Just another appreciation comment here. Thank you! Glad it was just temporary, and hope it doesn't cause you too much stress.
This happened to my friends. They bought tickets, the flight got cancelled, they never got informed, they continued to get regular flight reminders, including a week before the "flight" and a reminder the night before to check in. They chose not to check in online, went to the airport, and were told at the check in desk that the flight didn't exist. Not just the flight, the route. The route they were flying no longer existed, and they still got notifications. Ridiculous.
Oh, and the kicker... they got emails afterwards asking them to rate the flight!
Agreed, but also eye-witness testimony is notoriously inaccurate.
PP trying to frame income/property-value disparity as a purely Canadian problem that has only happened under Trudeau is just pure fallacy. It's happening in countries all over the world and it has been growing under every government in Canada for decades.
Usenet requires paying for a service though, right?
The confirmation on exit (back button when on the main screen) is why I stayed with this instead of the other apps I've tried!
But agreed, having something like that as an option makes sense.
Canada in general made me happier. Not necessarily the companies specifically. As much as we can complain about our health care issue here in Canada, the social safety net here is significantly better. And I had "good" insurance coverage in the states. It was a constant fear of getting sick or injured and ending up in the wrong hospital and not getting covered (or any number of other reasons). Add to that the social pressure to spend money on everything in the states. Everyone I knew down there was in debt up to their eyeballs, no matter how much they made. It was ridiculous.
I understand where you're coming from, but we're taking about having a really high paying job in the US or a high paying job in Canada. The types of jobs getting H1-B visas are high paying tech jobs.
Things are also more expensive than you might think in the US. And there always seems to be a lot of social pressure to spend more money in the US - more so than Canada in my experience. So in a lot of ways, you could be better off in some places even if you have a lower paying job.
Nice, maybe I'll try to create a Lemmy.ca account again at some point. My first attempt a while back disappeared into the ether.
Yes, but, money isn't everything. I once left a high paying job in the US to come back to Canada, get paid less, and be way happier.
Working for a US company and living in Canada is a good way to go, but is harder to swing if you are not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
Plus it sounds like the people they're talking about in this scenario may have their H1-B revoked and they wouldn't have a job or a visa to stay in the US at all. Canada, even with a lower paying job seems like a good option.
Watch your cornhole, bud
Whoa... TruckBC. Now my feed feels like home.
This is pretty nuts! I've been in the dark all day so this is the first I'm hearing of it. That's some epic damage.
My guess is someone at the credit card company screwed up. May have even been someone new.
Recumbent bike enters the chat...
I think the idea here is that it's a man-made reservoir and they're not worried about maintaining an ecosystem.
Cool, thanks!
Anyone see (or try to see) aurora in Vancouver last night?
I saw some articles this morning saying the aurora might be visible starting last (Friday) night, and maybe through the weekend. Just wondering if anyone had success to help me decide if I'll try to see them tonight (since it will have to be quite late.)
I see the issue is closed, does that mean another request for this sub will work?
The RIF way!
I'm not sure why you're telling me what you want but I think it works the way I would expect it to. The comment I long press collapses.
And they'll be handing out tubs downtown 🍅😱
One fun post to try to make up for the downers...
New Westminster parents, school board call on trustee to resign for Twitter trolling
"The school board says Beattie has decided to take medical leave. According to school board chair Maya Russell the board does not have the ability to remove a trustee in this case under the School Act, but are requesting she resign immediately."
Does she think she will be able to come back to her job after this?
Showing active monthly users (which is quite low) in data for servers is creating a barrier for entry to Lemmy
I've noticed this in many places in the Lemmyverse in my first few days here. When first signing up almost all the instances were listed as having 2 or less active users. The biggest was Lemmy.ml at something around 1000. Then I've seen those numbers listed in other places including a post yesterday that is supposed to help bring redditors to Lemmy.
These numbers will just get most people to turn around and not even consider Lemmy as an alternative.
I saw a GIF today showing the growth of user accounts on Lemmy instances and Lemmy.ml (for example) was over 30000 and many of the other servers were in the 100s, approaching 1000. That's a HUGE difference and indicates a community that is 10 times (or more) more active than the initial numbers presented indicate.
Any thoughts? Am I out to lunch?
Is there a way to search posts and/or comments?
As I'm posting things, I'd like to avoid reposting stuff. But it's hard to tell if right now if I am, especially in more active communities, because I have to scroll through the existing posts manually.
Due in part to strong Q1 2023 numbers and a demand surge, the US solar market is now expected to triple by 2028, according to a new report.
![The US solar market is projected to triple in size by 2028](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/2d8c2c9a-051b-4792-bb43-567bae867d57.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Canada can meet its carbon emission reduction targets, make food cheap again and open up a gigantic trade surplus with the U.S. by shading farm crops with solar panels.
![How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/b1596786-bc07-46c4-af66-0c0e99acd9b2.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
New Jersey is host to an 8.9 megawatt floating solar farm – the largest floating solar array in North America.
![The largest floating solar farm in North America is officially online](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/afefa03a-300f-4fd3-93a0-1f8b45b7fe56.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Hazy skies tinged with an eery yellow glow greeted millions of Canadians in Quebec and Ontario again Wednesday as the smoke from hundreds of wildfires continued to cause air quality warnings in Canada's most populated corridor. In a bizarre twist of fate, on a day when air quality was among the wors...
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Vancouver Whitecaps win 2023 Canadian Championship
The Official website of Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
Europe’s latest weather satellite, the Meteosat Third Generation Imager, has just delivered its first view of Earth – revealing conditions over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic in remarkable detail.
![New weather satellite reveals spectacular images of Earth](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c711c03c-0012-4c82-a044-30d5816ed816.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Exclusive video by Global News captured the moment a Chinese warship came close to hitting an American destroyer in international waters of the South China Sea.
![Chinese warship nearly hits U.S. destroyer in Taiwan Strait during joint Canada-U.S. mission - National | Globalnews.ca](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6dd6f683-4dc9-451c-bf87-9fa0bc8cd2c7.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
"Safety is always our top priority, and that drives this decision."
![Boeing finds two serious problems with Starliner just weeks before launch](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/70a93248-0060-4bd1-8eff-f3cf133631c7.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-18 b reaches nearly 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,700 degrees Celsius).
![James Webb Space Telescope finds water in super-hot exoplanet's atmosphere](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/817284eb-70fb-4913-bd20-f5e37837d954.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)