ChocoboRocket @ ChocoboRocket @lemmy.world

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Shame we never considered bringing in construction workers as we process over a million new immigrants a year.

Your wife will do well when the water wars start and you'd be wise to start following her lead.

As as aside, next time you know you're going to a hotel bring a secret, second ice bucket to fill shortly after she fills the hotel one. Bonus points if you can acquire it from the hotel so they're identical.

Don't mention it or anything, just let her work out the logistics of what happened when she notices. If she's as serious about hotel ice as she sounds, you'll probably get laid right then and there.

Nationalize (or at least crown corp) everything.

Energy

Telecom/Internet

Food

Water

Natural resources

Insurance

Transportation

Housing (edited to include)

The idea that it's better to have single/few entities profiting instead of every Canadian benefitting is ridiculous.

Nobody is saying you can't be profitable and wealthy if you run a successful business.

But that's not what Canada is about, what we have in Canada is collusion and price fixing by like 8 businesses that own nearly everything in Canada completely unchecked.

Pretty rough reality.

People in cities often don't know or understand the first thing about nature and are content imagining it as some pristine "other" place outside of the cities they never leave.

Rural people who have access to nature tend to vote for the "put every chemical in the environment as fast as possible" parties.

The poor who live near natural beauty without industry have no clout or means to change anything outside their immediate village (even then its not likely)

The rich people who actually enjoy nature, live near it, and want to protect it - often only want to protect it for themselves. At best their environmental efforts are offset 1000x by their lifestyle.

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of rural/urban hunters, environmentalist, nature/outdoor lovers. But it's a relatively small group with little social crossover. And aside from the cottage are probably spending their entire outdoor experience on public walking paths and aren't aware of the extent of habitat loss, pollution, and mass die offs taking place.

We're completely fucked.

Don't forget to make sure it's a "complete" or "GOTY" post, nothing worse than waiting for a mediocre deal on an incomplete post

Not sure how hot this take is, but ever since FFX I have found the FF series leaning heavily into the J part of JRPG

So we get epic characters with world ending powers doing trope-y anime poses and gestures, or get childish priorities and I find it negatively affecting immersion (for me anyhow).

The last "new" final fantasy I've played is 13, and some of 13II (as well as rebirth, which I still loved) so I'm not exactly caught up on current FF universes either.

FF1-9 all felt more neutral in that they were people acting to save the world and helping people along the way, whereas more modern final fantasy games seem to have this sweetie goofy cotton candy innocence elements that really clash with underlying story/universe. Like I'm watching elementary school Anime mashed into an adult FF universe.

I'd love for the FF7 remake series to shift to a much darker, gritty, adult tone (chocobos can still be happy tho, love those guys)

Obviously more US aid is crucial, and it's recent absence is clearly having negative consequences in Ukraine.

If there is a silver lining, it's that all of Europe is finally getting it's military shit sorted out.

Russia is settling into it's war economy and the rest of Europe has decades of dust to shake off it's military capabilities.

Obviously NATO and individual European counties aren't fully engaged in war like Ukraine is, but the resources consumed by war is proving just how under prepared Europe is for a long campaign.

Republicans threw out respect, formality, duty, and established processes a long time ago.

With a stacked supreme Court, they are free to flout any law and interpret anything however they chose without consequences.

I fully agree that a "no" is all they deserve, if an explanation is actually required, hit them with "No, illegal"

Let me preface this by saying that I wholly agree with you, and that more guns or training isn't going to solve this problem.

BUT

I'd also wager that any teacher is likely going to be more willing to protect their students than any cop/the police.

Teachers with guns + training is not the solution to the problem. That being said, cops don't give a shit about anyone but themselves, so replacing them with literally anyone else will likely result in massive performance improvements!

If it was for manufacturing something mundane like lightbulbs, I would agree with you.

But at this point, leading edge semiconductor production is highly limited, specialized, and is being sought after by nearly everyone - and they're willing to pay top dollar to secure supply.

You can't really play hardball with someone if they move their entire production and supply output to a political rival, no matter how good your local profit margins may be.

That being said, this is absolutely a mess of our own making from offshoring everything for profit - 6bn is pocket change for the US though, so decades of profit and a manufacturing blitz isn't really all that bad (aside from carving out the middle class, but that's another story).

