Isaac

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[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago (18 children)

It’s paywalled for me so can’t see this all. But does this mean signal, rcs and other encrypted messages are being logged? Kind of defeats the purpose of privacy based use cases if so

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

You have no chance to survive make your time.

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its a bit before my time, rhanks for sharing! Seems like the old addage "a sucker is born every minute" is alive and flourishing. People are arguing Libs vs Cons when its basically a few levers they can pull while the unseen arm of capitalism moves along. all the politicians and their cronies seem to take the lions share whike we squabble... Media should be more accountable and tell us rubes when we're being bamboozled

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Giving it only to the poor, it is a charity intended to help people who are unable to support themselves.

It's also close to what we have now. If we start picking and choosing it just comes back to the current system. Wealth needs redistribution of massive orders to have an equitable society. Isn't it wild that MSFT is one of the richest companies because they ripped off Xerox in the 80s? They're not Canadian, but bad actors are rewarded far too frequently under our current system.

So let's also remove all tax deductions too, maybe carve out a system we find neccessary for society but take the tax off applied at purchase. If we feel they are needed so the product is cheaper from the consumer (ie. pharmacy drugs, textbooks, tuition, etc.), maybe even put the burden on the seller to collect the taxes at the end of the tax period. If they sell 100 textbooks at $200, and we give them to the students at like $180, then maybe the seller can recoup the difference quarterly during their tax time. This would make doing taxes easier for consumer, easier to audit for CRA as instead of potentially everyone having textbooks and having to validate you just need to make sure textbook sellers are claiming the textbook rebates.

To go even further (which I think could be necessary with rich people getting play money under UBI, or they'd squirrel it away), be done with church tax-exempt status, non-profits, donations, investment losses as reducing tax burden, otherwise it's very easy to screw the system. If you feel strongly for a non-profit, then donate! I wouldn't discourage that. But the tingly feeling you get in your heart should be it's own reward, we shouldn't have had a financial incentive. It makes the whole thing perverse IMO.

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Having taught college level students software development, Ctrl-c & ctrl-v was foreign to many

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I’ve been voting for 20 years, but follow US politics more than up here. I just know green/liberal/ndp would really benefit from any voting method that’s not fptp, and would enjoy a split on the right as well.

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

It’d be nice to see the small part of land they’d take with them when the First Nations get theirs first. I’m sure none of the oil and gas is on land that would secede. I saw years ago when Quebec wanted to separate that all the hydro electric would be remaining in Canada and given to First Nations, prob the same for AB.

Can’t even figure out seceding right, maybe they need their own country as a time out to think how dumb they are

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

While I’m sure it’s true of most of the fediverse, hopefully at some point echo chambers can be broken. Maybe the chuds who scream like children at anything they don’t recognize as their ilk doesn’t need to be assaulted with lunacy.

So basically I hope all will leave Meta and the social media platforms of yore, even if they’re mouth breathing chuds. Maybe getting into a dose of friendliness will be their antidote to the big crazy

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Split the right like the left? Sorry, I can only get so erect

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

All good! I tried using Magisk to change the boot.img for Lineage OS and it seemingly worked (phone still boots) but doesn't seem like root was enabled or maybe I'm missing something. It's just one edge case, but kind of important. Figured too many pin attempts to wipe device should be a feature I want on my Lineage devices

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Steve boots has decent content, but yea bit obnoxious in this video for newbies to his content.

Here's the video without Boots commentary

https://youtu.be/HjItcuFexo0

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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