I make a difference between the workers and the industry.

Therapists where I live can work in the public system, or in the private system.

It’s free to see a therapist in the public system and they are paid by the government, but it’s nearly impossible to have a session because they are booked months and months in advance. So they are not making more from this.

Then there’s the ones working privately, usually also booked months in advance but for a few hundred dollars an hour. They are also not making more from this because they were already working full time.

However there is a “mental health industry”, like Betterhelp, that will gladly exploit and profit from the circumstances.

“And because I consider mental health important, today I’m proud to present my sponsor, Betterhelp!”

Sweet capitalism.

If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn’t pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.

Étrange - Strange. Époux - Spouse. École - School. Épice - Spice. Éponge - Sponge.

It also happened with circumflex.

Hôpital - Hospital. Forêt - Forest. Pâte - Paste.

Here’s a whole video about exactly this.

The Netherlands, but in English the language is called Dutch.

But I prefer when it happens to cities. Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen. Liège or Luik or Lüttich. Ghent or Gand or Gent.

Hmm, I wonder if there’s a coordinated effort by lobbies to have this kind of plans scrapped. Knowing the car and oil industry, probably.

Or this is probably just a coincidence: Quebec government lifts planned 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicle sales

I had the same experience as OP when I tried Matrix a few years ago. No hate on it but it was not easy and I gave up because I already had a simple IRC setup that’s working for me and my friends.

Some IRC clients are now web based and it’s been enough to keep a few of my friends there instead of Discord. We use The Lounge. It can keep a history, display images, videos, play mp3s, and show previews of most URLs. Like, we can simply copy/paste images into a channel and they are uploaded on the server and displayed in the chat. There’s also push notifications and it’s mobile friendly.

Convos also does something like this. Apparently it can also do video chat but I’ve never got it to work.

I’ve recently been thinking about giving Matrix another try but I’m pretty sure my friends are going to stay on “modern” IRC anyway.

I’m Canadian and doesn’t know much about this asshole, but I heard an interview with him recently where he claimed the Democrats were preparing a law to legally kidnap children in California.

He made me want to throw a hammer at his face while pointing out the current ICE raids.

His personal Vietnam.

Pretty sure he’s not sweating it.

AFAIK it’s acceptable if the parent is walking or sitting with the child. It’s only abusive if you tie the leash outside while you go run some errands in a store, or if left attached in the backyard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

Oh, yes, so much surprise.

Bah, sound quality is just okay. It’s fine for podcasts and electronic without bass, but it’s kind of annoying for some types of music.

It works but… meh.

Headphones on a bike are illegal in my province. So I once bought a bluetooth speaker for my bike. I don’t really like imposing my music to anyone and tried to keep it at a minimum level but stills didn’t like it. So now I use bone conduction headphones. Unfortunately they are also in a grey area where they could also be illegal.

In short, if you want to listen to music on a bike here, your only legal option is a speaker. Anything else is unsafe and could traumatize a poor car driver that hits a cyclist that didn’t hear them coming (according to the police here).

Otherwise get a car and blast the music with the windows open like a normal safe person. or close the windows and don’t hear anything around, but this is much safer than having headphones while cycling, obviously.

Same with walking or jogging with headphones. Are you out of your mind? Some poor car driver could hit reckless runners jumping in front of their car because they couldn’t hear it coming.

No, society wants everyone not in a car to keep quiet and don’t ruin their silence, with all the soothing car noises, so it’s safer this way. No headphones on a bike, it’s not safe! You need to hear that car blasting music that’s coming at you.

Even right now. Look at how people have to wait in huge lines to get some gas every time there is a natural disaster, or extreme weather. After a few days, or even hours, it’s mostly gone.

Note: Musk died on the way back to his home planet.

We can only wish. Was Lindell ever a billionaire? Let alone the richest person in the world?

It would certainly be very nice to see Musk in the same situation, but he still has a long way to go until that point.

If there is anything that life showed me at a young age, during gym classes, it’s that sports people and competitive people will not stop for compassion or ethics.

They can come from the most democratic country, but those athletes will have trained all their life for this moment, and they would still go even if the Olympics were held in a North Korean torture camp.

Again, they trained all their life for this, so what’s a few human rights violations, or even a little bit of blatant corruption, if you can say you won the Olympics?

I know it’s not the answer you’re looking for but, what is safer for pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers, is to have less cars on the roads. Buses can move dozens of people with a single trained professional driver. Trains can move hundreds. It’s illogical to try to push for autonomous cars for individuals when we already have “self driving” technologies that are much much safer and much more efficient.