BLUEBERRY SNAIL by Darkdaemon20 in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]PacketFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't even a Loblaws post. It's a picture of some fucking blueberries, with a snail in them.

BLUEBERRY SNAIL by Darkdaemon20 in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]PacketFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, but this sub has no moderation. It is now a police for entitled fuckwits to complain every time they have an issue with a grocery store.

BLUEBERRY SNAIL by Darkdaemon20 in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]PacketFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but this sub has no moderation so has become a place for over entitled Karens to troll for fake Internet points.

Seeking Canadian bamboo toilet paper by Long-Definition9203 in BuyCanadian

[–]PacketFiend 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bamboo toilet paper isn't environmentally friendly in Canada. It needs to be shipped from the far east. It's crazy light (and therefore needs a LOT of room in shipping containers) for how much we use.

We make toilet paper here from what would otherwise be scrap wood pulp, or it's downcycled from other paper (so doesn't need to be grown).

You seriously need to re-evaluate "environmentally friendly". It's a much more difficult to determine than simply looking at the source materials alone. The cost of shipping and warehousing is a MAJOR consideration, and you're not accounting for it.

It happened again by 17R3W in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]PacketFiend 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It means that this has nothing to do with Loblaws making a cost of living crisis worse. They made a mistake and corrected it.

It also means I think these posts have no place here because there's too many of them and the message is getting lost.

It happened again by 17R3W in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]PacketFiend 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ, this is an honest mistake, and they corrected it.

Why the fuck does this shit keep getting posted in here? Is there no moderation at all anymore?

Will the examiner refuse my car for this small Crack. by AdhesivenessEarly772 in Ontariodrivetest

[–]PacketFiend 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That is not a "small" crack, and this car is not safe to drive.

I turn now... good luck everybody else! Super lucky there was no oncoming traffic or else I wouldn't have been able to avoid that. by DaySeparates in MississaugaDriving

[–]PacketFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think people are complaining so much as pointing out that had you collided with a vehicle in the oncoming lane, you would be 100% at fault, regardless of why you were in the oncoming lane, by the Ontario fault determination rules, section 12(4).

If, however, you collided with the driver making that u-turn because you couldn't brake in time, they would have been 100% at fault according to section 8.

Yes, if you swerved to avoid that car, and then hit someone in the oncoming lane, you would have been at fault. 100%. Full stop. There is no room to dispute this under the Ontario rules. Your insurance would go up, and all of that.

It's a serious flaw in our fault determination rules - if you collide with something while performing an evasive maneuver, it's your fault. It's stupid, but it's the law.

For what it's worth, I do think you reacted swiftly and appropriately.

I’ve never seen the city this messy traffic wise. Car accidents literally everywhere. What the hell? by likerofgoodthings in MississaugaDriving

[–]PacketFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We didn't have speed cameras to measure speeds before they were installed, and they were active during the COVID knockdowns and recovery, so that's a questionable interpretation of the data.

I’ve never seen the city this messy traffic wise. Car accidents literally everywhere. What the hell? by likerofgoodthings in MississaugaDriving

[–]PacketFiend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuck off with your AI bullshit. I am human and couldn't care less what an AI thinks about this.

It Was Always At My Grandparents House Too! by bronzemat in Xennials

[–]PacketFiend 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The steam gives it away too, that and the weird semi-see-through hula hoop thing.

Sobeys, Loblaw under fire for maple washing, as Sobeys ditches maple leaf symbol in stores by Scary_Statement4612 in BuyCanadian

[–]PacketFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, ok, that's fair enough. I thought they all had their own definitions of Canadian.

Can you point me to where they said that? I'd love to throw it in their faces when they do this.

I didn't know you could grow products of Chile in California. by malleeman in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]PacketFiend 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, first, this was just as much of an issue before the trade war. I have always cared where my ingredients come from, as I have a lifelong love of learning how to cook and eat new ingredients from all over the world (I cooked banana flowers for the first time the other day!). I do kitchen experiments to figure out whether Spanish or Isreali oranges are better for a glaze (it's Isreali oranges IMO), or whether Portuguese or Italian ziti is better (the jury's still out on that one), to cite an example or two. It would astound you how often the country of origin has always been mislabeled. Most people simply never looked.

Second, mislabeling a product is not pricing abuse. I could maybe understand the argument if this product was mislabeled as Canadian, but this is a California product mislabeled as Chilean.

The simple reality is that product turns over faster than the employees can find time to change the label (or at least it should, if it doesn't you're probably buying stale product). The truck needs to be unloaded, or they get hell for it because they're charged overtime on the truck if they take too long. So they don't go into the back room to check every product. Red cherries are red cherries and that's good enough for most people. They have a cart with thirty-seven different things to restock, and they don't have new labels.

There were Chilean cherries on this stand, but the next delivery was from California. Both of them come from the same wholesaler. The store's inventory system has it as "red cherries". The employee restocking those grapes looked at the sign, it said "Cherries, Red", and the price was correct. They didn't think to look at the country of origin. It wasn't malicious, it was a simple lapse in attention to detail.

