular, might be more likely to require biofuel. Especially in Hokkaido. And I managed to find the video quickly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqpnAKf9cM But I was also concerned that my "services" group back where may have been actually using the housing crisis as a pretence to provide "services" to me that would actually be harmful to my well-being, such as wheelchair. Because I think they read that I was recommended nuts by a nutritionist and then I had workers who kept the same habit of "kidnapping" me three days a week, when I never actually asked for such government-funded "kidnapping me so I do an activity" services, I was just too shy to express any visible objection, but these workers (or one of them) were babbling on about how FOOD IS FOOD YOU DON'T NEED A NUTRITIONIST and I wanted to know since my house was visibly filthy since I saw gunk on the window sills being wiped off right as I first moved in, whether or not said house had been checked for "pathogens invisible to the naked eye" and such, but obviously I don't have a clear answer as to which pathogens could have been there since it turns out "internal documents clients are not allowed to see" just describe cleanliness and such. And as I write this, I have a Japanese person asking what I'm doing at an unmanned clothing store on my laptop. I eventually admit that I'm writing something serious, and that Canada is serious and I'm making reports, and he seems worried and asks about my home address and such, but I tell him that you don't need to worry about me, it's okay, while being fully aware that saying such things actually just makes people more worried about you. What you really mean is that you don't want to tell people the details because seeing their reaction would make you feel worse, for example. I think I always knew that being taken by a worker to do activities as part of "socialising" or "including me into the community" is actually a quite abnormal form of socialisation. It's coercive, it discourages long-term planning for goals, it encourages me to spend money on things I don't actually need, since I'm expected to keep doing some pointless activity and continue to enjoy it, when I'm already depressed from how I was treated by people for reasons as worthy of angst and bitterness such as "I was using the wrong computer" or "I peeked into someone's window" or "I was at the library when it was schooltime and I should GO HOOOOOME AND GET SCHOOLED! 👿" And I should also mention that I actually exchanged "normal" questions with MOFA about an artist visa or something, before things eventually went south and I mass-sent an e-mail to offices in three countries about the evils of assisted...? https://softidea.neocities.org/normalvisa1.png https://softidea.neocities.org/normalvisa2.png Because that was an impulsive decision I made when I heard from a random spiritual group who can't have been lawyers or had any substantial law training, that the easiest way to move to Japan is to spend 4 years in higher education?! Or to somehow arrange something with Chinese businessmen? Because I was recently suspecting I had undiagnosed ADHD? Because I saw said group also had members "back home", and I now suspect the mention of "lucid dreaming" was a way of luring me in? Because some other people were engaging in what could be considered stalking behaviour, when a private Canadian like me often wants to be left alone? But I am now feeling I actually DO want to GO BACK TO MY OWN COUNTRY specifically so I could give that person who was sweet talking me like I was a little baby who was crying and needed a good smooch, about if I still wanted to keep living in my dirty disgusting room, and dismissed my concerns about health inspections and immigrant's mental health, a GOOD SMACK TO HER CHEEK!? Because she dismissed my concerns about health inspections and immigrant's mental health, and acted shocked that I was bringing this up because "you're not an immigrant. So why..." and then had the audacity to tell me she had a lot of things she wanted to talk to ME about? Even though maybe 4 out of 5 people who acted as my "outreach" were immigrants, and maybe 2 had accents that I found difficult to understand at times? And I guess I am a old geezer, because I now realize why an attempted meme warfare like "Paimon is not emergency food" hasn't yet caught on was because I never played Genshin Impact because I don't play games right now, and I know even without looking variations of "emergency food" have been repeated so often in internet posts that it's become a cliché, and the addition of "jsdf" in my BlueSky username isn't conspicuous enough to attract attention? Because it's like expecting customers to notice fine print? https://softidea.neocities.org/fineprint.jpg