I know! People here are way too serious.

Yeah, but just like capital gains, it doesn’t make sense to tax wealth until it is changing hands.

They say their top issue is affordability, but it seems like they are taking about affording a third home or a new sports car. Anytime you get policy details, it’s to benefit folks in the top bracket.

Bike lanes are driving up the cost of housing by making the city a nice place to live!! Rip em out!

The parallels are uncanny. We even have our own Steve Bannon.

Are they proposing it as a yearly tax? That seems like the proposal is just for show. We should be working on implementing an inheritance tax if we want to be serious about taxing wealth.

I’m not watching the video: https://www.thespec.com/news/canada/new-brunswick-signs-trade-pact-with-ontario/article_d85111f0-124e-5cf5-8a07-2c6f22e7f922.html

I have to admit. I did the same last year. I could not understand why Poilievre was so popular and everyone hated Trudeau so badly. I thought that there must be something funky going on with the polls.

I love my offbranded Bell subsidiary substitute! It gives me the illusion of choice so I can feel like I am not funding Bell while still using the internet.

In all seriousness, where are we on other options? PublicMobile got bought out by Telus. Any non big telecom options for phone and internet?

Oh wow, now I understand why I disagree with them so much. Being communist is one thing, but being antidemocratic is a whole other thing. Thanks for the explanation!

Not sure why you got downvoted. I don’t know what a tankie is, but the rest is spot on.

There’s a lot more column B on the personal finance lemmy if you want to go further!

Yeah, but unfortunately it’s par for the course on lemmy.

There are authors starting to publish without a publisher. I think that is the right direction, not making all books free. Maybe once the publishers have less control there will be some copyright reforms to shorten the time it takes to bring works into the public domain. Right now it is 95 years from publishing, but I think the author’s life plus 30 years or something might make a bit more sense. For example, George Orwell has been dead for over 70 years, but his works are still under copyright.

??? Cotton is usually the cheapest thing I see.

Even natural rubber makes microplastics.

You summed it up really well. It’s so sad to compare the white house to Sussex drive. It should be a piece of history, not a falling down wreck. I don’t think we should go as far as the states, but it should at least be kept in a reasonable state.

At first I thought that this sounds a little extreme, but then I remembered that even if you aren’t LGBTQ, you still need to watch out for the mass shootings. So being any kind of minority kind of ups your odds of being murdered.

The two largest sources of microplastics are clothing and car tires. Clothing is a pretty easy fix. Only buy natural fibers like cotton, wool, etc. For car tires you will have to drive less. These two sources account for more than half of microplastics.

Yeah, mine are copper

Still, you get 10 min outside of a city in Oregon and you start seeing Trump signs