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way back in'a day I had to give up the regular group ride at SFU 'cause the guy who owned the townhouse at the base of the mtn where we met up always brought his dog and it Never. Stopped. Yappin'. the entire fucking ride.

Too bad about the giant chain rings.

28, ha - i use a 26 and i ain't spinnin'!

So there was this scientist on teh CBC the other day making a very compelling argument that we ditch DLST for ST permanently because ST is based on the sun to which we evolved.

http://www.chronobiocanada.com/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-turn-back-the-clock-on-daylight-savings-why-standard-time-all-year/

> "As a biologist, I think about this in terms of the biological clock," explained Patricia Lakin-Thomas, York University professor and Canadian Society for Chronobiology board member.

> "We have this clock in our brain that is set by light and it controls our daily activities, our daily physiology, our sleep-wake cycle. And then there are clocks all over the body … they get set by the brain clock," she said.

> Lakin-Thomas compared switching to permanent daylight time as being in a perpetual state of jet lag, as the body's biological clocks, or circadian rhythms, would constantly be out of sync.

> "Under standard time, the time is going to be closer to our natural tendency to rise with the sun and to be in sync with the sun. Standard time is closer to that body time," she said.

Dude prolly got it d/t on the front of a transit bus. So many times I felt like an accessory to a crime but....what'ya gonna' do?

Pretty ballsy, or just plain dumb walking into the Empress like that. Coulda' gone catastrophically sideways. A lot of those people have got absolutely nothing to lose. I've seen savage assaults down there for way less than a few hun in stolen bike parts.

> Solving the "problem" will require wholesale societal change on the way we view and deal with these issues.Solving the "problem" will require wholesale societal change on the way we view and deal with these issues.

Hang the rich.

Tallest? Nah...remember the "Spike"?

Variety is the spice 'o life. Hang up the bike and go skiing!

670gms, is that light?

How's about something  w/a 35id for my DHF 2.6?

And 2019 colours on the website?????????

> don’t know for sure the rear wheel can be dishes far enough over with the stock spokes

Oh yeah 'cause stock they supposed to be even length.

On September 14, a young woman in Louisiana named Beth McGrath posted a selfie Facebook video of herself working at Walmart. Her body language shows a nervous energy as she works up the courage to speak on the intercom and announces her resignation to shoppers. “Everyone here is overworked and underpaid,” she begins, before going on to call out specific managers for inappropriate and abusive behavior. “I hope you don’t speak to your families the way you speak to us,” she said before ending with “fuck this job!”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/18/why-record-numbers-of-workers-are-quitting-and-striking/

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2336211660

Pigs and Canadian imperialism. Most people would have difficulty understanding the connection. But for many Haitians the relationship is a historical memory....

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/15/the-curious-case-of-haitian-pigs-and-canadian-imperialism/

Posted by: tungsten

K.Diallo ☭

@nyeusi_waasi

75% of mining companies globally are now Canadian. Canada is a great source of corporate neocolonialism expansion.

Smithers!??? wtf dudes, I thought you were woke?

https://www.interior-news.com/news/new-covid-19-cases-in-smithers-jump-again-to-73/

Also...  https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1448056966119632898

Posted by: tashi

Fuckin love it! Normal people’s lives get significantly better when workers realize and exercise their power.

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For those of us who think that all workers should be able to get decent pay, have decent working conditions, and be treated with respect on the job, the idea that large numbers of workers now feel they can quit jobs they don’t like is really great news. And, the increased labor market power for those at the bottom of the ladder is showing up in higher pay.

In any case, after decades of wage stagnation for those at the middle and the bottom of the wage ladder, it’s good to see some real progress for at least some low-paid workers. The folks who have rigged the economy in their favor so they can get big bucks may not like the fact that it’s harder to get good help, but them’s the breaks.

https://cepr.net/the-high-paid-media-types-are-unhappy-workers-are-getting-higher-pay/

In my small town, retailers and food service are struggling to stay open due to lack of staff and its not like there are better jobs to go to.

Just gonna' have to pay double for that sandwich, sheets.

$14 an hr in convenience store is double the fed minimum wage down there just shows how greedy/out-of-touch the "folks who rigged the game" actually are.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/strike-wave-john-deere-workers-iatse-hollywood-nurses-miners

Posted by: tashi

The labour shortage is not as simple as "people just don't want to work" or "you just don't pay enough". People have moved on from certain jobs.

They (labourers everwhere) on strike!... 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/13/american-workers-general-strike-robert-reich

https://twitter.com/i/status/1448605991826857984