I guess I should clarify. In addition to "just the W2" there's also a monthly, quarterly, or yearly payroll tax report that goes to the IRS, along with a whopping large check for the withholding, as part of normal payroll processing. Different companies do different reporting standards, of course. But they're getting the data a lot more often than you think, just from the money paid in *during* the year, before the return is filed for.

#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.

50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.

But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.

Maybe we shouldn't need to report the same data to multiple agencies? Estimated taxes, 1099s, and W2 information is already available from the IRS. You don't need to "survey" anybody, you can get down to the penny reads on the entire economy.

Don't see too many cars on walking paths and sidewalks. The number of e-bikes on walking paths and sidewalks has skyrocketed. It's almost as if someone decided being a pedestrian is a sinful activity, and that every walkway must now be infested with morons on wheels.

Then let me get started on mobility scooters.

I'd just like them banned from walking paths. At least once a day I'm getting some crazy asshole ringing his bell as he comes flying up behind me. I'm not a fan of any kind of bike on walking paths, but at least the people on regular bikes have more control. The worst are probably older riders who often seem like they're barely in control. And the three wheeled ones take up outrageous amounts of space on smaller paths, regularly forcing other users on some of the narrower paths I frequent to get to the side of the road.

It's hard to imagine, short of motor vehicles, anything more hazardous to a pedestrian than some stupid prick on an e-bike.

Mediterranean resorts do quite well, as I remember

Is there some racist reason in South Carolina that poor people can't move to Appalachia on the other side of the fall line?

Or, gasp, abandoning non-viable coastal cities.

Wouldn't it be better to relocate the people rather than build the sea wall, and just depopulate Charleston which is no longer viable as a city?

There is no privacy, and privacy apps are only used by scammers and criminals anyway.

And it may prove to be the most prophetic of all ST:TOS episodes. Unfortunately, the C-suite is currently jacking off to it. "No, don't let that pointy-eared freak control the guard's mind! And pass my cocaine!"

I used to keep a library of PowerShell admin scripts so I wouldn't have to rewrite them when I needed them again. Now I can ask ChatGPT to write them for me faster than I can find them in my library.

As you say, though, small chunks. When I've tried more complex tasks I end up spending more time debugging the AI's code than the task is worth.

Canada needs to be economically independent of the United States but we've spent decades chasing prosperity by integrating with a massive English-speaking, similar-culture, geographically convenient economy on our southern border. It's going to hurt, and it's just a matter of time because the US is going to continue to turn the screws until they won't turn any further. Even if everything went perfectly smoothly, we're not going to be more prosperous by sealing off that border and attempting to trade around the world. It can be done, but it's less efficient so less profitable, and there's always the risk the US will simply take what they want by force anyway. We're one propaganda campaign away from invasion if we try denying them access to whatever resources they decide to claim are critical to their survival.

We have a similar problem to an educated American citizen. You can identify the issue, you can see the clear solution to the issue... but the immediate pain involved in applying the solution seems disproportionate to the future potential pain of not doing so. There's a lot of motivation to put action off.

The US has been putting off fixing their issue since 1865, Canada's new to this. Give us some time.