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âŚand Santa is the feminized form of Saint, so perhaps itâs an all female production?
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According to several recent surveys, baby boomers are the least religious age group in Canada but are the most religious age group in the USA. Although I was aware that religion was generally much less important to Canadians than Americans, I assumed the importance by age group would be similar.
eh, thatâs within error bars for Canada
interesting. funny that the US has a U shape distribution, I wouldnât have guessed that.
The chart below is from a more recent, larger Angus Reed poll that shows the generational differences to be greater. This poll measures âreligious commitmentâ, defined as regular attendance at a place of worship.
It will be interesting to see if Canadaâs Gen Z become less religious with age as that is what happened in Canada with the Boomers. In any event, the Canadian Boomer numbers are less than half those of American Boomers.
hmmm interesting
US non-profit employment (10%) is actually higher than manufacturing employment (8%). Had no idea this was the case.
Food banks, crisis hotlines, research institutes and universities have laid off 28,696 workers since the start of 2025, according to an analysis by outplacement firm Challenger, Grey & Christmas â a 409 per cent jump from the 5,640 jobs cut during the first 11 months of 2024.
US charities provide crucial public services and are big drivers of the US economy. The sector accounts for 10 per cent of private payrolls, compared to 8 per cent for manufacturing. More than 300,000 non-profits employ 12.8mn US workers, according to the labour department.
So charities arenât so much charities as they are extensions of the government welfare state.
Directors of non-profit organisations say they are struggling to fund their operations as the Trump administration scales back federal grants, which account for nearly one-third of their revenue, amid a years-long decline in charitable giving, forcing them to cut staff.
The US charity sector has relied on money from the federal government since the 1960s, when president Lyndon Johnson funded non-profits in an effort to reduce poverty as a part of his Great Society agenda, which also created Medicare and food stamps.
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Nothing wrong with nonprofits being 10% of employment, if people give 10% of their income to charity.
I wouldnât have a problem with that either. Problem is that 1/3 of the charities income is coming from the Federal Government and that doesnât count anything that might be coming from State and local governments.
So does the 10% you are talking about also include your FIT?
An argument can be made that government grants to charity make sense when the charities are better situated to provide social âsafety netâ services than the government.
From that perspective, paying a little extra FIT in lieu of donating an equivalent amount to charity might make sense.
(That still allows room for differences of opinion in the extent to which the government should provide for such safety nets, or the question of whether the charities so funded are doing such work.)
Went to bed in the dark the other night. I was in a fuzzy robe. I picked up some static electricity. Got close to an LED on the end table, and it started sparking. Crazy! Probably can turn that into a Static-onator and rule the Tri-State Area!!
The Mexican snack equivalent to the hostess cupcake is called âPinguinosâ and it is perfectly named imo
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Today I learned what an organoid is. And a teensy bit about how people are creating organoids to test drugs much, much more quickly than has ever been possible. And making cerebral organoids to use as CPUs. Wild stuff.
I also remembered/recalled/learned on the weekend that they donât have flakies outside of Canada.
We really do have the best treats.
didnât Spy Kids do that already?
A parked car in the early 70s evaporated off more gas when parked than a moving car uses now.
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70s cars wonât run out of gas in a few hours parked (engine off).
I think the claim might be around how much pollution each produces where new cars emit very little besides water and carbon dioxide at the tailpipe once they are at operating temps. They also have fully sealed fuel systems. Old cars smell like gas fumes 100% of the time.
I guess thatâs sort of what you said, but your wording was imprecise.