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• Post #2094750

  One of the reasons #Boomers seemed to fair well is because our parents #taxed the #rich. For some reason we stopped during the 1970s. Scroll down to Marginal Tax Rates section of link below for more details. https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-reforming-capitalism.html

• Post #1681516

  @datarama i do not know how i could have voted in this poll without touching my computer.

• Post #1056685

  Methinks they are going a bit overboard with the April showers business.

• Post #1056684

  Appears the owner doesn't seem interested in making a profit but just in providing a home for the tenants so perhaps turning it into a co-op with the residents buying in with enough funds to do the upgrades needed and a monthly co-op fee high enough to ensure this doesn't happen again might be an option. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vernon-mobile-home-park-power-loss-9.7152632

• Post #1056681

  Legacy systems are systems designed when software was designed to do what it was built for forever and not designed to require updates every six months.

• Post #1056680

  Never underestimate the power of white privilege. Remember the people of a whole continent were misnamed for hundreds of years because one white man couldn't navigate. #WhitePrivilege

• Post #1056679

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/116343399759912794 Who the hell wants to fight for a country that wants to send their parents to a concentration camp ?

• Post #1056678

  One step closer to moving my account to Ottawa Place, where i would have been if I knew about it when I joined Mastodon. Just waiting for the right time to do it uninterrupted without distraction. And of course there is always the possibility I will procrastinate or change my mind, but I am about 85% certain.

• Post #1056677

  Oh yes I wanted to ask what the character limit was on #OttawaPlace i did not notice that when I was going through the rules.

• Post #971197

  Time to plug the NO AI link to DDG again https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

• Post #935869

  Need guaranteed wrong answers. Here is the place. (Actually they cannot even guarantee that, occasionally providing correct answers) https://www.wired.com/story/i-asked-chatgpt-what-wired-reviewers-recommend-its-answers-were-all-wrong/

• Post #869641

  Wondering whoever dreamed up calling other peoples computer servers connected to the internet "the cloud". When I think of clouds I think of light fluffy things that when they get full and heavy start to leak all over the place. Hardly the metaphor I would want to use for computer storage. #TheCloud

• Post #845526

  If the new NDP leader proves too "socialist" for some they can join the Liberals and drag them back to Liberalism from their current pretending to be the old PCs incarnation.

• Post #845525

  So where will I se it first, on the CBC website, or here ?

• Post #845524

  And we have a new leader of the NDP

• Post #845523

  Well I guess we will have to get used to saying NDP Leader Lewis, again.

• Post #845520

  Just looked at my blog stats (on blogspot/blogger) over it's lifetime and my views really jumped when I joined Mastodon. in March 2023. Being on Twitter did not make any noticeable difference.

• Post #814995

  Only applies to workers under federal jurisdiction but still sets an example. "Most employees in Canada are covered by their provincial or territorial rates. Those range from a high of $19.75 in Nunavut to a low of $15 in Alberta.: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-minimum-wage-increase-9.7140017

• Post #814994

  Remember when every school had a hand bell and a guillotine.

• Post #814993

  IOC bows down to/sucks up to Trump. Is the Olympics Peace Medal next ? https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/international-olympic-committee-transgender-rules-9.7142798

• Post #814992

  Do you forget what you've done all day on your computer. This is for you. https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/screen-logger-3-2-2-20-2/

• Post #814991

  Rain Rain Do Not Go Wash Away The Salt & Snow Rain Rain Wash It All Away The Ebikes Want To Go Out & Play

• Post #814990

  But we are making our war expenditures target and hoping to build a homegrown war industry, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-hospitals-wait-times-9.7123684

• Post #814989

  World's Best Cheese

• Post #814988

  Would it be better or worse for the United States if Trump was competent ?

• Post #814987

  Anyone still seriously considering travelling to the United States ? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-border-dna-canadian-man-cbp-cross-larson-dingell-raskin-9.7144472

• Post #814986

  RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@SnowyCA/116303823112614256 So I cannot wear an "I believe in democracy" t-short into the provinces most important institution of democracy because believing in democracy is definitely a political statement but [whoever the hell you worship] forbid political statements be allowed in the legislature. #hypocrisy #irony

• Post #714601

  Caring about people vs loving cruelty are NOT policy differences.

• Post #523612

  Hoping to wake up Monday March 30 and discover the NDP has decided to become a Green Social Democratic party supported by the Canadian labour and social movements.

• Post #495339

  What is there to say about bad people doing bad things to bad people probably for bad reasons except to scream about the innocent "collateral damage" and unknown unintended consequences.