Why do you want to go back to college? How much debt or financial risk can you take on? How much will the college program increase your long-term financial security?
I went back to school at 35. It's different but pretty good
Surely Doug Ford deserves a dishonourable mention. Bike lanes are getting systematically removed ffs
Article title: "Giant red canoe sculpture set on fire at CityPlace park in Toronto's core". Article doesn't mention the idea of "protest" once. Why do you raise the idea of protest?
“The most troubling finding is that public operating room activity was actually lower in the most recent year than even pre-pandemic,” the report’s author, Andrew Longhurst, a B.C.-based health researcher, told a news conference.
“Provincial policy and funding decisions are encouraging the movement of limited staff, including operating room nurses and anesthetists already in short supply, into the for-profit sector, which, keep in mind, only performs the lowest-complexity surgeries, does not provide emergency care and does not provide followup care,” he said.
“This is having real consequences on how Albertans are able to access life-saving health care in the province, and specifically surgical care; median wait times under the [surgical initiative] are longer for most priority procedures than before its inception.”
Longhurst’s analysis shows that while provincial spending on public hospitals increased only marginally between fiscal year 2019-20 and 2023-24, spending on private surgical facilities nearly tripled to $55.8 million from $20 million.
He capitalized on anti-urban sentiment amongst rural folk, anti environmentalism, a fictitious 'war on cars.' I'm not sure what else. Most of what he does these days is give away (ie, privatize) parts of this province to his corporate buddies
There's an idiotic and corrupt conservative provincial (state) leader who made it into some BS election issue, and he is removing the bike lanes against the will of much of the city where the bike lanes actually are
Riffing off your point about Judge not using the torpedo bats that game. I learned the following from ex-MLB hitter Kevin Barker on the Blair and Barker podcast today.
Hitters of Judge's calibre are unlikely to use torpedo bats. Torpedo bats are for helping players who tend to miss hitting the ball at the sweet spot of the bat - so the bat is designed differently to give more sweet spot to wherever it is they typically make contact (e.g., if it's closer to the thumbs - make the bat wider there). Elite hitters don't need this correction. Torpedo bats are poised to help less talented hitters, not the elite hitters. Torpedo bats, or custom bats in general, are also very expensive, so minor leaguers are unlikely to be able to afford them or use them
I felt there was some value in not blocking you to see your geopolitical posts. I thought there was like 1 interesting idea in there for every 10 ones of (very) questionable veracity. But I draw the line at normalizing hate. Idk if you're ~~a moron, or you just play one~~ (edit for less ableism: stupid or just pretend to be) on social media; ie, do you produce misinformation or disinformation?
For those that want to assess for themselves the level of anti-LGBTQ+ in Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Russia
I hate Putin for his illegal invasion of Ukraine and all the suffering that has caused
(edit: and his very anti-LGBT+ policies. There may be more I should hate him for, but I'm not that informed. My main point is that I can articulate reasonable and rational hatred for Putin without invoking propaganda or conspiracy theories)
Glad to hear! That could save him up to 6 needles a day - a finger poke for blood sugar testing and an insulin injection, both x3 meals
I think the downside of these drugs (GLP-1 receptor agonists) is their marketing for weight loss. It's another way of making our obesogenic society more profitable for drug makers while people keep getting more unhealthy and have increasing out-of-pocket medication costs
(Edit: claudication was not the feared diabetes complication I thought the headline was referring to. What about blindness, amputation, heart attack/stroke?)
I don't really avoid non-vegan food topics because they're triggering to me. I might have for the first 6 months or so I was vegan, when my newfound vegan anguish or vystopia was really fresh.
But now, seeing someone eat meat or talk about how much they like meat products doesn't affect me much. I know that 100 million or so sentient beings are being killed each and every day after being confined to cramped, cruel, and unhygienic environments all their lives - and it's killing the planet and causing humans to be on cardio metabolic drugs all their lives. All of this is propped up and protected by big money through ag-gag laws, government subsidies, ridiculous advertising budgets, and lobbying against vegan meats.
I find it saddening to be around chicken restaurants, because I know chickens are treated very inhumanely. I dislike any imaging of say a chicken offering up a bucket of fried chicken.
I avoid talking about non-vegan food and being in non-vegan-friendly environments because I don't want to participate in those types of events. I might have a good amount of things in common with someone who's non-vegan, but talking to them about meat focuses our interaction on things I don't share with them at all and in fact think less of them for it (e.g., what is behind their daily cruelty to sentient beings - unintelligence, denial, a desire to fit in). Often some guilt or defensiveness in them upon learning that I don't share their indifference to the suffering of non-human animals is the first thing that's noticeable. I'll steer conversations back to things we have in common.
People who are genuinely curious about eating less non-human animal products have very different vibes. And I always try to welcome them where they're at.