Poilievre said the Sovereignty Act would also include his campaign promise to exempt people from capital gains tax when they reinvest the proceeds of an investment in a Canadian company.
This one is insane. The 1% would accumulate so much more wealth, tax free, with this. JFC.
One of my bigger concerns from all this is that reduced access to users to install apps might have chilling effects on app development. It's great being able to get apps from Itch.io, GitHub, and FDroid, but will developers continue releasing there if the user base dries up? I guess apk-mirror will likely still continue, since they're ripping from the Play store anyway.
You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?
That said, the Outlook application is necessary for lots of things, like saving email files (record keeping) and mail merges, but the number of accounts has never been a problem for me. I have 9 active email accounts spread across three/five different platforms (depending if you separate corporate vs. free), and I use web apps (by choice) for all of them, aside from popping Outlook open for the aforementioned mail merges and digital record keeping for email files.
But absolutely true for Excel. It frustrates me so much when I'm stuck on a computer with even slightly outdated versions of the Excel application. SORT, FILTER, TEXTSPLIT, and so many other functions are so much simpler than the many workarounds I used to kludge together.
But fuck Teams. The application is just as garbage as the web app. Those two fail/crash ten times more than all the other apps on my computer *combined". I've crashed three times in a single meeting. It must be vibe coded, bolted together, janky, spaghetti code.
Yeah, idk what parent poster is talking about. I totally didn't spend the bulk of yesterday afternoon redoing a small project from scratch because I couldn't decipher what I did two months ago. Nope. That would be ridiculous! So glad my human-written code is so much better than AI code.
If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order. The move follows raids on the homes of leading dissidents and comes as armed men seen as loyal to the president, many of them masked, continue to pluck people off the streets …
As a Canadian with young children, I worry for what their future will look like, with an American dictatorship to our south.
Realistically, everyone should probably be updating their BIOS when building a new computer. Often, early updates have the biggest fixes, right?
We all should probably be updating our mobo BIOS periodically, at least for the first years or two when there are still significant potential updates/fixes, but I don't blame anyone who doesn't; it's not as straightforward as Windows Update doing everything for people.
Even if the score is kept off, there's the angle of the Sun and cloud cover. There's just less sunlight to be had, even if the panels are kept clear of snow.
Hell, Vancouver Island gets practically no snow at all in many areas, and solar does much worse in its cloudy/rainy season (winter).
Liquid fluoride thorium reactors are designed to be meltdown proof. A fusible plug at the bottom of the reactor melts in the event of a power failure or if temperatures exceed a set limit, draining the fuel into an underground tank for safe storage.
Nuclear waste is way overblown as a concern. The total volume of waste is miniscule, relative to the power generated. Nuclear also uses almost no land for the reactor, compared with solar, and is essentially 100% dependable 24/7/365.
Solar is great, and costs are diminishing incredibly rapidly. And if the news of sodium-based batteries at ~9% the cost of lithium batteries plays out, then storing solar becomes cheap. Still not dependable for Canadian winters, of course. Solar also uses lots of land, and lots of mass of semiconductors (which of course has its own climate impacts to produce, ship, and recycle/dispose of).
I'm not super looped in to the technology specifics, but I understand that some modern nuclear designs are meltdown proof, too, so there isn't really any rational NIMBY case to be made against them.
Having read the whole article, they don't have any specifics that justify their concerns. They quote the price of nuclear facility construction, but don't contrast those costs against any competing technologies, so the numbers are effectively meaningless. They complain about nuclear waste, but their only evidence is quoting NIMBYs who don't want a facility put in close to them.
I'm open to being convinced that nuclear isn't in Canada's interests, but this article did not make a compelling case.
Eh... I was also going to say Heroes, but I think it jumped the shark partway through season 1.
The "Dave the Cheerleader, Save the World" story arc is done if the best television ever, but it rapidly goes downhill from there. Then in season 2, they tried to get fan involvement in the story and, predictably, it was terrible.
But for anyone who hasn't seen it, you'll know the story arc I'm talking about, and it's obvious when it ends. Well worth watching up to that point!
Right, but if the beans they roast come through the US, then locally roasted beans will still have American tariffs applied, and it's often not worth applying to get a refund. The goods were not for final sale in the US, the tariffs don't apply, but the paperwork is more onerous than the refund, for smaller businesses. That's the point.
Yeah, it's owned by Burger King, and the new owners accelerated the reduction in quality that had started a decade before the buyout.
The reason for my particular gripes with Tim Horton's is their over-the-top Canadian branding of an American company. It should be illegal, as clearly false marketing.
They're also franchises, and are notorious for most franchise owners being borderline abusive to their largely teenage and immigrant staff, who may not know better or have the resources to fight back against illegal labour practices.
