It’s great that the USA has sent 70B so far, but it’s very concerning that Republicans have been blocking the government from sending any more.

In Washington, the outlook for President Biden’s $61 billion aid package looks bleak, as Republicans continue to stall aid from the United States, Ukraine’s largest single military backer to date. Meanwhile, Kyiv is running short on key items, like artillery shells and air defense missiles, that it needs to hold Russian forces at bay.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/24/europe-ukraine-ammunition-shells/

Canada is giving billions already. What has Europe and USA been doing?

Make them pay $200000, or else…

Is there an reason they don’t call this rape?

Use syncthing to sync and monitor your backups.

Syncthing backup server for your important files.

There’s still a black market for cigarettes and marijuana, so there will be for other drugs.

Besides, you are advocating for regulating pharma by making it harder to access opioids, yet saying that all drugs should be legalized. If you mean by decriminalized, then yes they should be; in fact, they are up to 2.5g. if you mean as regulated (under prescription), well that makes sense, and it’s exactly how Schedule I works (and opioids are Schedule I, in the same category as heroin for example).

The infinite money loop is interesting, but let’s face it: it only makes sense for drugs where the tax income outweighs the cost of treating it’s harm. Sure, a frequent smoker may thousands in tax over their lifetime. But how much will their cancer treatment cost? And that of their family (who paid 0 cigarettes tax) from 2nd hand smoke? Or in the case of heavily regulated liquor sales, it is indeed a good way to make a profit, but it’s unclear if it’s an effective way to make alcohol consumption safe, considering the number of alcohol-related deaths are on the rise (3800 in 2021). Keep in mind those are during times people didn’t drive/go out that much.

So really, legalizing and taxing harmful drugs is not a silver bullet. It might help, or it might make things worse; no one knows until they try it, but it’s clear the latter is what makes everyone scared. Instead, people should implement methods that have proven to be effective, including more naloxone kits (e.g. make them free at hotspots, extremely cheap otherwise, and available as nasal spray in every pharmacy in Canada) and supervised drug consumption rooms.

Cloudflare, namecheap, GoDaddy, domain.com, they all offer dns I think. Some of them are supported by Dyndns; you can find a list of supported providers.

Does that mean dub or sub? The latter makes sense (since you can auto generate+translate a lot of content nowadays), former seems a good way to essentially push back any non-major streaming platform that don’t have enough reach in QC to generate French dub, making it simpler to just exit the QC market - that means platforms like Crunchyroll, Funimation, Nebula, Curiosity, Viki, and probably Twitch as well (considering they just exited SK which is a much bigger region).

Thank you for the deeper explanation. I’ve seen a lot of “landlords are all evil” being dropped around on various platforms, I think here you capture the difference pretty well (oligopolistic tendencies, limited liabilities, maximizing profit, major companies with leverage vs micro-landlords with 1-2 rented apartments).

Only thing on top of this would be how REIT is a way to make rentals more like an investment even though there’s not a central investor but managed centrally like a business.

Which mental illness would benefit from MAID? Is there a concept of terminal mental illness in a way the patient would need palliative care or suffer for the rest of their life?

Right, it’s more like 6 days of rent.

With 200K+ homeless, 40M would mean 200$ per person; that’s enough to maybe cover 2 weeks of rent, after which they will be homeless again unless they find a job to cover for it.

How much is enough then? Well, the 1.1B budgeted in 2021 and 500M for 2022-2023 is definitely an improvement, but it’s unclear what the impact is, in retrospective, as there have not been any reliable statistics on how many homeless there are, how they are receiving help, why they were homeless in the first place. It’s unclear what proportion of the money is used to create new housing, given directly to the homeless, provided to non-profit without string attached, or used in specific programs (food bank/stamp, rehab, mental health centers, etc.)

The best way to learn more about it is to directly be involved in volunteering opportunities to help the homeless, which is much more effective than complaining about wo the government should be caring about.

So they profit from high-profile commercial users to subsidize the free tier (proxy, tunnels) and cheap DNS. What’s wrong with that? It’s not like we absolutely need those (proxy is nice but you can use vps, tunnels are also offered by ngrok).

Cloudflare

The (Ontario) cons are pro-getting international students paying exorbitant tuition fees to fund public colleges, allowing them to reduce public education funding without repercussions.

An insightful video on the subject (by CBC): https://youtu.be/eP02h50KIOA?si=H71z_8mAsl-I_Vbo

That’s very interesting. I wonder if there’s biological reasons for that.

Are eggs and fish banned too? Or are allergies less severe in general?

What’s the source for the 42000 claim?