I've looked and looked and wondered why no one has made this app/service: - Grocery stores have flyers. - apps like "Flipp" allow you to browse all the flyers and save items to a shopping list. - these apps "read" the flyers like a PDF - you can then often ship at one store and "price match", savings both time and money. So why hasn't anyone made an app where you could: 1) specify your max budget, 2) quantify the number of meals, 3) specify any dietary restrictions or desires, Which then AI would scan the flyers and tell you exactly what your weekly meal plan would be based on the best value based on weekly deals plus alert you to what is worth picking up for the freezer as the item is at or near lowest prices (eg roasts). Right now, as it is, grocery shopping is a game where experience pays off. I can feed my family of 4 on $100/week without any processed crap. But I often hear and see of younger people struggling both financially and nutrition-wise. I can spot a deal. I know what milk should cost. I know what pork shoulder and tenderloin costs. I know when a "deal" on cucumbers is not at all a deal. But that's with 20 years of experience. The Game, and it is a game (there even used to be a TV gameshow back in the 80s called "Supermarket Showdown"), is won on couponing or the modern app equivalent, but it could so easily be defeated with such an app.

So RBC just laid off 6,000 employees, mostly from the HSBC merger... But, still, the number of people that will be made redundant over the next year will be staggering. Oh, you went to university and push buttons on a keyboard? Your KPI better be a higher ROI or your ass about to be replaced by AI. The demic showed us all what "essential" and "non-essential" was. You're either one or the other. Have that talk with your kids before they go to post-secondary.

With not just tariff threats, cross border issues including strikes by border agents on the Canadian side, Union issues in Canada, and higher energy costs, and higher taxes including national pension and employment insurance (wage taxes), why would any automotive or manufacturing company have a branch in Canada? So long as our exchange rate remains favourable it's pretty simple: cheap labour. The average starting wage of a Canadian Auto Worker (union member) is $20/hr. That's $13.50/hr US at current exchange rates. About what many fast food joints pay their workers in the States. The UAW (United Auto Workers Union) secured a deal paying their workers $42/hr just across the Ambassador Bridge. That's nearly 3x more! On top of that transportation by truck by Canadian carriers is highly saturated and suppressed where the $/mile is about 66% of an American trucker on average. So what are the odds that the Big 3 will ever "reshore"? And add on top the cost of moving plants and the time it would even take to do so? It ain't happening. Heck, even with the tax subsidy support by the federal and provincial govts Canada has been losing jobs to Mexico and China. It's not Canada that's the problem. It's not China or Mexico, either. It's globalism, the desire of producers to produce more profits and consumers to buy things cheaper while their portfolios keep going up. And this trend will not change. In the 60s and 70s Japan was the "Big Threat". In the 2000s it's China. China will eventually face their own issues as India rises and then there's always the tax free/tariffs free economic zones that exist in places like Vietnam and are used by major American brands like Nike and Levis. So what's the deal? What's really going on? Remember Trump announcing a deal with Carrier back in 2016? That didn't result in anything but headlines. Remember 2016 Wisconsin the big deal made with Trump and opening a huge plant for Foxxcon (Chinese manufacturer of iPhone)? Yeah, it's still not fully and not much promised has happened but it did cost a lot of tax dollars (subsidies). From 13k employment promised, so far only 1.4k actually employed. Cost: $680M (down from the touted $10B!) So, life will go on... We'll just be left not knowing which way it will go except entertaining.

How powerful is Quebec in Canada? Too damn powerful. One example I constantly pointed out, and people so easily brushed off, was during the pandemic the govt gave out money. It was called CERB. That stuff for the "Canadian Emergency Response Benefit". Canada is pronounced with a hard C. As in /k/. Thus it should be /k/erb, or "curb"... As in to "curb the economic disruption", right? But, no, the govt and media parrots spread it with a soft c, as in /s/, as in "serb". Why? Because in French, the letter "c" is pronounced as an "s" like "sey" thus the pronunciation became "serb" which means absolutely nothing but an appeasement to a French voting block. This is the same region that fucks with our dairy industry and is why we have dairy/cheese tariffs with the resulting limited selection and high prices. Politics is stupid.

