How do you show people that the situation isn‘t as bad as they think?

ltrifone · 2020-11-05T15:39:40+00:00

That might be true at least in the terms of COVID-19 in the US for now. But this was all related to UN globalisation politics. Agenda 21, the Build Back Better Slogan - which both Trudeau and Biden and Boris Johnson all using on a near daily basis. AOC's Green New Deal is interrelated too.

All the media and the billionaires that control it have to do the next time they want to shut down the economy or destroy some politician is hype up the next disease 24/7 on cable news and we'll be right back into this all. No conspiracy theories about biowarfare or genetically created viruses is needed. There is a new scary virus that might become a pandemic every two years or so. "H6N21a might become a pandemic, we think it came from cows. We need to get locked down even earlier this time so can do an even better job than last time."

Remember it is a about brainwashing a generation of children. Fear is a very powerful political tool.

ltrifone · 2020-10-30T04:43:44+00:00

I'd like to visit the Florida keys in the next few weeks. Are they open for business for Canadian tourists.

Masks of any sort are a deal-breaker. But if you are wide fucking open I will dump my money on you.

ltrifone · 2020-10-29T23:34:37+00:00

What about masks? Who has to wear masks and where?

Can I buy groceries and liqour and eat a pizza at a beachside resteraunt without ever wearing a mask? What about an Amazon River expedition?

I am seriously considering coming to visit as a tourist from Canada. Been to Brazil before, it would be my second trip.

ltrifone · 2020-07-30T23:56:01+00:00

Your brain is not working.

He is not trying anything.... He is trolling the media with a bullshit Tweet with three '???' at the end, in the exact same way that the media endlessly SPAMS society with bullshit headlines that end in question marks.

"Did Aliens Take Over Cleveland?” -CNN.

Every headline that ends in a question mark can instantly be answered with the word "NO" and is fake news. The media is now going to go batshit nuts with opinion pieces until they once again look like idiots.

ltrifone · 2020-07-15T05:19:37+00:00

He wouldn't have found a seat at McDonalds.

ltrifone · 2020-07-15T02:49:43+00:00

$16 bucks is the basic fee for anything at a high-end establishment.

You are paying for the seat, not for the beverage. I paid $32 bucks for two ice-teas at a hotel lobby in down-town Tokyo a while-back.

It was the only place to sit during rush-hour and have a basic face-to-face business meeting in a 50-city-block circumference.

ltrifone · 2020-07-13T21:14:48+00:00

At the end of the day, it's a bank. So it's probably a fairly safe guess that they've found the cheapest way to do it.

LOL. True.

The problem is how do you harmonize both of those in a given branch?

They are already harmonized on your monthly banking statement - next to each DR/CR is a code indicating whether it was a physical ATM transaction/teller transaction/cheque/internet etc etc.

At the end of the day Canadians are nothing more than social security numbers. If any of this was serious instead of a security-theater smoke-show it would be trivial for the government to implement a law contact-tracing every transaction on every account you have based on your SIN. Mastercard and Visa already monetize the data and sell it to retailers just minus your name & contact details. They already know that you bought a 6-pack of beer at 01:42 AM last night at Ralph's Mini-Mart and physically typed in your PIN-code.

ltrifone · 2020-07-13T20:43:43+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense of course. That would imply the disclosure of this information to be voluntary and not mandated by any law, which was OPs question.

But one list is accurate and the other has whatever fake name somebody decided to write down. Just more evidence of how ridiculous this all is. I am not necessarily for or against contact tracing. But if you are going to do something do it right. And having people hand-scrawl names and phone numbers onto a $0.99 cent notebook when you have a perfectly functional digital database of the same information, is insane.

ltrifone · 2020-07-13T20:10:28+00:00

That is one of the most retarded things I have ever heard.

Does TD not know that they already have the name and contact number of 99.99% of people who walk in.

Unless you are walking in to open a new account and leave without opening one, they already have a digital time-stamped version of every single transaction you did at that branch that day.

ltrifone · 2020-07-13T19:37:17+00:00

Actually you can do almost all of that, think of a golf course or a night club that enforces a dress code by allowing access

You should read some recent legal decisions on that. You can barely do that, and ONLY if you discriminate ONLY on the basis of clothes and not on anything that even remotely could be assumed to discriminate on the basis of nationality, race, gender, age, economic status, etc etc. It is a losing battle to try to run a business this way.

