This is bullshit. The library in my small town is the only public place with a rainbow safe space sticker/flag and this would remove that. Leaving kids in danger.

Why the fuck do conservatives want to crawl into people's lives and control them so badly? Just fuck off already.

So at $15/hr a burger jockey can't afford to buy lunch at the workplace they are at.

FWIW I can't find anyone to work for any length of time for less than $22/hr. Retraining costs a fortune, and fuck ups even more.

Youth unemployment in Alberta is 14.9%, BC is 14.4%, so pretty comparable as well. I'm case anyone wants to quibble about apples and mangos.

This is so stupid.

You want your employees paid enough that they can buy your products and services. In order to have enough money to buy lunch at McDicks in Alberta you need to earn $24/hr to pay rent, utils, transport, groceries, clothing, and then have enough left over to burger it up.

Didn't the ATA present a well researched plan that would see the problem solved in 2-4 years?

The UCP does like spending our taxes on committees though... Have to pad the pockets and resumes of their bribers....err... funders.

You can also flavour things, make smells, small sounds, light or snuff fires, make a "small non magical trinket" that lasts until the next round. And have 3(!) instances of it running simultaneously.

It is critical for an smutmaster caster.

I am naming my next Lich in D&D Tamara.

Painted or blanks?

Out of curiosity (off topic):

Is it the same time that is the barrier, or do both individually pose a barrier as well?

Lots of folks are developing ideas that to have fun playing TTRPGs you have to be more skilled than is necessary. Sometimes it is just math rocks and snacks, and that is fun.

This is a prime example of how wealth distorts psychology, like how mass distorts space.

As Musk has grown in wealth he has grown in hubris and disconnect from reality. He now functions on the other side of an event horizon, his world view bends back on itself. He can't see out.

AI has the potential to revolutionize civilization and end the concept of labour scarcity, meaning humans would be freed from time & knowledge exchange for money. We could then pursue meaning, knowledge, wisdom...

Instead, AI is being used to take away meaning and chain humans to menial labour.

In Alberta they come with free tetanus because antivaxxers want to bring back the golden age of disease prior to WW1.

I react so poorly to both flu and COVID vaccines. Every time it is a 48 hour down with something.

I also get really hammered with anything in the RSV and influenza virus pool - like down for up to 6 weeks. Once I had the flu, RSV, and pneumonia back-to-back.

48 hours is less than 6 weeks. So...

For fun one day I calculated the total royalty revenue generated by the oil and gas sector in Alberta from its inception in the 1930's until 2022. Inflation corrected it is only $289 billion.

Orphaned and aging infrastructure has a $260 billion liability cost.

Carpet. Baggers.

Re-post due to an issue with my screenshot.

We don't have 51,000 teachers. We have 55,000 members of the ATA. (Source: 2024 ATA annual report)

Never bring logic to a policy fight.

I have been calling MLAs once a week, some, like Smith and Nicolaidas are so slammed they don't even go to voice mail.

This is what happens when you piss off 2.5 million people.

true story: a few years ago I needed imaging on my knee. The wait time I was given was 12-18 months. So I asked if I had other options, and the SAME COMPANY said pay $1200 and we can do it this week.

Hmm... sounds legit. This province.