And the food is terrible, and the coffee is the second worst in the Canadian fast food industry (after A&W).
With Star Wars, they didn't even do the main film franchise well. Episode 7 was okay, but 8 was such hot garbage I read up on why and found out there was no overarching plan for the trilogy, and different directors for each. No wonder they pulled a J.K. Rowling to completely change the rules of their own systems to meet the needs of the (bad) plot, and shit all over their own franchise. Skywalker might as well have been given a Super Time Turner to save the day in 8.
Disney Star Wars films are bad fan fiction, not canon.
2025 is (finally) my year for Linux. I've used Linux periodically fire 2 decades, but I've always used Windows as my main boot partition on my desktops/laptops.
I recently fucked up my Windows install, which is a whole other story, but point is I need to reformat and start fresh. I'm so sick of Microsoft's shit, and I've been super impressed with Linux on my Steam Deck, so I'm going to be installing CachyOS soon.
My wife's aging laptop is being killed by Windows bloat, too. Works great until Windows decides it needs to lock up 100% CPU, 100% memory, and 100% disk bandwidth to install a Microsoft Edge update. (True story.) She doesn't even want/use Edge. This machine is used 100% for media streaming and web apps, so Linux is a perfect fit.
I have a friend in a similar situation. Both my friend and my wife I'm thinking an immutable distro will likely work best for them.
The big thing that's been holding me back for years is that my desktop rig is my work computer, and I need OneDrive and the latest desktop version of Excel, but I'm so sick of wasting time with Microsoft's bullshit that I'm just going to install debloated Windows 11 in a VM. I just need those two apps, so that'll be plenty.
This is what I came to recommend. Spruce pellets are cheap and locally sourced, and they disintegrate to sawdust when wet. (They're compacted sawdust to begin with, so that makes sense.) You get a litter box with a tray full of holes over a bin, then when you school the poop, you just jostle it around a bit extra to encourage any lingering sawdust to fall through the holes.
We use puppy pads underneath to catch the sawdust, so the clean up takes no time. We empty and refill it every week or so, with 2 small cats.
Not all cats are happy to switch, apparently, but we didn't run into that. Our cats were rescues, and they only use wood pellets at the SPCA to reduce costs and because it's healthier for cats (they breathe in less dust).
Some wood pellets are treated with chemicals of some kind to affect how they burn, so we get ours from a horse supply shop since they only get animal-safe pellets.
This one is insane. The 1% would accumulate so much more wealth, tax free, with this. JFC.
It works in Canada without a SIM. I know because my son did it on his "wifi-only" tablet.
Do you need a phone plan at all for emergency calling? It's required for all carriers to take 911 calls in Canada.
One of my bigger concerns from all this is that reduced access to users to install apps might have chilling effects on app development. It's great being able to get apps from Itch.io, GitHub, and FDroid, but will developers continue releasing there if the user base dries up? I guess apk-mirror will likely still continue, since they're ripping from the Play store anyway.
You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?
That said, the Outlook application is necessary for lots of things, like saving email files (record keeping) and mail merges, but the number of accounts has never been a problem for me. I have 9 active email accounts spread across three/five different platforms (depending if you separate corporate vs. free), and I use web apps (by choice) for all of them, aside from popping Outlook open for the aforementioned mail merges and digital record keeping for email files.
But absolutely true for Excel. It frustrates me so much when I'm stuck on a computer with even slightly outdated versions of the Excel application. SORT, FILTER, TEXTSPLIT, and so many other functions are so much simpler than the many workarounds I used to kludge together.
But fuck Teams. The application is just as garbage as the web app. Those two fail/crash ten times more than all the other apps on my computer *combined". I've crashed three times in a single meeting. It must be vibe coded, bolted together, janky, spaghetti code.
Yeah, idk what parent poster is talking about. I totally didn't spend the bulk of yesterday afternoon redoing a small project from scratch because I couldn't decipher what I did two months ago. Nope. That would be ridiculous! So glad my human-written code is so much better than AI code.
The intro to the article pretty much sums it up:
As a Canadian with young children, I worry for what their future will look like, with an American dictatorship to our south.
Realistically, everyone should probably be updating their BIOS when building a new computer. Often, early updates have the biggest fixes, right?
We all should probably be updating our mobo BIOS periodically, at least for the first years or two when there are still significant potential updates/fixes, but I don't blame anyone who doesn't; it's not as straightforward as Windows Update doing everything for people.
Even if the score is kept off, there's the angle of the Sun and cloud cover. There's just less sunlight to be had, even if the panels are kept clear of snow.
Hell, Vancouver Island gets practically no snow at all in many areas, and solar does much worse in its cloudy/rainy season (winter).
