If you have never been to #Halifax, I highly recommend it. Especially if you can go and be part of #AtlSecCon
Here is my recap of this year's awesome event.
Xitter: Why are the woke people trying to stop you looking directly at the Sun? What is it that they're hiding from us? The Sun isn't millions of miles away, everyone knows that. It's safe to stare at the Sun. I do it all the time.
Mastodon: St Mary's University Burke-Gaffney Observatory will have solar telescopes set up in the football field and will have a limited supply of eclipse viewing glasses available between 3:30 PM and 5:45 PM.
@Rasta Yep. It' all junk. From fast fashion to fast furniture to housing. Nothing is built for permanence. The last three shelving units I purchased are chromed steel because everything is particle board and unless you are storing inflated air pillows, won't last.
@Snowshadow And most things are repair by replacement.
When we were newly married, about as poor as we are now, and bought our first home, and even a few dollars extra was a lot. Our Ironing Board broke, the cheap weld let go. The local garage was a do-anything-kinda-guy and said, bring it over here, and he got out the torch and put a bead around it. How much. Two dollars. Still not broken 40 years later
@WmShakesp3are It's those power poles! When they plant them, they don't let the roots go deep enough and when they fall over because the ground is so saturated with rain, the tree is unable to support them, and it comes down too.
Axel Foley
💥 Must-read report from Tim Bousquet on Pierre Poilievre's latest campaign rally in #Halifax.
"As #Poilievre spoke, I realized that he in fact needs lots of fact-checking.
The crowd seemed relatively healthy, relatively prosperous & to all outward appearances, #Canada has done them well, at least in comparison to most people in most places in the world.
So I wondered about their evident resentment and anger. Just how have they been wronged?"
At his campaign rally in Halifax this weekend, Conservative leader, Pierre #Poilievre "came out swinging against 𝙖𝙡𝙡 vaccine mandates, which is about as irresponsible as any political leader could be, especially with the looming threat of a measles resurgence."
Has anyone actually heard Conservative leader Pierre #Poilievre claim that after he's cancelled the carbon tax, Canadian consumers will see big box retailers, gas companies & grocery stores reduce their prices enough to result in significant savings?
Because that's what many of PP's #AxeTheTax rally attendees think is going to happen. 🤦 Some even think they'll be buying a house straightaway once he's elected.
The sheer spite of locking away park benches, all to just drive the homeless a couple of dozen metres south to provincial owned land, make them their problem.
#Halifax City Council and Halifax Mayor Savage are cruel people who have fashioned a cruel city under their tenure.
I can tell you from personal experience how cold it gets in the wee hours trying to sleep rough. Minutes pass like hours, like they do when you're in a lot of pain.
Today's eviction day for the homeless in #Halifax public spaces.
I was there the last time. I saw the police pepper spray innocent children passing by and hold hostages to force compliance. It was ugly and brutal and felt like a piece of the future.
The city unquestioningly would want that again except for all the negative publicity it created. Armed goons pepper spraying children was a bad look.
What I know is hitting down is the strategy of bad people, the ones nobody should ever trust.
I don't have enough fight to take on all the stupid in the world any more.
They're just looking for trophies. Easy victories that mean nothing, like the oversize truck cuts off the pedestrian at the crosswalk so it can sit 2 seconds longer behind the cars at the red light.
I prefer real answers that work. That's why I don't support bullies.
If brutality was the answer, there would be no problems anywhere. No shortage of brutal about.
@Rasta The government should be stepping in, or folk should consider a class action law suit. That just doesn't seem right. If you didn't sign up, they shouldn't be able to bill you.
@CStamp Oh, it's been brought to courts by some already. We have a UARB (Utility regulators) that approves pricing. They might think $0.43 per 1000/liters is a fair price & approve the request. Tucked into the same package, might say, "we charge customers $100 per day for overdue accounts" & it's like they rubber stamp it? They approved a $12 charge for to get a paper print of your bill. I haven't had one in 6 months, I refused to pay $12 since I pay for a service that includes billing?
The 5.7-hectare parcel of land, located between Almon & Young Streets is currently home to a one-level sorting and mail distribution facility. It has been identified by the city as being "strategically positioned for significant density."
I guess it's academic now but the link is still broken.
You should just remove it if it's not fixable, it makes it look like it's Mastodon that's broken. Mastodon doesn't need that and did nothing to deserve it. :)
@adwright I’m laughing so hard!!! Everyone is amazed the power is staying on, which says something about our expectations. Sacrificing a goat makes as much sense as anything else!!!
@Rasta
I see, the audiobooks do have convenient functions. One can say your ability is high as you actively make use of them.
To be honest, I'm the type of person who gets lost even within 100 meters from home if I lose my concentration, so I still read paper books.
But I do use e-books for craft patterns and instructions. I print out the pages I need and take notes while referring to them. It's nice that with the times, ways of reading books have also diversified and become more convenient♪
@capla If I could read (focus) on paper, I would do that too. I have far more eBooks than Audiobooks. But I don't read them
I tried to read some, in waiting rooms, where a little book at a time might work, but I would never return to the book.
