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@danielfoch We going to age ourselves; is like comparing SNES vs Genesis.

@teletonic nah not for real BB pros + haptic feedback on the keyboard means text & drive while heads up more possible

I often wonder how many fewer texting and driving accidents there would be if BlackBerry won instead of Apple

@ATwinspark @GuruAnaerobic Rust conquers me for this cohort.

@teletonic @GuruAnaerobic Works fine for me as that’s generally the age of cars I am buying anyway

I remember back in the 70s when the motorcycle purists said they would never get electronic ignition (Jap bikes) because they preferred kickstart. Loads of beer drinking British bike riders with crumbs of food in their beards cried that the essence of what it meant to be a motorcyclist would be lost if you could just press a button to start your bike. What was better was trying five times to kickstart a Bonneville with a kickback that could break your leg. Now everyone has electronic ignition - the purist farts died out or got fed up with riding in British winters and bought a car. The stick shift purists are the same - "oooh, the fun of driving is lost without the stick shift, sniff, sniff.."

@ATwinspark @GuruAnaerobic Not many left to choose. Having to go back 10 years for some decent options now.

@GuruAnaerobic I’ve been a manual purist my whole life. I currently drive an automatic. Everyone cried “oh it’ll change your views once you have auto for daily driving you will never go back” and I can safely say that was utter bullshit. Automatics are shite and I will never own another

@bobbt91 @fordnation 2 late

@fordnation I know it's considered uncool, but we MUST start pushing cultural assimilation or we're going to lose what made Canada the greatest country on earth.

Our government will always be there to support people on hard times—but that doesn’t include people living in Canada illegally. If provincial regulations need to be changed to make that crystal clear, we’ll change them.

@alvarodmann @NelsonXLee Exactly. As if they aren't already compensated at a significant premium vs private sector comparable.

@NelsonXLee You are delusional. Everyone, with the exception of cops and judges, drawn to govt work are motivated by combination of job security and laziness. Govt workers are the worst among us.

Call me delusional, but outside of founding a company, working for the government should be one of the most prestigious jobs in Canada. Pay these roles $150k+ and recruit our brightest minds to provide better services. You’ll probably get more done with fewer higher paid folks.

@freight_Dogs @Molson_Hart They can't. Look at the structural setup.

@Molson_Hart We need to stop printing money at a crazy pace.

I cannot wait for this fake economy to end. So many bullshitters running around bullshitting, never get called out because there's always another bailout.

@f2aler @SinaiLawFirm @Molson_Hart Assuming he can sell in the window of overvaluation. Whatif they all have similar plans?

@SinaiLawFirm @Molson_Hart My dad crunched numbers and thinks if he converts his assets into relatively conservative cash generating assets that it will cover both parents in that scenario (and not leave my sister and I in the lurch)

What happens when the baby boomers pass? They’re people not financial instruments, but within the next 10-20 years many will pass putting a huge financial stress on our economy. The average US boomer spend about $90,000 in the last year of their life in medical bills and $155,000 in the last 3 years. There are 67 million boomers in the US, so at an average spend of $155,000, we are looking at something like $10 trillion dollars in medical costs, before inflation. This money will be split between their own savings and government programs like Medicare. So what happens? I don’t know but it seems like: - huge inflation in medical costs from demand increases on fixed supply - drops in asset prices (real estate and stocks) from boomers selling assets to pay for medical bills - enormous tax increases to pay for Medicare or default It may not look like it on the graph but 24 million more boomers were born than the preceding generation and then this generation was further expanded by age immigration. Just because we were able to financially withstand the silent generation passing, does not mean we can with the boomers generation. Further, note how there are fewer Gen X (following generation) than boomers. They have limited emotional connection to that generation compared to millennials because boomers are generally not their parents. Further, I doubt they will be willing to shoulder a huge tax burden in their golden earning years of 50s and early 60s. So what happens? I don’t know. Something. Or maybe not. Go back a year and the closure of the strait of Hormuz for 4 months was a catastrophe and, so far, it doesn’t seem to matter. We shall see!

@Molson_Hart @scottastronaut Baby boomer muddies things cause it's a twenty year gen rather than decade. There are differences between '48 vintage vs a '58 vintage.

