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Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Work Reform@lemmy.world•McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies
1·2 months agoI hate to ever agree with McDonald’s on anything, but…
Kempczinski also noted that in many states, sit-down restaurants are allowed to pay servers as little as $2.13 per hour, a federal minimum set in 1991, with tips making up the rest of their pay.
FFS. Burn the restaurant industry down if this is how they’re doing it.
Anyone who patronizes a place like that should know how workers are paid, and then not go there again.
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada's first fully automated greenhouse | CityNews
4·4 months agoPlease, just make the produce affordable. Automation is supposed to drive down costs, not give them an excuse to sell $8 lettuce.
Showroom7561@lemmy.catomicromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.world•After 6 days lost in the mountains, Oregon mountain biker wanders out, drives himself homeEnglish
0·4 months agoThe rider is Ralph Sawyer, a 52-year-old mountain biker who is said to be familiar with the area.
his car was located at a trailhead by his wife Marcy. His cell phone had accidentally been left inside.
Class-A adulterer 😂 “Honey, I swear I was just lost for the week.” j/k
I’m really surprised that someone who goes into remote areas to bike wouldn’t have a bike computer (with GPS) or a fitness tracker watch (also with GPS) or a location beacon (with GPS).
The search for him covered 250 miles (and they didn’t find him)… 🧐
This sounds suspicious 🤔
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump orders US attorney general to 'produce' more Epstein documents
9·4 months agoThis is like trying to get his tax returns… 😒
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Technology@programming.dev•uBlock Origin is forever disabled in Chrome. Why it happened and what to use insteadEnglish
0·4 months agoAdGuard has been around for a very long time.
Have there been any actual concerns come up involving their service, which run locally (unless you’re using their DNS)?
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Ontario@lemmy.ca•The entitlement of some Ontario drivers is absolutely astonishing. They are fully aware that you are breaking the law by going 15% over the speed limit. And yet they victimize themselves?
0·4 months agoFor sure. Don’t mistake what I wrote (my ideal) vs. my IRL advocacy (i.e. working with my municipality, region, and cycling advocacy groups to get safe road designs implemented).
I know I can’t change how people behave behind the wheel, any more than you can change American gun culture. The best we can do is design safer roads by design… those figurative guardrails… and encourage people to do better in the meantime.
We do still need automated enforcement, and more police enforcement, because people going excessive speeds or burning through red lights can, and do, kill other people. Plus, we need more revenue to build safer infrastructure 😀
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Ontario@lemmy.ca•The entitlement of some Ontario drivers is absolutely astonishing. They are fully aware that you are breaking the law by going 15% over the speed limit. And yet they victimize themselves?
0·4 months agoIt may be a matter of opinion, but if a driver doesn’t have the ability to drive safely (i.e. defensively, with concern for others, etc.) without the use of the guardrails (no pun intended), then they really shouldn’t be driving.
Driving is a skill. If it requires “hacks” or mind games, then we’re doing something terribly wrong.
Some countries that have implemented safe street design also have drivers who know their place on the road.
Safe street design won’t have the same effect in countries where drivers feel entitled and for which their behaviour has no consequences.
For example, we have stop signs and red lights. Everybody who drives should know what they mean.
But we have the majority of drivers rolling through stop signs, and quite a few ignoring red lights. You can’t really design this stupidity out. Roundabouts are not an answer when the attitude of entitlement still exists. We are just shifting the bad behaviours to another part of the road.
And in particular Ontario, where our government would rather build wider roads with fewer safety implements, makes this challenge even more difficult. Drivers need to change their behaviour, and need to, well before we make the roads “safe by design”.
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Ontario@lemmy.ca•The entitlement of some Ontario drivers is absolutely astonishing. They are fully aware that you are breaking the law by going 15% over the speed limit. And yet they victimize themselves?
0·4 months agoIf they drive safer because they don’t want to scratch the paint on their car or because the feel some kind of communion with others, what difference does it make?
Maybe I didn’t get my point across clearly. People may be worried about the paint on their cars, but that doesn’t mean they are worried about the safety of others.
Of course, driving slower is still driving slower, to the benefit might still be there.
However…
If someone chooses to only drive “safely” because their car would get scratched, rather than drive safely because it could kill a child, that person should be taken off the road. It’s unbelievable that drivers shouldn’t be expected to drive with the safety of other human beings (and animals) in mind.
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Ontario@lemmy.ca•The entitlement of some Ontario drivers is absolutely astonishing. They are fully aware that you are breaking the law by going 15% over the speed limit. And yet they victimize themselves?
0·4 months agoThe studies really show that narrow roads make drivers slow down, while wider roads have them increasing their speed.
