[–] 11 points 4 months ago

I would also argue against their reasoning for poor health outcomes after breaking a leg. The poster stated it was because the legs are evolved digits, but that really has nothing to do with it. I would argue they never needed to evolve anatomy that can handle a broken limb because wild horses who broke a limb very quickly became a meal.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    With several NA jurisdictions now on permanent DST, or having already passed legislation to use permanent DST pending some condition or other, I'd say the chance of AB switching to permanent standard time is vanishingly small. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. The failure of that referendum gives a ton of ammo to those in favour of the status quo.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    Also from Saskatchewan, lived in Alberta for a few years. I have literally never in my life had a moment where I wished Sask did time changes, and found it stressful and annoying every time it happened while living elsewhere.

    Stop changing your clocks! Good job BC, I hope you start some dominoes!

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Yes, that's how things work when you live close to a time zone border. Doesn't really have anything to do with DST.

    Most people living close to the BC<->AB or AB<->SK borders, for example, deal with this frequently, and stopping DST won't change that. You get used to it.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They're very cool and intricate indeed. But, as someone who grew up on a farm and is pretty familiar with combines: you're drastically underestimating the engineering challenges in computers and space travel.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I've always been uncomfortable, honestly, with calling software developers "engineers". Partly that's because it's actually illegal to call a non-PEng role an "engineer" in some jurisdictions (most of Canada), but I think this comment is an excellent point of distinction to make between PEng and other roles.

    Legal responsibility along with regulatory requirements. There's a reason everyone* trusts elevators and airplanes but shouldn't trust most software.

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  • [–] 64 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Her story with her in-laws gets a little sympathy, right up until she's complaining that the tenant is doing all these things to her and she "didn't do anything".

    You served him illegal rent increase notices and you tried to evict him! That's not nothing! All the tenant has done is get the regulator in the loop, and the regulator has repeatedly said, "yeah, you can't do that." Flawed as they sometimes are, we have laws like these for a reason.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    And I ask you - if those same trillions of dollars were instead spent on materially improving the lives of average people, how much more progress would we make as a society? This is an absolutely absurd sum of money were talking about here.

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