@scottastronaut Yeah but I was wrong

@ICcrapdaily @sunlorrie They always go w double down approach. "We just weren't liberal/Marxist enough last time!"

That’s the problem with most of these people, they surround themselves with like minded or nonthinking nincompoops and then proceed to act without retrospective or consideration for the damage in their wake because by hook or by crook their plan “will work” they just haven’t reached the goal line yet… because the promise is more important than the results driven by ego… this is why every great “social experiment” ends in bodybags.

COLUMN: Flawed & costly vision of Canada's Liberal anointed 3 decades ago, the great American conservative thinker Thomas Sowell explained why the doomed-to-fail strategies of liberal elites inevitably end in dysfunction & financial disaster for taxpayers torontosun.com/opinion/column…

@mainlandmafia @dig_with_kyle ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@dig_with_kyle Because once you have some money it’s an incredibly easy place to live, and incredibly easy to make money when you are surrounded by passive defeatist people.

When you realize your take home income as a high paid individual/ company is well under 50% in Canada how do you convince yourself it’s a good idea to stay? Genuinely curious.

There is precisely zero economic benefit in producing higher value-added goods. What firms want are higher *margins*, wherever they can get ’em — it doesn’t matter where in the value-added chain. The value-added fallacy is one of the oldest and most pernicious in economics. It’s a form of industrial snobbery: the kind that leads people to lament being “hewers of wood and drawers of water” in the country with perhaps the greatest supplies of both in the world.

@niknak @Stephen19718352 It's beyond the capability of HR to understand that Excel and Google Sheets do the same thing.

@Stephen19718352 And they have extremely ridiculous requirements that have nothing to do with whether someone can do the job. "Do you have experience with x software?" "No but I have experience with y software that is an alternative to x" "Sorry, not qualified"

Boomers and Gen X are permanently stuck in 2009 when employers were able to hire serious talent and be picky. Also $100k was very high. They can’t believe this isn’t reality anymore. I work for a midsized company and for some reason we will interview like a customer service rep 7 times for a job that pays $55k

@Magpie_Hunter @ImAnonymous1776 @Stephen19718352 Ultimately its a distribution of character. Not all boomers embody the stereotype. Yet the stereotype persists. Similarly a significant % millennials are Moomers (millennial boomers). It all needs to be burned down.

@teletonic @ImAnonymous1776 @Stephen19718352 Yes we do live in a matriarchy. My point would be don't blame the smallest and most inconsequential demographic that is also most likely to be doing all he/she can to tune it all out.

@Magpie_Hunter @ImAnonymous1776 @Stephen19718352 The boomer male lived in the shadow of his veteran father Then they wanted to be tough guys while simultaneously inability to tell their daughters NO.

@Magpie_Hunter @ImAnonymous1776 @Stephen19718352 It's effeminate all the way down from the boomers. We live in a matriarchy.

@SunriseEnjoyer @ChristianHeiens There are no conservative options

@ChristianHeiens It’s more to do with the fact the the Conservatives are completely incompetent and a joke

Carney still has a 60% approval rating and the Liberals are dominating in the polls. The lesson here is simple. You can spend a decade completely destroying the country, tanking the economy, and replacing the native population with millions of Third Worlders, and as long as you endlessly pander to pensioners you can never lose. Canada is the world’s first gerontocracy.

@StraightFromDan Also my observation. How can a common shelter lose that much "value" in such a short period? How can common, commoditized shelters be so often wildly be this mispriced?

A property that i'm following was just reduced by 250k It really should make everyone wonder how they're pricing/valuing these properties to begin with. Most list prices are pixie dust at this point.

@PHfloor We get the takes that are incentivized for, economically and otherwise.

@teletonic So in the end everything you read in the papers is a bad, ill-informed, hot take along with everything on here?

It's true Toronto's, population declined by about 1,000 people in 2025. I wouldn't compare Toronto to selected US metros because they are experiencing net positive migration from within the US. Toronto is mostly a net negative domestic and net positive intl' migration city.

@PHfloor Any position other than 'long until wrong' seems to be a mistake in the tumultuous times.

@teletonic More importantly, how you trading it?