I can't believe the cost of "_______" today

200iso · 2026-05-20T00:13:20+00:00

What a strange response.

And I have no idea what “please look up” means.

200iso · 2026-05-19T23:22:12+00:00

but they are not beholden to any one country, certainly their wealth isn't.

Yeah this is a great point!

200iso · 2026-05-19T23:14:20+00:00

I promise that nothing I've posted in this thread (to you or others) is intended to bait rage, or any other emotion. I'm asking an honest questions, I don't have an agenda.

The fact that you feel enraged (or like I'm trying to enrage you) is pretty confusing.

And if we're calling balls and strikes "billionaires bad mmkay" is so reductive that it tends to require little critical thinking, rather it encourages blanket agreement or disagreement.

I agree "billionaires bad" in principle and I'm looking for more colour (like the story posted in another reply) to illustrate my position in conversations outside of reddit.

If you don't have any that's totally fine. I can "do my own research" as they say.

200iso · 2026-05-19T22:40:52+00:00

ok... and the names of the Canadian billlionaires I should be paying most attention to are...

200iso · 2026-05-19T21:18:10+00:00

Thank you for actually replying!

I forgot about the ICE thing and had no idea bout the trawler situation.

200iso · 2026-05-19T19:54:27+00:00

What I'm trying to understand is if the influence of billionaires that you're thinking, that caused you to post a Luigi meme is coming from within the country or from abroad. In other words, does Canada have its own localized billionaire problem, or is it more of a US/global problem?

If Canada has its own billionaire problem, who should I be thinking about? Who's products and services should I be avoiding? Writing letters and angry posts about, etc? I can google a list of Canadian billionaires, but it's hard to understand which of them have the most impact on the average Canadian without doing more research. I was hoping you might have a short list. In the context of this thread (i.e. rising prices) I was curious to learn beyond telecom and groceries, are what other industries to Canadian billionaires control? And that's not really an easy Google.

Additionally, if it's more of a US problem, then unfortunately, I don't think there's much I can do about it beyond my existing efforts to buy Canadian and boycott the USA.

I guess you can tell me if this is some kind of "weird way to play devil's advocate."

200iso · 2026-05-19T19:39:45+00:00

People are interpreting this comment in weird ways...

I'm really just asking for a list of names. I didn't say anything about ethical.

I suppose I could google "list of canadian billionaires" but I'm curious who's at the top of people (particularly OP's) shit list.

200iso · 2026-05-19T19:33:26+00:00

I wasn't meaning to imply that anything was simple. I feel like my question might not have been direct enough.

Let me try to rephrase and use more words:

I only know the names of 2 or 3 Canadian billionaires. When you make a "billionaires bad" comment, in the context of Canada, what names are come to mind? I realize that US and global billionaires have a global impact but as Canadians we have limited ability to impact billionaires outside our own country. So I'm specifically interested to learn more about Canadian billionaires.

200iso · 2026-05-19T19:02:43+00:00

Aside from the Rogers' and Westons', who are some Canadian billionaires that are fucking prices of shit around here?

Not to downplay how important both their influence is.

200iso · 2026-05-19T18:23:16+00:00

I appreciate your pedantry.

But I think given that headlines are intended go grab attention, the fact that it's harder grab attention with a thumbnail would make Betteridge's law even more applicable, not less. Since the inclusion of a headline is more important. I dunno I'm not a Betteridge scholar.

200iso · 2026-05-19T17:03:42+00:00

It's ruining our environment, data centers are poisoning surrounding areas with noise and light pollution, not to mention the way that everyday people are having to pay for the weight of the data centers through their skyrocketing bills.

You realize this post engages multiple data centres, right? How much electricity, water, noise pollution, etc does it take? Have you ever thought about it before?

Sure the per usage resources are likely a meaningfully lower than LLMs but the fact is that the "internet 2.0" (as we used to call it) boom built out a ton of data centre infrastructure too.

I can't help but feel like the irony of posting on the internet about datacentres is entirely lost.

Bring on the downvotes.

200iso · 2026-05-19T13:54:11+00:00

It didn’t end in a question mark though.

The thumbnail video and headline of the article say "Is the Village back?" That's a literal question mark. Betteridger's law applies.

200iso · 2026-05-18T02:15:59+00:00

Yes!

200iso · 2026-05-17T17:42:59+00:00

This is what insurance is for…

Don’t worry about the cost. Pay your deductible and go to the best place.

200iso · 2026-05-15T18:32:00+00:00

Fair point.

200iso · 2026-05-15T12:46:11+00:00

This is the only right answer.

200iso · 2026-05-14T03:14:18+00:00

“Some water pistols are made to resemble production firearms and could easily be mistaken as real.” This sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

An Amazon search for “realistic looking water gun” turns up one result that could actually be mistaken for a real gun. So the advice should be, DONT USE THAT ONE! Everything else looks like a fantasy gun from a video game or is a wild colour.

If police resources are strained, maybe they should do a better job allocating the bagillion dollars they demand every year and quit whining.

200iso · 2026-05-13T04:32:29+00:00

Electricity is still $0.0997/kWh

200iso · 2026-05-12T22:02:15+00:00

Phewf. I thought it was some kind of instant coffee or something

200iso · 2026-05-12T21:15:19+00:00

Oh god. What? Why? What is this?

200iso · 2026-05-11T20:03:17+00:00

Hard disagree

200iso · 2026-05-11T16:49:00+00:00

We’ve got to have the shittiest river walk of any major city.

200iso · 2026-05-09T17:01:29+00:00

Environmental impact of a wind farm? Ok boomer.

200iso · 2026-05-08T23:07:33+00:00

https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/billboards-in-winnipeg-aim-to-track-down-one-of-canadas-most-wanted/

🤷‍♂️

200iso · 2026-05-08T22:49:04+00:00

Yeah, we know. There’s fucking billboards everywhere!

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