"Hey, you know those rules designed to protect victims and those we are charged with supervising and protecting? Why don't we use those to punish them and protect ourselves?"
jadero
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From the article:
Moe previously said the policy had strong support from the majority of Saskatchewan residents and parents.
I cannot possibly express how pissed off I get at this blind adherence to majority opinion and majority rule.
The theft of Indigenous lands had the support of the majority of those with power.
The creation of the Residential School system had majority support of those with power and, by that time, the actual majority of the population.
Sometimes, the majority is false because it only includes those with power. Sometimes the majority is not just wrong but actively selfish and maybe just a little evil.
Sometimes, the only way to create a better world is to drag people kicking and screaming into it.
I don't have all the answers for how to balance minority rights against majority desires, but lots of very smart people have discussed the problem for hundreds of years and concluded that bills of rights based on the principles of inclusion and respect are a good starting point. If we are just going to toss those rights aside every time we get uncomfortable, then they are not rights, but privileges or concessions.
Ask yourself this: How would I structure the world if tomorrow I was going to be reincarnated as an infant into a community without power and grow up to be different from those around me?
It should be the other way round, with "Indigenous first" policies.
Determine what sustainability means. Set limits in a way that allows for an actual livelihood without any individual or corporation being able to monopolize the fishery while allowing for a certain amount of noncommercial use, including for subsistence. If there's anything left over, open it up to non-indingenous people using similar guidelines.
Ok, good luck!
If you have to move it, try to not put it back where you started. We did a temporary install with ours while we built the addition where it was going to be permanently installed. That was enough for us to realize that we didn't want to move it again before it was time to take it to the scrapyard, so we installed it with enough clearance to be able to work on it. (Although it's getting harder as I get older and less flexible!)
I don't know what model of Harmon you have, but changing the igniter on ours (PC-45) was pretty easy.
We're in Saskatchewan. There is an amazing dealer in Yorkton who mails out any parts we need and who offers lots of really great usage and troubleshooting advice. It's not like having a local dealer who will come out for service, but it's better than nothing. Country Hearth & Comfort
If you find you're going through igniters, you might have a weak air pump. Insufficient flow during the ignition cycle can cause slow ignition. That means the igniter is running longer than it should, reducing it's life.
Yes, or use another disinfectant. Note that all disinfection must take place after filtering. It's not just the risk of contamination from the filter, but that pathogens can "hide" in the sediments, reducing the effectiveness of your disinfectant.
It's child's play.
We live where there is no municipal water or sewage. We have two holding tanks, one for water, one for waste. We haul the fresh water ourselves, but there are contractors we could hire. We call a pumper truck to empty the waste water tank occasionally and they haul it to a municipal dump site where it gets treated along with the rest of the municipal sewage.
There are RVs all over the place with appropriate toilet and water systems.
In the early 1980s, I worked at remote work camps with wash shacks that had hot and cold running water with flush toilets.
It's a solved problem.
Seems straightforward to me. It's pretty typical to permit testimony from those who were directly victimized. It's also pretty typical to permit impact statements from those indirectly victimized.
Not everything is a dog whistle and not every policy input needs to be restricted to those with specific expertise. I have no mental health training, so I shouldn't be making frontline decisions, but that doesn't change the fact that I want appropriate expertise in place. If that is not policy input, what is it?
Those stories mirror my own experiences with school and teachers. I, too, had to take on teaching math and, more surprisingly, how to actually approach the challenge of learning.
Yet, somehow, at the block parties, dinner parties, BBQs, picnics, and across the back fence I could always count on people to complain about how badly this or that person or couple was at parenting. Rarely did I hear people complain about schools or teachers except in the most egregious failures.
Another point is that your weapon of choice pretty much doesn't matter. This guide can be used for everything from spears to high powered rifles.
"Hey, you know those rules designed to protect victims and those we are charged with supervising and protecting? Why don't we use those to punish them and protect ourselves?"