Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.

Despite all the awful things that settlers have done to Aboriginals in Canada (and Native Americans in the USA), neither country’s Thanksgiving is about that. Canada’s Thanksgiving was originally a celebration of arrival in the New World. Over time, it became a harvest celebration.

IIRC, he fought the Russians to protect Ukraine from their invasion. He had no other allegiance to Germany or Nazis. It was a “the enemy of my enemy is my ally” situation.

I’m currently working with a client that doesn’t have a health endpoint or any kind of monitoring on their new API . They say monitoring isn’t needed because it will never go down.

Naturally it went down on day two. They still haven’t added any “unnecessary” monitoring, insisting that it will never go down.

I first installed OG Red Hat 5.2 in 1998, but my computer had a Winmodem rather than a full hardware modem, so I never got it connected to the internet, which severely reduced how useful it was to me. I got broadband a year later, and that changed everything!

they can lose the trademark if they don’t try to defend it

This is true, but that’s if another company is using a similar logo as their own. Like, if a pet store used the Mickey Mouse logo, of course they’re going to be sued.

If a daycare uses Mickey Mouse to decorate their classroom, Disney doesn’t have to sue because the trademark isn’t be used separate from Disney. The Daycare, and kids, are using it because it’s Disney, so there is no confusion about trademark ownership.

At the very least, Disney could simply write them a letter allowing them to use depictions of Disney characters inside the school so long as it’s not for advertising or commercial purposes and the art is done by a student or teacher.

I empathize with your story, but I’m not sure why it became about anti-women doctors. Men constantly have our complaints misdiagnosed.

The problem is that most GPs aren’t very good. People who do the best in medical school often choose to become surgeons or specialists, not GPs.

Good cops are usually punished for calling out bad cops. The system is broken.

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Landlords must exist because people need to rent housing, and it sure sounds like you’re doing it right. Some landlords (and some tenants) are awful human beings who should not be landlords while others are good people.

A bigger problem is happening in areas with housing shortages. Housing prices have been skyrocketing for 10+ years and home owners have been leveraging themselves with their home equity to buy other homes. On a large scale, that eats up a lot of housing supply, increases prices, and makes it more difficult for people without existing real estate equity to buy a house.

In the city where I live, owning a house is essentially not possible for middle-class people unless their parents give them a down payment. Even my girlfriend and I, who combine for more than triple the average household income in the city, are taking years and years to save for a $300k+ down payment that’s needed to bring the mortgage payment down to $6k/mo.

Landlords didn’t create the housing shortage, but I can see why someone who’s struggling to buy a house while watching landlords buy multiple houses can develop a hatred for them.

I don’t think getting seals out of your home is part of marine biologist training. He might be better-equipped to identify the species of seal and lecture on its mating habits.

Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don’t mean RHEL.