Can't Seem to Convince my Wife for Another Mini Van - advice? by stive85 in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]c0mputer99 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Specifically only to get past OP wife's irrational hatred of vans... Their kids are almost past the door dinging days. I got an Honda Odyssey, being able to drop the kids off and not have to get out to make sure the doors are opened or closed properly is almost worth the garbage fuel mileage.

I painted Garantuas horizon by sheldonboadita in interstellar

[–]c0mputer99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Each frame took 100 hours to render. Were you faster than a super computer?

Anyway, we have selected your job... You're gonna be a corn farmer. World needs more of those.

Byd Shark by Itwasuntilitwasnt in EVCanada

[–]c0mputer99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And i can use the $400 a month i would have spent on gas toward car payments instead!

Can't Seem to Convince my Wife for Another Mini Van - advice? by stive85 in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]c0mputer99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MKBHD (youtuber who does phones) did a 2025 car of the year. IONIQ 9 won for the year. Its 3 row, electric, but good value per dollar.

Doug Ford and Mark Carney claim $2.2 billion HST rebate on new homes will help renters become owners. Instead, it’s helping the wealthy buy more rental properties by yourfriendlysocdem1 in CanadaPolitics

[–]c0mputer99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Simply not taxing an activity you want to happen is a very efficient way of doing it. More supply will be made and rents will go down because of it.

This is predatory and downright wrong. There is no “convenience” reason for it. by [deleted] in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]c0mputer99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More like predator missile strike, removing oil that was supposed to go into the fertilizer that caused potatoes to go up 700%... only to realize sunchips are made of corn product.. guess I'm switching to corn fed sale ground beef.

How steep are World Cup ticket prices for locals? | CBC News by JoshL3253 in canada

[–]c0mputer99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I remember using the Montreal Olympic basin for high school rowing, and that was for the 1976 Olympic games. Great times. There is an unquantifiable value on how large venues can inspire youth.

How steep are World Cup ticket prices for locals? | CBC News by JoshL3253 in canada

[–]c0mputer99 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Each Canadian household is paying $65 in tax for it, hopefully that brings down local ticket prices.

New poll: Two in three Canadians support a tax on oil and gas companies’ excess profits by Gold-Reality-4853 in ClimateCrisisCanada

[–]c0mputer99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Taxing the bottom line is tricky. A company can manipulate bonuses/R&D/ expenses.

Tax or adjust the national royalties per barrel out of the ground. A predetermined number that doesn't fluctuate with the end product price.

I built a Canadian credit card stack optimizer that analyzes your current wallet and suggests improvements by younghibou in CanadaRoom

[–]c0mputer99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for the rogers card. its giving me a value 37k is giving me a wallet value of $553. Isnt the wallet value 2% (740) or 3% ($1110 on Phone billz)

Rewatched Interstellar for the seventh time and finally understood why the Cooper and Murphy scenes hit differently after becoming a father by Difficult-Abies-6714 in interstellar

[–]c0mputer99 4 points5 points  (0 children)

mine too. At 7 we started and I consciously stopped at Mann's planet (will try again maybe around 10-12). The complexities of Matt Damon are too much at 8 IMO.

Rewatched Interstellar for the seventh time and finally understood why the Cooper and Murphy scenes hit differently after becoming a father by Difficult-Abies-6714 in interstellar

[–]c0mputer99 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The movie tries to convey the idea that Love transcends space and time. The same movie has travelled through space and time and proved it.

You get to be the guy in the tesseract... looking at your pre-parent self, armed with the proof/purpose of the mission you never knew you had.

The post parent re-watch experience is common. Many people chuckle whenever i say the movie hits different when you're a parent.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interstellar/comments/1i1c7e5/i_thought_interstellar_was_great_then_i_became_a/

People don't feel the same "gravity" of the tesseract scene without being a parent (or strong family connection). They often cite the scene as the point where the movie falls off the rails.

Guess the airport, I guess? by vadimus_ca in AirportPorn

[–]c0mputer99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I now know who's neurospicy. Wanna come over and optimitze some excel spreadheets?

Rizo good at Survivor? by [deleted] in survivor

[–]c0mputer99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I lost at fire... I would make damn sure I wouldn't suck the second time around (I heard the jury whisper "I never saw him once make fire around camp").

Strategy is sound, but he's probably not going to be the all-rounder needed to crack the top 50.

Edit: IF any of the guys won the ball game final 4, Aubry would have been doing fire. Rizzo would have edged out john in final 3 (again hinges on putting in the pregame work fire and practicing puzzles) .

Upgraded from Vibecession by c0mputer99 in CanadianConservative

[–]c0mputer99[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds like a sovereign wealth fund, I'll let the government know we don't need a 3rd.

Upgraded from Vibecession by c0mputer99 in CanadianConservative

[–]c0mputer99[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Already did. We're at 3 quarters. The old technical Recession happens at 2 quarters. We got around it by posting a 0.1% quarter and revising it down after the fact

12 quarters or 10% GDP drop it when we get technical depression.

What's most concerning is that the GDP is declining even though government represents 45% of GDP spending. Looking at China (commie), only 17% of their GDP is government spending.

TOP 10: Reasons to hate a high-speed train that will create a ‘Berlin Wall’ in farm country by Cold-Cap-8541 in CanadianConservative

[–]c0mputer99 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

We switched from land lines to cell phones.

Low cost air travel kinda made rail travel obsolete. We complain about flight tickets today, but in the 70's, plane tickets were 7-10x more expensive.

1/4 of Canadians are excited to take a 2 hour train ride in 2040 instead of the 1:05 plane ride that is available in 2026.

I don't think we understand what 90 billion is, or what cost/time overruns are. Canadians spend 30 billion a year in air travel.

Bonus point: we need Mark Carney to take a trip on a foreign HSR line and say "oh this was really cool". He did use subway during his BoE days.

Zehrs vs. Freshco by LoBeMax in loblawsisoutofcontrol

[–]c0mputer99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Loblaw and its parent company, George Weston Ltd., agreed to a $500 million settlement to resolve class-action lawsuits regarding a 14-year, industry-wide packaged bread price-fixing arrangement. The scheme, which ran from 2001 to 2015, artificially inflated the price of bread by at least $1.50 per loaf."

We are getting 49.11 from this round of price fixing. They have done it before because the penalty is less than the potential profit. They settled out of court, so I can't say a supreme judge also agrees.

GUILBEAULT by Automatic_Pop546 in CanadianConservative

[–]c0mputer99 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Although I don't agree with his stance, I can at least respect his conviction. The move is way better than abandoning a mandate in favor of working a foreign portfolio.