One of the hallmarks of a destabilizing and imminently pre-collapse ecosystem is when certain fast lived species like insects have sudden surges or collapses in population.

And I’m talking about short-lived species that typically have yearly cycles. Something that can respond very quickly to sudden surges or absences in food or environmental niches, but which does not normally see sudden population fluctuations in a healthy ecosystem.

Invasive species.

My region is absolutely infested with Siberian Elm and Tree Of Heaven (A.K.A., the “semen tree”). You cannot cut them down, because they will resprout like a hydra from the stump. You cannot dig them out, because the smallest root left behind can and will resprout wherever it is, leading to a many-year game of whack-a-mole.

I have near-daily fantasies of going around with a powerful backpack sprayer filled with glyphosate (Round-Up) and an application wand that can extend from 1m to 10m, and hitting everything just as they’re sending nutrients to the roots for winter.

The problem is, Glyphosate is highly restricted to purchase and own in Canada unless you have both the appropriate class of Pesticide Applicator’s License (an agricultural variant, for example) as well as the venue to use it in (own or manage an orchard, for example). Thankfully my family owns an orchard, and I am starting the process for the former.

But still. It’s an absolutely bizarre thing to be obsessing over and I. Just. Cannot. Help. Myself. Every time I drive and see clumps of those disgusting trees, I start to uncontrollably strategize how I could hit them with glyphosate in late September.

Unless the island is in the PNW and it just happens to be the beginning of berry season, pretty fucking poorly. Can assemble and maintain a fire, but would likely need a modern fire starter like a lighter, electric or otherwise. Can also build most basic shelters, but it would be uncomfortable AF, anything more advanced would be trial-and-error. Not well versed in hunting despite being at least moderately decent with a bow and arrow. My best option would be scrounging for fruit and hoping I don’t get hit with diarrhea.

• Your code will be significantly more insecure. Expect anything exposed to world+dog to be hacked far quicker than your own work.
• You will code even slower than if you just did the work yourself.
• You will fail to grow as a coder, and will even see your existing skills erode.

Once again we see the Parasite Class playing unethically with the labour/wealth they have stolen from their employees.

and stabilizing Earth’s climate with minimal overshoot of 1.5 °C

Oh, we have accelerated past 1.5℃ already… that’s now solidly in our rear view mirror.

“Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets.”

Every year, Microsoft gives me more reasons to permanently leave their products.

Unfortunately, due to compatibility with financial and other Windows-only software I still need to run Windows, but I am down to two rigs and it might go down to one in the new year.

And what happened with Waco? A lot of the top morons died. And then nothing more happened. No grand uprising, no wider movement against the government.

They are killing people for not being able to afford basic healthcare

It’s up to you to prove that statement. Provide us with the records that highlight these reasons.

But you can’t. Because they don’t exist. They never have. You’ve been brainwashed into believing anti-reality fantasies.

But I hear the Canadian government abuses it for eugenics purposes.

The problem with this is that it is trivially disprovable.

Of all the cases that allow MAiD to proceed, less than 2% are for non-terminal diseases or afflictions. The other 98% are for cases where recovery will be impossible, pain tends to be immense and untreatable, and any continuing “life” will be an increasing torture for the subject.

Allowing the subjects to choose their own deaths is a blessing. it allows them to go out on their own terms, instead of being kept alive as a near-corpse on life support, or screaming in pain all the way until their hearts seize up from the stress.

The people for whom MAiD most benefits would be utterly unserved by “better healthcare”. By the time they need it, no amount of “better healthcare” can help.

They just want people to die

And you just want unnecessary, torturous cruelty. Cruelty by forcing people to linger on in abject pain and confusion and non-life for your own selfish reasons.

Quit being a bigot.

Edit: do you know what doctor’s Hippocratic Oath says?

It says “Do No Harm.”

And forcing a person with an incurable, painful, lingering death is not just horrifically harmful, it is Satan-levels of harm in most cases. It is hell on Earth.

You want to be as cruel and evil as Satan? Do that for yourself. Just stay TF away from everyone else.

TL;DR: just like the old saying goes, if you don’t like assisted suicide, don’t use that method yourself. Stay the hell out of other people’s lives.

I’m sure that would immediately put my father’s untreatable dementia into immediate remission. /s

I’m sure my father’s untreatable dementia will just self-cure upon hearing your obscenely ignorant statement.

And for the record, non-terminal/non-disease reasons account for less than 2% of people reaching for this service. It’s practically a rounding error.

a photo of the man has been released to the public as investigators urge more people with information to contact them.

Okay, so why does CHEK News not include this photo?

Like, jeez. My parents could have used the guy. They’re live in the same city of West Kelowna. They’re not his target demographic, but still.

Timmie’s used to be really good. But when private equity (the foreign owners) came in, they cut a lot of things that made the products superior. The brand of coffee was changed, the donuts were made centrally and shipped out, and a lot more “cost-cutting” features.

I still grab a French Vanilla when I need something sweet that has a decent caffeine base to keep me awake. But the quality has slipped such that I would rather make my own coffee at home than get theirs. A FV is just a convenience purchase at this point, something I get when I don’t have the opportunity to make my own coffee.

CEOs are invariably the parasites in virtually any company where they earn more than 10× than their median employee.

Nothing that can be done inside the business can justify compensation like that. Ergo: parasitism of the profits, of siphoning away more and more value that the workers produce just for themselves and those of their fellow parasites.

The only vehicle I will ever buy is one I have full and total control over. No remote shutdown, no DRM, no limp-home mode, nothing to prevent me from using it and enjoying it.

“Desert Racists”
“Swamp Racists”

ROTFLMAO 🤣🤣🤣

Bloody accurate, you are.

False equivalence. Many co-ops have a top-down hierarchy for exactly this purpose: execution speed. But the person “at the top” is there as a navigator, not as a captain. They are there to make those quick decisions based on the will - and projected/estimated will, when time is of the essence - of the actual owners, the employees.

There are also many instances of companies - and even entire countries - going months to years without “top leadership” because the entire framework has been effectively empowered to make critical decisions. The effectiveness of the U.S. Military is also based on this doctrine. This allows a company to respond to market forces purely via effective communication between employees and managers coordinating across the different components of the company.