If you cannot drive safely around pedestrians in normal street clothes, you should not be driving. You are the one bringing a lethal machine into the equation, they're just out living.
I only played it briefly at my nephew's house back in the day but it actually seemed really janky. Was it actually good or was this just "omg GTA but with Simpsons I'm 11 and this is cool!"?
Ugh. The way that generally centre-right economic policy wonks are celebrating Milei's election is grotesque.
I get that dollarization would probably be good for Argentina.
Even as a leftist, I'm open to the possibility that an anti-Peronist economic policy could save the country - I doubt they could survive another Peronist.
But Milei is the worst kind of MAGA wingnut. He's a talk-radio shock jock. It's like if they elected Tucker Carlson or Don Cherry into the casa rosada.
His one possibly-good policy idea doesn't overshadow that.
Okay. We need to get clarity here -- if a product is being returned because it just wasn't compatible with the purpose I had in mind? Like pants that don't fit? By all means, charge me for return.
But if the product is defective? No, you pay for that. You sent me garbage, you owe me 100% money back.
Very disappointed to see the federal NDP backing the climate-denying Conservatives in attacking the carbon tax on natural gas heating.
Canada's carbon tax is (mostly) revenue neutral - if you've average heating needs, you break even. So cutting it on heating is a de-facto subsidy on large, inefficient homes.
Revenue neutral carbon taxes won a Nobel prize in economics. Anybody with alternate ideas on fighting climate change: show me your Nobel prize.
But the modern NDP is left-populist. They want simple, brute-force top-down solutions to problems. They're big believers in "if you're explaining, you're losing". Any level of indirection in policy solutions is bad.
If unions didn't exist today, and Liberals proposed them as a solution for protecting workers, NDP would scream "no, we want direct top-down government workplace inspections, don't you dare charge me union dues!"
When obviously: do both. Both the econ-based bottom-up program and the top-down legislation.
If the Liberals want to reduce the tax on oil, they could make heating fuels a flat rate per BTU (or gigajoule, we're metric - 1 BTU is 1055 J, so a GJ is about a million BTUs).
Natural gas (CH₄) is 0.0373 GJ/m³. It's also carbon priced $0.1239/m³ -- this amounts to $3.32 per GJ.
Fun coincidence - there's about as much energy in an L of fuel oil as in an m³ of CH₄ - 0.0383 GJ/L.
Currently, heating oil CTax is $0.17/L. Pricing it per-GJ would reduce the CTax on a litre of heating oil to about the same as an m³ of CH₄ -- $0.127/L CTax.
Obviously pricing per GJoule of fossil-fuel would be a de-facto subsidy on less-efficient heating fuels, but it would mean the incentive is not to upgrade from oil to gas, but to upgrade to zero-emissions forms of heating like heat pumps.
And it would be a 25% discount on heating oil CTax, so rural people on heating oil would no longer feel "punished" by the CTax - they're paying the same per unit of heat.
Of course, this assumes rural grievance is rational.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-airstrikes-israel-1.6998419
So they're airstriking the south after telling everybody in the north to head south.
I have been on hold with Other Pharmacy for 20 minutes.
edit: they faxed to the wrong number.
edit2: still not faxing it.
I was skeptical of it too at first, most of the media reporting on it so far are right wing chuds. So everybody is still in denial and assuming it must be some kind of an op.
It's not, it's real, the Speaker invited a man who fought for Nazi Germany into the House, and somehow every layer of the LPC did not remember who fought against the Russians in WW2.
The speaker issued an apology this afternoon.
Complete absolute morons.
The PM is literally calling them out in public and starting crap with the Modi administration over it.
Not only that, but Canada has proven its firm hand on this. When China went apeshit after Meng Wanzhou's arrest in Canada to extradite her to the USA, Canada stuck to its guns. Even after two Canadians were taken hostage by the Chinese government in a retaliatory arrest, Meng stayed under arrest with her extradition going forward, while the rest of the world (including Modi's India) politely looked the other way rather than angering China.
India cannot possibly claim they couldn't have gotten results from Canada if they'd gone through the legal system.
There are foreign-ownership and vacant unit laws in all affected places in Canada AFAIK. They're basically self-reporting driven but they exist. The BC ones came first. They put a small dent in housing prices and then prices continued their upward march, and they did nothing at all for rent because the color of your landlord doesn't really change much.
Any solution that doesn't involve constructing abundant housing is at best rearranging the deck chairs of the Titanic and at worst scapegoating.
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Ick. "Mouse" went to the trouble of building the game's whole aesthetic around depression-era animation. This game is a generic horror horde shooter but with a boss monster that looks hastily modded in, like when somebody adds Bender from Futurama to L4D.