Between this community and the actual Onion I get pretty much the gist of current events, yeah. If some topic or other piques my interest from here, I'll chase it down. The Onion and its opposite tend to give me enough of the context I need to figure out what's important enough to pursue vs the vast majority of quasi-satire hitting "normal" news cycles over a given week.
It's like a hyper-curated way to get my news, as if handpicked for me by a space clown. And I like it that way.
Thanks yeah I figured. I'm not being very scientific about it yet but for instance none of my laptops discharge that much if I shut the lid and walk away for a couple days, but then again they're bigger cells.
Lots of people saw this coming and the vast majority of people didn't want to acknowledge it. I don't know what else to say.
I understand that. However logging is taking out fir forests and replanting with pine and spruce. I hazard a guess that if the biomass were left alone less issues would occur given those primary forests have thrived for a very long time on their own.
In my early twenties I was looking for a field of work that was semi environmentally friendly. I had grown up in southern Alberta where it's all factory farming, mono culture crops, and O&G. For a minute (as a prairie kid) I thought tree planting might be a good way. Basic research even back then showed me that young women who expect to get pregnant within the next fifteen years should not be handling seedlings because the fungicides and pesticides dusted on the root balls are so toxic. Then there's the GMO monoculture of the species of trees they're replanting with.
End of the day I didn't feel like contributing to the next wave of suburb and luxury condo developments. Rednecks always like to say "they grow back" when we talk about protecting old growth forests and it's obvious that trees (individually) can be grown on a given plot of land (like wheat in a season on the plains)... But the conversation ends when we talk about how it takes millennia to grow the type of environmental diversity primal forests have established.
Oh no! Pine Beatles and drought and other things are affecting our crop of trees! Who could've predicted such a thing!?? Bailout please.
In Arizona and New Mexico if someone loses consciousness and hits the pavement awhile they get life threatening burns. It's crazy.
I met an old drunk outside of Phoenix many years ago who passed out on top of a fire ant colony for a few hours and woke up covered head to toe in attacking angry ants. It's an inhospitable place!
Who's even still on Twitter at this point besides racists and transphobes and companies who have no tech department to help them divest to a better platform?
Shopify laid off a couple thousand people, then "chaos monkey'd" the entire company just over a year ago, and forced everyone to open an FB Workplace acct as though it was going to boost productivity somehow having us split our comms between slack (which already sucks) that we've been using for years and some half assed afterthought Zuck's team came up with (at least the public facing piece) leading into their own layoff waves.
I left Shopify happily and voluntarily and I'm not gonna pour one out for FB Workplace, at all. Good riddance to bad garbage.
Oh you mean Katrine Conroy who was environment minister while Fairy Creek protests were going strong because Horgan was literally shilling old growth in his own riding that he got elected to protect, and she and her team stopped answering emails and locked down all their socials?
She's not enjoying her time in finance enough to do that either?
Anyways. Good luck then.
Worked at Shopify for over two years and left voluntarily ahead of wave three of mass layoffs. Watched dozens of great people get shafted for cost-cutting. And I am still close with someone who trains our overseas replacements. To be clear, I have zero bones to pick with our peers working overseas, they're also great people. What I have a problem with is Shopify's explosive growth over lockdowns necessitating over-hiring (in their words) and meanwhile the user base nearly tripled over the same period.
They didn't lay people off because the workload eased up. They did it because they reached peak inflection enshittify status. They trimmed thousands of locals, contracted out for pennies on the dollar, and wall street and the enterprise clients now know they're willing to spill blood to thrive. Shopify is now part of the tech cool kids club.
It's not even ironic that they don't want to chip in for the Canadian tax base. They don't need Canada anymore. They're only staying here on paper because our legal system is more forgiving than almost anywhere else. They're laughing, heartily.
Colonizers gonna colonize, till they destroy the place.
Bluetooth is disabled, as is the Wi-Fi antenna. Which I always do with any devices I turn things off that I don't need.