Opinion | Privatizing Canada Post would be a costly mistake
Krudler @ Krudler @lemmy.world Posts 12Comments 876Joined 2 yr. ago
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I think Quebec has (or at one time had?) the lowest because you're not required to have collision insurance. You can have just liability, but if your car is a piece of shit you're not required to insure it for repair should an accident occur. I could be wrong, and I'd love to know if I am.
Please, no more "I'm posting screenshots every day because I need attention"
Take your fking screenshots and go to hell already.
I mean to an alcoholic in the small scale it sounds like it's working out great.
But Canada's recently done a study that shows the taxation gained from alcohol consumption is far less than the deleterious societal costs.
Effectively the government loses money on every bottle it taxes.
edit: This is known as Canada's alcohol deficit. It was first studied in 2014 which showed a taxation intake of ~11 Billion while the social costs were estimated to be ~15B resulting in a deficit of about ~4B. believe the 2020 study showed the alcohol deficit is up to ~6B a year now. I'm lazy, but here's one link for those who'd like to know more:
An incredibly popular opinion which is accepted to be common, expected, normal practice.
Oh yeah, he was totally in rascally play mode. I love rascally play mode, but not when it's bring out a ladder and go through the motions of rescue play mode LOL
I had never seen a cat's ass just wiggle itself backwards down a tree before, always more of a "suicide dive" while kind of running down the trunk, and then sprint to safety when they land
I guess Parker could sense when I started to turn my back on him that I was not having any of it that day lol
I used to have my sister put makeup on me, and use shopping bags to make "dresses" which we'd then stuff with fake boobs. I thought it was awesome and great fun creativity. I'm straight AF, but still flamboyant AF. You are what you are.
My cat Parker ran up the tree out front. I just looked at him and said "ok fuckface, see you when you decide to come down".
He could sense my tone of voice, and just shimmied his ass back down. It was hilarious.
Why tf are these reminder options so random? Is there no way to pick a few that are always the same?
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I feel like it's been a decade already... I paid for this app called CalenGoo. It's kind of clunky and reminiscent of older office software, but it is such a powerhouse under the hood.
It is insanely customizable, and it did the thing that I needed the most, which was to remind me in a way that I define!!!
(Edit the whole reason I purchased it at the time was because there simply was no option available where you could get an Android app to continually remind you. Back then it was one reminder and then fuck you if you miss it or didn't hear it go off. CalenGoo was life-changing in this way and I've come to love all the other features)
Plus when it does have a reminder go off, I can set any kind of quick snooze or even a very customized snooze like remind me in 172 minutes. If I dismiss a reminder I can undo it, and I can go into the specific event at any time and I can change the snooze, it's just... I don't even know how to describe how good this thing is.
When I set an event I can link it to map coordinates, Contact Cards, attach objects, have it synced to multiple calendars. It integrates with other apps which can then add in reminders (eg a line music event on FB). Linked events will update in real time and you'll get notifications for example if the venue changes.
This is really truly the best advice.
I am a straight male. But by definition I'm gender fluid. I have endured through my life no end of abuse for this, and it's nothing close to what my trans partners in the past have experienced.
But in the end, it comes down to having a spine and being able to assert yourself.
Especially in trades, there is no end of ball-breaking and risque dialogue. If you are not able to defend yourself or say okay dude the joking has gone far enough, you are not going to have a happy life and you need to find something else to do to make money.
If we live in the online reality where "ideal" behavior is constantly advocated and expected, we are never going to connect to the truth of life which is that bullshit is everywhere and we have to learn to stand up to it and flow with it.
The best thing that ever happened to me was finishing off some caramelized pork slabs in the cast iron pan...
I put some aged white cheddar, turn the heat off, and put the top of the pan on just to do a quick cheese softening... Well of course I forgot about it and left the room
30 minutes later I came back when my stomach was rumbling, lifted the pan lid and realized that the cheese had melted off the pork and onto the pan. There was just the perfect amount of latent heat, by complete fluke, to perfectly caramelize the aged cheddar into a crispy, greasy disc at the bottom of the cast iron pan.
I have tried to recreate that by frying cheese, and I have never been able to capture that moment of pure tastebud joy and bliss.
My grandfather loved to collect old shit just for the fun of repairing it, that's kind of how I got into my own hobby.
I remember fixing one of these with him, and actually we made a fuckload of toast because it was pretty cool.
Squarez Deluxe
Originally a paid DOS game and the developer is a cool dude who changed it to freeware. You can download it on myabandonware or archive org. Then grab a free copy of DOSBox.
In my view, it is the best shape packing game ever made, and it never really got its due, possibly in part to somewhat extra complexity, and partly from the time it came out.
You learn the ropes in the early modes, but you really need to play on EXTREME Mode. There are many different special pieces, and you decide how to move them in the playfield and rotate them.
