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vyelkin posted:and meanwhile capitalism has determined that the optimal use of housing in many large urban centres is to sit empty accumulating value for overseas investors, or to be used as short-term airbnb rental housing for rich tourists lmao just lmao at how our lovely civilization deals with climate change the same way it deals with all other problems, by just shaving off the unlucky parts of society and deciding we don't care what happens to them as long as the rest of us keep living comfortably This is just a long winded way of saying "the middle class and those working hard to join the middle class"
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Man if only a there was a book or something about the climate changing and a family being forced to move and losing all the wealth they had tied up in their home maybe people would wake up? But it's just such a new phenomenon I guess we'll have to wait. Edit: know a guy who juuuuust bought a home in Niverville and his sump burned out already lmao
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vyelkin posted:and meanwhile capitalism has determined that the optimal use of housing in many large urban centres is to sit empty accumulating value for overseas investors, or to be used as short-term airbnb rental housing for rich tourists lmao just lmao at how our lovely civilization deals with climate change the same way it deals with all other problems, by just shaving off the unlucky parts of society and deciding we don't care what happens to them as long as the rest of us keep living comfortably And cause discontent Until they cease in their investigation And we'll have the rain descend Collapse their tents, and jack up the rents Until we're talking in whispers again
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autism ZX spectrum posted:Man if only a there was a book or something about the climate changing and a family being forced to move and losing all the wealth they had tied up in their home maybe people would wake up? But it's just such a new phenomenon I guess we'll have to wait. the closest thing we've got is A Full Life, a short story published in the MIT Technology Review earlier this year Amitav Ghosh also wrote The Great Derangement to try and get at how we can't really imagine what climate change is going to look at because our fiction has failed to keep up, because as jack nicholson would say, we can't handle the truth
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I think he was talking about The Grapes of Wrath 
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i guess in the modern retelling the joads are oil and gas workers, part of the albertan diaspora
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read the Overstory by Richard Power, its great.
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vyelkin posted:and meanwhile capitalism has determined that the optimal use of housing in many large urban centres is to sit empty accumulating value for overseas investors, or to be used as short-term airbnb rental housing for rich tourists lmao just lmao at how our lovely civilization deals with climate change the same way it deals with all other problems, by just shaving off the unlucky parts of society and deciding we don't care what happens to them as long as the rest of us keep living comfortably https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF_4EWSuzQY
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vyelkin posted:the closest thing we've got is A Full Life, a short story published in the MIT Technology Review earlier this year this is great, thanks for posting it
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EvilJoven posted:Terminator 2 was the only good Terminator. aw c'mon, the original movie was pretty great. After 2 things went downhill fast though
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The first one had no humor at all and the soundtrack was so Casio keyboard it was too 80s for the 80s. It did not age well.
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priznat posted:aw c'mon, the original movie was pretty great. After 2 things went downhill fast though Except wasn't t3 released like 18 years after t2?
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IMHO the original Terminator and its focus on gritty horror, with Arnold as a rubber skinned homicidal manikin that barely even looks human and that will stop at nothing to get you, holds up better than the T1000 and the colorful early 90s optimism and fast paced action sequences of Terminator 2.
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It is funny to think that once upon a time pulpy genre movies could actually have major shifts in plot and tone. Wrath of Khan, The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, Terminator II, Temple of Doom (they can't all be good), we're not talking high art here, but by contemporary Marvel cinema standards all those movies were departures from the previous films in terms of themes and to some extent even narrative.
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Fuckin LOL today the MB premier said that really there's no issue with the current approaches regarding violent crime.
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vyelkin posted:and meanwhile capitalism has determined that the optimal use of housing in many large urban centres is to sit empty accumulating value for overseas investors, or to be used as short-term airbnb rental housing for rich tourists lmao just lmao at how our lovely civilization deals with climate change the same way it deals with all other problems, by just shaving off the unlucky parts of society and deciding we don't care what happens to them as long as the rest of us keep living comfortably Now I get how the residents of planet Krypton ignored all the signs their planet was about to die before it did. Seeing as we're on a marvel derail and all.
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Guest2553 posted:Now I get how the residents of planet Krypton ignored all the signs their planet was about to die before it did. There was a great bit a local comedian did at the Edmonton Fringe theater festival called Last Days On Krypton with that same premise, and it was pretty great. He was on a local lefty scifi podcast that ended up being far and away their best episode.
