Yardy Sardley @ yardy_sardley @lemmy.ca

A typical bike-riding leftist urbanite who also happens to be a hockey-craz

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Smith said the province tried to work collaboratively with the federal government to make the province’s electricity grid net zero by 2050

"The feds didn't capitulate to our demands so we're taking the province of Alberta hostage"

“We will not put our operators at risk of going to jail if they do not achieve the unachievable,”

It's unachievable, Danielle, because your ignorant ass put a moratorium on renewable energy projects. And why does she feel the need to feign sympathy for the dinosaurs at the top whose refusal to act is the reason we're here in the first place? If they can't conduct business in accordance with the law, they can gtfo of the way and make room for those who can.

"...he's a maverick. He doesn’t seem to care about the law, doesn’t care about the Constitution. I do."

Says the person who personally donated $60k to a seditious organization.

As far as I'm concerned, these excuses are nothing but selfish and asinine. They only serve to vindicate and encourage the bad behaviour of those who ought to be taking responsibility. How exactly "It's too expensive" is a serious take when we all just spent 4 consecutive months living inside a cloud of wildfire smoke is beyond me. Fuck off.

For the record, I'm not super worried about AI taking over because there's very little an AI can do to affect the real world.

Giving them guns and telling them to shoot whoever they want changes things a bit.

You wasted 3 hours of your life so far lol

But yeah. I find the most mysterious and time-consuming of problems are usually caused by a very minor detail that is so obvious it gets overlooked immediately.

And even if you know that's probably the case, sometimes your brain will just discard information that isn't consistent with its assumed reality, and it tells you the piece of code you just read is fine when it's obviously not.

Troubleshooting/debugging is fun.

"Alberta wins again"

Danielle Smith is fully embracing the eco-villain role. She probably cackled right after saying that.

So they found almost as many guns as a typical American household and like, a calendar written in Arabic? Yeah, they should definitely keep looking. I'm sure the weapons of mass destruction are in there somewhere. /s

I agree 100%. "You're welcome" is the phrase that everyone knows to be the direct response to a "thank you", so using it implies the necessity of a prerequisite thanks. So really it's just a polite way of saying "yeah you better be thankful."

Whereas "no problem" seems to be a fairly sincere way to say "no thanks are needed, I'm helping because I want to."

When your diffusion is too stable and it leaks out into physical reality...but is also a good boy

Having a hard time finding the average velocity of a car is definitely a sign from the universe that you should switch majors.

I don't think an algorithm is responsible for the fact that most sane people are generally against genocide. People being pro-Palestine in this specific situation is a humanitarian response and should not be causing any amount of concern because it is the morally correct position here.

HOWEVER, the fact that we just witnessed the fucking letter to america go viral on tiktok, wherein a soul crushing amount of people publicly stated they agree with a fucking jihadist manifesto, is cause for a massive amount of concern. Tiktok definitely needs to face consequences for letting that happen. We also can't excuse the audience for that type of behaviour. Whether it came from a deliberate propaganda campaign, or a sketchy algorithm, or just mass stupidity, audience members need to be better. If you read the letter to america and you think bin laden was right, you're a moron, and you're contributing to the problem.

Yup, the Cons are once again proving they have no actual principles, and are only involved in politics to empower & enrich themselves.

I'd be interested to see the results of something like this, as long as it's guaranteed to anonymize the data.

The way I think it works is that your local instance hosts its own communities, and then it will reach out to other instances to grab content from every external community that at least one local user has subscribed to. "All" mode is limited to that set of content.

So I think the only way to see the entire set of all content on lemmy would be to meticulously subscribe to every single community on every single instance.

And someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can still subscribe to subs on defederated instances, it's just the interactions that don't get passed back and forth.

You don’t have to vote, don’t worry about voting. The voting, we got plenty of votes.

Why does it sound like he's got a mountain of fake ballots sitting in a warehouse that he's gonna drop from a blimp or some shit.

This would normally be a compiler warning, but someone has enabled the -Werror compiler option (probably in the makefile) which causes the compiler to treat all warnings as errors. You can just remove any -Werror flags from the makefile and it should compile properly.

This happened to me a few weeks ago and the pain is still fresh. Please tell us your data is safely backed up, OP.

I used Clementine for years but the project eventually got abandoned. Now I use Strawberry, which is based on it. I'm still working out how to completely replace the default theme (folder colours, tooltips, other small details are stuck in adwaita mode) but other than that it's an excellent music player.

Pilots shouldn't be pressured into making unsafe decisions? Then stop pressuring them to make unsafe decisions. If the plane isn't safe to fly for any reason, then it doesn't take off, period. It shouldn't be a choice for anyone.

The way airlines are acting these days, I can't shake the feeling that the business of flying people from place to place is not the primary focus. It seems more like they facilitate flights mostly for the purpose of luring people into their poorly-lit wing of the airport where their goons can extract the real profits.

strong support of a majority of Saskatchewan residents

Sure, a majority of people who are old enough to vote, anyway.

Eroding the rights of people who can't even vote is straight up tyrannical. Doubly so when the courts say "hey maybe you shouldn't do that" and you invoke the notwithstanding clause to do it anyway.

And if they don't get one, they'll use it as an excuse to raise ticket prices with impunity.

Plane tickets should go up in price as a response to climate change. If people can't afford to take as many flights, then that's a good thing, because flying is one of the least efficient modes of transport from a carbon perspective, and it's twice as bad as the raw numbers would suggest because dumping the carbon into the upper atmosphere actually makes it more effective at warming the planet. Even if the industry manages to "decarbonize" its fuel sources, it's still going be monumentally harmful and wasteful of resources that could be better used elsewhere.

If our government actually cares about consumers having transport options that are both affordable and carbon efficient, they should look at providing any passenger rail service in western canada.