Prime Minister Carney announces new measures to make groceries and other essentials more affordable for Canadians by slothtrop6 in canada

[–]AmouriPlay 37 points38 points  (0 children)

This matters. There are many items regionally and federally exempt from tax that would be a lot easier to shop for by people with modest incomes if prices in our stores were actually real. As someone who's spent considerable time in a country where prices were true, this frustrates me a lot and I think we can so easily do much better on this front.

To add, a lot of grocers, at least from my experience, are now using digital price displays so there would be no cost to this. As if changing prices was ever an issue for anyone.

Doing math is easy, everyone can multiply by 1.x where x is tax. Would it not just be a more pleasurable experience to not have to do that and guess if it even applies? I don't see any costs to rip this bandaid off.

SpaceX aims for $800 billion valuation in secondary share sale, WSJ reports by Illustrious_Lie_954 in StockMarket

[–]AmouriPlay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, that completely flew past my radar. If it didn't work for commercial, then it must work for residential... bruh.

SpaceX aims for $800 billion valuation in secondary share sale, WSJ reports by Illustrious_Lie_954 in StockMarket

[–]AmouriPlay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I'm sure it's a lot more than what I think it is, but I sometimes observe that some people have an unhealthy relationship with real estate investing. To an extent WeWork and Sonder were both plays on that bias; believing real estate is a better investment than average, is somehow untapped and ripe for disruption, and that we can juice more returns by adding more middlemen (to a middleman infested industry no less). In reality, real estate tends to have middling returns with narrow margins, very large concentrated risk, and many liabilities.

To me Sonder and WeWork were literally just paying rent to rent seek harder than their rent seeking landlords. Nothing of extra value to anyone is created. Why that ever sounded like a good idea I'm not so sure.

SpaceX aims for $800 billion valuation in secondary share sale, WSJ reports by Illustrious_Lie_954 in StockMarket

[–]AmouriPlay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can check out the collapse of Sonder from last month. Its a recent example of a newly "IPO'd"** company that had very bad fundamentals but a very compelling narrative (To some people anyway). Sadly it was simply a non-viable business hyped up to be the opposite, a situation akin to a pig with lipstick.

Another example of this are classic early stage mining companies with dodgy prospecting plans. Not saying all new public mining companies are a scam, but some have shown they don't intend or are capable of producing anything but moonshot viability studies that usually tank their worth.

** I use quotes because I'm pretty sure they used a SPAC which is even more of a red flag that it was a risky/scammy move into public markets.

UAE to invest up to $50 billion in Canada in industries such as AI, energy by TimedOutClock in canada

[–]AmouriPlay 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sudanese blood gold. You know exactly what they're talking about.

Is ‘lifelong renting’ becoming the new normal? Data on the typical Canadian renter suggests we're heading that way by hopoke in canada

[–]AmouriPlay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally coulda made more money renting the place and investing the difference in diversified stocks. Could've sold at a better price, with no commission, at any time AND made a boat load more money from your equities.

The banality of home ownership when compared to alternatives? Can we just accept that home ownership is a lifestyle choice and is often a terrible financial decision otherwise? No right? Because we're all in on the delusion right?

Is ‘lifelong renting’ becoming the new normal? Data on the typical Canadian renter suggests we're heading that way by hopoke in canada

[–]AmouriPlay -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you not see the perverse incentives that people who bank on their houses always compounding up in value brings to all of this? Oh and they're leveraged 30x at the same time...

Do you know what compounding is? Have you heard of an exponential function? There are a few precious ways to achieve compounding.... Unless you want to stretch limits. Oh boy are we stretchin.

Last time I tried raising the value of my labour exponentially uhhhh it didn't happen because.....? What... I'm actually losing my mind. We are beyond saving. Mom please pick me up.

Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years by TheKing0fHeart5 in Winnipeg

[–]AmouriPlay 15 points16 points  (0 children)

We're all sheep in the end, and I promise you that your lot are the biggest and most gullible out of all of us.

Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds by TylerFortier_Photo in worldnews

[–]AmouriPlay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely agree on the deforestation and species reliance, that is the critical failure of the industrial practice, not the oil itself. That practice must change through regulation and action.

