NarrativeBear @ NarrativeBear @lemmy.world

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Trump might need to ask his Canadian neighbour Trudeau for emergency eggs.

Meanwhile in North American three major plane crashes and not a whimper...

In Russia road fork you

Drumming intensifies

Could not upvote enough!

The Romans had the coliseum to entertain the populous, all to distract from the problems their empire was facing.

So as you put it, its different flavours of the same thing.

Yes algorithmically targeted highly personalized addictive social media might no be the same as a TV rerun of Golden Girls, but both are still a form of entertainment and one could argue both are fighting for your attention/distracting you from the world.

The current President can't fathom that he is employed to serve the people. He thinks he's king...

Correct, its not about the phone its about "distractions" in general.

The phone is just today's equivalent, of yesterday's thing that keeps people entertained and distracted from the world around them. Whether that is a TV, Newspaper, Book, Play, or a cold beer.

Any guides you recommend people should follow?

We should make our own twitter and call it Canuck... itter. With hookers and blackjack.

How do we support this fight to guarantee paid stat-holidays for workers, and paid personal holidays.

It starts with part time and full time retail and then slowly could move onto blue-collar work.

Its great that Ontario's Doug Ford is investing into transit with bill 212 Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 /s

https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-212

Reality check, no he is not, subway and transits is nowhere on the list. The bill only targets car oriented infrastructure.

cat, im a kitty cat, and dance dance dance and dance dance dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaA_cs4WZHM

Its interesting that any discussions about road salt always start with cars being the leading argument. Car dependency is so intertwined in our current society.

Also, worth noting salt causes corrosion to cars, infrastructure, and not to mention in large quantities causes negative environmental effects, but gravel has a chance of chipping my windshield?!

The different between salt and gravel damage to a car is just time span. Us humans are just really bad at perceiving long term effects. So naturally gravel being what cases damage sooner to a car is assumed to be far worse.

Now if you think of snow removal on sidewalks and walkways. Gravel and sand, or just compacting the snow like they do in Sweden is just as effective.

Here is some videos of snow removal at the pedestrian level, notice no salt is used on pedestrian infrastructure such as walkways or trails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

Interestingly if you ask most people if

1. Would you rather provide a warm shelter and a temporary place to stay to help a human being to become a productive part of our society once again?

Or

2. Would you rather send the same individual to prison indefinitely.

In both cases the individual gets shelter, a bed, and place to stay. The "accommodations" are paid by the same taxes you currently pay.

Most people would probably still choose number 2.

Yes, but us humans are notoriously bad at perceiving time at such scales. We even in moat cases can't see five years into our own futures let alone 50 or 100 years.

We constantly fail to see the cheapest solution in the short term usually tends to be the most expensive in the long term, maybe not for us individually, but for future generations of us.

Got excited about a four slot toaster that I bought.

You could not have said it any better. Change is defiantly hard for people.

Homeless is illegal & yet the government seems so set on making people jobless.

It might shock you that in most European countries you can find gigabit internet for 10~30€ a month.

Here are some prices that come up for the first ISP I was able to find randomly in Italy.

• 1Gbps 24.99€
• 2.5Gbps 24.99€
• 5Gbps 24.99€
• 10Gbps 30.99€