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The UK had no beavers for hundreds of years, so it makes sense that its denizens wouldn't know that beavers aren't ticklish. 🫠

Technically, a comatose person in the hospital on life support is still alive . . . and to be honest, I don't think that's a bad analogy in this case. It dies if the Republicans pull the plug by ceasing to go through the motions.

Ikuhara has two more recent single-cours anime series—Yurikuma Arashi and Sarazanmae—to his credit as well as Utena and Penguindrum. His work is always full of symbolism, magical realism, and miscellaneous lunatic-arthouse-film stuff that can take years to comb through, depending on how far down the rabbithole you want to go. (He also worked on the fourth season of the original Sailor Moon, AKA SuperS. Make the mistake of looking too closely, and you can see nascent bits of Utena in it.)

The worst cases are mostly small, often serving low-density rural areas—in Ontario, Chesley, Clinton, and Wingham are a few names I could find quickly that have had such severe staff shortages they've had to reduce ER hours or close temporarily (they're fairly close together, in Bruce and Huron counties, so if one of them closes the patients that would have gone to that one probably go to the others instead and make the wait times there worse). The hospitals with long wait times merely have, say, two doctors handling the ER patients where they should have three.

One part of the problem is that the doctors and nurses we do still have tend to migrate toward the larger metro areas, just like people in other lines of work. That leaves hospitals in small- to medium-sized urban areas even more understaffed, sometimes to the point that not even one doctor or RN can take a vacation without causing truly excessive wait times even if a shutdown can be avoided. In Ontario, western areas seem most affected, but the northern part of the province has been dealing with chronic medical understaffing for decades already, not just since COVID.

Oh, there's undoubtedly plenty of blame to go around. Samsung is one of the few manufacturers large enough that they might be able to apply some pressure to Qualcomm and its ilk, and they aren't doing it, or at least aren't doing it enough.

Part of the problem is the chip manufacturers. They provide precompiled device drivers for one version of one kernel only, no source, and refuse to update them ever again. It can be a bit difficult to update the rest of the software stack when there's no way to shore up the foundations. Device manufacturers need to start insisting on updated drivers and/or provided driver source code before they buy the chips to put in their phones, tablets, and other systems.

Good luck on that.

I read the first volume of the manga, so I had some idea what to expect going in. It's been a while, but I don't think the animators are deviating significantly from the source material, although I'm not curious enough to do a page-by-page check.

I've heard of larger workplaces having in-house vaccination clinics, but I think it's only if the employer asks. Maybe a little more outreach would help there.

We had vaccination clinics at the school when I was a student, for required immunizations like measles, polio, and so on. No reason (except personnel and funding shortages) why they couldn't do that for seasonal vaccines like flu and COVID.

you do not want to be restricted to using only the C++ programming language for everything

Nitpick: other language bindings for QT do exist, or I wouldn't have to be continually sorting out issues with PyQt during system updates.

How do we know it is? I suspect all photos of the thing are AI-generated deepfakes. 😜

Deceptive list that appears to include only distros that don't package systemd at all. A distro can offer more than one init system. For instance, Gentoo defaults to OpenRC but offers systemd as an option for users who want it for whatever reason. It isn't on that list.

(But I agree that if you know what systemd is and that you don't want it, you're not using Distrochooser. You're not looking up your next distro in Wikipedia, either.)

Guys, April 1 is still months away . . . ☹️