Yes, but it wasn’t one person who decided to have a ‘rally’ in Ottawa and disrupt everyone’s lives for weeks, was it?
That said, it’s also worth noting that one unhinged guy got into Chretien’s bedroom one time. I suspect protection procedures, and costs, started getting reassessed around then.
Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.
Add to that the medical community has basically burnt any good will they had from the public by crazy pricing and poor access combined with mediocre results.
You realize masks are generally sold by manufacturers, and not what would traditionally be referred to as the medical community. Blaming doctors and nurses for masks being expensive or hard to get seems a little ridiculous. “How dare the medical community, represented by…Home Depot…charge so much for N95 masks!”
I love the idea of equating arcades with gambling. In one you will always lose your money, and the better you are the longer you can play. In the other, the skill element is much less relevant.
This is the problem with small sample sizes, which is why we have standard deviation. Given that IQ is on a normal curve (it is) and we have a large sample size (we do), the deviation is going to be very small.
So, very very close to 50% of the population is below average intelligence.
My favorite was white phosphorus, which caused Phossy Jaw in the employees making the matches. Switching to red phosphorus would mean a 1% increase in cost or reduction in profits (wasn’t sure which based on the article). Doing so would mean your employees’ bones wouldn’t dissolve. It took regulation to force them to switch.
So a person who has contributed heavily to society should have no expectation to reduce their contribution, except perhaps some of the wisdom they accrued over the years? Work til we die, or we hold no value? I question your worldview. For what other reason have we progressed technologically except to make life easier? The only other realistic options are to increase the rate of progress or to reward some few people excessively while the rest of us work ourselves to death. Perhaps it’s time to consider the middle ground.
In a new poll, nearly half of Canadians say they support the notwithstanding clause to ensure that schools tell parents if their child wishes to use a different name or pronoun.
My kid got a tongue piercing when he was 18, and put a lot of effort into making sure I wouldn’t find out. It took 3 days. I told him it was a poor choice and to take care of it so he minimized his chances of bad outcomes. When I asked him why he didn’t tell me right away, he said he didn’t think I’d get angry or anything, he just didn’t want me to disapprove.
Sometimes kids will take a while to let you know things for reasons other than fear of reprisal, but parents in that situation can usually accept that their kids will take time to be ready.
An interesting article about the extreme right in the US and how they are not interested in governing or working for the people but are focused instead on tearing apart the US government, taking away rights and freedoms, and turning the country into a christofascist dictatorship with oligarchs in charge....
Take a look at the trends in Manitoba. Underfunded and mismanage, next step is saying private surely can’t be worse, final step is privatize. They did it with MTS, they were on step 2 with healthcare, they were on step 1 with education, they were on step 2 with Hydro.
Everyone else is (rightly) shooting on you for hating poor people. And there is some validity to what you’re saying about some portion of the poor adults you’re talking about. So the question you should be looking at is, “How do I get there to be less poor people?” Sure you could suggest a modest proposal, or you could promote ideas to minimize those poor children growing up to be poor adults. So what things make poor kids grow up to be poor adults? Well, the three biggest you’re going to see are lack of education, poor health and nutrition, and poor housing security. If you look at the numbers for anywhere else in the world, you’ll see that unless you’re fabulously wealthy you will generally see better health outcomes from universal healthcare, and it will probably cost you less, too. Properly funding public education is another key factor in making sure those poor kids have every chance to not be poor adults. Whiles you’re at it, keep funding those school lunch programs. Don’t worry, for every dollar spent on those, the economy sees multiple dollars of improvement. Housing can get a bit expensive, and even if you just did those other two, you would be doing a lot to reduce the number of poor kids who grow up to be poor adults. Now, if you were so outrageous as to propose police reforms to the point where the kids are less afraid of the cops than they are of the local gangs, that might be a benefit, too. Granted, none of this is quick or easy.
When it comes down to it, poor people are always going to cost something to deal with. You can worry about health, education, housing and social assistance, or you can worry about policing, jail, and supports and corrections for children. Neither option is free.
While there’s a lot of merit in that chart, precious metals (that aren’t being used industrially) are bought and sold worldwide in Troy ounces, which are heavier than imperial ounces. Also, there are only 12 Troy ounces to the Troy pound, which is lighter than the imperial pound.
You can buy precious metals in grams in consumer markets (i.e., Costco), but all major markets deal in Troy ounces.
