Demeter

Crop and people watcher.

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

@user27473765 @preta_6 Actually, Italy would be a good choice (they offer a special program for retirees willing to live in certain regions). Cost of living is much lower, and culture is fantastic. It's doable, though not for everyone.

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

@cselley You don't really notice how bad things are until you move to a tiny Caribbean island where everything has to be shipped in at great expense and chicken is still cheaper than in Canada 🤔

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

There was a similar event in that area in the mid or late 80s, where it rained over 100 mm in a matter of an hour. My dad went driving to check the damage in the fields and he said it looked like the polder area of Holland.....but we still got a decent harvest that year, so maybe not all is lost.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Please consider getting a library card, even if you don’t use it much. Cities look at those numbers, and they help keep libraries open, funded properly, and safe from budget cuts.

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

@hsiemens How much of that is in Manitoba, do you know?

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

Called @Bell to upgrade my Mobility plan from the $35 plan to the $85 Ultra Plan. I was told as a loyal customer I would have to pay $105. The advertised $85 rate is only available to new customers. How does this make any sense?

[John Mauldin @JohnFMauldin]

Seems more pertinent to today more than in 1941. CS Lewis had great insights into human nature. And a marvelous talent for writing and storytelling.

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

Or people just feel it instinctively. I might not have known how to harness a horse, but I learnt other skills. In that way, my grandfather and I were the same, we both learnt skills appropriate to our era. We took an active part (or at least we considered ourselves to be active participants).

The message now is that you don't need to learn any skills, just sit back and the AI will do it all for you. This may be viewed as positive by some (and perhaps it is), but for many this is a very depressing state of affairs, because it robs them of what (until now) was considered part of being human. That's the disconnect or threat, if you will.

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

@Boldyboy1975 If you think German shepherds need a lot of stimulation, discipline and exercise....Malinois are at a completely different level. They are extremely task-oriented and very high strung - good for police work but not necessarily as pets, unless you are willing to do a LOT of work.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Climate alarmism disappeared the moment companies needed data centers.

Yeah, we noticed.

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

@bears_aware I have lived in Canada for most of my life, and never saw the need for a "No Soliciting" sign on my door. Until last year. I also don't understand the companies that hire aggressive sales people - do they really think they can harass people into buying whatever they are selling?

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

@p2p_alex If I may add another positive: less waste. In a large supermarket, it looks bad when there is no product, so the shelves always need to be full. The local butcher only tries to stock what they can sell (because waste hurts their bottom line much more).

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

@terrynewman Didn't one of them do just that a few days ago - Conservative MP from Sarnia, I believe?

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

It wasn't always like this. When you read style manuals of the 1920s, you would be struck by the difference in attitude. Girls and women dressed differently, and being a a 'mature' woman was something a girl could aspire to. What women lost in sexual attractiveness (a fact of life), they gained in societal respect. That respect has disappeared - you are either young and sexy or you are nothing and/or invisible. Don't be so hard on today's older women, it's tough navigating this phase of life.

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

Game theory also explains the crisis of entrepreneurship in Canada.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Game theory explains why working harder inside a broken system is the worst response to that system. Because a system is never truly broken. It's just producing exactly the outcomes its own incentive structures were designed to produce, whether intentional or not. Working harder inside this system increases your output in the payoff matrix, but it simply won't change the actual structure of the system's matrix. Thus, the correct response is not more effort. Instead, you must aim to identify whose interests the current structure serves and position yourself in favor of those interests rather than against them. Change the game, or play the game that is actually being played. Either way, you must stop optimizing for the game you wish it to be and start acting realistically.

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

@rastokke The irony of not requiring new teachers to have subject matter knowledge is that they will be that much easier to replace with AI tutors.

[Paul Weston @PWestoff]

Paul Weston: "The eastern half of Europe that suffered real communism is now preserving Western civilisation, while the western half that believed itself free has succumbed to Marxist subversion and is sleepwalking toward confrontation or collapse."

[Demeter @Lexikonin]

The outfits are amazing, but what struck me even more, in some ways, is the intentional use of mature models, which is much closer to what you would have seen in the fashion magazines in those days, when to be a mature and beautiful woman was something to aspire to. More than fashion has changed in the meantime, sadly.