"Wait-weary Canadians ready to embrace private care..."
No. National Post, we’re not.
We want the provinces to fund healthcare properly. Most Canadians do not want a US system where people must pay for surgery out of their own pockets.
When I was a youngster, I remember my mother frantically scrounging together coins to pay for a visit by a small-town #Ontario doctor.
We kids were desperately sick, and she was exhausted & frightened enough to call him, despite the cost.
So, it is unsettling to hear rumblings that these govt's are also banking on widespread illness, death & healthcare chaos to make us think Canada's public healthcare has failed and that we would receive better care if we paid.
@laurimyllyvirta this is very good news. hope this trend continues.
It's very early days but the EU crude oil ban and oil price cap have delivered a major blow: Russia's oil export volumes are in freefall, prices have dropped and no tankers from countries not covered by the price cap are stepping in.
See our tracker:
https://energyandcleanair.org/russia-sanction-tracker/
@gemelliz
Private providers & insurers have been wanting to increase privatization of health care in Canada for decades.Tax rates & financial support for health care has decreased. Now we face a pandemic, provincial premiers who have done little to support health care & media & telling us we are clamouring for private care. Privatization is not the answer. Better support for public universal care is. Convincing Canadians to abandon it is disaster capitalism.
#cdnpoli #onpoli #PublicHealthCare
Russia is still selling to the Pacific (=China) at prices above the cap, but that price has taken a plunge too. Same happened after the start of the invasion - discount opened up first on Urals crude and spilled over to ESPO.
Twitter's self-destruction
@edbott well, I hope you are right. I remain skeptical. But we'll see.
@gemelliz None of us want private care. We want Conservative provincial govts to stop messing about with the funding they receive & provide us the services we need.
Twitter's self-destruction
@edbott not as much as people would like to believe. apparently advertisers are already coming back lured by the financial incentives Musk offered.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-restart-advertising-twitter-platfomer-reporter-2022-12-04/
I've seen ads by both Apple and Amazon in my twitter TL recently.
Elon Musk's Self-Described "Crime Scene"
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/11/elon-musks-self-described-crime-scene/
In case you have any lingering beliefs that Matt Taibbi is a journalist, @emptywheel is here to show you why he is absolutely, positively not.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/11/elon-musks-self-described-crime-scene/
Twitter's self-destruction
@edbott yes, maybe. I've seen some posts by technical experts saying what you are saying and others saying the opposite. I am not qualified to judge personally. But my main point is that if twitter dies it will be because of one of those two things (technical or financial problems) and not because of user flight due to it becoming more toxic.
Twitter's self-destruction
@edbott the sad thing is that this won't lead to twitter's destruction no matter how toxic it gets over there. the only things that could lead to twitter's downfall are either huge financial problems or huge technical problems. the latter they seem to be able to avoid even with all the staff departures. no idea if the former is in the cards.
Breaking: First-ever successful demonstration of #fusion power? “The US breakthrough comes as the world wrestles with high energy prices and the need to rapidly move away from burning fossil fuels… The fusion reaction at the US government facility produced about 2.5 megajoules of energy, which was about 120 per cent of the 2.1 megajoules of energy in the lasers, the people with knowledge of the results said.”
https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7 #energytransition #energymastodon #fusionpower #physics
Oh.. and than there's this 'guy'.
Weird thing, for once I actually believe this. I don't think Elon has any standards if it comes to money, #Twitter was a good example of that
(From Twitter that took it from 'TruthSocial', not sure if it's real!)
Someone just mentioned the differences between #Twitter and #Google regarding user data. Yes, indeed.
I've worked inside #Google twice. Their explicit rules, approvals, logging and "need to know" requirements for access to user data are most impressive. Anyone even attempting to access user data inappropriately is fired and marched out the door by security. This is part of why I have a great deal of trust in Google, and consider Elon's #Twitter to be utterly untrustworthy and totally beneath contempt.
Refugee from twitter. I am into math, tech, clean energy, EVs, COVID info, books, movies, music.
Based in Toronto. Support Ukraine.
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