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EvilJoven posted:The first one had no humor at all and the soundtrack was so Casio keyboard it was too 80s for the 80s. It did not age well. It’s equal to or better than the first one. Lousy opinion IMO.
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Helsing posted:IMHO the original Terminator and its focus on gritty horror, with Arnold as a rubber skinned homicidal manikin that barely even looks human and that will stop at nothing to get you, holds up better than the T1000 and the colorful early 90s optimism and fast paced action sequences of Terminator 2. Both are fantastic. I also don’t think Robert Patrick gets enough credit - he’s equally as menacing as Arnold in the first one.
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Suplex Liberace posted:very happy the climate apocolypse has eradicated the only good season in Manitoba so much sooner than i anticipated drat, im glad im not the only one who has noticed this fall hasnt existed here for a good few years it just wet and snow - i miss the dry rear end leaves all over the place and the smell of fall it loving sucks now and only getting colder.
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Frond posted:Both are fantastic. I also don’t think Robert Patrick gets enough credit - he’s equally as menacing as Arnold in the first one. someone had to point it out to me cuz I didn't notice, but he never flinches or closes his eyes when firing a gun during the entire movie takes some serious effort to make that happen.
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I'm glad I checked in this thread because wow are some of you wrong. The Terminator absolutely holds up and the sequel would be much diminished without it because one of the best parts is Sarah Connor molding herself into what she needs to be for her and her son to survive. Anyway, carry on.
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https://globalnews.ca/news/6137571/ucp-mla-private-members-bill-physician-conscience-rights/ Between this and nursing/teacher cuts, I'm getting the gently caress out of this province as soon as my lease is up. Vancouver or BC in general might be expensive but I think it's time to get out of Alberta before it turns into the Canadian version of Sam Brownback's Kansas experiment.
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I don't know if Alberta's system is better, but anecdotally I've heard that Ontario is the province that people want to be family doctors the least. I move to Kitchener full time in May 2018 and here's how my finding a family doctor experience went: 1) May: Sign up for "Healthcare Connect", the provincial system that's supposed to match you match you with an open family doctor. (I later learned via some googling that despite being the most advertised provincial system, it has under a 60% match rate). 2) Learn that despite this being a resource you sign up for online, there's no online portal. You sign up, then wait for a snail mail package with details. 3) June: Recieve a snail mail package that says nothing other than "hey, you're on a list, we'll contact you if you find someone." Don't like, worry about status updates or any other logical online thing. 4) Wait 8 months. 5) Febuary, 2019: get annoyed at filling my regular perscriptions at walk in clinics. No news since my solitary mail package. Do some online searching and find some program run by the local.....chamber of commerce????...that's suppposed to match patients to doctors. 6) get referred to a doctor for the next week. Apparently I had it quite easy compared to some people, but I was still amazed at how useless the province was in having a system that 1) actually did anything and 2) was monitorable in any way shape or form. For all I know my name was thrown into the garbage immediately after joining the program in May.
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James Baud posted:If you're into nursing or teaching, post-cut Alberta is still going to easily be the #1 place to be in Canada. The workload is going to be increased, they're cutting wages after 6 years of freezes and the union suspects 20% of frontline workers are going to be cut. It might be right now but it's going to suck rear end over the next while. All the while, other provinces are going to be renewing contracts and catching up/surpassing them in pay while not living in a hellworld province surrounded by chud assholes embarrassing austerity.
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Nairbo posted:The workload is going to be increased, they're cutting wages after 6 years of freezes and the union suspects 20% of frontline workers are going to be cut. It might be right now but it's going to suck rear end over the next while. ontario is also going to get hammered but for no particular reason aside from the province being full of even more malicious people. Nova Scotia has less than 1 percent increases over the next 3 years but healthcare spending is out of control here because of reasons. CRISPYBABY posted:I don't know if Alberta's system is better, but anecdotally I've heard that Ontario is the province that people want to be family doctors the least. just call offices directly, healthcare connect doesn’t work I used to do patient navigation as an rn in ontario and it’s really not that bad. come to Nova Scotia to experience a truly horrible healthcare system. my morning jackass has issued a correction as of 01:46 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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