Link: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/12/is-canada-euthanizing-the-poor.html
If you read the URL, the short answer is "Yes", but for a more detailed explanation follow the link.
This is of course fine, and on a par with the way the world is going. What I want to know is when we will be able to we eat them afterwards?
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How afraid are people that they acquit this sort of behavior?
To summarize: RCMP wake man sleeping in vehicle. Man is startled. Man is shot 10 times and dies.
The rest does not matter - that they'd had a "call about a suspicious vehicle" is a pretext. And sleeping in your vehicle is not a crime (I know. I spend over half the year in mine).
While I know he was a not entirely a good guy (who is?) this in no ways justifies the excessive "cowboy" approach of the RCMP. And - be real - it's pretty much guaranteed that if the cops shoot you they will stop at nothing to discredit or malign your character, making YOU the threat.
In any event, if you have a score you need settled, a wife you need offed, a drug debt you can't pay, join the Police force/RCMP. There, it's all in a days work.
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Now, as you've probably noticed I've been taking a lot of pictures with my S22 Ultra. Not enough, really, I'll have to take more, but there are the issues of housing and vehicles to be dealt with first.
So, the screen protector I had on it finally cracked, then split, then got water underneath it and in the interest of protecting my investment I peeled it off and headed out to get another.
This screen protector, it was $20 at the local electronics place. Plastic. I thought it was sapphire glass, or something, but it wasn't, just plastic. Imagine my disdain then when it cracked and peeled off and I threw it away.
Anyways, got to have it, I've broken too many phones and there are too many payments left on this baby.
So back to the local electronics place, only they're out of them. Down to the mall. There's a guy, his own little shop, nothing but cell phone cases and screen protectors.
And so I get one there. He puts a generic piece of plastic in a template cutter, which sizes it, then cleans up my phone and puts it on, smoothing it with what appears to be a credit card. He then talks me into putting another piece of protective plastic on the back of the phone, same procedure, smooths it on with a credit card. He makes a great show of cleaning it and smoothing it on. Then he talks me into getting a lens protector as well. Why didn't I think of that?
If I was buying a car I'd be called a "rollover".
When he's done I get the bill. With discount, because I got the works, $117.00. WTF?
For what could be no more than 35 cents worth of plastic and half an hour smoothing it on to my phone with a credit card.
"Rest assured..." I'm told "It comes with a 1 week warranty...".
Bloody hell, when it's time to leave the service industry I know what I'm going to do...
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The petty frustration of paper straws at 7-11, served in your Slurpee, the straw always so deteriorated by the time you reach bottom it's function as a spoon is destroyed, the straw unraveled, falling limply into bits to spill bits of frozen ice and sugar all over your shirt and pants.
The cup - plastic, embossed with a tiny recycle logo. The dome lid, as well, plastic. Why are not the straws plastic? That's right, because they're bad for the environment.
Here's an idea, why not emboss a tiny recycle logo onto the straw as well?
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Look around any 7-11, all of them, there's no place to recycle your cups or lids. It's presumed that once you drink your Slurpee you'll pitch it in the trash. The recycle logo, it's to put the blame on you - if you don't recycle it, take it home and loving scrub it out before putting it the recycle bin, well, then, it's because you're a shitty person, not because they're a shitty company, see, they gave you a paper straw, didn't they?
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And so it goes. Like with the 'reusable' bags every grocery/liquor/boutique store wants to sell you, or travel mugs, that only ever see a fraction of the uses they'd need to be superior to their disposable counterparts. This greenwashing, it's the new "Emperor's New Clothes', a social hypocrisy that pretends to address and solve a problem that itself created and is in fact exacerbating.
I'm so fucking done with it all ... I want a plastic straw.
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