SheerDumbLuck

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[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Reminds me of the Boston Tea Party. It was in solidarity with the Great Bengali Famine caused by the East India Company.

https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-80-tea-and-famine

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"This is my favourite Indian restaurant." It has always been my favourite too. I think of John every time I go there. He was old, but passed away suddenly.

It's weird how the strangest things like this stick with you.

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Kinda cool, but heavy strobe warning for any light sensitive people out there.

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I'd rather leave it to the experts who study this stuff.

The only one I've heard of is called the "triple bottom line". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Immediate impact:

  • wealth tax.

Medium term:

  • death tax.
  • nonprofit land developments.
  • redefinition of the goal of a public corporation from maximizing profit for shareholders to something that makes sense.

Long term:

  • effective antitrust legislation, policy, and enforcement.
  • worker owned co-ops
  • civic education

Edit: I forgot unions and labour protection in immediate impact.

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A ton of competition and local universities are freaking out over the loss of international students money with the federal changes.

Have you tried looking at various operations/analyst type roles in Toronto outside your usual search? You'd probably do decently well in those roles. Even project management.

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

Get paid to*. This is labour and we're all exploited.

Companies like this often hire external consultants to do the layoffs. They literally have no skin in the game.

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

The Toronto horse cops carried around trading cards for their horses as a part of a PR campaign. Ask a cop for one!

Just another way for you to be disappointed by the police. Can't even do PR right.

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

When we start talking to each other again without paid influence.

The troubles facing us all, middle class and below, are the same troubles. We need to practice working together locally to build something bigger before major movements are likely to work out. How do we rebuild community nonprofit hubs?

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

You need one of those toddler leash backpacks.

[–] SheerDumbLuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Are you a cheapskate or easily motivated by money? Set yourself a modest junk food budget for a month and track your spending. Set a financial reward for yourself (buy something you want) when you hit that target. Then set a lower target and a longer term reward. Forgive yourself if you go over, and don't give up.

Junk food is so expensive now that you'll blow through that budget in no time. Realizing how much this addiction costs you (like weed, smoking, drinking, gambling, etc) is often a great way to make the decision to kick the habit. Even if you can't stay within the budget, keep tracking your spending. The goal is to reduce if stopping cold turkey isn't your thing.

If this isn't for you, what everyone else said might work too.

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