TemporaryBoyfriend @ TemporaryBoyfriend @lemmy.ca

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The best explanation I've seen so far is that now that the abortion issue was crushed by a conservative supreme court in the USA, the next thing they're trying to do is indoctrinate the youth, because church attendance is dwindling.

Of course, it doesn't take long for that bullshit to bleed into Canada.

It's time to double-down on the demand for free/cheap and secular education.

I've been telling this to anyone who will listen...

At the federal level, any income, personal or corporate, from property rentals or short term rental of any single family residental property is taxed at the highest marginal rate, PLUS a surcharge of 1%, increasing at 2x the rate of inflation every year. All taxes raised from the surcharge go to federal housing programs.

At the provincial level, any property that isn't your primary residence gets taxed at 1% of the total property value. The tax rate increases at 2x the rate of inflation every year. All taxes raised go to provincial housing programs, including rebates for first time home buyers.

At the municipal level, cities should be able to tax any property used as a short term rental at whatever rate they feel is fair. Also, any vacant property is taxed at least double the provincial rate.

This immediately stops individuals and companies from investing in single family residential properties, forces individuals and companies to divest their residential property portfolio as they become unprofitable as the tax rates increase, and slowly creates a steady flow of residential homes onto the market. It shouldn't create a housing crash, it should stop and slowly reverse the upward trend of housing over the course of 5 to 10 years.

Please steal this idea.

"Yes."

I wish it I could say that it's hard to forget that safety regulations are written in blood. Yet here we are.

Got any recommendations on teaching someone empathy, when they are clearly already a sociopath?

Short of the whole clockwork orange treatment?

Looks like there are two varieties - IR or Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE).

These idiots can be heard as soon as they finish a high-school sexual health exam.

I'm willing to bet that all of them would fail spectacularly.

Huh. Now you've got me wondering... Could you leave a device hidden in store that receives the IR signals that program the tags, capture that information, then parse it out later? You could literally log prices changes at the shelves, in real time.

Yeah, when the convoy crew ended up in court, they kept talking about their 'amendment rights', and the judges had to ask what they were talking about. These people are so dense that black holes are jealous. It's more proof that they're being purposely misled and manipulated in order to sow anger, disharmony, and fight against ourselves instead of the real sources of our problems.

It makes way more sense for this to be released in late August, before the return to school and after summer vacations... Anyone know why it's so late arriving / getting approved?

Because the media is owned by the far-right billionaire class.

One more time for the people at the back: POLLS ARE VOTER MANIPULATION

Polls and their news coverage gives people the impression that the outcome has been decided and demoralize / frustrate voters. It's why Thug Ford won a majority in Ontario with just 17% of eligible voters.

SHOW THE FUCK UP TO VOTE, AND BRING THREE FRIENDS.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

"I'm less worried about COVID, and more worried about your lung butter in my drink."

In other news, water is wet. Heat... hot!

Remember folks: Polls are voter manipulation. Look at what it did for Ontario... For WEEKS before the election, polls kept predicting a landslide for the CPO... Which demotivated voters -- and 17% of eligible voters gave them a 66% majority.

Fuck the polls -- show the fuck up to vote, and take three friends/neighbours with you. Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

narrow the audience to only the most stupid.

This is a totally legit method for filtering out the people too smart to fall for the scam. That's why scam eMails are so poorly written -- to entice only the dumbest segment of society to find out more.

If it's less painful to pay the tax than to do the right thing, then the tax isn't high enough. Keep doubling it until it works, and in the meantime, use the tax revenue for the city to use as low-income housing.

Wow. Why shouldn't people of all economic classes have a place that's close to all the amenities and conveniences that cities offer? Why should they have to travel from outside the city for an hour to work, or school, or for entertainment? Why would you advocate for creating ghettos? Why shouldn't someone who works 40 hours a week at a

The snag is that the 'micro' in 'microplastics' means they're too small to reasonably or reliably capture without great expense - even at the industrial scales of sewage treatment plants.

I just looked it up, and while I'm not going to link to it, it definitely a far right shithole propaganda site. I'd want to avoid any indication that could be mistaken as a relationship.