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ned

@ned@mstdn.ca

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

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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.

gentrifiedrose,

@ned Innovators are regularly bullied out of the workforce. Capitalism is largely a game of taking no risk which means creativity cannot thrive.

jargoggles,
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@ned
Technology and innovation existed before profit motive.

spmatich,
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@ned wifi was created by scientists working at the CSIRO in Australia. The acronym stands for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. An Australian government agency.

MartyFouts,
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@ned When I was at NASA I did research on the impact of public funding on technological innovation and it was much smaller than that image implies. Cell phone technology, despite the claim here, was almost entirely developed by corporations, for example. Governments can be good at funding basic research but tend not to be good at funding directed research and development.

sabogato,
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@ned they also don't consider how many resources and people hours are wasted pleasing the greed of capitalists. Capitalism is so wasteful.

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

DoesntExist,
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@ned
So, Elon Musk is not only not a software engineer, but also not a civil engineer.

AtheistIntelligence,
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@ned yeah, he can be both, but he's a tool foremost.

AtheistIntelligence,
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@ned they spelled tool wrong. Musk is a tool.

zazzoo,
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@ned Infrastructure 2.0, brought to you by the top shelf minds that created imploding subs, exploding cars and easy-off aircraft door panels.

ned, to random
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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

pinhman,
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@zazzoo @ned The irony: “We don't need amateurs running this province through difficult times”<- looks like UCP, rather than NDP?

zazzoo,
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@ned Venezuela 20 years ago, oil companies simply refused to pay and straight-up stole oil. Chavez threatened nationalization, they still refused to pay, he seized, coupe attempt, crack-down, embargoes - word limit, fast forward to today.

I keep this story in mind when thinking of the oil industry in Canada. I feel they were ready to attempt the same here when the Alberta NDP won in 2015.

Note the anti-democratic tone of this:
https://edmontonsun.com/2015/05/01/corporate-business-leaders-warn-of-risks-to-alberta-ndp-government

Also this:
https://thenarwhal.ca/woe-us-oil-industry-hot-mess-after-ndp-victory/

zenheathen,
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@zazzoo @pinhman @ned And charities are used too often as a tax dodge.

Buy painting for $500k. Have appraiser appraise it at $3M. Donate, get $3M tax writeoff. Bullshit.

zazzoo,
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@pinhman @ned Pretty sure that translates to "We don't want a non-subservient government." They're prefer a bought dictatorship.

And don't get me started on the whole 'but what about the charities' argument. Charity is a rich person's vanity project to help them sleep at night. Charity is what you need when you don't have the tax base to do something properly.

zenheathen,
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@swordgeek @zazzoo @pinhman @ned I'm consistently amazed at the number of people who don't know this is going on.

They collect our money, then donate it as if it was their money, and they get the tax writeoff.

Say "no" to theire collection at the till, and donate persobally to the cause if you support it. Even if your own donation isn't big enough for tax receipt for you, at least they don't get it. They don't need nor deserve it.

zazzoo,
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@swordgeek @zenheathen @pinhman @ned Exactly these two points, yours and Zen's. Together they have me thinking about Walmart charities. It's been a while since I looked at them, but at one point they used to spend their customers' donations buying famous paintings and using them to get their family name put onto art galleries. Apparently they've got a failed artist somewhere in the family tree, memory is hazy, but I think it was Alice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walton

dragonfrog,
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@zenheathen @swordgeek @zazzoo @pinhman @ned

It doesn't work that way.

A tax "write off" just means that they get to not pay tax on a particular incoming amount of money, because it went out in a tax-protected direction.

If you donate $10 at the till, and the store passes that $10 on to the charity - the "tax writeoff" just means that the store doesn't claim that $10 as income (because it's not). Financially it's the same to the store if you donate or not.

zenheathen,
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@dragonfrog @swordgeek @zazzoo @pinhman @ned Pardon me for the poor wording. Sheesh.

My point is that when a hundred of us donate a buck each, the company takes it and donates it as $100, and claims that as a $100 charitable donation on their taxes, even though it's our donation.

I'm not an accountant. I'm just pissed.

zazzoo,
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@dragonfrog @zenheathen @swordgeek @pinhman @ned I think you've made a valid point, thank you. But apart from the customer not getting the credit as you say, there's also the reasoning behind why stores do this - which is to present themselves as community champions when it's actually more or less just an empty branding exercise.

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

michaelgemar,
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@ned @Tarnport @privateger @annaecook @Theriac @bmacDonald94 Smoked paprika is especially great, almost as great as Paprika the app.

ChristosArgyrop, to random
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AI assistant, draw me what among medical circles is known as a "wallet biopsy"

NovaNaturalist,
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@ChristosArgyrop AI = Artificial Ignorance

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

Sanderde,
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@ned @SonofaGeorge I think more likely pulled out of a part of her anatomy.

Over the past five years the total of the carbon taxes we’ve paid on our natural gas bill has been $542.02 cents.

IPEdmonton, to cycling
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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 ) 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 .

Geoffberner, to politics
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Don't worry. They've got the same plan for Avian Flu as they had for Covid. And you think that worked. So you're golden. #covid #birdflu #austerity #eugenics #Politics

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.

darwinwoodka,
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@ned sounds like SOMEONE needs to go stretch their penis some more

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.

micropainter,
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@ned I'm actually all for the carbon tax and the fuel tax incentivizing people to reduce their carbon emissions--I'm pointing out the premier's hypocrisy.

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