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What could have solved this was less regulation. Then we'd have another 50 competing pipelines ready to fill the demand!

Agreed.

I literally woke up at 7:18am yesterday and said "oh shit, I gotta be at work in two minutes." And then I was, because I just need to put on PJs and wake up my laptop.

True, it's a different comparison, but having 80% with one dose is far better than 40 or 50% with two doses.

Lol

In political news, it looks like people are becoming more optimistic as vaccination ramps up. And this is helping the Liberals:

Agreed. Though I understand the optics of escorting people (with police) to quarantine hotels, it really should have been done. I don't believe that it would have a huge effect on spread (spread has been community based for over a year), but it would have helped.

Canada's supply is enough to get all 18+ a second dose by the end of July: Saskatchewan's schedule further cements this. Anyone who wants one will have their second dose by the end of July. Hopefully that's 80%+ of the pop: Saskatchewan rolls out plans for second doses, teen vaccinations WWW.CJME.COM Saskatchewan is preparing for Round 2 of its vaccination fight against COVID-19. On Thursday, the provincial g...

To allow people in those age ranges to book times. It's still going to take until mid-June to get everyone their first dose.

Good shit: Everyone in my province can get their first shot by May 20. All second shots will be done by mid-July. As a whole, Canada is now doing very well, and should match the US for one-dose administration in mid-summer, and then second doses by late summer (if not earlier). Hopefully our low hesitancy will keep up, and we'll get to 80%+.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2021/05/05/think-twice-before-you-whip-out-your-phone-and-record-a-cop-in-florida-you-could-be-arrested/ EDIT - For some reason the site is not auto-embedding.

$100 tax credit on the second 100 gigawatts generated.

How about when Luke says "see you around, kid," and then never does. IX would have been amazing if Luke had haunted Ben.

Those are the Chmmr from Star Control 2. They were a merger of sentient machine life (Mmrnmhrm) and silicon-based life (Chenjesu).

The sooner we go extinct, the better!* Especially before we invent uploading our consciousness into machines. *from an anti-natalist point of view. Being born is an affront to agency and freedom of choice.

American factories are desperate for workers. It's a $1 trillion problem - CNN AMP.CNN.COM Demand for goods is skyrocketing as the US economy reopens from the pandemic. But there's a big problem: American factories can't find enough people to do the work. Part of it is wages, the other is the lack of specific skilled workers (which of course could be solved by higher wages to draw people into the trade).

It's unfortunate that India has an incredibly corrupt and inept government.

Ouch, but it makes sense. Here, EI is a national system, and employees and employers both pay into it on paycheques. I don't think it will go up, but that's likely because the government is just taking on general national debt to cover the current EI claims. I think Canada did the better initial job on getting payments out to people with CERB (since it's easier for a single, national government to pivot on social issues, and all you had to do was literally click a box online to get it), but I think the US has done a better job overall, looking back, since it also gave out those bonus cheques and top-ups. I wish Canada had done the same. However, it's great that in both cases income equality seems to have shrunken during the pandemic due to aid to working people. I really hope that keeps up in both cases.

When I was buying my house this year, I looked into the differences between Canada and America's housing markets...and it's wild. For something you'd think would be so similar, the balances are all out of whack. For instance, in Canada our property taxes (apparently) tend to be much lower, as well as our mortgage rates (I got 1.59% fixed, in March). However, the base price of homes is much higher, as well as sales and income taxes. In the end people pay roughly the same in Canada and the US when you combine all taxes, but the way they are all collected is quite a different balance. Part of that likely comes down to differences in how our federalisms are balanced between state/province and federal government, part is just weight of history. I think a result of this is that local (as in municipal/county) governments in the US tend to be much stronger, while in Canada more power ends up residing in provincial/federal governments. This could also have to do with Canada's greater pop density in fewer urban areas relative to the US. Our "counties" (called Rural Municipalities or Counties, depending on the province) tend to be much weaker and play smaller roles in our lives. It's really interesting comparing differences between the two countries that are arguably closest (in terms of most things) in the western world.