Sir_Osis_of_Liver @ Sir_Osis_of_Liver @kbin.social

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Weak sauce. If they value you, they'll get in touch. If they don't, they never cared in the first place so what does it matter?

There were a number of sites that FF choked on, so I just ended up using Edge. uBlock works with it, and that's about all I need for extensions.

Not sure how people decided that Google is more altruistic with data handling than Microsoft, but here we are, I guess.

Weird flex, but okay

Setting aside the Earth vs moon mistake, much like religion, this is an illusion that uses a human creation to explain a natural phenomenon.

Cool photo though.

This type of harassment is as likely to gain Trudeau sympathy and/or support as not. The 'bozo factor' had sunk Conservative fortunes in the past and seems set to do an encore.

I suspect that that would never occur to these smooth-brain, Facebook-addled idiots.

I'm not a fan of Trudeau, nor the Liberal party in general, but it's about what I'm left with following the collapse of the Conservatives into the abyss of populist willful ignorance and downright, abject stupidity.

I do begrudgingly agree with John Baird on Trudeau being pretty successful overall. I've voted for him before, and it looks like I'll do it again.

Two things would work:
Fix the fucking restrictive residential zoning regs. This is provincial turf.
Build more public housing. This is also provincial turf, but the feds had been involved in the past.

Everything else is window-dressing.

With enough supply, appreciation stops, or maybe declines if construction overshoot demands. Rental companies then have to make their money off of rent alone, but the margins are usually pretty thin, and with a sufficient supply, units start going empty if the rents are higher than what the market will bear. Companies will only hold on to units for so long before flipping, just to cut tax, loan interest and utility costs. A flat market is also a good deterrent for speculators, especially in a higher interest rate era. They can make more money elsewhere.

Having said that, I've moved a lot for work. I've had good job offers in Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto. The negative impact on my quality of life just wasn't worth it. I did live in Regina for 10 years and am now in Winnipeg. Housing never really got out of control in either place, commutes are either a 20 minute bus ride or walk/bicycle. Door to door currently is a 25 minute walk to the office, and I can do a big chunk of that in the Skywalk.

I can see why the RCMP would want to get out of policing contracts, especially in remote rural areas. Provinces cut/freeze the policing budgets, so the RCMP reduce the number of officers/local detachments, response times go up, politicians blame the RCMP. Rince and repeat.

With provincial or municipal police forces, poor policing lands squarely on the municipality/province.

The whole Ontario electrical sector has been hugely mis-managed by NDP, PC and Liberal governments. Even at current power rates, maintenance and upgrade budgets aren't adequate, let alone expansion, and certainly not new nuclear. The moratorium on offshore wind was exceptionally bad policy as was the half-assed privatization attempt.

The last greenfield nuke plant built in Canada was Darlington and it ended up way over budget (equivalent of $23B in today's money) and 5 years behind schedule. The Bruce refurbishments have been pretty successful, the Point Lepreau refurbishment, much less so. But new nuclear is a completely different ball of wax. With AECL being sold off to SNC by Harper, we don't have the domestic talent for new CANDUs anymore. The experience with AP1000s (V.C.Summer, Vogtle) and EPRs (Hinkley Point C, Flamanville, Olkiluoto, Taishan) has been really dismal.

There have been a number of studies that have SMRs are being as expensive or higher than conventional nuclear, with the added downside of higher levels of waste, anywhere from 2 to 30 times as much as conventional nuclear depending on the tech used.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2111833119

Part of the reason for scaling up reactors in the first place was the expectation that output would scale faster than costs. That hasn't really panned out to the extent expected.

I got the impression that the "Dark Brandon" meme was an ironic take on all of the MAGA pap being continuously spewed at the time. Some people may miss the irony and take it at face value, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

There is the UnPinterested! extension for Chrome. I think it still works.

Pretty rich coming from a semi-sentient bobblehead, who dropped out of community college.

That was just a few years ago, right?

142 long term water advisories have been lifted since 2015, with 28 remaining, most of which have remediation plans in some stage of development.

The difficulty is that as new or refurbished plants come online, others break down. It's a never ending whack-a-mole.

I work for a consulting engineering company, mostly in power utilities, but for the last number of years, I've been helping out with water utilities, mostly on reserve. It's a tough situation in a lot of these places.

Mortgage rates in Canada were running over 15% in 1980 and peaked at near 22% in 1981. Minimum wage was about $3.25 depending on province, about $11.76/hr in today's money. They weren't buying houses. A lot of people were absolutely slammed if they had to renew their previous 11-13% mortgage at 22%.

There's a bunch of other factors involved too. Median house size has doubled since 1970 (1200sq ft to 2600 sq ft), restrictive zoning and forcing contractors to also develop single use subdivisions puts their costs up, and promoted higher margin developments. Also, the feds and provinces have drastically reduced the construction of public housing.

Mortgage rates in Canada were running over 15% in 1980 and peaked at near 22% in 1981. Minimum wage was about $3.25 depending on province, about $11.76/hr in today's money. They weren't buying houses. A lot of people were absolutely slammed if they had to renew their previous 11-13% mortgage at 22%.

There's a bunch of other factors involved too. Median house size has doubled since 1970 (1200sq ft to 2600 sq ft), restrictive zoning and forcing contractors to also develop single use subdivisions puts their costs up, and promoted higher margin developments. Also, the feds and provinces have drastically reduced the construction of public housing.

At one point we had a remote office in a bank. One of my coworkers, W, had a pretty severe intestinal condition.

Anyway, I'm using the facilities, and one of the bankers comes in and heads to a stall. His phone rings while he's in there, which he answers. It's obviously a work call.

By this time, I'm heading over to wash my hands, just as W slams open the door with an panicked look. He violently shoulders open a stall, drops trousers, and unleashes just an absolutely unholy flume of waste, accompanied by a couple of mercy flushes.

"Uh, I'll call you back".

I'm assuming lessons were learned that day.

No, but they do for almost all social programs as well as housing.

They beg the feds for more tax points, the feds agree, the provinces cut taxes/services and stick their hands out for more. Rince and repeat.

It had been run as a day-school controlled by the local band since the mid 1980s.

Torx or Robertson, are the only ones worth a damn.