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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • If you look up sausages around the world, most regions are covered. Historically, from a survival perspective, you didn’t want to throw away any meat, and grinding up less palatable parts is an easy way to do that. Often, that led to sausages, but American Aboriginals often went with pemmican, Scots did haggis, and I’m sure there were other ways in other regions. The only regions I haven’t seen without a historical sausage is Africa, but the Roman Empire had chopped meat dishes, so the idea may have been exported thousands of years ago even if it didn’t spontaneously originate there.








  • It’s surprising how many people still operate on the concept of temporarily embarrassed millionaires ($100 million dollars in current value). This is not the vast majority of us, and never will be. It’s like when my dad would talk about the “death tax” which is pretty much a thing…if you have over $10 million in your estate and a whole bunch of other caveats. He never had that before he died, and I didn’t look into the details of the inheritance tax before he died, either.

    Canada’s current version of the death tax is the capital gains tax change…which is something like an additional $13k if your income is over $300k of capital gains. And people respond with, “But what if I sell my house?” If your house is your primary residence (and you owned it for at least a year), it’s tax free. If it isn’t, it only matters if it appreciated by $300k, and again I think you can handle the extra $13k.