m0darn @ m0darn @lemmy.ca

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I remember learning about the denial of the denial of the anti Muslim comments years ago. It's offensive that America would send this troglodyte to us.

So if I'm in Vancouver BC it would go from Friday to Saturday in the mid afternoon? Is Friday night the first night of the weekend or the last night of the work week?

I could be convinced that there is a part of Paris that is like that. It doesn't look like a part of Paris anyone would want to spend much time in though.

I'm a person that saw this and thought "YES!".

It's a way to make my mindless scrolling a little bit less mindless. It's not a Wikipedia alternative it's a tiktok alternative (I don't use tiktok, but I understand why people do, my attention span is also shattered). Obviously it's not going to replace looking things up on Wikipedia, and I love exploring links in Wikipedia articles, but you don't know what you don't know so this seems like a good way to learn about things you didn't know you were interested in.

They did actually sue someone for the exclusive right to call themselves "crappy tire":

IIRC someone was hosting a Canadian Tire complaint website "crappytire.com" and in trying to get it shut down Canadian Tire used the legal argument that this person was infringing Canadian Tire's identity ("We are the legitimate Crappy Tire, and this person is an imposter") and the domain should be surrendered to them. They won. edit: They lost.

I went to China on a business trip about 10 years ago. I was gobsmacked by how good they are at flattery. I was totally unprepared for it, and they didn't even want anything from me.

Yeah I don't think there's any basis to the quote.

Interestingly the earliest composed Christian document that has been recovered (the didache, the copy we have is from Ca. 1000 CE, but seems to be in the original Greek) condemns infanticide, specifically including by exposure to the elements. It also prohibits private property so the document is not taken authoritatively by many modern christians.

I don't think anyone can actually do fusion power in the lab either. The only energy positive way to do fusion power is within a nuclear fission explosion isn't it?

Wait, so people can choose whether or not they're subjected to hate speech? What tyranny!

If you don't like the way communities are being moderated, maybe you should find/start a server that more aligns with your values.

Violence is the only way a dictator will be deposed. History has proven it well.

Is that true? What about South Korea and Taiwan?

I agree about it being baffling to see so many 'freedom loving Americans' so blind to the nature of the current administration.

And the new one is NORTH American.

People using "American" to refer to anyone from the western continent (from a euro centric perspective) is conventional in some parts or the world. It's not the convention in Canada, we bristle at the thought of being labeled Americans.

Halberdiers?

He is still an American citizen, I'm curious about what Canadian traitors and patriots will make of that.

When we import food/drug manufacturing equipment we often accept American certifications as compliant with Canadian standards. If a company can say they are compliant FDA or NSF while facing no risk of facing an actual inspection/audit then we may have to exercise more scrutiny ourselves.

If you sincerely can't keep track of an acronym like LGBTQIA2S, I totally understand. I find it helpful to use people with minority "Sexual Orientations and Gender Identites" (SOGI). You could say

people with minority SOGIs

Or

SOGI minorities

Or

SOGIm

It's not a super widespread abbreviation, so I'd recommend spelling it initially as I did in my first paragraph. I don't think it's best practice to say "SOGIs" Because everyone has a SOGI and typically we're trying to talk specifically about those that face(d) disenfranchisement and bigoted violence.

If you're not sincerely struggling with the acronym, and enjoy trivializing people for fun, I hope you think of me everything you stub your toe.

I saw a quote in the newspaper this morning:

We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China now we're essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we're saving hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple.

It's just so incredibly wrong and stupid.

Isn't the only way this can happen is if the government is trying to overrule the charter of rights and freedoms?

FPTP means that many votes have negligible impact, so it's understandable why some don't bother.

I can only speak from my own experience.

My strategy is committing to planning my day at the beginning of the day (9:10AM after I've gotten my kids to school) and then talking with my wife before bed about how well I managed to stick to the plan. Ie did I actually plan tasks for the day, did I accomplish those tasks, is there anything she'd like me to add to tomorrow's tasks etc.

Planning my day includes assigning time frames for the tasks, including one task right after planning. If I know I'm likely to want to play video games that day, plan a time and duration, and set an alarm on my phone to interrupt my play at the time I thought I should stop.

Try really hard to frame things in an analog way. Ie As progress instead of as victory or failure.

What I mean is you didn't do exactly what I asked, and that's fine you made real progress towards developing a sustainable solution.

I use a paper productivity planner to plan my day and I've found it very helpful. maybe do 30 minutes of research into options available to you.