Does being Europe’s richest man imply that he would be the person who would pay the most wealth tax?

If so, the headline isn’t going hard enough.

Turkey did it once.

My money is on Chile

If you’re going to do a “courtroom” TNG episode, no way it’s Devils Due… The Drumhead all day long.

Maybe that’s why. I don’t dispute the outcome, just I wonder about the underlying motivation.

Headcount, regardless of utilization, carries a cost. Payroll HR benefit administration badges laptops uniforms etc etc.

As well simply “cutting hours” causes people to quit to find more stable full time employment. If you actually want to keep an employee, it’s a massive risk to do that.

Both cases, those are working against the employer even before you try and justify it as part of some grander scheme.

I’m completely open to the idea, but it strikes me as an Occam’s Razor moment. Why introduce the concept of secret colluding between competing businesses when it can be sufficiently be explained by individual greed?

I don’t think you or I or Marx need to over engineer the explanation in terms of “wanting unemployment lines to keep ‘workers in line’”

It’s sufficient to say there is an immediate profit motive to just fire the workers and pocket the surplus, I think.

Not well versed enough in social theory or empirical outcomes to really know… But it seems enough to me

You’re supposed to get a health card for whatever province you are a resident of.

That’s always been the case.

Like, I hate these changes as an Albertan with a PR wife.

But to answer the specific question of “why would they?”, because that’s technically been the rule since as long as we’ve had universal healthcare with the administration of which delegated to the provinces.

Fucking lol.

IF they get an 80% productivity boost and can choose to either:

A) Maintain staffing, maintain pay, only make workers work 3 days a week.

B) Fire 60% of staff, maintain 5 days a week, and freeze raises because the market is now awash with newly laid off people

What do YOU think they’re gonna do?

The title is so bad it’s less “misleading” and more “lie”.

Did NASA announce discovery of life on Mars? No.

Empathy doesn’t mean you’ll adjust your position. It just means you can RP as someone well enough to come away with an understanding from that person’s perspective.

You can be empathetic and once the exercise is over, still not budge in terms of your original assessment.

Empathy is dangerous to fascists. Everything they’re doing unravels if a population is good at it. It’s why they hate it so much. Don’t toss them a free W.

Why’s James cryin’?

Bad costume, cheap lighting, over-the-top theatrical exposition… talking without really saying anything… Really strikes me as a Red Alert cutscene.

Acme anvil, acme time machine… The knowledge that birds evolved from dinosaurs…

The answer is so obvious I’m glad you didn’t debase either of us by asking the question

Wow! The small brain in my butt responsible for nostalgia was blown!

I’m just telling you what was in children’s dinosaur books from the 80s, based on your response of never having heard of it.

What the gap between children’s books and scientific consensus at the time was, couldn’t tell you.

I think this sits in the realm of history more than science. “What were people writing at the time?”

I can anecdotally confirm as a “dinosaur kid” of the 80s, that this was a common tidbit in children’s books of the era.

I’m pretty sure I had a VHS with Fred Savage where they ran through it as well.

The explanation was that the response time if a Brontosaurus got its tail messed with (an anvil dropped on it) was problematicly slow if the nervous system had to send the message such a great distance to the “head brain” and then have the reaction message all the way back. Basically they’d be living with massive lag IRL.

Can’t say I’m surprised that science is backing off the certainty on that. Those same books were also full of “look at all the goofy things previous generations of paleontologists thought”

Do you have an example of a time a counterpoint was offered that changed his mind?

A bunch of people in the Trump admin changed their mind on even the existence of the Epstein files.

It isn’t that conservatives can’t build cities. They can and have.

Living in cities for even just a few generations make people less conservative.

This would be like me believing that only clean cars go into a car wash because I only see clean cars coming out of it.

Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won

I’d heard many times from people who were old enough to see them live that it was a completely unique experience, describing how the band fed off the energy of the crowd.

Didn’t fully comprehend the magnitude of that truth until I heard that live album. I’ve heard other live albums from other artists where it was performed roughly the same as the studio version with the further addition of a cheering crowd. This was a completely different animal.

How The West Was Won really showcased how malleable a work is in the hands of truly talented artists.

It’s idiotic, and I don’t support the move. Also there isn’t a concrete plan. Barely a conception of a plan, really.

But if you read the article, the plan isn’t to just say “no thank you”, it’s to take the money and brand their own version. Might be to allocate the money to pre-existing AB low-income dental coverage. Maybe they’ll just create a new benefit with federal money and call it AB and take credit for it.

It reminds me of the inverse of the UCP and the carbon tax. If you recall, provinces could make their own OR have the federal one. The NDP (when they were in provincial power) made their own, and the UCP raked them over the coals for it… AS IF there was an option to NOT have one. UCP scrapped the provincial carbon tax day one. Made literally zero difference because all that meant was now it was instantly superceded by the federal carbon tax.

But the point stood: If the feds do something unpopular, do NOTHING to make it better so you can place the full blame on Ottawa. If the feds do something popular, do EVERYTHING to try and rebrand it to give the province credit. The UCP literally only has one playbook, and it’s to use Ottawa as a foil.

I genuinely think Smith intentionally was trying to sabotage PP. She can’t govern with Conservatives in federal power.

To be clear, that doesn’t make her good or smart. She’s a career opportunist, an I am gleeful in my belief that I don’t think she can beat Nenshi, at least not without some really shady gerrymandering. 1000 flipped votes last provincial election would have done it, and Nenshi can easily hit that mark.