Chip_Rat @ Chip_Rat @lemmy.world

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And some funding holy shit. Back when Harper was ruining it all I could think was "he's starving her and then is gonna pull out the shot gun and frown... Poor old girl needs to be put down, she's so sick." I can't believe it's still doing as well as it is after all that...

Every penny we spend at the CBC creates jobs for both creatives and technicians, and creates Canadian content that we can all enjoy and show the world. Also news, actual, reasonably down the middle, factual news.

Every penny of my taxes that goes to the CBC is well spent.

Lol.

This reminds me of a story my mom told me over the holidays about buying a fancy sweater at Sears one fall. By mid winter the zipper had broken and she went back to Sears but they didn't have a replacement, and she didn't want a refund. They eventually agreed to have her take it to the tailor in the mall for them to replace it, and they would cover the receipt. She did and they did.

Blew my mind. If I honestly thought I could contact Maytag or Bosch and actually get someone on the phone to send me a replacement knob, I might bother. But I've moved past "try to contact the company with a reasonable concern" a long time ago. Which is what they hope for and why they make it time consuming and pointless. I'll take the path of least resistance.

If home Depot goes out of business because of all the stolen knobs, I'll cry myself into Rona every day (I mean that, I hate Rona and I use HD daily)

If the knob on your stove breaks while it's still new enough to be sold on the floor of a Home Depot? Yeah, the theft wasn't by the guy who took the knob.

I understand we aren't accustomed to holding corporations responsible for theft but let me pretend:

How about you take the info from the investigation, and apply it across the board. If a single inspector can find and prove that the meat they bought was overpriced by 8%, take Loblaws net profits from meat and fine them say half of that, 4%. They shouldn't even complain as they never meant to overcharge, so this is just returning the money they stole.

It's insane because they seem to be admitting in the article that large quantities ("small" numbers of their stores mind you....) have been sold so they have stolen money in their coffers. Did they return that money? To whom? How?

Great, I can add the $6 gift card to my $10 bread gift card from the last time they were held accountable...

He certainly must see the writing on the wall.

He was Prime Minister the last time Trump was around.

I guess it's funny like "yeah I'd quit my job too if a shit bag like that started working at the desk beside me." But in reality this has been brewing for months, like you said. And he has known (and already had to deal with Trump, again) since the election.

Haven't been keeping up with our own politics?

Oh..... Oh is that what I was supposed to do?

Found the crafting systems (one for building I guess, one for weapons and food and "handheld" stuff) to be incredibly non-intuitive. For what we all paid, my family had a great evening each accidentally walking into the fire and then running around in a panic onfire while everyone else barely looked up from their craft books.

Well TIL!

We don't want him. Keep his board and send him home.

$25000 bail. Lady who said "delay deny depose. You people are next." Gets $100,000?

Dude also had illegal firearms in addition to THE LARGEST STOCKPILE OF HOMEMADE EXPLOSIVES IN FBI HISTORY.

But he is a hard working family man....

Fuck this.

Sort of. But basically yes, Honey pays creators to advertise their "product" then when a viewer downloads Honey and uses it Honey steals the affiliate code money by swapping their own code in. And also not necessarily giving you the best deal, so they can keep more of the payout.

Don't know how much you are joking, but Italians were not considered "white" until fairly recently. I had an instructor (who I thought was an old sexist racist pos) who started telling a story about going to a hunt camp where he was the only white guy. I perked up, like "wait, what? Have I misread this 80 year old German man? Am I just blind?"

Then as he carried on in the story. "Yeah they were all a bunch of drunk Italians, but some of them were ok!"

....

When he is released... On $25k bond.

But God help you if you are a woman who got denied healthcare coverage and say over the phone "delay deny depose, you people are next."

There's no bail for that. I wonder how many illegal firearms she had?

It matters because they have been programmed to listen to those people, and ignore the rest. It's an echo chamber in there and so when someone inside that chamber goes off it gives all the idiots inside a big dose of reality. Will it stick? Will it last long? Doubt it. But for a brief and wonderful moment, some of those fools are forced to use their brains, even for just an instant.

Ok.

I understand your concern, and the validity of it. On a microscale, I was personally involved with helping a Syrian refugee family get established as part of a group I am a member of. It was insulting to sit at the meeting while a few of the members basically played "house" with this family, trying to decide how to get them the cheapest beds and where to get them clothes, instead of just setting them up with the absolute basics and then handing over the rest of the cash and being available to help them with language training and familiarizing them with the city and its services and inviting them to social groups.

But you seem like you have a chip on your shoulder. This person is using his labour, which is twice as valuable as any of the materials he is using, to make something, to help someone. The cure to homelessness is homes, and until the government actually starts caring about people like that, this guy is providing the best homes he can.

If you want me to say "you are right, this isn't optimized for peak efficiency, so why are we bothering." Then I'm afraid that's where we will have to disagree.

I think you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

If this man spend another $30 a month for a postal box address or mail forward service for each "camper van" , would that resolve your concern? Should he sell the houses to some hipsters to fulfill their vantasies and just offer mail forwarding instead?

What are your thoughts on this:

That $10,000 home isn't a one time payment. It could theoretically be used for 3 months by the first person who needed it before they find stable housing, a week for the next person and a year and a half for the 3rd. We could either decide that eventually the house would be occupied by its final owner. Someone who needs more than a warm toolshed to pull themselves up, but in theory these houses could help dozens of people. Even more if a limit (a long one, a year or more) was put on them.

Don't think I'm suggesting this is the answer, systematically we should be taking care of people. But if one dude can can build 3 "houses" that could help dozens, isn't that better than "helping*" 3 people with a 1 time payment?

*Helping here meaning depending on who is selected that $10k could be very harmful, quite the opposite of what should be our goals.