toastmeister

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[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Not to mention DRM. They want to own your computer and prevent any kind of modification so that movie producers give them money.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The way I see it orchestrated by Trump is if the tariffs stay on manufacturing many provinces will be wiped out. Carney will then provide a bailout using funds from Alberta, whose exports will increase due to a devalued Canadian dollar and a 2.5x lower tariff on their higher margin product.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Which itself is a gimmick, they've just made the gates taller, electron leakage would happen otherwise.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well I've just read Afd supporters posts about immigration. As far as being good or bad for the economy, I guess it depends if you hold assets that get inflated.

A landlord will definitely benefit, and that will definitely grow GDP; which left leaning people used to care about the poor rather than worshipping at the god of GDP. The fear of their own kind calling them a racist may have defeated that.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Destroy the poor, and maybe the fallout will fix the repercussions. Is that the plan then.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

She lives in the woods and scavenges for pine beetles and bark for nourishment. She really cares, and she isn't being groomed to be a politician who gets kickbacks for green washing.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Stronghold Defense mod is amazing. It's basically a base defense game against hundreds of enemies parading towards you, with custom weapons and power ups.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Oh thats pretty neat. I know Cosmos Cloud had some interesting functionality similar to that, with Oauth support for everything. Though I've not tried it.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Caroline Rogers "rang the alarm bell" on productivity, and interest rates will be higher going forward due to aging demographics, so debt will compound faster than it had been. We also had the second to last per capita GDP growth of the 38 country in the OECD since 2015, which was below inflation.

You can import a lot of people to spread the debt amongst more people, though you'll have Trudeau's polling numbers by the end due to severe shortages of basic necessities. Trump allowed Carney to win this last election, though if the tariffs stay in place our interest rates will also rise dramatically, and we need to spend less.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Its hard to compete with a party that offers programs using debt while also cutting taxes, because a high debt load can be kicked down the road and rolled over until it reaches a crisis.

A repeat of Trudeau Sr, which caused pain during Chretien who had to cut spending and raise taxes during a recession, which had his polls fall dramatically by the end.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Flat fees for breaking the law are only a tax on the poor. If money can buy you privilege then you live in an oligarchy.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In the most bureaucratic industry in Canada with the highest taxes?

If this is your idea of capitalism I'd say its a bit silly, people can't just build a 12 story apartment to service the demand, nimbys had it shut it down since the 1920s when they were redlining and not much has changed.

Its actually gotten far worse, there used to be loopholes like the Vancouver special, which were closed in the early 90s. Environmental and parking requirements were also much less.

Even provinces that did rezone very recently like BC are still littered with bureaucracy. This rezoning also should have been done a decade before we did 4% annual population growth, a logical order of operations that doesn't destroy the poor.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DX_-UcC14xw

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