You are being down voted but this exact thing happened to somebody I know. The repeal of criminalization, without a better education plan, gave them the idea that "Oh its fine now". They became addicted to smoking it, spent all day every day just hitting a bong. Stopped working, had to repeat a year at uni to get courses on track. They've had to completely abstain, or they fall back into the spiral.
Some people get addicted to alcohol, some its another drug entirely.
It's real, a person I know went through it. They basically just smoked a bong all day, every day. Creates a paralysis like effect on your intestines, so stuff doesn't go down has to come out
Yep, my now canadian colleague changed after he got his citizenship. He then voted for the party that was going to block immigration. Like WTAF dude, it is how you just got here.
Agreed. I'm not a gun owner but was around guns as a kid (dad was a hunter) and he was super into safety of the whole thing. Except my friends dad wasn't so safe, he had us reloading shotgun shells via purpose built relaoding carousal as kids. My friend had no qualms about it, but I'm like dude make sure the primer isn't skewed when the shell comes down, careful with that. I had visions of a crimped primer setting off the powder lol
Canadian kids 12 through 17 can apply for their gun license.
Or If you are with a licensed owner you can handle guns. I went hunting with my dad in the teen days. Canada is not as strict as the US folk believe, especially if you live rurally and are hunting, you can be under 12. We just don't use it to attach our identity too like gun nuts in the USA
If you compare taxes paid to what you would spend on medicine and health care or other out of pocket, you would be further ahead in Canada. While not perfect, we have social systems to try to level the playing field for all. With deductions and tax credits my 22-24% tax bracket is actually only about 13% paid tax
Moves are a pain, the biggest part is you lose circles of support as in friends, colleagues, community. But moving itself, while sucking badly is not terribly difficult. I have moved from UK, to Ontario, now to BC and its probably 12 houses I have lived in so far. You start to simplify your belongings as you go, but starting fresh friendship connections is the tricky part.
Yep, I had a friend that was one of those I can change the world types. He was major of a place for a while, he said it sucked because you can barely accomplish anything, ans if your staff doesn't like your ideas they work against you in subtle ways like not bringing you the relevent information on topics or reports etc. Basically clandestine backstabbing all term
A friend in highschool. She was amazing. Her and I hung out a lot an supported each other through relationship breakups. We had long conversations after a night at the local bar about art and life and wahtever. She was the always happy energetic friend that balanced my everstable yet flatline personality.
We still see each other every few years and I'm grateful for having her in my life even though we are 5000 kms apart
I can't speak to all of Lemmy, it is woldwide, but my limited interaction has found there are positive groups, even ones you don't expect: There's the "dull men's club", they accept women. (They have thought about altering the name) Its a place to share boring stuff and everyone upvotes and tells you they are proud of you for the daily task or acheivement you posted.
0 labour cost here. I buy the tools and do any work myself...its part of the enjoyment of cycling for me, since autos went so electronic/computerized that the old shade tree wrenching has all but died.
I ran into a biker one weekend morning as I walked my flat tired bike into our apartment building. He was heading out, and said "oh know bummer, and the bike shop is closed till Monday". I said it was no problem I was just coming back to change the tube/tire myself. He looked at me like this was some new mystical revelation to his brain.
As a former Brit, we like crunch in sandwiches by adding potato chips to them.