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Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

DariusLikewise posted:

2019 election prediction: ndp lose official party status

I want a party that's socialist like the NDP should have been, but with a low-carbon focus. A Green Democratic Party, if you will. Ideally a collapse leads to a merger which would be great, so bring it on.

I also want a pony. Pony's more likely.

# ¿ May 21, 2019 19:11

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 02:03

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Jehde posted:

The CCF name is free now, or do we have to let it air out first?

You can get semen out of anything with a good enough steam cleaner.

# ¿ May 21, 2019 19:37

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

He had a crying fit once because the other kids insisted he would be president of the United States when he grew up, specifically because we ignored his explanation of what the disqualifying factors of him becoming American President were

Oh god he sounds like how nerdy I was as a kid, except the part where I grew up to be a socialist and also probably a functional human.

What elementary school, bvi?

# ¿ May 27, 2019 16:29

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Manitoba PCs really missing out on using the tagline "I got mad hits like I was Wab Kinew" IMHO.

Unless "aging rap fans" isn't as large a constituency in Manitoba as I'm thinking.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2019 20:26

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

DariusLikewise posted:

the "Executive Director of Issues Management" for the ucp government in alberta is doxxing activists on twitter now

Link? That's... not cool.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2019 02:13

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

mila kunis posted:

one does not simply walk into mordor

https://twitter.com/calgaryherald/status/1183435252569694212

https://twitter.com/Archaeologuy/status/1183429390866141184?s=19

Oh Christ the COMMENTS

# ¿ Oct 14, 2019 04:10

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Reality Sinner posted:

This won't be the first time Trudeau has been a minority

Stealing this line.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2019 03:45

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Living in Alberta is fun. My Facebook feed is full of people supporting separation because 'our schools have suffered with cuts under Trudeau.' Like uuuuuuhhhhhhh

# ¿ Oct 23, 2019 18:54

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Whoever posted about homeless camps a while ago, it's an issue all over the West. The shelters are hella violent here in Edmonton so anyone who's homeless and in their right mind camps. And rent is like $1100 for a passable 1 bedroom while Alberta Works pays only $323 for shelter (up to 623 with an 'additional shelter allowance' but you have to be in a place first so good luck with the damage deposit). So yes, the river valley is full of homeless people and their detritus.

Fried Watermelon posted:

How many weed edibles did you guys hand out this year? We only had 8 kids show up so we had a ton left over

I had 635 kids so the weed edibles would blow a hole in my budget. Enjoy the Coffee Crisp, kids!

# ¿ Nov 8, 2019 04:09

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

EvilJoven posted:

Winnipeg and Manitoba could definitely be better off but at least we're not tearing down windmills to own the libs

Not just cancelling contracts, actually tearing down hundred-metre windmills. loving hell.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2019 05:03

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

gently caress me and I thought the "minister of red tape reduction" in Alberta was cringey.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2019 21:05

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Drake is a child rapist

Did something else happen, or just the usual?

# ¿ Dec 5, 2019 20:34

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Virtual Russian posted:

Holy gently caress, Sobey's is lovely.

No PPE, no additional safety. No training, no limits on how many people are in the store. Literally had someone cough on me today.

The loving "Hero Pay" program is bullshit. You only get the $2 an hour raise once you go over 20 hours in a week, and it only applies on hours worked over the 20. Myself and others are scheduled 19.5 hours a week, and they are hiring new people and making people work cross department to not go over. People are howling mad, people talked about unionizing in the breakroom today, unprompted by me. People feel unsafe, and hosed over. They know this is all a publicity stunt to appear like they have the best covid pay program.

I've never seen my co-workers mobilized like this to do poo poo.

Also the full-timers are like half sympathetic, half FYGM.

My wife used to work for Sobey's in marketing and is completely unsurprised by this. gently caress them.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2020 15:04

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

CommonShore posted:

From what I've heard about docs and Alberta that number is probably low. Even if 42% is accurate, it will be skewing hard towards younger docs leaving, and the situation is even worse than that because basically no new grads are going there.

Yeah. If I didn't have things tying me down (like a family and a patient population) I'd be bailing for BC or Ontario in a heartbeat.

# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 17:02

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

albany academy posted:

Is it true that fhe gov is seriously considering asking people to pay back their cerb

Only if you weren't 'entitled' to it in the first place.

