Hacksaw

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[–] Hacksaw 35 points 2 days ago (7 children)

If the NDP press hard on these types of motions to materially improve the lives of Canadians they're going to go far next elections. They need more marketing for their win on dental care. That was 100% them and they're not getting the credit they deserve when the media talks about it.

[–] Hacksaw 40 points 2 days ago

A third said it’s causing Israeli families to reconsider sending their children to serve in Israel as lone soldiers

It's already working as intended! I'm glad to see that there is accountability for Canadians who go out of their way to participate in war crimes and crimes against humanity

[–] Hacksaw 5 points 3 days ago

They should be put away for perjury. Lock them up. Even if we did need cops in our communities, we don't need cops like THAT!

ACAB

[–] Hacksaw 2 points 6 days ago

It's probably attempt suicide. There is generally an order of magnitude between attempt and commit. But I'm not downplaying how shitty it is tho.

[–] Hacksaw 4 points 1 week ago

I've got a nonsense idea with no sources do you have sources to contradict it?

Start with sources that back-up the nonsense you just made up. Because there is just no possible way that extracting 1 EV's worth of lithium is equivalent pollution to the expected 200-400 thousand miles of ICE driving it offsets.

[–] Hacksaw 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Exactly, we're talking about two different things when comparing children's sports and Olympic sports and it's easy to conflate the two.

Olympic competition needs fair rules to ensure the best humanity can produce is rewarded. The rules are already there and they seem to be fair and supported by trans athletes. Politicians need to stay out.

In children's sports it's more important kids learn skills, fitness, cooperation, and find a sense of community. So unless there is a massive outlier, the rules should maximise inclusion over "fairness". Politicians also need to stay out.

[–] Hacksaw 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There is a recent last week tonight with Jon Oliver that explores this topic in a way that entertaining and powerful. Definitely worth a watch.

https://youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0

Hopefully you have a genuine interest and aren't "just asking questions"

[–] Hacksaw 9 points 1 week ago

IQ is determined by test. Guess who will make the test!

[–] Hacksaw 8 points 1 week ago

They just interface with the shape of the mouth so well. Truly the best strawberry!

[–] Hacksaw 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I love how the "little known policy" is that they can do whatever the fuck they want because there are no regulations on credit scores. So great!

[–] Hacksaw 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean we all saw what happens when you put 40 police officers armed to the teeth in a school with a shooter. They shit their pants for 45 min waiting for the shooter to use up all his ammo on kids before they bravely enter the class.

Fucking cowards the lot of them. ACAB.

[–] Hacksaw 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Great example for a bike that "weighs as much as the rider" genius.

 
 

I saw a convoy of about 30 cars on the highway back in October. I looked it up and found nothing. Then I see a Reddit post in /r/vexillollogy with the same flag and no useful answers.

It's so weird that people bought like 100 of these flags and there is no info on them at all!

I flipped the picture to make the flag the right way.

 

The laughable Bank of Canada report even includes the line

Why did this increase in markups not contribute significantly to inflation? We show that markup growth reached its highest level because of a contraction in firms’ costs [...] during the pandemic-related public health interventions

So when their costs go down they keep the prices the same and pocket the difference, BoC report verdict "profit growth without inflation". So what happens when costs go back up?

We observe a mild contribution of markup growth to inflation in 2021, partially explained by demand rebounding faster than costs. However, the fact that markup growth fell to zero the following year indicates that firms were likely smoothing out their price increases [...] rather than leveraging increases in market power.

So when the costs go back up, they pass 100% of the cost to the consumer and keep their new higher profit margins (no change in markup). BoC verdict "the inflation has nothing to do with profit growth". Amazing!

If industry follows this "price ratchet" mechanism profit margins can go to infinity "without causing inflation" according to BoC. Absolutely galaxy brain levels of economic genius.

They really think we're idiots.

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