Oh my! I can't wait for Cardi B's WAP to become a soap commercial in about 10 years.

Does anybody, and I mean anybody, actually have any idea what is actually going on? Or is the divergence and divide, the flipping and flopping, the mixed messaging on all subjects purposely intended to psyop and sow confusion? Ah, fuck it... GM!

My son comes at me with the "perfect body has a chest to waist ratio of 1.6." He works out and is pretty darn smart in school BUT he wasn't ready for me to retort with "the golden ratio"? That has lead our start to spring break with a trip down that rabbit hole... Golden Ratios, Fibonacci, in art, architecture, music (I've forced Tool in this house forever). Oh, and we measured him. He has achieved the Golden Ratio! At the age of 15 he is Phi.

In everything in life strive to be like Bill Murray on The Hot Ones... Stoic, confident, unconcerned, accomplished. Was he acting? Keep'em all guessing!

I don't have a Tesla. I would never own a Tesla. Nothing to do with Musk. I like Musk. I admire his accomplishments. People selling their Teslas because they have irrational emotions show just how dumb these people are. No, I will never own a Tesla because of how much data it collects on you. There is no more privacy invasive vehicle on the road than Tesla. Where you are, where you go, where you live, when you travel, how you drive (speed, acceleration, hard braking), cameras inside, cameras always on outside watching your car and surroundings, who is in the car, where you work, shop, eat, where kids go to school, facial recognition, if you're tired or distracted, where you bank, if you're doing something out of routine, etc etc. etc. It's disgusting how much data it collects and you have no opt out. Oh, and they sell that data to insurance companies as well as creating profile of you to sell to third party brokers. Nah, I'll stick with old school cool. I don't even want Android Auto or Apple Carplay spying on me. And, yes, those systems do, too, but at least they're not nearly as invasive as Tesla (and many modern cars) are.

And this is representative of what our dumb Canadian boomers learn from by watching mainstream media. This is a Global News reporter (Top 3 network) not having a bloody clue how things work... The comments below this post were either correcting him or full of anti American vitriol. It's disgusting and it's exactly the kind of shit my aged mother watches them goes and votes Liberal again. And for those who didn't know, tariffs are paid by the customs agent operating on behalf of the receiver. You may have gotten a package once from overseas and had UPS or FedEx tell you there was a duty owed. Yeah, just like that. Not the trucker, nor the pilot, not the ship's captain has ever paid. Just the receiver.

Women will never know the simple joy men get peeing into a urinal filled with ice cubes. Yes, we try to melt and collapse them.

Ok, I'll weigh in on the Jaguar controversy. I've known they were reinventing themselves for some time. Heck, they are taking some year sabbatical from even producing any cars, as they relaunch as full true luxury EV manufacturer. In essence, the Jaguar you knew is dead. It has been dying for years. The love you have for them comes from the legendary E Type. You may have loved the XJS. Maybe the old legendary XJ. Their reliability was crap but their styling was undeniable. Then Ford bought them and they made fancy Tauruses. Then Tata bought them and they brought out the F Type which looked gorgeous and was an "Aston Martin 1 year later". And they made good cars but no one bought them. And they swung to FPace EV and they had problems. And Jaguar was dying. Now it is dead. But the name lives on with a new shite font signifying that, while it sounds the same phonetically, it is a whole new brand. And the launch video to go with it? Utter garbage that proves they learned nothing from when Infiniti launched in the same manner back in 1991. Infiniti used landscapes and tones to create a vibe. Consumers were confused and ultimately crowned Lexus the one true king of the new luxury brands (Lexus, Infiniti, Acura, and the never really launched Mazda one whose name escapes me now). In the world of EVs where luxury touches and vibes may be the only thing to differentiate yourself from what will essentially be identical driving experiences... This was their Hail Mary. As a consumer, prepare for the total commodification of EV cars and that vibes is ALL you'll be aligning yourself with. The Chinese are coming. Have you seen the EVs they pump out? And some of their innovations? The West is so far behind.

Now this is interesting... So Jason Lowery retweets another user's post that notes that Jason Lowery deleted all his tweets regarding advising Trump. Hmmmmm....

Over the years I've gotten real good at accepting that others have just "missed the point".