Just do it outside then.
Or just do it in the garage. Not to devalue your point (because you aren’t wrong either, the dust isn’t probably healthy), but honestly thinking back over all the shady things that have gone down in my garage over the years, sanding a bit of PLA wouldn’t even nick the surface.
Yet there’s like 14 people here on the fediverse, where this issues been largely solved.
It’s growing, and I don’t really want the herds and their mindrot either, but it’s the way of the future. Look at the god damn situation we find ourselves in, for example. That’s almost solely to be blamed on social media.
There’s always been something shady about them. To start, they taste like burning rubber.
For example, Servus CEO - 1.63 million on 2023 financial statements
this is a report about board directors, but you can see it on page 18, the average board director comp is $211k, and one of the directors was at $2M - because they are also the CEO (it could be for one of the coops too, maybe not necessarily a credit union).
There are small ones obviously, like super community focused ones that aren’t maybe the big bloat fests the bigger ones are. But there’s also a tremendous amount of consolidation at the credit union levels going on, and they ain’t going to be doing that for cookies and kumbyas like the reddit crowd thinks they will be.
I’ve worked in treasury and finance long enough to know the credit unions can be pretty big troughs too. Again not all of them, but do your research. It ain’t S&L like the yanks, but it also isn’t a layer of innocence.
The credit unions are just as greedy. They are all consolidating into big bloated entities too, and then just marketing themselves as “the good guys.”
I mean credit unions are often coop owned, but the coop gets 1 cent for every thousand the execs get.
I remember a few nights at around -45, which is absolutely nothing for Yukoners. Couldn’t keep that damn woodstove full enough those nights.
I saw a pic of someone’s thermometer taken overnight a night or two ago, and it was bottomed out past minus 50. I can personally attest, a Yukon winter is nothing to f with.
It’s only on days. Days that end in Y.
I’m nostalgic for it, but at the same time, I’d be nostalgic for 3.5 seconds if I used one again. People tend to forget how frustrating those devices could be too. I had several iterations of the blackberry, and everyone of them came with a lot of quirks that modern phones just don’t have. Sure, I sort of miss the tactile feel of buttons, but it was also a lot of work punching out long emails on them, and pocket lint did a real number on those things too.
I’m of the opposite opinion. I’m tired of dashboards just absolutely smothered in Technicoloured buttons. I much prefer the touchscreen where everything is centralized. I find it less distracting, personally.
Cars are a very intimate personal thing though, and I understand others frustrations with it. Guess I’m the outlier.
That’s not accurate at all. You can’t just burn billions on billions on a public service then, without cuts somewhere else. You can’t equate mail to stuff like a military and health care, it’s not the same. Protection and basic human care for subsistence isn’t equitable to being able to mail a letter to someone, or to send someone junk mail.
So would you prioritize this over better cancer care in remote communities for example? Or an ability to get drugs cheaply? Because we are in the B range here, think about reallocating that money. Canada post can’t run itself effectively, without burning mass amounts of cash. That much has been proven. They are making claims that they are effectively insolvent.
I’ve lived in an nothern remote community before, I know what it’s like, very intimately. But there was a difference there, no one was getting cancer drugs through Canada Post, as they didn’t have the infrastructure. It was cheaper to use Canada Post, sure, but it was also weeks out. If you needed stuff faster, it had a cost, because it literally had a pretty big cost to get there. The remote areas pay a heavy price for shopping and cargo, end of sentence. Now should this cost be subsidized? I could argue yes or no, both sides. But this isn’t what is burning the amounts of money that they are, because Canada Post doesn’t focus a lot of resources up there either.
You need to really dig into the books to see where the cash is going, but I think it would cause pause for most. There’s been a lot of failed projects over the years, they tried to basically create their own Amazon like marketplace for example, and they burned a tremendous amount of capital doing so. That shouldn’t have ever been allowed to happen. They run a lot of mind numbing hours and resources in communities where it’s clearly going to waste, but are leaving other communities largely in the lurch, and where such human capital allocations would be better served.
Am I suggesting the elimination of mail service? Not necessarily. Does it need to come every day though? Should there be more boxes and centralized pickup spots, to realize some savings? Why are they in the parcel business, where they are literally competing with…themselves? (Canada post has an almost whole ownership of Purolator - which is profitable). So if they want to do parcels, why not sell that ownership off and reallocate that capital? Or maybe leave the parcels for Purolator, and extend some price controls.
There’s a lot that needs examined in this crown corp, and I for one am not really a fan of them just continuing to throw capital at it, where they have shown time and time again they can burn through it at a stupid fast rate, on some contra-intuitive projects.
The fact of the matter is, their junk mail production is the only thing keeping the lights on. That’s not an effective use of Canadian taxpayer capital. So how do we fix this then? Does it really make me such a bad person to question this?
Ok but banning speech goes both ways, hey!? That means the speech you find acceptable might come into question by others.
It’s a slippery slope. Maybe the slipperiest. Freedom of speech also means sometimes you need to hear some stuff that makes you want to vomit.
It’s mind numbing how no one is ever willing to look at some facts here. The way this crown corp has been run, and the decisions they have made (and the numerous failed projects they have burned massive amounts of cash on), I don’t understand why this can never be questioned…
They are losing hundreds of millions a year though. That money could go a long way in other areas.
I’m not saying no mail, but maybe let’s think of solutions. Do I need every day delivery? Do we need post offices. I ain’t even suggesting it be profitable, but theres an extreme cash burn going on here. A lot of their services can be done by private companies pretty effectively (and I’m not a huge privatization guy). Hell they even own one (Purolator), so why the fuck are they also still messing around in the parcel world?
That’s a bit of a stretch. The inability of some low level bureaucrat (an intern if I remember correctly) to do a basic amount of background research before extending an invite, doesn’t exactly instantly mean a government is pro fascist. Like let’s knock this back down from a ten to a two on the panic scale a bit.
If you wanted to argue that Canada as a whole has a checkered past of racism and arguably some fascist tenents, you aren’t entirely wrong. We have historically treated the aboriginal population terribly, and this is their land. There’s the mass graves of little children, that we kidnapped against their will, entrapped and abused, to contend with. We imprisoned innocent people with Japanese origins during WWII. Like we ain’t perfect either, for sure.
Project 1861
Banning stuff isn’t the answer. I believe in actually free speech and discourse. Our media up here is already so saturated with American thinkslop, the CBC is our last stand (and under constant attack by Conservative grifters).
I believe in the right for Tucker to say what he’s got on his mind, just as much as I believe in the right to point our fingers and say, “get a load of this fucking idiot.” Buddy looks like an absolute tool bag, and obviously is just karma farming. That’s how these people like trump and him get so rich, they karma farm this shit. That’s true evil by the way.
Probably because she’s leader number 2 that is quickly coming to the realization that she’s lost control of the asylum. Not that she’s not also a member, but holy fuck the internal politics of this party must absolutely be insane. You can’t even keep up with it, it’s in a constant state of chaos and bad actors trying to Out-Machiavellian the others.
It’s almost like uniting was…a bad idea
I mean on one hand every bit counts, and it’s about the movement towards actions, and building upon that, rather than just miraculously expecting sudden and wholesale change of behaviors from the most stubborn species this planet has ever saw.
But yeah, I mean macro scale we still have so much, where plastic straws and plastic bag bans just become comical when you think about the effect, grand scheme.
I dunno, I wasn’t against it. Sure as shit hate paper straws though, that much I will admit right out the gates. But there was some progress and product development on that issue too. It’s a toughie, I hate going backwards, but we almost have an immediate existence issue on our hands, let alone a future one.