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Skippy Granola: Sep 3, 2011; It's not what it looks like.

The XKCD political party, cutting funding to any STEM that doesn't involve tesla coils and chunky goggles.

# ? Apr 24, 2017 23:03

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 21:27

Vintersorg: Mar 3, 2004; President of
the Brendan Fraser
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20% tax on soft lumber entering the US

GG Trump

# ? Apr 24, 2017 23:37

JawKnee: Mar 24, 2007; You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

oh no, what will the softwood lumber economy in BC do, collapse further?

# ? Apr 24, 2017 23:49

MA-Horus: Dec 3, 2006; I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Vintersorg posted:

20% tax on soft lumber entering the US

GG Trump

for real? Goddamn.

# ? Apr 24, 2017 23:50

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

Vintersorg posted:

20% tax on soft lumber entering the US

GG Trump

but trudeau did a firm handshake

# ? Apr 25, 2017 00:01

Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

I didn't know we still had a lumber industry

# ? Apr 25, 2017 00:05

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

THC posted:

I didn't know we still had a lumber industry

After this I don't think we do

# ? Apr 25, 2017 00:07

Eox: Jun 20, 2010; by Fluffdaddy

Not anymore

# ? Apr 25, 2017 00:07

Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/856639988183826433

lol

https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/856642716482109441

lmao

# ? Apr 25, 2017 00:25

CLAM DOWN: Feb 13, 2007

Vintersorg posted:

20% tax on soft lumber entering the US

GG Trump

How does that compare to the existing/previous tariffs?

# ? Apr 25, 2017 00:27

cowofwar: Jul 30, 2002; by Athanatos

Is it a never going to happen Trump executive order?

# ? Apr 25, 2017 00:58

Jordan7hm: Feb 17, 2011; Lipstick Apathy

20% is less than it was last time.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 00:58

DariusLikewise: Oct 4, 2008; You wore that on Halloween?

Trump thinks bad policy is good policy, this repeated forever until impeachment

# ? Apr 25, 2017 01:05

Moist von Lipwig: Oct 28, 2006; by FactsAreUseless; Tortured By Flan

Oh man it's 1980 again lads

# ? Apr 25, 2017 01:44

Karatela: Sep 11, 2001; Clickzorz!!!; Grimey Drawer

THC posted:

https://twitter.com/Justin_Ling/status/856642716482109441

lmao

Wait like literally trying to sell weed to the same 3 year old child more than two dozen times? Am I reading that right and this is like some Road Runner being hunted by the Coyote shenanigans here or what even the hell.

is this just what happens when mincome exists because now 3 year olds can afford weed? Like I haven't been drinking but maybe I should.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 02:00

Juul-Whip: Mar 10, 2008

the guy lives on Planet Narc, he thinks anyone selling the demon weed must have absolutely no morals, to the point where they're pushing drugs on toddlers, and it�s so addictive that said toddlers are buying it with money that they probably stole at knifepoint in a stairwell

# ? Apr 25, 2017 02:14

Tochiazuma: Feb 16, 2007

Apparently weed gives three year olds mental capacity well beyond their peers

I sure couldn't have made multiple dope deals when I was three

# ? Apr 25, 2017 03:38

PittTheElder: Feb 13, 2012; Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

DariusLikewise posted:

Trump thinks bad policy is good policy, this repeated forever until impeachment

You seem to have misspelled second term.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 03:40

B33rChiller: Aug 18, 2011

Vintersorg posted:

20% tax on soft lumber entering the US

GG Trump

Maybe the forestry companies will stop gating off huge chunks of Vancouver Island now. That's one possible unintended positive outcome.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 04:09

Femtosecond: Aug 2, 2003

BC Green Party platform is out.

quote:

BC Green Party vows to take �principled� approach to provincial spending

The leader of the third-place BC Greens is setting a government-or-nothing threshold for next month�s provincial election, asking voters to hand the party a breakthrough � even with a platform that includes an increased carbon tax, maintaining bridge tolls and the possibility of mobility pricing for drivers.

Andrew Weaver told The Globe and Mail�s British Columbia bureau on Monday that the people of British Columbia � particularly those who have traditionally abstained from casting a ballot � will be drawn to his �principled� approach as his party aims to build on its first-ever seat, won in 2013.

�When you look around our society, people are ready to pay a little bit more,� Mr. Weaver said, suggesting that as long as voters know where their money is going, they will willingly finance solutions to social problems.

