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When we get closer to the end I just assume we get subscriptions of subscriptions.

Bad enough in my area that I'm surprised our air ambulance helicopters don't have bike racks for how often they're picking up mangled cyclists lately.

Yeah, a step backward for useful science that can help healthcare facilities predict what's to come, and scientists study what is out there. Even as a member of the public I really liked being able to see the data just to have an idea of what's going on out there and take the necessary precautions to try my best at avoiding illness for me and my family. This seemed like something really cool that came out of the pandemic for illness tracking in general, but I'm not surprised the government of anti-science and anti-healthcare would silence this.

Got a relative who's worked at a local Loblaws warehouse/distribution center for decades - he said within days of the boycott starting, their orders from stores dropped dramatically and they were sending people home and scaling back shifts. Comparatively speaking they used to be so busy that basically anyone could opt for overtime whenever they wanted it. It was great to hear that from the inside and validate what murmur was in the media about it back then.

Couple years ago = 13 years ago lol

The cost to make and recycle carton cardboard polymers uses more resources than bags. Bags are found to be the most environmentally friendly. https://www.dal.ca/news/2021/11/29/milk-jugs--cartons-or-plastic-bags---which-one-is-best-for-the-e.html

Salmonella - I put that shit on everything!

A coworkers brother works for a big architectural firm in our city and said they're absolutely slammed with office building conversion projects right now. A lot of office tower tenants have made it clear they aren't renewing leases and the owners are all starting to plan new lives for the buildings in this new world. It'll be interesting to watch things start to happen in the coming years!

Reddit has a lot more tracking and fingerprinting going on in their own app too that they obviously want you there for. Once you log into multiple accounts, it fingerprints you as the same user on all accounts. I had a few accounts; a work related one and a couple personal ones. Ended up with a temporary ban on one from a dick head mod, and ALL of them got banned together for 7 days because of that with a message (forget the exact wording so I'm paraphrasing) basically saying "don't try to make another account to get around the ban because we'll still know its you". They're mining the shit out of user data now, and also really starting to connect the dots on multiple account holders which I'm guessing will be to "deal with" people who detract from their IPO goals. Glad I left.

I'm not a public servant and my company uses Canada Life - hands down the absolute WORST company for benefits I've dealt with in my life. They regularly deny things we have coverage for, despite paying regularly for those things for many years. Email and support - forget about it. Every email I've ever sent them has an average response time of 6 WEEKS and it's usually some bullshit response that requires another reply from my side, and another 6 week turnaround for a reply back. I know it'll be several months to resolve any issue I need to email them about. It took us the better part of a full year to get thousands paid for fertility stuff that was fully covered under my plan - we literally did the treatment because the coverage was there and were stuck floating the money while they gave us the runaround. Everyone around our office has horror stories of these guys, HR even jokes about them.

Although I haven't set mine up yet, I feel like RSS is the best way to go. There's lots of news aggregation apps out there, but we need to keep in mind that those are all using some sort of algorithm to determine what surfaces to you, and that if you aren't paying for the app that they need to make money somehow and keep pulling you back in - without knowing how the algorithms work, these could be favoring news that's "engaging" which isn't necessarily an even distribution of everything from the media outlets you like to follow. RSS gives you exactly what you put into it for feeds and you can determine what to read or skip over at least.

Having said that, even my 83 year old father can navigate his way to CBC, CTV and Toronto Star without issue, and he still gets a paper home delivered. He’s only ever gone to FB for family stuff, never news. I’m not sure how much effect Zuck’s hissy fit is going to have on most people.

I recently got a library card with comes with free access to PressReader. To be honest, I've found myself really enjoying reading digital copies of paper newspapers again through it. I can finally just read an article and not have to have it immediately followed by all the bullshit comments that social media and the direct news agency websites have. It felt so simple and fresh.