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ned

@ned@mstdn.ca

Commercial and portrait photographer in Edmonton, Canada. See http://cyclopsphoto.com

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IPEdmonton, to cycling
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#30DaysOfBiking Day One: took my e-Brompton out for its first spin of the season. Despite it being a leisure ride that I didn’t need to haul anything for, I decided to also try out its SeatPostHugger (by #EerderMetaal) and mount a rear bag on the seat post—worked great! That is going to make it a lot easier to use the e-Brompton to haul things sometimes instead of always using the acoustic #Brompton.

#BikeTooter

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@IPEdmonton That looks wonderfully practical!

ned, to random
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And yet if just one person from the Israeli MILITARY, harboring a long history of hate, accuses Palestinians of rape or violence, it goes viral and gets referenced by world leaders like Joe Biden.

MayhamMonday, to random
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Protesters? More like Loser brigade!

Protesters against Ottawa's recent raise of the carbon tax are setting up a rally west of Calgary.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/carbon-tax-protest-set-up-near-highway-west-of-calgary-1.6828911

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@MayhamMonday

"We want that money to be kept 100% in oil profits! Struggling families should not see a cent of it!!"

  • the entirety of the Axe the Tax campaign.
ned, (edited ) to random
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Louder for those in the back.

There is nothing "innovative" about control of capital resources.

Besides which, those who do the actual creating are just working for a living. They don't have a profit motive, they just want to get paid, whether the funding comes publicly or privately.

ned, to random
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Just gonna leave this here.

“DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT.” ... a type of cognitive bias, where people with little expertise or ability assume they have superior expertise or ability. This overestimation occurs as a result of the fact that they don't have enough knowledge to know they don't have enough knowledge.

annaecook, to random
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I will forever curse SEO for making me have to read personal stories before I can ever get to a recipe

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@michaelgemar @Tarnport @privateger @annaecook @Theriac @bmacDonald94

I love paprika too, on just about anything, almost as much as its spicier cousin cayenne!

No seriously, it took me a while to figure out you guys were talking about an app, especially when I scrolled up and saw recipe talk. :D

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Hopefully Danielle Smith won't opt us out of this one!

"My mother got her Canadian Dental coverage card. It's really real. Our national dental care plan is actually happening. Seniors first and then other age groups added after that. (Actual good news.)"

ned,
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@JustAnotherJay Ah yes, it is the Pharmacare "opt-out" that I was talking about. Hopefully our dental care will still remain intact!

Edited the OP for accuracy. :)

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On the one hand, Danielle Smith is timing the re-instatement of the Provincial Fuel Tax at the same time that the Carbon Tax is raised, so she can blame all price increases on the Federal government instead of the Provincial government.

What is most disturbing of all however, is the fact that the CPC and the UCP are constantly telling us that multi-billion dollar oil corporations should not pay their own taxes, but should pass the buck to us and make us consumers pay their taxes for them!! /1

ned, (edited )
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ie, remember EVERY SINGLE ALBERTAN receiving pamphlets in their mail to tell us that "we" just saved 13 cents/litre in gas thanks to the UCP, and claiming that each household has now saved hundreds of dollars a month? Not the oil corporations, who actually saved the money that was supposed to be used for us, but "we" saved money at the pump, according to the disinformation WE paid for.

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Incidentally, this is another problem with how the disinformation is spread. The Federal government has legally binded itself, for anti-corruption, from "touting their own horn" in paid advertisements. The Provincial government and Federal opposition (Conservative) governments, have no such restrictions. That's why they're spreading all these falsehoods about Carbon Tax, while the Liberal government is unable to counter with facts. We're supposed to know the truth by looking at our own returns.

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TL;DR Increase profit and wealth tax, decrease worker's income tax.

This is the right way, and this is the path all progressive governments in North America have been moving towards, and what every regressive Conservative government has been fighting against. Most notably the CPC and their "Axe the Tax" campaign.

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And what about his suggestion to just give it to "the fastest and cheapest bidder"?! 😮 What a fucking moron.

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@michaelgemar @gooba42

Yup, because it's harder for him to override them than it is for him to pretend he understands coding and fire all the coders he thinks are writing too much.

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@gooba42 @michaelgemar

Yup, just look at Tesla and their self-driving debacles. Eventually he'll just step in (like with Tesla) and say, "Hey, I'm a smart guy and I don't think we need that many cameras, so get rid of them."

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@AtheistIntelligence Is he not both, a fool and a tool?

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@AtheistIntelligence How very true. Especially when he wears his ill motives on his sleeves.

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@zazzoo ...and always to "save a buck".

Because that's what "the fastest bid" means.

SonofaGeorge, to random
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But : “axe the tax - reject the cheque”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carbon-tax-rebates-climate-1.7159209

ned, (edited )
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@SonofaGeorge Because he doesn't represent the struggling people who are beneficiaries of the tax, and need it.

As an example, I just saw a post from Justin Trudeau about providing school lunch programs. A bunch of trolls immediately jumped in claiming, "If you axe the carbon tax then we can afford to feed our own kids!"

Not ONE single parent who can't afford to feed their children is paying for Carbon Tax rather than getting much more in rebates than they will ever pay into it. That's a fact.

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@SonofaGeorge As parents struggling to feed, clothe, and shelter 3 children while being underpaid and underemployed, I really need these fucking elitest trolls to stop pretending to be one of us, while they fight to take away any little bit of extra income we manage to get from government rebates.

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@SonofaGeorge

Here's another example of the disinformation. I had somebody tell me that we're all idiots for thinking we get more back in rebates than we pay into carbon tax, because apparently she got a $100 rebate on carbon tax and paid $300 in carbon tax for her propane.

So let's break that down... First of all, there are no $100 rebates. The only way she could receive that is to file separately from a partner, and they got $225 in a quarter while she got $112.50. That's $335, not $100. /1

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@SonofaGeorge Next, let's look at her claim that she paid $300 in carbon tax for her propane. Propane is charged at 7.74 cents/litre (and really the gas company should be paying that, not her, but let's run with that idea of how it works, for now). So she's claiming to use a whopping 3,876 litres of propane every 3 months!! That's 1,292 litres a month, or FIFTEEN 100 lbs tanks! :o

Yeah, I don't think she's struggling if what she says is true.

More likely, these numbers are pulled out of a hat.

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@SonofaGeorge Conversely, the average family of four in Alberta gets $1,800 back in carbon tax rebate annually. That's a real figure, not made up. Because those of us who want to (and NEED to) keep getting carbon tax rebates don't need to make up numbers to support our case.

ned, to random
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Well, that's Easter I guess!

ned,
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@cthulku Naw, just Easter cooking. :p Burned my wrist on the roaster for yesterday's turkey, then cut my finger slicing potatoes on the mandoline this morning for my wife's scalloped potatoes.

ned,
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@cthulku It's for a community Easter potluck, but I'm working today so I won't be able to enjoy it... but I'm sure it will be fantastic! <3

micropainter, to edmonton
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While Danielle Smith distracts you by slamming the carbon tax...

...she is raising your taxes by reinstating the 13 cent fuel tax...

...and taking away the tax cut she promised you.

ned,
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@micropainter Oh, I know you are! I meant this as an addition to that point.

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@SteveClough @aud @weilawei @violetmadder

"working for someone who knows nothing about what you are doing, but thinks they do is always really difficult."

Ugh, I feel this so hard.

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