family farms are a tiny part of the ag industry. In the US it was under 10%. The image of a pastoral low-intensity 19th century family farm has been drilled into peoples’ minds by food industry advertising for 100 years. People like that image but it’s not real.

Ag is big business. Loans and leases for land, equipment, inputs, most of the labour isn’t from the business operator.

There’s probably under 10k family farms in Canada that would be impacted by a transfer to family and they can easily be exempted, it’s chump change for tax revenue.

link goes to article about biodegradable micro beads

“cures” involving immunosuppression have been around for a long time. It’s not a good outcome for most, the side effects of immunosuppression are worse than taking insulin.

The main patient discussed uses immunosuppression but later in the article they discuss some progress that doesn’t involve halting the immune system. That’s the potential breakthrough.

looks like pseudoscience bullshit to me.

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iBRICS now.

the NDP isn’t putting any sort of socialist reform on the table. They aren’t talking about redistribution and optimising the economy for continuing prosperity with redistribution and environmental sustainability. They don’t organize well and treat volunteers poorly. They let Trudeau scoop their long held positions on social justice while Mulcair wanted to talk about balanced budgets. Singh has done little to reform the party. Otherwise…great job on squeezing a few concessions out of the LPC. Even if they stick, they’ll be under permanent attack until they’re in as bad shape as the rest of Canada’s antiquated social programs.

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Whoopsie, sorry about your chromosome arms breaking off, while we were trying to cure your mild genetic disease. Hey, did you always glow blue? Don’t you bark at me! Get back! Aiiiiiiii bones crunching

Ubuntu 16? OK…

the increases they’re asking for probably don’t make up for the high inflation in the recent past. Particularly if inflation, as measured for consumers at that income level, doesn’t stay at 2% or less for the next 4 years.

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Grandpa! I still have his pantaloons.

I don’t really mind more frequent elections. If anything, the govt needs a shorter leash and more accountability. The population should be able to remove a bad govt almost instantly, say in 30 days, not in 3.5 years. Regardless of their success in the previous election.

I’d be even more insistent on a low bar for recalls if the electoral contest was truly fair, ie the advantages of the wealthy in influencing outcomes were entirely removed. That seems very far away. The problems in the contest really seem to obscure the problems with choices of election systems like FPTP vs PR etc.

now do US and Chinese oil companies…

this poll was way off… 10% high for NDP… 6% low for SP…

Good to keep in mind whenever you see polls. They’re garbage.

The NSA has many kinks. Watching people watch porn, precious bodily fluids/anti-flouride porn, that kind of thing. Good for them.

the NSA or other intelligence org invented it and provides ongoing funding to collect an enormous library of SHA256 hashes to aid in reducing the decryption space of SHA256 so they can watch people watching porn.

part of the idea is that clicking every ad presented destroys the ad system’s ability to do meaningful targetting. I’m happy about that. Without the data collection and analysis performed by Google, Amazon, and Meta, advertising through them is less attractive to advertisors.

Most of the advertisors are lying garbage too. I have no sympathy for them.