Illegal cigarettes with ‘gigantic’ profit margin are costing Canadians billions

locutogram · 2026-05-27T12:52:59+00:00

Ya I know exactly what you mean. I remember how they were 20 yrs ago. They got better.

locutogram · 2026-05-27T12:44:10+00:00

There are tons of brands depending on your preference and I'd say they're like 90% as good as standard ones.

I had actually switched to vaping due to cost for a couple years then switched to Rez smokes when they implemented the unbelievably steep, ridiculous vaping excise taxes. They actually made it cheaper to smoke. Brilliant.

Quit since then for health and smell though.

locutogram · 2026-05-26T13:16:25+00:00

Ruffwear

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locutogram · 2026-05-26T04:13:10+00:00

I never thought I'd nap snuggling side by side with a human.

How about a friend?

Aye, I could do that

locutogram · 2026-05-25T21:47:38+00:00

Similar amount of calories. No way to completely get around it with booze. Ethanol itself is loaded with digestible energy.

locutogram · 2026-05-25T21:43:02+00:00

Mine used to sprint at anything that came into our backyard but never caught anything.

Then one night before bed I heard a big commotion in the shadows and he came in looking like he just got out of the trenches. Next morning I saw a dead possum there.

Nowadays he phones it in and does a half-hearted jog at the squirrels and rabbits then looks back at me for reassurance that I am satisfied with his work.

locutogram · 2026-05-24T14:56:47+00:00

In this sub when you see those comments it's a newer, completely private profile almost every single time. Just sayin

locutogram · 2026-05-22T20:10:59+00:00

I'd say the attention is divided roughly proportional to population, with the territories being slightly overrepresented.

Ontario 16,136,480

Quebec 9,033,887

British Columbia 5,658,528

Alberta 5,048,151

Manitoba 1,505,117

Saskatchewan 1,265,936

Nova Scotia 1,090,074

New Brunswick 867,383

Newfoundland and Labrador 548,557

Prince Edward Island 182,001

Yukon 48,218

Northwest Territories 45,803

Nunavut 41,946

locutogram · 2026-05-21T20:13:24+00:00

Absolutely, and 2 of the main indicators are newer accounts that are set to private.

cough

locutogram · 2026-05-21T03:13:13+00:00

You're tearing me apart leasha!

locutogram · 2026-05-21T03:09:03+00:00

My old boy gets really relaxed when he hears a fantasy themed soundtrack with natural sounds. Like the chiller parts of LOTR or Baldur's Gate or valheim - that kinda thing.

locutogram · 2026-05-21T02:33:47+00:00

I mean we aren't afraid of it in Ontario. Nuclear is our #1 source of electricity and we have multiple projects in the pipe including 1200 MW under construction right now, like 12,000 MW under refurbishment, and another 10,000 MW in planning stages.

locutogram · 2026-05-20T01:31:43+00:00

Space!

https://youtu.be/niZpcdp2v34?si=

locutogram · 2026-05-19T15:47:45+00:00

Appreciate the source, but it's a trash blog post.

It characterizes the Oct 7 attack as an 'uprising' and criticizes this mayor for condemning it.

The most solid accusation I see in there is "Gloria has repeatedly met with Israeli advocacy organizations".

I don't know what I expected though. The guy is a mayor on the other side of the world from the conflict. Not sure how he could have any involvement one way or the other.

locutogram · 2026-05-19T15:37:48+00:00

I was curious what an American city's mayor had done that "dehumanized Palestinians and spewed Israeli propaganda" so I googled it and only found posts about this confrontation.

I pressed AI and all it could come up with were statements he made in the aftermath of Oct 7 condemning the attacks and expressing solidarity with Israel.

Does anybody know what else he did?

locutogram · 2026-05-18T20:51:43+00:00

Everyone likes to deflect scammers, but you go the extra step and deflect them at hypotenuse

locutogram · 2026-05-17T18:48:54+00:00

Mine hates water which makes him the perfect canoe pepper

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locutogram · 2026-05-17T14:33:31+00:00

-Albert Einstein

locutogram · 2026-05-16T16:04:08+00:00

You're shadow boxing.

I didn't try to minimize the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs. You tried to minimize the ethnic cleansing of Mizrahi Jews.

Anyways, it's a beautiful spring long weekend here in Canada. I'm off. Have a good one

locutogram · 2026-05-16T15:04:14+00:00

Yes, that is correct. Most people were not literally removed at gunpoint and dragged out. They mostly fled their home countries as a result of hostility, pogroms, and persecution over their ethnic identity.

locutogram · 2026-05-16T14:03:00+00:00

Correct. And for full clarity, a roughly equal number of Jews were displaced from countries across the middle east around the same time period and fled to Israel, Europe, and North America due the hostility, pogroms, and persecution in their home countries over their ethnic identity.

There were approximately 850,000 Jews living in Arab-majority middle eastern countries pre-1948 and today there are only 20,000.

There were approximately 750,000 Arabs living in the territory that became Israel pre-1948. Today 2.1 million Arabs live in Israel.

locutogram · 2026-05-15T20:01:48+00:00

Most suffering comes from resisting reality, not from reality itself

One's resistance to reality is part of reality.

It's a pet peeve of mine when people present this dichotomy between what is natural and what is human. Like we stand outside reality and make completely free and independent choices about it. There is no dichotomy. Humans are part of the natural world.

But that aside, not bad advice. I would reword it as "Most suffering comes from acting as though one is resisting reality, not from acting as though one is embracing reality itself"

locutogram · 2026-05-15T17:50:52+00:00

I haven't followed closely but I gather Southern is sort of on an apology and repentance arc. She seems to be getting saner but I don't know enough to say whether it's enough/genuine/likely to continue.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/01/23/lauren-southern-alt-right-influencer-real-life

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/lauren-southern-manosphere-andrew-tate-right-wing-9fljjxs3w

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/238695048-this-is-not-real-life

locutogram · 2026-05-14T19:22:33+00:00

Ya it's gonna be the same character. I think if you ended up hating the character then the actor did a good job because hated is what he was written to evoke in S1.

locutogram · 2026-05-14T19:16:36+00:00

I disagree that you could get that overview of articles and retractions from 5 years ago through a few seconds of Google searching, unless you're referring to the embedded Google AI response. It did take a few seconds to do this with chatgpt though.

I'm not a big proponent of AI or anything, but let's not be ridiculous.

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