(Playing tongue-in-cheek devil’s advocate) In order to lose weight, a body needs to be undernourished in relation to the minimum required to maintain that weight. Being undernourished at a non-starvation level produces hunger drive. I doubt any of the humans who decided he needs to lose weight speak fluent cat, so he didn’t have any say or insight into what’s being done to him. As such, from his perspective, he -hasn’t- been fed enough, and doesn’t have a reason for being hungry. So this cat should not be called a liar. He’s out there bravely sharing his truth with the world. He should be applauded and then fed.

I recently watched this video comparing various Midi game soundtracks on different sound cards. Really interesting how different cards interpreted the sounds differently.

There are other sports that penalise the offending fans’ team for fan misbehaviour, delays to game, etc. Lacrosse, and soccer, do at least. It’s an effective way to get fans to settle down when their actions cost their team possession, a penalty shot, etc. So maybe don’t remove the team, but I don’t see why they can’t do something similar.

Hi. Been in, worked in both. My experience with bathrooms doesn’t invalidate yours. Both can be true. Hell, we’re probably not in the same country, so social norms can play a factor, and like I said before, demographics make a big difference in a lot of things. Which drug residues are left on the back of the toilet, for example.

I’m sorry you have such strong feelings about people and public bathrooms. It’s definitely a shitty experience (pun intended). It’s a weird hill to die on though.

From my experience, it depends on where. Malls and things like that where there are many people of all different demographics absolutely are equally disgusting. Semi-private washrooms tend to be less disgusting overall, but women’s are usually at least a little cleaner. Standing to pee causes splashes. Enough human traffic and and the whole place smells like a hamster cage that doesn’t go away unless the whole damn bathroom is flooded in sanitiser.

Obtainium is a decent way to make using sites like apkPure, uptodown, etc. a little easier to handle.

Pirated games can be one or several of the following:

• a means of participating in a chosen culture when players can’t afford/justify the price tag (one Nintendo game now costs the same as a week’s worth of groceries for two people where I live)
• a form of archive because game publishers are notorious for killing games
• a form of backup because things happen to disks/cartridges
• a form of backup because servers go down
• a form of backup because not everyone’s internet is reliable
• a means making the game more accessible by adding features (eg. the option of infinite lives/health for someone with muscular dystrophy)
• a form of protest over ever-increasing prices at the same time as ever-increasing layoffs, and ever-decreasing quality.

More directly relevant to you: the money you give Nintendo goes to their legal teams, to continue to find loopholes around the protections you have. They’re the ones fighting the “Stop Killing Games” movement. Nintendo recently won a lawsuit against 1fichier in France for hosting emulated games. It has been marked as a “significant” win against any level of piracy in the EU. Nintendo is continually working to make sure that despite living in the EU, you won’t be fine regardless. Your purchase directly funds that.

Maybe you have no intention of playing pirated games, but I hope you can appreciate that this is larger than just some teenager feeling powerful because they stole something?

While I agree with you that there can be a risk of skinny people missing diagnosis because they’re “healthy”, I think you’re overestimating how well fat people are treated in healthcare. If a patient is fat, there is no further testing done. They’re told to lose weight whether healthy or not, and regardless of whether it’s relevant to their concerns or not. Obesity is still used as a cutoff to deny access to surgeries that will measurably improve their health, despite there often being no increased risk of complication.

As I said, I don’t disagree with your issue about skinny causing medical neglect: the way our society, including medicine, blindly follows weight as the only thing that matters (examples above for fat individuals, telling skinny people with terminal illnesses they look great for having lost weight, amputating functional organs to cause malnourishment and by extension weight loss, even to folks who are arguably healthy and in a mid to low BMI range…) Is detrimental to everyone’s well being.

Telecoms tradespeople in Canada are paid like absolute garbage. They used to be (and some still are, but they’re dwindling) part of the steelworker’s union, but they were hit hard by union busting, so now the majority are contractors who get paid by the job. This means a full 5 hour run of fibre to get a home set up pays the same as plugging a single wire in at the CO. But it’s luck of tue draw, and with the telcos cutting corners on everything, the “plug in a wire” jobs are like unicorns.

Plus the rack people have all been laid off, so the guys have to do that job on top of their own, and the IT side has all been offshored to folks who are not trained or paid enough to be competent. So what should be a 45 minute job that they could do 11 of in a single day now takes 2 hours, meaning they’re only getting paid for 4.

