I absolutely hate “smart” TVs! You can’t even buy a quality “dumb” panel anymore. I can’t convince the rest of my family and friends that the only things those smarts bring are built-in obsolescence, ads, and privacy issues....
$500 is better than $0 but I dont see it significantly changing the math involved. It might relieve the pressure a little for some people but only for a month, maybe 2.
The federal Liberals are seeing a dive in popularity among younger voters, once the core of their base, falling 23 points behind the Conservatives by the end of August, according to new polling from Nanos Research.
What this fails to account for is that the party of nazis and demagogues is heavily responsible for that hopelessness. They somehow manage to successfully pass the blame to the other party who at least are trying to relieve that a little bit, around the margins. This is a case of perfection being the enemy of good, and it is stupid and self destructive in the extreme.
The problem with taxing High Value Property is what happens when Single Family Homes hit that value? If the value of my house skyrockets while I am living there then I can end up losing it do to a massive hike in my taxes.
I bring this up because California implemented Prop13 in 1978 to address similar issues and it had mixed results.
I agree with the idea of taxing secondary properties at a higher rate. But that could also have the unintended consequence of driving up rents and landlords look to recoup that money.
The speed can fluctuate as users pop on and off a server, but in general I have gotten excellent speeds (100mbps+). If ever I am getting poor throughput I swap to a different random server until I get what I need. I do not torrent with it though so I am not sure how it fares with that use.
I just moved to BC and have no medical/dental insurance yet. Last week I had to pay out-of-pocket to see a dentist and got a prescription for antibiotics. I paid less than I ever did in the US where I did have insurance. Less than CA$100 to see a dentist, get an xray and the prescription. Mindblowing.
I have been using PIA for years and I was thinking of switching to Protons VPN (as well as storage, email and password manager) and I was wondering what everyone else thought of it. Is it as stable and useful as PIA?...
Since you are looking to play single player you might also want to check out Minetest with the Mineclone2 addon installed. It is not identical, but it is an amazing substitute and free.
Interplay…feel like I am in the Wayback Machine. I worked there for a few years at the time of Carmageddon, Fallout1/2, Descent, and some other classics. A lifetime ago.
I still have my Vault13 flask from Fallout2. Sad that I can not really use it anymore though as the printing is very fragile now.
There is only so much POTUS can do without the support of the Congress, and the House is currently controlled by people who would rather watch America fail than a Democrat succeed.
Relevant to this discussion I just moved from the LA area to Vancouver Island. Though there is a drought here no one from Los Angeles would recognize it as such.
The city in California where I lived had a water treatment plant whose output was used to irrigate city parks and landscaping. Not particularly practical to run a parallel water system outside a dense urban area. Maybe not even then. I was not aware of any individual homes that were using grey water systems unless it was some DIY kind of set up. The most I ever did was collect the water I used to wash rice or when waiting for the shower to warm up and use that to water my garden. Eliminating waste like that probably does little in the grand scheme but after living in a desert for so long I can not just pour water down the drain without trying to salvage some of it. Dual flush toilets can also cut down on waste or the tried and true “Don’t flush for #1” . Even new toilets use 5L per flush so that adds up fast.
I don’t know if I’m just becoming overly sensitive to my own language or if this is an actual issue, so feel free to let me know if it seems that I just need to grow thicker skin, but still....
Good friend of mine has a gimpy leg after 2 too many motorcycle accidents. He is lucky to have one of them at all. I dont think “lame” has ever come up in context of him or his infirmary.
I have argued with otherwise intelligent people who sound exactly like the person above. It is a strange contrarian mentality with no basis in the science as they claim. I once even took up the challenge from someone who said I was afraid to investigate the “other side”. I read every single thing he sent me and they were all rubbish. Not a one of them even support the claims he made. When I responded saying this just fired back that I was brain-washed or carrying water for commies or other such inanities. It became clear after a while that he did not even understand the basics of the greenhouse effect or how CO2 and other gasses cause it. I was utterly flabbergasted.
long story short : the person above may have the degrees they claim but they are not educated on this subject. It is so simple even a layman can understand it so they have no excuse.
My employer has thankfully taken the opposite approach. They decided that the only people who had to return to the office were those who needed to interact with directly humans or physical objects. Anyone who could do their job from home was free to do so. My boss said he was happy that employees could live where they wanted instead of within an hour of one of the offices. I took him at his word and moved from California to British Columbia.
I had passage booked to Vancouver yesterday and had to change plans to go to Horseshoe Bay instead. Not a gigantic deal, but added almost an hour each way to the trip.
Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’
Some public health experts hope that Americans will welcome the new shot as they would a flu jab. But demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since 2021 when it first became available and more than 240 million people in the U.S., or 73% of the population, received at least one shot....
What made Place special was the rarity. It created a sort of internet time capsule of what was popular or in the collective mind at that point in time. If you wanted to get what was important to you on the board then you had to act with purpose RIGHT NOW because it would be over and gone in a couple of days. Even with all the effort put in it would be erased at the end. Just Dust in the Wind.
So I’m looking to disconnect myself from Google and their tracking (as much as possible) and I was thinking about installing GrapheneOS on my Pixel phone. I mostly use my phone for Lemmy, Signal, NewPipe and taking photos. The last one is my biggest bother at the moment. The Google Photos environment is so convenient - I take...
