I've been using RIF and old.reddit.com for as long as they existed. Reddit since the big Digg transition. Hope to never see the same happen to Lemmy!!
The nation desperately needs police reform!
Stuff like this, or disabling body cam footage IMO should result in immediate termination and absolutely no union protection
There's someone working for Kingston Ontario police who was harassing his wife/girlfriend. There was an article about him pleading guilty that kept the victim 100% anonymous... Then he makes public statements to the press. Reveals its his significant other that they owned a home together with. Claims he "pleaded guilty because he couldn't afford a legal defense." You literally get one whether you can afford one or not.
The guy makes 200k per year. Funny this hate criminal kicking heads is getting 18 months because so did this Kingston cop! A YEAR AND A HALF 100% PAID VACATION. Now he's back with a comfy administrative desk job.
You know what happens when locals criticise the cops? They literally tell us "you should be careful, we might now show up when you need us."
"politicizing disasters" to me just sounds like exploring the possibility that there are people and actions to blame...
Canada is ripe for the picking, we let our telecoms walk all over us.
I wonder how much of our "economy doing great" is just businesses generating GDP from crap like this...
That's just the trickle down. Check the pockets and bank accounts, panama papers...
Don't forget plain ol' corporate greed
I believe in Canada we have high standards for our potable water, unlike the UK for example our water heaters need to be up to par (UK typically has seperate taps AFAIK).
So no need to boil, also if you're trying to get rid of chlorine you can just use Brita filters, carbon filters that restaurants use do the same AFAIK. Also even cities like mine which (at least at some point before now) had way more houses than apartments still chlorinated the entire city's supply.
Filters are insanely good these days. I was thinking about getting a life straw, but there's a slightly more expensive alternative that can do like 500x more filtering before it needs to be replaced, and comes with a pouch you can fill and then pour into a regular water bottle. Life straws are meant to be drank from directly, and the alternatives that company offers are just water bottles with life straws built in - so you put unfiltered water in the bottle itself... Probably gets gross or requires constant cleaning
In other news, water is wet!
We used to have laws and regulations in place for stuff like this, same with the USA. As years passed they lost their teeth
The Netscape loading logo was pretty cool, and of course it took a while to load every page!
A bit later than what I'd call the early internet, I'd say my favourite memory was winning a Super Soaker CPS 2500 when I was 13.
...what do you get for $9 a month? I'm guessing you're not in Ontario? Since I was a loyal long term customer I was lucky to get my bill down to 40 minus 10 bucks promotionally (which doesn't show up in my account or say how long it'll last) from 60 a month for 15GB of data. And now of course you can get more data for the same price or some shit as a new customer
Opening up to international competition is one option... Honestly we could have Canadian companies be competitive but that would involve work and effort from all levels: government, consumer, and business.
These dare the days of everyone wanting everything for free, but I'm not talking lazy hobos - I'm talking the entitled rich who think they can just keep sucking the rest of us dry indefinitely
Experience? If you say so, again just sounds like you're quoting a textbook.
If you're referring to experience all the way back to your quality of life comment, how old are you? Quality of life has definitely dropped since baby boomers were in their 20s and 30s and 40s
Sure we have netflix, we're all interconnected and have instant access to information on the internet, but we can't raise a family on a single income, we can't pay off college or university with a single year of a summer job
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I just wiped out on my e-road bike going a bit too fast around a corner on a damp morning when roads were slick, and I feel like the speed I took the corner at would've resulted in the same thing on a motorcycle ๐
I look at bikes like yours here and I wonder how different does it feel from riding on a motorcycle? Magnitudes lighter of course. I've never ever driven a motorcycle, wouldn't mind a crotch rocket, got to ride on the back of a chopper a few times.
I wasn't much for helmets until I converted my road bike. I could even use an armored jacket or something lol