ChocoboRocket @ ChocoboRocket @lemmy.world

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I get them from Costco

I still buy lactose free milk (costs a comparative fortune) but have been toying with the idea of just cracking a lactose pill (they're powder with gelatin capsule) and simply adding it to the milk

If a lactose pill is like 25 cents and 4L of lactose free milk is $4 more expensive, I'm thinking it's time to run some experiments.

For me, ice cream works great with lactose pills, it's when meals have some cheese that my coverage gets spotty, probably has to do with the ice cream being the only thing I'm eating while meals have lots of non lactose stuff that can prevent lactose pills from hitting all that dairy

Danielle and other Conservatives believe they exist in the superposition of "I can tell others what to do, but others are never allowed to tell me what to do"

Damn, nearly 14,000km^2 burned already

Causes of all fires: Lightning, 65 per cent; humans (deliberate and accidental) 29 per cent; unknown, 6 per cent.

Honestly, I'm fine with Lemmy staying small for a good bit.

For me, Reddit and now Lemmy are time wasters. I come here to laugh at the memes, catch some news, and maybe see some bobs.

Sometimes news articles don't have any comments, so I'll just read the article and maybe add a comment, or just upvote and move on. Some more news content would be nice, and hopefully the local provincial/state and even city groups get some traction soon so I can leave reddit entirely instead of lurking local subreddits without signing in.

I am more than happy for reddit to become a lightning rod for bots and shills now that I have a basic understanding of this platform

I'd rather read a handful of genuine comments, discussion, and opinion/insights from real people on Lemmy than hundreds of divisive comments, bad faith arguments, bots, and irrelevant forum sliding jokes/tangential rants that have polluted reddit.

Living near Quebec has ruined me for poutine, now I'm back in the GTA I can't find a reliable spot that can make a good classic poutine.

Not to be a poutine snob, but I hope those curds melted, even the best places sometimes have curds or gravy that's too cold and doesn't melt properly!

If anyone in the GTA has a good traditional poutine spot please let me know. There's some good shawarma poutine floating around, but the only reliable classic poutine I have found is Swiss Chalet. I usually get traditional gravy and chalet sauce on the side for dunking

I mean, he specifically goes out of his way to make sure he gives a 💩

But yes, no company should feel confident in thinking about attempting anything like this, if they do, they should directly fine the board of directors, and C-suite teams.

It's about time these clowns stop hiding behind their business entities and have consequences fall directly on their heads.

Why is it that I immediately assume at least a sizable amount of chatbots on threads were either created, directed, or funded by Elon and his financiers.

Of course there are going to be chat bots swarming any social media/platform with enough real participants, but it's not like Meta is new to social media and I would assume Meta has sophisticated detection systems available to them for exactly this type of thing (and probably has their own chatbots and a bot whitelist)

Maybe the chatbot AI revolution will make social media unusable.

Either way, I would be shocked if chatbots could exist on either platform in a meaningful way if Meta/Twitter actually put reasonable efforts into ensuring all content was generated and shared by real people.

I'm saying this without a clue how anything actually works, don't take my crackpot theories too seriously

Why are the standards so so so unbelievably low for positions of authority?

I'd be surprised if there any agencies left that aren't already half in the pocket of domestic terrorists.

I believe the union reps (heads?) can accept a contract/offer and people go back to work - but the contract is still voted on by the union.

If the government offer is rejected by the union, the strike will resume.

This system prevents having the entire union vote every time something is offered, and helps encourage that best offers are tendered so employers can't just force hundreds of votes increasing wage offers by pennies at a time etc.

There is potential for soft or corrupt union leaders to accept a bad deal in the hopes that enough striking workers need to work again/don't care enough to vote etc and accept the worse deal. But if they become known for accepting bad deals, they will likely be ousted and replaced with someone who better represents the union members.

What's even weirder is this article is entirely devoid of actual information.

It did not mention anything about the strike aside from its impact on shipping and freight.

Nothing on what the workers wanted to accomplish, nothing on what actually resolved the strike, nothing about the strike at all.

Just some stats on how many containers need to be processed, how little rail cargo there was compared to this time last year, and some talk about maintaining Canada's reputation for receiving and distributing goods from our ports.

