Because of its geographical location, the city of Toronto normally enjoys a particularly mild climate.
In 1999, it declared a state of emergency and called the military to help clearing the snow after a pityful 40 cm snowfall.
The city was widely mocked by the rest of the country for such an overreaction over what everyone else saw as just an average snow day.
They've made $ 359 Billion dollars profit in 2023 alone, increasing their revenue threefold since 2010. 80% of their revenue is from insurance premiums so clearly they're over-charging and/or not covering as many claims as they should on a HUGE scale. This is pure exploitation and abuse.
When you exploit your customers like that in health insurance, it not only ruins lives, but also kills people. They can make all the mental gymnastics as they want, but the actions they've taken to increase their profits are literally killing people.
With 53 million customers, the number of people whose lives were ruined or lost by this blatant scam is in the millions. It was only a matter of time they'd end up pissing off a vengeful enough person.
I mean, once you've figured out how to play music in someone's mind, it's only a matter of time before you figure out what parts of the brain to activate to cause cravings, impulsive behavior or puts you in a suggestible state.
Which means ads can also be streamed. Heck no.
I've been out of the loop for a while so please help me here.
But I've been waiting for a long while for a GPU to replace my GTX970 that can just run modern and upcoming games for a few years at 60 fps in 1080p without all the excess cost, size and power consumption required for 4k or raytracing. It must also run well in Linux (screw you nvidia). That card does sound like exactly what I've been waiting for.
Where's the catch? Is there one?
The reason they gave for the tracking of their employees private communications and location even when not at work is "health and safety reasons".
"This is for your protection" seems to be the go-to corporate bad faith argument these days.
This reminds me of that quote from Mass Effect:
"This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class Dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space! (...) I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty! Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going 'till it hits something! That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime!"
In Stargate SG1 they do that to destroy and invading alien ship approaching Earth.
"It is supposed to be ribbed for my pleasure!"
Remember how China's CCP keeps trying to have its way by using threats to bully other nations into submission and all it does is rally everyone against them instead? Watch the world turn its back to the US even faster now.
He kept boasting that it was "bullet proof". Meanwhile I could easily imagine the engineers in the back really badly hoping he would shut up about that because they understood the gravity of the costs and compromises that would have been required to actually make this car bulletproof
Guess what, turns out it's not bullet proof after all. What a shocker.
That $358 Billion profit they've registered in 2023 says a lot about how much all those "efficiency" savings are being passed to their customers.