nyan @ nyan @lemmy.cafe

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I suppose it just seems incredible to me that the airline didn't even try to come up with another excuse after they were caught out on the first one. Maybe it really was an executive recreational jaunt to Palm Springs.

I'm laughing so hard that my cat is looking at me funny.

"quality"="gets me the answer I'm looking for, if it exists, and as quickly as possible". Regardless of whether I was making a simple nav query or trying to figure out what an error message from some obscure piece of obsolete software really means. No other metrics need apply.

Unfortunately, Google still has the largest database of pages indexed, even if its frontend sucks like an industrial shopvac. So it can sometimes answer questions that engines using other databases as backing can't, even if locating that answer is like fighting back a horde of zombies with a paring knife.

So what was the actual reason for cancellation? Aircraft so undermaintained they didn't have enough functional ones to cover all flights, and that one lost the coin flip? Multiple air crew down with COVID? Exec wanted the plane to take some friends golfing in Palm Springs? Seems like even the tribunal looking into this never did find out, although they did make the airline pay up.

'Twas ever thus. We've imposed conscription exactly twice since Confederation, during the two World Wars. During WWI, it caused riots because Francophones thought the way it was being imposed was inequitable. At neither time did any significant number of Canadian conscripts get shipped out to fight—instead, they took on domestic roles like guarding military posts to free up volunteers to be shipped out instead (I think a few did go overseas in the trailing months of WWII, but it was a pretty small percentage).

In other words, the draft has never been popular here, and likely never will be. And inequity in how it's imposed has been an issue for more than a century. (The nature of the inequity is different this time, but I don't think that matters so much.)

Sometimes it's nature and not nurture. And we don't know for certain that she had the primary responsibility for raising him, either. Families can be complicated.

The bubble will burst in a few years (it really should burst sooner, but too many people are trying to prop up their bad investments).

To put it another way, is this guy really any worse than Musk or any of the other too-wealthy wastes of oxygen rattling around?

Hopefully there are a bunch of programmers there right now standing in a circle around the desk of some manager and bombarding them with a continuous chant of "We told you so!" We knew in the 1990s not to trust stuff coming in off the Internet to be what it claims or reach its destination unmangled, and as I understand it, the software was blindly attempting to parse unverified threat definition files it had downloaded. Doing it all in ring 0 was just that extra crowning touch. This should have been caught before it even got to QA.

The judge is doing his job. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (sect. 24) forbids the use of evidence obtained by violating a Charter right in court. The right violated in this case would be "security of the person" in sect. 7. The cops knew this, or should have—"fruit of the poisonous tree" isn't exactly an obscure legal concept, and is something they need to understand to do their jobs, so I assume it's taught in law enforcement courses. So the evidence being thrown out is 100% the cops' fault.

Is it a war if all participants are too busy shooting themselves in the foot to mount an offensive against anyone else?

And? The current president of the Ukraine was an actor before going into politics, and was elected partly due to his portrayal of a politician in a TV series. He hasn't done that badly. Electing a media personality is not necessarily the worst thing you can do for your country. Just make sure the election is as honest and fair as possible.

If there is a non-abusive way to use the notwithstanding clause, I'm not aware of it. It's intended to be used to trample on citizens' rights.

Can't be mercury, since it's liquid at room temperature and so wouldn't form "fibres". Americum . . . wouldn't be impossible (and it's still used in smoke detectors to this day, I believe), but the amount in a stack of smoke detectors isn't quite the worst case—there would be more radioactive material in an orphaned radiotherapy or radiography source, which is also wildly improbable but not quite impossible as a multivitamin additive. At least it isn't likely to be an abandoned Soviet radioisotope generator this time.

Could be copper. Or aluminum. Or titanium, for that matter. Lots of possibilities in "metal" that would allow the label to still be technically truthful.

Let's just hope it isn't lead.

Building out transit and infrastructure takes time. In the meanwhile, people still have to get places.

Unfortunately, all utilities are kind of slippery that way. They have a funny habit of overestimating your usage, then refunding you when they finally get around to actually reading your meter. Guess what they did with the interest on their ill-gotten gains in the meanwhile? This case is utterly ridiculous, though—usually they're skimming less than a third of the normal bill.

Actually, he doesn't, since he's removing the duck (and shipping it off to DuckDuckGo for reuse, no doubt).

The important part is not building it, but convincing the world, alas.

That’s like being a die-hard Wonderbread fan.

Terrifyingly, I'm told those also exist.

Speaking as someone who suffers from both conditions, captchas are not a significantly worse problem for depressed people than for others—they're impersonal, and while irritating, they set a fairly low bar for effort. Dealing with machines being machines is comparatively easy if you're able to make the effort to fill out the join-up form at all.

Asking someone for something, on the other hand, is high-effort for many depressed people for a couple of reasons:

1. It requires you to feel worthy of help, because if you're certain you're going to be refused, why bother trying? Depression and low self-worth tend to go hand in hand.
2. It requires you to risk refusal. Even if the other person's reason for refusing is neutral ("I no longer do that for anyone," for example), it can feed back into the depression and make it worse. Since this can hurt one hell of a lot, you learn not to ask.

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It's true that some people won't be able to scrape together enough interest or effort to pass even the captcha, but this alternative is much worse.

The issue with the group network version is that a few large corporations would end up taking it over. Again.