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Inflation isn’t a tax. It wouldn’t go away even if you eliminated all taxes.
I don’t know what your income tax rates is but 30% is pretty high, you must make good money!
Inflation isn’t a tax. It wouldn’t go away even if you eliminated all taxes.
I don’t know what your income tax rates is but 30% is pretty high, you must make good money!
This is really interesting in contrast to where I live in Ontario, Canada. A municipality wanted an injunction to make it crystal clear they could evict a homeless encampment on municipal property. Instead, they got a judgement that doing so would violate those people’s Charter rights. This ruling means basically every municipality in the province now legally has to do something about the homelessness crisis.
Delivery drivers and emergency services have to park in no-parking zones to do their job.
Why are you lumping emergency services delivery drivers when that wasn’t park of the discussion? Emergency services are legally allowed to park anywhere, because they’re usually there for an emergency. However, sometimes emergency vehicles abuse this power when it’s not a emergency, or just don’t consider anyone else when they could easy park in the space 10’ away. In those cases, they’re not breaking the law, they’re just being an asshole.
For delivery drivers, I think there’s some nuance as you’re right, on some streets the only option besides parking illegally is lugging the cargo 5+ blocks. In those cases, we should write this exception into law instead of just letting some people break the law as they see fit. However, I would estimate, in most cases, delivery drivers do have a good alternative like a loading zone or an alley, they just don’t want to adjust.
Also, on the bike lane, they’ll bother fewer people than on the car lane. At least in the street I live on, fifty cars will pass before one bike does - as unfortunate as that fact is.
This might have something to do with people feeling unsafe biking when there are vehicles parked in the bike lane all the time!
Delivery drivers also frequently block driveways and prevent cars from going in or out. It’s not like they have a vendetta against bikes.
Personally, I don’t think it’s okay in that case either. However, in those cases, it costs drivers time waiting. With people on bikes, it costs them safety.
I think you watch too many movies. From my experience serving in the CAF alongside the infantry, all the actions you describe would not be condoned and anyone taking those actions would be charged. Maybe I’m biased, but I was always told the goal of our operations were “capturing hearts and minds” which would be in direct conflict with taking terrorist actions.
Russia and the US have committed war crimes in their invasions of Ukraine and Iraq respectively, but the general consensus is that their militaries are still not terrorist organizations.
War Crimes != Terrorism. Some acts qualify as both, but words have meanings, and I think it’s important we recognize that. I don’t think the actions of the US in Iran would make a reasonable person say the US Military is a terrorist organization, though they are definitely harbouring some war criminals.
I think the other thing is asking, what’s the value in labelling an organization? Telling your friend with a substance problem that they’re an addict/alcoholic might just drive them away and towards worse influences. Or telling off your toxic coworker might be cathartic, but it’ll probably just make the situation worse.
PS I’m pretty sure labelling the IDF as “similarly abhorrent” isn’t very helpful.
I’m not sure what you mean by “spreading terror”. IMHO, most actions that would meet those requirements are war crimes.
We can debate whether pretty much any law is moral in our own opinion. However, I think laws are a good place to start with what rules should be followed. They can be changed/updated as necessary.
I think the big difference is whether the force follows the rules of war or not. Obviously the CAF has had some violations, but not on an organisational level like the IRGC.
Since the Invasion of Crimea, NATO has been placing troops near its boarders with Russia, especially in the Baltics.
There should be a penalty for prosecutors who torture people to force them to make false confessions.
I think you mean police? Prosecutors generally don’t question the accused, except maybe in a trial.
That’s pretty standard for the BBC. They know where most of their audiences are, so they rarely mention the local currency.
For each count of not paying the helper’s salary no later than seven days after it was due, Wu could have been jailed for up to a year, fined up to S$10,000, or both.
Instead she received no jail time and one S$10,000 fine when there were dozens of counts.
I actually do think EV range will come down in price faster than inflation, and probably at a pretty significant rate too. I just think the the $15K, 350mi EV is unlikely to ever exist because:
Well, since you asked:
I agree a bit more a direct comparison would be helpful. And you’re right, that besides height (which is a HUGE issue), their dimensions haven’t change much outside of safety norms.
The main problem (besides that height) is what’s being sold has changed drastically. In the 90’s, a regular cab was the default, now it’s special order or not even offered. A 2024 Ranger has way more power and can tow more than a 1995 F-150, yet so many people still get a F-150 to just tow the family trailer, if that.
Eh, we Canadians officially use L/100km, which just make so much more sense to compare fuel efficiency. MPG can be so misleading.
Your council works too slowly. Here’s the fix:
The first mobile cost about $4000
I said a decade ago, not the very first. I also should have said “smartphone”. Powering cars by battery isn’t a brand new technology.
The original cars cost 30k adjusted for inflation with the cheapest today costing around 15.
I was responding to a meme that said $15K, not $15K (inflation adjusted).
Sure, hate capitalism all you want, but it’s the system we live in
As pointed out in the first paragraph of the article, “Lakota Language Consortium” is a nonprofit organization. While NPOs operate in our capitalist system, you expect them to have goals besides pure profit.
Israel has not ratified the Rome Statute, so they’re in a very different circumstance than Peru.