Trump says a lot of things.

Or put another way, have the unemployed been able to afford to eat at Chipotles up until this point? Strong doubt.

He will be fine in his Morlockian bunker, lording over his vast fiefdom, breeding serfs, etc.

The beginning of the end.

Arise from the dead comment chain!

I guess you predict a Julia Chairlift née Bezos then?

If you have sufficient battery storage and a good solar setup, it can work great for you especially in the summer.

For the rest of us plebs, yet another “carbon footprint” gaslighting campaign where they promise something good but just end up shifting blame for electricity costs to you for running your AC on a hot day/heater on a cold day/oven at dinner time/dryer on the weekend, instead of owning their piss-poor management of BC Hydro et al. for the last few decades. Your time and convenience and lowered stress are worth more than any potential discount, plus you’ll probably still end up paying more because you use the most power when you need it, and that is when most other people need it too.

NDP call a snap election before settling with the union, get a majority, govern like neoliberals. Or fall as the MAGA machine somehow rallies the troops and you get Primer Rustad. Bleak.

And until recently, you could stand in the East Wing. What makes you believe you will always be able to look up what is said in Congress if a determined dictator doesn’t want you to?

The government’s public record is just about as important and enduring as the East Wing of the White House.

• they have mobility needs that are incompatible with local transit and/or make typical cars more expensive.
• they have family/other needs that mean they need a safer, more reliable car.
• they will lose their job if they are ever late, so need to prioritize reliability.
• they work multiple jobs, and/or have other requirements (child care, elder care, etc) that are incompatible with transit in their area and/or cannot be out off while a car is getting repaired.
• they are unable to DIY repair older used cars, cannot accommodate potentially extreme repair bills, and can’t assess if an older car is reliable to buy in the first place.
• the financing company will not give them a loan for something that doesn’t have enough value to avoid depreciating past the point of recouping losses over the life of the lease.
• the insurance company will not insure older cars at a rate that is doable for the driver.
• they don’t have the lump sum savings to buy a car outright, and loans are the only way to go to be able to continue to live and meet their life demands.

The truth is, I’m making ragù.

In Canada? Good luck. Unless you have something considered clinically relevant, it will be extremely hard to get this publically funded.

Were you exposed to an industrial accident? Do you work in an industry where you’re likely to be exposed to heavy metals despite ppe? Are you showing symptoms of acute heavy metal exposure (and those symptoms couldn’t be explained by something else)? Unless you answer yes to any of these, odds are low. Why?

Because if we don’t test, it isn’t real and no one needs to do anything about it. If they started testing folks (costly in and of itself) and found lots of people were high in lead, they would need to identify the source of the toxin. Finding the source of the lead would be extremely expensive, and we already know it’s probably from lots of sources that are expensive to clean up and damaging to industry. That would cause more costs. So in Canada, we just don’t look.

This is how it has been for a long, long time. It took forever to get them to take lead out of gasoline, asbestos out of insulation, put warnings on fish for mercury, admit smoking was bad for you, etc.

Maybe you can find a private clinic that can test for you, or a naturopath (often they do the same tests as an MD, at the same lab, just you pay out of pocket; backdoor private medicine). Maybe you can pool testing with a number of folks to get the food you eat tested, and source food from places less likely to be contaminated. While there has likely always been some heavy metal contamination in some types of food in some places, the industrial agriculture we use today has made it far worse, as had years of contamination from leaded gasoline, arsenic-based pesticide, etc. If you have the time and resources, maybe you can avoid it. Again, good luck.

In a way, Sickle Cell is caused by a disease. Malaria makes this disease advantageous as children who have it are more likely to survive to adulthood and pass on the disease to offspring, despite the other deleterious impacts.

Good thing Canada isn’t going elbows down, bend over and creating a regime for secret orders that weaken encryption and give warrantless access to your data in an effort to appease Trump.

That makes you a millennial right? This is the hipster vibe you’re going for?

Poophole loophole

Salve, amice!