Canada actually produces very little vaccines because in the 80s the Conservative government thought it was a waste of tax money. Thankfully that’s changing since the Covid pandemic.

See also: Nobel Disease.

The lead developers of Lemmy. They also develop the mobile Lemmy app Jerboa (personally, not my first choice).

Where’s the money, Lemeowski?

He has the cards and by cards I mean kompromat.

Here in Canada, primary education is paid for by the province

Via property taxes.

Rushing your decisions is a common red flag in scams. I’d say it’s probably enough of a red flag to stop talking with them. You can try to slow play things and if they continue to hound you then it’s almost certainly a scam. They’re probably going to do something like:

Ask you for money to purchase things you’ll need for your job (MLM/pyramid scheme)

Give you a large cheque, ask you to cash it, give a certain amount of the cash to someone, and keep the rest for yourself (cheque fraud).

Poor Wife

This is almost exactly how I found out my ex-wife was cheating. She bought a ticket to a concert and then freaked out when I bought one too. Why wouldn’t I want to go to a concert with my wife? She said it was just going to be a thing with her friends from work. When we arrived there was exactly one friend from work. A guy friend.

Valve wrote literal research papers on player experience and level design. The stuff they came up with have just become the norm in other games. For example, Valve found that players never look up without a reason to. They came up with ways to get the player to look up without directly telling them to with level design choices. Things like rays of light coming in from above, or ropes hanging from the ceiling.

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