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BenVimes

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  • We Should Really Just Steal Finland’s Baby Box Idea | The Walrus

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  • Our first also needed a frenotomy, and we had to go to a specialist clinic outside the hospital.

    My best understanding of that situation was that they first wanted to make sure it was actually a problem over a week or two of observation. Then, the procedure was technically classified as dental surgery, so a doctor at a hospital couldn't perform it for professional/ethical/insurance reasons.

  • We Should Really Just Steal Finland’s Baby Box Idea | The Walrus

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  • How much support new parents get seems to vary by city (and maybe province?).

    I've also had two children born in Canada in the past few years, but in different cities (and provinces). Neither gave us a baby box, but the first provided a free and unprompted hearing test right in the recovery room, while the other required us to make a seperate appointment in the weeks following the birth for that same service.

  • Yet Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye, Is The Earworm....

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  • My angel is the centrefold?

  • USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA

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  • Assuming you were aiming for the French phrase for 'seafood', I think you meant 'fruit de mer.'

    'Fruit de la mère' would translate to, 'fruit of the mother.'

  • The shoehorning of llms into business use is just laziness.

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  • A few months ago, my work got everyone Copilot 365 licences. I have yet to use it, and I haven't seen anyone in my immediate vicinity using it either. So from my perspective, it's wasted money and bandwidth. I do work at a very large organization, so maybe there are people elsewhere who do use it, but it has yet to contribute anything to my work.

    You want to know what would make my job easier? A password manager or unified login of some sort. I'm currently juggling nearly a dozen unique passwords, and it's mentally taxing.

  • The way of the monk

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  • If you were talking about neckties, maybe. Loosening social ties doesn't sound natural, at least to me.

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  • This recently happened in my campaign.

    We were fighting a dragon, and it kept flying around its lair, making it very hard for my Barbarian to hit it. We ultimately won, but 3 of the party of 5 died.

    Later, while dividing loot, I saw that I had been carrying a Potion of Flying the whole time, and the fight probably would have gone better if I had used it.

  • the invite the....

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  • You're right, they don't.

    The ones beginning with "d" generally translate as "of the," while the "à" ones generally translate as "to the" or "at the."

    French has three words that mean "the": "le" (masculine), "la" (feminine), and "les" (plural).

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  • Anyone else bothered by the grammar in the first panel? Or is it just me?

  • Echoing Trump, Canada's Conservative Leader Vows to Deport Pro-Palestine Activists

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  • Yeah, they are in different ridings, though they are adjacent.

  • Trump brags world leaders are ‘kissing my ass’ over tariffs

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  • I was thinking Flagpole Sitta, but that works too

  • Trump brags world leaders are ‘kissing my ass’ over tariffs

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  • Or a 90s indie song.

  • Leaders of Canada, Mexico discuss plan to fight trade actions by US

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  • If I can't find a Canadian version of a product, I look for Mexico next.

    Help your neighbours, everyone.

  • If I never have to see another "F🍁ck Trudeau" flag again, it will be too soon.

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  • That's the one.

    I don't know if my memory of that era comports with actual history, but this is how I remember it playing out:

    It looked like the Conservative attack ads were going to win the election for them again, just as they had against Dion and Ignatieff. They were ahead and gaining in the polls, and the Liberals seemed to have no response. The slogan was, "Trudeau: he's just not ready."

    Then the polls stabilized for a few days, and the Liberals released that ad. The polls started rapidly reversing, and the Liberals decisively swept into power. I don't think I even saw another, "he's not ready," attack ad from the Conservatives again after that.

    EDIT: One can debate how much of an effect that ad had, and whether Trudeau's actions matched its promises, but for me it will always stick out as a good bit of political strategy.

  • If I never have to see another "F🍁ck Trudeau" flag again, it will be too soon.

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  • I'll also always remember how the Liberals pulled a judo-reverse on the Conservatives by turning their main line of attack back against them. I knew from the moment I saw that ad with Trudeau on the escalator that the Liberals would win.

  • The United States is Falling Apart and the World is Taking Notice

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  • They may be referencing the USA's increased international hegemony starting after WWII rather than the founding of the nation.

  • After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected

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  • I can think of a bunch of other things that Google should be embarrassed about, but Gemini is uniquely humiliating because of how proud they are of it and how hard they are pushing it.

  • After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected

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  • Copilot is one of two LLMs I've briefly tried. It was noticeably better than Gemini was at the time, but still seemed entirely pointless. Nothing it (or Gemini) offered to do were things I wanted help with. I enjoy research and writing, so why would I outsource those things and burn down an acre of rainforest in the process?

  • What’s the dumbest thing you ever got in trouble at school for?

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  • "Swearing"

    5th grade, first day at a new school. I'm trying to meet new kids, but I'm terribly awkward. I try to lead one conversation with some humour: "Did you know the Bible says you shouldn't covet your neighbour's ass?"

    Cue some other kid running off to find a teacher, which resulted in me having to skip recess and write an essay about how I shouldn't swear because it is a bad influence on younger kids.

    Over the following four years I was on the receiving end of invective many times more aggressive and offensive, sometimes right in front of teachers, but I never saw another kid punished for foul language.