On the carbon tax, the Greens are proposing to increase the environmental levy over four years from the current $30 a tonne to $70 a tonne, generating revenue for transit and other projects sought by communities. Ottawa already plans to raise the national tax to $50 a tonne by 2022.

As the BC Liberals and the BC NDP debate cutting or eliminating tolls on the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges in the Lower Mainland, Mr. Weaver defended the idea of keeping the tolls in place.

�It�s tough to be principled � I get that,� said the noted climate scientist at the University of Victoria. �It would be really easy for us to stand up and say, �We�re going to eliminate the tolls on the Vancouver bridges, too.� But that�s wrong, because you need to pay for that infrastructure, and we want to discourage people from using their cars.�

No polling has put the Greens anywhere close to forming government, but support for the party has been showing signs of growth during the campaign, particularly on Vancouver Island.

Mr. Weaver said his party�s internal polling supports that assessment and that merely holding onto his seat or even quadrupling the party�s standings in the legislature would, in his eyes, not be the mark of success. The Greens have candidates in 83 of B.C.�s 87 ridings.

The party received 8.15 per cent of the vote in the 2013 election, its lowest support in four elections. Its vote share peaked in 2001 with just more than 12 per cent.

Mr. Weaver cast the campaign as a high-stakes affair � not just for his party but for his political career as well. He said that if he remains the only Green member in the legislature after May 9, he would serve the term but then not continue as an MLA. �I did not get into politics to make it a career path,� he said, because in his view the legislature is �broken� and people are not being put first in decision-making.

Mr. Weaver was also dismissive of the suggestion that the Greens could split the vote, drawing support from either the Liberals or the New Democrats and swinging results in some ridings.

�Nobody owns any vote. It is offensive to the average voter to think that somehow a party owns your vote,� he said.

He said the non-voter essentially dominated the last provincial election � a reference to the 45 per cent of British Columbians who did not cast a ballot.

The Green Party Leader said it was too early to talk about whether he would support a minority BC Liberal or BC NDP government if the Greens win enough seats to bargain.

�I will say the BC Liberals and the BC NDP simply cannot be trusted with a majority government.�

Mr. Weaver said he is looking to this week�s televised leaders� debate � the last of the campaign � to make his pitch to voters. He said Wednesday�s debate will allow for more clashes among the candidates. �I am excited about that,� he said.

His comments Monday came as his party released its full election platform, a 98-page document that forecasts operating deficits in the second and third years of a Green government�s mandate but a $216-million surplus in the final fiscal year. He is also promising a new ministry for mental health; vowing to match Ottawa�s $460-million investment in public-transit infrastructure; and offering free daycare for working parents with children under the age of three.

The party plans to pay for its commitments by getting rid of tax credits, enacting a one-percentage-point increase in the corporate tax rate and raising taxes on those who earn more than $108,000 a year.

The party is planning to run a deficit of $146 million in its first year. Given that the Federal Liberals got some attention for being bold enough to run deficits, I can understand why they're thinking this might be a good gambit. I wonder though if British Columbians will be happy to have not one, but two governments in deficit, especially since the Federal government deficit spending is three times what was promised.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 04:19

CLAM DOWN: Feb 13, 2007

Considering the average person thinks that government finances should be run and managed exactly like a household with a credit card, does it really matter

# ? Apr 25, 2017 06:41

less than three: Aug 9, 2007; Fallen Rib

CLAM DOWN posted:

Considering the average person thinks that government finances should be run and managed exactly like a household with a credit card, does it really matter

How big of a HELOC can we take out as a province.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 06:43

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

Looks like the lumber industry will push for 10 story wood frame. We can solve the softwood problem and the housing supply problem together.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 06:54

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

less than three posted:

How big of a HELOC can we take out as a province.

It's PEI, he took out life insurance. Good for you, son.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 13:58

ExecuDork: Feb 25, 2007; We might be fucked, sir.; Fallen Rib

Baronjutter posted:

Looks like the lumber industry will push for 10 story wood frame. We can solve the softwood problem and the housing supply problem together.

