corsicanguppy @ corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca

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Why the fancy apostrophe?

Comma splice party.

Fahrenheit

Since 95% of people on the planet have evolved to metric, it may help to point out the unconventional measurements when you use them.

It conforms to the rule about the cheapest weddings leading to the longest marriages.

We moved into a place here that's right across the street from a major hospital. It's a tower next to a busy '40x'-style roadway near an Ell train and a double cargo rail line with a partially-secured crossing. "You okay with trains?", they asked. We were fools!

All day we're exposed to fire, police, ambulance, subway bong-bongs, train 'q' whistles, air rescue and traffic.

But it's not bad. We were above the 12th floor and facing away from train, metro and highway, and the air rescue's route past our place was almost at our window so it was always cool.

The only thing we couldn't cope with - and this will out me - was the double-pane windows were no match to the one train guy whose 'q' was an absolute by-the-book whistle and it seemed he was standing on it for a full minute sometimes.

...at 0300 .

Nightly.

We hate that guy.

We moved a year ago - after 5 years there ! - to a new place that our revised building code says should have an AC and it does. We're much happier despite paying like $4/sqft/mo in rent. It's got triple-pane windows and that would make allll the difference.

I promise you can cope with loud noise. It's not ideal, but better windows help, as does concrete construction.

A friend was running electrical for studio shoots on the news. He couldn't make a go of it either, as gaffing is grunt work no one respects unless and until the dalai lama is visiting and trips over a power lead.

Pay-for-service is the Hallmark of conservative governments. Your tax dollars aren't used to help you unless something trickles down from the tax breaks to the wealthy.

People tend not to notice when Ontario or Saskatchewan govs do the same thing, as Drug Fraud is busy sounding tough for the sound bytes and the other con govs keep their heads down.

I can survive in 9c but 100c will kill me.

Apparantly

Yep.

Convince us your message is important enough to write but not so important as to fully spell all the words in it.

suppose

Supposed.

let their emotions cast their votes[.] Conservatives aren’t much better but we would’ve likely seen a different change of approach on how things are [run].

No. We would have seen the cons capitulate completely and invite our new king. What part of everything the cons have done over 40nyears gives a different impression?

NDP

Had no chance of winning even a minority. And they won't, as long as we need to focus on not getting conservatives driving our country into the dirt like they've done to our cousins in America.

It's so tedious to repeat this.

And this is how we get Systemd

The US has extremely strict and aware water safety protocols. It would take just 1 whistleblower to [take down] this operation.

Had. HAD. The US has fired many/most of its inspectors.

75% of American drinking water requires treatment for one thing or another. One of those treatments is supplied by a single vendor out of a single plant in a flood-prone area. Apparently only recently did it receive federal staffing to improve security. This is only one of the many weak links in a supply chain with now absolutely zero oversight.

I wish I was kidding.

Even in Canada, where mental health is still a value-add for most of us and not a right even under our current system, we are offered a fund with some jobs to use for either physiotherapy or mental health, and it's a limited fund.

Give us a choice, and 10/10 times we will prioritize being able to walk and move and sleep effectively over feeling good about it.

I call my mom "mum".

Don't shame people for calling their mothers "mommy" : it sounds so middle-school edgy.

If we become the people we're fighting, then victories become losses and our motivations die.

Downvotes? No one reads Animal Farm in secondary school anymore?

Arizona seniors would like this.

Also, shaving "with" the grain. Which is easier said then done since it kinda goes every direction.

So, as per the second of two fragments, I should SAY I'm shaving with the grain before I do it for best results. It's weird, but I'll try it.

I love how they put up the English name after the first outcry of "where do I send the ambulance again" fears.

heart diseases

There's more than one? Is this like Second Breakfast?