joshhsoj1902 @ joshhsoj1902 @lemmy.ca

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Last year was the first outlier year in decades. If ignore last year our population growth rate (births & immigration) has been pretty flat for decades.

This isn't a new problem and it's not now being caused by immigration. Provinces have been massively under investing in infrastructure for decades and the federal government can't force them to start projects.

The current situation is essentially exactly what Canadian conservatives want, they control most of the provincial governments, and continue to cut spending on infrastructure & social programs. Then conservative media is blaming the failures on the federal government even though the federal government can only actually help if the provinces asked for it, and they have no reason to.

It's incredible how effective the conservative owned media is at spinning a story.

I don't believe the federal government can fix the problem if the provincial governments don't want help.

Considering the federal government is taking the brunt of the provincial government failures it's not really surprising the provinces aren't rushing to take action.

Comparing Google to Microsoft in the early 2000s is not pointless at all. Back then it was Microsoft who had the monopoly on all technology, they controlled IE, the most used browser in the world, and they controlled the main operating system that people used.

When Google started Chrome they worked with other large companies to work on building web standards, many of the super important technology behind the scenes that make the modern internet work were developed at least partially by Google in collaboration with other major industry interests.

Android also had a huge impact here. These days people accessing the internet on phones is common practice, but once again Google pioneered many of the standards now used to allow build applications that run decently well on phones and can interface with the web.

And those are just two major projects you've likely heard of. Google created a lot of tech that is used behind the scenes:

• Kubernetes was created by Google and they have transfered ownership away from themselves.
• Golang is a wildly popular development language that they developed and open source.
• Related to android, but google is also a major contributor back to the Linux kernel.
• Google is also a major player in online security proactively finding security flaws in critical web services and applications and working with relevant parties to resolve them.
• Google essentially developed http2.
• Google was heavily involved in developing HTML5 (which really was essential for our modern websites)
• Google's open source V8 JavaScript engine is used in node.js (another super popular web development language). I think it still uses V8, but I haven't used nodejs in years.

I'm not saying you shouldn't try to use Google products less, but this case you're ignoring just how much Google helped save us from Microsoft's monopoly. And regardless how much control Google has now, it's far less then the control Microsoft had, and a large part of that is because Google has been more open with their technology and more willing to work to better the entire industry (yes they were likely aware that making the whole tech space better would also help them, but i have a hard time feeling that's malicious)

I'm not sure I agree, cheap shots regarding the separation would likely land well with the voter base that was only ever going to vote blue, but it's not likely to win points in the moderate crowd. And those moderates are who the conservatives need to convince if they want to get into power.

Underground is not artisanal, underground is cigs smuggled into Canada from the US or Mexico, and containing fillers you would never know.

Sure it would be great if banning the sale of it would work, but it would just make the problem harder to manage.

This would only create an underground market for it, and if we've learned anything at this point, those underground markets are impossible to regulate and often are more dangerous and risky to the user.

Legal sales and regulating it is usually much more effective.

Will this raise tensions more or less than Russia dropping fuel on US drones multiple times over the last few days?

Last time I needed to see a doctor for a non urgent matter I booked an appointment 2 weeks from the day. From there I got refered to a specialist a weeks dns ahalf later.

Why do you ask?

I actually feel a little sad seeing the BaconReader logo there. I had been using it for so long, and for the last 4 or so years it was the only way I used Reddit.

When I signed out of BaconReader that was the only place I was signed in, and I was pretty sad when I uninstalled it. Seeing the logo there brought that emotion back.

We’ll continue to monitor that situation. Obviously, these things are in flux. I mean, significant rainfall over 24 hours. You know, you have forecast for rain and then you have actual rain.

Part of the point of forecasts is that they try to warn about worst case scenarios. Dismissing all forecasts because the worst case doesn't always happen is idiotic and reckless.

You seem to misunderstand how climate change is impacting weather systems overall how that's leading to more localized extremes (both hot and cold).

This was my experience too. Ubuntu asks if I want to install the docker snap, I say sure. I then try to use docker and it's completely unable to do what I need. I then need to figure out how to uninstall the snap and then install docker normally.

I tried a few snaps, but everytime they were a pain in the ass and I regretted it. Now I avoid them at all costs

I'm in a similar boat. The only time I do plug in headphones (via the usb port) is on nights I'm having a very hard time fall asleep. But I do that at the expense of being able to charge my phone 😔

Oh, you're talking about something completely other then the article the rest of us are talking about. No wonder you're so confused and are confusing everyone else.

Give the article a read and try to stay on topic.

The union is fighting to raise working conditions and the minimum wages.

So I guess by your own logic you do support this walkout, you just don't even realize it 😂.

Edit: just incase I need to explain it, anyone working for minimum wages would be making less than the average.

Your bar for "rich" is very low.

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/posting/film-actor-or-actress-salary

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Movie-Actor-Salary

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/actor/salary

The average salaries are ok, but in the US they are far far from making actors wealthy.

I pretty much stopped using my phone for audio when they got rid of the headphone jack.

Wireless headphones still aren't great and most are uncomfortable. It's super annoying keeping them charged and they are so expensive when you consider how short their lifespan is.

I paid for Reddit gold back in the day, I really enjoyed the ability to selectively gift gold to comments.

When they replaced gold with coins I ended up unsubscribing. The coins felt like they devalued what gold actually was.

I think it's fair that they want to revisit the feature, but shutting off a revenue stream a month after they made such a big deal about charging for API access, it feels to me like they are lacking common direction and priorities within the company...