rburchell.bsky.social
Organiser of pixels and herder of cats. Formerly Australian, now nationality-confused. All posts are my own opinion, no refunds for bad quality shitposting.
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Good times
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A custom QPaintDevice might help at a guess.. though PDF can have text embedded as paths, so maybe not.
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Or another way to put it: the answer lies outside the graph, no?
Cost of living is rising, wages are stagnating.
So while they may pay proportionally less tax than their income band did a decade ago - that won’t help much overall if the cost of living has significant risen over the same timeframe?
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I notice there’s a comment with some sort of update at least:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/upt...
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Monkeys paw curls: FrP?
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I think someone already beat you to that (RIP, fn)
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Decent quality, at least? I started getting some proper sleep recently and even though there’s less of it, it feels fucking amazing.
Hope you get your zzzs anyway.
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much obliged; you may proceed about your business
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cat tax required
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What is that, an upload for ants? 🐜
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That’s revolting.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4vQ...
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Yes, such an approach would lead to stockpiling, but it also allows time for domestic production to ramp up, and everyone else's supply chains to adapt to that..
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... and they also give a (long!) lead time to allow for shock resistance, which hopefully helps avert catastrophic price rises and the economic devastation that entails (both to consumers and employers).
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The difference compared to the US is that they're picking a specific thing to slap tariffs on (rather than being a shotgun approach) ...
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Again, that's kind of focusing on the US disaster though. Ignore that, and hypothetically say, a country decides "ok, we need to encourage domestic steel production for national security reasons, so starting 2035, we'll stick a tariff of n%"
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When used sensibly, they can be a tool to guide and protect domestic market competitiveness. To keep critical industries intact. Right?
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On the other hand, there’s a lot of people that are very dismissive about tariffs in general, and I think that’s a bit short sighted. Yes, they are effectively a tax, but they’re *not* necessarily a tax on the consumer, though they will be when used abruptly, in the US way.
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All very good questions that I don’t have answers to without looking at specific scenarios. I’m certainly not defending the US approach here, I think that applying them universally at such short notice is monumentally stupid.
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Whether or not that investment will be big enough to make up for the harm it does to everyone it hits is less clear to me.
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Sure, that’s harmful if you’re currently a very globalist world power, and especially dumb if you apply them with next to no notice.. but.. it will probably spur investment in the US, won’t it?
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Oh I expect they go hand in hand. 🤣
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Being popular sounds tiring
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Not going to answer questions as to whether this was a big or small win
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I got out of bed today
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I can’t vote in national elections (not a citizen..), but this bangs a hammer on the nail for why I wouldn’t be able to vote for Rødt.
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Get me some bro food
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is this a really long winded way to say sorry
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Secretly this guy: www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/...
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69420% - do it for the memes
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Not possible anymore. Roll back to Win7, and maybe we can talk.
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Sending good vibes your way
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I tend to block anything following over a thousand or so people because that just doesn’t feel human
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As someone who was already struggling to sleep tonight, thanks for reminding me 🫠
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What’s the bet they have hired some of the same brilliant strategists that helped the democrats to their latest thumping victory in the recent US elections?
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I’ve been thinking about that. I think some of it comes down to "out of the frying pan, into what?"
That is, while government is often slow to move and sometimes unfairly wielded, it’s at least pretty consistent in execution and principles.
Whatever is coming next, I fear, much less the case.
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Do you ever use Siri normally? I ended up disabling it due to stuff like that
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Are we done with 2020?
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I was just thinking exactly that while making dinner. Sure seems like a good coincidence at least.
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It’s also generally a pretty easy language to pick up with some C++ background. Some occasional wrinkles that have caught me so far (remembering pass by ref for classes vs structs being values for example), but all relatively straightforward.