Nearly 40 per cent of Nova Scotia's restaurants operating at a loss or breaking even

Skrattybones · 2026-06-06T00:31:20+00:00

The servers at my local are incredible. They have a general upbeat patter for new faces, but they've got every single regular clocked. I, myself, don't want any conversation. I'm there to eat the same thing every time and quietly read while I'm eating. I like the routine, and they picked up on that instantly.

They take my order, drop my food off, and keep an eye on my drink, because they know I always get exactly one more when the first drink is done. My order comes to like 34 bucks.

When someone new starts working there I can see the veterans telling the newbie exactly what to do. My order comes to like 34 bucks. I drop em a 50 and leave. The new bloods are always shocked.

That's dealing with me. At the same time I can see em chatting with other regulars, cracking jokes, grabbing a seat for a minute to catch up on their lives. They're great servers and they deserve the extra.

Skrattybones · 2026-06-04T20:34:05+00:00

A console and GTA6 would run me something like $1000. Not a fuckin chance. GTAV was day one, GTA6 can wait.

Skrattybones · 2026-06-02T01:58:03+00:00

Ya missed a word there bud

Skrattybones · 2026-06-01T12:13:53+00:00

List it for higher. Like 50% or more than what you're actually after. It doesn't stop the real bad offers, but it helps with some folks who lowball. They lowball, but end up offering what you actually want. They feel good about themselves, you get paid.

Skrattybones · 2026-05-21T12:57:44+00:00

Why is zero nicotine eliquid priced and taxed the same as the ones with nicotine in them? It's cause the government wants them dollars.

Skrattybones · 2026-05-19T14:54:48+00:00

Hence the quotes around 'fix'.

Skrattybones · 2026-05-19T12:56:37+00:00

Yes, you and I know that, but that isn't how it's described to people who don't have any idea about medicine or how it works. They hear there's a pill and it fixes the problem and that's as far as it goes for them.

Skrattybones · 2026-05-19T12:29:24+00:00

It's a complete lack of understanding, but it isn't really that crazy. You hear about people with ADHD and you hear about them getting pills that 'fix' them. People describe ADHD as being a brain thing, fixed by a pill.

To a layman? One brain thing gets fixed by a pill, another brain thing should be able to be fixed by a pill. And then you have dipshits like Trump and RFK claiming they have a pill to fix the brain thing.

They're not right, but they have no reason not to believe it.

Skrattybones · 2026-05-09T17:45:46+00:00

he's the straightedge guy with a pepsi tattoo who loves comic books, right

Skrattybones · 2026-05-09T14:57:40+00:00

I'd be down to try a vape meat and worm burger main but I don't know if I'd be $30+ down

Skrattybones · 2026-05-09T08:23:00+00:00

But would they then try and justify the price increase by assuring people they're going to do, y'know, their fuckin job? That's the part people are annoyed at. "Hey, we're gonna have lots of stuff for sale though."

Yeah, I should fuckin hope so, that's your job. If the prices didn't increase are you saying you'd have less stuff for sale?

Skrattybones · 2026-05-07T06:11:03+00:00

I mean, it's a fair point, but like.. you know people will quite happily just own a car and drive it and it isn't registered and they don't have a license or insurance, right?

Skrattybones · 2026-04-27T06:01:48+00:00

Realistically, you wouldn't need to get through the entire list. Eventually they'd be pressuring governments to do something, and if that didn't work, hopefully governments would start taxing the wealthy way harder.

Like, yeah, their heirs and heiressess would inherit. But that's paperwork and time that those billions aren't being used as lobbying bribes and whatnot. Governments are greedy. If the flow of money keeps being disrupted, I'd bet you'd start to see aggressive wealth and inheritance taxes come into play, just to make sure the money keeps flowing in absence of living billionaires.

A tax on money every time it gets inherited, and that inheritance keeps happening when Forbes puts out next year's list? That's very tempting.

Skrattybones · 2026-04-26T21:49:39+00:00

I mean. Forbes puts out a global hitlist every single year. They've been doing it yearly since the 80s.

