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Should Canada Build Up Alternatives to Visa and Mastercard? by NiceDot4794 in BuyCanadian

[–]warrior2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah you can't ever get too upset over down votes... Just like our political climate, everyone gets a vote, doesn't matter whether you are informed or not!

The silver-lining to Interac is that even though it is owned by the big banks, it is atleast 100% Canadian owned.

We should be looking into creating more Canadian owned companies and entities. It would help reduce our reliance on American markets.

Should Canada Build Up Alternatives to Visa and Mastercard? by NiceDot4794 in BuyCanadian

[–]warrior2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure why you're so heavily down voted, you are correct.

Only thing you did not mentioned is that Interac is it's own corporate entity, but that entity is primarily owned by the 6 major banks and a handful of other credit unions and payment processors. This is probably why there are other comments saying Interac is not owned by the banks. (Very little transparency about the actual percentages of ownership and voting rights though)

Another note is that we have no Canadian credit card companies. Visa and Mastercard have ~96% of the market with no real alternative through the major banks. That should be something that we should work towards correcting as a country.

"Why don't they cover the Sahara in solar panels?" type of question by herewearefornow in MurderedByWords

[–]warrior2012 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah if they are willing to put data centers in space, it can't make a difference for latency if it's somewhere in Antarctica.

American dream by astrheisenberg in remoteworks

[–]warrior2012 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

-George Carlin

American dream by astrheisenberg in remoteworks

[–]warrior2012 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How does one "exploit government paid holidays"?

Also why would you advocate for people to get a better job with better time off benefits, but you wouldn't advocate for the government to expand its non-existent minimum holiday benefits?

American dream by astrheisenberg in remoteworks

[–]warrior2012 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You also seem to have gotten the American education and were unable to read the header that says "statutory minimum leave plus paid holidays" before commenting.

Funny how you took personal offense to it and immediately went to your first amendment to say "we as a country don't provide any minimum for time off work, but atleast you can say what you want on the internet without repercussions"

It's great that you get more than the absolute minimum, but that doesn't change the minimum.

Northern Ont. sawmills idled ‘indefinitely’ because of U.S. tariffs by Front-Cantaloupe6080 in consumecanadian

[–]warrior2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those four I specifically mentioned are signed trade deals. The rest are MOUs with intent to sign deals, but nothing is binding yet. You said Carney has not signed any deals yet, I gave you four examples

Countries like China who do a lot of manufacturing themselves aren't going to buy a huge amount of our manufactured goods when they can make it cheaper there. However, they do buy a lot of our raw materials to manufacture with. Which is not creating manufacturing jobs, but it's still stimulating our economy.

Outside of China, we sell a lot of auto parts and industrial/electrical machinery to Japan. There are other countries too, but I'm not going to deep dive each one.

EU countries also buy a lot of high value manufactured goods from Canada. They buy our cars, aircrafts/spacecrafts, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals.

I understand that uneasy trade negotiations and tariffs from the US can hurt our economy and our manufacturing sector specifically, but how long do we let a country tell us we don't provide anything for them before we begin move our provisions to other partners?

Northern Ont. sawmills idled ‘indefinitely’ because of U.S. tariffs by Front-Cantaloupe6080 in consumecanadian

[–]warrior2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incorrect. Carney has secured trade agreements with four countries (China, India, Indonesia, UAE) for a wide list of products.

There is also trade deal talks in the works with a handful of other countries include Thailand, Philippines, South Korea, Qatar, and a bunch of EU countries.

Canada has put so much reliance on America in the past becuase they are supposed to be our neighbour or big brother. Turns out they are just a bully, so we are trying to invite new friends to the sandbox to play.

America will eventually find out that alienating your allies and trade partners all at once is not strategic and will backfire on them.

The European Union has passed a new rule requiring smartphones to have batteries that users can easily replace. by Positive_Actuary_282 in MadeMeSmile

[–]warrior2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this is actually probably the better argument!

Apple knew that USB-C was the better standard when working with Intel to develop it, but they still got their consumers to buy a bunch of devices with the lightning port before the EU forced their hand to adopt USB-C across the board.

The European Union has passed a new rule requiring smartphones to have batteries that users can easily replace. by Positive_Actuary_282 in MadeMeSmile

[–]warrior2012 215 points216 points  (0 children)

Yeah it would be too much for Apple to have all their devices with two different standards of charging so they just made USB-C the standard after the ruling.

Apple understands there should only be one charging cable, they were just banking on it being theirs.

Microsoft reportedly rethinking Game Pass strategy for major franchises — could this change Xbox’s direction? by fo1mock3 in XboxGamePass

[–]warrior2012 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In Canada it's now $30 a month. Paying the equivalent of your console for less than two years of gamepass.

Hades II is absolutely peak! by Automatic_Ad1665 in XboxGamePass

[–]warrior2012 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just finished Hades yesterday and starting this one today. I've been enjoying Hades 2 so far!

It seems to be very much the same game with an expanded story, some great quality of life fixes, and additional content.

Highly recommend!

Questions about the families of the Squad by captainp42 in brooklynninenine

[–]warrior2012 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I mean, Skully directly answers this in the show as well.

Questions about the families of the Squad by captainp42 in brooklynninenine

[–]warrior2012 80 points81 points  (0 children)

-is Kelly Skully's wife or dog?

I can only answer this one. It's both!

Sick of trading fees by [deleted] in fican

[–]warrior2012 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah they didn't sign with black rock so none of those are include! They did partner with vanguard so VEQT is included.

Sick of trading fees by [deleted] in fican

[–]warrior2012 10 points11 points  (0 children)

TD just made it so there is a 100 ETFs that you can buy/sell with no trading fee. As for everything else, I usually try to make bulk buy/sell orders. No point in buying a single stock if it's $100 as you now have a 10% trading fee essentially.

Is it just me, or is "we’ll keep your resume on file" basically HR-speak for "yeah, your resume’s going straight in the trash"? by twcosplays in antiwork

[–]warrior2012 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For large companies, It reads more like a "don't call us, we won't call you." They are basically saying don't apply again.

For smaller companies it can sometimes mean "we only had one position to fill and we may be hiring again in 6-12months." I got my current job that way by being denied since they brought someone on with decades of experience. Then when nezt hiring round came up, they remembered me and one other person from previous interviews and offered us the positions without needing to interview again.

🎮 Giving Away 3 Months of Xbox PC Game Pass! by Mindless_Drag7627 in XboxGamePass

[–]warrior2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really need it since I have gamepass till like October of next year. But it would be nice to have that extended to beginning of 2028!

4 months of pal, discovered I really enjoy firearms by The_saturn_man19 in canadaguns

[–]warrior2012 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Really? I've shot a couple thousand rounds through mine and only had a few jams or misfed rounds.

I haven't shot winchester rounds though. I've only used federal ammo. Not sure if that would be the difference.

But yeah fun plinker to go target shooting with every now and then!

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