Stroads: The infrastructure that sucks for everyone, pedestrians, cyclists, transit users, and drivers all the same.
But that's the Canadian way. Everyone gets a trophy. We're too "polite" to pick a favourite. We hope that in doing so we can make everyone happy, but end up making everyone unhappy.
The people of the Netherlands are known for being much more, let's say, blunt. They're not afraid to choose a winner.
you are effectively being an employee for free for the store.
You already accepted being an employee of the store when you decided to enter the warehouse to pick the items off the shelf yourself.
The only question is: Can you clock out faster if your co-worker helps you process the items you picked or will it be faster if you do it all by yourself?
It is a misconception that work has value. Time is what has value.
If it takes longer for a cashier to ring you through, you are giving up more to the business than you would using the self-checkout. If you are worried about working for the company, this is what you want to avoid.
Granted, in practice, self-checkout is rarely implemented well and can often be slower than meeting with the cashier.
they are showing some of the content from the article itself.
They are showing the content found in the og:description meta tag. The "og" bit stands for Open Graph, which is a protocol developed by Facebook so that news sites could define the content they want Facebook to show.
If news sites don't want Facebook to display this information, they could stop using Open Graph, but a quick check of the major sites in Canada reveals that Open Graph use is omnipresent.
Funny, that.
doesn’t mean that prices go down
But, to be fair, they are going down. The price I can get as the farmer is 30-50% of what it was last year.
You're still paying more at the grocery store because what you are eating now, I sold you last year (maybe even the year before). Turns out people don't like surprises when it comes to food, and want to ensure that we grow enough to feed them, so they generally buy it years in advance.
Wait. You mean to tell me that a plastic bag of milk, bagged with other plastic bags of milk, bagged in yet another plastic bag at checkout isn't a good idea?
I don’t think it is out of left field.
Yeah, the photo in the article of them on the field shows them to be on the right side of the field.
Gold was introduced as a way to help sustain server costs
Surely it was to reenforce the idea that Reddit is the online equivalent of the street corner where crazy people ramble on about nothing, with gold replicating the bystanders who toss coins into their cardboard boxes/hats out of pity?
Especially when you consider that interest costs are what is now driving inflation:
The mortgage interest cost index (+29.9%) remained the largest contributor to the year-over-year CPI increase. Excluding mortgage interest cost, the CPI rose 2.5% in May
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230627/dq230627a-eng.htm?indid=3665-1&indgeo=0
The government
Governments. Both federal and provincial governments can manage corporate tax rates, and both provincial and municipal governments can manage property tax rates.
But each of these governments serve the will of the people, and all three governments ultimately serve the very same people. Good luck convincing the people that they should willing choose to pay higher taxes.
There isn't a whole lot of evidence to suggest that there are supply issues. Even the so-called chip shortage later revealed that chip output saw no decline throughout the pandemic or since.
The exception being related to the European fertilizer plant shutdown followed by the Ukraine conflict, cutting off access to Russian fertilizer, prompting some issues related to food. That does explain some inflationary pressure in 2022, however, those issues have largely cleared by now. The farm gate price of food is pretty much back to normal at this point.
This round of inflation seems to be fuelled simply by people being willing to spend more. We saw a similar phenomena following the end of WWII.
Huh? The trickle down line comes from comedian Will Rogers who was making a joke about how President Hoover, who was an engineer, was accustomed to water trickling down, but that he didn't realize money trickles up.
It was a line to serve the exact opposite – to tell the 'proles' that the economic plan was fundamentally flawed.