[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

This shit happens all the time. Look at car settlements, it starts at the top. I'm not against a whistle blower framework at all, but it seems like executives get all the pay and none of the culpability (see headline).

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

In most cases yes. However in the cases of fines poor people are more penalized than wealthy, so there should be some proportional consideration there.

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

I'm very lazy so I'd probably start by looking at filters on those sites, if i really wanted to tackle this with programming, i'd:

see if there's an api, or rss feed for these sites, if so i'd pull that down with a cron job and do filtering locally with probably regex.

if not i'd scrape the html and pull out the relevant links with whatever the latest html parser is for the language i use (i.e. it used to be beautiful soup for python, but there's i think a new better one).

but as i said i'm rather lazy, and haven't been on the prowl for jobs for some time.

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

In my experience corporations serve their shareholders (and maybe board and executive s).

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

For this to be true all immigrants would have to be wealthy enough to be able to scoop up all supply of homes in Canada. This just can't be the case considering the refugee status of many immigrants.

A complex problem like this has significant other factors including speculation, reduction of public housing, inflation.

We should welcome more people, and continue our Canadian values of supporting those in need through out the world. Learn some compassion for your fellow human beings, or go to Florida, where you can be surrounded by like minded people.

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

I think the question was retorical

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Yes the same grocery store owners who have been making record profits will pass the savings on to us.

We have 40 years of evidence that lower taxes aren't better for anyone but the most wealthy.

On top of that you want to ignore climate?

Please reconsider this vote.

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

I'm all for women's right to choose. How would we make money, I think we'd essentially be funding US medical treatments, which I'm ethically fine with, but would prefer to have my taxes go towards things for Canadians.

My understanding is that we can't have a private system along side the public system without "funding" the private system by WTO rules. Besides the fact that running a private system beside a public system is parasitic (i.e. we are assuming an infinite supply of doctors and nurses).

I think we should probably focus on paying our existing nurses and doctors better, and getting our hospitals back in working order.

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For the lazy https://www.mnd.gov.sg/newsroom/press-releases/view/measures-for-a-sustainable-property-market

Seems reasonable to me, just glad i'm not a land-lord; wish i knew what the taxes were on.

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

I think it is hard. All their platforms look the same, it's difficult to find their voting records. Even their promises can't be trusted.

And since the candidates you hear the most about tend to be the leaders there's a bias to vote for a party, rather than your representative.

Beyond that issues are often things I'm not particularly knowledgeable about, so I don't know say how bad bringing in pay for healthcare would be for the public system (you've got to read studies to know that shit).

In make believe land I think that only impacted and experts would have a say. So corporate interests wouldn't get quite so much say, and distribution would be better. And farmers would get more say on ag related issues and technical people would get more say on things like DRM... But really that also probably just turn to shit.

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Is it bad programming

No, it's bad requirements, well ok maybe the programmer came up with the requirements too.

[-] karlhungus@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

This stinks. I'm not a landlord, I do own my own house.

And at least the corps have to pay tax on their profits

I wish i payed 15%. I'm not even counting on the rebates they get for setting up shop places, or developing "doing research". Corporations quite often do not pay their fair share. Corporations do buy up swaths of real estate.

Private owners who bought when things were cheap and are now multimillionaires got all that money effort-free and tax-free thanks to the principal residence exception.

Almost nobody got their shit effort-free, you still have to go in with the bank and pay them a shit tonne of money. Principal residence only applies to first residence, and you still have to pay taxes on your residence (I know, because I pay them).

And here's some news for you: housing was always relatively expensive, people who bought gigantic mortgages took on a whole pile of risk, made the banks rich, and sometimes came out richer for it; that doesn't make them bad.

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