Em Adespoton @ adespoton @lemmy.ca

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‘E’s the erminator!

Community living in isolation under a mountain for 6,000 years.

I bet they’d be rather surprised at what humanity has become in the intervening years; I wonder how humans would adapt to an underground lifestyle in 6,000 years.

Are they going to make special rules for the G7 summit too?

If you have an iPhone, it has a built in translation app too, that does voice to voice with written summaries.

When you consider education itself to be “leftist” and prefer indoctrination and dogma to critical thinking and the scientific method, it makes more sense.

I don’t know… I think his description can be overly complex/abstract for eli5 AND all the other descriptions can be wrong.

Here’s my attempt:

You know how with Lego you can make all sorts of stuff, but you can also buy a kit with some main pieces pre-molded that you attach the other bits to, to make your object?

Linux is like that pre-made bit, with bumps on it in specific places to build the object. It’s designed to be the interface between the non-Lego objects and the Lego pieces.

But unlike in most systems, with Linux, everyone can tweak the pre-made bit, and it must be given away, along with the instructions on how to build it.

And of course, this all runs in software on electronics, not using physical objects made of plastic.

It’s highly likely that people weren’t the target at all; they likely obliterated the infrastructure.

Ah; I hadn’t realized it was in Alberta. That makes a BIT more sense then. Explains the independence petition too.

Then you lucked out.

I used to buy all sorts of stuff at Canadian Tire in the 90s, and while it was affordable, it almost all broke within 2 years, from CCM bicycles that had their frame welds crack to Hunter kitchen appliances that had power supplies that overheated and failed, to even bouncy balls that would harden and crack. Air pumps where the plastic would crack or the pump rod (which was held in by glue) would disconnect, foldable chairs where the stitching would unravel, knives where the blade would snap.

The list goes on and on. Never had that volume of problems with any other store I’ve ever shopped at.

Also, I had relatives that worked in CT in the 90s. They’ve got even worse stories to tell.

I have a story from the one time I took my car there… when I got the car back it had a funny smell in it, and the checklist said that the horn was non-functional. This car had the horn on the end of the signal stick instead of on the steering wheel. I immediately tapped the horn to verify that it was indeed working, and one of the mechanics flinched and got this funny look on his face.

It wasn’t until I got home that I realized what the funny smell was: it was silicone glue. They’d hammered on the steering wheel cap hard enough to break the clips off, and then glued it back on, without mentioning what they’d done.

This was in the early 90s, and I’ve never been back.

Have you reached out to https://kinbrace.ca/ ? This is what they do, although they focus specifically on refugee claimants.

Well yeah; any time I hear an American drawl, I’ll pull out the Canadian dipthong.

Like Trump, Musk revealed his personality early on. In the 1990s when Trump was losing his father’s money in casinos, Musk was making his money by using his father’s money to buy profitable dotcom startups and claiming them as his own. Then he sold them before the market crashed.

SpaceX has been kind of a blip in all this; all his other companies are very much run in the traditional Musk style though, with him taking credit where luck and other people’s hard work are responsible.

“Predatory” and “Pseudoscientific” aren’t the same thing. Elsevier journals for example are long-established and highly scientific, but also highly predatory. Arxiv only does pre-prints, but isn’t predatory at all.

This is the phrase I use to place people:

“The barbed wire crosses the creek to keep the wolf out.”

Michigan, I think. And it’s also present in eastern Ontario and southern Manitoba.

“A-boot” is an Eastern Canada thing; west-coast is “ah-bah-Wt” and is common from BC right down into Oregon.

“We” being the collective “us”.

“We” always behaves differently than “I” do. That’s kind of the point.

It’s not dying at all; it’s just dispersing. Entropy is odd that way; life turns out to be an entropy accelerator.

It’s like switching from cigarettes to chickory.