An event can force a mental health crisis. You're wrong if you believe otherwise.

You're trying to say "everyone who lights themselves on fire is having a mental health crisis" - this is true.

You're also saying "if a common event like eviction results in self immolation it's entirely the fault of mental health crisis and not eviction, because not everyone evicted self immolates" - this is false.

You're intentionally reversing cause and effect, when it's obviously wrong.

It's a weird thing - you getting your rocks off acting willfully ignorant and belligerent over some arbitrary belief that events can't be responsible for a mental health crises if the reaction isn't typical.

Why do you insist it is so important that everyone you interact with in this thread believes only mental health crisis can carry the blame?

Why is it not possible for someone who is being evicted to light themselves on fire because they are being evicted?

What makes this exclusively a mental health issue, and not a housing crisis issue?

Which would be more effective at stopping self immolations during eviction - affordable housing preventing eviction but no mental health support? Or mental health support prior to eviction, but the individual will still be homeless?

Which outcome is better? If the old man didn't self immolate, but instead became homeless? Or if the old man was never worried about losing shelter because they would never lose shelter?

Eviction caused a mental health crisis which resulted in self immolation (you can also insert any negative outcome at this point).

You have invented a "hierarchy" of cause and effect that is backwards.

The correct order of operations is: Event happens that forces a mental health crisis in an individual, which can have various results (sometimes immolation).

Some people with mental health issues may be in a near perpetual state of mental health crisis. This is the only type of situation where you'd be correct and anything could be a trigger. This is absolutely not the standard, but you assert that it is, which is why you are wrong.

I get what you're (poorly) trying to say, but in the context of this thread - an old man lighting himself on fire during the eviction - we can safely assume his mental state is being largely influenced by the eviction.

It's pretty ridiculous to assert that self immolation is exclusively a mental health situation that is entirely insulated from the outside world, as though mental health and a person's environment are mutually exclusive and have absolutely 0 affect on each other.

It's a very convenient way of reducing problems to an individual level to completely avoid the root causes.

Maybe you are just trying to be some data purist who believes self immolation can only be done by someone in a mental health crisis - and mental health crises are exclusively internal and cannot be tied to external circumstances??

For future reference, lighting yourself on fire while actively protesting war, or actively being evicted probably has more to do with the realities of war and housing crises, and less to do with forgetting breathing exercises and lacking cognitive behaviour therapy strategies.

It's absolutely about the cruelty.

Realistically, if they took her to the hospital wouldn't she wind up with an absolutely eye watering hospital bill? One that would likely take her the rest of her life to pay off?

Instead, they calculated that the outcome of denied medical care would cost this person more than a lifetime of medical debt - even if the lawsuit against them paid out.

Do currently you talk with cats? Or talk to cats?

Because if you're not successfully working with your cats as cat burglars, you're only talking to cats.

For what it's worth, I picked the same 3

Awwwwh, but I wanted a peanut!

Might want to check your math, 25% is the maximum 'adult content' allowed.

To use your numbers, a business with 10,000 videos would need +7,500 of them being non-porn to be under 25% and not be fined.

Lmao, you think this current loyalty test - and the future party filled exclusively with Trump loyalists - will simply pack up and go home after Trump dies? Or anyone living will be able to wear Trump's mantle next?

You do realize Christian Nationalism follows the (misinterpreted and cherry picked) words of someone who died 2000 years ago as their North Star right?

Trump dieing would simply make him the new Jesus. Shit, he's already being accepted as such while he is alive.

Absolutely nothing will stop the current trajectory of the GOP until the people who make it up find something else more entertaining or fulfilling to do with their time.

Unless by "Generational shit show" you mean a contest to see who can preform fellatio on Trump's ghost the best.

After reading the fairly uninformative article, it sounds like the deepfake video recommend a platform that looked legit, but was essentially a one way black hole for people's money. It showed them fake numbers climbing to get them to invest more - not just JT recommending crypto, which is actually kind of a shame.

Buying bitcoin last November (2023) would be one of the best times to buy as it's basically doubled since.

Hated callisto protocol. I wound up just playing on easy so I could get through it as fast as possible.

The atmosphere was pretty good, but the entire game annoyed me from beginning to end.