n2burns @ n2burns @lemmy.ca

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First off, not an officer, a high ranking enlisted(E-8) personal was the culprit.

Typically, anything E-4 or higher is considered a Non-Commisioned Officer.

EDIT further clarification: from my experience in the Canadian Army, what "Officers" means depends on context. Most often (and what !Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de probably meant) it means just Commissioned Officers. Other times, it's anyone in leadership, including NCOs.

the younger generation loves the game and the older set hate the noise.

That only makes sense if the "older generation" is the silent/greatest generation because 95% of people I see playing pickle ball are baby boomers.

I completely agree that alcoholism is a disease, and as with any other disease, we have to look at the survivability if she got the transplant.

Let's be honest, while the article tries to be favourable to the patient, you can piece together the facts and see that her odds weren't good. While she's been sober since she got the diagnosis, it appears she was immediately hospitalised which tells us she was in very rough shape and has only been sober while in the hospital. Even if she was able to stay sober, it looks like the odds with a partial transplant aren't great.

The comparison is apples and oranges. They only include the cost of the surgery itself, not the cost of after-surgical care, the potential cost of complications to both the patient and the donor, etc. Then there's the cost if the partial liver donation doesn't take, or if the patient relapses.

Obviously, there's also a lot of potential upside to having the patient survive, I just don't think the odds of that were all that high.

Because, it's a risk-reward calculation. If the patient doesn't qualify for transplant, then the expected risk outweighs the expected reward. In this case, the risk isn't just to the patient, but also the donor, and by extension, the medical system itself.

Jesus Christ that’s fucked up. Only 36 too and stopped drinking…

From the article:

Amanda Huska died Aug. 15 after spending six months in an Oakville, Ont. hospital.

and:

Huska, he said, stopped drinking as soon as she was diagnosed with Alcohol Liver Disease on March 3

So that sounds like she was immediately admitted (which implies she was already very sick) and only was sober in the hospital. In my opinion, that doesn't qualify for "stopped drinking" and unfortunately she didn't get a chance to prove whether or not she was actually able to stop.

I think it's less of "goaded him into it" and more of "predicted it". As others have pointed out, messing with unions is a red-line for the NDP.

At least that means a less conservative (ie LPO OLP) Ontario premier…

Eh, I'm not sure Crombie is much less conservative than Ford. I feel if she becomes Premier, we're going to have to wait another cycle of shifting right-then-left until we have a chance at an actual progressive government.

The Verge's recommendation of Brother Printers

Yes, they literally wrote that article as a meme. It's been a joke on the VergeCast for years that their printer recommendation is, "Get the cheapest Brother printer that meets your needs (duplex, scanner, colour, etc). You'll almost certainly be happy with it." In your case, even if you don't want it, you'll probably get a scanner, but it doesn't add that much to the price.

They should focus on restoring public funding to postsecondary schools, tightening future foreign student quotas and shutting down diploma mills.

"They" (the Federal government) can't focus on two of these three since education is the domain of the provinces, and they've already tightened student visa numbers.

And it's not like it contains any sensitive information. I'm sure all your emails are just friendly correspondence with your pen pal.

Because why not 🙂

Because security.

For anyone who doesn't get this comment https://youtu.be/Q-25c8Rsobw

I really don't like the idea of associating someone as toxic as Elon with someone as pure as Elmo.

Great comparison, a dialect used by millions of people to a dead language. It really shows how much you care about the people who speak that dialect...

Having a Québécois convenience store company try to take over a Japenese convenience store company, who recently took over an American convenience store company just feels like the crazy future capitalism presented us but never fulfilled. Instead, we're usually just dealing with late-stage capitalism.

Ah, see I also think the US system is messed up, but for the opposite reason. The US is one of the few places in the world with elected judges, and most of the rest are political appointments. In the rest of the world, there are non-partisan process to select qualified judges. Political appointments for administrative positions are just bad and contributes to the polarization we see today. With elections, I don't think the majority of voters are actually researching and assessing these down-ballot races, but just voting along party lines. This means, instead of a (TBF, potentially flawed) non-partisan process, you just have the parties selecting judges, giving political parties even more power.

I'm curious how you're excited for these judicial reform. IMHO, elected judges are a horrible idea.

I'm not saying that's good, but I feel like I've seen far worse. Like the ones that are just a pad of cement and a pole with a bus sign. There might be nearby businesses to indicate where people could go when they use the bus, maybe a desire path, but no actual pedestrian infrastructure.

And to be honest, I'm not a fan of sources reporting on themselves. Even if I considered this a reputable source (I have no opinion on it either way), I would want a third-party article.