So many of my patients took CERB even though they were unemployed (and I can't blame them, they're homeless!). It's gonna come back to turbofuck them in the future when they're asked to pay it back, and of course have no money.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2020 16:38

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Another Bill posted:

https://twitter.com/SkeletorCapital/status/1288836061850996736

I like that the government is just resorting to ad hominems at this point lol

e: what is it with conservatives and calling people hypocrites anyways? It's like they all read Catcher in the Rye and decided Holden Caufield was the peak of intelligence and maturity

Yeah, keep attacking everyone who pulls out of the oil sands, that'll encourage more investment.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2020 18:42

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Virtual Russian posted:

Who is left in Alberta? Almost everyone I knew there has left in the last year. I used to live there, and had family there, and now I know a whole three people living there, only one of them wants to stay.

I'm still in Edmonton; as long as my clinic still has funding I feel I have a responsibility to be here, but every doctor I know has at least backup plans to bail somewhere else.

I did talk to a patient today who's moving to Kelowna because the economy's better out there. She does sex work. And when Edmonton becomes unprofitable for prostitutes you know things are bad.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2020 03:55

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Virtual Russian posted:

Keep doing you.

I'm primarily a sculptor, and that is bad sculpture. I even love a lot of minimalist sculpture, but that piece does nothing for me. It's some cheap knock-off of an Anish Kapoor piece, who is also not good imo. The business of public art is the worst. In fact, the business of art is the worst.

So, the problem with Edmonton's public art policy is that a number of years ago the city instituted a well-meaning but misguided policy to spend 1% of the budget of any public building or infrastructure project on art. While I'm not against the idea of beautification, especially in a city that has been historically as grey and depressing as Edmonton when it comes to architecture, in practice it's meant that a bureaucrat needs to figure out a way to spend a certain chunk of money on each project. In the case of Talus Dome, it had to be something expensive because the bridge it's beside cost like $60 million. Honestly, they'd have been better off reenacting The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid.

That said, there's public art that doesn't cost a bundle and actually serves to highlight local artists. There's a bunch of mural walls in particular in downtown and other scattered commercial districts that I'm pretty sure aren't costing 600K per.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2020 06:36

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Lassitude posted:

We're the only developed nation with national healthcare but not pharmacare. All these shitheads trying to explain why it can't work and etc. are expounding nothing but ideology. Significant numbers of older adults especially have to choose between taking their medication as prescribed, and other living expenses. Conservatives yet again advocating for people to literally continue to suffer/die needlessly to ensure the profits keep flowing.

This week I got a guy covered for Hep C treatment, which is about $40,000 for the course, through Blue Cross. However, since he's over 65, Senior's Blue Cross charges a $25 co-pay for any prescription. He doesn't have $25 to spare so he has to put off his treatment.

Like, round it the gently caress up to $40,025, guys.

(I'm trying to get the pharmacy to eat the cost somehow.)

# ¿ Sep 20, 2020 06:55

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Sassafras posted:

Probably not a line he wants to cross when it sounds like his entire(?) practise is very low income, vs the pharmacy typically having some markup on drugs, possibly rebates back from their supplier based on volume, and also routinely waiving "trivial" dollar amounts after processing claims through insurance.

Trivial is more typically pennies but sometimes a few bucks, 25 is pushing it a bit but hey, 40k. I dunno how mad the insurance company would possibly get in the unlikely case of catching it.

Between the pharmacy and maybe some donated funds to the clinic, we'll get the co-pay covered. This case highlights how ridiculous the rules for the co-pay are, however.

Both welfare and AISH expire when you hit 65, as you're covered by senior's blue cross. But suddenly you have to pay up to $25 per prescription - what if you're on 15 prescriptions? Many of which may be necessary to keep you alive? What if you can't manage your meds well, because you have cognitive issues, and it would be safer to dispense your meds weekly, but that would mean it's $25 per prescription per week instead of per 3 months? I frequently have to balance out patient safety versus patient cost issues when patients are over 65.

Fortunately my patient population doesn't trend old... unfortunately it's because the life expectancy in the neighbourhood in which I work is something like 42.

Pharmacare is health care, and this is the biggest gap in the Canada Health Act. I would love it if the NDP made national pharmacare the condition of their continued support of the Libs.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2020 16:38

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

I apologize in advance but I need to rant some place where nobody actually knows me. The Alberta government is vindictive as gently caress and so anything done in public blows back on my clinic (family/addictions medicine, YEG).

