prodigalsorcerer @ prodigalsorcerer @lemmy.ca

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Can you define "non exploitation"?

My understanding is that leather is a waste byproduct of the meat industry, so much in the same way that gas is from dinosaurs that are already dead, the cows that provide leather are "already dead" due to their use as meat.

So in that sense, it seems like leather is the more ecological choice, though not knowing your definition of exploitation, it may or may not be exploitative. I certainly wouldn't consider it vegan though.

There once was a final solution
With suffering and mass execution
They said "Never again"
What they actually meant
Was "Palestine's just an illusion"

But if we also include all the times that he didn't kill Hitler, then he actually killed two thirds of a Hitler

Despite these options not being mutually exclusive, I think I would be in the 17.2%. I'm not buying US booze now, but I wasn't buying it before either.

Mostly this survey is pretty bad, and I don't think we can make any good conclusions from the results.

The left seems awfully worried about home values

Why do you think it's the left that's worried about home values?

I live in Canada. I used to visit the States probably every other year. Then Trump was elected in 2016, and I stopped going. Then covid happened, so I figured I'd wait a bit longer. And now it'll be another 3 years until I even consider it, but that largely depends on what happens in that time span. It's not out of the question to just never visit again. There are plenty of other places in the world that I haven't seen yet.

There's a good chance that many or all of these cases are in the Mennonite community.

That's not an explanation of why he should be barred from office.

He's Catholic, but he's not trying to make Canada Catholic. Trudeau and Poilievre are also Catholic. In fact, every single PM of Canada has been either Catholic or Protestant.

Why?

Sue them for what? They are fully within their rights to run anti-abortion ads and reject pro-choice ads.

when he says that trump wouldn’t win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.

I believe that Trump may not have won without him. He weaponized twitter to push misinformation against the Dems and in favour of Trump. I don't know if the result of that can be quantified in such a way that we'd know for sure whether it changed the outcome, but it certainly had an impact.

It's not organized by left and right. It's organized by percentage of people who have an unfavorable view of Israel.

It would be weirder for 0% to be on the right and 100% to be on the left. Also, in theory, it's possible for those three dots to be in any order on the line.

About the same price as PP's forced byelection will cost.

I think adjusting by municipality is a bad idea.

A flat basic income across the country promotes migration to lower COL areas. An adjusted basic income promotes migration to higher COL areas in order to get a bigger income. While different areas having different COLs is pretty unavoidable, I don't think making high-COL areas more attractive is a good idea.

I'm also not a huge fan of adjusting for couples vs. single people. I get why they do it, it's an easy way to save money. But the actual expenses of you living with a roommate (as you suggested) compared to you living with a roommate that you're also sleeping with, don't change very much. (I have similar complaints about household income being used for basically everything except taxes, but that's a little further off topic.)

Meld cards all have the restriction of "own and control", so while your scenario sounds fun, it's unfortunately not possible (yet).

It's text on the card, rather than a built in restriction, so in theory it could be possible in the future.

It's news because these two mean girls are in charge of the two largest nuclear weapon stockpiles in the world.

Drive forward, drive forward, reverse, reverse, left blinker, right blinker, left blinker, right blinker, Brake pedal, Accelerator pedal, honk.

What did they expect? They made this decision during the holidays. Then they need to design, build, and deploy a website. If they have employees capable of doing this, they probably already had plans to work on something else. And if they didn't have the employees, they need to hire them.

Unless the whole idea was to just throw up a Geocities page titled "Dead People", these things take time to do properly and respectfully.

Having one disability doesn't mean they are affected by this change. The article says 77,000 people collect disability in Alberta, which is about 1.8% of Albertans.

That said, 27% is a much bigger number than I expected, even for any amount of disability. Do you have a link to that data? I'd be curious to know more about it.

People with disabilities are a very small minority, and it's impossible to know if they voted conservative. This isn't a leopards eating faces moment, it's a fuck you I've got mine.

Obviously they were already in a shitty situation being disabled in Alberta, but this is just one more sign that Albertans don't care about them.