TheAgeOfSuperboredom @ TheAgeOfSuperboredom @lemmy.ca

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Exactly! I remember seeing a video of Jason Kenny throwing out some ridiculous number of jobs it'll bring to Alberta, when Shaw was already an Alberta based company.

I've come to the conclusion that some inefficiencies are actually good for an economy. With multiple companies each has to have a support department and sales department and installation techs and engineers and... It's not very efficient in that there's a lot of redundancy, but it's better for the economy.

Remember during the public consultation when all the politicians were talking about how the merger will create jobs, increase quality, and reduce prices? 🙄

That video!! Yeah, I don't believe it either. Sort of reminds me of doing Kung Fu as a kid. We'd do public demonstrations and would sometimes ham it up a bit for the audience. I wonder if that's what's going on.

Have you practiced push hands? There's a neat effect I can only describe as sort of being able to bounce off the other person. You can get some decent air with it! I also wonder if there's a bit of that going on with a lot of exaggeration.

I agree with you about the "weird stuff". I teach Tai Chi and I'm very careful about the words I use, especially when it comes to describing mechanical forces. I'll often mention that I don't mean some notion of "life force" but rather the physical Newtonian force that your body is subject to while performing the movements.

I find Tai Chi to be deceptively complicated with deep physical and psychological components. I have a hard time articulating what it is to others since it's not really a martial art, and it's not really meditation, and it's not just a bunch of movements or calisthenics. But it does have very real effects and I love it!

It sounds like your experience is quite similar to mine and I'm happy you found a good teacher and are enjoying the practice! 😀

Helix also, but aren't Zed and Helix both modal?

edit: Huh. I just tried out Zed and looks like modal editing is optional.

Looks like jEdit just had a new release! I actually used it as my main editor 15 years ago before I sat down to learn Emacs. I thought it was pretty good back then.

Lapce is a newer one that looks interesting, though I haven't tried it. The page says modal editing can be toggled.

That's hardly a reason to get rid of it or replace it. Clearly people are benefitting from it and it's evident if you look at your tax return. If anything, the fact that people don't know about the return is a failure in marketing. So sure, there are maybe some improvements to make.

But really, no matter what carbon scheme you put in place, the cons will find a way to complain about it. That's not a failure of the carbon tax. That's just how the conservatives operate.

I'd love to see the logic of the cons trying to explain why a foreign agency is spending so much effort to promote their candidate. Clearly Putin is a true Canadian patriot.

The software will likely work, but keep in mind that you'll have to add VM startup time when you want to use the software. I have occasionally seen software behave strangely in a VM as well, so best to just try it.

Can you share the software you went to use? Maybe there's a good Linux alternative or someone knows how to get it working in wine.

Opt in to each lesson!!?? So intentionally making it overly complicated and a burden on both teachers and parents.

Whose turn is it next?

Is this the one using the open source kernel module?

It seems if you're wealthy enough your wealth gets to enjoy a nice racheting effect.

V-G-S

He's just not fully materialized yet.

This is sad. I really like the app!

What's everyone using instead?

I was being a bit facetious in the wake of Rogers being allowed to buy Shaw.

Of course they should be breaking up the large companies when there's not much competition, but I doubt they'll do much of anything.

And then they'll probably just have Air Canada buy WestJet so they can deliver better value or some shit. That seems to be the way competition goes now.

Are you using Wayland or X? Do you see the same behaviour in both?