Because they are uncomfortable or comfortable depending on the road design, not because they want to drive safer. They don’t want to hit a plastic bollard, but have no problem driving millimetres away from cyclists, for example. 😱
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Ontario@lemmy.ca•The entitlement of some Ontario drivers is absolutely astonishing. They are fully aware that you are breaking the law by going 15% over the speed limit. And yet they victimize themselves?
0·4 months agoI’m actually sympathetic to these folks, because there’s a bunch of studies that show that people drive the speed that feels safe.
Problem: Driving faster doesn’t make anyone safer, so that’s not true. Studies usually show that people drive at what “feels comfortable” for the design of the road, which is vastly different from what’s safe.
I’ve been driving for decades and never felt compelled to drive at excess speeds of what’s posted. I’ve certainly never had the urge to go 90km/h in a 40km/h or 100km/h in a 60km/h zone.
If people are unfit to drive at the posted speed limits, they should consider taking other forms of transportation.
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Ontario@lemmy.ca•The entitlement of some Ontario drivers is absolutely astonishing. They are fully aware that you are breaking the law by going 15% over the speed limit. And yet they victimize themselves?
0·4 months agoHitting someone at 60km/h vs 50km/h could mean the difference between whether they survive or not. This person should not be driving.
Showroom7561@lemmy.caOPto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Anyone use Hetzner Storage Box to backup their Synology NAS?English
1·4 months agoIt’s one of the view cloud storage options that have an official tutorial to get it working: https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/synology-hyperbackup-to-storagebox
Some other options I’ve come across don’t support webdav, rsync, or anything else that might make life easier. LOL
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Travelers to the US must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee'
221·4 months agoI’ll believe it when I see it.
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Travelers to the US must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee'
53·4 months agoWorld Cup or not, travel to the US needs to be boycott. If they could afford tickets to such an expensive venue, they can afford to cancel those tickets. This is a country at war with the world. Stop fucking supporting them!
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada finally reveals the results of its universal basic income experiment
21·4 months agoWe shouldn’t cap income, but total wealth. That would include stocks, assets, etc.
People should be free to make money, and if making was balanced, then taxes would apply to everyone fairly.
To reiterate, nobody should be worth a trillion, or even a billion.
What about property - if the market skyrockets, are people forced to sell their homes?
The cap wouldn’t be so low that this would become an issue. Unless you’ve hoarded multiple homes worth tens of millions each… a cap would discourage that type of hoarding, too.
What about things like the wealthy transferring their extra wealth to children or spouses? How does that play into it?
Family wealth would be capped, just as we are often taxed or given social assistance for total family income/assets.
If wealth was capped, then even if a family spread around the wealth, it wouldn’t be hoarding to the tune of hundreds of billions.
Really, we could have solutions to every scenario. But the fact is, our current system isn’t working at all. It’s perhaps the worst system you could dream up, unless you were among the top wealth hoarders in the world.
But a fair and balanced system would still have “rich” people, they just won’t be rich enough to influence elections, control social media, or monopolize any industrial sector.
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•E-scooter injuries on the rise across Canada, data shows
31·4 months agoTo play devil’s advocate:
Do you have a clothes dryer in your home? A stove/oven, rice cooker, air frier, oil fryer, etc?
Those cause more house fires than anything else. E-scooter house fires are extremely rare, and usually only as a result of using non-certified batteries and chargers.
It’s almost unheard of to have a UL certified e-scooter or ebike catch fire.
Showroom7561@lemmy.catomicromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.world•One of the biggest direct-to-consumer bike brands just filed for insolvency — here’s what we knowEnglish
0·4 months agoCanyon is super well known.
I wonder if I’ve never heard of YT due to the type of bikes they sell? I’m assuming it’s all mountain bikes?
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada finally reveals the results of its universal basic income experiment
71·4 months agoCheated, stolen it, and had other people break their bodies to “earn” it.
We’re about to see trillionaires in our lifetime, which is obscene. Cap wealth so the hoarding can stop.
Showroom7561@lemmy.cato
Buy Canadian@lemmy.ca•What are some good recommendations on Canadian pasta sauce?
6·4 months agoFarm boy has their own brand of “Prepared in Canada” pasta sauces: https://www.farmboy.ca/canada-products/#mobile-canada-chart
Primo sauces are apparently made in Toronto (they are also a Canadian company). Easily available, but nothing like the sauce my parents make every year 😁














CP Gear might be worth exploring. Although I don’t see anything specific to what GoRuck offers in the context you’re looking for, they may be able to offer something or custom make a product for you.
They’re based out of NB: https://cpgear.com/