markpaskal

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[–] markpaskal 32 points 8 months ago

McDonald’s has been on the decline since I worked there 13 years ago. What you’re reporting as dry and overcooked is actually food that has been hot held long past the time it should have been thrown out. You can’t even get a burger patty that has been cooked within the past two hours most of the time unless you’re there during peak times.

[–] markpaskal 5 points 8 months ago

I think one of the Pixels or one of the old nexus devices could read heart rate through the camera somehow, but you had to put a big fingerprint on the lense so it was useless to most people.

[–] markpaskal 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

There is nothing offensive about the name British Columbia. This isn't like Yong-Dundas or schools that are named after residential school pushers or streets named after slavers.

There is a push to native-wash everything in Canada, I think because it makes progressives feel like they've accomplished something despite the systems of oppression against native peoples remaining fundamentally unchanged.

[–] markpaskal 17 points 8 months ago

My local cafes are just better, and they’re just as close as Starbucks. It’s not that they aren’t busy, their sales just aren’t growing and shareholders don’t like it when the line doesn’t go up.

[–] markpaskal -4 points 9 months ago

Psh. There are groups of chronically online losers operating out of different discord servers working to control the narrative on the Acolyte. There are groups that do this for video games and there are groups that do this for politics, like the conservatives that control r/Canada on Reddit.

If you are outraged by either side of the manipulation then you have been sucked into the culture war nonsense yourself. You should take a step back and question why this is important to you.

[–] markpaskal 2 points 9 months ago

My company has already moved our production line south in anticipation of tariffs.

[–] markpaskal 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I work for a digital display company, and it is definitely redundancy. There will be at least two redundant display systems that go to the modules separately so they can switch between them to solve issues. If a component fails on one side they just switch to the other.

[–] markpaskal 2 points 9 months ago

I love Slack Wyrm. It is best to start from the beginning and catch up so you learn all of the lore, and there is a lot of lore!

He posts everything a week early to Patreon and holds court there over whether anything should change and often the comics on Patreon and what gets posted to the website and socials differ a bit.

[–] markpaskal 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What you are alluding to is no longer activism and should be called what it is, terrorism. You are reframing the issue much as a neo Nazi might.

[–] markpaskal 2 points 10 months ago

You can buy depilatory that is made for intimate areas but you still can't put it on the vagina or the butthole. It burns.

I am so sorry, you are going to be miserable for a few days. Lotions and balms are probably going to make it sting even worse.

[–] markpaskal 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it surprising to you that posting this right wing shit got you down voted? Denying the lived experiences of residential school survivors?

[–] markpaskal 2 points 10 months ago

That's not a distinction that users care about, or should need to care about.

 

On the heels of a summer in which heat records were smashed in North America and Europe, thousands of oil and gas industry executives, government officials and media representatives from around the world will converge on Calgary for the World Petroleum Congress.

As they gather for the five-day conference to discuss the future of the sector, they'll do so under growing climate scrutiny and concern. Their conference is themed with that in mind, titled Energy Transition: The Path to Net Zero.

 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said a central kitchen believed to be linked to an E. coli outbreak in Calgary that has made hundreds of children sick has been closed indefinitely, and she has ordered a review of all shared kitchens that serve daycares in the city.

Smith also said she will be offering a one-time payment of $2,000 to parents of children who have been affected by the outbreak, and called on the affected daycares to reimburse parents for any fees incurred while the children were unable to attend daycare.

 

The whole of Calgary is about to undergo one of the most significant housing policy changes in its history — a build whatever, wherever bonanza. In a report submitted to city council in May, the Housing and Affordability Task Force — comprising mostly city employees, ex-city employees and developers — recommended blanket rezoning for any neighbourhood anywhere in the city. This data-starved report has come to the community development committee for approval this week.

 

Calgary city councillors are set to debate a new strategy aimed at making housing more affordable.

Councillors will spend the next two days discussing the proposed new housing strategy, in a public hearing where Calgarians will also be able to weigh in.

The meeting comes in the wake of a recent Housing Needs Assessment report released by the City of Calgary on Sept. 6.

The report, which is published by the city every five years, put forward several recommendations to address what it calls the city's "housing crisis," by making renting and owning a home in Calgary more affordable.

 

A slim majority of Albertans would support some kind of national cap on carbon emissions from the oil and gas sector, two new polls suggest.

The polls, conducted by different polling firms at the same time with the same questions, come after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith warned Ottawa last month not to test the "resolve" of Albertans to oppose such measures.

"(The results) conflict with the narrative that our current government is telling Albertans and Canadians that Albertans do not support this kind of action," said Joe Vipond of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, which commissioned the polls.

"Our polling suggests that's not correct."

 

A number of Calgary parents say they're frustrated that the company that runs a series of daycares hit by an E. coli outbreak have yet to commit to offering full refunds for the month of September, instead offering credits for days affected by the closure.

That doesn't go far enough for parents who are no longer comfortable sending their children to the campuses, or for those who have faced financial impacts as a result of the outbreak.

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It seems this drama isn't over after all.

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