I'll be staying in the current tallest-wood-frame building in the world in about a month - Brock Commons, at UBC - for a conference. This actually seems like a reasonably good idea, though I don't know if a surge in housing construction of all-wood buildings would make a difference to the forestry industry in the province, or to the cost of living.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:12

PT6A: Jan 5, 2006; Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Wood-frame buildings suck rear end.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:19

DariusLikewise: Oct 4, 2008; You wore that on Halloween?

http://www.metronews.ca/news/toront...k=1493094390502

quote:

Trudeau revealed the little-known fact about his brother, who died in a B.C. avalanche about 20 years ago, during a broadcast interview with Vice Media on Monday night about the government's plan to legalize marijuana.

He said six months before Michel's death, he was charged with possession of marijuana after he was involved in a collision on the highway while he was driving home to Montreal from the West Coast. Police had found a Sucrets box with a couple of joints inside when they were helping him collect his belongings that were scattered across the highway.

Trudeau said his father contacted his friends in the legal community to get Michel a good lawyer.

"He was very confident that we were able to make those charges go away," Trudeau said of his father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. "We were able to do that because we had resources, my dad had a couple connections and we were confident that my little brother wasn't going to be saddled with a criminal record for life."

Trudeau used the anecdote to highlight how minorities and people with little means often don't have the option to clear their name in the justice system � something he said legalizing the drug will help fix.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:23

Skippy Granola: Sep 3, 2011; It's not what it looks like.

PT6A posted:

Wood-frame buildings suck rear end.

Chinese Temple Carpenters just rocketed to the top of the immigration priority list

# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:26

PT6A: Jan 5, 2006; Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Imagine traveling back in time and explaining to someone the concept of steel-and-concrete construction. Think of how amazed they'd be at the strength and possibilities, compared to building things out of bricks/stone and wood.

Then imagine their reaction when you explain that people are like "gently caress that poo poo, build me the biggest possible thing out of termite food."

# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:29

HappyHippo: Nov 19, 2003; Do you have an Air Miles Card?

The best part of the housing bubble is how shoddy all the new construction is

# ? Apr 25, 2017 15:36

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

DariusLikewise posted:

http://www.metronews.ca/news/toront...k=1493094390502

I mean, good for him for admitting his privilege and how marijuana criminalization disproportionately affects minorities and ~~the poor~~ those striving to join the middle class, I guess. Maybe don't put Bill "loving" Blair in charge of legalization if that's really your take on it though.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:29

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

I'm not sure how that story relates to the question he was asked, which was "Are people who were convicted of possession in the past going to be pardoned?"

We know rich white people beat those sorts of charges, when they happened at all. That's why we're here.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:31

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

flakeloaf posted:

I'm not sure how that story relates to the question he was asked, which was "Are people who were convicted of possession in the past going to be pardoned?"

We know rich white people beat those sorts of charges, when they happened at all. That's why we're here.

hahaha never mind I take it all back if that's the question he was asked.

"No of course they won't, PS my brother was preemptively pardoned by being rich. Bill Blair has my full backing to keep the poors in jail forever"

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:33

EvilJoven: Mar 18, 2005; NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?; Fun Shoe

I for one am proud of our woke as gently caress prime minister.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 16:34

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

I think this is where we start teetering towards validation of the "Justin Trudeau is a white supremacist" comment.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:27

HackensackBackpack: Aug 20, 2007; Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?

infernal machines posted:

I think this is where we start teetering towards validation of the "Justin Trudeau is a white supremacist" comment.

How can he be a white supremacist and a secret Muslim in charge of the Islamization of Canada� at the same time?

THC posted:

Vanvouber

"Today's B.C. Liberals" is something that would be printed on the shirt of a Kelly cartoon character, if he did Canadian stuff.

HackensackBackpack fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Apr 25, 2017

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:54

Helsing: Aug 23, 2003; DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU JOE BIDEN

infernal machines posted:

I think this is where we start teetering towards validation of the "Justin Trudeau is a white supremacist" comment.

A "woke supremacist", if you will.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 17:59

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

What a touching story Justin, maybe one day you can get elected PM of Canada and maybe do something about legalization?

# ? Apr 25, 2017 18:02

peter banana: Sep 2, 2008; Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

LOL. Talk poo poo about your dead brother to make a political point and have it backfire into a soundbite where you sound like a privileged rear end in a top hat. That's loving peak Trudeau.

# ? Apr 25, 2017 20:26

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TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

His bro's dead so it just goes to show crime doesn't pay in the end :smug:

# ? Apr 25, 2017 20:29

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