mikevlasic.bsky.social
Ottawa, Ontario.
Wilderness camper, fisherman, canoeist, & hiker.
I've got thirsty ears.
Non-partisan. Dump FPTP and give us PR.
I do NOT stand with PMJT or PP.
The older I get, the further left I get.
Here since 24 Jul 2023
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My wife is immune-suppressed. When she goes to the hospital, almost nobody is masked. When she goes to get blood work done, the technician wears a blue surgical mask, and other patients are usually unmasked.
We just shrug & ignore them all.
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Even the family friend asked if I was sick. My GP once asked that, too.
I protect others along with me & my family. We mask up when entering any building that isn't home. We remain novids.
Masking never should've been dropped on transit, planes, & trains.
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Yep, that's NB.1.8.1. Sounds like fun.
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He got pushed out & left with $21 million. Rough life.
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He cut thousands of jobs, and that continued to the day I left in 2015. He started by cutting entire divisions, then they cut people 1 by 1, usually on a Friday. A lot of good people were cut along with the chaff.
Job losses meant customer support tanked. It never improved.
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When has he ever behaved? Every day is a new shitstorm. He's a demented, old, racist fool.
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Canadians have greatly reduced travel to the USR and are avoiding all USR products ― that's all grass roots.
If only the government tried hitting back as hard.
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He also like to pretend he was tough & the relationship was over. Now he's sucking up & he isn't really hitting back.
Drumpf, Modi, & SBS should never have been invited.
He's very impressed with himself, but he's been making far too many mistakes.
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He left Bell in a shambles & left with big bag of money. He was hated.
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Only 1 coffee. He's very impatient.
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Capitulate! You have no choice.
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That was so long ago, I dunno if it was an RTOS.
I did get into trouble with the IT guys on the floor. I started adapting the system to word processing & people wanted to use it, so I produced manuals. IT was miffed but I was just being helpful. At least my manager protected me.
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But he's so clever, & he'd be the first to tell you that.
He also thinks carbon capture & storage is a real thing.
Are we getting buyer's remorse yet?
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I hope it stays south of that imaginary line.
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Stats got 1 of the first LANs, from QNX. I absorbed the manuals & was able to open the floppy drives of friends' PCs, along with so much else. I discovered they had the password file unprotected. So much fun.
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We're prehistoric. 🦕
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StatsCan was using punch cards when I started there in 1979. We were soon tossed onto dumb terminals hooked up to IBM mainframes. I cut my baby teeth on them.
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Yep. They bought the tiny & great consulting company I was with, setting up ops in Canada. So many of us left.
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EDS decreed that we couldn't have facial hair, tassels on our shoes, and couldn't go with clients for a glass of wine at Xmas. A few were fired for that wine.
What an incredibly shit US company.
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Those companies are so damn rare.
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I began with StatsCan & rose quickly, but left to pursue IT in business; what a fool.
My last 15 years were with Bell, a nauseous company that treats its people & customers like trash.
I worked for CGI for a short time, plus several other companies. EDS was the worst.
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I retired at 62 and man, I was so ready. Commuting, office politics, and noisy people were becoming so tough, even though I was just a contractor.
Now, every day is Saturday. The wildfire smoke cleared out so I went for a bike ride today & did some work in the backyard.
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And we're far past the time to have potable water on all Indigenous reserves, along with the plumbing to deliver it to every home.
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Safe indoor air alone would save so many lives, plus billions in lost work time due to airborne diseases, current and future.
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Anus Tangerinus confuses WWI and WWII. Nobody is surprised. Put him in a home & heavily medicate him.
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Why would the agency set you up with a company that only hires 20-somethings? If they didn't know, they should've known and not wasted your time.
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I was in IT, too, but retired in 2015 when my financial advisor said I had enough tucked away in RSPs to survive to around 82. We rely on my wife's gov't pension for health & dental care. The pandemic means I could survive a few extra years!
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A sign of the times. Everything's based on money and paying less. Trouble is that you pay less, you get less.
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The Swedish Grippen came 2nd in their competition. Time to move to it.
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Hire young, pay less. Brilliant strategy when Canada Life is struggling so much with government pensioners over dental & medical bills. They're infuriating.
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Hawai'i was stolen by the US, overthrowing Queen Liliʻuokalani in 1893. Hawai'i should be free and independent again.
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And the fertilisation of the soil is free.
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In April, Carney suspended almost all tariffs for 6 months. The biggest damage to the US is a grass-roots tactic of avoiding all US products ― that's not controlled by the government.
They're negotiating behind closed doors & we don't know what's on the table. This is far from over.
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We sanctioned Russia for invading Ukraine.
Israel is violently swallowing Gaza and the rest of the West Bank, and seem to have designs on Lebanese and Syrian territory.
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Thanks, but I doubt it.
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They've systematically killed hundreds of journalists.
Enough.
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Recognise the Palestinian state, sanction all of Israel & West Bank settlers, cut off all trade, make members of their government persona non grata in Canada.
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Dorg is probably asking donors which chunks of the greenbelt they should designate as special economic zones.
Where's the damn police investigation?
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I've started saying the same thing.
The irony is that Carney is going to lose support rapidly if he's giving away the farm in negotiations with the US, refuses to retaliate, & costs of re-arming cut into social services. We may well end up with Skippy at the end of it all.
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A friend's wife in Toronto has long COVID now since December 2023. It's been debilitating for her, with brain fog, fatigue, and an inability to navigate in the city. They have a constant list of medical appointments.
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The 'kids,' both in their 40s, know my wife is immune-suppressed but can't be bothered to take that into account.
That hurts.
They've both given up on masking & vaccinations since about 2022 when governments lied to us that it was safe.
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Israel could care less & the West just wags its finger.
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We've so far managed to avoid COVID, but our sons have ghosted us because we "haven't moved on" like they did.
They've both been infected at least once. My son ended up in ICU & was almost ventilated. I ascribe to the brain dysfunction caused by COVID ― it makes sense.