zephyreks @ zephyreks @lemmy.ca

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Actually... It's a gain of 0.1%. it's also 9% of all new immigrants to Canada in a given year. It's also 4x the limit of the recent H1B holders visa program for skilled immigrants who could not stay in the US.

Tax rebates are an incredibly inefficient use of money.

Didn't they get dental care passed? And child care?

Those two are massive.

A lot of international students are going to diploma mills, not the public institutions that make Canadian post-secondary great.

Restricting the income of private diploma mills is a good thing.

Can Singh go back to the school of economic thought he belongs to?

Who would the US have bombed? Canada? Mexico?

The US didn't have the logistics to project power globally like they can today. What exactly would you propose they drop a bomb on? Moscow?

People love to criticize famines in China and Russia as being mismanagement by government (and they are), but they're missing the forest for the trees. Prior to the communist governments, famines were a common occurrence in China and Russia.

The Sichuan famine in 1936 killed 5 million. The famine in 1928 killed 6 million. The Chinese famine in 1906 killed 20 million. The Chinese famine in 1876 killed 10 million.

Yet, since the Great Leap Forward? China has not experienced a single famine. Similarly, the last famine in Russia was in 1947. People sit in their ivory towers where food can be imported from around the world and 40% of food is wasted and wonder why so many people died trying to get something so accessible. Meanwhile, places in Africa are still experiencing mass famine and nobody cares.

No way!

The news needs a new scapegoat. The CCP hasn't gotten any worse than in the past, in fact on many fronts it's gotten better and less corrupt. Unfortunately, China is no longer a small developing economy that we can export labour to but a large one that competes with Western economies for key emerging markets like EVs and renewable energy.

Why is Canadian politics getting so polarized?

It's either "let's throw money at every ESG issue known to man" or "let's privatize healthcare and water and sell our forests to be developed into parking lots."

It's either "fuck them LGBT kids" or "the medical system has no right to misgender a patient by asking for their sex."

What the fuck is going on?

Most people from hexbear provide sources, which is better than can be said for all the tankie hate.

Canada doesn't want to end up with "high-speed rail" like the Northeast Corridor, so it's prioritizing HFR to begin with...

We should probably start planning out an HSR right of way, but I'm not against expanding our conventional network in lieu of burning money on shit trains that run on shit tracks below conventional speeds for most of the trip anyway.

God the Northeast Corridor sucks and the fact that Amtrak is willing to call it HSR is a disgrace.

It's literally a poor financial decision to get an iPhone in the US. Flagship pricing on Android phones in the US is so fucking low you can get an S23 for like $300 on a $20 4 month contract.

Who the fuck cares? What a waste of taxpayer money.

Why not?

How about Labour?

An NDP party can win Alberta, but it isn't Singh's.

Quite. All American networking equipment is being used to spy on people, so clearly all Chinese networking equipment must be, too. Evidence? Unnecessary.

There are an immense number of ways to dissipate excess power by shifting the cost/benefit curve.

One recent work looked at repurposing aging electronics when the energy cost curve allows it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06870

Fiberglass is a bitch and it's used in far greater quantities.

Have you ever wondered why people are so eager to accept the premise that China is doing everything to spy on foreign nationals?

Considering that those claims are almost all getting started by American agencies, and given the details of the Snowden leaks... America is projecting.