BlameThePeacock @ BlameThePeacock @lemmy.ca

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So many fucking asshole conservative candidates.

Don't count him out, just vote him out instead.

He did make an exception for Russia though...

Not really, the formula they used to generate the percentages for each country means its not really intentional, the 10% is just countries the US import almost nothing from.

Publicity, awareness, and political capital which do matter in politics

That's not what I was taught or experienced firsthand while I was there.

It makes perfect sense, he's asking for positive examples.

The vast majority of them are just fine, like with most tourists. The problem is there's just massively large number of them in many tourist destinations compared to other countries (at least where I live), which means you more frequently see one acting poorly too.

The Americans are somewhat the same, we also get a lot of them.

That being said, even though most of the issues are because of sheer numbers it doesn't mean there aren't a few key cultural differences which can play a role in western locations being offended by Chinese behaviour.

The big one with China is that culturally there's no expectation that you treat a stranger respectfully, the person you're dealing with needs to earn your respect rather than having it by default. This comes across as quite rude to many other countries when you only have a single interaction with this person.

This isn't a Chinese only issue though, Americans can also be quite rude depending on where they're from and how they were raised, a good chunk of them are entitled assholes who think the world revolves around them when they visit.

It will not bring equality, it just reverts to might is right.

It's a good thing Trump didn't pay attention in high school then.

You can not run enterprise business functions on a pi unless your "enterprise" is made up of a single user.

Even something like basic video steaming for internal training videos would kill it due to encoding issues. Let alone the impact from one service affecting others like a user file transfer affecting the speed of messaging or email, or a complex database activity momentarily taking out your task management application.

You would need a dozen of them for splitting services and redundancy, then a UPS and redundant internet connections. It would end up costing you a few thousand dollars just in hardware before you even started paying someone to set it up and keep it running.

He wants to expand US trade by joining as the 51st state.

Fuck you PP.

Yes and no, those rewards increase the prices charged by the retailer.

Then the credit card company's ban charging extra to cover that.

It's inherently a monopolistic exploit.

And runs the server required stuff on their own hardware.

I mentioned this in my comment.

If tariffs were good for an economy, everyone would use them all the time

The fact that so many countries have free trade agreements or very low tariffs are proof that they're good for economies in general.

The first link was to give the total numbers of units and the separation between single and multi owners, the second link refined the multi owners into double or 3+

So multiple property owners are already not a big group, then not even half of them have a rental in the same city they live in. This isn't surprising, nor a huge problem given what I said early that only 3.5% of BC properties are third or more properties.

Like I said at the start, go ahead and tax the shit out of this if you want, but do not expect such a tax to in any way change the overall market it simply isn't a big enough problem to impact prices in any useful way because it doesn't address the core issue which is that ALL home owners are profiting off land appreciation, even (and primarily) those who only own one property.

I say this as a homeowner, my home has appreciated by as much as if my wife and I had an entire third income over the last 15 years. It's money that I didn't do anything to earn, and it's money that will need to be earned by someone younger in order to buy my property when we sell it and downsize as we age.

It wouldn't save 12-20%, in a situation where the development "fails" it just means that the costs far exceed the revenue and it becomes a tax burden on the public. Just because no bankruptcy is declared doesn't mean there aren't negative consequences for stakeholders.

Grandma and grandpa did absolutely nothing to earn that money. They paid $50k for that property and house. Why does society owe them $700k for their retirement because of that?

You're right that it's unlikely to go over well, but that's because people are greedy and don't care about the harm it's causing the next generation.

My wife and I have made about as much as a full additional third income in equity appreciation over the last 15 years by simply living in a house. We did nothing to earn it. I'd trade it in an instant for the house prices to go back to what they were 15 years ago.

That money has to come from someone, it's a giant pyramid scheme that should never have existed in the first place. Our kids are absolutely fucked, they will never be able to afford a reasonable home because we have treated homes as investments and by default investments need to appreciate faster than inflation.

What the drunk....

It wouldn't work.

In order to have a military, you'd have to have at least one or more dedicated people, those people would need to be supported with resources and given that it's a stateless society there's zero chance that enough people would voluntarily choose to help them to allow them to operate effectively outside of a wartime event without requiring some sort of payment from everyone and then you're back to having a state.