People need to stop seeing a “balanced budget” as the top measure of a responsible government.
A country is not a household. They are not going to repo Manitoba if we have too much debt. The vast, VAST majority of countries carry debt, and carrying debt is preferable to austerity measures that gut social programs and supports in service of a balanced budget.
Could it be that the mounting evidence demonstrating that the commodification of housing and its increasing use as an investment vehicle is driving the housing crisis?
Nah, must be those damn immigants and red tape thats not letting us build on protected environments!
Whaaat? Their “dollar cones” are like a whole thing in the summer, even up here in Canada, the land of “just because” price gouging.
I check back on /r/hockey in “old” mode on mobile maybe once every 2 weeks (the Hockey communities here havent really taken off yet), but besides that, nothing.
Sax.
Yakkity Sax.
Beast-type. It would basically be a fighting/normal type. There are already a lot of potential pokemon that are shoehorned into either normal or fighting that would fit the bill IMO (Tauros, Primeape, Kangaskhan, Slaking, etc).
“Normal” type always had a really weird variety compared to all the other types. It felt like a catch-all to pokemon they wanted to include, but didnt know how to classify them. Like, somehow Chansey, Raticate, Porygon, Ditto, and Tauros are all part of the same family? I dont buy it.
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I take it you never used a tape player or VCR.
I like to believe that dinosaurs (especially stegosauruses) had lovely singing voices, because its nice and doesn’t hurt anybody.
Yep, the centralizing of announcements is a bigger issue than link aggregation.
I work in pest control and want to follow several industry experts and guess what? They only use twitter to disseminate information because they’re mostly academic and don’t follow too much online drama.
I want to continue following them, but need to create a Twitter account to do so since Musk’s new ideas broke the website recently and you can no longer lurk without an account.
So I am torn between trying to follow experts and improve myself as a professional, or cut myself off from that source of information in order to try and reduce the amount of traffic that twitter gets.
The problem here is that they used an old photo and shopped Mick Mars out and John5 in, because they either can’t be bothered to take any new promo photos of the band, or the difference between how much better John 5 looks than the rest of those washed-up has-beens is so stark that they don’t want to.
He should change his name to Vince Meal, amirite?
True. I pretty much grew up on the “no smoking” wave through the late 90s/early 2000s and watched it disappear from public spaces.
It was a trip when my dad brought me to Detroit in my teens for a concert, and lit up inside a restaurant. I saw the server walking over briskly and thinking “Dad, wtf are you doing??”. But then she just dropped an ash tray on our table and went on her merry way.
Thats when I realized that the whole world hadn’t signed on to the whole “no smoking in public spaces” paradigm.
Screen time is definitely having a measureable impact on our ocular health
Over time, staring too long at screens can change the structure of the eyeball and lead to atrophy of the glands that keep it moist. Research is now pointing to excessive screen time for the rise in eye disorders, such as dry eye and myopia, which are becoming more common and affect more young people.
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While myopia or nearsightedness has a genetic component, it has been shown to progress faster in people who overuse screens. Human eyes can also become chronically dry if the meibomian glands — a sebaceous gland that helps create protective tear film — become obstructed or atrophy. Meibomian glands secrete meibum, which is a specialized substance containing lipids that protects the eye surface.
It’s different than the watery tears that flush the eye. Without a healthy tear film, eyes become dry, sensitive to light and irritated. Research has linked staring at digital devices for long periods without proper blinking to degraded gland function, even in some children.
How much sedentary time we spend in front of screens. We already know it is ruining our eyes and our sleep cycles.
I would argue that its not acceptable now.
It would be absolutely hilarious if they all ended up out of office before Trudeau, but for some reason, Ontario has the memory of a goldfish when it comes to Dougie.