That’s sooooo dumb holy crap. You’re so combative on things you clearly don’t understand at all!

Industry standard are never “all beef must be sterile” that’s insane. Industry standards are “you’re allowed max one rodent hair per 100g of food” or “you’re allowed 3 insect larvae per pound of canned elderberries” (real FDA regulations). Industry standards ARE being enforced, they include minimum cooking temperatures for meats.

I know you won’t understand why “don’t allow contamination risks” is absolutely brain-dead. I don’t have the crayons to explain it to you. Do a couple hours of research, figure out where contamination in beef comes from and what rules and regulations are in place to reduce the exposure risk. Then look up the way typical slaughterhouses and meat processors work, including the health and safety regulations that reduce contamination risk. Then look up why steaks can be cooked medium but not ground beef. Then look up what you need to do to make raw ground beef safe like steak tartare and med burgers. Then look up the cost associated with any single test for bacterial contamination on surfaces.

Once you’ve got a good understanding of the situation, in general you’ll realize the regulations that are in place make sense and that more stringent regulation wouldn’t solve anything in a cost effective way, nor meaningfully reduce human contamination and disease.

That or you won’t understand enough and you’ll still have a crazy opinion.

Or, just maybe, in the rare case where you’re a brilliant, reasonable person, you’ll support some small budding initiative already in regulatory circles that makes a small incremental improvement to safety at a reasonable cost.

You’re thick as pudding.

A clean kitchen isn’t enough. If your burger was made of preground beef you can’t eat it medium. If ONE of the pieces of meat that was processed that day in the factory was contaminated all the resulting ground meat is also contaminated. That’s why you cook ground meat to well done.

If a restaurant wants to offer medium burgers, or steak tartare or some other form of undercooked ground beef, they have to grind it themselves, in small batches, and use practices that reduce contamination. They’ll usually still warn you on the menu because there is still a risk. There are restaurants in Japan that serve raw chicken sushi, same concept. If you ask for undercooked chicken at a restaurant, you’re an idiot, unless you’ve gone somewhere that can do it right, which usually starts from raising their own specially vaccinated chickens.

Restaurants that don’t offer undercooked ground beef are just trying to warn you that you’re being an idiot ordering undercooked ground beef. If you make burgers at home from store bought ground beef and cook them to medium, same thing.

You can have ground beef below well done, but it has to be fresh ground in clean equipment. Most restaurants that don’t specialize in burgers/beef aren’t fresh grinding mean on order. If you eat medium at a place that doesn’t offer it you’re responsible for your own decisions.

Most crypto transactions are trivially identifiable these days. Most blockchain are an unencrypted public leger and most crypto retailers like coinbase require government ID.

I had to use slugs for mass a few times at work and wanted to die!

That chart is mostly a joke about Canadian measurement units, it’s not really meant to be taken seriously!

No, stop! You can’t just hand out Lemmy Gold like that, You’ll devalue the currency!

… on what planet has gold ever been $2500USD/oz?

So just so I can understand correctly: you read a comment, get confused about a detail (I thought Canada was metric!), do absolutely zero research, go straight to accusing the person of being wrong?

Anyways units in Canada are practically an inside joke at this point, here is a flowchart. I suppose we should add a gold path to the mass

Not to mention that they’re selling for $2,679.99/oz and the gold spot price is $2,500 right now. You lose 7% just by buying!

LMAO I love conservatives

1. Conservative government cuts healthcare budget to give tax breaks to their rich donors

2. Healthcare turns to shit

3. ???

4. Blame immigrants

Greenbelt fiasco two: Electric Boogaloo

In a few years there won’t be any WWII veterans. That’s a big loss for humanity. The only consolation is that this kind of crap won’t keep happening.

I appreciate modern media’s black and white view that Nazis are bad. That’s definitely a place where I don’t want to see a lot of public nuance.

When it comes to individual soldiers thought, it’s always more complicated, were they supporters of Nazi ideology, or just fighting for their country, were they part of genocides and atrocities or trying to avert one? Ukraine especially really got fucked by everyone who took her over. The Nazis and the Soviets were starving and whoever had control at any given time just took all the Ukranian grain and starved the people who grew it to death.

You can’t even discuss the topic without risking neo-Nazis or Putinheads joining in to support you. No thanks, I’d rather cut my own hand off than be helped up by these people.

Unless you printed the money yourself you’re not “self made” you got your money from other people. To get that money you depended on a society that is wealthy enough and connected enough to be capable of giving you millions of dollars in exchange for whatever you’re selling. Most of that capacity, both in baseline social wealth (health, education, and stability) is paid for through taxes. TAX THE RICH UNTIL THEY PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE.

Yup, it’s super easy to blame the costs and shrug when you’re the one that controls most of the costs. Vertical integration is how companies create monopolies without running afoul of monopoly laws. Regulations need to catch up to modern behavior.

That’s not what I said. That’s also not what the report said. You’re arguing with yourself at this point.

The report says at the beginning of covid costs dropped, but prices didn’t, with the difference going to profits. Then when costs went back up prices went up maintaining the existing profit margins. That’s a “price ratchet” and you can easily figure out what happens after a few cycles. Somehow the bank of Canada concluded this isn’t a factor in inflation because they looked at both parts of the price ratchet separately instead of together.

LMAO as if

‘I know where you live, I know when you’re home, I know when you’re away, and I’m going to do something Sudbury will be remembered for.’

Is just cool things to say and not in direct contravention of https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-264.1.html

264.1 (1) Every one commits an offence who, in any manner, knowingly utters, conveys or causes any person to receive a threat

(a) to cause death or bodily harm to any person;

(b) to burn, destroy or damage real or personal property; or

(c) to kill, poison or injure an animal or bird that is the property of any person.

This isn’t a membership, it’s a BRIBE. The doctor is billing the public healthcare system, but giving preferential treatment to patients who slip him an extra 5k under the table. Maybe the patients are fooled by the “membership” language, but the doctors doing this know EXACTLY what they’re doing. Absolutely disgusting.

Sexism is already a problem we’re actively dealing with in Canadian society. We’re going to keep dealing with it, immigrants or not, until it’s no longer a problem (hopefully sooner than later). You’re acting like we’re just letting them be sexist when in your own examples they keep getting fired for their unacceptable behaviour. Eventually, everyone from “sexist immigrants” to “sexist rednecks” are going to learn what is and isn’t accepted in Canadian society.

None of this rhetoric actually supports your racist, anti-immigrant attitude. We’re neither importing a new problem, nor are we allowing immigrants to break our social contract without facing appropriate consequences.

Canada actively tries to find skilled immigrants in other countries, often countries with no concept of Canadian winters. I’m not saying that immigrants deserve “extra”, I’m saying if we’re going to spend money to try and bring in these highly skilled immigrants, we might as well ensure we keep our investment by preparing them for their first winter.

Let’s call out these fees for what they are: BRIBES.

That’s the worst part about these fees: They still charge the public healthcare system. In effect we’re all paying for a small number of people to get priority service because they slid $5000 to the doctor under the table.

I know that not everyone who pays the fee is complicit. Some people are easily fooled by the “membership” wording, and desperate for medical care.

That being said, the clinics that ask for these bribes know exactly what they’re doing, they’re asking their customer to slide them money, outside the system, for preferential treatment. Doctors asking for bribes is disgusting behavior and we need to be clear that we all know what they’re doing, and we’re not fooled by “memberships” to access care we already paid for.