There are mud traps and acid pits and missiles and bombs and traps. And you have to not only play the shape packing aspect, but you have to continually think about how to deploy these hazards, to your best advantage, or least disadvantage!
Over the years, I continually come back to this game, and I have probably sunk over a thousand hours since I was young.
It's low-grade trolling, chill bro. They're not serious.
I feel you, and AI tech has been completely squandered.
My phone knows everything about me and has for the last decade.
It is not able to do a single useful thing for me.
It knows where I go, when I go, what my schedule is, what I buy, what I don't.
It has never been able to suggest anything useful, advise me of a sale on products that I buy, let me know about a vendor in my area that can deliver for cheaper.
It's not able to notice that I'm trying to format text on my screen and I'm entering the same bullet at the front of things. It would never take over and say oh let me copy paste this very obvious task you're doing that even a child could deduce from your primitive actions.
"Transfer all of my image files off of my phone into a folder on my computer, then reorganize all of the photos on my phone into sensible groupings instead of random folders all over the place that have piled up over the years". Not going to happen, because that's useful.
"Hey phone, I'm going out. Take a look at my shopping lists and let me know what stores have what on sale so I can save a few bucks. You know all the stores I go to, because you're watching my every move." Not going to happen, because that's useful.
When AI is implemented into businesses, it's qualified to direct you to an FAQ. Any opportunity to win new customers with high level service is squandered.
I do not hate ai, I detest the fact that the possibilities to improve the lives of people have been completely ignored, while it is primarily implemented as a cost saving measure. Completely short-sighted and fucking useless.
"Oh no, now there's a video of my face somewhere"
I'm not trying to be hurtful towards you, but I guess I'm pushing back in a general sense and you're the comment I'm replying to.
At this point, it's 2025... Every single thing about you including 3D models of your face is in a computer somewhere.
Look at the Luigi situation. Police tipped accidentally that they have advanced AI they've been using for a decade that we didn't even know about.
I'm kind of saying guys... like yeah on paper not a good idea to upload your video... But when you critically examine it, what has harmed you? Nothing, your face is everywhere. If you have walked outside one time, your face is on 100 video cameras. And it's never being deleted from their server.
I respect the security concern but none of what you are describing is how Facebook market works.
If you got a text message, it's because you gave them your number that's your fault. Nobody has the ability to contact you outside of the marketplace ecosystem or messenger unless you specifically allow it.
If you're getting promotional messages, it's because you opened a business chat with that organization.
I'm basically saying learn.
None of that has anything to do with not wanting to upload personal information to meta.
I read so many of the comments and concerns, and I don't even disagree with them!
Just want to add my two cents.
Lots of people are talking about how they resent that Marketplace has become the place to sell. I get that.
However, this is more of the same in an ongoing evolution of online ads & classifieds.
Originally eBay was King. Craigslist was kind of under the radar and not enough of a threat that they did anything about it.
Then all kinds of little online competitors to eBay started to pop up and they were becoming reasonably successful.
eBay then acquired PayPal so they could squash up startups. It worked. They no longer own PayPal but things change.
Kijiji popped up and was eating eBay's lunch on a local level. Instead of competing, eBay spun off local classifieds to another company which acquired Kijiji.
I don't even know all the back and forth wranglings, but it's all a giant multi-corporate game that's been played for 30 years.
Then all kinds of different "out of the box" storefronts started to appear.
Now Meta got in the game and they are keeping eBay and Kijiji "honest". They've gone ahead and integrated it with Messenger and other apps so you never have to leave their ecosystem.
It literally took 30 years, but I am finally content as both a buyer and a heavy seller, with all of the online options available. I no longer feel like they are trying to wrangle every penny out of me as of seller, and they let me voluntarily pay to promote my sales in MY terms.
That said, I'm not sure how I feel about needing so much information about people just to make an account.
On one hand (I'm very biased towards the seller's perspective) I can actually see the need to apply as much verification as possible for new accounts. It's been a severe deficiency in their product for years and years and years. And as a seller, I am exhausted with bots and fake accounts and people who want to hide in the shadows, there's no reason to do that when you're buying a vacuum off me and want to come to my home to pick it up.
On the other hand, I made my account years ago so I'm not subject to this requirement. But if I put myself in the shoes of somebody making a new account today. Holy fuck would I not be impressed with this.
I really don't know what the answer is. I would never upload ID or a video of my face to them. I don't know what's needed here.
You're kind of just looking at an arbitrary resolution of life and getting hung up on categorizing.
At the end of the day, we are made up of complex chains of DNA and RNA and proteins and all of the building blocks of that came from rocks floating in space.
We know this to be true, weve found the precursors and building blocks of life in asteroid samples we've taken back to Earth.
Life begins way before what you consider to be a species.
In my city you are required to have both liability and collision even if the car is worth a dollar. That is true across all of Canada to my knowledge, with the exception of Quebec.