baconisaveg @ baconisaveg @lemmy.ca

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The gov’t can request info from the CRA on profits the big grocers make, compare them to pre-pandemic numbers and adjust their tax rate.

You can't adjust the tax rates of INDIVIDUAL companies.

He should tax the fuck out of them

Ok, but realistically now, how would you even do that. What would be the law you'd implement to allow you to do that? That's not how taxes work at all.

Look at all the downvotes... a simple google search would tell you it's true.

You don't need to go all the way to Somalia though, the Somalian gangs are already here trafficking drugs.

Seriously. It was like, "yes, YES, wait what, hmm, absolutely, again what, uhh, wait but you said, well yeah".

You're wrong.

All the wrinkles on his brain that provided surface area for memories and critical thinking have leaked out. Now he has wrinkly ears, and a smooth brain.

Haven't nut allergies climbed over the years as well? PB was never banned when I was in school.

The bigger waste of time is why this is even news. Restaurants are regulated, you can't just ignore them and only focus on the bigger picture. That's like some guy getting pulled over for doing 50 in a 35 and complaining the cops should be catching 'real criminals' instead.

Of course, and what's the culture tied to English speakers then? Do you think 2nd and 4rd generation Canadian Italians/Ukranians/wherever, who don't speak their native language, have lost all sense of their culture? Are the 2nd and 3rd generation anglophones living in Quebec incapable of adopting any of Quebecs culture?

Get over yourself.

Just curious, if Mandarin suddenly became the new lingua franca overnight, and your province’s Mandarin-speaking population was growing constantly, would you just throw English away and learn Mandarin?

Over several generations? Absolutely.

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The problem seems to be that Quebec has intertwined language with culture. A language is simply a means for two people to communicate ideas, and that is paramount to a functioning society.

Without a common method to exchange ideas, you can't have a society. English isn't the best language, but it works, and like it or not, it's been globally adopted. It's a standard, and anyone in the tech industry knows the problems that come with having multiple, competing, interoperable standards.

especially with short notice of an upcoming cold snap

I've unfortunately lived in 'berta for the past 3 years. Every winter there's been a week in January where it's been below -30. Two winters ago my furnace was screaming trying to keep up. The last thing this cold snap should be is a surprise to anyone who lives here.

I'm sure the dealership that sold him the truck didn't bother to make sure it would work either.

Sure, we could talk about the evils of capitalism all day long, but this isn't the place for it.

The reality is if a car manufacturer wanted to break into the luxury EV market and wasn't sure if they should make a mid-sized family sedan or a 2 door coupe, do they just pump billions into R&D and hope for the best, risking the jobs of thousands of employees and entire communities in the process? Do they call BMW/Tesla/Audi/Mercedes/etc and ask them for their sales data?

No, they go buy that information from a market research firm, who buys that data from BMW/Tesla/Audi/Mercedes.

PII data controls are an important aspect of privacy, but blanket statements like "no one, anywhere, ever should sell my data" are childish.

I used to think that way, but the reality is I'm a huge fan of data driven decision making and the biggest consumers of customer data are market research brokers.

One of my favorite talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BdFkK-HufU

There's a word for it: propaganda.

Because the answer to homelessness isn't to leave them on the street when it hits 20-30 below. But guess what, it's not EPS's job to fix the situation with shelters or any of the other problems. But if the government is unwilling or unable to keep homeless people off the streets, that doesn't mean EPS should just sit back and let them build tent cities all over the place.

Good.