Victor Villas

I doubt it. But I hope you’re right.

I signed it but I don’t really get what’s the goal here other than rectifying a minor semantic issue

Yep. It’s cognitive dissonance. Presumed innocence & welfare for me, discipline and punishment & rugged individualism for thee.

I never understand why people don’t want criminals reformed, just locked up.

It is pretty easy to understand. People are interested in their personal safety above all else, way more than they care about inefficient use of public resources and human tragedies brought by a carceral system. Many favor systems that error to the side of unjustly punishing over a system that accepts the inherent trade-offs of pursuing common good.

In other words, to some folks, criminals aren’t people so we shouldn’t worry about what’s good for them - all worry is dedicated to making the lives of white flighters as stress-free as possible. TLDR: snowflake conservatives.

A nurse would quite literally crosscheck 50 blood markers in a matter of seconds

Yes, but also a nurse has bazillion other things to do. That’s probably why, as the CBC journalist reports, “the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon”. So even though it costs a second to do, it’s done was done once a day. Now it’s done continuously because it’s an alert system instead of something the nurse has keep an eye on.

In this specific case, the fever + high WBC would be more than enough for a nurse to know that something was up. It makes me think that adding AI just adds another step.

Sure, there’s another computation step. But that’s cheap. Nurse time is the bottleneck. From the POV of a nursing team, before, there was a step (check blood pressure at noon), now there are no steps. They replaced a process of checking some numbers with an automated metric-based alarm. This is textbook operations process optimization, great for everyone involved.

I think this is exactly the case for automation to be useful without negatively impacting the professional. It’s not a matter of nurses having the knowledge or expertise, but a tool that takes away the toil of monitoring - which is boring, easily skipped or performed badly by a tired brain, and is trivially interpretable. If a thingamabob beeps louder and makes the nurse pay attention to the blood cell count, the human is still in the loop of decision making.

that just because the UCP received 54-ish% of the popular vote in the last provincial general election, it doesn’t follow that 54% of the population of Alberta is anti-trans.

It does mean that 54% is willing to promote UCP even though UCP as an institution is supportive of anti-trans politics. So while not everyone in those 54% might be anti-trans themselves, they are consciously supporting anti-trans politicians, and are effectively helping the anti-trans ideology.

Welp, at least it’s a non-profit and the amount of people under care is increasing.

I’d say this kind of thing is in the best 1% of UCP moments, considering everything else. It’s a low bar but still.

IMHO Canadians are not significantly friendlier than most nationalities. At most they are friendlier than the average big-city dwelling Americans, and that’s where the meme came from. Up until a few years ago Canada was a country of small cities, and these comparisons are all inherently flawed given the myriad of factors involved.

There is a LOT of conservatism brewing in Canada, and this hasn’t much to do with friendliness. Some of the most astoundingly friendly people I’ve met were midwesterner Americans… and these same people were very bigoted in some regards. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.

Of course there’s a theme, and big truck jackasses playing heavy metal with “Fuck Trudeau” & MAGA stickers abound. But visit an assembly from any affluent neighbourhood residents association and you will see highly educated and courteous old ladies parrot genocidal talking points.

Both, because what people believe to be true dictates their behavior and policies should account for that.

But in any case, we were not talking about policy. We were talking about “complaining” about policy. What I said is that it is helpful to “complain”.

Complaining that it’s not preventing crime isn’t really helpful, since that’s not what it’s supposed to do.

It is helpful, because a large extent of the voter base does think that increasing the police personnel will prevent crime.

I guess my tone was a bit dubious, but I wasn’t being sarcastic. Good fucking work, I meant it.

The guy is a piece of shit, smear campaigns against him and Rustad are net positive for humankind.

Now this is a modern web smear campaign, good work BCLibs.

Mobi in Vancouver is pretty decent, some stations have reliability issues but there are enough stations to make it work. I too own a bike and use Mobi pretty much every week for the same reasons described in the article. It’s also perfect when friends come visit the city and I just lend them my anual pass, it blows their mind that they can bike around mostly for free.

If only the service was slightly cheaper, and there were more AAA bike facilities specially outside downtown. Maybe one day when municipal government stops moving backward into car-dependency.

Face Eating Leopards not welcomed at Assembly of Mauling Genocide Survivors

I guess “the world is still not entirely insane” is news too

We are so screwed…

No worries. I didn’t bite it. I just don’t understand the appeal.

Why is this even a repeating issue… this is just rage bait

This is fucked up. Hoping for a fast recovery and for charges for these delinquents.

Montreal is a lovely city, but it isn’t for everyone’s tastes.