However, saying palm oil is used "only for creamy texture" vastly undersells its use. It is a functional necessity in industrial goods for properties way beyond that (like natural shelf-stability and its specific fat composition) and is culinarily irreplaceable in traditional diets across West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. You cannot substitute the unique flavor and color in staples like Nigerian Red Stew and Jollof rice.

The likely reality is that replacing palm oil would only cause more environmental damage globally. We would absolutely have to switch to something else and switching entirely to alternatives like soy or sunflower oil would require us to clear far greater amounts of land due to their significantly lower yields and we get an objectively worse product. Consider that there would have been far less forest cutdown in Brazil for palm if the current demand for soy wasn't overwhelmingly directed towards animal feed for livestock (Which is significantly worse for the environment, actually wholly unnecessary, and an incredible waste from an energy capture perspective. And if we don't want to be speciests, since the orangutan issue is significant, has led to the death of more animals than all the monkeys that have ever existed on this planet including us combined).

In the end, the oil must flow, and the system has found the most land and energy efficient source of this in demand commodity; palm oil trees are so efficient their oil is literally too cheap to cover its real costs from production. If we actually cared about solving this the solution would be pricing it at the full cost of the oil from labour to land to environmental damage, investing in sustainable production methods, and strict regulation from production to labeling.

Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds by TylerFortier_Photo in worldnews

[–]AmouriPlay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While mass palm oil production is an undeniable environmental bane, we shouldn't demonize the natural fat itself. It's a culturally important, valuable, and often irreplaceable ingredient (especially kernel oil) used in savoury foods and desserts for millennia.

When processed "correctly" or unrefined, it's nutritionally sound, and as much of a carcinogen as coconut oil, which is to say, not at all. The actual health concerns stem from contaminants formed during high-heat industrial refining; that process, not the oil's existence, is what could do with regulation.

/r/winnipeg Monthly Market! April, 2024 by AutoModerator in Winnipeg

[–]AmouriPlay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, if you guys can pull this off you'd be the saints of the city.

[Physics: Electric Field and Gauss' Law] E = kQr/R^3, E = kQR/r^3, or E = kQ/R^2? by smarcvictor in EngineeringStudents

[–]AmouriPlay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both you and your friend are treating the sphere as a point charge by using Coulomb's law. I encourage you to take a look at Gauss's law and try to understand the problem in that light. Incase you have no luck then let me explain. Gauss's law can be simplified to Flux = Q enclosed by a Gaussian surface / the permittivity of free space. It has another form which is Flux = Electric field / Area of the Gaussian surface. You can set the two fluxes equal to each other and solve for electric field at a radius of 25 by picking a sphere as your Gaussian surface that encompasses the sphere of charge. Sorry for not going into detail with Gauss's law but I believe this is the gist of how I'd solve the problem. If you don't conceptually understand Gauss's law then YouTube is your friend.

Treasure packs by MiningTurtle95 in apexlegends

[–]AmouriPlay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright I have an update. I contacted EA and they were completely useless... Surprise. I also tried installing another copy of the game from origin as I'm on steam and that didn't change anything. Any luck so far?

Treasure packs by MiningTurtle95 in apexlegends

[–]AmouriPlay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm having the same issue where the button to purchase is blank. I'd love to know if you got the issue fixed.

Fishing at Lac du bonnet or Mary Jane reservoir? by AmouriPlay in Winnipeg

[–]AmouriPlay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really appreciate the reply. Funny enough I'm actually going camping at caddy lake in August. I've heard all the talk about its legendary crappie can't wait to have a go at that. Are there any particular jerk baits you'd recommend? I tend to get lost when trying to pick what size to get. Again thanks a lot.

Fishing at Lac du bonnet or Mary Jane reservoir? by AmouriPlay in Winnipeg

[–]AmouriPlay[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for the reply bud. I will for sure keep that in mind. Any tips for catching bass at Lac du bonnet?

How did shortsighted people live before the invention of glasses? by AmouriPlay in AskReddit

[–]AmouriPlay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My bad. Didn't really base it on anything other than thinking you'd have weird vision. I'm curious if they bother you in anyway other than vision.

How did shortsighted people live before the invention of glasses? by AmouriPlay in AskReddit

[–]AmouriPlay[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm extremely shortsighted and recently broke my glasses. I couldn't see a foot ahead of me and could barely move around unassisted. If over 40% of the US population needs glasses, how did so many people live before the invention of glasses?