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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They can simply replace the lid with new ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

To make it worse, even if they went through the gauntlet to get citizenship and can vote, who are gonna be on the ballot so people can get better life?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If everything adapt the pc building modular approach we would be in a much better place, some of the replaceable components are already modular if you see the ifixit tear down, it's just that the manufacturer spends more time trying to ruin your chance at properly open it without damage other parts. Same thing for many electronics, the opening part are the worst as you can damage the casing(crack the clips bent stuff, broke the ribbon etc) or some one way bs. Even opening a freaking hair dryer to clean up the internals is a challenge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

In short: (after I found the env canada link: https://weather.gc.ca/?zoom=3&center=35.77893250,-115.91878577 ) And short form one: https://weatherkit.apple.com/alertDetails/index.html?ids=10a884f0-9771-5ec3-8031-53940dcdcdcf&lang=en-US&timezone=America/Vancouver

Daytime high might get low to mid 30s with over night low around ~17 degrees. Daytime high lower to mid 20s on Wednesday.

Drink a lot of water, go spend the afternoon/night in the mall or air-conditioned places if your place do not have AC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

okay, so let me try explain a little bit why this is very likely not going to happen.

  1. it's a "public" transportation service that's pay per use, first come first serve, there are different fee depending on time/distance/etc.
  2. in order to "restrict access" say, use the commercial/residential parking lot as example, you carve out certain part of the capacity that only BC resident can use and BC tax payer have to foot the bill. The parking lot example, commercial side and residential side strata foot the bill for the maintenance and design which area/zone etc for the residential one and it's gates/etc.
  3. practically, 80% of BC don't even use that service, source: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/data/statistics/people-population-community/population/pop_subprovincial_population_highlights.pdf 2021 about 5.2m in BC http://viea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021SOTI-Report-WEB.pdf 2021 report says +1.2% population for 10,272, so 100% of population is around 856k. which compare to 5.2m is 16% So I lump in another 4% that are not counted to Vancouver Island region but closely tied to the region which should be pretty fair estimate.

That means, if the people that won't use the service has to pay and reserve for the people that do use the service that would be unfair thus usually, a "toll" would be put in place to cover the cost of transportation deficit. You might ask, what deficit? To have reserved space for resident to use ferry, they have risk of running the ferries with empty space reserved for resident use. Those would have to be "over reserved" for service guarantee. If they under reserve, then you simply have 2 choice, either queue with tourist or queue for the next for resident.

  1. we have not even talk about the environment impact of reserving those spots just for residents instead of doing as much full ferry each time. That cost is footed by the whole BC as a province. (assuming we do have a carbon budget)

In the end, it's all about running cost and tourism scheduling. Let me run a very simple situation. Say, a tourist group booked a trip to run a bus with everything scheduled properly. Now, if resident have priority queue, means the whole tourist bus's schedule is NOT guaranteed. If the fluctuation of local traffic suddenly spike, the tourist group might face 2 hours+ delay. Which is simply not acceptable for a tourism company to run such risk, the tourism industry might simply opt for other first come first serve transportation service. Which would have a big impact to Vancouver Island. And if you remove tourism traffic from ferry, then you foot more cost per trip or face reduced scheduling.

The fact that for all 17+ years I lived in BC I only take the ferry round trip 3 times, and yet the tax is budgeted for subsidize it for more affordable traveling for the Van Island residents I think first come first serve is a fair compromise. Cause the people the visit Vancouver Island for tourism will most likely also visit other part of province, lower cost of transportation benefits everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

yeah, I'd have to solder a PS1 controller to printer port back then. even when controller moves to wireless(like dual shock 3) the protocol was proprietary until windows have a proper driver for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

just move to unified vram like console would be best.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Exactly, without proper protection and equality for same performance/quality of work, it's just pure exploitation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

not even joking that the collapse of western civilization might be because of this supreme court. rule of law is gonna become rule by law if citizens of USA don't vote properly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (7 children)

okay, let me ask the real question:

  • do they also get paid at the same standard(minimum wage, benefit, etc) like other worker?
  • do they also get CPP/EI contribution from employer? And can they take EI benefit when laid off?
  • do they also get to contribute to RRSP/TFSA? TFSA is after 18 currently, so they can't even save their wage compare to other adult workers.
  • when they do perform well, will they get evaluated and promoted the same way? ie, a 15 yo manager at fast food chain and paid the same wage as a manager.
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I pride myself that I have never called or used any uber service. They can get fucked. also never book with airbnb, or whatever weird delivery service that expect their "worker" to get paid with tips only. I only order delivery when the restaurant have their own guy doing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

this graph by itself is a marketing material, when ever someone compiles a "how rare" list of things, is by itself a marketing material. Cause rare equal value.

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