prodigalsorcerer

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[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Historically, student visas have been freely issued at will to any student who was accepted to a university or college program. This wasn't an issue until about five years ago.

A lot of our laws, regulations, and policies were written assuming people would act in good faith. Unfortunately, that's no longer good enough, and as a result, many corporations and provincial governments have started to take advantage of it, which has caused a lot of problems in Canadian society.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Nice to meet you Juan. I'm Pierre Poilivere from Calgary, and I love porn. The weirder the better.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I am the zodiac killer. I am DB Cooper. I shot Tupac. Jimmy Hoffa is buried in my backyard.

Come get me.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Anyone else with Manulife and seen this shit before?

Not exactly the same, but under some of their plans, they cover 80% of the price, but at some specific partner pharmacies, they will cover 90 or 100% instead.

For my plan, the partner pharmacies are Costco and an online one. Not sure if it changes between companies/plans, or if those were just their current partners for everyone insured with them.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Google Pixel phones have a screen call function that seems the same as this.

I don't know if it's technical limitations (it's probably just greed), but I can't imagine that this stays exclusive to Pixels for much longer.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I have a friend on ozempic (for diabetes). It really seems like it's impossible for him to just use it to continue his excessive eating habits, because it suppresses his appetite and he just doesn't eat much anymore. He still eats garbage, but much less.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Over the past two decades, flu shots have had a 25-40% uptake rate per year (source). It's amazing that covid boosters are so much lower than this, though if people were recently infected or vaccinated, then maybe they aren't allowed to get vaccinated with the booster designed for the xbb station yet.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I could only find old articles about resolutions, or the more recent articles from a month ago when it started. I'm not sure anymore if this is Google's fault - it seemingly hasn't been reported on since it started. Too much news about strikes might give the population too many ideas.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Isn't there an ongoing strike at Loblaws distribution centres? I legitimately can't find any news as to whether it ended, but I also can't find very much news on other strikes that I'm pretty sure did get resolved. Fuck Loblaws, and fuck Google's ever worsening search capabilities.

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

There's only five ways discussed in the song. Maybe the other 45 are various forms of murder.

You just need a few pills, Jill
Couple o' stabs, Babs
You can run over with a car, Jafar
Just get yourself free

[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

According to the article, 25% lead to convictions. I don't know if there's an appropriate quantity of strip searches greater than zero, but if it's going to happen, this actually seems like a pretty good result.

I guess the questions to ask here are: could these arrests be made without a strip search (e.g. would a frisk have been sufficient)? If not, could the strip searches be done by an adult of the same gender and also in the presence of their parent or guardian?

There's definitely a lot that is bad about this, but if 25% of strip searches result in conviction, there's clearly another problem here that needs to be addressed.

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