Darkonion

I think lead-brain is set to be replaced with covid-brain as the studies seem to be starting to emerge linking covid infections with cognitive impairments, with multiple infections having a cumulative effect. It is very early still, so hopefully studies prove this wrong, or I am wrong in my interpretation, or maybe the type of impairment will be different enough.

No. Make more. Flood the market. Pay them reasonably good but fix their work-life balance by having more. Asking for more money is the unimaginative response that people do whenever something is wrong - doctors seem to have plenty of money, so it is probably something else that is wrong.

Perhaps make deals to train more, and send people to train, in less expensive foreign markets rather than depleting those markets of their much needed doctors by luring them to Canada. People should have the right to move to a different country but blatant brain drain tactics have always seemed morally dubious to me.

Yeah. Totally worth the $30 mill cut from the wild fire prevention services since 2018 (~25% of the budget). And the $350 mill cut off the wildfire contingency fund (~75% of previous budget). Get used to the smoke everyone.

The political party I think you want is on the other side of the current democrats. Ideally, as a nation, you’ve gotta go left so hard that the current dems would split into right and left. It is a daunting task, and a number of elections in the making…

I honestly think it is too far gone now for it to be turned with only elections. The power is too concentrated and the methods of control are too refined. At minimum, I think it will require mass “illegal” protests along with strong voting. As a bystander in another country, I fear for you all.

Rapidly abandoning a compromise is GOP 101. They get you to come half way and then they get you to come half of what is left, and so on. This has always been the tactic.

When the person you are speaking to inserts ‘I have a boyfriend’ (or equal) into the conversation and it seems out of normal flow in any way I believe it does mean ‘please stop talking to me’ / ‘please stop spending attention on me’. I interpret it as them being uncomfortable for some reason as they have raised a defense. Best to just exit the conversation as politely and quickly as possible and move on.

In isolation it doesn’t reflect on you at all, you can’t know their mind. If it happens over and over and over, you may wish to reflect on your approach. Therapy maybe, or have a trusted friend watch your interaction for comments.

It’s nice that we are done bickering about whether or not we are screwed. Onward to bickering about how soon, where, and who’s to blame!!

Engineering is more like accounting, but for objects instead of money. Tables, rule books, and lobbyists.

I think it’s worth pursuing. People who are on programs now that would risk losing those programs by getting a job, could now go get a job, and some of those people will excel and grow and make money and pay lots of taxes. All low wage jobs would suddenly be that much more interesting and there wouldn’t be as much pressure to drive up the minimum wage.

I’d be curious about how the dollars work out How expensive would it be if we didn’t need AISH, employment insurance, CPP, or any number of other living assistance programs anymore (or which of those it makes most sense to axe, which to keep, and which can be dialed back). Definitely worth exploring the idea, in isolation or in comparison to other cash expenditures.

More nuanced rules would be good in some ways, but I think more nuanced rules would require a larger government and more expensive services to oversee, or even to make such rules. I would be in support of trying that, as I think the long term benefits will exist, but many are not as there is an increase in short term pain because we’d have to pay long before we’d see a benefit, and people would have to keep voting to be in pain before results are realized. Hard to sell.

No hands for anyone. Possibly no feet too. Only the cooperative will survive.