Hmm I used to be proud of being Canadian. These days it’s getting harder and harder.

What’s the from?

You say your not good at finding the right words, but these seem pretty good to me ❤️

I second brother, mines been running strong for almost 10 years

I personally think we are going to need to move to a hybrid capitalist situation before we can hope to move past it. It will be very hard for countries to make a switch away, as it will prevent them from really existing in the global market, or force the governments to hold all the cash so they can still partake.

I think the direction some places are taking with basic or universal income is one of the most promising steps away I’ve heard about recently. It allows for a sort of sudo communism within the bounds of a capitalist society by ensuring all have the same basic access to resources. Obviously there are plenty of caveats with the implementations so far, such as who gets it, how much is it, can it cover basic living, etc. But I think it represents what I’m getting at.

If we can continue to implement meaningful social programs such as free and accessible healthcare, basic incomes, shortened work weeks, minimum wages, etc, etc it is continued progress towards a world where money becomes increasingly meaningless as everyone has what they need and only need to work for the extras.

Just my two cents from someone with absolutely no background in the relevant fields :)

I’ve had the same brother laser printer since uni (shit thats like 10 years ago now) and it’s never let me down. The only issue is it stops responding over the network sometimes when I Havnt used it in months.

I was having trouble with my glass bed originally, to get it working nicely without glue or hairspray I:

• made sure the bed was very clean, I use rubbing alcohol to clean it
• dialed in my z offset, I usually match it to my layer height, so if I’m printing at 0.2mm that’s what I set the z offset to
• upped my print temp a bit, I usually print at 205-210 with PLA

Maybe one of those will help?

Sure I’d love to move to the city, but rent/costs are waay higher in the city. I couldn’t afford to move to the city, even considering the cost of gas.

I don’t thinka Ev are going to save us, but they give those wanting to make a change the option. That said if you can afford a fancy new Ev you likely have the available income to move closer so idk.

Edit: just wanted to say I agree with everything you said, just bring up problems with implementation for the sake of discussion :)

That works for urban areas, but so much of Canada is rural. If I biked to work I’d need to leave like 3 hours before work started. And that doesn’t even address winter travel, good luck using your bike with a couple feet of snow.

So while foot/bike paths are important, we can’t just stop all car use. And EVs are much better if a vehicle is required, especially if powered by renewables.

Don’t ban them, that’ll just start up a black market for them which way less safe and also makes sure the government doesn’t get any portion of the sales to fund healthcare.

I say slowly ramp up the tax on them, incentiving smokers to quit. The higher price would also help prevent future smokers from picking up the habit since they’ll be so expensive, for pretty much no gain.

I’m a simple man, I see ITYSL and I upvote

And it’s really good, has some fun stories from the early days at Microsoft