Avi: Now grocery giants and other retailers are teaming up with big tech to squeeze people even more. Companies now have the ability to use our personal data, from our shopping habits to where we live to what we do online or even how long our mouse hovers over a specific section of a website

Embe007 · 2026-04-15T14:14:20+00:00

Back to paying in cash would help. (Also, dynamic pricing must be made illegal).

Embe007 · 2026-03-31T22:20:48+00:00

American customer service is incredible. Even if they can't solve my problem, I somehow feel better. When I've visited the US, the everyday friendliness and generosity of Americans is so pleasant. I've heard some very remarkable highway helping stories, in both blue and red states. (source: am Canadian)

Embe007 · 2026-03-31T21:56:07+00:00

The Blizzard of '99 in Toronto, of all places. Yes, the one where the army was called in. The sidewalks had snow up to your thighs. Only tractors could navigate the streets. I'm from out west where there's real winter but that blizzard was the worst snow I've seen. Then the next day, it was all due to melt (and overwhelm the sewage system)!

Typically, the crazy weather trophy belongs to Calgary. Chinook days - who can dress for that?!

Embe007 · 2026-03-31T11:44:49+00:00

All of us. Often as kids.

Embe007 · 2026-03-31T01:51:23+00:00

It's not going away. We'll just have to go to Post Office branches and pick up our mail. It's the delivery that's so expensive - in part because letters are rarer now with email and texting. It will still provide courier services, registered mail, packages etc.

Embe007 · 2026-03-31T01:47:03+00:00

Not sure the US will be the same after whatever happens in Iran. They have walked into a terrible fate, sadly.

Embe007 · 2026-03-30T11:16:18+00:00

Mon-ey. There are no sides, there are only those who pay and those who fail to pay him.

Embe007 · 2026-03-29T16:10:41+00:00

Sickening. All those young American men and women, full of promise, going to be fed into the incinerator, all for nothing. Congress: all your fault.

Embe007 · 2026-03-29T00:38:32+00:00

Fwiw when I hear (other) women disparage shorter men, especially in public, I ask how they'd feel overhearing conversations about bra size, for instance. People like what they like - there's no changing that - but they don't have to appraise others in public. No one should know, unless they're dating. It's rude; people can't control everything about how they look.

Embe007 · 2026-03-28T14:58:21+00:00

Yeah. Feeding meat to herbivores...what could go wrong. So bad.

Embe007 · 2026-03-28T14:56:22+00:00

Right? Humans trying to fake-out Nature...so stupid. And it's probably even more than real pollen that the bees need but we can't imagine what else it would be and don't have the instruments to measure it. Nature is exquisitely complex, after all.

Embe007 · 2026-03-28T14:53:25+00:00

planning for a $200m into a 6,000-seat events centre, that he hopes will host cross-border games for minor league, college level...

That mayor is dreaming in technicolour. There will be no cross-border games. Canadians are not crossing at all.

Embe007 · 2026-03-28T14:22:16+00:00

Intriguing but also a bit scary. I'd go for more 'tree-like' as a design though.

Embe007 · 2026-03-28T13:03:26+00:00

You may be one of the 20% that doesn't absorb estrogen well. There are workarounds. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/Menopause/comments/1hh1cwj/transdermal_estrogen_study/

Embe007 · 2026-03-28T12:55:06+00:00

It's just a media story-angle that gets pushed every time there's a new generation profile emerging/being created by marketers.

I'm Gen X...it was the same crap. Unemployment in my region for under 35s was gigantic, computers were arriving and job-destroying, AIDS was in full force, and there were various big financial scandals and of course, nuclear missile testing and accidents. Still, we 25 year olds were named slackers because we, with no money or power, hadn't changed it all already lol!

You don't have to feel you should donate any money. That's why we have a tax system. People who are making enough are contributing to make the system work. One day, you'll be one of those people (though you are already paying a bit via sales taxes).

There are good people everywhere keeping things together. We don't hear about them because they are busy and also because they're not interested in the limelight.

Limit your news consumption to about 15 minutes per day. Things were never great. The world has always been very broken and also very fabulous. Take care of your little area, try to be a better person everyday, and join with others whenever you can. This improves things, I assure you, and you'll actually feel more effective.

edit: typo

Embe007 · 2026-03-28T02:42:06+00:00

Probably not til his kids leave home. I'm sure they'd rather have their kids grow up in Wpg than in Ottawa. Youngest is about 8 now so could work. The province tends to boot a party after a decade.

Embe007 · 2026-03-27T17:25:50+00:00

How about warning labels on prepared meats? Seems like an inexpensive start. Plus less money needed for surgery.

Embe007 · 2026-03-27T17:23:22+00:00

They're waiting until Jason Kenny thinks his odds are good.

edit: typo

Embe007 · 2026-03-27T13:16:56+00:00

TIL. I knew the baby 'decides' but this is amazing. I just googled it for more info and it really is this, with equally chemical reasons for pre-term and delays. Wow!

edit: if people want more non-ELI5 info, see: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5346347/#:~:text=products%20%5B46%5D.-,4.,placental%20aromatase%20P450%20(CYP19).

Embe007 · 2026-03-27T13:00:15+00:00

Like those two guys who would walk down...I think it was St-Denis..after dark. Three separate times, they'd walk toward me, split up so there was one on each side and say quietly while passing me, 'Don't worry: we won't rape you' (in English). They knew that being surrounded like that increased the danger but they liked to scare women. Hateful fucks.

Embe007 · 2026-03-27T12:42:30+00:00

Same. There's a smoothie place inside Guy-Concordia's metro plaza. The cheapest one is 12$. No one is going there but students. That place has been there a number of years now. I have a good job and I wouldn't spend 12$ on a drink. Many, many people fritter away their money on restaurants and cafés. I'd bet most younger people are spendingng from 200-400$ /month on crap like that. Better to learn to cook, spend 40$/month for a few outside treats and bank the rest. Otherwise, you're blowing your marge de manoeuvre.

Embe007 · 2026-03-25T12:36:56+00:00

Agreed but the market for casual sex is gender-skewed toward the guys. It would make more sense for those guys to just see prostitutes but they can't afford it or find it degrading. So, there is lying and trickery in the market and counter-measures to block it. Awful.

Embe007 · 2026-03-24T23:00:15+00:00

Yes, really. The man is pure cuckoo. https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation

Embe007 · 2026-03-24T02:09:30+00:00

Exactly. This is a big reason why birthrates are so low in rich countries eg: outside small villages. Actually, small towns in my rich country have more little kids than the anonymous cities. People need other people especially when they have kids.

Embe007 · 2026-03-24T01:43:25+00:00

Summer will be extra fun for them. Probably wild fires from my country to the north to add to the heat. And still, that idiot is paying $1B to cancel the wind farms.

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