Mike Mugridge

@ICcrapdaily @FoodProfessor They already have the ability to monitor their competitors and adjust prices. From where I sit, the only reason they want my personal data is to try to squeeze more money out of me.

@MikeLeMug @FoodProfessor Do you know what the beauty of a free market is genius? other choices… but let’s pretend the morons who can’t even budget their own lives have a solution.

On "surveillance pricing", Avi Lewis is right. Food is not a luxury good. It’s a necessity. Pricing it based on personal data erodes trust, punishes vulnerability, and undermines the very notion of fairness in our food system. Surveillance pricing—what some call “precise dynamic pricing”—has no place in food retail. When algorithms decide what you pay based on your data, it stops being a market and becomes discrimination. Two households, same product, different price? That’s not innovation—that’s inequity.

@ICcrapdaily @FoodProfessor You're muddying two issues together again. No one is suggesting electing the NDP is the solution. We have limited competition in groceries in Canada. We have an oligopoly.

It’s called competition genius, in an open market competition eliminates gouging because there’s an opening to sell that same product at a lower price. Do you know what the NDP’s idea will do? End competition with price controls that usually end with people going out of business as the government try’s to buy votes with a businesses operating margins. Venezuela collapsed under this same stupidity.

@ICcrapdaily @FoodProfessor "Prevents hoarding". Ah yes, the altruistism of corporations is a sight to behold!

Raising prices with limited supply and excessive demand prevents hording, Collecting data? You’re putting your data online as we speak with that devise in your hand…. Getting better prices based on your purchase history and your buying patterns isn’t a bad thing. And this has everything to do with the NDP because those economically illiterate morons drive every moronic policy that screws people collectively. They could bankrupt a lemonade stand if you spotted them the labor, lemons and stand. These assholes should be nowhere near business let alone government!

@ICcrapdaily @FoodProfessor Lowering prices when inventory isn't moving is acceptable to most people. Raising prices excessively when demand is high pisses people off. Collecting personal data to be able to charge an individual more *really* pisses people off. Nothing to do with electing the NDP.

The problem with NDP solutions is they screw everyone. Dynamic pricing is designed to entice new customers to products they don’t consider by presenting alternatives with pricing. The store also does this on products if they’re “not moving”! But everything is insidious and everything’s a scam… but let me guess! You want the same f’cking idiots who can’t run government monopolies like the transit system, healthcare, infrastructure running our food system??? F’ck me!

@NoctuaAuratus @TristinHopper So they want to destroy the country and convert it to an Islamic state. Remind me why this is a good thing?

@TristinHopper “Death to America” implies death to the regime controlling Americans, not every American citizen. They’ve stated this multiple times and people keep ignoring it because it doesn’t fit the narrative in the same way.

@estherzelda0514 The difficulty I have with this is that we've been hammered the past 60s years with "men and women are EQUAL dammit!". But also, as a man you, have to be constantly monitoring your partner and ensuring her life is smooth. But she has no such requirement.

I'm going to drop a hot tip to get you laid, because apparently nobody on this cursed app knows anything about what women want. Women like small gestures of concern, attentiveness, and indications that you're conscientious of her wants, mental or emotional state, and needs. It's very simple. If your wife sighs in frustration because a door doesn't latch properly behind her, and she comes home to find it fixed, that's hot. If your girlfriend checks the price tag on a dress, winces, then looks longingly at it, and you surprise her with the dress on her birthday two months later, that's hot. When a perfect stranger holds open the door for you, and then asks if you need him to hold your bag while you untangle yourself from your coat, that's hot. If she comes home quiet and subdued from work, and he pauses what he's doing to pour her a glass of wine and ask if she's okay, that's hot. It's not that hard. It doesn't require a six pack of rock hard abs or a K Street salary. Of course those things don't hurt, but if you're not conscientious, they're not going to help as much as you think they will. Women and men are astonishingly alike. They want someone to care about them, deeply and selflessly. A person that sees them when the world does not. Do that and you'll find success in love.

@cynthiafor46969 @mboudry Because ambulance-chasing lawyers don't - or refuse - to understand the science. Science is not done in a courtroom.

@mboudry Well, then, pray tell, why do they push for a liability shield in every state legislature and federally after losing so many expensive lawsuits for glyphosate causing cancer? I used to summarize depositions and this corporate shtick has been around for decades. Stop insulting us.

