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the younger generation loves the game and the older set hate the noise.

That only makes sense if the "older generation" is the silent/greatest generation because 95% of people I see playing pickle ball are baby boomers.

I completely agree that alcoholism is a disease, and as with any other disease, we have to look at the survivability if she got the transplant.

Let's be honest, while the article tries to be favourable to the patient, you can piece together the facts and see that her odds weren't good. While she's been sober since she got the diagnosis, it appears she was immediately hospitalised which tells us she was in very rough shape and has only been sober while in the hospital. Even if she was able to stay sober, it looks like the odds with a partial transplant aren't great.

The comparison is apples and oranges. They only include the cost of the surgery itself, not the cost of after-surgical care, the potential cost of complications to both the patient and the donor, etc. Then there's the cost if the partial liver donation doesn't take, or if the patient relapses.

Obviously, there's also a lot of potential upside to having the patient survive, I just don't think the odds of that were all that high.

Because, it's a risk-reward calculation. If the patient doesn't qualify for transplant, then the expected risk outweighs the expected reward. In this case, the risk isn't just to the patient, but also the donor, and by extension, the medical system itself.

Jesus Christ that’s fucked up. Only 36 too and stopped drinking…

From the article:

Amanda Huska died Aug. 15 after spending six months in an Oakville, Ont. hospital.

and:

Huska, he said, stopped drinking as soon as she was diagnosed with Alcohol Liver Disease on March 3

So that sounds like she was immediately admitted (which implies she was already very sick) and only was sober in the hospital. In my opinion, that doesn't qualify for "stopped drinking" and unfortunately she didn't get a chance to prove whether or not she was actually able to stop.

I think it's less of "goaded him into it" and more of "predicted it". As others have pointed out, messing with unions is a red-line for the NDP.

At least that means a less conservative (ie ~~LPO~~ OLP) Ontario premier…

Eh, I'm not sure Crombie is much less conservative than Ford. I feel if she becomes Premier, we're going to have to wait another cycle of shifting right-then-left until we have a chance at an actual progressive government.

It doesn't say "own a car", it says "own car". As in, "How do you get to work?" "By my own car."

The Verge's recommendation of Brother Printers

Yes, they literally wrote that article as a meme. It's been a joke on the VergeCast for years that their printer recommendation is, "Get the cheapest Brother printer that meets your needs (duplex, scanner, colour, etc). You'll almost certainly be happy with it." In your case, even if you don't want it, you'll probably get a scanner, but it doesn't add that much to the price.

They should focus on restoring public funding to postsecondary schools, tightening future foreign student quotas and shutting down diploma mills.

"They" (the Federal government) can't focus on two of these three since education is the domain of the provinces, and they've already tightened student visa numbers.

And it's not like it contains any sensitive information. I'm sure all your emails are just friendly correspondence with your pen pal.

The actual article https://www.thedrive.com/news/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-in-maine