Now's a pretty good time to end Microsoft licenses and other crap ass US platforms 🥰
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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Yep! I was wondering when my work was gonna shift away from using Microsoft, azure and SharePoint .
I’ve been waiting thirty years
Now is the time to introduce higher Digital Services Tax rate.
I will be so pissed if Carney or anyone negotiating folds on anything. The US started all of this shitstorm. We (Canada) are the aggrieved party in this situation, we were following CUSMA, the US broke that agreement. Fuck the USA. Fuck concessions to the USA. They can fuck off into the Sun. I don't want or need Netflix, amazon, airbnb, Uber, google, azure, microsoft, apple. I could care less if those companies pull out of Canada.
I've been petitioning the councillors of my rural municipality to do this. I've sent them articles of much larger governments doing the same worldwide ceaselessly. I've emailed, called and texted (small towns are beneficial sometimes) every councillor personally. I have given them the number of several local computer techs who specialize in Linux systems and Foss software.
I encourage you all to do the same. Municipal governments are a great place to start pushing this trend and saving them money and adding security in the process.
The government and a lot of other companies are absolutely incapable of not using Excel and Azure services. It's possible they could teach people new tools but databases, tables, excel files, VBA stuff, SQL etc... Is just not going to get changed. Alternatives are way too expensive and the sheer amount of work to make sure every single ETL rule is followed would be absolutely insane. The cybersecurity alone will make it a no go.
No AI will not solve this.
You don't need excel, you could convert to libreoffice spreadsheets, there may be a few functions that need adjustment, but I have found its pretty much feature for feature. There are also so many SQL derivatives mariaDB, mySQL, postgresSQL. There would be a few pains, but as Europe has already realized we need data and software sovereignty
Postgres is very cheap.
VB is garbage and anything using it should have been scrapped decades ago.
Good. Fuck off.
Great news. But my Trump-BS-translator is going haywire: since this is a lie like everything Trump says, next week Carney is going to have some sort of deal with Trump.
Please don’t say that, I am scared Carney with bend over for him if it goes that fast! Luckily e do have a few agencies pushing for this.
[Canada] has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country," Trump said.
Taxing Meta, Apple, and Amazon for business they do in Canada is an attack on the United States?
We didn't "just announce" it materialized three years ago and makes total sense to have in place from Canada's POV. Dumbass Trump is wrong and lying or both - yet again.
Not sure what applies o amazon. They do have advertising/sponsored listings, but don't know if tax applies on overall business.
Amazon Web Services is the world’s most popular cloud provider and where a massive chunk of their profit comes from. Lots of people don’t seem to know about it, but their logistics arms is almost like a side hustle compared to AWS
In Q1 2025, AWS accounted for 17% of Amazon's overall revenue but over 60% of its operating income.
Great. The US can fuck right off and when it’s done fucking off, it can fuck off some more. Until the end of time.
Ah yes, he's the only government allowed to collect taxes.
No problem. The boycott continues. If they don’t pay tax then they are stealing from us, so torrent away.
Jokes on them. Been torrenting their shit for a couple decades now.
We can't do "business" with an unstable idiot.
It's best we ignore him, and keep working with countries who aren't lead by a total shit stain.
As an individual, I'm happy continuing to rapidly cull any American ties I have with brands and services.
Try telling Carney, or your MP, that. My MP is a back bencher do nothing, Brad Rediccop, who has said that he has no plan on doing anything (in more professional words).
"I'm taking my toys and going home!"
"You owe me some tariff taxes on those."
"AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!"
I guess Carney was getting too much attention as "the Trump whisperer" for his ego to handle, so he wants to punish Canada and put Carney back in his place as he sees it.
I kind of suspected we would see something like this after seeing so much in media about Carney's success in managing the Trump relationship.
Enable, disable, enable, disable.
That's what they call a power move, Becky. "This conversation ends now" shows who's really in control, Becky. OMG, look at her butt.
Why is it only 3%, what is it about being digital that avoids standard tax rates?
3 % of billions of things is more than 15% of millions of things.
Sure but you take 3% out of my $10 and I have $9.70.
But take 15% out of your $100 and you still have $85.
They can pay their taxes.
Thats false equivalency. Billions is the larger number and since a billion is 1000x a million, it would be 3% of their $10000 and 15% of your $10. So its their $300 tax vs your $1.50 tax. Sure they are still better off, however (un)fair that may be, but it was more in tax than you actually hold, by a wide margin.
Or course we could, and should, argue it should be reveresed, but thats just yelling in to the wind at this point.
Yes, I know that’s the way it is, but the leeches should pay their fucking taxes.
Yet when we pay income tax, we pay more when we make more money.
It’s not false equivalency, it’s math.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he's pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he's ending all trade discussions with Canada while signalling he may impose a blanket tariff to hit back at Ottawa for imposing a tax on web giants.
Gotta earn his bribes. As opposed to doing anything useful or competent.
The US has been really flaky lately. Have you tried rebooting it?
A TACO says what?
I've never wanted the Digital Services Tax more than right now, lol.
Someone told him those bunker bombs were from Canada.
Orange baby having a tantrum! Wahhh!!!!
The part where "in 7 days we will tell Canada what they have to pay" is going to be interesting.
Best Canada Day gift we could get, I hope he doesn’t go back on it
Thank God, he's finally shuttin' up
So US bond sell off predicted on Monday boys
See if Drug Fraud can blink the lights a bit.
Recall the ambassador, cut the power, wait for the phone call so you can pass on the new rates (spoiler: it's 1% higher permanently each time).
Not only are pig fucker mega tech profiting off Canadians tax free, and among the richest companies in the world, they are CIA/US empire militarist enablers/cooperators who will happily enslave Canadians to that empire. The fearmongering you are programmed about CCP allied companies, should be 1000x higher with US's declared war on Canada, and their tech companies.
Their profit extortion alone (not even revenues) is sufficient to overcome whatever small surpluses Canada has enjoyed over US in good trade. It is categorically treasonous and sickening that Canada's leadership continues military alignment with US.
Bye Felicia
Can we just ban them?