Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.
See, there's people here saying never for something nonviolent. That's kinda silly, non-violent crimes can be just as bad. They're just less visually compelling.
"Expect" seems a bit dramatic, since it's not like they gun down someone on every call. Be prepared for the possibility, maybe.
Ethics comes above personal relationships always. That being said, small-scale tax fraud doesn't really seem pressing; there's plenty of flexibility about what to ethically do about that.
I'd have to duckduckgo where you even report that, because I don't think it's the normal police.
Every family and relationship is different, I guess. I feel like active extortion would make the dinners a bit weird for me.
Identity is a strong motivator. Unfortunately, way stronger than any abstract social good.
The dishes in mind were actually butter tarts, Nanaimo bars and poutine. Cheese curds are hard to come by in the US (so they make a much worse version with cheddar or whatever), and Bird's custard powder for the filling of the bars is a British commonwealth thing. Butter tarts just aren't exciting enough I guess.
I have no idea how prevalent horsemeat is anywhere. The white people in my area are loudly butthurt it exists at all.
Yes, a bit like that (it's not the groundskeeper Willie meme, other Lemmings). I wonder if Austrians feel the same way about Germany?
And I should say, Quebec does not suffer from this exact issue as far as I know.
"The judge seems willing to order structural changes in Google's ad exchange practices, which may affect Google's bottom line somewhat, but don't seem to necessarily threaten its core value proposition as an advertising middleman," he added.
In an ongoing series of antitrust lawsuits, the US government argues Google and its parent company Alphabet should be broken up - which could include selling off parts of the company such as the Chrome browser.
The US case will now move to a second "remedies" phase, which could also lead to Alphabet being broken up, said John Kwoka, a professor of economics at Northeastern University.
Unless Trump rescues them, I guess.
Even if you've just visited, you're like "wait, that looks really familiar" sometimes.
It's 'cause they get a tax break, or so I've heard.
Honestly we forget about Canada, in a way. Having the US so close geographically and culturally has made it hard to see anything else. I can think of three distinctly Canadian dishes, and two of them have only stayed Canadian because they involve ingredients Americans can't get.
The Anglo-Canadian identity is pretty much just "we're not American" and having an inferiority complex. It's been weirdly natural for people to switch to thinking of America as the enemy.
while I know about all the shitty pizzas the US made up in a century.
Yep, none of that was us. For sure. /s
Honestly, it's more like they invent a narcissistic alternative reality where everyone either loves them or hates them out of envy. Which is worse.
Not saying out inferiority complex is great either, though.
With all 4.5 children inhaling the lead paint fumes wafting off of it, or something like that. Ahh, the old days.
Yes. They shouldn't even have to purity test like in the second sentence.
I don't know the details of that, but I'm skeptical. Nothing about the housing system has worked great lately.
Pfft, look at this person giving an actual answer. Jokes, opinions and political rants only. /s
The metal ones were quite often mass produced by casting, like in claw-foot bathtubs. Probably in imitation of older artisanal pieces, which were already antiques in, say, 1910.
Putting out another regular reminder that there's multiple incompatible definitions of capitalism.
I think Pierre has something a bit more Putinesque in mind. I can't even say it would a libertarian free-for-all, because he's big on strict rules to protect his favoured industries and people.
If you don't want capitalism, depending on definition, you have to go for a fringe party.
Yeah. That wasn't a normative statement, just a descriptive one. We should be the customer, we just economically aren't. I bet you and me buy the same kind of stuff.
The points I was arguing against in OP are that everything is built worse than it used to be, and that it's because some group can just decide so unilaterally for personal gain. Some stuff is worse, some stuff is better, but it's true that regulations haven't kept pace with technology this century.
What about AT protocol?
Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style "link aggregator" service on it?
An article about Project Arrow, an all-Canadian EV
Today is Remembrance Day, but it’s likely that many of you have forgotten about Project Arrow . Named after the Canadian-made Avro Arrow interceptor aircraft from the 1950s, this all-electric SUV concept with autonomous driving capabilities is a collaboration between nearly 60 different companies in...
It's a few months old, but in light of recent events I think it still checks out. Make sure to watch the walkaround!
So how is not buying American going for you?
Last trip to the grocery store I couldn't find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.
I'm very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there's even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I'd expected.
Has anyone ever done a Speculative Evolution book or work on Carcinisation?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25237011
About Carcinisation
About Speculative Evolution
Just imagine... Crablike humans, crablike dogs, crablike birds!
What's some good FOSS news?
I just found out DivestOS is dead and could use it.
Is it better to start from scratch rather than refactoring?
Refactoring gets really bad reviews, but from where I'm sitting as a hobby programmer in relative ignorance it seems like it should be easier, because you could potentially reuse a lot of code. Can someone break it down for me?
I'm thinking of a situation where the code is ugly but still legible here. I completely understand that actual reverse engineering is harder than coding on a blank slate.
Preventing child sex abuse must involve treating pedophiles, even past offenders, say experts - CBC Radio
This is one of those takes that's so controversial I'm afraid to post it, which is exactly why I have to.
I neither endorse nor disavow this, and no, I'm not in the picture.
Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications
Many animals convergently evolved photosynthetic symbioses. In bivalves, giant clams (Cardiidae: Tridacninae) gape open to irradiate their symbionts, but heart cockles (Cardiidae: Fraginae) stay closed because sunlight passes through transparent windows in their shells. Here, we show that heart cock...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33597552
Summary from the 404 media newsletter
Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients.
Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.”
“We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago.
From the article in the link above:
 reputation made it for me.
Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21879517
A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.
I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.
Edit:
So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.
Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed 229Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."
Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.
A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.
I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.
Edit:
So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.
Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed 229Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."
US president says he is 'very close' to presenting proposal to free remaining hostages as Israelis protest over latest deaths
Per the rules, this is the original headline. However, the interesting part is that he's preparing a Gaza offer that he says will be "final".
They've hewn very close to the whole "unconditional support" thing, so I'm curious what that means exactly.
A guide to inter-Canadian trash talk (and island capitals I guess)
How do you find the center of two concentric circles with just a straightedge?
The Wikipedia article on Steiner constructions mentions it, but doesn't explain it, and the source linked is a book I don't have. This has come up in a practical project.
Does anybody have a table of coke or charcoal burn rates?
In air. This seems like it should be incredibly basic information but I can't find it anywhere.
Just watched this and thought it was dope. I especially liked the Roman buffets and Foreman grills.
20 million meals later, Chef Robotics is making robotic food prep work
I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
Models that are more reliable and less energy-intensive could help us to better prepare for extreme weather.
Is there a precedent for a really delay-tolerant command line interface? (A bit off-topic)
I've been playing with an idea that would involve running a machine over a delay-tolerant mesh network. The thing is, each packet is precious and needs to be pretty much self contained in that situation, while modern systems assume SSH-like continuous interaction with the user.
Has anyone heard of anything pre-existing that would work here? I figured if anyone would know about situations where each character is expensive, it would be you folks.