Today I saw a patient who doesn't have the 'rona but she does have a huge drat nasal tumour and her ENT surgeons are gonna have to peel her face off and reconstruct it using her forearm. And THEN she gets to have chemo. She's scared that her kids are going to grow up without a mom. I spent an hour with her and then I cried for the first time in a long while at work. And then I snapped at my staff, and yelled at my kid because he was a shithead (apologized for both), and now instead of spending time with my kids I'm spending my evening helping out (online) with our COVID isolation shelter. Doesn't help that I woke up today and coughed twice and had to do that horrible calculus between overcalling it and leaving my colleagues hanging, and undercalling it and potentially infecting someone.

The exhaustion comes because in addition to fighting the goddamn plague, I have to see my patients get railroaded off of AISH - seriously, the government just hosed over every AISH recipient so they could move one payment to the next fiscal! I know people who lost homes over this! - and I have to see my kids go through the pantomime lunacy of online schooling in an underresourced system, and I help manage a university that's on the verge of collapse because of an absolute hatchet job of a budget because my province put all our eggs in the non-renewable resources basket and WHOOPS turns out setting sludge on fire isn't a winning proposition anymore. I get to see the ruination of everything under education, post-secondary eductation, human services, AND healthcare. So my life would be a lot goddamn easier if my province wasn't run by a bunch of ideologue fuckwits.

This is the closest to full on burnout I've ever felt in my career, and I have tons of support and a fantastic bunch of colleagues. I also have red wine and escitalopram, so there's that.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2020 06:02

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

As it turns out the red wine really helped. Thanks, ethanol!

# ¿ Nov 18, 2020 18:18

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

I've lived in Alberta for decades longer than Jason Kenney. I was born in 'Berta a few months after Stephen Harper moved here from Ontario... so counting the time he's spent in Ottawa I've definitely been an Albertan longer than him. And yet somehow my values aren't representative of the "real Alberta." Bullshit.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2020 20:07

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Popoto posted:

I still wonder to this day if I shouldn't have taken the CERB despite being ineligible for not making enough the year before. So many did, and now we have the numbers to prove it. I just couldn't take the gamble of being hosed by the taxman in the coming years I'm poor as gently caress and in enough debt as it is. If there's one constant in the this universe, it's that poor people always, eventually, get the shaft. Unless the philosophy around capital changes in the next few years, I'm still sure that my poor friends that took the gamble might get hosed, one at a time, in silence, with a nasty government bill to pay back what they "owe".

That extra 2000$ I could have put aside would be extremely welcome right now. Sigh.

Pretty much every one of my homeless clients took CERB and I can't blame a one of them. I generally advised them not to because I don't want to see them get hosed in the future, but what's the future to someone who can't afford rent or food?

Institute UBI and claw it back at tax time if someone made too much; it's simpler, cheaper to monitor, and fairer than means-testing.

Cold on a Cob posted:

i had an acquaintance trying to encourage me to use my corporation to borrow 10k and just pay back the minimum later i.e. free 2.5k iirc. obvs i didn't do it because i'm not a bastard like that.

i'm sure there was a shitload of fraud with that program too.

hope cra goes after those fraudsters too but i don't expect they will since the banks were administrating that program

poo poo, my accountant tried to get me to do this. And this is the guy I switched to because my previous accountant kept trying to get me to take out life insurance on my kids because I could convert it into something something (and also MNP kept overcharging me).

I have a rule that if I, a reasonably intelligent financial layperson, cannot understand this financial trickery in less than 30 seconds, it's unnecessarily complicated and possibly unethical. I don't need the extra money and I certainly can't be hosed to do the extra paperwork. That's why I have an accountant! To reduce the amount of paperwork and stress in my life!

# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 17:22

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

enki42 posted:

I think the PPC is a good example of while there's a lot of regressive, reactionary thought in Canada, for whatever reason being anti-immigration isn't something that is super popular with the conservative base.

Unlike the US, our conservatives have in large part figured out that it's a good idea to appeal to immigrant communities. It doesn't always work*, but conservatives are notably more diverse here than in America. Even Alberta has South Asian, East Asian, Arabic, and West African cabinet members. Much as I disagree with conservatives, I can't deny it's much healthier to have a right-wing party that appeals to more than just reactionary whites.

*and sometimes you get some BS like Kenney blaming South Asian communities for COVID spread without accounting for their higher employment in public-facing jobs

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 17:18

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

I feel like I shouldn't have to explain to the Alberta government that homelessness is bad for your health, and do that every three months. And yet most of my notes for additional shelter allowance are still getting denied.

