While it’s a significant jump over the last month, the United States and Canada are experiencing about the same price increase proportionally.

Just as the average price in Hong Kong would kill a European on contact.

The price per unit is less shocking than the percentage increase from February to now, which is more or less the same regardless of what continent you’re on.

Not to them it’s not. Proportionally, it’s more than what many can afford. Just like how your fuel prices are dirt cheap to someone living in Hong Kong.

“Alexa call an ambulance!”

Ordered an amber lance, Prime delivery in eight hours

That would be a cheeky way to circumvent the intention of the legislation. Fortunately, as @Banana@sh.itjust.works mentioned, some places are getting these laws put in place.

I, too, am wary of these laws passed by those that might not understand the technology they’re legislating. Especially when so many of our laws get written by the corporations in the first place. The things you and I suspect could easily be done, only for authorities to be caught and fined one percent of one percent of the profits they made by doing so.

Time will tell I suppose. It’s a lovely grey day in this dystopia we find ourselves living in. Time to take another blue pill.

Oh thanks for that link. Goes on a lot about a King, less about a Queen.

Anyway not entirely sure how it’s related to my initial comment in this thread, unless the connection being made is the British Empire being marginally similar to the European Union in that it is a collection of countries that may or may not be geographical neighbours? I think the whole bit about one of those collections being voluntary and the other… less so.

But I appreciate the contribution all the same, I’ll put it in the guest room.

Ta-ta

To rip off another comment:

This just in! Major grocers found using customer heart rate to personalise prices - higher the pulse, higher the price!

The corporations have laid the groundwork for:

• altered prices around lunch hour for ready meals and snacks at retailers in walking distance to secondary schools
• automatic increases for products being purchased more rapidly than historical averages to capitalize on a yet unknown trend
• increases simply as stock begins running low

Professor Santiago Gallino specializing in retail management was interviewed a couple years ago by NPR for a piece about these tags.

While the labels give retailers the ability to increase prices suddenly, Gallino doubts companies like Walmart will take advantage of the technology in that way.

“To be honest, I don’t think that’s the underlying main driver of this,” Gallino said. “These are companies that tend to have a long-term relationship with their customers and I think the risk of frustrating them could be too risky, so I would be surprised if they try to do that.”

Rather than seeing an opportunity to use surge pricing, Gallino says retailers are likely drawn to electronic shelf tags to ensure consistency between online and in-store pricing.

Oh how Cartoon Network lied. We’ve been brought to a future with the technology of The Jetsons with the quality of life of Courage the Cowardly Dog.

A gift of a link is nicer than an instruction to perform a task, regardless of whatever connection you’re trying to make.

I’ll pass but thanks, Santa!

I’m no expert but given the trade between the two nations, I don’t think a currency change would do a whole lot to provide insulation from economic bullying the United States is capable of.

Maybe Canada could build a moat haha.

Call me a rube but I’m more of a mainland enthusiast myself. Don’t pay much mind to uninhabited islands that are closer in size to Vatican City than Tuvalu.

Interesting fact, though capital city to capital city, Canada is an order of magnitude further from France than it is to England.

That’s an interesting detail I didn’t know. With this new knowledge I choose to live in the timeline where Canada puts a loonie on the back of the euro coin haha.

Sure does feel weird to think about a country not on the European continent becoming part of the European Union. Also, loosing the looney and the toonie from Canada’s currency would be a global tragedy.

Oh I agree, the ‘Saudi Arabia of natural gas’ I was referring to is the United States.

This graph of LNG infrastructure in the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas” current, planned, and proposed is sad to look at.

Most of that isn’t too important. The real failure you neglected to mention is the loss of the negative reinforcement that comes with coal based energy generation. If we keep burning the stuff, the big man can’t give out as many lumps to the bad children, and so they grow up to be criminals running big companies.

Not sure why, but hot dogs to me are theatre food, same as popcorn. It’s the only place I have those things. Eight dollars is crazy though.

Presumably such a site would be visually obvious as parody. Having it give jokey answers in as a caricature would be one thing. If you dressed it up as a professional legal advice service for opinions on criminal law from Alan Shore, that could be problematic.

At a certain point of information sharing, we should want a high bar for the ones providing the answers. When asking nuanced questions, we should want for the answer to come from knowledge, not memory. I made an example in this other comment.

I’m not sure I agree with your ‘right answer’ bit. Personally, I’d prefer dumb people to be protected in a similar way that I want the elderly protected from losing their savings from an email scam.

‘Should I use one teaspoon of salt in this recipe, or two?’

Two is ideal.

‘Do dogs like chicken wings?’

Wild dogs regularly hunt small animals like hare or chicken for food.

One of these answers results in a bad cake, the other results in a hurt dog. Potentially inaccurate answers aren’t much of a problem when the stakes are low, but even a simple question about what to feed a pet could end with a negative outcome.