I believe your avatar is from WC3 - the icon of the level 6 spell from the Night Elves’ warden. I’m not a bot. Why would you call me a bot? Because I provided a well-reasoned response that didn’t coddle the perspective in your low-value post? A bot couldn’t do that to be honest. FFS. I engaged with you in good faith. To be called a bot when I engage in good faith with someone is so insulting. I don’t want to waste more time again, so I will accept your tacit invitation to block an account that I can’t fathom will add to my Lemmy experience any time soon

Serotonin syndrome is life-threatening. So, I understand banning sales at gas stations. (The US sells a lot of extreme energy drinks at gas stations that aren’t available or sellable in Canada.)

Looking at the wikipedia article, it’s interesting to see that Tianeptine has some obvious clinical benefits and is used as an antidepressant in Europe. It does affect the opioid system though, so there’s potential for dependency and abuse.

The potential for abuse, combined with SSRIs’ lack of this potential, and the high-frequency of antidepressant prescriptions (one of the most-prescribed classes of meds), is probably why this drug isn’t available in the US and several ‘commonwealth nations.’

North America is still grappling with the pharmaceutical industry-manufactured opioid crisis.

The risk calculus may be different in Europe where there are stronger welfare states and more prevention of socially-mediated health issues than there are policies of ignoring and criminalizing them (e.g., ‘war on drugs’)

If you’re not content with your antidepressant, talk to your doc, and see if you can find another that works better for you

@AGM@lemmy.ca
Not just the US, but Russia, China - imperial powers that effect regime changes - have improved their game in the last 2-3 decades (per your timeline). They’ve evolved from publicly endorsing a group, which carries the ‘costs’ of have to appear to support them in some response. Now, they’re more underground, they sew disinformation, they hire paid protesters, etc. - what they’re doing is out of the public’s eyes and thus costs them a lot less. Privately meeting with civil society groups is this new version imo

Totally agree with everything you’ve said

I think I’m coming to terms with the thought that all the talk of making polluters pay has just been there to manufacture consent for the extraction by calming the population that it’ll be taken care of

Kinda like ‘carbon capture’ 🤪

If we never make polluters pay their fair share, why would they think they’ll ever have to? ffs

JFC

Here’s a striking trivia factoid: the biggest dam in the world is in northern Alberta. If you rank dams by the amount of construction material piled into them, the winner is the Syncrude Tailings Dam in the oilsands. Much less trivial is the astonishing amount of toxic waste and looming cleanup costs swelling behind it and the many thousands of other fossil fuel operations spread across the land.

Canada’s oil and gas industry is steadily building an environmental time bomb. It’s one that communities, particularly First Nations downstream, have been struggling to highlight for many years. But now that it’s become a fiscal time bomb as well, maybe the money managers will get more traction. Most of these liabilities have been downplayed to investors and kept off the books but, last week, an investor advocacy group warned that Canadian oil and gas companies have a gaping blind spot in their accounting — one that could already exceed half the companies’ value, measured in market capitalization.

Investors for Paris Compliance wrote to the audit committee chairs at 14 big oil and gas companies ahead of their annual general meetings, putting them on notice about “material gaps” in their financial disclosures that amount to billions of dollars in decommissioning costs.

At the heart of the problem is a staggering liabilities gap between what companies disclose and what independent estimates suggest they truly owe to clean up old wells, oilsands operations and other industrial scars on the land. It’s hard to say how big the gap really is but a recent analysis by Investors for Paris Compliance arrived at a “conservative” estimate of about $113 billion.

I have no legal experience but empathize and want to share some ideas.
Can you afford to pay full legal fees for representation?
Do you have a union or professional organization that can provide guidance?
Does the nature of your work require a labour lawyer who specializes in that area? (e.g., military maybe?)

Know how much you can afford (e.g., if you are ‘pro bono’ case) to include this when you reach out. Search for free/inexpensive (labour-related) legal clinics, search for worker/ employment/ disability (if that applies to you) advocacy groups and ask them for lawyer suggestions. How about emailing a local law school? Consider relaxing the ‘in my geographical area’ criterion if you’re not getting any results.

If you can get a knowledgeable and affordable lawyer anywhere in Canada willing to take your case on remotely, and you can e-meet with them - that seems pretty good too. Best of luck, friend! Hopefully some more knowledgeable heads than mine chime in here!

Why the need for the ‘Great American Recovery Initiative?’ Has someone been tanking and looting the country for the last year? /s

This obviously isn’t enough to make a diagnosis, but it adds to the evidence of decline: Inability to control bladder or bowels (incontinence) is a symptom of some forms of dementia

You’re probably right that testing for hallucinogens isn’t part of a standard employer drug test, but there’s nothing standard about pro sports drug testing. AFAIK, employer drug testing outside of pro sports is all about safety. But pro sports forbid performance-enhancing drugs. They also punish players suspected of not trying hard enough to win (e.g., load management, involvement with gambling). I hope we learn more to clarify this, although I respect PG’s privacy. The league probably can’t disclose this info, but he probably can if he chooses to

The only thing I can think of that fits with PG saying “mental health” and the league saying “violates anti-drug policy” is microdosing hallucinogens (eg, lcd, magic mushrooms). (I’m assuming here that the league doesn’t care about or test players for marijuana.)

c/BoycottUS !

I love this quote - it provides a little more context - from CBC’s coverage:

“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason,” said Eby, ahead of the closed-door meeting in Ottawa.

Alberta chief justices from all three levels of the court system have issued a rare public message underlining the importance of judicial independence.

Though the Tuesday statement provides no context, it comes on the heels of comments about judicial authority made by Premier Danielle Smith, who said on her Saturday radio show that she wishes she could “direct the judges.”

Judges almost never speak publicly beyond decisions they issue in court.

The letter, published on the Alberta Courts website, is signed by acting Chief Justice of Alberta Dawn Pentelechuk, Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Kent Davison and James Hunter, Chief Justice of the Alberta Court of Justice.

The three judges wrote that the separation between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government is essential to a functioning democracy.

“It is equally important that each branch respect and support the independence of the others,” they said.

Such a bad look on Italy. They should be clearly saying “no” to US ICE and all US military/terrorism. Right on, Mayor Sala, though:

Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said that ICE would not be welcome in his city, which is hosting the Feb. 6 opening ceremony to be attended by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, as well as most ice sports.

“This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt,” Sala told RTL Radio 102.

Right on! In nursing, some of us do 3.5 x 12 (3 shifts one week, 4 the other). I like it!

Suggestion for the last line :): My/Our fight for freedom brought me here.

Sorry for providing suboptimal help 😅. I’ve now got the melody in my head and understand you want to sing the whole song and not just BC, BC, BCCC
For others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao - watch the video with the accordion player
To be brutally honest, I liked the lyrics (and text, including 'gonna) of V1 better - both for metre (how it sounds singing) and consistency in feel (tone) of the song
I prefer the last line in V2, but you might find a better one
I think this may be my best suggestion of all. Put a few musical notes around the margins or some other heads-up that these are lyrics to sing (hold onto this paper). “sing along” or “lyrics”. Musical notes might be subtle but effective
You could maybe move the lower left text about the origin right beside/under the “Bella Ciao” title

I wish I could sing with you and the group of people at the protest you’ll be going to! ❤️ Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao Ciao Ciao!!! 🎶

Thanks, friend!

Where’s the spelling error?

YES! More of this leadership please 😛