small_crow @ small_crow @lemmy.ca

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Wait so these coal plants got shut down ahead of the schedule the NDP set back when they were in, that everyone said was ridiculously short and impossible to meet without devastating our power grid.

It turns out that timeline was conservative and they blasted right through it?

What other things that these fossil fuel industry people say is impossible and we should be ashamed of ourselves for even suggesting do you think we could get done in checks notes half the time proposed.

I remember telling my high school guidance counsellor I was planning on becoming a programmer. She looked at me, head tilted like a confused dog and asked what excited me about Event Programming (as in, planning and scheduling large in-person events).

That was the first time someone didn't understand what I did for work, and it was about 5 years before I started doing it.

I assume you'll be using Dragon Medical One. Nuance is a well established organization, with users in a broad range of professions, and their medical product is extensively used by many specialists. The health system where I live has been in the process of phasing out transcriptionists in favor of it for a decade or so.

The only potential privacy concerns a hospital would care about would be if they are storing your transcripts on their servers, because that will contain sensitive information about patients. It will be impossible to get any administrator to care about your voice data.

This tide is unlikely one you will be able to stem, but you could stop dictating and type it yourself.

Most Christian politicians carry the bible metaphorically, in their minds and with their actions, not literally on their person. Makes for an easier time claiming they don't want to institute a theocracy. Sounds like your methodology here can only result in furthering Christian hegemony.

Yes, often.

We as thinking beings consider ourselves to be constant. The trail of memories leading from our childhoods to today make it feel as though we are still that person who lived through all of those times, but we aren't. We can't be.

I have memories belonging to an 8 year old boy in my mind, he had the same name I did and lived with parents who also had the same name as mine, but I am a much older person - older than his parents, even - and I share almost no common ground with this boy. How can we be the same person, when we are so obviously different?

I am physically a different person to this person of my memories, and I can't be sure he exists or existed. He may simply be a figment of my imagination, a story I tell myself of where I have come from but made up from whole cloth.

Finally, someone will read John/John, my series of erotic John Oliver / Elton John fanfictions.

A new roof and a change in colour scheme could bring it up from ugly to rustic. Maybe even quaint or picturesque.

Forecast says it'll be cloudy where I live :(

Trying to get out on a technicality.

I was on that Jury, we were instructed repeatedly on avoiding bias when looking at the proceedings - keep our perceptions of their guilt out of it, only consider what is in evidence, don't let your emotional response sway you.

I wound up taken off the jury before the verdict (me, two other jurors, and the jury officer tested positive for COVID at the start of the final week of the trial) but everyone else got that same spiel and likely more when it came time for deliberation. It's rich to say "the jury just didn't understand what they were supposed to do!" as a defense here. We did. That's why the Bilodeaus were only found guilty on one count of murder and three counts of manslaughter - prosecution started off seeking second degree murder for all four counts. They both received light sentences for causing the deaths of two innocent men because the rule of law demanded it.

"Cyberpunks" weren't warning us about the internet - they were warning us about the corporations who will control it, and through it, us. We are trying explicitly not to communicate on that medium by using Lemmy (that medium encompasses Reddit, X, the various properties of Meta and Alphabet)

Science fiction mentioning a technology, even centering around it, doesn't mean it's saying the technology is universally bad. The author highlights the dangers, but the tech itself is almost always portrayed as neutral. It's the people who use it to nefarious ends that science fiction is warning us about.

Like the people who would seek to profit off of the Torment Nexus.

We're in the middle of an inflation nightmare right now, so I can understand why people are picking based on price. Weed's not exactly a necessity and it's gotta fit people's budgets. I've *never *seen a $5 gram at a dispensary in Alberta though. The budgetest of the budget stuff is around $7 and it's usually bone dry, tiny little half busted nugs. Basically shake.

I usually spring for the $12-15 grams when I buy flower because the product is typically higher quality and tastes better in my vaporizer. I'm admittedly not a heavy smoker - just a bowl here and there, maybe a few nights a week - so a lower price is less of a draw.

Ya roshambo is always played best two out of three

That's how my parent served it, and they were wrong.

Before I quit I would just put painters tape over the picture so I didn't have to look at it. I didn't want to carry around pictures of diseased body parts all day.

Exception to this being the one with the droopy cigarette for ED. It was funny.

Anyway I don't think those warnings influenced my quitting at all, because I avoided looking at them.

Equity was a fun choice of word here, since both its definitions apply to the conversation.

If housing wasn't an investment, a purchased home wouldn't build any equity in the financial sense, but people who need a home would have more equity in the social sense.

It's almost like finance is at odds with social justice.

Goals are not plans.

I have a goal to be a millionaire by the time I'm 65. I sort of have a plan to get there but it's amateur at best.

Gotta start somewhere! For all we know the Borg began as a simple neural implant developed by Space Coca Cola, marketed as a way to touclessly interface with vending machines, but with the actual designed purpose to make you thirsty af and constantly crave sugary beverages.

And then the Coca Cola logistical AI gained sentience.

I came to the comments for an explanation because I completely missed the age labels, so thank you.

"The dog... was shot and killed during an 'Interaction'" is such an outlandishly vague way to describe the situation and leaves all details up to the imagination. It doesn't even say if that interaction was with their suspect. A suspect who "is injured" but like, did they injure the guy or did they injure themselves? Did they get shot too? Did the dog try to attack them and was shot by the suspect? Did the dog run at them, and a cop shot at the same time, killing the dog instead of maiming the suspect?

Cops always use passive language so it sounds like all this violence was already there when they showed up.

Only if we start calling it the War on Climate Change and I just can't see our government taking such a hard stance on the environment.