jadero

@jadero@lemmy.ca

Just a Southern Saskatchewan retiree looking for a place to keep up with stuff.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

jadero,

It seems to me that if you are going to include 4-in-hand, a traditional necktie knot, then you should include these: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_85_Ways_to_Tie_a_Tie (at a minimum) and possibly reference this: phys.org/news/2014-02-mathematicians-ways.html (177,147 ways). 😀

jadero,

When I think about all the truly public services we should have and the level of service that should be available, it makes me think that the public sector should be the largest single employer at every level. Sure, maybe you end up with an auto factory or an Amazon warehouse in a specific location, but on average, there should be more public works employees, bus drivers, nurses, care workers, and policy experts than pretty much any other single industry sector. And probably by a large margin.

jadero,

They’re called “dessert forks” in the same way that some people call the small spoons “dessert spoons”.

jadero,

Everything I’ve read makes me think that a scam is obvious only to those not taken in and those who get the benefit of reading a news story.

This particular scam is a relatively minor variation on the “bank examiner” scam that has been successfully operating pretty much since the invention of banking. With the right play, even people familiar with the scam can be taken in.

jadero,

In the 1980s, I was listening to a news broadcast that contained 3 stories of note:

  • national economy is doing fine
  • Saskatchewan provincial economy is doing great
  • Saskatoon gets its first food bank

From that, I concluded that there are two economies that are either completely separate or only very loosely connected: the lived economy of the vast majority of the workforce and the financial economy of trading in stocks, commodities, and financial instruments.

Over the next few years, it became obvious to me that reporters, journalists, politicians, pundits, think tanks, and business groups care only for the economy of the financial sector. I’ve seen nothing since to make me change my mind.

jadero,

And the community name gets a new meaning 😛

jadero,

I’ve never heard of it. At home, we watched “Chez Hélène” (heh. I still remember the correct accents because they remind me of a surprised face). Anyway Wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chez_Hélène

jadero,

Thanks for calming me down. At one of my jobs I was known as “that safety nazi,” which I wore as a badge of honour.

jadero,

Based on the article, it sounds like the inverse of a “phone tree”. Instead of a coordinated system of people calling others to quickly spread word of something, it’s a coordinated effort to get lots of people calling one recipient.

jadero,

It makes sense to make sure police officers aren’t forced into bankruptcy while charges are pending but ideally we’d rely on EI and social insurance for that.

Better yet, would be to leave it up to the union to provide suspension pay in the same way that many unions have strike funds to help their members survive strikes and lockouts.

I bet it wouldn’t take long for the unions to drop their support of these criminals. That, in turn, would make it easier to fire them.

jadero,

Humankind may have to abandon the praries, later this century, exactly as most of California, most of Texas, most of the Middle East, & most of India are going to be unusable.

I live near the tip of the Palliser Triangle in Saskatchewan. My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that having Lake Diefenbaker isn’t going to make enough of a difference to matter.

The people in charge already have trouble keeping it full because of overall flow reductions. Agreements or not, Alberta still gets first crack at the South Saskatchewan River and overall flow is likely going to keep going down. Irrigation projects are rapidly becoming a boondoggle, not a solution.

jadero,

I will always remember him for the purchase of a pipeline to hell, if that counts.

Also for not making a stronger effort to replace our first past the post voting system during what looks to have been a narrow window of opportunity, but that might just be me.

jadero,

Yes, getting rid of FPTP was the main reason that I voted for something other than NDP in ages. This issue is important enough to me that I might even risk voting (choke) Conservative (gag) if I honestly thought we’d get a better voting system out of it.

jadero,

While it’s not only you, it is a very small number of very vocal, very politically involved people who care much about that.

I’m neither of those things. I just wanted for once in my life to see the ruling class do something simple, obvious, and right. In fact, it’s so simple, obvious, and right, that it boggles my mind that it didn’t happen.

I’ve been disillusioned to varying degrees by political machinations over the last 50 years, but failure to act on this makes me feel like just giving up on the whole system. I’ve never been overly cynical, but now it seems that’s all I have left.

