Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • About 20 years I went on a vacation to southern Spain … during the point when Spain was just fully transitioning into the European Union.

    I remember trying to watch some TV programs (there wasn’t much to watch) … but the funny thing that struck me was the commercials. They’d play an hour and half long movie for about an hour … then stop and play non stop commercials for about 15 minutes. It was normal for everyone because they used the time to just get up, bathroom break, kitchen duty, clean the house, go grab some groceries, etc … then return to the living room in time to watch the rest of the movie. No one watched commercials because they all hated them as much as anyone else.

    I don’t think they do that any more but I thought I wouldn’t mind that myself … instead of breaking my show every ten / fifteen minutes with a minute of commercials … just show them all to me in ten minutes at the end of an hour.








  • I have a theory that every company/service/corporation has dozens of loopholes like this everywhere that people could take advantage of. But no one ever does because most people are too honest and proud to ever ask for a discount or to take advantage of an opportunity like this. Most people are too nice and gullible.

    Corporations bet on people being too nice all the time.

    People are too embarrassed or self conscious to go after a deal or even to ask for one … when in reality corporations are complete greedy whores and will sell your grandmother if it meant they could save a penny.

    No one should ever feel embarrassed or shy to ask for a discount or go after saving themselves a few dollars. Corporations do it all the time and they never shy away from skimming off a few pennies from you if they can.

    BTW - beautiful work on getting that regular discount for yourself



  • For every service you sign up to … phone company, subscription, gas company, water service, electricity, whatever …

    … always ask if you can get a discount or a better price.

    Don’t be embarrassed to ask. No one cares. We just build a culture around the hope that no one will ever ask for a better price and negotiate. The rep your talking to doesn’t care about you and doesn’t care about the company … they might be having a bad day and won’t care about helping you … or they might be having a good day and they know an inside method or option to save you something … or they might be facing losing their job so they figure out a way to save you a ton of money.

    I got a banking service a few weeks ago and they gave me a price for a subscription … I knew it was a sham but it was a service I needed … I asked for a discount from the Filipino rep who spoke bag English … she went off for five minutes and came back with a 60% discount.

    Sometimes these businesses set their prices high and just hope that no one will ask for a different price … because most people never ask.





  • Great promotion … for Turnip

    It’s the age old thing about talking about people or trying to market the next big thing. As long as they’re talking about you, that’s a good thing.

    Good news, bad news, stupid news, lies, truths, information, disinformation … none of it matters as long as they’re talking about you and the things you want to talk about.

    It’s modern day media manipulation … you aggravate your followers, upset the opposition, piss off the sideliners, agitate the ignorant and get everyone fighting all the time … as soon as they start trying to think for themselves, throw more shit into the fan to get everyone angry again and again and again. All they ever do is fight about things in front of them while you go off into the background to do whatever you want.

    People then get divided into two camps … those that continually fight without end or results … and those who just give up, step away and willingly embrace ignorance.