prodigalsorcerer @ prodigalsorcerer @lemmy.ca

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Also, while it seems such an order is legal - should it be?

If these were legally obtained photos, why should someone be compelled to delete them? Compelled deletion is a slippery slope. Shared a legally purchased mp3 with a friend? Delete it. Shared a picture of Beyonce at the Superbowl? Delete it.

Is it possible to just use our lemmy accounts to log in? My understanding of activity pub and the fedeverse is that it should be possible, but maybe I'm misunderstanding something.

It's simply not possible to drop housing prices significantly until we get a reasonable supply. Right now (and until the end of the decade) demand is predicted to exceed supply of new housing by about 4:1 (i.e. we need to build about 4x as many new units as we currently are).

There are some mechanisms to reduce some demand like vacant housing tax, increased taxes on second+ properties, and banning non resident purchases, but it still comes back to supply and demand.

In theory, once supply exceeds demand, house prices should start to fall. There really isn't any other sustainable mechanism to significantly reduce housing prices until that point. Government owned and subsidized housing is one way that we have attempted in the past, and I think it's a good idea, but it won't actually reduce prices except for those lucky enough to get one of these units.

Each of the parties has a plan to increase housing supply, targeting different aspects of the supply chain. It's a good first step, and realistically all that they can do in a single term.

You're going to have to find a different line of reasoning. There's enough people out there that don't care enough about other humans that might be slightly different than themselves. You're never going to convince them that a bunch of chickens deserve empathy when they don't even have empathy for their fellow (hu)man.

I think you fundamentally misunderstand what Amazon is removing. From your linked article:

Once this feature goes away, you’ll still be able to manually copy ebook files and other documents to Kindles over USB using Amazon’s apps or third-party solutions like Calibre. You just won’t be able to download copies of your purchased books to a computer.

The only thing Amazon is removing is the ability to save books that you purchased from them. No more personal backups of legally purchased material, but piracy is still fair game.

My uncle Gord Poutine is already on his way to DC with a box of matches.

It's much easier for someone on the inside to do it. Less political and the successor won't feel obligated to start/continue a war. It's why America sends the CIA to Venezuela (et al) instead of missiles.

Their factories in Nevada, Texas, and China all have a lot of extra space and/or land for expansion. They've also been considering building more factories in Mexico, another one in Europe, and possibly SE Asia, though it's unclear whether any of those are going to materialize - especially with the current downturn in sales.

Their batteries may not be special, but if they can scale to what they were promising a few years ago (which is a much bigger "if" than it used to be), their battery business could easily surpass BYD's, which could justify its current market cap on its own (but not much higher).

I've got mixed feelings on FSD. I think it's nearly "solved" for places with nice climate, but I think there's a lot of work needed to deal with inclement weather like snow and slush and even heavy rain. I don't think any company has any idea how to solve that issue, so they're just pushing it down the road until someone else solves it first.

The share price isn't based on car sales. If it were just about car sales, it would be about 10% of the price it is now.

The share price is mostly ridiculous, but it is also people trying to get in early, on the assumption that they solve FSD, battery storage, Optimus (their robot), and battery manufacturing.

If they solve all of this, then Tesla could 10x again. It's very future dependent, and I think that future is a lot longer away than a lot of other shareholders think.

I got in at ~$20 per share. I've significantly reduced my position over the last few months, but I do still believe in the original mission of Tesla. I just don't think they're going to get there with Elon.

Do you have a source for him denying it?

I saw lots of deflection and incredulity at "liberals" who thought it was a Nazi salute, but I didn't actually see any denial.

He won't deny it. Not because he's not willing to lie, but because he's actively courting the support of Nazis.

Canada didn't concede anything.

We committed to keeping agreements we had already made with Biden, and we agreed to give someone an honourary title of fentanyl tzar. That's it.

If Trump wants something real, I hope our leaders will fight back, but for now, there's not much we can or should do. We'll see how it goes in a month when the tariffs unpause.

Also, the so-called progressive NDP needs to stop kicking people out for taking a stance against the Israeli genocide of Palestinians (yes, that happened; look up Sarah Jama’s unceremonious ousting, among others).

It's important to separate the provincial NDP from the federal NDP. They each have their faults, but they're different faults, and we shouldn't blame the provincial parties for things Singh has done, and we shouldn't blame Singh for things provincial NDP parties have done.

Appears to be an original from reddit /user/MadsToon: https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/jutm8e/not_a_meme_just_a_history_cartoon_i_made_this/

He's always been competent. He just hasn't been working with the same ideals or goals as most of us until now.

It's actually by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie (also Canadian). I don't really know how it got attributed to The Arrogant Worms, but it was probably Napster's fault.

Obviously Canadians are just better at snuggling drugs without getting caught than Mexicans.

That's fair, but at least personally, I was initially turned off of switching to vegetarianism/veganism due to sites and recipes such as the linked one. It took another decade before I tried it again. It doesn't create a great first impression when your exposure to vegetarian and vegan cuisine consists of the same recipes you already make, but using "non-dairy milk" and "plant-based meat".

There are actually a lot of great vegetarian recipes that aren't just meat-based recipes in disguise, substituting meat/tofu/mushrooms for the meat. Fewer vegan ones, but they do exist. The best ones I've found come from cultures that are largely vegetarian or have large vegetarian sub-cultures (e.g. Indian or Ethiopian dishes).

I'm not trying to be a downer here, but a lot of those recipes are just "use dairy-free milk/yogurt/butter" instead of the dairy version. There's nothing inherently vegan about those recipes.

Imo, the non dairy versions are all worse than the dairy versions, and some (like vegan butter) are actually less healthy than the dairy version. Much like how beyond meat isn't healthier (or cheaper) than beef (though is much better to the planet), dairy free alternatives just aren't all that great.

Over the last year, I've worked my way to about 50% of my meals being vegetarian or vegan (mostly vegetarian), but I'm largely unimpressed by vegan/vegetarian recipes that rely on 1:1 replacements for non-vegan products.

The problem with resorts is that they're expensive, so if someone pays for a trip, they're going no matter what. So you get guests with super contagious infections, and then everyone gets it.

There are things resorts can do to better mitigate the damages, but if someone with Norovirus decides they're going to spend the day at the swim up bar, a lot of people are going to get sick.

If a resort is open long enough, their reviews will eventually contain a week or two of people who all got sick.

It's also possible that food handling is not done safely and all manner of other things, but that's hard to distinguish when looking at reviews.