You’re right about this - as a US / Canadian dual citizen, getting a new citizenship is quite an ordeal and not everyone who applies is approved. The nursing experience you mentioned in a separate comment might be enough to qualify for a work permit and then permanent residence. I know that various provincial governments up here are quietly putting in immigration policies that severely cut immigration numbers, but focus heavily on recruiting healthcare workers.
Come to Canada, we want and need nurses!
Infrastructure and/or stagflation
They are going to destroy things we deeply love and hold to be sacred, as casual as we may normally feel about defining things as “sacred”
“Socially liberal” right up until the point that we start talking about worker’s rights, the dignity of poor people, and the exploitation of cheap slave labor on the other side of the world
I’m not saying that governments are the most trustworthy institutions in the world, but as someone who tried to be an early adopter of blockchain from both a tech and a financial perspective, I immediately assume that anything that has the word “crypto” in it is deeply flawed and inherently untrustworthy. I’ve unfortunately learned this from experience.
I trust governments with fiat currency a hell of a lot more than I trust anything that has to do with crypto.
Study up on Luigi stuff
One finger victory salute
“Be Evil”
Taking the insanely massive emissions of the AI industry, it may not be genocide in the traditional sense, but it’s contributions alone will lead to people dying
I use Tuta for multiple domains and it’s been an amazing experience so far.
COVID is leaving people dead…and long COVID is definitely a thing as well.
The butterfly logo is one of the greatest things about that company, especially after Bad Man #2 decided to kill the beautiful bird logo. What an absolute waste that was.
Mastodon is never going to be That Platform and that’s ok. It doesn’t need to be. The ActivityPub protocol is the highest value aspect of Masto, and there are a handful of other, larger, easier to use platforms that are adopting it.
Here’s the thing…yes, wearing a helmet is less safe than having bike infrastructure. No doubt about it.
But I don’t fucking HAVE safe bike infrastructure. Also, I am very involved in bike safety advocacy, so I’m not exactly just shirking all safety responsibility onto a silly hat and expecting things to be fine.
We can throw off the dualistic thinking for a second and acknowledge that, yes, helmets are a very imperfect solution that puts the onus of protection onto riders. Also, it’ll save your goddamn life.
If I didn’t wear a helmet, I never would have gotten married and my kiddo would never have been born. I’d have died on a sidewalk (or in an ambulance) on the side of a residential street on a multi-use path where a dumbass teenager was going 35mph the wrong way on an electric scooter at night.