Don't forget Toronto's crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford. Stephen Harper's government was extremely "conservative" (corrupt and anti-science).
I have lived in both Alberta and Quebec. The casual, open, and brutal racism against Native Americans in both provinces is disgusting and makes any anti-immigrant sentiments seem tame in comparison.
> In Ontario, if you're working you have to pay a health care tax that is similar to what an employee would pay at a Silicon Valley company.
You must be comparing California monthly costs to Ontario yearly costs. Maximum Ontario annual premiums are $900.[1] To get equivalent coverage (by equivalent, I mean in terms of insurance value - as in, I won't have a $15,000 copay if I get into a serious accident) from Kaiser in Southern California (the "silver" plan) is about $750 per month for me and my wife. If you are covered through your employer (we both freelance), you might be getting fooled into thinking you are paying less money because your paychecks show a smaller number as "deducted," but that is because the rest is paid by your employer and is still part of your compensation.
That must be it. I also trigger mu4e indexing using emacsclient, after IMAP sync. BTW you do not need to have mu4e open to index mail (and single-window mu4e mode will not have a * mu4e-main * buffer), it is enough to (progn (require 'mu4e) (mu4e-update-mail-and-index)).
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but calling "mu index" from the offlineimap postsynchook is going to suck, because mu4e invokes "mu server"[1], that aquires a Xapian lock on the index, which means you can't run the "mu index" while reading your E-Mail.
> This is the worst thing about mu/mu4e. You need to do the indexing with a timer in Emacs, and because Emacs is single-threaded this blocks things / slows down the UI. After trying to get it to work in some automated way I gave up. I manually issue a key-combo to re-index and then read my E-Mail.
I tried both approaches (actually, I had mu4e reindex on `g` query refresh, no need for separate keybindings), and prefer having indexing run after IMAP sync. I don't notice any problems (and I mostly use very slow Atom hardware).
> Another comment: I recommend not using Emacs to send E-Mail, but to outsource this to a local smtpd such as Exim (which I use with mu4e on Debian). Then if you don't have WiFi or whatever the smtpd just queues those up for later sending, and has queue inspection tools etc. All of the solutions for doing this in Emacs itself are dirty hacks full of edge cases and bugs smtpds have solved decades ago.
FUD. smtpmail.el can do this. smtpmail.el can queue mail, and you can run it in a separate Emacs process periodically or on demand, to attempt to deliver those emails. The emails are queued as files in a directory, so you don't need separate queue inspection tools. I run smtpmail.el this way with mu4e, and think it is a far superior solution to having to install and configure yet another external program.
I have lived in both Alberta and Quebec. The casual, open, and brutal racism against Native Americans in both provinces is disgusting and makes any anti-immigrant sentiments seem tame in comparison.