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If the cars are running all day long it might make sense to need another human to pick up later shifts. Still though, that ratio is way too high to be economical.

Canada too

Keep in mind these averages are across all age groups - I'm assuming that (like me) you're relatively young and still early in your working career where pay is generally lower.

Back in the spring they announced that they were planning on basically changing all zoning to allow for duplexes and quadplexes in all existing single family lots - now they've finally introduced the actual legislation that'll do it.

I believe that's only true if the countries have a reciprocal tax treaty. In practice I think the US has one with most countries, but I'm sure there are exceptions where both the US and that country would expect you to pay their full taxes.

Because it's the law and is their actual legal responsibility? Take it up with lawmakers if you think that's ridiculous, but generally most western societies have (rightly imho) decided that disabled people should have the ability to get around and that businesses need to accommodate that. Since the airlines won't let passengers take their own wheelchairs on board, then they need to assist those passengers in getting to their wheelchairs.

I actually like 11 compared to 10 (so far as I like Windows in the first place - I only use it on my work-provided computer, Linux everywhere else). People rightly complain about the advertising and tracking for why they won't upgrade but doesn't 10 have that too?

It probably also made the moose feel safer.

There isn't great support through the public system, unfortunately. A while ago when I was going through a hard spot I did end up going to some group therapy sessions at Burnaby Hospital so I think something like that is available through the public system but it's ultimately pretty limited.

Are you on / have you considered medication? In my experience, I had mental health issues throughout most of my life and therapy / counseling were really only temporary coping mechanisms. Methods like CBT could prevent me from spiraling but not from feeling crappy in the first place. Once I got on the right antidepressant my issues basically dissolved away and I haven't had any further troubles. Medication may not be right for you, but I'm just mentioning it because in some cases, for some people, counseling & therapy alone can't solve the problem.

Maybe in some narrow cases but I'd take issue with your use of 'mostly'. Here's an article about a study that looked at the environmental damage of different diets and a vegan diet is significantly, significantly better for the environment - and that's not even considering animal welfare.

It's about reducing harm. Are all crops grown the way I would like? No. But farm animals also have to be fed these same crops, so when you eat meat you not only contributed to the animal cruelty and substantial amounts of the crop-harms you identified, while a vegetarian or vegan only contributed to a lesser amount of the crop-harms.

It's not practical to live without causing any harm somewhere, but that's not an excuse to pretend that all lifestyles are equally harmful.

I think you should take baby-steps and focus first on just getting something running for you to use. Maybe first experiment with configuring an application you'd like in a virtual machine before you spend money on hardware too.