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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I mostly agree - however there are physical/mechanical reasons behind the use of some of those. For example, Phillips head screws will 'cam out' (driver will slip out of the screw head) rather than get over-torqued, which is useful in various situations - although TIL this was not actually an intentional design feature!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_out

Hex keys are better than a Robertson (square head) in tight spaces with something like an Allan key, and, in my experience anyway, Robertson can take a fair bit of torque, so they're great for sinking into softwood - and also for getting out again, even when they've been painted over.

Flathead screws, on the other hand, should launched into the sun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is horrible.

It would be reasonable to assume that the lack of LTC supply is at least partly because it's not profitable to have extra spaces you're not using.

That lack of supply makes it more likely that seniors would have to look at places further away.

Plus, the people profiting off LTC are folks like former Conservative Premier Mike Harris, who not only used to be chair of the board of Chartwell Retirement Residences, but has also owned millions of dollars in company shares (as of 2022, Harris no longer controls >10% of the company, so he doesn't have to file public disclosures of his holdings).

https://burlingtongazette.ca/its-time-that-we-take-the-words-private-and-profit-out-of-how-we-care-for-our-seniors/

While premier, Harris also pushed hard to privatize the industry that he would later benefit from.

This looks like another case of Ford making sure his buddies rake in as much money as possible, even if it causes human misery.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, Meta is listed as one of their partners

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Would be very interested to know if Meta (listed as a "partner" organization) is providing financial support, like how fellow partner the Ford Foundation lists a $50k grant[1] in February 2024 to the Exchange Point Institute, which is the "fiscal sponsor" of the Social Web Foundation[2]

[1] https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grants-database/exchange-point-institute-149412/

[2] https://socialwebfoundation.org/donate/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention that their napkin math is wrong by a factor of 12

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You may want to double-check that math ;)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Did no one in the replies happen to notice that this is a loan

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Corporations and surveillance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yep absolutely, and even those numbers likely represent raw emissions figures vastly lower than the true impact these data centres are having on global emissions.

For example, that Google report talks about EACs - here's a great podcast episode that explains why these kinds of accounting methods are a complete disaster:

Reveal: It's Not Easy Going Green

https://revealnews.org/podcast/its-not-easy-going-green-update-2023/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I would like to hear you say it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (6 children)

What's strange about defending people's freedom to be themselves?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Why not do both?

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