Definitely Canadian, I thought it might be NZD, but the shape of the clear window on the $20 matches ours.

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My problem is that poor governance from the lesser of two evils almost inevitably results in a swing towards the greater of two evils.

It just delays the worst, doesn’t avert it.

We had other options, as uninspiring as they may have been. Now we’re locked into a FPTP two-party death spiral, and both parties bear the responsibility for it; the cons for being unrepentant monsters, and the libs for pandering to the right and to capital at the expense of the best interests of the majority of the electorate when they could and should be choosing policy directions that don’t perpetuate ballooning inequality and the decay of the social safety net.

Carney in particular watched (and to some extent, presided over) decades of just this kind of decline in the UK, he absolutely knows what his policy directives are going to do to this country.

Buckwheat pillow. Nice and firm, cool, and malleable.

I punch out a divot for my head so it has kind of a neck roll when I sleep on my back, or if I’m reading on my side, I punch a divot for my ear so it’s not squished against my head.

Had it for like 15 years, I miss it whenever we visit my in-laws in another city.

Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure that appeasement has historically gone really well.

Mine’s a cabinet minister 🤢

Like I’m emailing anyway but it’s gonna be swiftly ignored.

Hell yes, I love my buddies.

The Migrant Rights Network is currently hosting a petition drive against this bill, you can find it here: https://migrantrights.ca/equalitynotexclusion/

I took two years of Norwegian in university, and in my first-ever class, tthe prof, a lovely woman originally from Sweden, brought us cookies.

One girl didn’t make it to the second class because sis could literally not say ‘småkaker’ without bursting into laughter.

He added, “No one is expected to navigate this shift alone. We’re developing workshops and advisory councils, and carving out dedicated experimentation time to help all our teams learn and adapt.”

No one except the people whose jobs he’s already eliminated. But they were just contractors, not real people, right Luis?

BC has strata corporations, which are kiiiiind of the same thing based on my shitty surface-level understanding of HOAs.

And basically all multi-family housing has a strata.

I’m not gonna engage with you beyond this since you’re obviously uninterested in opinions other than your own, otherwise you might have looked at any of the studies I linked investigating weight-related stigma, which is related to others’ kindness or lack thereof.

You’re not fighting societal acceptance of obesity, you’re just lazily perpetuating harmful social stigmas to justify your own discomfort with fat people.

You say it’s not “normal” to be fat, but if a condition is considered epidemic, it’s not really abnormal anymore, is it.

You don’t know what that person eats. You don’t know if that person has a medical disorder. You don’t know if that person is disabled and unable to prepare healthy food for themselves. You don’t know if that person has an eating disorder that they can’t afford treatment for. You don’t know if that person is on medications that affect their weight. You don’t know if that’s even a real person or an AI-generated image.

But you’re real quick to diagnose the cause of their obesity as exclusively their personal failure for not eating the correct amount of the correct food.

It takes minutes to see what researchers are saying about this stuff.

Historically, the central dogma of the science of obesity has been that it is simply an energy balance disorder: calories in, calories out. If this energy-based model (EBM) of obesity, was true, then essentially exercising more and eating less should work for everyone. However, this is not the case. Many researchers believe that the pathophysiology of obesity is more complex.

While both social–environmental factors and genetic preposition have been recognized to play important roles in obesity epidemic, Gao et al. (2021) present evidence showing that epigenetic changes may be a key factor to explain interindividual differences in obesity.

Honestly there have been a few times recently where I’ve seen fat people doing or saying interesting things online, and half the fucking comments are vitriol about their weight and how it reflects on their character, as though that overshadows and invalidates anything they’re doing. And sometimes I see other commenters challenging these views, and sometimes the hate commenters will backpedal of they realize that the person they’re discussing has what the consider to be a valid medical excuse.

I’m autistic and ADHD, and to me, that kind of behaviour is a reflection of what goes on in places like fakedisordercringe, where they claim to respect people with official diagnoses but never bother to actually see which of their targets has an official diagnosis, or consider that the absence of a formal diagnosis doesn’t mean the absence of the condition. And that’s because it’s not actually about the underlying reasons for the behavior they’re mocking, because they don’t care about those reasons. They’d rather not know if there’s a diagnosis that would exclude their target from mockery because how their target is acting makes them uncomfortable.

It’s a way of enforcing conformity through cruelty, just like bullying fat people.

And I’ve read stuff like this piece, with the line “I wish I didn’t have to justify myself, or base my worth on proving that I’m trying.”, and I see myself in that. I’ve burned myself out multiple times and seriously damaged my physical and mental health as a result of trying to act like I’m neurotypical.

I’m fucking tired of seeing anybody get judged as moral deficients online by people who know nothing about them or their histories.

I mean, that’s nice for you, but the difference is that that teasing was coming from the friends, and not internet randos who neither know nor care about you.

Next to nobody who sees that screenshot knows the person in the photo, or whether they’re even able to lose weight by “putting in the work”.

Also, there’s a preponderance of evidence that your case is an outlier, and “teasing” does not improve the lives of its targets.

You never know what somebody is going through, and it costs nothing to be kind.

That’s not all it eats, either.

Elections Canada is responsible for recruiting, organizing, and training volunteers, aren’t they?

Assuming so, they should know where there are staffing shoftfalls and address them accordingly.

Our democracy is already under threat and not particularly robust in terms of representation. It is absolutely critical to keep people from being further disenfranchised.

What’s wrong babe? You haven’t touched your spaghettiloaf.

Seems like it would definitely not have a 0 in red?

But it was a great read and I’m glad you posted it.

Edit: lol I dumb

The dairy and beef lobbies would like to have a word with you, if you’ll please just step a little to the right?

Also, the shifty-looking cow in Mass Effect that would pickpocket your credits if you turned your back on it after interacting with it.

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