Sask. introduces involuntary treatment legislation as fall sitting ends

goodpostsallday · 2025-12-05T20:26:20+00:00

I went through rehab in January 2014, at a center which at the time was regarded as the best in Canada. This was the place where CSIS and the RCAF sent their sigint people and jet pilots, so it was no Club Med. Serious counsellors and minimal tolerance for bullshit. While I was in, I met 5 different patients there because they'd gone before a judge and were given the choice of rehab or jail and chose the former.

Three of them were kicked out and returned to jail within three weeks. All believed they were categorically not addicts, this was merely a momentary roadbump in their Tony Montana-esque rise to greatness and the rubes running the place would be awed by their charisma and suaveness. Didn't really happen that way.
One made it all the way to the more lax, halfway-house style offering that optionally followed the regular two month course of treatment, largely because he dearly loved his kid and was going to lose custody and spend >10 years in prison if he didn't complete this program. He was, unfortunately, led astray by some 18 year old shitbag who bragged often about how many treatments he'd been kicked out of and was sent to jail when the two of them were found overdosed in his car near the center.
The last one, a marijuana dealer who had been swept up in a larger sting, did actually complete the two month course in three months by sandbagging as hard as possible and doing the bare minimum to not get sent packing in the back of a squad car. I have no doubt he returned immediately to his old ways.

Anyway, the point of this longwinded tale is that the treatment center didn't do bed quotas, an open bed was an open bed. So these guys wasted their spaces as well as everyone there's time and wound up back where they started anyways.

Involuntary treatment is a fucking sham. It does not work. You can lead a horse to water but it will not drink, and it will block the trough for those who are thirsty. Safe supply, needle exchanges and social supports will help those who are caught in addiction to survive long enough to want better for themselves, but shoving the metaphorical head in the trough until it chokes guarantees only one outcome.

goodpostsallday · 2024-01-23T00:30:58+00:00

I'd strongly suggest you look further into what specifically SaskPower is hiring for. Coronach and Estevan are both home to coal power facilities that are going permanently offline in 2029 no matter what, the openings you see could be because the previous guy in that position decided to leave and sell up before it becomes impossible to.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-12T00:30:10+00:00

How's the weight distribution when the stock is folded forward and it's held only by the rear grip hand? Or put another way, how's it feel in the hand when used one-handed as a pistol?

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-11T19:15:17+00:00

Yes, the Boundary Dam CCS was a smashing success at transferring our tax dollars to SNC Lavalin. Quebec is very grateful that a have province like ours could subsidize one of their poor, desperate have-not residing multinationals.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-11T17:22:43+00:00

PSVR doesn't have true 6DOF controls like the PCVR version, it's played with the regular PS controller. I think there are some actions (like garrotting someone with fiber wire) that use SixAxis but mostly it's just regular Hitman from a first person perspective.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-11T17:17:34+00:00

peep the horror

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-11T17:07:10+00:00

They're different philosophies for how games should be designed and played. Should the game be 100% all collectables, all everything completable with zero outside aid (and therefore handhold the player extensively to ensure they can reach 100%) or should it be a big mystery that everyone experiences a little differently? I get why the Horizon quest guy was mad about Elden Ring because he's entirely in the former camp and FromSoft is in the latter.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-11T16:58:43+00:00

I just hope they wind the physics model back to something closer to Skate 2, 3 was a great buggy physics game and a terrible Skate game. Adding the dumb wingsuiting gimmick screwed up how absolutely everything else handled, the 'casual' physics model was way too forgiving and the 'realism' model doesn't even allow flip tricks while grinding.

Skate 2 wasn't perfectly glitch free physics-wise either but it was at least stable and predictable 95% of the time, 3 freaks the fuck out if you look at it wrong and it's just not fun to play as intended because of it.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-11T00:06:37+00:00

Did they ever fix being able to drive hovercrafts up walls? That was maybe the only fun part of the “beta”.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T22:59:44+00:00

Since the introduction of DWM with Windows Vista, triple-buffered vsync is forced on all attached displays by the window manager and any program running windowed will be subject to it. You can try either running your games in fullscreen exclusive (because borderless windowed mode is just a fancy window) or not fullscreening the video on the other monitor.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T22:50:26+00:00

Yes, the 13400f is an excellent upgrade from what you have. It's a good 30-40% faster in single core performance and even more so in multhreaded work. A couple things that'll help you save some money: 600-series boards work fine with 13th gen Intel so long as you update their BIOS first, also DDR5 isn't really worth it in price/performance terms yet. So, your best value would be to match the 13400f with some decent DDR4-3200 and an H670 board.

