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Hear me out: If we all spend a few minutes every day building something with Legos, we can hold entropy at bay.

@wordstitcher@thecanadian.social @AnnieBuddy@thecanadian.social I think we should be charging them a lot more for the privledge, if it's going to happen at all. And I don't mean the outfitters should charge, I mean the taxes and fees paid should be higher, money into the tax base and into Ministry of Natural Resources, and money straight back to First Nations.

@zazzoo@mstdn.ca "Mr. Trump: Are these 'radical leftists' in the room with us now?"

@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @wordstitcher@thecanadian.social @AnnieBuddy@thecanadian.social No, I mean just overall. Like, if the hunting doesn't even happen on "First Nations land" (joke that *that* is!), but increased fees on Americans just get distributed to First Nations, for them to use as they please.

@luckytran@mastodon.social I wish I could remember who said it, but the point was made very early on (and it applies to so many other things) that, if we do enough to mitigate, then it will look to some like we did too much. When it's effective, and there's little result, then having done so much seems like overkill, when the only reason there was little result because you did so much.

@sysop408@sfba.social Probably not a worry. When it finally does happen, *every site everywhere* will have the news. You'd be able to go to a forum about needle felting of Pokemon characters, and it would be there. @ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network @Tak

@dbattistella@mstdn.ca Imagine. Rebuilding the Library of Alexandria, then burning it down on purpose.

Okay, yeah, it's suddenly cooler out. Fall weather, definitely. But chick, I think you might be overdoing it with your knit toque and scarf. It's 15°C, not 5.

@dbattistella@mstdn.ca This is heartbreaking and disgusting. When I have a book in my possession that awful, full of bad information or worse, even then I can't bear to destroy it. I'm of German background--the idea of destroying books hits pretty close to home, and it gives me feels.

@DavidM_yeg@beige.party I also think it's pretty rich to think "the Americans won WWII". A hell of a lot of work and dying was done by everyone else, then the Americans finally showed up and pushed it over the line. @crispius@mstdn.fname.ca @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @anderspuck@mastodon.social @LynnD@cosocial.ca

@evdelen@mstdn.ca F*in' ridiculous. Sometimes, labour rights can only be gained or retained by breaking the law. Doing what they won't let you do--but *together*--is how labour rights happened in the first place. ✊

@MissConstrue@mefi.social *Ahem*. Do you mean, "hoopy frood"?

@Tutanota@mastodon.social Why do I get errors when I try to access my mail via the web? Your own site tells me your version is out of date and needs to be updated.

The library's got nothing. The bookstore (physical)'s got nothing. The bookstore (online)'s only got very expensive or entirely useless books. I even tried Amazon, which is how I ended up with this piece of garbage that's just printed PowerPoint slides. Can anyone recommend some free online learning resources for coding/programming? I want to learn Pascal. #coding #programming #courses #pascal #compsci

@evacide@hachyderm.io Doesn't a school administrator have a duty to report in child abuse cases?

@oldredsubby@sfba.social Invoke whatever law is necessary to transfer power, set up a little fake office, with fake helpers and fake papers and fake cameras, and let him live out his addled days thinking he's still the president. The rest of the world has shit it needs to get done.

@Jam123@mstdn.ca If they suddenly gave us everything we wanted in the CUSMA review right now, I'd still never return to American products except where no alternative exists. I'm middle aged, I can hold this grudge to the end of my life. @misty@digipres.club

@MikeImBack@disabled.social Lettuce all not go to America

@arstechnica@mastodon.social Sounds like Windows Update is *very* secure, when just any old connection can pretend to be Windows and just make changes to your system. Holy fuck, Microsoft. Get your heads in the fucking game.

@courtcan@mastodon.social I know all about that, and I wish you didn't. 💜

@vlrny@disabled.social I lived without a/c. I caught hundreds of grasshoppers and leaf-hoppers in my grandmothers grass, one at a time (and let them go again, of course). I never knew a place than flooded. I never knew a place that burned. I never knew a place that had a drought. Southern Ontario seemed somehow insulated from all of those extremes. When a tornado went through near Barrie, it was a big enough deal that they wrote books about it.

@calendsofapril@kolektiva.social No one is truly free until we are all free. No one truly has rights until we all have rights. Not one person left behind. Put another way, in the immortal words of the great philosopher George Costanza: "You know we're living in a *society*!"

@sugar@goblin.camp NSFW!

@MatWright@mastodon.social Cue Trump suddenly caring about space missions, just to have a reason to yell at Spain

@zazzoo@mstdn.ca Damn ugly building on University Ave in Toronto, too. @dyckron@cosocial.ca

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social Sandboxing the AI for these tests is as easy as running it on machines without wifi. There's no way they should be able to shirk respobsibility for this shit.

