Biden: End the tipped minimum wage.

Tipping also disappears.

Servers: Not like this!

They should have lined it up with Dry January (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_January)

This is democracy in action. Voting happened, MPs were elected, and a government was formed. Did the Premier need to put 'secrets' in the Mandate letters? No. Did he? Yes. Because you and I don't have the right to see those secrets, we don't get to see those letters. If this, and a lot of other good reasons not to vote CPC, end up changing the votes so another party forms the government, maybe the government then won't have secret mandate letters.

No. We're smart enough not to send letter carriers and their tiny vans out in weather that can be lethally bad.

Squinty would literally bottom for Trump if given the chance.

Taiwan just elected a president China said 'could lead to war' if he was elected. Russia is still holding on to parts of Ukraine. Drought is limiting the ability to use the Panama canal, and Iran-sponsored Hourthis and the IRG are making shipment via Suez canal very risky forcing shipment around the Capes. Meanwhile the 'world police' just south of us has shown they can be anywhere from "unreliable" to "a security threat" if they vote a popular kleptocrat into power.

Yeah, things are not good.

I have no idea… It wasn’t mentioned in the article, but then again, if they included the opposing argument I suppose they couldn’t put an article out on how this is terrible for journalism

I have no idea... It wasn't mentioned in the article, but then again, if they included the opposing argument I suppose they couldn't put an article out on how this is terrible for journalism.

Update: Yes, they're striking. https://lemmy.ca/post/13335662

"Everything we've done (bugger all) hasn't worked, so we'll allow these companies to merge and reduce competition further with 'enforceable' conditions attached that everyone recognizes won't do a thing." Have they thought of nationalization? Competition with a crown company? A giant surtax on their ludicrous profits? Heavy regulation? A license/board scheme where their plans and prices need approval before making offers?

I wouldn't mind writing, but I'd first have to find a date...

Agreed. Just looking out the door at what's going on with Ukraine - we really should be taking a hard look at what we should be doing to prepare for warfare today instead of 30 years ago.

Actually, the US has screwed up titles just a little bit more as well, but in reverse! While "Esquire" is a courtesy title in the UK, and can be used the same way in Canada, there are specific individuals that might use Esquire in Commonwealth countries in place of Mister based on position or status. In the USA, lawyers have started using "Esquire" meaning 'passed the bar in their state.'

We have systems for that. We can join the various 'teams' of people doing the punching and we can, as a group, demand that they change their practices - next convention the group votes on replacing ball punches with a hearty 'punchbuggy' to the shoulder. Several leaders run and make promises on how hearty to make that shoulder-punch, and we select someone for the next election between face, neck and shoulder. You don't get to complain about where the 3 parties are punching if you aren't in there telling them to change their target - otherwise you got party die-hards saying things like "we've always punched to the neck, and that's what Canadians want."

I'm sure if you looked into the etymology of 'sanitation engineer,' it might have seen its creation in parody of the US practice of euphemistically calling their programmers lofty titles like 'software engineer.' The idea is that you don't need to call yourself by your actual title if you're ashamed of it, you just need to call yourself a "(name of industry) engineer" and that becomes a catch-all for all position names in the industry even when it's not helpful to anyone trying to communicate the actual requirements. A Marine Engineer and a Hull Technician are two very different jobs, and a lot can get wet if I'm looking for the latter but they've hung their shingle out as the former.

11 years is a long time for some things, and too late for other things. It's a bold statement about a goal line I expect to shift by constant small movements by this party as reality doesn't match their enthusiasm, and broad leaps by another party when they get a chance.

certainty

I like this one the best. A dilemma is not necessarily that there's no good options, but rather the decision is difficult. Think of the time traveler killing Hitler problem: if you kill Hitler too early, he isn't globally hated anymore when time plays out, and you're just a murderer. Too late, and you've allowed so many people to die just to justify that he deserves to die... Where's the 'right time?' There's a giant spectra of time that you can make as a justification of when to kill Hitler.

Actually, the agreement is with The Beer Store, a private enterprise that is mostly 2 global super-breweries. The current agreement prevents the LCBO from selling 24s of your beer so that Molson-Coors, AB InBev and Sapporo corner that format in the market. Removing the agreement allows the LCBO to carry large format, and possibly directing more shopping to a government owned outlet.

Yeah, unofficial word on the Canada 'briefing' was that the US 'PowerPoint' to going to war in Iraqi was a lazy and stupid presentation that didn't impress anyone.

Yeah. Bicycle - two wheels. Bisection - two sections. Yes, you are cutting a something into parts, but it's identifying you have 2 of them after the cut. If you have 3 sections after the cutting, it's trisected.