[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago

My year in junior high literally had to take basketweaving one semester, because the school's funding kept getting cut year after year, until the school board capitulated to bring in French Immersion (as I recall; this was a long time ago, and I'm old. It was in Alberta).

Funding was being used to force the school board or parent-teacher committee or whatever...

In 7th grade, there were like 3 options we could choose from each semester; then 8th grade, 2; then 9th grade, just one 'option'.

It's pretty rich for politicians to accuse students of slacking, when the options are literally defunded in their schools.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

Bain Capital? The Bain Capital? Ugh.

In his 2009 book The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy, Josh Kosman described Bain Capital as "notorious for its failure to plough profits back into its businesses," being the first large private-equity firm to derive a large fraction of its revenues from corporate dividends and other distributions.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago

Why don't they put sone long planks leading up and out of the bog for a day or so before the harvesters go in? Give the spiders a time window to migrate to the shore...

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago

Yes, and they used the name first, not google. Arseholes.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

C# development was spearheaded by Anders Hjelsberg, one of the brains behind Borland Delphi/Object Pascal.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Damn, that should be a poster on every street corner down there in the US. (And probably up here in Canada too, leading to the election).

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

Well he really must hate those filthy neutrals.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

It is a plant, just of a sort that has turned to parasitism I suppose for its nutrients. I believe they are part of a larger family of plants named saprophytes.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago

A noble thing if you could pull it off.

But stay away from windows for the rest of your life and always prepare your own tea.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He was still afraid to say he wouldn't vote for Trump, he just said he wouldn't vote for Biden and would vote Republican. So.... if Trump is the Republican candidate, what will he do? Note vote at all? Or... the obvious logical conclusion to his non-answer?

Such cowards.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Freeze their stock ticker. Dissolve their corporate charter and sell the assets to the highest bidder (excluding any banks of equal/larger size, of course). Corporate death penalty needs to be a thing.

Remember Mitt Romney said it himeself! "Corporations are People, my friend". People can be jailed or executed, and have limited lifespans; so ...

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