It isn’t required that they be an MP, only that they lead the party, have the approval of the governor, and have the confidence of Parliament. In this case, though, they can’t vote on any laws, since they haven’t been elected. The usual solution is for an elected MP of the party in a riding that is strong for that party to step down, triggering a by-election with the PM runs in. This has happened before, and will doubtless happen again.
Wikipedia does indeed refer to a shortage the way he described it. The very next paragraph gave the colloquial definition, which you’ve described. Your response is the direct result of his decision to be obtuse. Don’t feed the trolls.
I wasn’t an early adopter of Reddit, or Lemmy, but this sort of has the same issues of momentum as web browsers do. It doesn’t matter how they started. Where they are now is the standard, and that’s what you have to build to in order to be a viable replacement. With browsers it’s the capability to serve pretty much any page with all the bells and whistles, with Reddit/Lemmy it’s all the posts, comments, and user base. I think it can happen, but it won’t be easy or fast. I’m not worried, though. I think we can rely on spez to send more users this way until a suitable number of users have joined.
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
So why do you suppose we would be losing so many more people over some reasonable span of time if it’s only the unusual that is killing them?
Your opinion on this isn’t very coherent. I suspect it is more tied to an emotional reaction more than some objective reason. You may want to explore why.
At last, someone from the world of politics is being honest about a pervasive and harmful trade-off. When home prices rise faster than earnings, owners like me gain wealth, while non-owners lose because their incomes fall further behind housing costs....
Don’t bother debating with this likely troll. The article he cites literally references the rising interest rate as a significant cause for a slight dip in sales, with a reduced month-over-month percentage but still an increase over August 2022 sales. The article also cites continued attention by the government being predicted to cause sales to further cool.
Judge Newman has threatened to have staff arrested, forcibly removed from the building, and fired. She accused staff of trickery, deceit, acting as her adversary, stealing her computer, stealing her files, and depriving her of secretarial support. Staff have described Judge Newman in their interactions with her as “aggressive,...
That’s why. There are certain things that are significant enough that we don’t let just anyone do them, yet also important enough to self-determination that we don’t usually say a person will never be allowed to make that choice. That age when we’ve decided people are mentally, not physically, mature enough to make those decisions is 18. Most people have reached that threshold, some have been there for years, some never will be. Some will barely skim past that threshold, and we will hear stories about them for years. Those who are incapable of breaching that threshold have some or all of their rights as adults removed, and we call that guardianship, power of attorney, and similar things.
The difference between minors and incapable seniors is that some never become that much less capable, and those that do will do so over a truly significant span of years, like half a lifetime’s difference. So how do you pick a number and say, “This is when adults are too old to make good decisions,” without disregarding the capabilities of the vast majority of the people affected on the low side of the range or being far too late to matter on the high side? Perhaps dealing with something with such a great degree of variability should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
I’m not sure why you’re so fixated on physical well-being for a job that has no negative consequences for poor physical health, and we have numerous examples of judges performing their jobs so poorly that an appeal is pretty much a slam dunk, regardless of age. Yet even when you acknowledge the merits of tests for mental competence in a field that literally references having sound judgement in its name, you still have to circle back to the age issue. There are better metrics than that, even ignoring the fact that we have good evidence that there are pretty shitty people in positions of power from just about every age demographic that can get elected or appointed.
I will say this one last time. Equating the necessity for certain jobs to require physical fitness with the requirement for other jobs to have mental fitness makes no sense. This does not mean we shouldn’t remove people from their jobs because they are old, but because they are unfit. When there is a strong correlation between fitness and age, such as physical well-being, and a failure to perform your job puts lives on the line, age limits make sense. When there is a much weaker correlation between age and fitness, such as mental acuity, other tools will achieve better results.
All of this is tangential to setting a retirement age. If you as a nation are going to require people to stop working at a specific age, then you as a nation should be willing to guarantee the financial well-being of people over a certain age. If you don’t want to support them, then you shouldn’t mandate they stop being able to support themselves. Currently, about a quarter of the American workforce is over 65. I guarantee a significant number of them aren’t doing it out of preference rather than necessity.
I don’t think it will be the judge, or those with enough power to cause harm to society to the planet or society who would suffer under your grand plans. More like the old lady working at Wal-Mart who would love to be able to retire and still be able to afford food and shelter. This is why sweeping generalizations while focusing on only a tiny part of the outcome both lead to bad policies and makes you look like a ghoul.
