JohnnyCanuck @ JohnnyCanuck @lemmy.ca

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I don't think those brands are familiar enough yet to put up their logos without their names.

American football has become absolutely terrible. It feels like 50% ad time and the commentary is complete shit.

Archive: https://archive.is/pUIeH

Like Joe Rogan

Was there an article link?

Damn you beat me to it. I found this by doing some image manipulation and using a font analyzer: https://www.whatfontis.com/ENVG_Upright-Retro-Inspired-Headline-Font.font

I'm pretty sure Shakespeare used it as slang for penis in the 16th century.

Edit: err yeah, says it in the linked Wikipedia article, oops

Guy brought a gun to the airport and then pulled it on police? "In distress" sounds like an understatement.

That all being said, it's probably bad optics for Carney right now. It's probably in his interest to delay this until after the election.

Absolutely. The Chinese ambassador pretty much said that too by saying that Carney's current stance is a posture for election... Basically giving Carney room to flip the other way after the election without China holding a grudge. At least, that's how I read it.

Yes, I absolutely think we should prioritize deals with the EU. I think this is the perfect time for it. I worry that it won't be enough to make up for the US though and we'll need other deals to make up the shortfall.

This really feels like a huge opportunity for Canada. But I don't know enough on this to argue for making a deal with China - or against it. This is all just spit balling and I'm ready to be set straight!

I mean I know Carney has come out against China on a number of things, calling them a geopolitical and foreign interference threat. I think he also mentioned their human rights record in the past. Does that change if we increase or decrease trade with them? I genuinely don't know. Can we exert more influence over China if we work with them? Can they do the same to us? The timing of this particular announcement is interesting. It seems like they find PP more desirable than Carney....

When you look at progress in tech, science and space, China really looks to have a lot of momentum and is poised to take over leadership in these areas. I would hate for Canada to be left in the dust because we hitched ourselves too tightly to a collapsing America.

Maybe we can make an automotive deal with China that helps our own industry? Diversifying away from the US seems interesting.

It would certainly piss off Trump if we made some big trade deals with China.

I haven't been able to get deep into this article, and so far I'm not impressed at all.

There's a glaring grammar error of a missing word in the first sentence.

have issuing misleading reports with the purpose of manipulating public opinion.

The last sentence of the next paragraph is a struggle...

as their latest “24 facts for 2024” was, in a column, by Conrad Black, originally published in the National Post.

Okay, I'm being nitpicky, some editing could fix that.

But then the first counter-argument to one of FI's "facts", that Canada's personal income disparity vs the US is stagnating, is weak at best. Saudi Arabia in 2014? What? The global pandemic? Yeah, it was global, it affected Americans too. Donald Trump said it was China? How is that related? 2011 article about Calgary and Edmonton did something similar? So? Weak.

I was hopeful, but I'm not feeling enticed to read on at this point :(

Well if his self-inflicted suffering makes him stop an iota of what he's doing on Xitter or with DOGE, then yes, it will improve the lives of others.

Yeah I definitely don't know enough to say. You can definitely translate please in translators for those languages, but for whatever reason I just haven't been seeing it in language basics. Once I spend more time there I'll learn more.

For Thai specifically, you say "ka" (if you're a woman) or "kraub"/"kaub"/"kaup" (if you're a man) at the end of everything you say. Whenever you finish a sentence you say it. I saw a woman relating a phone number, and she would say "ka" after every number. It's all about politeness.

Insurers always look at whether you've been denied coverage previously by another insurer as part of the decision whether to insure you and at what level and rate. Collusion is built into the system.

That said, I certainly wouldn't want to insure anyone in that area either. Not in this climate...

It's weird to see the change in projections in the last month for this riding.

https://338canada.com/59029e.htm

Scroll down to the chart over time and the Liberals were way in the lead at one point in the last month, and then the cons darted up.

Seems like this projection is tenuous at best. The algorithm is probably struggling with the Green party since it is an outlier.

Not if it's a Pixel 6 Pro!

The REPO devs are quoted as saying:

And while on this topic, we want to encourage all mod makers to please optimize the amount of server traffic they send to avoid any skyrocketing server costs.

But the article writer turns this into:

The devs are most likely referring to mods that increase REPO's player count above its 6-player default max. Last year, Content Warning faced similar issues, to the point that the devs had to shut down mods that increased the lobby size.

If that was what they meant, that's what they would have said, since what they said doesn't imply that at all. Depending on the API, the mods could be doing any number of things with even a single player that would send network traffic through the roof.

Telling modders this is just about lobby size might diminish the impact of what the devs are requesting. An inexperienced modder who isn't changing lobby size might not realize they're inadvertently being a bad citizen with other stuff they're doing.

As someone else mentioned, they should look into protecting themselves within their API though. Rate limits, etc. Since this whole thing took off on them unexpectedly, they probably weren't prepared, so in the meantime they're requesting the mods be more careful. Ultimately, this won't work though.

Tbh, if it was just a lobby size thing, I would think that would be super easy to defend against server-side...

Yeah, I'm not sure on the quality either. Try to get one with a wired mic to avoid latency as much as possible.

Good luck.

I like the Bluetooth speaker idea, but if that doesn't work I've seen tour guides on buses/boats use portable karaoke machines for this. One problem might be that they add reverb by default which may not be desirable in this scenario, and I'm not sure if you can turn it off.

Edit: just thinking about this, there are systems like you're talking about designed specifically for tour guides or teachers. It's a mic attached to a speaker that can sit on your hip (for example.) They're probably well under your budget, even for a good quality one.