AspieEgg

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The headline is somewhat misleading. The article says that Canada is pursuing closer ties with the EU and may be interested in participating in some EU programs, but neither the EU or Canada want Canada to be a full member of the EU. The idea of an associate membership was floated, but that idea was also floated with Ukraine and ultimately went nowhere.

on RIP Palm and Nokia · c/linuxmemes · 23 pts · 10d

I had a Palm Pixi and loved it. Palm WebOS was an amazing OS that gave the industry a lot of what are considered standard features of phones today. You could also root it by just going into the settings and turning on developer mode.

Palm’s acquisition by HP destroyed all of that. And to make matters worse, they sold WebOS to LG who now uses it to spy on people through their TVs.

on Life is hard · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 20d

My car is an EV, so it definitely does this because there’s no excessive engine heat to use.

on Life is hard · c/lemmyshitpost · 28 pts · 20d

When I press the defrost button in my car, it turns both the heat and AC on at the same time. I assume this is to remove water from the air with the AC, then warm up the air increasing its capacity to hold water with the heat.

Literally today I got an update from Alibaba telling me the actual flight number of my shipment including the departure and landing time of the flight. Canada Post also sent me an update today saying my package was redirected due to a processing error and that there is a possible delay.

on Oh whaAAat?! · c/FightForPrivacy · 31 pts · 25d

When you list a business on Google Maps, you have to select a category for a business. I’m guessing that “CEO Doxxing” isn’t one of the categories, so whoever listed this probably just chose a random category.

Dispatches From Elsewhere is a mini-series that features a trans woman in a pretty accurate sense, and the character is played by a trans woman.

Wonderful show if you don’t mind shows that start off a bit “what the fuck did I just watch?” After all, the very first scene is Christopher Walken staring at you without saying anything for 30 seconds.

on Don't be an Oak · c/transmemes · 13 pts · 45d

This is overwhelmingly true. My partner and I decided not to tell anyone our child’s name or sex until after birth. You’d think this was a form of psychological torture with the way some people acted. We had a little bit of fun after she was born telling people her gender-neutral name and watching people figure out how to specifically ask what her sex was.

It’s very clearly an AI image to me. Just look at the road lines. A double solid yellow line on the right side of the road is not something that happens in the USA. The double yellow line would be in the center of the road. And if this was a divided highway with the coyote being in the center median, then the yellow line would be a single solid line.

on Little Things are Big Wins · c/autism · 1 pts · 81d

I remember going there frequently as a kid when it was called Camp Snoopy. The biggest rides back then were the Ripsaw roller coaster (now called Orange Streak) that went around most of the park and the Paul Bunyan Log Flume ride.

It does mention that those posts were from 2015. Though that still would have been about a decade after Adobe took over.

ETA: Clicking on the post they are referencing, the original author called it Adobe Flash, so not sure why it was changed for this article.

I think that one of the biggest struggles we see is infantilization. This whole image screams it. The bright colors. The silly font. Even the message that try’s to paint autism as something special and unique. This doesn’t give off “I’m proud of who I am”. To me it gives off “mom who’s trying to make her child feel better about being excluded.”

When I was visiting Quebec City, I noticed that their traffic lights would all go red for cars and the pedestrian lights would come on for every direction. People would cross the intersection in whatever way was fastest for them (even diagonally) because the cars all had to wait for pedestrians anyway. It was super nice as someone walking.

American living abroad here. I have lived and worked here for 5 years. Not once have I paid taxes to the USA. I have to file my taxes every year, but since my wife and I do not make more than $260,000 combined, we do not have to pay taxes to the US government. There are even more tax credits we get by living in a country with a tax treaty with the USA (foreign tax credit).

Why don’t Americans living abroad renounce their citizenship? Many reasons. First, most Americans living abroad probably have family in the USA. Giving up their citizenship would mean having a more difficult time crossing borders into the USA. They would also be giving up the ability to move back to the US if they wanted to. They would give up their ability to vote in US elections, which may be important to them if they have family there. Additionally, until recently, it cost like $2500 to renounce an American citizenship. I think it now costs like $800. It also takes months to get approval from the state department.

So if you don’t make a whole lot of money, why would you want to give up citizenship? Renouncing your citizenship really only has negatives unless you make a lot of money.

Also, to address why they don’t consider naturalization. Many probably do consider it. But it takes a lot of time, effort and money to become naturalized in most countries. Right now I’ve been here for 5 years and I will only become eligible for naturalization at the end of this year. After applying, it will probably take another year, lots of paperwork and money to become a citizen.