I'd love if any mainstream news actually had a pro-worker agenda and celebrated the formation of unions, and the benefits of collective bargaining.

Feels like the classic neoliberal plan of one step forward, two steps back.

Make a plan that sounds like it can solve the problem, but then add a bunch of 'well intentioned' rules (space requirements around a home, requirements for dedicated parking etc) and the new opportunities are entirely lost.

This article talks about converting a single detached to a multiplex would require 4x the empty space between property lines that a single detached would. This prevents conversions, and forces developers to acquire expensive land, bulldoze the existing home to build another structure that will have to be smaller than the original home, to fit more people on the same land space in smaller dwellings. It's impossible to drive living costs down when replacing single detached with the missing middle costs 5x to get 2-3x the units.

It makes sense to have rules and regulations with building, but government seems to be more than happy to make a big paradigm shift, while doing everything they can to stimy their own attempt at progress.

I love the memes and shitposts. They're lighthearted and fun, and entertaining. I'm not here looking for reddit just with less comment traffic, I'm here for the atmosphere and the community.

Just talking to/with real people is a huge plus, getting genuine opinions, good faith opinion/discourse, with little divisive content, and the "big" news hits my all feed just fine.

There's plenty of avenues available to find conflict, controversy, drama, and walls of opinion to engage and enrage with elsewhere.

This place feels like a community where everyone is at least somewhat vested in contributing and making things better/more enjoyable for all, and in my opinion it doesn't need to change or accomplish anything else

People with no risk tolerance crying when risk pays off, the finest of wines to my risk tolerant palate 🤌

Should have picked a different name if ya wanted steak with those potatoes.

I made a similar comment to another thread, but I've been having login issues and I don't think it posted.

I'm not sure if it's being able to compare apples to Oranges with Lemmy, and I was very aware that the quality of reddit was lower than when I joined in like 2010. But Holy Cow is it ever bad at Reddit.

RIF is still working for me, I'm logged out and never vote or comment on Reddit anymore. But I still pop in to view local news and subreddits that don't have the same traction here yet.

The current Reddit experience is terrible. All the comments feel like opinion wedge bots stating divisive opinions that aren't engaging with anyone.

All the top/best sorted comments are a few minutes old and largely irrelevant. Seems like reddit is pushing bot/chat GPT content to replace migration users.

I'd rather be on a buggy platform, talking to real people, who disagree or not, are engaging in real discussion.

Going to reddit when I've crushed through most hot topics on Lemmy really drives home what makes a social platform good, and what makes a social platform bad.

Hopefully Reddit doesn't fully migrate here and it can serve it's new purpose of being a social cesspool trap for special interest bots.

Getting the same news from Lemmy has provided a comparison that allowed me to see exactly how toxic Reddit currently is.

I like how the article mentions vague climate change, and "nutrient rich water" drifting to existing algae populations and causing a bloom, all while heavily implying these things happen naturally.

I'm fairly confident this "nutrient rich water" is created by agricultural runoff. Even if it's not the source of this specific bloom, agricultural runoff is well known to cause algae blooms, and is something this article goes out of its way to avoid mentioning entirely.

Instead implying nature and maybe historically high temperatures over extended periods are the cause, but certainly only those two vague-ish things that are much harder to address than over-fertilizing and poor irrigation.

The wolf from the neverending story freaked me right out when I was smol. Returned it to blockbuster and then rented Mr. Bean instead, so huge win

In my experience, everyone I've ever interacted with who used "touch grass" as an insult was someone who peaked in highschool

It sure is divisive, it divides the guilty and the innocent. Because the far right inspires acts of terrorism, and the far right acts on this inspiration.

One can't play the 'divisive' card when a group self divides with exclusively one side carrying 100% of the guilty action.

Also, divisional - relating to an organizational or administrative division. "a divisional manager"

Might not fit the de-google aspect of your search, but I love my galaxy S10 plus. Older phone, but still snappy and takes great pictures and videos.

I got mine used for like 400 bucks (CAD) before Covid, so while it may not hit the Google free aspect of your search, you'll save some $$$