It would not surprise me if other blue collar industries started following suit.

They’re saying they’d rather have had the money that went towards the purchases of switch 2s left in the form of cash, rather than spent for them.

It’s a relevant critique because with their latest releases, Nintendo’s doing the same ‘cost increase to the detriment of employees and customers’ dance as the other big gaming corpos.

A person can agree something is better than the horrible baseline, and still bring up a topic of discussion on something that isn’t great.

Also, re: 2 weeks paid time off; look outside of 'Murica once in a while. The global average of paid days off is ~25. So 2 weeks, while lovely for America, is below normal.

I wish we had a Canadian option. In the meantime, I’ll use Steam for reference, and buy on GOG.

A hyphen or dot couldn’t serve the same function as a carriage return here? (Not being a dick; genuine question)

I would rotate the text 90 degrees so that it has the full length of the top tab, that should give you more room to work, and most humans can read rotated text.

Another suggestion would be to try a different font that works with the printing limitations: something curved like Exo 2 might be a little less of a fight.

Covid-19 causes permanent damage, and immune dysregulation in every person who is infected, each time they are infected, so it’s no surprise other viruses are now having larger impacts.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888

Nope, measles is up to six times more contagious (UNICEF measures it as only two times more infectious). It doesn’t help that the world in general has gotten really lax about how dangerous Covid is, particularly with the latest variants, so our baseline is off.

https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/5-things-you-didnt-but-should-know-about-measles/

https://www.unicef.org/uzbekistan/en/stories/how-dangerous-measles

I dont agree with calling a quarter of our population “dead weight”. Quebec has the highest provincial taxes in Canada, and weren’t so fortunate as to have their lines on the map surround a fuck tonne of O&G. One of the political topics most QC premieres have had in their platform since at least 2017, arguably earlier, has been to eliminate their reliance on equalization. They’re not just sitting there doing nothing. Their real GDP has been in line with the rest of Canada with a 2.2% growth year-on-year, and were ahead of the national average by 0.1% at the beginning of 2025.

Alberta’s in a deficit because their provincial taxes are way below the national average. They whine about not getting hand outs when they have the ability to be self-sufficient right in front of them. They refuse to invest in diversifying their economy, so everything hinges on pipelines that require billions of federal dollars (hand out?) across multiple parliaments because it won’t be completed in ~4 years, coordinating across multiple provinces, and multiple premieres in those provinces; who can’t cooperate with each other if their lives depended on it, working with indigenous communities to ensure they are heard and respected with regards to their land (spoiler, they generally aren’t by the O&G industry). In the end, that crude would not be going to Europe. It would be going to California and Asia. So we’re back to Trump’s BS for a good portion of any of that actually benefiting. If this is so important to AB and BC, maybe those gov’ts need to put on their big person pants, increase their provincial taxes, and take some initiative on their own instead of waiting for daddy Carney to do it for them. Federal gov’t is much more likely to help if the provinces can present the project proposal showing they won’t be throwing billions into the void.

Well, we could look at it in the sense of CPP, Where all of the provinces signed on with the understanding of a mutual benefit, and also an understanding of not knowing the future, or whether the payout would be evenly spread across provinces. Unfortunately, Ms. “I get mine first” Smith wants to pull Alberta out of the CPP, so I’m not sure now would be the time to try for a new mutual benefit project. The provinces have become much more adversarial than they were 100 years ago, minus QC, who’s always had a certain “we do what we want, dégage, maudit anglophones!” attitude (said lovingly with a stepmother from QC, and family still there).

That said, when Ms. Marlaina Smith and her UCP flunkies tried to pull financial coverage for people on insulin pumps, enough people became outraged so quickly that the UCP changed directions almost immediately. So if we can get it into people’s hands, and make it worthwhile for them, people might self-regulate.

My larger concern for me, is the article mentions the big 3 undermining, then buying out India’s insulin manufacturing company. India has a notably larger economy, and population, than Canada. I’m skeptical we’d be able to manufacture insulin at a scale where it would be enough to compete – not in a profit sense, but in the sense of it being financialy wise for the average person to switch and thereby sustain the manufacturing costs. I know the big 3 are focusing on drugs with larger profit potential, and I also know those CEOs have a narcissistic drive to not let anyone take any of “their” money until they’ve completely discarded that endeavour. I don’t know how we’d be able to protect from their shenanigans.