Keep going. Every failed attempt makes him look like poor leadership material. Not that his words and actions make him out to be good or anything, but still. 😂

Mosquitos have entered the chat.

But really, pollinating insects have been extremely rare this past year. It’s alarming, and nobody seems to care.

It was about blackface, which you know very well. No-one has ever been offended by “whiteface”, because of what fucking happened in history.

Not all white people share the same history, man. If you think that any white person is the same as every white person, then you’re being a real racist.

Nazis brutalized my family, so fuck you for thinking I would ever be ok with som “white lives matter” cunts. You are an asshole.

My dude, I hate racists.

I also have a sense of humour, so stuff like comedy and costumes aren’t places where I tend to judge people. If I did, I’d think that most black and brown comedians were racist, and that most white ones were pedophiles or rapists. But I don’t.

My comment was in response to the question about people using <insert colour> face during that time, and it seemed to be more common than some of us can remember.

I don’t know anything about the guy in question, and it seems silly to judge him based on a basketball player costume he wore on Halloween almost 20 years go. We should use some common sense here.

Well, just a few years earlier than this guy’s black face, a movie called White Chicks came out… two black dudes playing white face in an entire Hollywood movie (coincidently, filmed in B.C).

I don’t ever recall outrage over it, though.

That said, I guess we’re lucky that our politicians are only playing black face during costume parties, rather than wearing white hoods during regular business hours! LOL

Citing increasing gridlock and little room for highway expansion

MOFO, you’ll do anything but what works for every other place on earth that has this figured out, eh?

And the irony that this Conservative government is trying to reduce bike lanes while also complaining about car traffic is just the type of stupidity you can’t make up!

I was under the impression software engineering, despite the layoffs, was still a pretty liquid market.

I went to pick up an order at Walmart not too long ago (months), and the guy who brought it out was chatting me up. Apparently, he’s a software engineer, but could only find work at Walmart.

These are grim times.

I’m of the opinion that if a roof can’t support a few extra hundred pounds, the entire house is compromised.

Wet snow can add thousands of pounds of weight to a roof, so a solar panel (which can actually deflect a lot of heavy snow), really should be no problem at all.

That said, it’s incredibly disappointing that home insurance companies are causing difficulties for people who want to adopt greener tech.

Funny thing is, CAA (the company mentioned in the article) will insure e-bikes without any issues (a fire risk in any home), but state that the risks of these solar panels would be problematic? I think they’re just picking and choosing what they want to cover, without any evidence supporting their position.

Yes, but I’m sure there’s some tax benefit to calling it a food bank. #RecordProfits

How about the fact that more people can get dental care? Or that daycare is affordable for more families?

Don’t let an algorithm undermine actual good things that have been happening.

Is it a coincidence that a guide to identifying Nazis was right below this post? LOL

But who is targeting the lack of pension for many ordinary Canadians?

I understand the optimisation. The hospitals must be happy, but if I were a nurse (or doctor), this would make me nervous.

Any good healthcare professional would still want to look over the results, even if an obvious flag wasn’t raised.

To me, it’s just good practice (as a patient).

Or maybe they still do, and this system is simply a reducency safety check.

I think it can be useful in predicting a diagnosis months/years before a doctor would be able to, since it can analyze data and look for patterns across millions of cases. This would be especially useful in rare diseases, or even something like dementia.

But using it to tell a nurse or doctor that their patient’s white blood counts are “really, really high” after being bitten by an animal is borderline insulting to healthcare professionals.

but a tool that takes away the toil of monitoring

Ok, so Lifelabs posts patient lab results online for them to see. They CLEARLY mark “high” and “low” for items that are out of range (of the norm).

A nurse would quite literally crosscheck 50 blood markers in a matter of seconds, without the need for expensive AI or at a risk of them losing their job/qualifications.

In this specific case, the fever + high WBC would be more than enough for a nurse to know that something was up. It makes me think that adding AI just adds another step.

I’m not saying that the application of AI to detect abnormalities is wasteful, but I do think it’s unnecessary and possibly a negative in the context of basic lab work.

That warning showed the patient’s white blood cell count was “really, really high,” recalled Bell, the clinical nurse educator for the hospital’s general medicine program.

I’m not a doctor, but even an idiot would know when a WBC is “really, really high” and assume infection. I mean, shit, "suffering from a cat bite and a fever, but otherwise appeared fine "… um, a cat bite AND A FEVER… red flag!

“It’s not replacing the nurse at the bedside; it’s actually enhancing your nursing care.”

I would argue that this would make nurses less important, and would make them “lazy” by not giving them opportunities to identify these simple things on a regular basis.

Would a nurse who doesn’t know what a very high WBC entails be paid less? I would think so.

I can see AI/machine learning used in very complex cases where a human HCP would simply not have the number-crunching capability to find a diagnosis, but this was not that case.

Are you saying that to diminish her crime, or to highlight the violations against her by the guards?

Both are still separate issues and should be treated as such.

100%. But this should be completely separate from the fact that she still murdered another human being (by stabbing him to death in a group swarming) and didn’t get nearly enough for the justice system to show that it values human lives.

This malfeasance should punish the guard(s), not reward a murderer.

Make no mistake. I understand exactly the game they are playing.

I would NOT sign a petition like this, even if I agree with most of it.

Because I completely understand that the true motive is to remove flags that support marginalised groups in our country.

But you are correct that they idea of including reasonable points, is exactly to attract reasonable people or to legitimise the rest of it.

our police barracades have the names of banks on them. Its advertising revenue, but to me it looks like “the police are brought to you by…”

Oh god. Like a sports team? LOL