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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I find genAI imagery extremely uncanny and creepy, and I can't condone the usage of a system whose creators yearn for a day where companies won't have to pay human creators anymore and can simply funnel their funds directly into the pockets of giant corporations instead.

Additionally, commercial-scale generative AI is already destroying the environment in communities across the world due to its power use.

It's not something I can accept nor condone, and I will continue to shame people for facilitating the transfer of wealth and destruction of our environment.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

I FUCKING LOVE PEE

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Northern Ontario is very pretty, but yeah maybe not internationally famous.

I'd think BC, Niagara falls (Ontario), Quebec and the maritimes are more internationally famous for tourism.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Speeding is an inherently human problem, you cannot solve the human, you can only trick the human into solving the problem for you, i.e. scaring them and making speeding actively risky for their own car.

Ultimately, on top of traffic calming, we need way better public transit and making driver's licences harder to acquire with longer, more rigorous training. That way, driving is not an obligation and those who don't want to drive or should not be driving do not have to drive. Not everyone was meant to drive.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

You sound completely sane of mind.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Traffic calming designs and devices should be preferred over speed cameras.

Narrow streets, chicanes, pedestrian zone height transitions, narrowing the street at pedestrian crossings, etc.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I think I'm having a fever dream.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

So... Proprietary Anubis?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Oh dw you're good, I couldn't tell if you were genuinely asking 😅 I don't know if the cat has an eye missing, but the other one is not visible.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a one-eyed cat looking up with a tilted head

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
 

I think they've been like this for a while though. Clearly a way to sneak out 2 cookies without the consumer noticing.

 

 
 

I created this community as shrinkflation is getting really bad in Canada, especially in grocery stores.

This community is probably going to lean towards being Canada-centric, but shrinkflation posts from all over are welcome!

Shrinkflation is defined as a reduction in size or quality of a product, for a same or higher price for a given quantity.

From Wikipedia:

In economics, shrinkflation, also known as the grocery shrink ray, deflation, or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase. The word is a portmanteau of the words shrink and inflation.

[...]

Shrinkflation allows companies to increase their operating margin and profitability by reducing costs whilst maintaining sales volume, and is often used as an alternative to raising prices in line with inflation. Consumer protection groups are critical of the practice.

Shrinkflation is a rise in the general price level of goods per unit of weight or volume, brought about by a reduction in the weight or size of the item sold. The price for one piece of the packaged product remains the same or could even be raised. This sometimes does not affect inflation measures such as the consumer price index or Retail Price Index, i.e. it might not increase in the cost of a basket of retail goods and services, but many indicators of price levels and thus inflation are linked to units of volume or weight of products, so that shrinkflation also affects the statistically represented inflation figures.

 

I created this community as shrinkflation is getting really bad in Canada, especially in grocery stores.

This community is probably going to lean towards being Canada-centric, but shrinkflation posts from all over are welcome!

Shrinkflation is defined as a reduction in size or quality of a product, for a same or higher price for a given quantity.

From Wikipedia:

In economics, shrinkflation, also known as the grocery shrink ray, deflation, or package downsizing, is the process of items shrinking in size or quantity, or even sometimes reformulating or reducing quality, while their prices remain the same or increase. The word is a portmanteau of the words shrink and inflation.

[...]

Shrinkflation allows companies to increase their operating margin and profitability by reducing costs whilst maintaining sales volume, and is often used as an alternative to raising prices in line with inflation. Consumer protection groups are critical of the practice.

Shrinkflation is a rise in the general price level of goods per unit of weight or volume, brought about by a reduction in the weight or size of the item sold. The price for one piece of the packaged product remains the same or could even be raised. This sometimes does not affect inflation measures such as the consumer price index or Retail Price Index, i.e. it might not increase in the cost of a basket of retail goods and services, but many indicators of price levels and thus inflation are linked to units of volume or weight of products, so that shrinkflation also affects the statistically represented inflation figures.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca to c/shrinkflation@lemmy.ca
 

The packaging is also much flimsier, it's very floppy. The old packaging feels normal.

This is the same toothpaste I usually buy, and the new one even claimed to be a "value pack" on the box! As far as I remember, the old pack was just a regular pack.

$5.47 CAD for the new pack, price unknown for the old one, purchased around August 2023.

One of them is whitening while the other is not, but they are generally the same price and format.

 

Montreal to see close to 15 cm of snow, freezing rain and strong winds starting Tuesday afternoon

 

Les Bixi sont désormais disponibles en hiver, avec pédales anti-dérapantes et pneus à crampons, mais portez garde à votre destination, car ils ont retirés la majorité des porte-vélos en dehors de downtown.

J'ai eu la malchance de penser "oh wow les bixis sont disponibles en hiver!" sans checker la carte, arriver à ma destination, et devoir ramener le vélo à Ville-Marie parce que il n'y avait aucun porte-vélo dans le coin. 🤦

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