That’s neat. Glad it didn’t release all at once!

From the article:

appears to be the first reported fatal crash

(emphasis mine)

Minnesota teachers union maybe?

Thanks for the hearty chuckle this morning!

Part of the reason to use the Red Cross (or any NGO) is because it can do things outside the full government purview.

It’s also a good way to get money from citizens across the country to assist the people affected. Think of it as AB spending $1 to get $1 from the feds and $1 from citizens/donations. Imagine how people would react if the AB government put out a request for donations directly.

it’s the f-ing government - either just go help people who need help because they’re your people or contract with red cross to do the helping for you with accountability for the job they do.

Agreed, and I believe that both of these are happening in Alberta. The Red Cross is contracted by the AB and local governments to provide certain services in disaster management, and the AB and local governments provide some of the services themselves.

I don’t feel like the government should be matching donations to a private organization

It’s an NGO, not-for-profit, registered charity, with a mandate to provide humanitarian aid. Calling it a “private org” is a bit disingenuous.

From the Red Cross:

Donations to the Canadian Red Cross will be used for assisting those impacted in Jasper and other affected areas in Alberta with immediate and ongoing relief including financial assistance, support to evacuees and the communities hosting them, recovery and resilience efforts in response to the wildfires, as well as supporting community preparedness and risk reduction for future all-hazard disaster events within Alberta.

I don’t know how (or if) AB audits this, which is the crux of your issue with it I guess, but in a way they don’t have to. If the Red Cross provides services for Albertans in a manner that is close to the value AB spent, they haven’t lost anything. Hopefully it’s (much) better than break even though.

And before we get into the efficiency of the Red Cross for dollars donated, remember we’re talking about governments here. They’re not exactly the paragons of efficient spending.

Air Canada forgot how to fly airliners during COVID.

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Wow. That’s one raging fire. I did a rare foray to Reddit to check it out and there are quite a few videos including one showing the crane collapse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/s/eW5lM3h8hc

Quite the day.

There are some great couch co-op games out there, BUT NOT NEARLY ENOUGH. Seriously, the number of goddamn games that expect you to HAVE TWO COMPUTER AND TWO SCREENS SO YOU CAN PLAY CO-OP WITH SOMEONE ELSE IS TOO DAMN HIGH.

The issue is that not enough people play couch co-op to justify the effort that goes into making it work. It’s a subset of a subset of gamers that play couch co-op even once, let alone on a regular basis.

Couldn’t CrowdStrike do this to Linux too? And couldn’t that be much worse? Like deeper network infrastructure?

I couldn’t find the tweet in the article, but found it in this one from last year: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/andrew-abbass-rnc-complaints-1.6967702

Abbass tweeted: “How about this, premier of N.L.: I’m going to bring down Confederation and have politicians executed. Ready to have me shot, coward?”

The tweet, he admits, was meant to antagonize.

“I figured they would arrest me.”

To be fair, not many people want that party back.

I left a lot of options open for improving the article from my original comment, but if you want some more details:

1. Describe the issue and what forms it comes in to clarify the issue.
2. Do a thorough analysis of posts and comments on Reddit (and maybe some other forums, just a thought) to try to get some numbers to indicate how often it happens and what the different causes are.
3. Maybe create a survey to try to ascertain some numbers. Reach out to a statistician for some help on how to do that.
4. This is a “Senior Editor” at Android Central and they don’t have a single connection to an expert in phone technology. They exhausted all the possible experts out there and didn’t get any responses? Honestly, this means they either don’t know how to write a letter to get an answer from experts, don’t have any compelling data to interest an expert enough to expend their time, or didn’t actually try very hard, or all of the above.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ indeed.

This article is not very helpful. It doesn’t clarify what is meant by the term “green line of death”. Does it brick the phone? Does it make the phone unusable? Is it just annoying? Does it include red lines? Blue lines, black lines, rainbows?

It presents anectdotal evidence of it having happened a lot, but doesn’t give any real numbers. There’s no analysis of the information they do have to say if it’s more often a hardware issue, a software bug, or caused by damage. There’s no indication if there was an attempt to ascertain how often it happens within the warranty period, or if occurrences increase with phone age.

Interviewing a couple friends and a “quick reddit search” is not investigative journalism. The writer didn’t hear back from manufacturers or industry experts, and gave up. So they interviewed a couple more “nerd” friends. Ouch.

This article is like 10 days old but feels like it’s about a year out of date already. What a whirlwind.

Oh, interesting. I’ll have to keep an eye on that. Normally I use search to find things I’ve already read and I’m trying to find again.

I use the Voyager app on Android and the search function is great.

I liked the game, but I can’t say I would have any interest in playing it again or trying to get into new levels after so long.

I also didn’t know there was a new release until this article.

It worked but there was a $10 convenience fee.

This is a pretty ignorant thing to say (let alone heartless, as you admitted.)

First, the amount of money that needs to be committed to deal with climate change is in the billions, and the mere millions they are talking about for matching Red Cross donations are a drop in the bucket.

Second, you clearly haven’t lost your property in a wildfire and have no idea about the devastation this would cause on a personal level. I can’t imagine what kind of person you must be to think the individuals don’t deserve help because our society has failed to keep climate change in check. What the fuck do you want to deal with climate change for if you don’t care about people?

Third, make them pay and maybe then they’ll stop denying climate change. (A pipe dream, I know.)