Stop the fear-mongering around #glyphosate. The chemical has a "lower acute toxicity" than salt, vinegar, aspirin, and caffeine (which is 40x more toxic than glyphosate). It's benign for the the environment compared to other pesticides. It disrupts a pathway that only exists in plants and fungi, not in animals. Little surprise, therefore, that it is "highly unlikely" to be carcinogenic when used as approved. quillette.com/2026/04/08/a-c…

@iq_over_9000 @mboudry Saying substance A is less toxic than substance B does NOT mean they can be used interchangeably.

@mboudry You should use glyphosate instead of salt on your food & see how it goes. Do it for the sake of science. Good luck, you absolute dumbfuck

@SkepticZone Hostility and anger is what you get when you challenge someone's religion!

I’m interviewed in this program about a UFO case in Australia. Please have a look and I would appreciate any comments you could make on the YouTube. I’m getting a lot of anger predictable hostility from the #UFO believers. youtu.be/IhKyQkhOfoM

@binarybits Everything I've seen says AI will replace a lot of low-level white collar jobs. You agree that it is unlikely create many. Ergo a net loss of jobs. You keep saying "Everyone will be richer" but who apart from the top x%? And how?

@MikeLeMug I think AI probably will create some new (and hard to predict) job categories but my argument doesn't depend on that. We might just go out to eat more, have bigger houses, go to therapy more, go on vacation more, etc. creating more service jobs.

People who say "we need to figure out a plan to prevent AI from putting people out of work" don't seem to understand that what they're really saying is "we need a plan to ensure AI doesn't drive economic growth." They're two sides of the same coin.

@binarybits I don't see it. When cars took over from horse and buggy it created a lot of new jobs and industries. I haven't seen anything where AI will create new jobs- other than AI server farm workers.

@MikeLeMug No, people will be a lot richer so they will go out to eat more, build bigger houses, take more vacations, etc. There will be plenty of jobs. Just as eliminating most jobs on the farm didn't lead to mass unemployment but higher living standards in cities.

@binarybits So more people scrambling for the few jobs that are AI proof.

@MikeLeMug There won't be ever diminishing jobs. There are lots of jobs you can't do from a data center, like nurse, teacher, plumber, CEO, etc.

@binarybits The high school dropout factory worker who is replaced by a robot cannot easily become any of those things.

@Kekepania57 @JoJoFromJerz So they should kill more civilians to teach the leaders a lesson?

@JoJoFromJerz But I bet you don't care about all the people that iranian leaders have killed you liberals are funny

Donald Trump is threatening to kill untold numbers of innocent Iranian women and children unless a nation of 90 million people bends to his psychotic will, but tell me more about how he couldn’t possibly have raped kids.

@shifthitfan @GeoRobert57 But that's no reason for the government to get involved in your club. They're not priests.

@GeoRobert57 53% of Canadians are Christian. 34% are atheist. "Most" Canadians care deeply about Easter.

Mark Carney’s official Easter message just dropped… and it’s getting absolutely roasted. Instead of any mention of the resurrection, faith, or the actual meaning of the holiday, he posted a generic note about painted eggs and “spending time with family.” In a country with deep Christian roots, the Prime Minister’s Easter greeting was reduced to colourful eggs and brunch vibes. Many Canadians are calling it tone deaf, empty, and completely out of touch. This is the same leader who was quick to highlight other cultural observances like EID and Ramadan, but when it comes to Easter, it’s watered down to the bare minimum.

@ExpertsLie @michaelshermer "We have no way of knowing " therefore alien spaceship.

Here is the Project Mogul balloon. Here is the debris found near Roswell believers now claim was advanced alien technology. Are we to believe that ETIs traversed the vast distances of interstellar space in ships made of balsa wood and polyethylene plastic?

@veritas_super @skepticalraptor Which part is incorrect?

@MikeLeMug @skepticalraptor If you "try to counter anti-vaxx bs" using dishonesty, then how does it paint you?

Measles, often dismissed as harmless, can cause severe complications, including subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), which can be fatal years after infection. The MMR #vaccine effectively prevents #measles and SSPE. skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrapto…

@veritas_super @skepticalraptor " Measles is one of the most contagious diseases, with a contagion index (R0) of 12–18..." The purpose of the graph is to counter the anti-vaxx bullshit that the vaccine is worse than the disease.

@MikeLeMug @skepticalraptor You ignored my point to "inject your own talking point." The graph is dishonest – it omits critical information and misrepresents "not taking the vaccine" as "getting measles." It's an embarrassment and I'm surprised more "smart" people don't realize this.