I think the "ethical" argument is two fold.

Eating meat currently requires you to kill animals, whom if they had any say in it, would very likely say that they would prefer to stay alive and not be eaten. The fact that on your family farm the animals were well treated and happy doesn't change the fact that one day they were killed so you could eat them.

Large scale raising of animals for consumption is doing significant harm to the climate, burning down Amazon for more grazing land, methane production from cows etc.

If meat could be grown in a lab you could mostly fix both of those issues

Sounds really cool... You should write a screenplay.....That would make a great movie.

I've always understood the major problem with waste in the food industry is liability. Come up with an iron clad way for businesses to donate waste food that it won't come back and bite them in the ass and I suspect that situation would improve.

Unless I'm mistaken China holds US T-bills, not demand loans. So they have no ability to "call in" loans. They could sell the T-Bills on the open market and potentially cause some problems that way.

Every employer I've ever worked for would disagree with you 100%.

Most have very specific policies about social media behaviour and the minute you identify your self as an employee of Company X you have put yourself in a position of representing that Company.

If I decide I want to walk around town carrying a sign that says "Gays should be shot" then my employer isn't impacted and doesn't have much to say about it. Change that to "I work for Company X. Gays should be shot" Then I'm going to get rightly fired as I've now tied Company X to my hate speech. The fact that I'm carrying that sign not on company property while not on company time is completely irrelevant.

PS Apologies to the Gay community for using them as my example above. For the record, people are people and Gay people are perfectly fine and I do not advocate their genocide.

Beyond the 10% bump lets try to acknowledge the share price is at an all time high at the moment. Doesn't strike me that the market is really thinking that Apple is somehow doomed.

Hades is the Greek god of the underworld. Pluto is the Roman version.

Oh for a funny mod point... this gave me a serious chuckle to start my day.

Let's at least be honest. If I need a hip replacement in Canada, I'm going to be waiting a while in line for my free hip replacement.

If I need emergency life saving heart surgery, I'm on the table near immediately.

Neither of those will put me in the poor house. I've lived in the US , health care is great, as long as you have great health insurance

I'm back in Canada now and it's a far superior system for the masses. Perfect? Maybe not, but a damn sight better than what's south of the line.

I believe they removed them to comply with Chinese law rather than "pressure". I'm sure there will be much dismay of this action but whether you like it or not, if you are going to do business in China ... or any other country you need to comply with their laws whether you agree with them or not.

I think the point he is making that the deal he entered into with Ericsson was to be a FTE (Full time employee) and they didn't honor the agreement and instead treated him as a sub contractor but at FTE rates... the worst of both worlds. Less pay and no benefits.

As someone who also worked at Ericsson in their consulting arm I can agree they SUCK and have terrible management. After 5 "managers" in 3 years that they seemed to randomly pull out of a hat.... Jim will now be the manager , and he will manage, lets see, Bob and Tim and Julie! Lets meet again with the magic hat and change it up... I was so happy to jump ship to the client I was at the whole time who actually knew what I was doing and actually appreciated me.

And today I'm out of mod points..... this is about as insightful as it gets...mod up

I had a robomower a number of years ago... honestly the greatest thing I ever bought. Did a fantastic job and totally automated a job I hated. My problem at the time was it broke down after a season. Luckily I had bought at Costco , so returned and got a new one... which was fantastic, then broke down after a season. That one was returned for a refund as Costco strangely enough stopped carrying them.

At the time they were $1800 and for that price I didn't think that a major servicing was reasonable. I'm sure they have much improved in the last 10 years and someday I will definitely revisit. It really did do a stellar job and the set up with the control wire to fence it in really wasn't that much of a chore.

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Ours was 200K.... in Canada. Canada is a big place, with varied housing markets. If your house was in Saskatoon maybe it was 35K. In Vancouver or Toronto, not so much.