Showroom7561 @ Showroom7561 @lemmy.ca

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Um, no.

The problem is that drugs impact the poor the most. So making them easier to get, "legal", and cheaper just puts them in a deeper hole.

When you see a government, like Ontario under Ford, who HATES the homeless, but also wants to dump hundreds of millions into the alcohol industry, you can start to see a pattern of systemic discrimination targeting those who are most vulnerable.

All of these drugs suck, but they suck more if you're already at a disadvantage.

My OP has been edited for clarity. There's no need to continue arguing over this point, since we're still talking about the majority of Albertan voters allowing over 90% of their ridings to go to Conservatives.

Reality is FPTP is cancer.

100%

So is alcohol, and we know how great that's been. .

Not to mention that legal drugs like alcohol disproportionately impact low-income people.

“Netflix members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, according to the publication.

This is so hilarious when you think about it.

Are their movies and shows so bad that people are watching ads with as much attention?

Or do they mean "pay as much attention" by ignoring the content altogether as they only run Netflix as background noise while they do something else?

😂

Having one disability doesn't mean they are affected by this change.

Of course not, but considering that disability can affect anyone at any age, voting against it is self-harm.

The article says 77,000 people collect disability in Alberta, which is about 1.8% of Albertans.

If Alberta is anything like Ontario, then I'll bet my life that far more actually need the support, but the runaround you get in applying for support is often a barrier in and of itself.

It's such a problem that disability lawyers are abound, simply for the application and to manage the work needed to apply and/or reapply if you are denied.

Because if you don't have a family or finend to help advocate for you, there's a good chance you'll give up and suffer in silence.

That said, 27% is a much bigger number than I expected, even for any amount of disability. Do you have a link to that data? I'd be curious to know more about it.

Absolutely. Stats Canada 2022 (released Dec 2023)

As with my point above, I believe the numbers are higher, but actually getting a diagnosis is a barrier for those who need it the most.

People with disabilities are a very small minority,

Stats Canada says that 27% of Albertans over the age of 15 has at least one disability, up over 5% from the previous census data.

That means people voted either against their own interest, or against the interest of someone they likely know or care for. That's as fucked up as it gets.

And this ignores the fact that seniors are also cast aside by conservative governments. Again, voting against your parents or grandparents, aunts or uncles, if not, yourself. Crazy shit.

Just to be clear, no, 63.5% of Albertan votes in the federal election went to conservatives.

Yes, but since our current elections are based on ridings, conservatives were handed 92% of those seats.

But no matter what metric we go by, we're still talking about a majority of Albertan who chose this.

Loblaw has been aggressive in marking which products are affected by tariffs, a tally it has so far limited to a little over 1,000 items. But that total will rise to more than 3,000 within the next week or two, and could peak at over 6,000 within the next two months, according to Bank's post.

Tariff-affected items will still account for a small share of the roughly 80,000 items the company stocks, but customers will notice changes in categories including natural foods, pantry staples and health and beauty products, he said.

The solution seems simple: these stores need to stop bringing in products from the US, and consumers need to stop buying American goods.

It's a tiny fraction of what they carry, and alternatives from Canada or other countries can be sourced, and would be more affordable than American goods with tariffs on them.

But these companies won't do that, because they need a reason to raise prices on everything... tariffs or not.

I highly doubt the liberals would have done any of that if not for the NDP.

Well, these were all platform promises through many of those "lost Liberal years", so I'm not sure where the doubt comes from. They made good on their promise, and continue to deliver.

The NDP absolutely helped tip the scale when they had a minority government, because the cons would never give their support.

The point is, conservative governments don't like socialism when it helps people, and thank the gods that the liberals and NDP do!

Liberals don’t care either. Proven by decades of inactivity.

I'm not sure if you've noticed or not, but our national dental care, low-cost childcare, pharmacare expansion (PEI just got free diabetes meds and birth control), were all thanks to the Liberal government (with help from the NDP).

Healthcare is a provincial responsibility, so feds provide the funding, and provinces decide on how to spend it (or even if they'll spend it... looking at you Doug Ford).

Things would be considerably more difficult with a conservative federal government, who would take away funding.

And I say this as an ADP recipient living in Ontario, where our provincial conservative government hasn't added a penny to the grant over the last 10 years, despite costs nearly doubling and all kinds of patient advocacy groups begging the government to offer more support.

Leopards ate their face?

92% of votes cast ridings won in Alberta this past federal election went to conservatives.

And we know that conservatives don't want pharmacare, disability support, aid for the homeless, childcare benefits, or anything else that would make life just slightly more survivable for certain demographics.

edit: for accuracy

Bravo!

Side note, this is something that PP didn't want for P.E.I, or the country.

If you use search to find news, those sites will come up often.

Use a browser extension like "uBlacklist" and block them from even showing up in search.

It’s time to make towing a government agency run by the province.

Ironically, moving power from one Mafia family to another. LOL

But seriously, if an industry is being dominated by organized crime, the government needs to remove those opportunities.

Well, on the flip-side... people don't like paying for other people's destructive behaviours. So, we're even! 😆

Well, shit. I didn't think of the shareholders! /s 🤑

Benefits for literally everyone in every metric!

Public opinion: Not great, but improving

Fuck off! Are these people not living in the city, or are they just assholes who can't imagine the possibility of changing their opinion on something they thought would be bad, but ended up being amazing?

I think the phrase "low-traffic" is problematic, because it sounds like "fewer people will visit my shop!".

In reality, this type of infrastructure increases human traffic... real people doing real things in their community... by blocking off large vehicles.

Every community should want MORE of these neighbourhoods.

Is it easy to set up SSL on a PiHole? I wanted to get Adguard home setup (similar to Pihole) but the complexity of setting up secure connections and I'm like, "yeah, nobody in my family is going to be able to fix this if something happens when I'm not around". 😂

For context, I have a single Synology NAS, so recovering and testing the entire backup set would not be practical in my case.

I have been able to test single files or entire folders and they work fine, but obviously I'd have no way of testing the entire backup set due to the above consideration. It is my understanding that the verify feature that Synology uses is to ensure that there's no bit rot and that the file integrity is intact. My hope is that because of how many isolated backups I do keep, the chance of not being able to recover is slim to none.