Janel ComeauI respect screaming babies on airplanes because they're the only ones providing honest feedback about the overall air travel experience
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CassieSomeone pointed out on TikTok that the premier of Alberta's birth name is Marleina and not her chosen name that she goes by, so I guess I know what we should call her now, unless she shows us a note from both of her parents.
CodieneCValue Village is an American corporation that makes tons of cash of Canadian donations. Donations that people make thinking they are helping out Canadian charities. VV pays charities pennies, pays their staff little & takes their profits out of Canada.
Customers call out 'ridiculous' prices at secondhand store Value Village | CBC News
For years, Canadians have relied on Value Village to buy used goods for cheaper than other retailers. It’s one of the biggest and most popular thrift store chains in the country. Now some customers are accusing the company of massive markups on their items.
It was fun being here at the very peak of AI.
From this point forward, LLM models are being fed crappy inputs that were generated by other LLMs, and the downward spiral is guaranteed.
Bring back humans.
I don't really have any empathy or respect for Mark Zuckerberg, who truly does have "blood on his hands". However, I'm not sure that US Senators are really ones to throw stones.
LaffyUPDATE. I'VE CHANGED THE LINK so you can avoid Threads (thanks @deborahh ❤️
Via @atrupar
Wow -- Hawley badgers #Zuckerberg into apologizing to people in the audience
Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes to Families
Gordon J Holtslander@martinsettle The conservative rage machine very effectively targets the pathetically naive and the willfully ignorant, but for those willing to question the rage ...
https://breachmedia.ca/pierre-poilievre-conservatives-stack-council-corporate-lobbyists/
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/06/12/opinion/are-poilievres-conservative-allies-real-gatekeepers
https://breachmedia.ca/pierre-poilievre-conservatives-stack-council-corporate-lobbyists/
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/06/12/opinion/are-poilievres-conservative-allies-real-gatekeepers
66,000 people had an average $180 to hand over to Poilievre's rage machine in the last three months.
Remind me how people are struggling to make ends meet?
The people who are struggling are not the people who stand to benefit if the Conservatives win power.
WTL@martinsettle @cbcottawa_mirror I was wondering about that too. Each ticket seems to require two enforcement officers and two special constables. I suspect it requires one ticket per hour to simply pay the salaries.
Robert ReichThe price of Huggies diapers went up 6% between April- June 2023.
Inflation, right? Wrong.
Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies, reported that the cost to make its products fell by $75 million.They took the money and ran, banking $168 million in operating profits in Q3 2023.
Now, new research shows that corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 2023. During the 40 years prior to the pandemic, profits drove just 11% of price growth.