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Well well, if it isn't the easily foreseeable consequences of my actions

Well well, if it isn't the easily foreseeable consequences of my actions

This week's most predictable disaster. Yes, even more than the new Indiana Jones movie.

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Damian Penny
Jun 30, 2023
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Turns out that if you provide a free service, and the users and the federal government actually force you to pay them for providing said free service, you might not offer that free service anymore.

If you understand that, congratulations: you understand the internet and basic economics more than Justin Trudeau's government.

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2 years ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · Michael Geist

This makes me wish I had an obnoxiously large pickup truck so I could put an obscene anti-Trudeau sticker on the back window.

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