@ajn142@infosec.exchange I'm wondering if it could be an artifact of how questions were phrased, or responses collected. Someone who'd never had to think about executive function before might refer to their reactions to things in life as "seeming to not care to do anything", which could be recorded as apathy. @Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place @currentbias@zeroes.ca

@currentbias@zeroes.ca So... getting Long Covid brain fog is basically like acquiring ADHD. Since ADHD itself is lifelong, for the first time, some people who don't have it will be able to actually understand what it's really like for those who do.

@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place The drop in dopamine systems is what really stood out to me. @currentbias@zeroes.ca

@adamvs1@mastodon.world I don't think I've ever encountered that before. Old textbooks?!? Awesome!

I've gotten used to the idea of messing up my back in my sleep. Roll over into a bad position, stay there for a couple of hours, easy. I don't like it, but at least I understand it. But today I woke up fine. But by the time I left for work an hour later, my lower back on one side was a little tight. It's just gotten worse and worse through the day. Pills aren't helping. Heat isn't helping. No comfortable position to sit. This sucks. And I still don't know what I did to it.

@plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca Collingwood, Duntroon, Singhampton for me. Never heard of a one until my mother basically drove through the big Barrie one. We were living in Singhampton at the time, and she was taking computer classes in Orillia and coming home on the weekends. Later when I lived in Bolton, I worked at the library, and that's where I saw the book about the Barrie deal. @vlrny@disabled.social

@beandreams@friendhole.social They've clearly been looking for each other since about '93

@evan@cosocial.ca They were big and bright, despite not being deep in the heart of Texas.

My cable/internet company knows about my thermostat, by brand name. I don't recall connecting it to our wifi. I specifically told the guy installing it that I didn't want that. The only stated purpose of it being connected to the wifi is for us to put apps on our phone to change the temperature away from the wall. We've never installed those apps, we don't want them. So what data is being sent that my ISP knows about my thermostat, and where is it being sent? They named several of our devices, which were accurate, though they missed six others. But somehow, among the four they saw, one was the thermostat, as if it were online at that very moment. Why?

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to I uninstalled the app today because in the last few days, it logs me out silently every twenty minutes. @USBTypeSteve@infosec.exchange

@crispius@mstdn.fname.ca Oh, they'll vet. They'll shut down anyone who doesn't pay sufficient tribute.

@newsguyusa@flipboard.social 😮

@Tutanota@mastodon.social I don't want to change my browser to fix one error. I'm using Waterfox (both on Win11 and Android), fully updated. Why would that cause this kind of error? Edit: correction- Waterfox in Android works.

@zazzoo@mstdn.ca Ah, "Hoodlum Rock". A classic. And in 'KRP's long tradition of bringing actors back to play another role later (seriously, there's *a lot*), Michael Des Barres plays "Dog" here, and returns as new morning man Jack Allen in The New WKRP in Cincinnati in '91 (which didn't last long, and--I've seen it--I'm not surprised).

@Sanderde@mstdn.ca Though I'd love to do away with prisons, with our current system, we do actually need more jails. Not remotely for the reasons Ford's stupid advertising says, but because they're overcrowded, making things unsafe for both inmates and staff.

@zazzoo@mstdn.ca The guy who plays Russian defector Ivan Papasonofasomething is also one of the arresting cops when Venus is suspected of being a jewel thief. Del Murdock of Del's Stereo and Sound comes back as Johnny's ex's about-to-be new husband. Sam Anderson plays airheaded DJ Rex Erhardt and the immigration agent they take Ivan to see (he also has a role in The New that I can't find right now). There are more.

@zazzoo@mstdn.ca Superfan, absolutely. Oh! Did you know that the station engineer, Buckey Dornster, was played by Bill Dial, writer of many episodes?

@zazzoo@mstdn.ca There's a tiny clip I've been searching for as a reaction gif for years now. Way back, WKRP in Cincinnati. The station is hosting a concert by a new punk band, "Scum of the Earth". They like to be wild and crazy, so any time they get tired of someone or they don't like his answer about something, they toss him out a window or from a moving car, saying "Well, that's it for him, then!" Boy George? AI? Pro-genocide? Well, that's it for him, then!

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I cannot. fucking. wait.

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe However. The Fraggles consume the production of the Doozers, with no apparent awareness of the destruction they cause in doing so.

Hey @crispius, there's a term on the tip of my tongue that's just not coming to me, and I bet you know what I'm thinking of. IIRC, you take an old PC or something, you set it up in a certain way, and you put it between your home WiFi and your ISP connection. Increase privacy, strip out ads, that kind of stuff. Or maybe it's done with a Raspberry Pi? What am I thinking of?

@crispius@mstdn.fname.ca Just for ad blocking, or do you accomplish more with that? With uBlock Origin in my browser, I don't really see ads, so that's only a side effect of what I hope to accomplish. @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

When you pronounce the word: "AEON", do you say

@scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud Oh, that's really helpful, Scuttlebutt. 😜