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Picnic Princess posted:A couple of farm kids here died in a grain silo and the government was like "hmm maybe farm kids shouldn't work in grain silos" and half the province freaked out because being a farm kid is good and builds work ethic and character! Also a lot of farms would lose free labour but shhh that's not what it's really about. Alberta? The best part was that it wasn't even farm kids, it was like seasonal workers on small farms. The legislation only affected small farms hiring temporary workers, and specifically excluded farm kids working on the family farm. But the small farm owners were able to equate small = family in the minds of people who obviously didn't read it, and whip up enough "This'll kill the family farm!" sentiment to cause a shitstorm. You know, the same way OHS laws killed every other industry ever.
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EKDS5k posted:Alberta? The best part was that it wasn't even farm kids, it was like seasonal workers on small farms. The legislation only affected small farms hiring temporary workers, and specifically excluded farm kids working on the family farm. But the small farm owners were able to equate small = family in the minds of people who obviously didn't read it, and whip up enough "This'll kill the family farm!" sentiment to cause a shitstorm. You know, the same way OHS laws killed every other industry ever. Eastern Saskatchewan. It was two girls playing in the back of a grain truck.
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Knormal posted:Came out like, worked its way out through your skin? Or do you know the consistency because it was surgically removed? It was slowly ejected by the body, worked it's way to the surface. I could feel it in there the whole time. It was really neat. As per grain accident, I looked it up and it was 3 sisters in central Alberta, in a grain truck they were playing on. 2 died at the scene, the 3rd a little while later in hospital. I remember when Notley said there should be rules or awareness, a bunch of farmers and grown farm kids living in cities, some of which I have on Facebook, freaked out hard because they personally survived their childhoods so all kids should have access to dangerous equipment and situations like they did because those are chores dammit! All kids do chores!
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I work nights so I frequently have to drive to and from work before snow plows have been deployed and cars really work fine in snow as long as you drive slower to compensate for having way less traction. It's less about "knowing how" and more about recognizing that it's dangerous.
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Bank of America is going to start charging $12 a month to anyone that doesn't get at least $250 in direct deposits and maintains $1500 in their account.
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Kitchen with a drop ceiling? I always thought that was a no go because of the risk of mould buildup.
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Was that kitchen unfinished? Pretty weird to see an oven and rangetop just sitting by its lonesome over there on the right. And in terms of climates that's the reason my wife and I choose to live in an area that seldom gets in the extremes. Of course so does everybody else with more money than we do 
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Memento posted:Do these people know that you don't actually have to live somewhere where your face hurts if you go outside? The constant threat of dying makes daily life more interesting.
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Jan 23, 2018 08:20
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Rough Lobster posted:The constant threat of dying makes daily life more interesting. I'd rather be pursued by a bear every other day than live in a place where I have to deal with that poo poo in winter.
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uber_stoat posted:I'd rather be pursued by a bear every other day than live in a place where I have to deal with that poo poo in winter. Move to Montana, have both!
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've heard England doesn't get very hot or cold, but I can never tell because they use that weird Calculon or whatever temperature scale so 12 degrees could mean warm and then 17 degrees could be the surface of the sun. Celcius: 0 is the freezing point of water, 100 is the boiling point, 37 is human body temperature and 21 is a comfortable room temperature.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Celcius: 0 is the freezing point of water, 100 is the boiling point, 37 is human body temperature and 21 is a comfortable room temperature. Fahrenheit: 0 is the freezing point of a 1:1 mix of water and salt, 32 is the freezing point of regular water, and 100 is the temperature of a horse’s blood.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Fahrenheit: 0 is the freezing point of a 1:1 mix of water and salt, 32 is the freezing point of regular water, and 100 is the temperature of a horse’s blood. How many acres do you get per hogshead of corn spirit?
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I think Daisy Ridley fell into this in the most recent Star Wars movie.
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C.M. Kruger posted:and 100 is the temperature of a horse’s blood. At rest or gallop?
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Memento posted:How many acres do you get per hogshead of corn spirit? A perfectly logical measuring system*:  * as used by a grand total of three countries in the world. The backwards hellholes of Liberia and Myanmar. And the US. EDIT: Also, no sane person actually uses decimetres and hectametres. I mean, what's the loving point? Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 10:40 on Jan 23, 2018 |
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Stoatbringer posted:At rest or gallop? A hot blooded or cold blooded horse?
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AlmightyBob posted:Bank of America is going to start charging $12 a month to anyone that doesn't get at least $250 in direct deposits and maintains $1500 in their account. I remember them pulling that poo poo back in '06. It's part of the reason I switched banks.
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I've seen this vid a couple of times now and I think it might the most morbidly grim footage I've ever witnessed. More so than car crashes and other horrible entanglements of soft, mutable flesh, and solid foreign materials. Something about it makes my soul feel a little colder, like I've been handed a chilled beer glass on a hot summers day, but the beer glass is lodged in my chest cavity. It's the way they keep going in. It's the way it seems so inevitable. It's the way there's no escape when caught. It's the way it's neither quick nor slow, with out ever changing speed. But really it's all those things added up to a whole greater than the sum of the parts. It's the fact that the corn is basically a giant hour glass. What we are seeing here is time. Relentlessly, mercilessly sucking in souls without ever stopping or even slowing. We are those birds, just following each other in to a big corn grinder.
