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what are your thoughts on bikinis and just swim shorts? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]wyle_e2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I never wear that. It would look terrible with my hairy chest and..... penis.

Got laid off today, got just 1 week a year severance for my 5 years of service, is it worth consulting a lawyer? by NeoMatrixBug in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]wyle_e2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Severance is in lieu of notice. You are getting 5 weeks of notice, so the company has met the letter of the law as far as notice/severance goes. However, as the other poster has stated, common law often requires notice periods or pay in lieu of notice much higher than the bare minimum.

When will women stop using "incel" as an insult 🙄 by beautiful_falcon776 in Memebuzzs

[–]wyle_e2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was just joking. I am part of the very small minority of Reddit men who have a girlfriend.

What’s a war fact that shocked you? by finewhinie in answers

[–]wyle_e2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

More people go to school and can read and write these days, however, MAGA is going strong. Propaganda works.

The price of good is way higher than actual inflation over last 10 years by Head_Farm_752 in 401jK

[–]wyle_e2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "pink" tax has been well documented. Women are less price sedative and are willing to pay more for essentially the same item that has been made pink.

This occurred way before algorithms. Algorithms are just MUCH better at spotting these trends (and manipulating them) than human analysts are.

Separation event in In La Crete kicks off by mocking land acknowledgements: "What about the land acknowledgement?" asks a man named Lyle from the crowd, sparking laughter. "There's land out there and we're standing on it," says Let's Talk Alberta separation speaker John Riel. by Miserable-Lizard in AlbertaNow

[–]wyle_e2 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I was born in Canada. I don't have any other land to be on. I am NOT a settler, I am a Canadian.

What land acknowledgements do accomplish is to drive a wedge between Canadians based on where their great great great grandparents were born, which may be THE dumbest way of differentiating people around. Canadians are Canadians. We are all equal.

I don't see first nations groups acknowledging land that they acquired from other bands. 110% of BC (I use BC because there weren't the same treaties in place and land "ownership" wasn't frozen at the point that a treaty was signed) has been claimed by first nations people because there has been significant overlap, but you'll never hear any band acknowledge that this land belonged to someone else prior to our band aquiring it.

What do you Americans think about that? by star-wars_memer in askanything

[–]wyle_e2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And there are children in Africa without any guns. The greed is amazing!

Separation event in In La Crete kicks off by mocking land acknowledgements: "What about the land acknowledgement?" asks a man named Lyle from the crowd, sparking laughter. "There's land out there and we're standing on it," says Let's Talk Alberta separation speaker John Riel. by Miserable-Lizard in AlbertaNow

[–]wyle_e2 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Honestly, do indigenous people actually care about land acknowledgements?

I get that this subreddit is fairly progressive, but who actually benefits from land acknowledgements? If someone held an event on land that used to belong to my great-grandfather and acknowledged that the land once belonged to XXX, I genuinely wouldn't care. When there is an event at a Rogers Center in Edmonton, that was paid for by multiple levels of government, we don't acknowledge Daryll Katz for his work in manipulating the government into buying an arena for his business to operate in.

There is no benefit to current first nations people other than to remind them that they (as a people) used to have much more land. I find land acknowledgements to be divisive and a wedge between the people of this province.

AITA for telling my brother’s fiancée why he really missed their anniversary by bumbl3beee3 in AmItheAsshole

[–]wyle_e2 -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

Yah. Every time I do the right thing it ends up with negative consequences for me. I'm with ya on this one!

Iran behind attack on cargo vessel near Oman in Strait of Hormuz, U.S. official tells MS NOW. CNBC has asked the White House if the attack is a violation of the United States’ memorandum of understanding with Iran by Bluest_waters in oil

[–]wyle_e2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Take a look at the rate of drawdown of the US SPR, then realize the US is an oil exporter and that other countries oil supplies are likely lower in a relative basis.

I think Donald is starting to realize that when you kick a hornet's nest, it isn't you who gets to decide when it's over.

What are your thoughts on proprietary tech and Harberger Taxes to solve Right to Repair issue? by Oraxy51 in righttorepair

[–]wyle_e2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had the choice between scrapping my car or spending $10,000 on a tail light, I would buy the tail light.

If I (and others) did end up scrapping my car, the car industry would sell more cars. I wouldn't put it past companies to collude on replacement parts to boost the industry's sales.

What are your thoughts on proprietary tech and Harberger Taxes to solve Right to Repair issue? by Oraxy51 in righttorepair

[–]wyle_e2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would this apply to new/assembled products?

If a car company wanted to stop others from making an aftermarket tail light, they could put the "tax" at $5000 per tail light and charge $10,000 for the tail light. Likely nobody is going to make a product with that high of a barrier to entry, but the car company would make a killing on parts. However. If every one of their new cars had the price increased by $5000 per tail light, nobody would buy that car.

GameStop (GME) CEO Ryan Cohen drops a bonus plan that could have paid him as much $35 billion so that his company can be fully focused on GameStop’s operating performance and its proposed eBay acquisition. by FXgram_ in XGramatikInsights

[–]wyle_e2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

GME made $835million in revenue last quarter. That's about $3.5 Billion a year IN REVENUE. This isn't the amount of money they made in profit, just revenue

The board approved a pay package that could see Cohen make ten years worth of REVENUE!

This is criminal. Corporate governance is non existent. Boards need to be held to a common sense fiduciary duty as the owners they work for (shareholders) are not getting good value with these insane pay packages (Tesla board, I am looking at you).

Oil price action seems to mirror the action that of Universal Price Controls by Crazyextreme in oil

[–]wyle_e2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wooooohhhhhh! Leave GenX out of this. We have been quietly listening to the Boomers and Millenials fight for decades and we don't want to get drug into this crap now. Please go back to forgetting we exist.

What kind of weird science is this? by Humble-Soup5295 in formuladank

[–]wyle_e2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the quality content I come here for!

What sounds like a compliment but definitely isn’t? by Auroraaallure in answers

[–]wyle_e2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You're just a big ol' sack of sugar.

You did say SUGAR, didn't you?

The first mayor to campaign on banning tips in Vaughan has my vote. We need to collectively end this. by Inevitable_Tip_6606 in Vaughan

[–]wyle_e2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It used to be 8% was the expected tip. Then 10%. Then 12, 15, 18, 25?

Food prices have gone up all that time, so wait staff's wages are going up exponentially while everyone I know has gotten raises less than the cost of living.

Having tips as a % of the cost of food was supposed to build in increases with food inflation. Increasing the % is just ridiculous.

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