FYI
Galen Weston, the asshole Canadian billionaire mentioned, lives in a fucking castle that was built for the British royal family. https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/21072968/forgotten-royal-castle-windsor/
Weston is also involved in real estate, (PCREIT) like many other billionaires.
This is also why you can't afford rent, or buy a house.
Galen Weston made 500 million in profit (in ONE quarter) as he gouged Canadians during the pandemic. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaw-revenue-q4-2022-1.6757480
Their shitty in house brand coffee went from 7.99 to 19.99 per tin.
A box of 400g cereal at one of their shoppers drug mart brand stores will cost you $8 now.
A tub of 454g(1lb) margarine $8.
They've previously been found guilty of price fixing bread. (Weston co. makes breads) https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bread-price-fixing-loblaw-1.6719884
The Weston family is a cancer on this land.
Edit: the other cancer is the Irving family. They own Cavendish, Irving oil, owned ALL the media in the maritimes - all, and love destroying ocean, forest, and farmland. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Group_of_Companies
I switched to the locally owned grocery Polish grocery store. At least I'm not putting money in Galen's pocket.
Since Kim phat was bought by metro, I verify because sometimes they're stealthily owned by the big 3
Repeat after me, all billionaires are evil because the reason they're billionaires is because you're getting overcharged for whatever they're selling you, you're just so used to it that you assume you're getting your money's worth but that's subjective and based on your purchasing experiences, if you're always overcharged then you have no way to evaluate what your money is truly worth!
I agree 100%. It gave me an idea - a website showing the true cost of common items. For example, what does it cost for an industrial bakery to bake, package, and ship a loaf of bread?
Even if people knew how much they were getting ripped off, what are they supposed to do about it? What is the alternative?
If every brand of bread in the store is sold at a insane markup, and you need bread, what do you? Make your own? That's a hit or miss process that can take a while if you don't have a fancy bread maker. They either need to save to get a bread maker or find time between their maybe 2 or 3 jobs to make the bread.
Using the bread as an example is one of the worst examples considering how easy it is to make basic bread but I digress.
What are people supposed to do about it? Not electing people that work for billionaires would be a nice first step! Heck, just making others realize that they're fighting other poor people while the real enemy is the person at the top of the food chain is progress in itself! Get involved, unionize, buy from smaller stores, boycott major chains, produce as much of your own food as you can, learn to repair your clothes instead of buying new ones, learn to cook, buy from a farmer's market, habitation co-ops... There are alternatives but in the end a revolution might be necessary.
Floridians and Brits experienced the same due to the same idiocy.
"Dirty foreigners are stealing our jobs, they need to get out!"
"Wait, why is nobody picking our fruit? It's rotting in the trees! Filthy foreigners!"
Yet I'm not sure the lesson has had any learning effect.
Right but from what I remember it didn't affect immigrantion much on longer term, it's just that the source countries are now different
Oh wow that's not even the US. 340 years, that's cute.
Elon Musk is estimated by Forbes at $227 billion (and there's many more like Bezos and Zuck with only slightly less money). His annual pay is complicated, but if we divide that up by year since he entered the workforce in about 1995, it comes out to $7.8 billion/year.
The average salary in the US is about $64,000. So to make what Elon (roughly) makes in a year, the average American worker would need to work about 122,000 years. By this time the constellations we currently observe in the night sky will be unrecognizable.
broke uneducated GOP are thoroughly indoctrinated to believe "illegals" are causing all their problems, without a single thought about the (also GOP) business owners who hire those illegals under the table, thus giving them a reason to come here in the first place
I can confirm, work for manufacturing, owners hire people for $16/hr contract (min wage where I am) no benefits through third parties (who get paid $32+/hr to hire them.) The workers overwhelmingly do not speak English. Many, MANY of the workers use stolen SSNs or their relatives SSNs for employment. Everyone including the owners who work here in the home office are open republicans with very few exceptions and they'll all blame immigrants while themselves getting paid wayyyyy more than $16/hr.
