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CEO Shooter Lookalike contest https://www.threads.net/@karlkelvin6/post/DDSiBH4ySwe?xmt=AQGz8seEPyspy5v4UouGWzzVgP19bFH4Zj0KmIe70jUw0w

It's being widely reported that CEOs of other large healthcare companies are taking down all their social-media profiles. As far as getting those companies to operate in a more ethical fashion ... doubt if that'll happen. But then, there is this ...

Profit, yes. Billions, no. Billions on the backs of millions of people who had the misfortune of getting sick or injured and then have their claims aggressively denied ... the public is saying hard no.

Sympathy level from the general public: low. https://www.threads.net/@djmelodie/post/DDOHxxFptsM?xmt=AQGzyuy42hi2LmeaTWh4gtbQXIUi0JZdGzErKhFNt82LvA

Given the history of this company under his leadership, I am finding it really hard to be sympathetic.

Here is my beef with Harper: Canadian Scientists Explain Exactly How Their Government Silenced Science This was widely reported. If you don't like that particular article about this situation, there's lots of others from other sources back in the same timeframe describing the same situation...

This is the risk the USA runs by NOT embracing the clean-energy revolution. Finding excuses for not doing it needs to get replaced with asking how we can do it.

Kinda. The rate of expansion of China's electrical consumption has still led to some new coal-fired plants, but that isn't the long term goal. China to head green energy boom with 60% of new projects in next six years

Random thing 2: Renewable energy supplies 91% of electricity in Portugal

Random thing 1: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/renewables-produce-almost-60-spains-electricity-2024-07-02/

EU has carbon pricing, too. The UK just shut down their last coal-fired generating station (ahead of schedule). China has been installing lots of solar and wind, and I believe their EV market share just exceeded 50%. Australia has lots of solar generation in place and is building more.

1.4 metres of snow in some places. Not going anywhere in that!

Reminder, Conservatives in charge in Ontario ($250 cheques), Liberals kinda-in-charge-with-a-minority federally (GST holiday). Don't put the blame on any one party ... and the solution isn't with any one party, either. They're all overflowing full of dung.

Mr Axe the Tax voting against (temporarily) axing a (different) tax? I know it's an attempt to buy votes. I know it's an attempt to put the opposition parties in awkward positions. It's apparently a horrible mess for retailers due to GST/HST remaining applicable for some things and not for...

Aens (a few posts up) has a 790 and is a high-mileage rider. No camshaft issues yet. He had a running-hot issue this past summer, which IIRC turned out to be a bad thermostat (or radiator cap? don't remember - both things were under discussion), and that was a cheap fix and could happen to...

Oh, I know, that's why it's only a piece of the puzzle. What amounts to a partial conversion of capital (think: capital loss offsetting gains elsewhere) into dividends (think: dividend tax credit) is kinda useful at the moment.

Professionally managed RRSP which hasn't done much, I don't touch it. Self-managed TFSA which I leave alone except for yearly contributions. Account outside RRSP and TFSA is self-managed and that's the one that is funding my early retirement so it's all dividend-payers. Highly speculative stuff...

3 billion euro is like 8000 euro for every bike they built last year. Obviously this would have been accumulated over the past few years but it's still a few thousand euro per unit. Ouch.

Outsider looking in but I can't even tell the difference between a lot of these models. They need a small-medium-big of each style that they choose to make. That's it. The displacement variations that they sell in order to address licensing restrictions in specific markets (e.g. the 125 and 200...