I have no idea how difficult it is to run a country and no idea how the government deals with all the complexity and uncertainty. Choosing a voting system is one of the very few things I feel I am able to get my head around. It is so patently obvious that everyone involved deliberately chose to not do the right thing, even though it was simple and obvious.

Okay, sorry for the rant.

jadero,

Here’s the way I think about:

The real objective is, or should be, equality in all things that are not explicitly biological in nature and equitable treatment even in those. Thus, none of us should be excluded from the halls of power or anywhere else based on our biology even as things like health care are tailored to our biology.

That would seem to argue against a place called “men’s liberation.” The reality, however, is that we have only nicely begun the journey. Both men and women have much baggage to discard by virtue of both historical and current cultural and legal norms.

Those cultural and legal norms have imposed different behaviours, thought patterns, and roles. Men and women have different sets of baggage to deal with, so it only makes sense to find our allies in our journeys among those who share a common burden.

I am a male. I have rarely been excluded from women’s liberation groups when I try to learn and have occasionally found that my perspective was appreciated. I would hope that the same thing is happening here.

I hope that we are all working toward a more equitable and more egalitarian society, but we won’t get there by ignoring the real differences between men and women that have been imposed by culture and law. We cannot fix what we do not acknowledge.

jadero,

That’s 3 times what is being put into a federal housing program and AI already has people falling all over themselves to invest.

jadero,

Missed those. My bad. What led me to my error?

(Searching for announcement…)

Here it is.

Ok, I see where I went wrong. That was about low interest loans for those looking to improve the actual building process to reduce costs and accelerate construction.

Mea culpa.

E: and thanks for the correction.

jadero,

Dentists joining or not joining wouldn’t even be an issue if the program was properly constructed in the first place.

All the government had to do was plug into a long established system. I enroll, I get a provider number and plan number and I’m good to go.

When I had dental coverage through my employer, I gave my provider and plan numbers to the dentist and everything just worked.

jadero,

750 million. How many public servants would that hire so we don’t have to always be siphoning public funds into profiteering on this and other programs?

jadero,

There are no words…

jadero,

On that note, I guess I don’t understand why a Nazi grandfather has any meaning whatsoever. I think her response to someone pointing that out should be “Yup, can’t pick our relatives,” shrug, and move on.

Being descended from a villain or hero doesn’t tell us enough about a person to have any meaning.

jadero,

While there is a part of me that agrees with you, I also try to cut some slack. She is as human as the rest of us and there aren’t many of us who are comfortable talking about our unsavory relatives.

Ideally, she would have whatever it takes to be both open and dismissive of this fact, but of everything that I consider disqualifying, this relatively minor personal failing doesn’t even make the list. Let’s face it, the only people making this an issue are busybodies and dirt-diggers, hardly the people she should be paying attention to.

jadero,

That, of course, is for you to decide. But (you knew it was coming!) I think it’s counterproductive to expect perfection and making much of this issue just strikes me as petty.

jadero,

There is more to spreading out than urban sprawl. Our towns and even villages used to largely self-contained. Now you’re lucky to find a bank, a bakery, a grocery store, and a hardware store in the same place outside of something big enough to be called a city.

People talk about walkable cities, by which they mean that people can walk to most of their normal goods and services. What is that but a town/village model for communities?

jadero,

This is why aid needs to be delivered by military forces under the direction of aid agencies. Nobody really cares if a few civilians get killed, but when soldiers get killed, shit happens.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • provamag3
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • ethstaker
  • InstantRegret
  • tacticalgear
  • rosin
  • love
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • ngwrru68w68
  • kavyap
  • cubers
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • mdbf
  • modclub
  • GTA5RPClips
  • normalnudes
  • khanakhh
  • everett
  • cisconetworking
  • osvaldo12
  • anitta
  • Leos
  • Durango
  • tester
  • JUstTest
  • All magazines
    •