herid @herid@social.cleverlibre.org

In another Ford fail, the #Ontario Cons this week patted themselves on the back for their “historic” deal with the province’s optometrists. If one only read the headline of the press release, which I expect is the most his supporters can read anyway, one would think this is good news after Ford spent years fighting against eye doctors and our eye #health.

As always, the devil is in the details. The new arrangement is in fact a significant cut in #OHIP-covered service.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2023/03/24/ford-government-cutting-back-ohip-covered-eye-services-for-some-seniors.html

We won’t act on climate change until our own comfortable lives are threatened — and that day is coming

https://www.independent.ie/news/environment/we-wont-act-on-climate-change-until-our-own-comfortable-lives-are-threatened-and-that-day-is-coming-42404197.html

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate

#Toronto voices

Monthly cost of TTC Pass: $156
Monthly cost of a street parking permit $55-$77

"It’s time to look at the TTC as a vital service like roads, education, and health care. Not a nice-to-have service. And for the simple fact that there isn’t enough space to drive and park all the cars if everyone in the city drove"

#VoteTO #transit #priorites
@howsenchong

"What I do take issue with is Treasury/Fed/FDIC's claim that 'no losses will be borne by the taxpayer' as they make uninsured depositors whole. Not to put too fine a point on it, that's bullshit." https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/12/unlimited-deposit-insurance/index.html

"More importantly, based on excess mortality calculations there’s mounting evidence that the #COVID19 pandemic has taken a massive toll on global life expectancy. Not since the famine in China in 1959, have we seen such a sharp decline in life expectancy worldwide." #CovidIsNotOver

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2023/03/02/covid-19s-enormous-death-toll-worldwide-life-expectancy-has-experienced-a-steep-decline/?sh=6473d5f874df

If you downloaded and paid for and enjoyed Tweetbot or Twitterrific read this post from @gruber and do what I feel is the right thing…

https://daringfireball.net

The right answer is to decline any sort of prorated refund. @tapbots and @Iconfactory shouldn’t be punished for the whims of a egotistical asshole.

1/ Mobilised Russians from Irkutsk are being sent "to slaughter" in Ukraine and have been told that they are "expendable". Their commanders have shot at them to 'motivate' them and their unit has taken so many casualties that it has had to be reconstituted six times. ⬇️

Give a man a gun and he'll rob a bank.

Give a man a bank and he'll rob everyone.

@Foodiekenobi @Nerdfest

Today, I was the only person in the pharmacy wearing a mask.

The UNMASKED person ahead of me was speaking to the UNMASKED pharmacist about the new rules for obtaining Paxlovid as their spouse at home was *quite ill*

#doomed #surreal #CovidIsNotOver
#Pharmacists

Geoffrey Oryema - Makambo

https://youtu.be/Huw8tu4Q-iI

#SongOfTheDay
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Drone footage published by the Russian state media showing the current state of Bakhmut. There's nothing left to fight over but ruins.

I dunno, I wonder why the Chinese govt. would want to prevent a decorated Chinese Canadian serving in the Navy from becoming a Member of Parliament.
#canpoli #SpaFY

https://twitter.com/KevinVuongMP/status/1623787188725874689?s=20

ChatGPT and AI could completely replace the need for StackOverflow for coders as long as it constantly told me my question was irrelevant, had already been answered, and berated me for not doing my own research first and then downvoted me.

Opinion | Russian Troops Know How Little They Mean to Putin - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/opinion/russia-army-ukraine.html

Dmitri Shostakovich - The Second Waltz

https://youtu.be/5hTvc3f83Ws

#FavoriteMusic 85/

Blue Lagoon "break my stride"

https://youtu.be/bO3-FA1Kq-A

#SongOfTheDay
#FavoriteMusic 84/