Every Value Village I've been to is either over priced or just picked over junk. There's never anything worth buying. The overpriced stuff is all originally from Walmart or one of the Dollar stores and always priced well over the new retail price.
The same thing happens at Once Upon a Child. Kids clothes are all George (Walmart brand) and price at least 2x new.
There’s probably not going to be a civil war.
So.... there's still a chance then....
Try Nanaimo. A city of over 100,000 people... there is ONE walk-in clinic in the city, and they are rarely open. You go there and it's either closed or there is a sign on the door "Accepting 10 patients today". So you go to the Nanaimo General ER and IF you're lucky, you will be seen in about 8 to 10 hours.
Hmmm.... Infineon has been doing work with graphene semiconductors for years. Something seems a bit off with this article.
I explicitly go out of my way to avoid Air Canada and WestJet. They are both abysmal airlines. WestJet used to be good... but lately, it's become a competition between them and AirCanada to see who can fuck things up more spectacularly.
I'd say that Air Canada also lands last in customer service, quality of service, comfort, and adhering to the rules for customer rights... and pretty much EVERYTHING else.
And if you deleted all your comments... they undeleted everything.
You missed the recent news that Calgary is now more expensive than Vancouver and Toronto?
Suddenly, sales are up 15% and traffic to the company website is up 300%.
Roblox is filled with "quality" content like this: https://www.roblox.com/games/8110845141/POOP-WITH-FRIENDS
My kids used to play on Roblox... then they invited me to try it... and I started watching what is going on in there. It's pretty bad. LOADS of grooming going on... shitty games... games that encourage anti-social behavior... horror games targeting under 5s... now they aren't allowed to play it anymore.
The company I work for is one of many in the IT world that "gets it" that WFH is an advantage and makes employees happy.
No Windows boxes anywhere. Windows is banned as a base OS (allowed in VMs only). It's OSX or Linux only. I'm good with that :-) Oh that generous budget was $3000 USD to spend as I wanted on whatever equipment I wanted. Since I already have a desk, chair, monitor etc, I spent almost all of the budget on the laptop :-) It's a good'un. Hehe
But you'd have to install it yourself in a scenario where you manage your company machine yourself.
I'm permanently remote in my job. When I was hired, I was given a generous budget to buy whatever home office equipment I needed including whatever laptop I wanted. I was free to either buy a MacBook or a PC - if I bought a PC, I was required to wipe the OEM Windows OS and install whatever Linux distro I wanted (which is the choice I went with). I and a LOT of other employees run whatever Linux distro makes us happy. IT tracks the asset number, and that's it. There's no spyware...
My kids use Linux. They are 5 and 7. They do just fine. They are "normal"... as in just beginner users.
The 5 year old only cares where Steam is, and where the games are in the menu.
The 7 year old is a master at it all already. He's installing Minecraft mods all the time... downloading, unzipping the mods... running java -jar XYZ from the terminal... yeah I had to show him the first time, but TBH, I didn't show it all to him. He read up on how it works and watched YouTube videos on it.
It's all about what you're used to and if you're actually interested in learning the bits. Normal is what? Someone who treats the computer as an appliance? Yeah... with those users as long as the machine actually works... they don't care what the underlying OS is... OSX? Windows 11? some Linux distro? It's all the same to them. The computer is a magic machine that does things and they have no clue how or why.