A coffin-like capsule that allows people to end their life could be used in Switzerland from next year, its creators say.

The Sarco suicide pod allows a user to lie down and activate the process themselves within a matter of minutes.

Individuals are asked a series of questions before they can press a button, which brings oxygen down to a critical level.

Apology offered.

WSJ- Netflix Co-CEO Says He ‘Screwed Up’ When Defending Dave Chappelle Special

Apology rejected.

Reuters- Netflix workers stage walk-out over Chappelle transgender comments

Meanwhile Waterloo’s Woke Utopia is at hand. 

A diverse workforce is essential to creating “an anti-racist working environment,” it says. “The current system is not accessible to certain populations, and must be amended to improve accessibility to the process from start to finish,” it says.

It calls for the Region to better recognize credentials from other countries, and create “a hiring policy that actively seeks out the lived experiences and community-based work of BIPOC communities as accepted qualifications.”

I’m generally not a fan of “models” but guest Martin Armstrong actually has a long track record of getting it right when it comes to forecasting.

Follow up to the video from this afternoon. First 5 minutes are a bit whatever but then it gets good.

Here’s the basics.

I’m sure we’ll hear more details in the days to come.

What is seen and what is not seen.

The House of Representatives passed legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity, though it faces an uncertain future in the Senate. The legislation passed on a 224-204 vote which was mostly along with a party-line vote. Three Republicans voted with all Democrats. […]

 
There are concerns that someone would be forced to hire a cross-dresser to be a hostess in a top restaurant. But noticeably absent is Class discrimination. Class is omitted for that would end Marxism. Class discrimination takes place based on a person’s social class. Interestingly, the Democrats are engaging in Class discrimination right now.

It was never about the cake.

Good luck UCP in the Calgary-Lougheed byelection today.
Moving away from the cliff requires the first step back.

The Trudeau government came to power calling for more women to get involved in politics and claiming to champion diversity.

No more EPA-funded attacks on farmers.

“We have to halt the regulatory onslaught,” he said. “The administration will never lose sight of the fact that the number one farm preservation tool we have is farm profitability, not buzzwords, not catch phrases, or a federal grant program.”

The story’s behind the WaPo paywall, but if you hit the ‘Esc’ key repeatedly as it loads, you can usually grab the page.

Opioid deaths continued to surge in 2015, surpassing 30,000 for the first time in recent history, according to CDC data released Thursday.
That marks an increase of nearly 5,000 deaths from 2014. Deaths involving powerful synthetic opiates, like fentanyl, rose by nearly 75 percent from 2014 to 2015.
Heroin deaths spiked too, rising by more than 2,000 cases. For the first time since at least the late 1990s, there were more deaths due to heroin than to traditional opioid painkillers, like hydrocodone and oxycodone.
“The epidemic of deaths involving opioids continues to worsen,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden in a statement. “Prescription opioid misuse and use of heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl are intertwined and deeply troubling problems.”
In the CDC’s opioid death data, deaths may involve more than one individual drug category, so numbers in the chart above aren’t mutually exclusive. Many opioid fatalities involve a combination of drugs, often multiple types of opioids, or opioids in conjunction with other sedative substances like alcohol.
In a grim milestone, more people died from heroin-related causes than from gun homicides in 2015. As recently as 2007, gun homicides outnumbered heroin deaths by more than 5 to 1.

And the Tea Party won.