@clarity this "laws" distinction now makes me realize that this whole awful trend of commercial games having kernel-level anticheat is also part of this larger ongoing trend towards filling every gap in our society with cops and appealing to the worst people's worst authoritarian instincts at every turn
and how "any pregnant person should be allowed to abort if they wish" has remained perfectly constant through all of them
even during the orthodox years the old libertarian "we can't trust the government to regulate this because government are bad people" ended up winning out
i wonder if any other political belief i have ever held has been this unyielding
@eris@georgia thinking about a guy i knew who got shot in the face with shotgun, waited years for reconstructive surgery and died of respiratory complications during the pandemic despite no sign that he actually had covid himself
i still blame the lack of support in his nose causing the failure
@futurebird@leadore it's funny but i really do wonder how much this constant intergenerational alienation of some of our most basic everyday experiences as social beings is really messing us up as a society if not necessarily species
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๐> Goods no longer flowed from the coast to the interior, and vice versa. The price the tribe spaid forthe axes was their independence. They all became dependent on themissionaries, whose principles for distributing the axes must have appeared completely irrational and incomprehensible to the tribes.
literally my thoughts about smartphones and computing (mutatis mutandis)
@sun > but this isn't fact-checkable material except that everything i found was found within 30 seconds of googling, discounting the actual time spent reading it to make sure it wasn't saying the opposite of what i thought it was saying
what you're saying about confidential meetings and anonymous sources is true in general in principle, but in this situation a big tax policy like this can't be just unilaterally decided in some backroom somewhere, if this had been formally proposed at all we'd have trudeau, singh and poilievre on record talking about it for months until we were all sick of it
a "reportedly discussing" that can't even reach that level is less than meaningless
EDIT: there's also the context that i've seen
so
many
hoax emails of a similar sort to this, always unfalsifiable in its literal meaning but insinuating something much worse that does turn out to be false, typically namedropping trudeau, that get passed around conservative boomer circles up here that this instantly set off my bullshit alarms even though i knew this might not be as clear to someone unfamiliar with canadian politics
> Despite the post gaining significant traction online, with millions of views across various platforms, there is no truth to this claim. No official Canadian government website mentions any such policy.
> Here's a breakdown of why the claim is demonstrably false:
> ๐ฉ Missing Official Source: No credible Canadian government website, including the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) website, mentions any exit fee or penalty for leaving the country. > ๐ฉ Misleading Screenshot: The screenshot circulating online, with a headline stating "Canada Proposes $25K Departure Penalty and Increased Taxes to Curb Emigration Crisis," is entirely fabricated and lacks any official government branding or source. > ๐ฉ Confusing Information: The second screenshot added by the user, supposedly from the Canadian government website, refers to a policy on retaining property and capital gains tax for emigrants, not an exit fee. This policy, outlined on the Government of Canada website (https://www.canada.ca/), applies only in specific situations where an emigrant sells or retains assets like shares, jewelry, paintings, or collections and needs to address potential capital gains tax implications.
the only real "departure tax" sucks to deal with but it's within a normal range of tax policy and not the subject of boomer chain emails:
https://www.cpacanada.ca/en/news/canada/2021-05-31-departure-tax > The moment a resident leaves Canada, the CRA deems that they have disposed of certain kinds of property at fair market value and immediately reacquired it at the same price. This is known as a deemed disposition and you may have to report a taxable capital gain that is subject to tax (also known as departure tax).
@arcana i can imagine this working, if all the students worked together and magically had enough money to buy controlling shares in these companies, which would presuppose a situation that is so wildly different from our universe the entire ongoing genocide wouldn't be happening in the first place
they/them, PNW, not whiteassume my reply is a yes-and unless it's obviously notformerly apophis at mycrowd dot ca but not really planning to be as loud here as i was on that account