> Many office buildings are old, with tiny windows surrounded by load-bearing walls. Just a nit-pick: older buildings with windows and load-bearing walls are actually better candidates for residential conversion than…
In the North American context, "maternity care" would probably be understood as midwifery, which is not Planned Parenthood's main vocation. That said, you're correct that Planned Parenthood offers many more services…
> This looks like the national electricity model in Quebec, where the public absorbs risk and the private part of the private-public partnership absorbs profits. Just the best! I'm not super sure what you're referring…
Typically you carry your groceries in a bag. Some people have wheeled bags for bigger trips. In neighborhoods with a traditional urban form (or "15 minute cities"), you wouldn't usually take mass transit to the grocery…
I think this has come up on HN before, but Low Tech Magazine has a great piece about citrus production in the Soviet Union: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-cul...
It's also worth noting that Manchester, NH, which is where an Amherst resident is likely to spend a non negligible amount of time (nearest shopping mall, hospital, etc), has a comparable (slightly higher violent, much…
This is false. 200 bank accounts were frozen for organizing or significantly financing an illegal blockade of our capital. Nobody had their bank account frozen for "saying mean things about Trudeau."
Human error does happen, but it results in death an order of magnitude less frequently in buses, trains and airplanes than in private vehicles. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...
I'm not sure what more proof I can provide that the blockades and occupation are both an unpopular and illegal. These responses are non-sequitors and proclaim with confidence what will happen in the future (as though we…
> People generally support what they represent.[...] The smearing is going to have an effect. It's not smearing to accurately describe them based on their actions and words. We have a free press in Canada and they're…
I don't think your assessment reflects the current attitudes in Canada. With such a polarizing topic, it's easy to fall into a bubble. I think this is true (and fairly normal) for any political in-group--we tend to…
OP is, very explicitly, trying to find a workplace ith people who prefer being in the office. We could easily rework this kind of statement: > People who like working from home want to force me to spend hours on Zoom,…
Classic consumption taxes (sales taxes and VAT) tend to be quite regressive. I haven't read the whole report, but this was studied in 2005[1] and they had to add a "Family Credit" (basically a UBI) of 500-1000$ per…
If you're interested in the economics and history of home construction, with a focus on different levels of prefabrication, Brian Potter has a very relevant substack. Below are a some articles I think are relevant to…
It's worth noting that AIM did make several attempts to integrate social media features, admittedly a bit late (the same year Facebook launched Chat). https://mashable.com/2008/05/19/aim-bebo-integration/
The decline of Inuktut wasn't principally caused by displacement or natural population decline, but rather the residential school system that attempted to completely assimilate young Inuit (and other indigenous) kids.…
> Many office buildings are old, with tiny windows surrounded by load-bearing walls. Just a nit-pick: older buildings with windows and load-bearing walls are actually better candidates for residential conversion than…
In the North American context, "maternity care" would probably be understood as midwifery, which is not Planned Parenthood's main vocation. That said, you're correct that Planned Parenthood offers many more services…
> This looks like the national electricity model in Quebec, where the public absorbs risk and the private part of the private-public partnership absorbs profits. Just the best! I'm not super sure what you're referring…
Typically you carry your groceries in a bag. Some people have wheeled bags for bigger trips. In neighborhoods with a traditional urban form (or "15 minute cities"), you wouldn't usually take mass transit to the grocery…
I think this has come up on HN before, but Low Tech Magazine has a great piece about citrus production in the Soviet Union: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-cul...
It's also worth noting that Manchester, NH, which is where an Amherst resident is likely to spend a non negligible amount of time (nearest shopping mall, hospital, etc), has a comparable (slightly higher violent, much…
This is false. 200 bank accounts were frozen for organizing or significantly financing an illegal blockade of our capital. Nobody had their bank account frozen for "saying mean things about Trudeau."
Human error does happen, but it results in death an order of magnitude less frequently in buses, trains and airplanes than in private vehicles. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...
I'm not sure what more proof I can provide that the blockades and occupation are both an unpopular and illegal. These responses are non-sequitors and proclaim with confidence what will happen in the future (as though we…
> People generally support what they represent.[...] The smearing is going to have an effect. It's not smearing to accurately describe them based on their actions and words. We have a free press in Canada and they're…
I don't think your assessment reflects the current attitudes in Canada. With such a polarizing topic, it's easy to fall into a bubble. I think this is true (and fairly normal) for any political in-group--we tend to…
OP is, very explicitly, trying to find a workplace ith people who prefer being in the office. We could easily rework this kind of statement: > People who like working from home want to force me to spend hours on Zoom,…
Classic consumption taxes (sales taxes and VAT) tend to be quite regressive. I haven't read the whole report, but this was studied in 2005[1] and they had to add a "Family Credit" (basically a UBI) of 500-1000$ per…
If you're interested in the economics and history of home construction, with a focus on different levels of prefabrication, Brian Potter has a very relevant substack. Below are a some articles I think are relevant to…
It's worth noting that AIM did make several attempts to integrate social media features, admittedly a bit late (the same year Facebook launched Chat). https://mashable.com/2008/05/19/aim-bebo-integration/
The decline of Inuktut wasn't principally caused by displacement or natural population decline, but rather the residential school system that attempted to completely assimilate young Inuit (and other indigenous) kids.…