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Probably a good pricing decision. To avoid hitting the 300/month usage I kept DDG as default and only used Kagi for more complex searches. If I upgrade to this I could then keep Kagi as default.

I should clarify I'm not in medicine. The panel was formed by a random sample of British Columbians and then we talked with different experts, but we ourselves aren't experts or meant to be experts.

I was actually on this panel! A few things:

1. BC already has a few community health centers already (always pilot programs that succeeded but were never expanded).
2. They are actually non-profits - the idea is that they can focus on hiring experts for their specific area. So for an area with lots of physical labourers the center might offer physiotherapy, while an area with drug addiction might specialize in that support.
3. They're super desirable to work at for family physicians. Right now in BC to be a family doctor you essentially also have to run your own business, handle payroll, handle billing MSP, etc. Vacations are a pain to take - what if a patient needs to see you? With these centers the doctors can focus more on patient care and less on administration.

One recommendation in the report which I pushed for but only got as one sentence is to allow family doctors to supervise nurses as physician assistants and let them handle more basic care. Basically in the same way that a dentist has dental hygienists to handle cleaning or an engineering firm uses junior engineers under supervision, a doctor could use nurses to investigate symptoms and handle basic care, and then bring up items with the doctor. I know that's initially concerning from a patient perspective ("I won't see my doctor directly as much") but right now a huge proportion of people in BC can't get a doctor at all, and this seems like a more immediate way to expand care versus some of the other recommendations that will have more marginal improvements (like better document keeping methods).

Yeah I think I agree. Honestly, owning a Framework 12 main board I was kind of shocked at how good the graphics were for this guy (it's just Intel integrated which suuucks, though to be fair I've barely tried gaming on my Framework). I'm wondering if he's just playing a video to show more proof-of-concept (not super dishonest, as Framework is going to soon release a Ryzen mainboard that is expected to have pretty reasonable graphics built in)

Great idea - I like yours better than mine.

However, it should be a one-time notice that a user can dismiss and continue using the phone's complete functionality.

Hmm, I broadly agree with the idea that users should be able to dismiss these warnings and repair their devices however they want, but I'd imagine a dodgy repair shop would just press 'OK' on the counterfeit part warning before handing it back to the client.

Not sure what the solution is - maybe a screen in the settings that can list all parts warnings so an owner can view it after a repair? That relies on people actually checking, but at some point users need to show some responsibility for verifying a repair was done correctly if they'd care.

I don't think the Liberals want to do electoral reform unless it's ranked ballot choice (where of course everyone's #2 choice is the centrist Liberal candidate ...) - they want to be able to govern with majorities which they'd never get under a proportional representation system.

This is unfortunately one of the frustrating things about getting electoral reform - only the winners can change the rules that made them winners, so they don't want to change them!

I've read that Facebook has actually been trying to reduce their reliance on news in all their products, so the answer is actually a possible "yes", they would do a global news block.

I've had an elective sinus surgery, a second (emergency) sinus surgery, an overnight hospital stay, a blood transfusion, an ambulance ride, different scans, a cast, crutches, a bunch of specialist follow-ups, physiotherapy, family doctor appoitments, and some drug prescriptions. Wow that sounds like a lot but it was just two separate incidents (I'll let you guess).

I did have to buy the crutches at $24, and while I'm still waiting for the ambulance bill I'll only be charged $40. Drug prescriptions aren't free for everyone, but my province has a program where they cover a portion depending on your income (free if you're low income or hit a drug-expense maximum for that year) which I benefited from when I was unemployed. Physiotherapy also isn't free, but I'm getting that covered through my workplace benefits. Other than those minor costs there's been nothing, which is crazy for me. I'm so thankful I'm not being buried under a mountain of debt, especially as one of the incidents happened when I was unemployed.

Not to mention how annoying it was to even buy games - if a popular game was released you might have wait for the store to open to buy it before it went out of stock, and if it was more niche you might have to mail an order form in and wait for them to ship it to you.

Barely. I typically can't remember more than a few words and the text is different once I go back. Dreams where I need to read something are among my most frustrating.

In my terrible diet I eat the chocolate bar and then cut out something like breakfast...

There’s a lot of bro-science in here (“Your body metabolizes sugar to basically fat”, no, it doesn’t, sugar is just a simple, easily metabolized carbohydrate, and as long as you aren’t exceeding your caloric intake regularly, it’s fine).

+1 to this. I have a pretty terrible diet (I make ice cream fairly often) but I've been able to control my weight by cutting calories elsewhere.

For gaming and desktop use, I've had a flawless experience using AMD cards and a decent time with NVIDIA. The only reason I'm with NVIDIA now is for the AI capabilities (don't bother trying to run stuff using AMD's ROCm - it's near impossible to install).

I'll buy Windows games at full price only if the developer has made efforts to better support Linux users (say by fixing a bug that only affects Linux users).

I can't speak for those two services in particular, but I know that Matrix will check https://domain.com/.well-known/matrix/server to see what (sub)domain is responsible for domain.com. I suspect other services also use .well-known too.

Seeing how the Liberals have behaved during this whole process makes me feel like they've traded the classic middle-of-the-road pragmatism they were known for for blind ideology. Which as a voter sucks, because I can't think of a single party right now that would actually make evidence-based, expert-informed decisions for our country.

I think it's gotten better in recent years. Years ago when I was trying to switch to Linux I had an NVIDIA 750 GTX Ti, back when it was the first Ti card and required the absolute latest drivers. Ubuntu's repos didn't package those drivers and Nouveau didn't support it, so I had no choice but to install NVIDIA's drivers manually. Then every time the kernel updated the drivers were effectively uninstalled and my system was unusable until I reinstalled the drivers manually. That experience led me to switch to AMD for the next card I bought.

About a year ago though I switched back to NVIDIA for the AI capabilities and I've had an absolute flawless experience with it, despite using (or because of?) Arch.

Worth pointing out that the reason schools talk about LGBTQ issues in the first place is that some of the students and their classmates are themselves LGBTQ - this isn't just a distant political issue that can be ignored until students are adults. How is Poilievre imagining schools should respond if say a transgender child is getting bullied by their classmates? "Ask your parents if it's okay to bully them"?

I grew up in a Christian school / environment that completely ignored LGBTQ issues. Knowing I was different in some way and not having a word for it, and not knowing why my classmates weren't reciprocating my crushes (why wouldn't other guys want an exclusive super best-friend of the same gender...) was hugely damaging for me. Schools have a responsibility to help all kids thrive, and you can't do that if you don't educate kids about the very things affecting them and their classmates.

I can see your post here? Why do you think you're shadow banned (I don't even know if that functionality exists yet)?