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Horse Inspector posted:I've seen this vid a couple of times now and I think it might the most morbidly grim footage I've ever witnessed. More so than car crashes and other horrible entanglements of soft, mutable flesh, and solid foreign materials. Something about it makes my soul feel a little colder, like I've been handed a chilled beer glass on a hot summers day, but the beer glass is lodged in my chest cavity. And now imagine a few of them gorged themselves to the point of not being able to escape due to weight. Oh, and a different take: think of each bird as buttcoin investors at the moment.
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Somfin posted:If a gym machine can't seriously injure you it's probably not worth your time. By this logic, everyone should be joining Crossfit.
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Life Comes At You Fastbiracial bear for uncut posted:By this logic, everyone should be joining Crossfit.
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swordfish duelist posted:I remember them pulling that poo poo back in '06. It's part of the reason I switched banks. Same here. Plus some bullshit where they gave me an ATM card which had to be used alongside ID whenever I went into the bank. BOA sucks for so many reasons.
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AlmightyBob posted:Bank of America is going to start charging $12 a month to anyone that doesn't get at least $250 in direct deposits and maintains $1500 in their account. They did something like that to my account around 2013. I'd had it since 1993 with Seafirst that was later taken over by BoA, so I was quite miffed they'd start charging for an account I had for 20 years. I was transitioning to another bank anyways and canceled my BoA accounts. They still managed to fail to close it and charged me with an under balance fee. After a few hours of calls, holds, and transfers to finally get it straightened out I was awarded with a check for 10 cents after they recalculated my closing withdraws and their fee mix ups.
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Unless you're using online banks, you guys better get ready because that's how all the lower end checking accounts are going to be with in the next couple of years at any large bank. Hope you're good at saving if you're in a cash tip business. edit: Charles Schwab will give you a free checking and savings with no international fees and waive all ATM fees. I think you have to open a brokerage account too, but I don't think there are any limits on amounts. Either way the interest and benefits from them are better than some of the big bank's "Gold" memberships or whatever. Solice Kirsk has a new favorite as of 13:34 on Jan 23, 2018 |
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The freude here is in the responses to BofA support on Twitter. A number of people announced they're canceling their BofA accounts and switching to credit unions (which you absolutely should do), and when support responds, asking how they can help keep them as customers, the people just say "Stop loving over poor people." It doesn't do anything, but it's kinda nice that plenty of randos in the wild are willing to give them the finger over it.
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I hadn't heard anything about Bank of America in ages. They even stopped advertising, probably because of all the negative press. Join a credit union.
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Pretty much every person I know has one account where they actually keep their money and another they transfer it to when they actually want to buy something. If only takes a few seconds on your phone before you go and tap your card and, this way, you never need to worry if you lose your card or someone gets the card details because there's no money in it. If banks here tried that poo poo, they'd probably lose every customer under 50 overnight. That said, I think one bank the Commonwealth Bank does do that, but the only reason anyone uses that bank is either they're very old, have their own business or spend a lot of time transferring money directly to the government.
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I'm irrationally angry at the multiple pigeons who escaped to safety at the very last moment, and then a few seconds later flew directly into the center I know pigeons are dumb assholes but man
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Takoluka posted:The freude here is in the responses to BofA support on Twitter. A number of people announced they're canceling their BofA accounts and switching to credit unions (which you absolutely should do), and when support responds, asking how they can help keep them as customers, the people just say "Stop loving over poor people." It doesn't do anything, but it's kinda nice that plenty of randos in the wild are willing to give them the finger over it. ....... Deez nuts.
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Somfin posted:I specified a machine. Not a death cult. Reminder that even something as simple as an inclined plane or a wedge is technically a machine.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Reminder that even something as simple as an inclined plane or a wedge is technically a machine. The inevitable inclined plane uprising doesn't have the same ring to it though.
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The real schadenfreude is that losing those customers is exactly what this change was aimed to do, so BoA is coming out ahead despite their minimal efforts of "customer service." There'll be a month or so of dealing with it and then everyone will just accept it and move on.
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What exactly they plan to accomplish here is the question. It's not like only poor people are necessarily going to start getting paranoid about a bank that clearly has no compunctions about robbing customers it doesn't like.
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Welcome to banking. Throw a hundred thousand bucks into an account and you'll never have to worry about any fees ever again, but have $100 in there and you can kiss 10% of it goodbye each month. I can tell you right now that most high income people may not like that BoA is doing this, but precious few of them will change their bank over it since it's a pain in the rear end. BoA is going to come out of this just fine and no one will even remember it in a few weeks. edit: I'm a banker, so know first hand how lovely a bank can be to people. The thing is that most people's morals stop at their own money.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Fahrenheit: 0 is the freezing point of a 1:1 mix of water and salt, 32 is the freezing point of regular water, and 100 is the temperature of a horse’s blood. SI: 0 is the freezing point of literally loving everything, 294.15 is kinda nice, and Planck temperature is about 1.417×1032 kelvin. Simple!
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Gorilla Salad posted:If banks here tried that poo poo, they'd probably lose every customer under 50 overnight. Close to a decade ago now, when banks started adding interest rates to checking accounts, I once saw an old man flip his poo poo because he couldn't comprehend that his checking account had a higher interest rate than his savings account. It was a full on 5 minute rant about how he was going to take his business elsewhere, before he stormed out.
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