Corngood @ Corngood @lemmy.ml

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Canada has a history of ping-ponging between Conservative and Liberal governments every ~10 years.

I think Trudeau was fine as a Liberal PM. The one difference this iteration was that they formed government on a promise to change the electoral system, and they didn't follow through. That could have ended the cycle. They burned everyone on the left with that move, and they lost the right because the right has gone Trumpist. So now they're fucked, and we're all fucked too. 🎉

But it's ok because some retired boomers get to shout 'taking our country back' then blame foreigners for anything negative that happens

And then fly back to Spain with the sense of superiority that comes from carrying a blue passport.

It sounds like you'd benefit from having a project in mind. I always learned programming languages by building something I wanted, or by tinkering on someone else's project.

They just need to gachafy it. One gun = one pull. Then people won't stop after one gun. They'll trade in all their guns and start stealing guns from their neighbours.

I assume they're going to use it to waste stupid amounts of electricity?

Lemmy format allows having an actual dialogue

It's great for seeing existing dialogue, but I think it falls short for long term discussion between more than two people.

On a non-threaded board (e.g. forums, github issues) you can watch a thread you're interested in. On Lemmy/reddit you only get notifications for direct responses to your comments.

I think some sort of option to watch/unwatch whole subtrees of comments would help a lot.

The Nova Scotia liberals got so desperate this last election that they promised electoral reform.

So everyone other than the conservatives were in support of it, but they still couldn't cooperate to run candidates strategically.

The liberals and ndp could form an alliance to pass proportional representation and then immediately call another election.

I have to assume most liberals don't actually want that to happen, and the cpc would go hard on calling it undemocratic.

But at least you still have your head.

They're pining for the fjords.

That Purple Mountains album is great. It's just heartbreaking that it ended up being a suicide note.

The thing that bothers me most about it is that it's making the tax less progressive.

The people who will benefit the most are people who spend the most on: toys, games, eating out, etc.

I get that the whole point is to allow some luxuries for Christmas, but this is going to do jack shit for people who are really struggling.

Anyone can be a CEO. They really need to limit this to just the most evil of CEOs.

I think if you want to get pre-clearance for the hotline, you should gather plenty of evidence of your eligibility and submit it to:

https://tips.fbi.gov/

Yeah, likely true without some sort of legislation.

Well at least there's a business opportunity for someone to reanimate these things and use them to push gacha games and energy drinks on the innocent children they've bonded with.

Surely in that case they could open their software so the community can figure out what it would take to keep it running.

You're just being obtuse. It does no good to argue about some obscure definition of the term, when that's not how it's being used.

Company scrip can also be issued by a central authority.

I think crypto is stupid, but so is your made up argument over terminology.

It's state-issued and not backed by a commodity.

I'm no proponent of crypto, but it's clearly not meant to be backed by a commodity. When crypto people are taking about fiat currency, they're talking about the fact that it's state-issued.

There's something like that near me, but it's a Five Guys clone. Seems like a good idea if you can get established locally. Small menu, nothing complicated.

So, should I start hassling my ISP about my missing 350 Mbps? Is there some other obvious thing I should test before I hassle them? I certainly don't want them to say "have you turned it off and on again"?

My ISP will treat anything under (I think) 90% of advertised speed as a technical problem, assuming it shows up on the modem speed test.

I had a problem recently where it was consistently slow, but only in the evenings. I was pretty sure it was a neighbourhood issue, but I still had to go through the whole troubleshooting script, replace the modem, get a tech out to check everythting, etc.

After none of that helped, the regular tech support didn't know what else to try. Luckily there was a form on their site to escalate an issue. That put me in touch with an actual person with an email address, and they were able to get the issue sorted relatively quickly.

There's actually a whole escalation process up to making a complaint with the regulator, but this is in Canada, so YMMV.