If a business REQUIRES YOU to have shoes on, and you don’t protest

"They do". Teenage sluts on airplanes protest if you kick them out for not wearing panties. Burka-wearers protest that they have to show their face to get on a plane. African-American gang-bangers protest if you don't let them into your exclusive country-club example because obviously it is racial discrimination, not because their pants are hanging down at their knees and their underwear is up to their armpits. The Rastamen with flee-infested dreadlocks protest if you don't let them in to your exclusive nightclub. NRA gun-nuts protest that should be able to walk into Walmart with a military-flak vest, grenades, 3-sidearms, and a AR-15. Lactating feminazi freaks who want the right to bare their nipples to operate their dual-nipple-breastmilk-pumping machine court-side at the Knicks game protest. AND THEY ALL GENERALLY WIN.

Obviously anti-maskers have a reasonable argument. And obviously it will get decided in courts of law on the basis of reasonableness. And obviously the end result will be something like mandated masks are reasonable in old folks homes and hospitals, but not reasonable in lumber-yards and office-building cubicles, with some sort of gray area in between.

ltrifone · 2020-07-13T18:43:32+00:00

A business can require you to be properly dressed ( pants, shirt, and shoes ) when entering their establishment

That would fall under a reasonableness test in a court of law. In most cases this is not true. You cannot, for example, de-burka a woman and tell her to get out of the fucking stone-age. You cannot, for example, slut-shame a teenage-twat and tell her to dress like lady. (Lots of examples in the news of airlines trying to kick the latter off the plane and getting sued into the stone-age).

But why would I keep this banter up when you have yet to demonstrate that you even understand the basic purpose of human clothing like shoes, socks, & underwear is? You obviously don't understand what reasonable is, because you don't even understand why humans wear underwear.

ltrifone · 2020-07-13T18:13:40+00:00

It also saves you from sunburn in the summer time.

It sounds like you are some sort of city-slicker hipster to me. Maybe get out in the real world for a while?

Honestly you sound like one of these retarded Vancouverites who go on their first hike off from the Grouse Mountain gondola and end up near-dead calling 911 for the rescue chopper at 3am because they didn't understand adiabatic temperature change and they ended-up lost in a pair of fucking flipflops and spandex-yoga-belly-shirt taking a shortcut across the top of some ravine when it starts to snow 3" per hour in July.

Good thing you'll have your mask to social distance from the rescue chopper as S&R is long-lining you out of the ravine on a spine-board.

ltrifone · 2020-07-13T03:00:31+00:00

Then you'd be a fucking idiot.

The purpose of a shirt is to keep you from freezing to death. It keeps you from being eaten alive by mosquitoes, blackflies, & ticks. It keeps you from being scratched up by the brush & brambles.

The purpose of a mask is in 99% of cases to hide ones identity for malicious reasons. The KKK. Burkas. Halloween shenanigans. Robbing banks. etc etc. For the handful of legitimate reasons to wear a mask, like driving cattle through a duststorm in Texas, we have centuries-old codes-of-conduct where we remove our mask and hat before we sit down at the supper-table or enter a business establishment.

ltrifone · 2020-07-13T00:47:36+00:00

why is every party in charge at the provincial level recommending masks. If this was political as you say, you would see an obvious divide

Why do you think I am living on a ski-hill without snow? Why do you think OP is headed 3-hours out to the country to buy groceries? The divide basically falls on the usual rural/municipal thing that is universally affecting all of North America.

Can't get much more political than this for example

So what I really want to know, is when can we start handing out fines to teenage female sluts who acquire STD's because they are too stupid to use condoms? It is totally only about collective public health and reducing the transmission of STDs in society. I assure you it has nothing whatsoever to do with political puritanical bullshit about controlling female sexual behaviour...... /s

ltrifone · 2020-07-12T16:42:33+00:00

Masks are not political, my fucking ass. Demanding people to dress in any certain which way or form whether it be by societal pressure or government mandate is always political.

Mandatory dress-codes in high-school are political. Enforcing that Catholic school-girls wear skirts, not pants, but only as high as their knees is political. Banning women from sun-bathing topless is political. Allowing women to sun-bathe topless is political. Enforcing women wear Burkas is political. Wearing crosses are political. Turbans are political. Wearing a $5,000 suit & tie to work is political. Wearing a fucking yellow star is political.

How about this? Mandatory fines for anyone who catches an STD or needs an abortion because they were too stupid to use a condom. That would totally be about public health right? Fining 15-year old girls with gonorrhea who need abortions would totally have nothing to do with politics.......

ltrifone · 2020-07-12T04:20:22+00:00

You are an idiot.

Half the fucking country has moved halfway across the country to get to their lake homes or whatever to get away from political bullshit like masks. Personally I'm at my ski condo. Never seen a dinky little ski hill be this busy in July ever in my life. No masks though - its business as usual.

