My only thing in Canada is any new policy should be funded, because Canada is going to financially collapse and we'll lose all our nice social programs at this rate if they aren't.
I figure we could implement dental care tomorrow at no increase to the federal deficit if we increase the GST/HST by 2%.
I figure we could implement dental care tomorrow at no increase to the federal deficit if we increase the GST/HST by 2%.
My biggest shock with the American system is that there isn't universal healthcare already. The amount collected for medicare is enough per capita to do it based on almost every other country on the planet.
Takes a whole new mindset....Or rather, a very old mindset because that's the way it used to be. Forums were pretty hands off because the people running them didn't do it for a living. Occasionally admins would get involved if someone was being dangerous to the whole system, but generally speaking people had to figure their shit out on their own.
They aren't specifically envious of the men, but they know something is wrong and that they're getting fucked by having a bunch of guys who aren't interested in the pot of gold wandering up and going "Can I be your consolation prize tonight, baby?"
Thought I hit send on my reply here...
Imagine you have two hallways with 200,000 doors ahead of you.
In each hallway, there's a pot of gold.
In the first hallway, like 99% of the doors are locked. Any door that is unlocked but doesn't have the pot of gold has a little prize, like a piece of candy.
In the second hallway, most of the doors are unlocked. Same as before, there's a consolation prize in the unlocked doors.
Put a man in the first hallway, and a woman in the second hallway. The man ends up able to completely bypass many of the doors because they're locked, but spends a lot of time without even a consolation prize. The woman ends up having to open and investigate most of the doors, and ends up piling up all these consolation prizes.
If they are both looking for the pot of gold, each would consider the other to be living in a spot with greener grass. The man would look at the woman at least tripping over consolation prizes, but the woman would look at the man and not wasting time opening doors to get yet another consolation prize because who actually wants 199,999 consolation prizes?
In some ways, it comes out in the wash.
Imagine you have two hallways with 200,000 doors ahead of you.
In each hallway, there's a pot of gold.
In the first hallway, like 99% of the doors are locked. Any door that is unlocked but doesn't have the pot of gold has a little prize, like a piece of candy.
In the second hallway, most of the doors are unlocked. Same as before, there's a consolation prize in the unlocked doors.
Put a man in the first hallway, and a woman in the second hallway. The man ends up able to completely bypass many of the doors because they're locked, but spends a lot of time without even a consolation prize. The woman ends up having to open and investigate most of the doors, and ends up piling up all these consolation prizes.
If they are both looking for the pot of gold, each would consider the other to be living in a spot with greener grass. The man would look at the woman at least tripping over consolation prizes, but the woman would look at the man and not wasting time opening doors to get yet another consolation prize because who actually wants 199,999 consolation prizes?
In some ways, it comes out in the wash.
Now I'm hearing the theme to Team America:World Police but with the word "America" replaced by the word "Genocide"
🎶 Terrorists your game is through 🎶
🎶 Cause now you'll have to answer to 🎶
🎶 GENOCIIIIIDE! Fuck yeah! 🎶
🎶 Terrorists your game is through 🎶
🎶 Cause now you'll have to answer to 🎶
🎶 GENOCIIIIIDE! Fuck yeah! 🎶
Had an account like 7 years ago, but deleted it because I realized I was contributing to Twitter saying they had a billion accounts. I'm all in on free software and self-hosting. Big tech had their chance, they blew it. Lots of those tech CEOs talked just like Musk 10 years ago.
I'm loath to defererate with anyone, but you're making a really good argument for defederating from big tech if they try to step in...
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is exactly how we ended up in our big tech nightmare.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is exactly how we ended up in our big tech nightmare.
These people came from big tech, where they can whine and cry and silence all opposition because there's someone at the top who is trying to become a multi-billionaire.
There are really easy ways to deal with people being mean to you on the Internet, and these morons have cultivated the polar opposite of all effective strategies.
There are really easy ways to deal with people being mean to you on the Internet, and these morons have cultivated the polar opposite of all effective strategies.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/elon-musk-says-make-public-internal-twitter-discussions-decision-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story/
Man.... Just sit back and enjoy your popcorn from not twitter!
(Or from twitter, whatever. idgaf what you do)
Man.... Just sit back and enjoy your popcorn from not twitter!
(Or from twitter, whatever. idgaf what you do)
Nursing homes are nightmarish at the best of times.
In earlier times we saw nightmarish long term care facilities such as insane asylums and decided the solution was to shut them down. I don't think thats the answer, we took away the facilities because they made us feel bad and as a result those people who needed help ended up just swept under the rug. Many of those people ended up homeless, or criminals, or drug addicts because they try to self-medicate. Sometimes people who needed help for their entire lives didn't get it and it resulted in tragedies such as chilling murders that could only be committed by a human with an unwell mind.
Shutting down long term care homes would likely have similar effects, so that's not an acceptable option. The correct option would have to be making sure they're well run. Regulation plays a part, but there's a hell of a lot more than that. Highly regulated industries screw people over all the time. The important part in my view is building an industry wide culture. Clearly this care home was lacking in positive culture since so many bad things happened leading up to a guys foot being stuffed in a taxidermy shop window, including nurses aides standing by and going "this is fine"
In earlier times we saw nightmarish long term care facilities such as insane asylums and decided the solution was to shut them down. I don't think thats the answer, we took away the facilities because they made us feel bad and as a result those people who needed help ended up just swept under the rug. Many of those people ended up homeless, or criminals, or drug addicts because they try to self-medicate. Sometimes people who needed help for their entire lives didn't get it and it resulted in tragedies such as chilling murders that could only be committed by a human with an unwell mind.
Shutting down long term care homes would likely have similar effects, so that's not an acceptable option. The correct option would have to be making sure they're well run. Regulation plays a part, but there's a hell of a lot more than that. Highly regulated industries screw people over all the time. The important part in my view is building an industry wide culture. Clearly this care home was lacking in positive culture since so many bad things happened leading up to a guys foot being stuffed in a taxidermy shop window, including nurses aides standing by and going "this is fine"
Any time nextcloud comes up, I have to hype it a bit. It was the first self-hosted service I ran, and the beginning of a journey that has led me to spending more time on my own websites than most others combined. It's my personal utility knife. It's my news site. It's my music streaming service. It's my webmail. It's my online notes. It's my office suite. It's my password manager. It's my tool for keeping my home PC and my travel PC synchronised and backed up.
The best part is I don't need to ask permission. It's libre software running on hardware I own. I didn't do it this way, but my asustor Nas allows nextcloud to be installed with one click, so non technical people could run their own home nextcloud quite easily. For others, there are hosts that'll run your nextcloud instance for you and they don't make money on your data, they make money from you paying them.
Imo some of the best FLOSS has to offer.
The best part is I don't need to ask permission. It's libre software running on hardware I own. I didn't do it this way, but my asustor Nas allows nextcloud to be installed with one click, so non technical people could run their own home nextcloud quite easily. For others, there are hosts that'll run your nextcloud instance for you and they don't make money on your data, they make money from you paying them.
Imo some of the best FLOSS has to offer.
Naturally their superior Nipponese hard work and cool uniforms won the day over the inferior Germans!