I missed the context of government officials. I still think a simple age requirement is a poor choice, but certainly better than no retirement options at all within that context.
Well, I wasn’t the OP, but having a president basically say, “Yeah, a foreign government murdered and dismembered one of our citizens, but do you realize how much money they spend here?” hasn’t really left my consciousness.
Canada Post's gathering of personal information for a marketing program sold to businesses is “absolutely outrageous," a former privacy commissioner says.
Once again, people are being taken advantage of, and actions that should be opt-in, if allowed at all, are being implemented as opt-out. I was particularly amused by Canada Post’s response that Canadians enjoy getting marketing mail.
If you want to add your voice to the Privacy Commissioner’s recommendations, there is a form you can enter an anonymous complaint. Link. Also, if you want to do something other than share a concern, the full list of options can be found here.
Here’s what I put. Feel free to use it whole cloth, or as a starting point for your own personal opinions.
I just discovered that Canada Post is sharing our information with third-party marketers, and I do not approve. I will not currently opt out of this because that gives tacit approval to the idea that this should be an opt-out process, rather than an opt-in process if it’s allowed to happen at all.
Please continue to put pressure on Canada Post to change this policy, and thank you for your service to average Canadians.
Modi is very conservative, and has been targeting minority groups such as Indian Muslims and Sikhs. Unlike Muslims, who have a number of countries where they are the majority (Pakistan being a notable one, for good or ill), I haven’t heard of one for the Sikhs. I don’t claim to have a similar issue, but I can appreciate people wanting a homeland. I can also appreciate Indians in general not wanting their country split up (again). That in itself doesn’t make people terrorists, imo.
From a Canadian perspective, that’s like calling Quebec or Alberta separatists terrorists. Not really, until they start bombing buildings, kidnapping people, and otherwise inciting terror, such as the FLQ.
I agree. Tolerance and understanding are key. There are exceptions (rape shouldn’t be dismissed, thieves shouldn’t have their hands cut off, people shouldn’t be forced to follow practices of religions they haven’t chosen to, intolerant bigots shouldn’t be given a platform from which to spread hate, etc.), but that is the main thing.
People will tend toward prioritizing their kids over other kids in general. So, when having to choose between feeding and housing their kid or maybe another kid getting sick (and carefully not thinking about them maybe dying), they choose to feed their kid.
Rather than getting angry that some parents aren’t as noble as you, perhaps consider directing your ire toward a system where a parent can’t afford to stay home without the financial harm impacting their kid. Mandatory paid sick days would make this much easier.
I’m a pragmatist. I don’t see the point in making people make hard choices when they don’t have to. The vast majority of people will always choose us over them, and not many things are more ‘us’ than our children. So rather than rail against the imperfection of humanity, I’d rather promote the idea this issue should never arise. Our nation is wealthy enough that people shouldn’t have to risk their or other people’s health when they or their kids are sick, yet we have nothing in place for most employees to make sure that doesn’t have to be a consideration. I’d posit those who have the power to change are not merely amoral, but rather are immoral, and those who have no sympathy for those in the position to have to choose the health of their kids versus the health of some other kid are out of touch or insensitive.
Hello, Canadians of Lemmy! Down in the USA there is a lot of conflicting information regarding the efficacy of y’alls healthcare systems. Without revealing my personal bias, I was hoping for some anecdotes or summaries from those whom actually live there.
My retired mom had cancer a few years back, pretty bad. Surgery, chemo, radiation therapy, hair fell out and wore a wig. The only expense was for parking. Even the wig was provided by a charity adjacent to cancer care. Surgery, one to three weeks in the hospital, treatments spanning over a year, costing a couple hundred dollars in parking fees. No stress about losing her home due to hospital expenses.
I’d take that over what can be had in America any time.
I think you’re overthinking this. The presence of water is required to make clay minerals, and water has covered just about the entire surface of the planet. I’m also pretty sure the people making clay over 10,000 years ago didn’t do a fine analysis of the raw dirt they refined their clay from. This video also showed 3 ways to refine clay, depending on the clay content. And given that the profile of soil generally includes some amount of clay (loam consists of less than 40%, deserts are often over 90% sand and still have clay) pretty much any natural soil that grows plants probably has some amount of clay.
