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GrindingGears

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  • Alberta government orders review after man dies in ER while waiting for care

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  • And I'd just like to add that I don't want to make light of a terrible situation. This family deserves so much more than UCP gobblygook and excuses that they'll conjure up to try and justify their hard turn towards privatization.

  • Alberta government orders review after man dies in ER while waiting for care

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  • Think the government will quickly find that the calls are coming from within the house.

  • get it Mildred

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  • Old ladies just have absolutely zero filter, especially grandmas. They can be the sweetest old ladies, yet they ain't having any of your shit.

  • Layoff announcements used to boost stock prices. Not anymore says Goldman Sachs | Fortune

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  • Accounts Payable. The department that pays the bills.

  • Got my girlfriend an Xbox controller and 3D printed a faceplate

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  • Just do it outside then.

    Or just do it in the garage. Not to devalue your point (because you aren't wrong either, the dust isn't probably healthy), but honestly thinking back over all the shady things that have gone down in my garage over the years, sanding a bit of PLA wouldn't even nick the surface.

  • 5th person hospitalized in E. coli outbreak linked to Pillsbury brand Pizza Pops

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  • There's always been something shady about them. To start, they taste like burning rubber.

  • Layoff announcements used to boost stock prices. Not anymore says Goldman Sachs | Fortune

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  • It's been 1D thinking all along! Anyone who works in a modern day corporation, has tales of wanton firing without any sort of consideration for who or what was going to carry on doing the work that the people let go were doing.

    I don't want to dox myself, but I remember one time someone got the bright idea to fire the entire AP team and replace them with one of those damn portals that we all know never works right (shock and awe, your vendors aren't going to do your work for you, and automation really means you need six people in the background fixing all the automated fuck ups). Whole idea looked great on paper, allegedly, but the actual execution was, of course, a dumpster fire. Fast forward a few months where the org went through quite a public spectacle locally, where there was some sort of an event with lots of eyes and suddenly no equipment on hand because no one had paid the vendor. I vividly remember the president absolutely screaming in my face and me doing everything in my power to not burst out laughing because (a) I didn't work in AP and (b) the person screaming was the very same person who six months earlier had rubber stamped this jabroni fest of an idea.

  • What was the last dvd/cd your burned? do you still use such media?

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  • Probably like 2010, 2011 was my last time? It would have been movies for our dvd player in our bedroom when my (now) wife and I were in University.

    I got an iPod Nano for my birthday in the fall of 2005, which brought the burning cd factory that was my computer to a screeching halt. I'd still back up files and stuff using CDs, but it went from like going through a carousel of blanks a month to going through a carousel of blanks in like 3 years, within a very short period of time.

  • How Canada’s Big 6 banks made a ton of money in 2025 | About That

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  • For example, Servus CEO - 1.63 million on 2023 financial statements

    https://usaskstudies.coop/documents/research-reports/2025-co-ops-and-credit-unions-report-from-the-board-room.pdf -

    this is a report about board directors, but you can see it on page 18, the average board director comp is $211k, and one of the directors was at $2M - because they are also the CEO (it could be for one of the coops too, maybe not necessarily a credit union).

    There are small ones obviously, like super community focused ones that aren't maybe the big bloat fests the bigger ones are. But there's also a tremendous amount of consolidation at the credit union levels going on, and they ain't going to be doing that for cookies and kumbyas like the reddit crowd thinks they will be.

    I've worked in treasury and finance long enough to know the credit unions can be pretty big troughs too. Again not all of them, but do your research. It ain't S&L like the yanks, but it also isn't a layer of innocence.

  • How Canada’s Big 6 banks made a ton of money in 2025 | About That

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  • The credit unions are just as greedy. They are all consolidating into big bloated entities too, and then just marketing themselves as "the good guys."

    I mean credit unions are often coop owned, but the coop gets 1 cent for every thousand the execs get.

  • Be prepared in case of power outage in extreme cold, say Yukon officials

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  • I remember a few nights at around -45, which is absolutely nothing for Yukoners. Couldn't keep that damn woodstove full enough those nights.

