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Jerry Penner retweeted
For Canadians struggling to make ends meet
Here's the root cause
and it ain't "Trump"
Jerry Penner retweeted
Chapman's Ice Cream has just done something EVERY Canadian should know.
The largest ice cream company in Canada used to source fruit and nuts from American suppliers — for some, for over 30 years. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products.
So, what did Chapman's do?
đź“· They called Italy.
đź“· They called Spain.
đź“· They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.
And the vice president said it perfectly:
"Even if Trump wakes up smarter than yesterday, we're about to sign long-term deals with other countries — and the American companies that supply them will have nothing but their eyes to cry for."
Oh, and on top of ALL that? They're COLDing their prices so that the average Canadian doesn't have to spend a single cent more.
It's a family business. No shareholders. Just the Chapman family saying: "The least we can do is make sure Canadians still have the means to buy ice cream."
That's what Canadian pride looks like.
Next time you're at the grocery store — grab some Chapman's.
Every scoop of ice cream is a vote for Canada.
Jerry Penner retweeted
🚨 L’ARME ULTIME CONTRE LES MENTEURS POLITIQUES VIENT D’ARRIVER
Un étudiant a créé une extension de navigateur qui attrape les politiciens en train de mentir en direct.
Comment ça marche :
- Elle transcrit chaque mot du discours en temps réel
- Elle cherche automatiquement des sources sur internet pour chaque affirmation
- Elle envoie tout à Claude qui donne un verdict instantané (Vrai / Faux / Trompeur)
Et tout ça pendant que le politicien est encore en train de parler.
Le projet est né dans une université et fonctionne déjà comme extension Chrome (et Firefox).
L’outil anti-manipulation de masse que beaucoup attendaient ?
Source : @polyesp
Jerry Penner retweeted
Bezos reveals his actual meeting trick for making everyone tell him the truth.
"In every meeting that I attend, I always speak last. I know from experience that if I speak first, even very strong-willed, highly intelligent, high-judgment participants will wonder, well, if Jeff thinks that, maybe I'm not right."
"We humans are not really truth-seeking animals. We are social animals. Take you back in time 10,000 years and you're in a small village. If you go along to get along, you can survive. If you're the village truth teller, you might get clubbed to death in the middle of the night."
"Science is all about truth telling. It's actually a very formal mechanism for trying to tell the truth. And even in science, you find that it's hard to tell the truth. There's a hierarchy of humans where seniority matters in the scientific process, and that's true inside companies too."
"If you're the most senior person in the room, go last. Ideally, let the most junior person go first, and go in order of seniority, so you can hear everyone's opinion in a kind of unfiltered way."
"There's an optimism bias. If there are two interpretations of a new set of data, and one is happy and one is unhappy, it's dangerous to jump to the happy interpretation. You may want to compensate for that bias and say, that might be good, but I'm going to go with it's bad for now until we're sure."
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Jerry Penner retweeted
Jeff Bezos on his favorite interview question
“When I interview people, I ask them to give me an example of something they've invented. And I always point out, it doesn't have to be something that you actually took to the patent office. It could be a metric that you invented and followed carefully. It could be a business process that you invented. You want to select people who like to invent their way out of boxes.”
A lot of people will immediately jump to what Jeff calls an “either or” solution (e.g. “We can do A or B.”). But as Jeff explains:
“The right question is how can we do A and B? What invention do we need to be able to do both?”
Jerry Penner retweeted
Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:
1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality)
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality)
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost)
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)
The last one is how government spending works.
If I showed you a machine that runs by itself and spits out 2 dollars annually for every dollar you put in until you turn it off, how much would you put in?
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RFK Jr. breaks down how one man lied about meat and shaped the harmful food pyramid for decades.
“Those studies that justified that were done by a guy called Ancel Keys.”
“Americans all over became concerned with heart attacks.”
“He developed this hypothesis in his head that it had to do with meat.”
“He did a study that originally included 15 nations, including Germany, UK, and Switzerland which eat a tremendous amount of meat.”
“When he got the data back, he saw that the coastal countries which eat a lot less meat, were not any better than the countries that ate pig and goose.”
“So he just dropped all the meat-eating countries out.”
“He committed an act of deception.”
“He got himself appointed to the board of the American Heart Association.”
“He took a lot of money from Procter Gamble, which at that time was trying to market margarine.”
“When a lot of scientists began disagreeing with him… they engineered the destruction of their reputations, their silencing, the destruction in some cases of their careers.”
“For 70 years we’ve lived with this lie.”
Jerry Penner retweeted
Thomas Sowell gets it: He's 94 years old and has never held political office, never had a viral moment, never begged for your attention. He just wrote 30 books, spent 50 years dismantling bad ideas with data, and let the work speak. No green room. No cable news contract. No ideology to sell you. While academics were chasing grants and politicians were chasing polls, Sowell was in the library proving them all wrong. The most dangerous intellectual in America isn't the loudest one. It's the one who doesn't need you to agree with him.
Jerry Penner retweeted
“Equality of outcome is in clear conflict with liberty. The attempt to promote it has been a major source of bigger and bigger government, and of government-imposed restrictions on our liberty.”
— Milton Friedman
Jerry Penner retweeted
The story of Ronald Read really is insane.
Born in 1921, Read lived one of the simplest lives you can imagine. He was a janitor and and worked st a gas station. To everyone around him, he looked like an ordinary, hardworking man with modest means.
But he had a secret.
Over the course of several decades, Ronald Read quietly built an $8 million fortune.
How?
• He lived frugally
• He saved consistently
• He invested in high-quality, dividend-paying stocks
• And most importantly… he held them for decades
His portfolio included companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, JPMorgan, and Dow Chemical. These were blue-chip businesses that steadily grew and paid dividends year after year.
Read rarely sold anything. He simply let the power of compounding do the heavy lifting.
When he passed away in 2014 at age 92, the town was stunned.
Ronald Read donated $6 million to the local hospital and $2 million to the public library. Nobody had any idea he had accumulated that kind of wealth.
His story is one of the best real-world examples of what long-term investing can do, even for someone who never earned a high income.
Ronald Read proved that you don’t need a big salary to become wealthy. You need time, patience, discipline, and the willingness to let compounding work its magic.
A powerful reminder for all of us.
Jerry Penner retweeted
We figured out that dad has a psych med induced neurological injury, and has been suffering from akathisia. It’s been 6 years since any psych medications. Last summer his symptoms started, after a flare up likely induced by mold (CIRS) and stress. It was complicated by pneumonia and associated sepsis a month later. It’s been horrible. Neurological injuries from psych meds are far more common than people know. I made this video to explain what they are and what akathisia is because they’re not talked about enough, they’re misdiagnosed, nearly impossible to treat, and hidden by the pharmaceutical industry. I don’t plan on making another update about my dad, it stresses my family out, and myself, and there’s nothing more to say about it until things get better. I will be jumping up and down about psych med injury awareness from now on as it’s impacted my health as well, and is devastating. Prayers are appreciated still.
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