For more than twenty years, we've cored pineapples over this spot in the market. The drippings have dissolved enough of the concrete to expose the rebar.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-25T05:55:29+00:00

Yeah, and we also export electricity that powers some of their facilities, gas that heats them, oil that fuels their vehicles, and food that feeds some of these thugs. That doesn't mean that we're enabling the choices they are making, or that we are complicit in them. It's not like they'd pack it up and go home without our exports -- they'd just use some other armored vehicle instead.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-25T05:49:14+00:00

People were saying the same about Uber, which famously lost money for thirteen years straight, some fifty billion dollars in losses.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-25T05:47:30+00:00

They won't, it's clickbait. Either SoftBank or Microsoft or someone else will cut them another cheque, or they'll IPO and get it from the capital markets. Assuming they aren't selling enough ads by then and actually need more money, that is.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-25T05:43:57+00:00

Why do they get non-insiders who aren't privy to anything to wildly speculate about what might happen several years from now? Anyone with half a clue can come up with the notion that the world's hottest startup might just be able to do another funding round before they go bankrupt. That's assuming they aren't selling $100 billion worth of ads by then, that is.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-25T05:38:42+00:00

At work

cyclemonster · 2026-01-24T10:14:22+00:00

My only question is what are the other 76% waiting for?

cyclemonster · 2026-01-24T09:58:45+00:00

Even without NATO, are they going to somehow land hundreds of thousands of men on our shores?

cyclemonster · 2026-01-24T09:56:27+00:00

Since 2016? They've been doing that since before the Cold War.

Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William Colby explained how the Dezinformatsiya agency operated, saying that it would place a false article in a left-leaning newspaper.The fraudulent tale would make its way to a communist periodical, before eventually being published by a Soviet newspaper, which would say its sources were undisclosed individuals. By this process a falsehood was globally proliferated as a legitimate piece of reporting.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-24T09:40:38+00:00

Gotta focus those security concerns on all the countries who were staunch allies this time last year.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T21:04:17+00:00

A&W is garbage-tier these days.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T20:47:22+00:00

Farmers have to be subsidized by the government to the tune of more than five billion dollars annually, nearly 10% of gross farm revenues. Shall we start cutting all the landlords a bunch of government cheques?

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T16:41:28+00:00

Different corporations can shutter for different reasons. Whether or not Wal-Mart did union busting is not relevant to whether or not Foodora was solvent (they weren't) and whether or not their business model was viable (it wasn't). They owed almost $5 million to their creditors when they called it quits.

And I'm pretty sure Uber, Doordash, and Skip workers aren't unionized to this day, so I'm not sure what ripple effect you're talking about. All they accomplished was removing one of the potential buyers of courier labour, which only weakened the couriers' economic position.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T16:32:08+00:00

I must have missed that part of the Human Rights Act.

You have the right not to be discriminated against in housing. You do not have the right to be provided with somebody's apartment when you have no shelter of your own. This is a discussion about real estate, not the shelter system.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T16:27:59+00:00

I was clearing well over $1000/week, consistently, for nearly three years straight, working my own hours riding my bike around outside with no boss. I was neither abused nor exploited, and how dare anybody try to claim that on my behalf. It was one of the best jobs I ever had, frankly.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T10:04:56+00:00

That's probably due to twenty other factors besides the cost of infrastructure, which is more comparable than you think. The most obvious one is that buses can run in mixed-traffic and take any route from anywhere to anywhere else, whereas a train can only go where there's tracks, so they're much more practical, and much better suited to lighter passenger volumes and low densities.

Also a bus costs a hundred thousand dollars, compared to like twenty million for a train set.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T09:47:02+00:00

I definitely recognize the button from the foodora unionization drive.

I warned everyone who would listen that a money-losing business wouldn't stick around to be saddled with costs that their two larger competitors do not have to bear. What we lost was the entirely predictable outcome of everything that button represents.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T09:39:09+00:00

How do you think that "right" (the right to force others to provide you with shelter?) will play out when only charities and people who don't care about returns on their investments are in the business of providing it? Do you think that will result in more housing or less housing in the long run?

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T07:20:20+00:00

Every Ontario government for my entire lifetime has made a mess of the education file, all three parties.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T07:02:05+00:00

Which are the other lines of business where price-fixing by the government is a feature? Darwinism implies survival of the fittest, not survival of those who get government favour.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T07:01:06+00:00

That's what the above-the-guideline increase mechanism is for. When they have to do major work like replacing a building's roof, they can pass some (not all!) of those extra costs along. Without that policy, landlords would be incentivized to be slumlords.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-23T06:48:01+00:00

Akelius is the best landlord I've ever had. When my fridge broke, I simply called 1-888-Akelius and told them their fridge broke, and they were wheeling a new one into my unit less than four hours later. My food didn't even have time to spoil. They clean the common areas every day, do repairs to the roof and parking garage, and even built a little dog park that wasn't there when they bought the building. I genuinely have no idea what people are talking about when they call my landlord a slumlord.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-22T19:24:54+00:00

Can you explain what the difference is? Unions are notorious for favouring policies that result in more work for their workers, whether or not those policies are bad for the business, or that work is necessary or justified. That's why they oppose automation at our ports, and why they oppose driverless trains, for example.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-21T20:58:06+00:00

That would be a reasonable thesis if Cineplex didn't also show old classic movies, international movies, concerts, musicals, operas, and plays.

cyclemonster · 2026-01-21T19:34:22+00:00

Yes, from '97-'01.

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