I have seen this firsthand. Same owners are going to be dropping 9 figures to acquire a subdivision of another very large company. The nepotism is fucking insane and many executives are skimming money and hiring friends and family for vendors. Private company swimming in cash with tons and tons of mismanaged projects and zero budgets.
Grand Old Party (Republicans).
Not relevant to this particular post, but solsangraal likely just didn't realize this isn't in the US since it very much seems like it could be.
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Oh it's very relevant because you'd find trumpers here (in Canada). We get a lot of American media and it's influences encroaches on our politics.
I love that website this person in Canada created. They took the available open data from Stats Canada and made a website that shows all the businesses that applied for LMIA.
It doesn't? The text manufacturer plate under the sign looks worn, but is still both legible and makes sense. Tardif Metal Inc. is an actual company based out of Quebec and this pic was taken in Toronto, Ontario. A lot of Ontario's infrastructure is made in Quebec. If this was AI-generated, such information wouldn't add up.
I don't see anything else than can be mistaken for AI. Edit: Like others said, the pic was likely just poorly upscaled.
It actually has an Instagram handle barely visible on the top poster and it works. I think this is real.
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The metal plate has gibberish engraving. I don't see why this would need faking because there was a recent boycott campaign against Loblaws grocery stores in Canada but I guess its just laziness. or camera's built in AI upscaling
It clearly says Tardif Métal Inc, which according to google constructs steel, electrical, and commercial structures so it kinda tracks. AI generated images aren’t getting that kind of context nailed bro.
If I had to guess OP either has a phone that does AI upscaling on photos taken with the camera and it couldn’t handle the curved and reflective surface while trying to sharpen the text to be legible, or it’s just an optical illusion due to the aforementioned curve and reflectivity.
Inb4 you tell me that I’m AI.
It's not gibberish. Just shit job on the engraving. The info on the right matches the label on the left.
Top is company, the long mostly gibberish looking one is the serial or id number.
Can't read | UVA Power
Manufacturer | Tardiff Metal
Date of manufacture | 2010
O D | 10 3/4"
Weight | 2200 LBS
This is so strange to me that I had to run it through a few AI detector sites and they all seem to have a high human probability somehow. No idea how accurate those sites are though. Perhaps it is a real image, but ran through a bad AI upscaler? Or maybe OP could have taken this picture using a phone that has AI upscaling automatically applied to their photos like the Google pixel for example.
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I'm Canadian and it looks fine, what am I missing? The @handle? People tag posts and signs all the time.
Edit: looking back now I do see artifacts from the modern flagship post processing but I'm so used to it in my own photos that it's not a marker of being artificial to me.
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Can you elaborate on those mistakes? There was recently a boycott of this company's grocery stores in Canada so I don't see why this type of flyer would need faking
Why would someone fake this? I'm honestly asking. If you wanted this and it didn't exist you could just print out your own flyer and put it up and take a picture?
It isn’t fake. Maybe the words are pasted on or something but the warping and everything makes sense.
The “gibberish” you’re seeing above is just leftover bits because these poles have years of poster bits left all over them.
What gibberish AI letters?
Several on the metal plate have been poorly stamped but I can't see any gibberish.
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I'm convinced the extreme inflation post-COVID was caused by greedy companies realizing that many working-class families had managed to save and build a nest-egg during quarantine, and that they could jack up prices on necessities to bleed them all dry.
If inflation had been the result of wage growth increasing the price of labor, profit margins wouldn't have soared they way they did.
I also think they got scared by the anti work movement and the way suddenly it was very hard to find employees, so they wanted to make it impossible for them not to.
Firstly you guys need to undestand the mechanism at which this is happening. Its the wealthy using the governmnet to do it, not directly just corporations. So you can hate and fight the corporations but that will do absolutely nothing because is the government power they weild to maintain this broken system.
Is this AI generated? The smaller text looks weird, and the text on that pillar plate looks.... very odd indeed.
It's all...swimmy and mushy and gooey o.O
Not that I'm disagreeing with sentiment, but if this isn't AI generated then someone's put it through some sort of AI filtering process, for some reason.