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Uninsured patient faces major hospital bills in Ontario after having legs amputated
  • Undocumented visitor, so I’m assuming no visa. Was working illegally and not paying taxes.

    Still received treatment instead of being deported. I feel that’s fair that he has to pay for the treatment.

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    (Help) Name of (sandbox?) game set on space? (Found: Starsector)
  • Yah, pretty huge updates indeed. I remember playing it for the first time like 10 years ago when it was only a top down shooter game. I picked it up again a couple years ago and the gameplay has expanded so much. It’s pretty much become a 4X game.

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    Emojiis are the hieroglyphs of our era.
  • Akshually, hieroglyphic writing have components that allow you to determine the pronunciation of symbols.

    Emojis do not (unless they are tagged with meanings in the metadata to allow for searching, but these are typically not visible). They are more like Chinese characters in which the meaning is encoded but pronunciation is not.

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    Problem with Mull and Duolingo
  • Sir, this is the internet. Morons will still complain about broken things in public forums even if you make them click through multiple dialogue boxes and popups with warnings in flashing text.

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    Medicinal drugs pollute the St. Lawrence River, presenting possible risk to aquatic organisms: Study
  • We already tax profits from pharmaceutical companies and invest in research into these exact things. Which sounds like exactly what you want? They’re even installing new waste treatment equipment to help solve the problem in Montreal.

    You make it sound like it’s trivial to invent new drugs that are more biodegradable to replace existing ones, but it really really isn’t.

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    Medicinal drugs pollute the St. Lawrence River, presenting possible risk to aquatic organisms: Study
  • Wtf are β€œbiodegradable meds”?

    It’s more like we need to spend money figuring out better ways to treat sewage to remove substances of concern. That includes medicine but also stuff like PFAS and microplastics.

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    Fewer Canadians working from home: StatCan
  • The summary misses that the baseline seems to be around 7.5% pre-pandemic. So we have almost 3x the number of people working from home now versus before.

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    Google's highest-revenue searches are about the iPhone
  • If you had RTFA, the top searches were for older iPhones. Also, this is about search queries with the highest revenues for Google and not about trending search queries among young people.

    But please continue your ranting about how young people and their priorities are messed up.

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