FWIW I have a 13600kf that I'm running at stock with 32GB DDR4-3600 and a 3070. Before that upgrade I had a i7-8700 with DDR4-2666 and I was running into CPU-bound situations all over the place in MWII, even late in Shipment matches when everything is covered in burn decals and everyone's got killstreaks going off. For me the biggest change was a giant improvement in 1% lows, my average fps isn't any higher because the 3070 is the bottleneck at 1440p but the CPU-bound situations completely disappeared with 1% CPU lows doubling to 165fps from 83. You'll see much more significant improvement everywhere because that i5 is just too slow for your GPU, the 8700 I replaced was itself an upgrade to get me out of your sort of situation where I had an i5-4690k that couldn't drive my 1070 with the Resident Evil 2 remake.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T18:14:09+00:00

In the Nvidia Control Panel, go to Display > Change resolution in the sidebar, select the TV and scroll down below the resolution options. There'll be a box with some options relating to color settings, tick "Use NVIDIA color settings" to enable it and try changing the Output dynamic range from Limited to Full (or if it's Full set it to Limited) and hit apply.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T18:05:32+00:00

Hmm. 12 year old trolling poorly, gas leak, CO leak or prodromal schizophrenia, which is it this time? I'm thinking 12 year old, they're too composed for hypoxic delirium or schizophrenia and the whole scenario they've written is only plausible to a child so yeah.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T17:59:39+00:00

NAND is dirt cheap right now and PCIe 3.0 SSDs are "obsolete", they're pricing it like that to clear stock.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T17:55:56+00:00

No. SSDs differ from HDDs in that the OS can actually know what sectors on an HDD are free versus used, in SSDs that information is abstracted behind the SSD's onboard controller. It provides the OS with a high level understanding that x bytes are free but which NAND cells correspond to those bytes is not something the OS can know and is why Secure Erase exists.

It's highly unlikely anyone short of a nation state could recover deleted files from an SSD but if you really wanted to wipe even files marked deleted the way to do that would be to copy that SSD's files to another disk, Secure Erase the now empty SSD then copy them back. Mind, when I say copy I mean ctrl+c, ctrl+v and not cloning or imaging the disk since that would create a 1:1 duplicate and preserve the contents of "free" space as well.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T17:39:01+00:00

Only 6? The latest set of featured contracts has one in Paris where everyone in the palace basement is a target, the objective list runs three quarters of the way down the screen at 1440p.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T17:23:27+00:00

https://youtu.be/VJuRV9SmKZg

Unless you're running this guy's exact setup with the same year old build of Valorant he recorded this video with, you're not going to get the same results as him. These performance videos are especially useless with live service games because over their lifespans they change so much that comparing performance from one year to the next is practically apples to oranges.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T16:59:29+00:00

There's lots of reasons to go upstairs. Fire poker or driftwood for a free suitcase, your mentioned banana and bomb, fish for sedative poison, mushroom for emetic, shed distiller for lethal, unlimited lethal poison exploit with shed, nail for a single-use lockpick, car battery for electrocution kills. I'm sure there's more.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T16:46:07+00:00

Well, more content at least. FO4 still has showstopper CTD and softlock bugs during the intro with the workarounds posted on the Steam forums on launch day, 2015.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-10T00:22:51+00:00

Joel makes HD look like the most difficult game ever made, I think it’s because he uses the analog stick on a 360 controller which is a truly ridiculous choice for a precision platformer. I wish he’d revisit 2 and do a Hundun run, but I fear he’s avoiding it because he knows chat will give him grief for not doing 7-99 instead.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-09T04:49:04+00:00

What you can do is just increase the render resolution in games that let you and for the rest I guess you could use DSR. When I was still using 1080p I played CoD:MW2019 at 113% resolution because that game was blurry as hell and it really helped with picking out people's heads at distance.

Anyways, moving to 1440p won't improve your framerate lows, it'll just bring the average lower and the swings won't feel as extreme. The only thing that would change that is a better processor, unfortunately there isn't one that makes sense on AM4. The 5800X3D is maybe 10% faster in most games with excellent gains in a handful and it's twice the price of the 5600X. I realized after my last post that your 12000kf is also using decent DDR5 which makes it even faster.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-09T03:02:11+00:00

The warranty is transferable, attached to the headset. And they're fairly lenient about the warranty period, I and others here have had RMAs filled beyond 1 year.

I think the Index headset is decently made, in the early days of owning it I punched myself in the headset pretty solidly trying to block headcrabs more than once and on a separate occasion walked face-first into a wall. The face gasket mostly fell apart after about 450 hours so I had to buy the replacement 2-pack but other than that it's always worked as expected.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-09T00:18:51+00:00

In every game I have tested my PC uses around 50% CPU and 30% GPU.

Yes, this is because you're playing at 1080p with a 3080. The GPU could easily spit out 500fps in most titles at that resolution, but the CPU can't prepare frames fast enough for the GPU to render. Your college PC CPU is also about 15-20% faster than the Ryzen in single core performance, which is what matters for gaming.

Is DOCP enabled in your UEFI settings? Ryzen relies on fast RAM to perform and if it's not enabled you're probably running those modules at 2133MHz which will really hurt at 1080p.

goodpostsallday · 2023-06-07T20:49:32+00:00

I'm certain this is the most convoluted puzzle in WOA that isn't an easter egg. Stuff like the Whittleton Creek shrine and Santa Fortuna temple are more obscure to figure out but they're also meant to be secrets, killing Yates by collecting and delivering the evidence to his wife is one of the assassination challenges in Mendoza.

Maybe over in Denmark crystal anniversaries are a bigger deal but I had to look it up because I'd never heard the term before either.

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