nyan

I'm in Ontario, and the northern areas of the province (like, anywhere north of Barrie) have been continuously short of doctors for the past forty years. Some slots here for medical residents go unfilled for years at a time, from what I understand—they do have a right to refuse a position they don't want. And very few of them want to go to, say, Kapuskasing. There is one medical school that obliges graduates to remain in the north for a time, but they simply don't graduate enough people. Rural voters have more pull in Saskatchewan than northern voters do here, so there's also little incentive for the government to change things.

And people wonder why my main browser profile restricts Javascript so tightly.

I haven't spoken French very much since I was in my teens, but I'm still fluent and sound like a native speaker (although in a way that would give the Académie Française fits). My hometown in Ontario is 3/4 Francophone, and I attended a French (not immersion) school until I was 13, although my family background is Anglophone. I don't recommend that as a strategy, though—I had a difficult time for the first couple of years.

Canada is way, way short on primary care providers, especially in rural and remote areas, yes. Nurse-practitioners can only fill in so many of the gaps left by the insufficient number of family physicians, and they also take time to train. We have emergency departments closing because of lack of personnel, and it's literally killing people to have to drive forty or more minutes to the nearest hospital that's open when they have a heart attack.

Forcing new physicians to practice for a year somewhere other than a major city would be much more useful than sending them back to school for an extra year.

🎵 It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine. 🎵 (Seriously, if I had a nickel for every time someone said or implied that . . .)

You could still avoid computers in some jobs in the 1990s and into the early 2000s. And some people were supported by their spouse or other family members and never did work, or stopped working after they married or had children.

Just a minor note: if you do proceed with this, consider carefully the orientation you print in. The Z-direction in FDM 3D prints is almost always the weakest, so you may get better durability by printing these lying on their sides. Worth testing, at least. (Also, everything everyone else said.)

Finished K. Arsenault Rivera's The Warrior Moon a few days ago, and . . . hmm. It's difficult to evaluate fairly, because one part tripped a trigger of mine that almost caused an abrupt interfacing of book with wall. Overall, I guess I enjoyed it despite those bits, and despite the odd pacing that has been a feature of the entire trilogy.

I've never understood the whole "fear of missing out" thing, probably because I've spent my entire life "missing out" by most people's standards and am aware that it isn't the end of the world.

I just let my dotfiles fall where they may, but any version control software should be able to do what you need—they're just text files, after all. I'd probably go with mercurial, since that's what I use when I need source control for other purposes (I hate git).

If it won't wait by the conveyor belt to collect your checked luggage, there's still a boring, repetitive task it doesn't cover.

Well, not anything (if you actually think that's possible, then I have a challenge for you: make a functioning gun out of cheese), but an average hardware store should have everything you need to produce something capable of firing a shot.