So yes, you need specific minerals to make clay, they just happen to be almost everywhere plants, and thus people, are found. And no, this won’t give you pure clay minerals, but if the clay isn’t white, that’s already the case.
Oh, absolutely. I imagine there are places with very little clay content, requiring the third technique the video showed to be used in ancient times, not unlike the extreme measures the Japanese had to use to to refine iron compared to many other places.
The cost to protect the prime minister has shot up to more than $30 million a year (www.cbc.ca)
Fantasy rednecks (lemmy.world)
A mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months. (www.nbcnews.com)
Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.
What's some sex ed info you didn't know until embarrasingly late?
Oh my god I’ve got so many 😭
this might be my last day before we all get sick of them. (lemmy.world)
Here’s the pic he’s taking....
What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis? (www.scientificamerican.com)
Gambling is addictive (lemmy.ml)
EXCLUSIVE: In the ’80s, Joe Biden Speculated to Israel’s PM About Wiping Out Canadians (jacobin.com)
‘Forever chemical’ bans face hard truth: Many can’t be replaced (www.japantimes.co.jp)
As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of 'forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute.
People get out of poverty faster with a guaranteed livable income says Ontario senator (www.aptnnews.ca)
Canadians divided on talk of sexual orientation in schools, poll suggests (globalnews.ca)
In a new poll, nearly half of Canadians say they support the notwithstanding clause to ensure that schools tell parents if their child wishes to use a different name or pronoun.
A cautionary tale for Canada (www.theguardian.com)
An interesting article about the extreme right in the US and how they are not interested in governing or working for the people but are focused instead on tearing apart the US government, taking away rights and freedoms, and turning the country into a christofascist dictatorship with oligarchs in charge....
Amazon Anti Union propaganda (lemmy.world)
I have several questions, actually (slrpnk.net)
Costco now sells gold bars. Are they a good investment? (www.cbc.ca)
How hard is it to get food and water to soldiers during a war?
I was browsing the internet and I found this www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WO0zSStdj8...
Security Clearance for pierre poilievre.
So is he refusing to get a security clearance, or is he incapable of obtaining one? If the latter he should be disqualified from running for office.
If only our government had any guts...
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/a0812fe9-1965-4e18-9399-701f79778785.webp
Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse. (lemmy.ml)
A moment of appreciation for a man who is undoubtedly the world's most successful promoter of Lemmy and the fediverse (lemmy.ml)
A man who grabbed our concept of a centralized internet by the balls and squeezed it so hard that the Lemmy’s user count 65xed in a 3 months period. Thank you for your service
EVs (feddit.de)
18+ Would you take a cheap and effective once-a-day anti-aging pill? What if it were a suppository?
You can assume that for every day you take the pill you don’t age that day - if you skip it for a day you age by a day.
Trudeau takes first step to break Canada’s addiction to rising home prices - The Globe and Mail (www.theglobeandmail.com)
At last, someone from the world of politics is being honest about a pervasive and harmful trade-off. When home prices rise faster than earnings, owners like me gain wealth, while non-owners lose because their incomes fall further behind housing costs....
‘Ranting, rambling, and paranoid’: Federal appeals court suspends 96-year-old judge until she passes mental exam (lawandcrime.com)
Judge Newman has threatened to have staff arrested, forcibly removed from the building, and fired. She accused staff of trickery, deceit, acting as her adversary, stealing her computer, stealing her files, and depriving her of secretarial support. Staff have described Judge Newman in their interactions with her as “aggressive,...
Canada has Indian diplomats' communications in bombshell murder probe: sources | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
Is your data safe with Canada Post? What we know about privacy law violations (globalnews.ca)
Canada Post's gathering of personal information for a marketing program sold to businesses is “absolutely outrageous," a former privacy commissioner says.
A single Father's experience with unsolicited attention (www.fatherly.com)
What is the Sikh separatist movement at centre of the Canada-India dispute? (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Secondary cases of E. coli grow in aftermath of Calgary outbreak: Alberta Health Services (www.cbc.ca)
Hey, Canadians. How's your healthcare?
Hello, Canadians of Lemmy! Down in the USA there is a lot of conflicting information regarding the efficacy of y’alls healthcare systems. Without revealing my personal bias, I was hoping for some anecdotes or summaries from those whom actually live there.
How To Make Clay At Home (It's Just Dirt) (yt.artemislena.eu)
New two letter Scrabble option (startrek.website)