joshhsoj1902

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[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I would love to see the math behind that. Typically it's a case where someone is effectively paying 25% of their income to taxes, but because they are too lazy to actually understand how taxes work they are easily convinced it's well over 50%

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago

If gamers weren't so against it, honestly NFTs could actually be that thing.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

When I was carless I depended on my reusable bags. Plastic bags were so annoying to walk or bus with.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Competition or a better voting system? Under first past the post adding more competition doesn't address the mismatch between votes and seats.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Of course it will. The low rates are only in some ways part of what caused the problem.

The problem on a whole is going to continue until either municipalities start to allow higher density construction or the provinces step in and force municipalities to stop putting up red tape.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've never viewed getting rid of plastic bags as a carbon saving measure. To me it's addressing how bad they are when they get into the environment. As much as these bags can be reused, most aren't and they just end up thrown out.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago

Any one who assumes that another party is going to blanket support a non-confidence vote doesn't understand how minority governments work.

These are times when other parties have the leverage to influence what bills are being passed.

If things got bad enough that no other parties agreed with direction then ya we would be heading to vote, but realistically things aren't that bad right now, they could always be better, but it's not bad enough to just throw away leverage.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

What a terrible graph. Market share as a percent on one side being compared to absolutely numbers on the other.

The author could draw any conclusions they wanted by just scaling the axis differently.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I looked it up and it seems like the survival rate of new businesses is about 78% in the US.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/1-year-survival-rates-for-new-business-establishments-by-year-and-location.htm

The first year seems to be the hardest and each year after that survival rates get better and better.

This data suggests that after 10 years nearly 35% of business are still in business.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/34-7-percent-of-business-establishments-born-in-2013-were-still-operating-in-2023.htm

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How many new business fail?

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

I think that just shows you don't understand how to read statistics.

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