Bravo. I didn’t even go mental, I pointed out Africa has black people in it to disprove their claim that all black people are culturally American. They didn’t stammer, but they sure did get mad.
Yep. Not too long ago I tried to explain this to some other Lemmings, and I got severely downvoted. They did not like hearing that ethnicity doesn’t imply a mental/cultural monolith.
No-one is talking about “women bears”. There are people talking about women and bears for sure, though.
Agreed, OP should have in hindsight so should I since OP didn’t- it’s insufficient on its own (newbies won’t know how to see the votey) for my purpose, but it is basic decency/respect. My apologies.
Reminder that it is an internet crime to post an smbc strip without the votey, just as it is a crime to post an xkcd without the alt text.
There are significant downsides to a large population, some of which are a function of the buildings required to house them, like how you supply all those homes with electricity. There is absolutely such a thing as too many people and such a thing as too many buildings and/or buildings which are too large.
rather than the person who is receiving the income.
Yes, this seems deeply fucked up.
From the article:
He also didn’t know that tenants renting from a non-resident are required to withhold and remit 25 per cent of their rent to CRA each month, unless they have a property manager doing it for them, or if the non-resident has made alternate arrangements to pay their taxes.
Why would Canadian law require that? I’ve never heard of a country forcing people to pay other people’s income taxes outside of countries that still have forced inheritance of debt, like South Korea. Makes absolutely no sense. As in this case, the requirement about non-residents is inane, because the renter has no way to assess resident status.
This thread is a garbage fire - a bunch of people who didn’t look anything up (or if they did, they cite no sources, so there’s no evidence they did) spouting a bunch of mutually contradictory shit, all of it upvoted. I will never understand why anyone engages with Lemmy this way.
Here is the list of US charges against Assange, from the actual paperwork charging him.
As you can see here, each of the first 17 charges has a maximum penalty of 10 years (not including fines).
Charge 18 is messier. Under USC 371 the max is 5 years. I believe USC 1030 is also capped at 5 years.
So roughly a 175 year sentence, at cap.
The sudden drop in quality was extremely noticeable. I didn’t realize different people were making it - that makes so much sense.
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Sales tax is deliberately regressive, taxing the poor more than the wealthy. Why would you have it, rather than income tax?
real stunt fighting
I have bad and somehow shocking news for you.
There’s no reason that I couldn’t check someone’s ID at my hypothetical farmer’s market stand.
No reason other than discussing in good faith, which means not moving the goalpost. You set the original hypothetical of cannabis being legally equivalent to squash, not me.
And the bigger ones around here have dudes that sell like microbrewed meads and shit, so you can’t tell me it’s not already happening.
Again, you set the original goalpost of discussing legal status.
There is no state in the country where tobacco isn’t age-restricted, which is what I’m focused on here. It’s incredibly normal and routine for us to restrict certain things behind being a legal adult.
Making cannabis or tobacco equivalent to zucchini would be a complete sea-change in how we think of minors and their decision-making abilities.
You can’t do that with tobacco, why allow it with cannabis?
It means HubertManne had a stroke while typing.