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Lauchs

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  • Oh interesting, thanks! I figured out the hashtaga bit but a lot of fun popped up without the hashtaga etc.

    I suppose I'll just keep muddling along and figure something that works for me while trying to be a net positive influence!

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  • Tried it last night for a hockey game. I still think I'm not using it correctly but people were nice.

  • Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • The world would also just be a happier and better place with another season.

  • Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • Musk aside, it looks so goddamn stupid, I'd be embarrassed to drive around in it regardless. Like a cheap 80s movie version of what a futuristic car would look like.

    And as Others have noted, why would you want a truck that looks like it can carry less stuff than a motorcycle can?

  • We live in an interconnected world. As an American, I’d like to know some ways that I could purchase goods, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Canada and Mexico, and still avoid the

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  • First, thank you!

    There's a website that's kind of helpful:

    https://madeinca.ca/

    Basically, digital stuff is probably the easiest. And as others have pointed out, visiting helps!

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  • Nuh uh, idiot!

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  • Tesla’s 2024 financial results are out—and they’re terrible

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  • That but also removing green subsidies helps Tesla as it's further ahead than other electric car rivals. Also, less safety regulations likely brings it closer to fully autonomous driving.

  • Two sides of the same shit coin

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  • What do you consider to be the most brutal roast in ERB history?

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  • Probably not the right answer on Lemmy but Ford to Marx is pretty damned brutal:

    "f you'd saved a penny for each daughter you named Jenny You might not have needed to bury quite so many"

    (Among Marx's retorts, I love "you were worse for Michigan than Flint's water pipes"

  • What do you consider to be the most brutal roast in ERB history?

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  • I really love this answer.

  • Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?

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  • Ahhhh, gotchya, sorry missed that!

    Though, I think tax cuts are fine to spur demand (especially targeted at lower income levels) though I'm a little hesitant about cutting spending. I'm in the camp that feels deficit spending is okay, maybe even desirable for things like recessions and wars. Spending cuts usually act as a drag on growth so if your goal is to heat up an economy, cutting taxes AND spending seems counter productive...

  • Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?

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  • Oh, if the impetus is just to cut taxes, well I don't think that's particularly ideal.

    If you're cutting taxes in the hopes of Laffer striking again, fine but that's supposed to be revenue generating.

    If you're cutting taxes for the sake of lower taxes, then you need to have some services in mind that are worth less than the value of the tax cuts, not just in terms of dollars but in terms of what they do. For example, you could cut SNAP benefits but yeah, most would be against that because feeding poor kids is pretty popular.

    I don't think these are unpopular because people don't know economics so much as there aren't many services they'd give up for marginally lower taxes.

  • Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?

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  • Fair but I'm not sure what the point of spending cuts is beyond ,shrinking the state, cooling down an overheated economy or reducing a deficit. What am I missing?

    A lot of government spending is super popular (think entitlements, healthcare, infrastructure etc.) I have an econ degree (admittedly, not particularly used as I'm now a dev) but I'm still not seeing a particular impetus...

  • How are you actually doing today?

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  • Hope your mom gets better, sounds like a super shitty day though.

  • How are you actually doing today?

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  • (Champagne problems warning) Was goddamn great until I pulled a calf muscle playing soccer tonight and now probably can't ski on Friday and Monday, despite our mountains FINALLY getting a nice dump.

    Admittedly, my problems are nothing compared to the children who mined the cobalt for my phone but godfuckingdamnit.

  • Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?

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  • Yeah, I'm not sure I've seen any of those in my lifetime. I'm Canadian and even Steven Harper, who would be almost a Democrat by American standards, wanted to go to war with the census for Reasons.

    Broadly though, my understanding of Conservative values, peeling back the state, more self reliance etc is broadly unpopular to the many who think the state has a big role to play in social welfare from education to healthcare

    If you could offer just rough ideas/goals, what would your sane, honest Conservative budget feature? Not looking to fight just genuinely curious. (No numbers obviously but like what would you want to cut. No vague "government waste" though please.)

  • Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?

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  • Honestly, I'm just not sure deficit spending outside of wars/economic emergencies was a great strategy and instead, a time bomb Reaganomics left everyone else to deal with. I think that's the ridiculously outsized part of spending that would've been the best to cut. If I remember correctly, servicing the debt is now on par with American military spending...

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  • Cool to know about, thanks!

  • Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?

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  • Oh interesting, I wasn't aware there were actually examples of the Laffer curve working in reality! I alwats thought it was just a theoretical that conservatives had latched onto...