I watched my local college lose all its credibility as a result of running borderline scams for foreign students. My old university otoh has been rather smart about not becoming too dependent on foriegn student tuition. I love immigration, and especially think exporting our education is a good thing, but the way these programs have been run in recent years is a cancer on these institutions and pure short term thinking. I’d rather see reform, but this is almost as good.

He’s a “radical, Muslim” not a “radical muslim” :D

I never liked the invincible bridge gates, it’s really really cool to see this update and get some real combat besides the clowns.

I haven’t played much since the big steam release, is dwarf therapist still defacto required? Any tips on getting back into it?

This is just saber rattling. The ndp are too broke and disorganized for an election right now.

Can you imagine how great it would be if every class of item had to come in the same container. It would make reuse of those packages viable which would be way better than recycling ever could.

Plastic recycling really sucks, but paper recycling is usually a net positive and compost is such a no brainer I’m always shocked it isn’t everywhere.

Loblaws and subsidiaries

The monarchy stops things like Jan6th from happening, probably would have limited the whole hanging chads thing as well. They (via the GG) have peacefully resolved the 2008 constitutional crisis as a canadian example. The monarchs power and money is tied to exactly one thing, the current political system continuing, that is their only power and it aligns with their incentives. I don’t like the monarchs, but I like constitutional monarchies and I don’t see a good way of setting up a new head of state that isn’t elected (and thus corruptible). Perhaps a Native leader of some kind.

How would you like it to go? This is how it is meant to go, politicians announce a goal and a vague direction they want to go in, then table bills with the details filled out, it undergoes several layers of public debate and then it gets voted on.

The details of how it gets accomplished are being released in early November with the budget.

MECA?

I don’t love that they stop working when your sub expires (unlike audible) but that price does have me really tempted.

Audible costs me about 12CAD/book

Libro seems to only cost 20CAD/book which is a significant hike but it’s not as bad as buying the books outright which costs 30-40$ which is simply too much for me to afford. I’ll probably switch when I run out of ausible credits thanks for the rec!

I think one of the bigger problems with amazon is that it replaces so many different sectors all at once. I don’t think any one single replacement is really solving the problem, furthermore I don’t think an internationally relevant replacement for any one sector is that great either.

I guess the most recent amazon temptation was a utility cabinet, I found a nice one on amazon, but then searched and found an equivalent one from Canadian tire.

The hardest thing for me to break is audio books. I use the library but I find it rarely has what I want in stock, I have tried piracy but I can’t find a good tracker for audio books and I like supporting authors when I can. Audible is really cheap compared to every store front, especially when buying credits in bulk.

Laci green used to be a women’s health feminist youtuber. Made a video titled “i took the red pill” and immediately lost 90% of her views followed by the channel dying within 10 videos.

I buy a Costco box of all spice and store them all over the place (bathroom, bedroom, my backpack, my wfh desk, gym bag, etc) I dont pay attention at all to the scent they all smell the same to me.

My oven already heats up in 2minutes? What is the problem with trays?

Otoh tho 2 uses of the airfyer is almost certainly worse than a bigger single session with an oven. Personally I find meal prepping to be important way of saving time and energy alike.

also in winter both waste no energy since whatever energy is not used for cooking ends up warming your house.

I dint want to yuck anyone’s yum, but I dont have a lot of use for a tool that only has a benefit half the year when doing small batches.

I dont think its wasted effort i think its very intentional to make his supporters feel like he was snubbed by the international community.

I have a professional advantage in being a windows power user. Only way of maintaining that is running windows at home. I do have several Linux systems too.