  • Be prepared in case of power outage in extreme cold, say Yukon officials

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  • I saw a pic of someone's thermometer taken overnight a night or two ago, and it was bottomed out past minus 50. I can personally attest, a Yukon winter is nothing to f with.

  • ‘The Nazis were right:’ What the leaders of Canada’s biggest ‘nationalist’ group really want

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  • It's only on days. Days that end in Y.

  • Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.

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  • I'm nostalgic for it, but at the same time, I'd be nostalgic for 3.5 seconds if I used one again. People tend to forget how frustrating those devices could be too. I had several iterations of the blackberry, and everyone of them came with a lot of quirks that modern phones just don't have. Sure, I sort of miss the tactile feel of buttons, but it was also a lot of work punching out long emails on them, and pocket lint did a real number on those things too.

  • Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.

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  • I'm of the opposite opinion. I'm tired of dashboards just absolutely smothered in Technicoloured buttons. I much prefer the touchscreen where everything is centralized. I find it less distracting, personally.

    Cars are a very intimate personal thing though, and I understand others frustrations with it. Guess I'm the outlier.

  • What’s the Way Forward for Canada Post?

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  • That's not accurate at all. You can't just burn billions on billions on a public service then, without cuts somewhere else. You can't equate mail to stuff like a military and health care, it's not the same. Protection and basic human care for subsistence isn't equitable to being able to mail a letter to someone, or to send someone junk mail.

  • What’s the Way Forward for Canada Post?

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  • So would you prioritize this over better cancer care in remote communities for example? Or an ability to get drugs cheaply? Because we are in the B range here, think about reallocating that money. Canada post can't run itself effectively, without burning mass amounts of cash. That much has been proven. They are making claims that they are effectively insolvent.

    I've lived in an nothern remote community before, I know what it's like, very intimately. But there was a difference there, no one was getting cancer drugs through Canada Post, as they didn't have the infrastructure. It was cheaper to use Canada Post, sure, but it was also weeks out. If you needed stuff faster, it had a cost, because it literally had a pretty big cost to get there. The remote areas pay a heavy price for shopping and cargo, end of sentence. Now should this cost be subsidized? I could argue yes or no, both sides. But this isn't what is burning the amounts of money that they are, because Canada Post doesn't focus a lot of resources up there either.

    You need to really dig into the books to see where the cash is going, but I think it would cause pause for most. There's been a lot of failed projects over the years, they tried to basically create their own Amazon like marketplace for example, and they burned a tremendous amount of capital doing so. That shouldn't have ever been allowed to happen. They run a lot of mind numbing hours and resources in communities where it's clearly going to waste, but are leaving other communities largely in the lurch, and where such human capital allocations would be better served.

    Am I suggesting the elimination of mail service? Not necessarily. Does it need to come every day though? Should there be more boxes and centralized pickup spots, to realize some savings? Why are they in the parcel business, where they are literally competing with..themselves? (Canada post has an almost whole ownership of Purolator - which is profitable). So if they want to do parcels, why not sell that ownership off and reallocate that capital? Or maybe leave the parcels for Purolator, and extend some price controls.

    There's a lot that needs examined in this crown corp, and I for one am not really a fan of them just continuing to throw capital at it, where they have shown time and time again they can burn through it at a stupid fast rate, on some contra-intuitive projects.

    The fact of the matter is, their junk mail production is the only thing keeping the lights on. That's not an effective use of Canadian taxpayer capital. So how do we fix this then? Does it really make me such a bad person to question this?

  • Tucker Carlson’s Canada Invasion Rhetoric and the MAGA Fracture

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  • Ok but banning speech goes both ways, hey!? That means the speech you find acceptable might come into question by others.

    It's a slippery slope. Maybe the slipperiest. Freedom of speech also means sometimes you need to hear some stuff that makes you want to vomit.

  • What’s the Way Forward for Canada Post?

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  • It's mind numbing how no one is ever willing to look at some facts here. The way this crown corp has been run, and the decisions they have made (and the numerous failed projects they have burned massive amounts of cash on), I don't understand why this can never be questioned...