toastmeister

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[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The further you get from the gold standard the worse life you'll have. Though you might have more social media and gadgets you'll have a smaller house and worse quality food/services, as everything is financialized through debt in a futile attempt to force the elderly who own all the assets to consume every greater amounts, as automation progressively decreases the costs and companies find more advanced ways to shrinkflate products.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You used be able to run Linux apps too, but they pulled it all back because they are only good at creating bloatware.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I do Ghostfolio for my stocks. Though I paid for it to support development, its quite cheap.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Umbrel, Cosmos Cloud, Caprover, Yacht, Dokku, there's a billion of these things.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To go back in time and end our reliance on US exports, maybe make a business case for LNG exports to Europe a few years ago when they were begging for it?

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

One theory is Trudeau put in a clearly unpopular capital gains tax policy and blew past the budget to have Freeland blame him was all preordained in order to elect Carney as the savior, who is a climate change advocate who will appear progressive enough to push a pipeline through Quebec using this constitutional crisis. In order to lower reliance on Russian energy globally, since we cant get a pipeline for LNG overseas exports any other way, given how provincial powers work in Canada.

The last 15 years Alberta contributed 240b to Ottawa while Quebec received 327b, if Alberta leaves as a tariff wipes out Quebecs industries its obviously leaves them with no choice. Cons obviously cant push a pipeline either, given Quebecs hatred of the Cons.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If the war in Russia ends oil floods the market, we have deflation, and the bonds will be bought in order to ride the yield curve. Which is something to consider assuming he gets it done.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm wouldnt be too happy about Pierre either, I only give him a 2/10 because he would slow immigration, which I think needs to match housing because I'm not a sociopath and care about more than just propping up non-per capita GDP growth.

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