Which isn’t really relevant to their original comment about basic necessities? So far it’s like you haven’t bothered to read any comments but just really wanted to say something. Got the number of people for my expenses comment wrong, completely missed the point of the main comment. 0/2.
… 65 - 20 = 45, which I explicitly called out as our lowest expenses for 2 people but their comment is about 40 for a family of four…
Off by a factor of 2, bud
Straight up no idea how you’re doing that - genuinely you should be proud of your budgeting.
My partner and I live quite comfortably admittedly, but we rarely buy “things” - our biggest discretionary spending by far is on higher quality food. Our net expenses last year was around 65k CAD.
24k went to housing, around 20k went into investments and savings, and the last 20k was on “everything else”, including discretionary spending. We live comfortably but not nearly extravagantly and our expenses floor for the two of us is probably 40k… let alone adding two kids.
And we live in an incredibly cheap city compared to Vancouver/Toronto!
I was there last year - they have a fantastic display about John Çatalhüyük and his invention. His stepson, Jimmy Çatalhüyük, is of course the famed inventor of the step ladder.
Really though, quite a cool site to visit. The joined walls were particularly interesting to see imo. Definitely would recommend if you’re ever in Konya.
I still shop at Costco, but they’re essentially the only American company I do business with at this point. Costco gets a pass for a few reasons:
I also exclusively purchase Canadian products inside Canadian warehouses so… it’s less bad.
What? There’s absolutely no way we can interpret intent in this case - this could genuinely be a fair question asked in good faith.
“What about US tech?” could be interpreted a number of ways, from “are Canadians also divesting from US tech?” to “But Canadians aren’t divesting from US tech, what about that?”. There’s no reason to believe this person is going after the latter case here when “ok that’s retail, how’s tech doing?” is equally likely and imminently reasonable.
I’m fine to get dog piled here but I think you’ve assumed bad faith where there is no reason to make that assumption, especially after the user attempted to disambiguate in exactly the way I’ve described.
I’m also curious to see how Canadian usage of American tech companies has changed. I wonder if it got more people to quit Twitter finally.
Postmedia has a bunch of “* Star” papers and the Toronto Sun but notably not the Toronto Star.
I was pretty sure it was the Toronto Star that was Postmedia… I may be remembering incorrectly. I’m gonna delete my comment until I can verify.
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Hey now why are we catching strays? Dude’s getting dog piled with downvotes on a Canadian instances community. They’re probably a Euro, they love to complain about US news cycles.
I’m actually having a similar problem. I’ve had my pothos for maybe 6 years now, and I reported them for the first time in a long while a month ago… they’re not very happy now, but I’m hoping they’re just adjusting.
I have no advice but I hope yours recover!
Except those who dissented publicly, right? Pretty sure Sotomayor was pretty publicly pissed off at the rest of the court.
Plenty of time for a real progressive to do their work, right?
Yeah we as a society need to start treating primaries with respect and actually showing up to vote for those.
As soon as a progressive wins a seat, if they don’t fix 100% of problems within 30 seconds, they’re part of The Establishment and are dead to the movement.
Let’s see if the Democrstic Party holds to their unofficial stance that this race is effectively a referendum on the party’s future.
Probably. But who knows. And the fact that the only cope is “it’s just a negotiating tactic” like MAGA after prices increase from tariffs is giving me a headache. What a time to be alive.
Here’s another
https://www.ft.com/content/ce9eb7e4-7989-45f6-a3b3-3cdec73a8540
A Nato official confirmed the message’s authenticity.
I can only provide some sample articles that reference a confirmation from Rutte’s office. I don’t think they put out a statement or a release, I think reporters called the office and got confirmation that way. Not sure you’ll be able to find a public statement.
Here’s a French one that theoretically isn’t bound to gobble Trumps knob.
“Congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran, that was truly extraordinary and something no one else dared to do. It makes us safer,” Rutte wrote in a message shared by Trump on Truth Social – and confirmed by the NATO chief’s office.
I regret to inform you Rutte’s office has confirmed officially. I took massive psychic damage when I discovered this was a real post of a real text not a real post of a fake text.
I’m a simple man. I see AI slop, I downvote AI slop.