boogerminer.bsky.social
respiratory therapist
ECMO specialist
Canadian ski patroller
I suck, so you don't have to.
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C sections not available in our community. A 2 hour drive to get one. All because the AC is down in our local hospital.
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If you want to know why the shallow identity politics of Democrats and corporations failed its because they tried to adopt the packaging of the left without ever adopting its substance. All politics is identity politics, but identity can never be your only politics
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In the inimitable words of Joel Plaskett, some people complain, others just bitch.
Some people will bitch about taxes funding the fire department. And then bitch when their house burns down.
Complaining without alternative solutions or a policy underpinning besides "spending bad" is bitching imo.
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We won't discuss how much of that huge budget goes towards settling lawsuits related to public complaints.
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Comparing between regular small town US police training and RCMP depot or the BC Justice Institute is not even close. The training is very different. We also don't elect sheriffs.
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Legit one of the best mayors (and MPs) Edmonton ever had was a former taxi and bus driver. Dude is extremely intelligent and did solitary prison time in India for accusations of terrorism (with no evidence.) Preserve this man at all costs please. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarjee...
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Its hard to 'find community' with people who actively hate you.
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sir it's called beaver lumber
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They were very scared when a thunderstorm passed a ways away that had lots of cloud lightning and some moderate breeze (25km/h winds.)
I think I take for granted how often I've slept in the forest in storms because this didn't even register as worrisome to me.
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also not wrong about why the right has advanced their agenda so successfully - the techno-accelerationists, neocons, christian zionists, and libertarians disagree on a lot of shit but what they have agreed on is to work together.
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Some people on here are literal accelerationists whose ideas for reform are essentially "burn everything down and install my own junta."
They don't say it out loud because it sounds bad.
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Entertainingly enough, in Canada this partly manifests as voters not entirely knowing what is whose responsibility. This is how we get people blaming the state of healthcare and housing on the feds (they're provincial responsibilities.) The premiers (provincial leaders) campaigned on this disinfo.
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Him, his wife Marci Shore and his colleague Jason Stanley are big wins for the Munk school. I suspect the latter two felt more pressure to leave than Dr. Snyder himself but either way I can't disrespect wanting to preserve the ability to speak freely and loudly without workplace censure.
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"tell it to your therapist"
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louder for the accelerationists in the back
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I think a lot of people have no outlet to express this type of stuff and so just spew it where there will be no consequences, without regard for the fact there's humans on the other end.
It's fine to be scared sometimes but the place to be messy is the group chat, not a public website.
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I realize the less I say here the better, but my vote is far from an endorsement of any candidate! I don't have to like or agree with them and part of voting for them is having the ability to hold that over their head when I scream at them to do better. It's not a fan club! (even if some people try)
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A typical poster with bear warnings and trail restrictions.
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yes, being in a group is good, it's advisable on many trails in the rockies precisely because of bear danger
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For people who hate police, surveillance, and marginalization as applied to them, some sure love it when they're at the other end of the knife.
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I love that I agree with 99% of these peoples' politics but I'm being excommunicated for the sin of participating in the civic process. The person who said that a lot of radical lefties are unhealed exvangelicals was 100% accurate, complete with the ingroup surveillance, policing, and ostracism.
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Also, if your social policy guidelines are "nothing should fundamentally change" that's a conservative position by definition.
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The closest approximation is social policies being more cost effective than austerity. Eg: funding preventative healthcare is cheaper than reactive medicine.
Difficulty setting: most fiscal Conservatives don't actually care about balanced budgets, they want a plausible reason to discriminate.
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Necessary but not sufficient. For sure.
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How dare your 300 character skeet not completely unpack all of the nuance of a complex topic. I am an intellectual.
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On behalf of all the lovely Warhammer adults I know and love, I think this will be fun. Especially if they have to cough up their own cash for the minis.
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We could ask *why* someone is romantically attached to a chatbot but I guess we’re more interested in the concept that it itself is responsible for Bad Things versus how someone was brought up to believe that something practically incentivized to NOT say No is their True Love
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are you trying to say morale is not a key element of effective resistance because that's a hell of a take
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Other people don't and may read this thread! This is called "engagement" and is widely seen as good. This is how public forums work!
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having experienced the 401 in Toronto at rush hour I can confirm it does indeed induce a certain craziness that was not previously there
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Arguably the best part about urbanism is not necessarily having to drive, so, I think yes
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I can think of like, at least one Prominent example, 💯 seconded
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I am powerless to make the internet better but I can absolutely make it worse
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the mouth, the guts, the butt. QED
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This is research done by a newspaper because it should not be a prerequisite that someone has access to an academic librarian and paid journals to talk on the Internet. JFC
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It wasn't "easy" or you'd have done it, speaking of laziness. And it's because nothing you said refutes his point which begs the question why it needed to be said, except to tear down someone who you agree with, because perfection is the enemy of good.
Welcome to why it's hard to build coalitions.
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and an istat in an IV tree...
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If we wanna talk about why this offer is not valid in the bay area then we gotta talk about work from home and poverty, the wishcasting statistics edition is not helping.