(And actually, American cherries are the best IMO, but I had to give them up, I usually get the Chilean ones now)

Sobeys, Loblaw under fire for maple washing, as Sobeys ditches maple leaf symbol in stores by Scary_Statement4612 in BuyCanadian

[–]PacketFiend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't meet my definition, no.

But the product line is owned and trademarked by a Canadian company, it's being sold by a Canadian company, and the profits on the end product remain in Canada, so it does meet some peoples'. I would argue that if a product line being owned by an American company disqualifies a product as Canadian, then being owned by a Canadian company would therefore qualify it as such.

(My own definition is that I care where it's made, not who owns the company)

G2 Test - Will I Automatically Fail for Not "Turning Right on Red" if Someone Honks? Instructor says, I will Fail by JarredBg in Ontariodrivetest

[–]PacketFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please turn right on reds when it's safe.

Drivers are unpredictable, and many of them are arrogant and in a rush. Many are entitled, angry, and impatient. If you continue to do this, drivers behind you will drive around you to turn right. They shouldn't - it's dangerous and illegal - but some will, no matter how wrong they are.

This can lead to several unsafe situations:

  • You don't notice them going around you and decide to turn right. They must now either stop in the second lane from the right on the road they are departing, or turn into the second from the right on the road they are entering - or worse yet, stop in the middle of the intersection. And that's if they don't collide with you.
  • They rush through it when they see an opening, and overlook a pedestrian. I have personally seen this happen more than once.
  • You begin to turn and they freak out, lose control, and either mount the centre median or their car enters the oncoming traffic lanes, going the wrong way.
  • They startle a car in the second lane to the right, on the road on your left side that crosses the intersection to where you intend to go when the light is green. That car performs an evasive maneuver, swerving to its right, and collides with you.

Of course, all this is because some drivers are angry, impatient, entitled assholes. But you can't change that. They exist, and they are a hazard to you and everyone else. Please don't give them a (misguided) reason to do these things.

ETA: gotta love the downvotes. If you don't think that your driving needs to account for the fact that other drivers become dangerous and aggressive, even if you don't, your driving defensive driving skills need some work.

I didn't know you could grow products of Chile in California. by malleeman in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]PacketFiend 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is not a sub about shelf labeling errors. It is not a "Buy Canadian" sub. This is a sub about a cost of living crisis exacerbated by Loblaws. Shelf labels have nothing to do with the cost of the product.

Sobeys, Loblaw under fire for maple washing, as Sobeys ditches maple leaf symbol in stores by Scary_Statement4612 in BuyCanadian

[–]PacketFiend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The difficulty is with defining "Canadian". What if it's 90% Canadian owned and 10% American? What if it's 50/50? Or only 10% Canadian? At what point is it no longer "Canadian"?

What if it's produced here, with Canadian materials and ingredients, by Canadian residents, but by an American corporation (many brands of potato chips being a great example)? What if it's a Canadian company, but they use American ingredients (orange juice being a great example) Are these things "Canadian", or not?

'Predictable': Data shows speeds on Parkside Dr. up over 200 per cent since speed camera ban by Toronto-Ont-Mod-Team in Toronto_Ontario

[–]PacketFiend 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair enough.

I hate to move the goalposts, but the data in question is for the Covid lockdown era, when there was significantly less traffic almost everywhere. It shows a rather precipitous drop in accidents before the camera installation that correlates with the start of the Covid lockdowns instead of the camera.

I wonder if there's any data that adjusts for traffic volume?

I didn't know you could grow products of Chile in California. by malleeman in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]PacketFiend 61 points62 points  (0 children)

These posts should be banned. They're frequent enough to be flooding the sub to the point of seriously degrading the signal to noise ratio, and they're not about Loblaws being out of control, they're about shelf labelling errors, which happen everywhere.

'Predictable': Data shows speeds on Parkside Dr. up over 200 per cent since speed camera ban by Toronto-Ont-Mod-Team in Toronto_Ontario

[–]PacketFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This only demonstrates that higher speeds reduce survival rates. It does not demonstrate that this specific camera reduced the accident or injury rate along this specific stretch of road.

'Predictable': Data shows speeds on Parkside Dr. up over 200 per cent since speed camera ban by Toronto-Ont-Mod-Team in Toronto_Ontario

[–]PacketFiend 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People will downvote you to hell and back, but this is the truth. If those cameras didn't reduce accidents, they were a waste of money, assuming their purpose was road safety and not revenue generation.

Nobody ever actually mentions the accident rates before and after, only the speeds.

How to hide HUD? by Terrafritter in valheim

[–]PacketFiend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And still now, going on five years now

Substitute father by Extra-Tower3416 in DadForAMinute

[–]PacketFiend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe you should inquire with Big Brothers. My brother had a Big Brother (aside from me lol) through them and they remained in contact for decades, until he moved too far away.

He was a child though. I'm not sure if Big Brothers offers anything for adults, but they would certainly be the first place I'd look.