I am doing the best I can for my patient population and it isn't good enough.

Edit: literally wrote a note just now containing the line "I feel like I shouldn't have to explain to any sentient individual that homelessness is bad for one's mental and physical health, but here we are."

Albino Squirrel has issued a correction as of 20:41 on Dec 1, 2020

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 20:38

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

How the hell did she even get appointed as a senator, anyhow? Like, there's nothing in her CV that would indicate any talent or aptitude for senatoring. Yes, I know it's a sinecure, but she's a two-time failed candidate for MLA and a car dealer.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2020 04:59

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Powershift posted:

https://i.imgur.com/FfUdRPW.mp4

OK yes I KNOW HE'S EVIL AND BAD.

But! There's no shortage of conservatives with at least a nominal gloss of civic-mindedness. Like one of the people who was appointed with her was a lawyer who was on the board of the University of Calgary and past-president at the Banff Centre. That's the kind of resume that senators usually have, you know, the kind of conservative that will embrace the banality of evil and perpetuate the system but at least provide a smiling face and a veneer of competence. Appointing a bigoted ~~used~~ new car dealer from Dryden just isn't even loving trying to hide your contempt.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2020 06:13

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

RBC posted:

Honestly doctors are super over paid compared to nurses.

Truth. Society undervalues nurses, amongst many, many other necessary careers. I don't think it's entirely sexism at the moment, because more than half of new physician grads are female, but nurses generally work as hard as physicians for much less money and this is clearly unfair.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2020 23:46

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

https://twitter.com/LukaszukAB/status/1345181665421795330?s=20

Lukaszuk is a former PC cabinet minister and is reasonably well connected, so I can... believe that this may be true.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2021 03:41

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

ZeeBoi posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/cbcjanjohnston/status/1345198406604529664

ezra should get FireNixon.com as well

I keep conflating him with Jason Nixon, the minister of environmental affairs who keeps selling off parks. Turns out they're brothers and Jason (the chubby one with the beard) is possibly also in Hawaii.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2021 07:48

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

pokeyman posted:

dead horses would be a pr disaster, can you imagine

number of federal or provincial governments that survived a dead horse scandal: 0

Jason Nixon (currently Alberta's minister of environment and parks) would disagree:

https://twitter.com/BertaAdvantage/status/1219382990469361664?s=20

# ¿ Jan 19, 2021 06:21

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

vyelkin posted:

Governor-General Kiefer Sutherland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhB_3Jz0x_s

The hero we need.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 22:27

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Fashionable Jorts posted:

The few doctors and nurses here in Alberta who managed to get one aren't getting their second doses.

Yup, I got mine cancelled. They sent me a text with someone else's name first so good job on the info security, Alberta Health!

# ¿ Jan 26, 2021 05:02

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

N: https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1357328063470702595

V: 'berta.

(Also, there are no medical exemptions currently active in Alberta unless you are so impaired that you are physically unable to put on or remove a mask).

# ¿ Feb 5, 2021 23:02

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

CrcleSqreSanchz posted:

Got my second dose a few days ago. Hoo boy I got a hell of a fever for a day. My work partner got joint pain. So yeah, the second dose can be a doozy. But gently caress it. It's worth it.

I fell asleep at 8 pm after the second dose, but I was good to go for work next evening. No fever, but I think that may be attributable to tylenol.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2021 20:50

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

DariusLikewise posted:

the owner of the alberta vaccine company they are buying from is literally former alberta pc politician mike hughes

Ken Hughes, please. Fucker used to run Alberta Health Services so I guess was kind of my boss?

# ¿ Feb 19, 2021 06:26

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

A Russian troll farm posted:

Edmonton is no shittier than any other hellhole

You used to be able to travel to get out of it temporarily. Now... man...

# ¿ Mar 13, 2021 07:14

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Another Bill posted:

The cons are just the western rump oil and gas party now. Anyone who votes for them outside the prairies is an idiot worthy of contempt imo

Hey now, I'm in the prairies and I am FULL of contempt for the idiots who vote for the cons out here.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2021 18:27

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 02:03

Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

DariusLikewise posted:

https://twitter.com/justin_ling/status/1385276056760950798?s=21

Y'know, I googled "lesbian activity", and I, for one, was pleasantly surprised

# ¿ Apr 23, 2021 23:51

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