You know what... I hated the iPhone since the 3G when an update made it so slow to be unusable. Android all the way since. But then I got tired of having to install third party ROMs that vary a lot in quality, crash often, aren't updated anymore... So I bought a used 6S for 150$. Absolutely no regrets. It just works. It's not slow even on the latest iOS. It'll be hard to make me switch back to Android again. Maybe worth considering?
There probably is, but the police has better things to do than enforce traffic laws in Toronto (Ontario?) apparently.
Really, the joke goes that if you want to kill someone in Ontario then do it while driving your car. It's even better if your victim is on a bike. Then you get a 500$ fine and back at the wheel. "Woops, didn't see them" is a valid defense, no matter the circumstances.
The story goes that urban Toronto didn't vote for Ford, but the suburbs and the rest of the province is who he was targeting and they really responded to his populist platform. And there are enough people not living in Toronto DT to win him the election.
It is apparently not illegal in Ontario to put these very, very dark plastic covers over your plates either, making them so dark that they're barely legible unless you have your nose on that car. Including the (now) old design.
Really, all you can see is a dark, smoked, grey rectangle where the plate is. I'm amazed this is legal.
Chicago > LA flights look like they take 5h (time on the plane.) Add the time to go through the security theater, transfers from and to the airport, and you're not that far off from how long it would take by train.
I'm not even considering the delays because of weather, technical, etc.
Trains don't have as much potential for being delayed (train schedules have a lot less variance because the track is pretty much fixed and the timetables too), and they take you right from the city center to the destination's city center.
Comfort doesn't compare either, you don't have to pay extra so you can actually sit down like a human being and retain your dignity.
And if the trains were electric instead of diesel like they are in the US, I wouldn't be surprised if it was also cheaper than flying.
As a counterexample to China, Switzerland has an amazing rail network. Trains going from anywhere to anywhere, comfortably, reliably, quickly, and multiple times a day. And yet, the country is very mountainous, and has lots and lots of smaller cities.
Where I live, it's already the case. Many of my coworkers choose to live further away from the office because the taxes and rent are lower there. It takes me 8 minutes to bike to work but I pay more in taxes and rent. They choose to live an hour away each way to save on these (but pay to own a car, gas, and erode their health sitting in a car)
Really... Apple makes huge margins, and they can't afford to pay for the time they require their employees to work?
Also, the fact that this is even possible is a very good example why the US needs more unions. It obviously doesn't work with the current model where employees (of any industry) gets screwed over by the corporate overlords. But no, union BAD!! I don't see a better way to bring weight to the table and force employers to do the right thing, they certainly won't do it of their own accord.
> Almonds are also terrible for the environment, vis a vis water conservation, given what it takes to grow them.
From the article:
> Even almond milk, a notorious water-hogger, takes less water to produce than dairy – needing on average 371 litres of water per litre of milk produced, compared to dairy milk’s 628 litres. Rice milk follows shortly behind, needing 270 litres of water per litre of milk. Soy and oat, on the other hand, need just 28 and 48 respectively.
My friend works at a company in the city we live in. People working in that particular office live in nearby towns or even two countries over (EU).
Well, this amazing company requires everyone to be physically present in the office every day. So, the people living two countries over fly in every Sunday night in a second apartment they're renting here and leave on Friday afternoon, flying back home for the weekend. Every. Week.
The math works for said employees because they are earning a very high CoL salary (they're local employees, of where the office is) but they live in very low CoL countries, so in fine they get paid multiples what they would holding a job local to them.
And here I am having qualms about flying once or twice a year on vacation... This kind of things really makes me think we're completely fucked and we'll cook ourselves to our death. Very tempting to be like them and say "fuck it, I'll do whatever is convenient, pollution and the rest of you be damned. Why shouldn't I?"
The virus laughs at these masks. It won't stop any virus. It only helps for people who are already sick and sprinkling cough droplets full of virus to others, but it does nothing for protecting the wearer from infection.
Isn't it that when you combine two extremely low prevalence phenomenons together, you can't really make any accurate predictions because the numbers are so low that the error margin is too high? I might be wrong, but I seem to remember something to that effect. Could it be what's at play here?