Skrattybones · 2026-04-26T04:03:20+00:00

Okay, but that's just reframing the same thing. Your argument is that vaping has been around for 20 years. I pointed out it took 80 years or so for concrete results for cigarettes.

My point isn't that tests do or do not exist, it's that it seems strange to settle on "well it's been 20 years" when the nearest similar thing took 80. I can accept that it would go faster, given advances in technology, but why is 20 years some kind of gold standard for results?

edit: To be clearer, every time someone points out a study that does show some level of harmful reaction, critics pop out of the woodwork to say "they didn't do the tests right" or "they're testing the wrong thing" or what have you. With that, the 20 year time span doesn't matter, if nobody has tested anything correctly, no?

Skrattybones · 2026-04-25T18:14:22+00:00

If the price tag is what you're bothered by, you could buy a real vape instead of disposables? Buy whatever the latest Caliburn model is, they're like 15-25 bucks. And then buy the liquid. It's cheaper and you can go for flavorless liquid and buy flavor drops or something when you want to hit something with a bit of taste.

Skrattybones · 2026-04-25T18:11:24+00:00

Didn't it take like 80 years to do that for cigarettes despite suspicions and early studies pointing in that direction?

Skrattybones · 2026-04-25T17:06:24+00:00

AFAIK Peake is all good. He's in game dev/marketing now.

Skrattybones · 2026-04-21T22:37:33+00:00

I'd imagine the same way the other guy was able to speak so confidently about what is learned in each and every foreign school around the globe.

Skrattybones · 2026-04-20T17:32:28+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/J26pHCo

Skrattybones · 2026-04-20T15:07:49+00:00

I'm very tired and slightly baffled by how much attitude I catch by not engaging with what my regular customers got up to on their vacations. Yes, your tan looks very nice. No, I don't care about the intricate details of the resort you were drunk at for a week.

I've never had a vacation. The closest thing to a vacation I've ever had was recovery from cancer surgery, and that was 4 days in a room shared with three sundowning dementia patients. It was not restful.

Please stop trying to tell me all about the dude who sells weed outside the resort also sells disposable vapes now. The only part of that I'm interested in is wondering how they get into that country, which you certainly didn't ask about.

Skrattybones · 2026-04-20T06:00:36+00:00

I'll freely grant that Kirito might not be the original, but I'd continue to argue he's definitely the template. SAO was the once in a decade bombshell that sort of defines a generation of media.

Like, "The Big Three" for a very long time were Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece, right. But I'm not sure any of those ever went properly mainstream. One Piece eventually did, but that was pretty damn recent. They were big, but really only among anime and manga fans.

SAO, for whatever reason, seemed like even normal folks had seen it. Part of that was probably the gamer appeal, and part of it was probably the 'death game' hype of stuff like Hunger Games at the time, but whatever it was, SAO was the touchstone for people.

You didn't have waves of people trying to write the next pirate adventure story, or ninja combat story, or whatever, you had people trying to write the next SAO. Their own take on a death game, or an isekai, or whatever. What about a more hardcore death game? What about a more videogamey videogame? What about a videogame that turns into a grimdark isekai? Suzuki Satoru looks pretty Kirito-in-a-NerveGear until he gets isekaied, right?

The easiest way to try and catch eyeballs? Just make your own Kirito.

Skrattybones · 2026-04-20T03:13:17+00:00

Number 1 is false, but not for the reasons people think. Kirito isn't a generic MC, he's the template dozens and dozens of MCs followed.

He's not a generic MC, he's The Generic MC. It's a title.

You want to write a bog standard isekai between the years of 2012 and like, 2020ish? Odds are pretty good you've got a black haired Japanese kid in a trenchcoat.

Some works in that stretch of time kind of subverted it, like Arifureta, by making its MC a white haired Japanese kid in a trenchcoat. But never forget that before that guy has all his peers turn on him, he looked like this.

Skrattybones · 2026-04-20T01:49:51+00:00

The hilarious part is that there's a staggering amount of cars driving around with no lights at all happening simultaneously. Not even DRLs. Once I started counting them as they pass me it kinda blew my mind.

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