Synology DSM is only available on Synology hardware. It is not something you can buy from them and install on your own NAS.
However…
There is Xpenology that works fairly well. I ran one for a couple of years and loved it, but updating it difficult and potentially dangerous to your data, some apps will not work and the latest DSM7 does not look like it will ever be available. I finally gave up last year and bought an Asustor AS3304T. Their ASM software and apps are not on par with Synology but it gets the job done for me at a significantly cheaper price.
I was watching pro golf coverage on the news and it seems so odd that men and women compete separately - same goes with pro bowling. Just seems weird to me that a game of skill is gendered when you can’t even raise an argument that someone might have an advantage because of what’s between their legs.
SMBC has a great comic on boy vs girl toys. Super relevant to this conversation. I have had it hanging on the wall of my office as a reminder since my eldest daughter was born 16yrs ago.
Opinion: It’s not that we have too many people. It’s that we have too few houses (www.theglobeandmail.com)
A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.
I absolutely hate “smart” TVs! You can’t even buy a quality “dumb” panel anymore. I can’t convince the rest of my family and friends that the only things those smarts bring are built-in obsolescence, ads, and privacy issues....
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 "Faye" Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing (9to5linux.com)
Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies (www.wired.com)
Apps that offer to “do it all” will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.
Air Canada customers kicked off plane for refusing vomit-covered seat (lemmy.ca)
Pay-wall link: globalnews.ca/…/air-canada-vomit-seat-passenger-a…...
Jordan Peterson learns that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences (rabble.ca)
Singh to push for another housing benefit payment (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
'Getting squeezed on both sides': Liberals a distant third among younger voters (www.ctvnews.ca)
The federal Liberals are seeing a dive in popularity among younger voters, once the core of their base, falling 23 points behind the Conservatives by the end of August, according to new polling from Nanos Research.
A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on. (bc.ctvnews.ca)
No reason not to do this across the board
What are good mullvadvpn alternatives with port forwarding
Finding that torrent sometimes don’t download at all despite seeders being present, so having to look around....
How to optimize my Ubuntu for gaming.
Specs:...
Canada issues LGBTQ+ travel advisory for U.S. (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Proton VPN. How good is it?
I have been using PIA for years and I was thinking of switching to Protons VPN (as well as storage, email and password manager) and I was wondering what everyone else thought of it. Is it as stable and useful as PIA?...
What are the ways to play minecraft offline (single player)?
Edit: without any account!!!
'The absolute wrong direction': Homeless man fined $100 for having cart on DTES sidewalk (bc.ctvnews.ca)
A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)
Fallout TV series "sneak peek" leaks online following Gamescom Starfield presentation (www.eurogamer.net)
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)
shared via feddit.de/post/2805371...
This picture really sells it (lemm.ee)
Not that it’s the most desirable property to buy in the first place: www.zillow.com/homedetails/…/78102111_zpid/?
Looking at America spiraling down into racisme, hate, etc... as a non-american is like reading a Lovecraftian tale: starring into the abyss of contempt, chaos, and bigotry… it also makes me sad. (beehaw.org)
How Will We Know When AI is Conscious? (www.youtube.com)
Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left (lemm.ee)
Reusing some household water can help with drought. Here's why that's tricky in Canada | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
What's an equivalent replacement for the word "lame"?
I don’t know if I’m just becoming overly sensitive to my own language or if this is an actual issue, so feel free to let me know if it seems that I just need to grow thicker skin, but still....
Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/9WPwx...
Hey guys, why is it getting warmer? Did y'all leave the stove on? (reddthat.com)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2021_Survey_on_existence_of_global_warming_and_responsibility_for_climate_change_-_bar_chart.svg
Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW (lemmy.ml)
Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office. They blamed it on not having enough data (fortune.com)
Sailings cancelled for a 2nd day on new Vancouver-Nanaimo ferry service (www.cbc.ca)
Hullo also says it will operate reduced schedule until end of August...
School district in the U.S. uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (web.archive.org)
Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’
New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises (www.reuters.com)
Some public health experts hope that Americans will welcome the new shot as they would a flu jab. But demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since 2021 when it first became available and more than 240 million people in the U.S., or 73% of the population, received at least one shot....
Twitter To Rebrand As X (www.theverge.com)
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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)
The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing by $2 to $13.99 per month in the US for new and current customers....
Can spez really be that stupid? (www.theverge.com)
Yes. Yes he can.
Reddit invites mods to “feedback” conversations with the admins (www.theverge.com)
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Alternative to Google Photos
So I’m looking to disconnect myself from Google and their tracking (as much as possible) and I was thinking about installing GrapheneOS on my Pixel phone. I mostly use my phone for Lemmy, Signal, NewPipe and taking photos. The last one is my biggest bother at the moment. The Google Photos environment is so convenient - I take...
What is unnecessary gendered?
I was watching pro golf coverage on the news and it seems so odd that men and women compete separately - same goes with pro bowling. Just seems weird to me that a game of skill is gendered when you can’t even raise an argument that someone might have an advantage because of what’s between their legs.