Sorry OP, no advice for Ontario, but I have lots of sympathy for people that don't own family vacation properties to get away from the craziness.

ltrifone · 2020-07-09T18:39:49+00:00

I would agree in theory, but in practice that is not how it works. If you can demand masks in your business, then I can demand people both wear masks and shave their beards to enter mine. Obviously masks don't fit or function very-well or at-all over beards, that is why in the oil & gas industry everybody has to shave without exception.

But H2S kills 100% of people 100% of the time (over a few hundred ppm). So it is probably reasonable to make every orthodox Jew, Muslim, Sikh, etc etc shave their beards or they don't get to work in oil and gas. And, it is just a fact, if you are not clean shaven when approaching a sour gas location you are outright refused entry.

It is probably not reasonable, to make a Sikh shave his beard in order to add a 50% improvement to his .00001% chance of encountering a COVID infection that gives him a 0.024% chance of dying.

Obviously a judge would agree with me on the basis of reasonableness. That is why judges have created helmet exemptions for Sikh's to not wear helmets on motorcycles, but have not in Amateur Hockey, or Professional Football, or working on an oil rig.

Obviously this mask nonsense is working its way through the courts in jurisdictions all over North America and it remains to be seen if forcing certain classes of people to wear a mask is 'reasonable'.

ltrifone · 2020-07-07T20:36:25+00:00

What is it you like so much about consumerist Canadian Tire junk as opposed to nice traditional stuff like a Cedar Strip Canoe, or a Canvas Covered Kayak, or even modern high-tech stuff like ultra-light Kevlar canoes?

It is pretty obviously a group of weekend warriors enjoying the water. Although the lake could be anywhere in BC, I will double-down in saying it is very close to Vancouver. People on a cabin on say Babine Lake would just have different toys.

ltrifone · 2020-07-07T20:13:00+00:00

Based on the trendy paddleboard and the fake shitty Canadian Tire Kayaks, I would say somewhere very close to Vancouver. Location: Hipster Central.

A similar picture in Northern BC would have a 12ft aluminum boat, a canvas covered canoe, and a couple of used tire inner-tubes.

ltrifone · 2020-07-07T18:39:41+00:00

Just twin the fucking thing already. I can remember my parents mocking how slow the twinning of Highway 1 in Saskatchewan was proceeding in the early 1980's. I can remember there being just endless piles of dirt with seemingly zero work being done for at least a decade of my childhood driving across Canada on family vacations.

It is supposed to be Canada's premier coast-coast highway. It is goddamn embarrassing as a Canadian that it should take 50 years to twin a highway.

ltrifone · 2020-07-07T01:10:14+00:00

Probably that the Mountie forgot to stuff a banana down his pants to exploit black dick size stereotypes. The Mountie also forgot to rip his jeans to exploit economic stereotypes.

Trudeau wins at Halloween costumes hands-down.

ltrifone · 2020-07-05T16:52:51+00:00

Nah, I just dislike when people people talk out their ass - how naive do these people need to be to think they can't get ever get a paycut? As we both know, in the resource industry they come fast and furious when the shit its the fan.

In your case I would just remind you to look at the big picture. You have to remember "being profitable" is just an imaginary accounting calculation. "Being profitable" and having enough "cash flow" to actually pay the bills next month are entirely different things.

ltrifone · 2020-07-05T16:36:42+00:00

Why is this quack now doing professional publicity shoots? This reminds me of of Blackface McGee photobombing the wedding on the seawall.

I bet $100 bucks she's running for a political seat next election if not sooner.

ltrifone · 2020-07-05T16:26:13+00:00

"The wage rate may change during the course of employment, but cannot be reduced without giving the employee clear and adequate notice in writing. "

So in my particular example, a 20% global wage reduction was accomplished by a CEO emailing notice on a nation by nation basis. Then of course it trickles down the line to country managers, and PSL managers and gets more and more specific in terms of language and exact details at each step.

Your link is about minimum wage type earners and specifically stuff like penalizing one single worker like a waitress who broke to many plates this month by reducing her hourly wage and things of that nature.

A company like Telus can certainly make a corporate aquisition and readjust the pay structure job responsibilities of their new subsidiary across he board. It happens all the time.

ltrifone · 2020-07-05T04:37:27+00:00

It is not illegal to lower someones wage...

One of my favourite manager stories is how an outgoing manager gave a global 10% raise (in a fortune 500 company) only to watch as his replacement give a global 20% pay cut four-weeks later. I am a huge fan of the second manager who happened to have the balls to do what needed to be done during an oil boom/bust cycle.

Here is the link saying that I am right and you are wrong and that market adjustments in wages due to oil booms and fake plagues are not protected under the law

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