Source
Nuclear waste is way overblown as a concern. The total volume of waste is miniscule, relative to the power generated. Nuclear also uses almost no land for the reactor, compared with solar, and is essentially 100% dependable 24/7/365.
Solar is great, and costs are diminishing incredibly rapidly. And if the news of sodium-based batteries at ~9% the cost of lithium batteries plays out, then storing solar becomes cheap. Still not dependable for Canadian winters, of course. Solar also uses lots of land, and lots of mass of semiconductors (which of course has its own climate impacts to produce, ship, and recycle/dispose of).
I'm not super looped in to the technology specifics, but I understand that some modern nuclear designs are meltdown proof, too, so there isn't really any rational NIMBY case to be made against them.
Having read the whole article, they don't have any specifics that justify their concerns. They quote the price of nuclear facility construction, but don't contrast those costs against any competing technologies, so the numbers are effectively meaningless. They complain about nuclear waste, but their only evidence is quoting NIMBYs who don't want a facility put in close to them.
I'm open to being convinced that nuclear isn't in Canada's interests, but this article did not make a compelling case.
MtG players shuffle their hands compulsively. They don't even realize they're doing it.
Eh... I was also going to say Heroes, but I think it jumped the shark partway through season 1.
The "Dave the Cheerleader, Save the World" story arc is done if the best television ever, but it rapidly goes downhill from there. Then in season 2, they tried to get fan involvement in the story and, predictably, it was terrible.
But for anyone who hasn't seen it, you'll know the story arc I'm talking about, and it's obvious when it ends. Well worth watching up to that point!
Right, but if the beans they roast come through the US, then locally roasted beans will still have American tariffs applied, and it's often not worth applying to get a refund. The goods were not for final sale in the US, the tariffs don't apply, but the paperwork is more onerous than the refund, for smaller businesses. That's the point.
Yeah, it's owned by Burger King, and the new owners accelerated the reduction in quality that had started a decade before the buyout.
The reason for my particular gripes with Tim Horton's is their over-the-top Canadian branding of an American company. It should be illegal, as clearly false marketing.
They're also franchises, and are notorious for most franchise owners being borderline abusive to their largely teenage and immigrant staff, who may not know better or have the resources to fight back against illegal labour practices.
And the food is terrible, and the coffee is the second worst in the Canadian fast food industry (after A&W).
What is there not to hate about Tom Horton's?
In a just society, there can be no tolerance for intolerance.
Which ones? It's pretty easy to pass Strong Integrity.
With Star Wars, they didn't even do the main film franchise well. Episode 7 was okay, but 8 was such hot garbage I read up on why and found out there was no overarching plan for the trilogy, and different directors for each. No wonder they pulled a J.K. Rowling to completely change the rules of their own systems to meet the needs of the (bad) plot, and shit all over their own franchise. Skywalker might as well have been given a Super Time Turner to save the day in 8.
Disney Star Wars films are bad fan fiction, not canon.
2025 is (finally) my year for Linux. I've used Linux periodically fire 2 decades, but I've always used Windows as my main boot partition on my desktops/laptops.
I recently fucked up my Windows install, which is a whole other story, but point is I need to reformat and start fresh. I'm so sick of Microsoft's shit, and I've been super impressed with Linux on my Steam Deck, so I'm going to be installing CachyOS soon.
My wife's aging laptop is being killed by Windows bloat, too. Works great until Windows decides it needs to lock up 100% CPU, 100% memory, and 100% disk bandwidth to install a Microsoft Edge update. (True story.) She doesn't even want/use Edge. This machine is used 100% for media streaming and web apps, so Linux is a perfect fit.
I have a friend in a similar situation. Both my friend and my wife I'm thinking an immutable distro will likely work best for them.
The big thing that's been holding me back for years is that my desktop rig is my work computer, and I need OneDrive and the latest desktop version of Excel, but I'm so sick of wasting time with Microsoft's bullshit that I'm just going to install debloated Windows 11 in a VM. I just need those two apps, so that'll be plenty.
This is what I came to recommend. Spruce pellets are cheap and locally sourced, and they disintegrate to sawdust when wet. (They're compacted sawdust to begin with, so that makes sense.) You get a litter box with a tray full of holes over a bin, then when you school the poop, you just jostle it around a bit extra to encourage any lingering sawdust to fall through the holes.
We use puppy pads underneath to catch the sawdust, so the clean up takes no time. We empty and refill it every week or so, with 2 small cats.
Not all cats are happy to switch, apparently, but we didn't run into that. Our cats were rescues, and they only use wood pellets at the SPCA to reduce costs and because it's healthier for cats (they breathe in less dust).
Some wood pellets are treated with chemicals of some kind to affect how they burn, so we get ours from a horse supply shop since they only get animal-safe pellets.