Early 2010s I asked the company I worked for to approve some free game engines to be installed. The legal department returned a big no with pages of why Unity should not be allowed in the premises. We proceeded with Unreal, Blender and eventually Godot as tools any employee could install.
Unity was bad back them, it is just that people did not read the agreements and tech sheet. Their new leadership just made that more apparent.
Puuluup is great, learned about them during Eurovision a couple of years ago. Thanks for the recommendation of KEXP
This is the best answer! Thank you for sharing your methods. I was going to reply about the daily editorial, but yours is more complete.
I would also like to add that I type the name of things I like and often find them on bandcamp. Including big artists.
Peter Gabriel, Evanescence, Run the Jewels, Flight of Conchords, Ghost...
What I don't find there, I get from a thrift store (easy to find famous artists there) or quobuz.
They do already, and most of the comments on the noise are "please share promp".
They gave us a scare over the years, being sold around to companies that are famous for enshittifying platforms.
Epic sold the company when people unionized, and the next did a trick to not recognized the union and "hire" half of the staff (contrary to fire half of them).
The platform is not what has been 5 years ago, but it is still my favourite place to get music around.
Brazil (R$ right?) used to have a lot of programs to send students to foreign countries, but around 10 years ago the numbers dwindled.
I don't see many Brazilian undergrads anymore, some grads, but mostly post-docs.
If you shared your field and education level, I could point you to a more precise direction.
But for education, your best bets are:
Payment here is different, you pay by period X number of curses (Fall term, Winter Term, Spring/Summer) - some places in Europe it would be called semester) not by year, so that 20.000 CAD a year would be split in at least 2 periods. The university puts that so it is easier for you to plan your life. There is no monthly instalments payment like in some countries, but students can apply for awards, support, loans, etc... Check your university of choice for this information.
As others said, you need to take in account other costs too, from the visa process (a student visa will take longer and be pricier than a visitors visa), to housing and food. Some universities offer housing and food at a smaller cost than doing it all by yourself.
From your other comment in the thread, it sounds like you just want to leave the country for a while to experience life somewhere else.
Commonwealth countries and some places in Europe offer an easy to get work visa for under 30 years old. Check if you qualify for those. Usually, those visas lasts for a year, and you can renew if you meet some criteria.
While writing the book, I realized that the core constraints of the universe described in the text
Did you write the text? Why are you talking about the text like you are reading it for the first time? It might be when you "write" +200 pages in 2 weeks.
I suspect it's actually a Game Engine specification.
No, it is not. Your text is a manifesto, even if you eventually figure out physics, it is still not what you need to build a physics simulation engine or the physics abstraction for a game engine. Your text helps to achieve neither.
Please stop preying on kids for free labour and to spread whatever your goals are.
Just literacy would be enough.
Without even counting the red flags of the account date, both here and GitHub, that you cannot find the author anywhere, that OP managed to write +200 pages of "physics" in 2 weeks (check changelogs, it went from 211 pages to whatever op is claiming now). The whole thing reads like LLM assisted manifesto.
I am not joking, people do not need to read the entire thing to see that is just dropping real names (physics, tech) without any support to their claims. And it is just claims as an absolute, there is no proof, logic, nothing.
I guess they would get a lot more goodwill if they were upfront about writing fiction, or some TempleOS kind of thing.
They are using this "game engine" excuse just to prey on kids.
First time I heard of Konek, I have been using Interact for a while but did not know they had this service.
As far as I am aware, a bunch of countries created something similar to get rid of American payment systems, like UPI in India.
My favourite so far is the Brazilian Pix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system), becoming the most used payment system in the country in the past few years. Not only because it is technically sound, but it also managed to get the Americans pissed. Credit card and tech lobbies pressuring the American government to do something about it. Meta tried to release a payment system in Brazil that failed miserable because of Pix.
A while ago, I was looking to buy a "dumb tv". In the end I narrowed it down to professional display, computer monitors, and projectors. And sadly, the prices are usually higher than a TV of the same size.
Professional Displays are those you find in fast food with the menu, or in offices with info, doctors etc... One of the reasons they are expensive is because they are made to be on 24x7.
Projectors are cool, but they work better in darker rooms. The cheaper ones also need more space from the wall.
I ended up going with a computer monitor, LG ultragear 48 inches, it is great. And it was cheaper than anything else, and I was lucky there was a price drop from the MSRP because they were restocking to a newer model. Usually they are a bit more expensive than the equivalent LG C model TV.
With a monitor, you will have to plug anything that you want to watch, there is no wifi and apps. Another constrain is size, the largest I could find were 48 inches. Anything bigger would fall into the professional display category and get expensive fast.
Sadly, I just checked online and neither Amazon or Best Buy are offering those here in Canada https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/lg-ultragear-48-uhd-138hz-0-1ms-gtg-oled-lcd-freesync-gaming-monitor-48gq900-b-black/16310839. LG was usually around 1k CAD, and BenQ was not that far off.
I hope it is just shortage rather than discontinuing those line of products.
I understand better your points now, thanks for sharing your thoughts and optimism, I needed some optimism.
When I first read the report on budge.canada the "greener path" shows that pretty much everything ended in 2024. Moving forward they mention carbon capture without details what kind of investment they are putting money in (best I could find is funding this https://www.alberta.ca/carbon-capture-and-storage that is also a bit vague), investing in mining (justifying that mining specific minerals helps the environment, but no mention on how to make mining less damaging to the environment and hold companies accountable) and removing the carbon cap saying that investments in several sectors would reduce the emissions anyway. A lot of wishful thinking on the budget text, or on the worst case mental gymnastics malice.
Like, there is this promising
To finance government spending that helps industrial and agricultural sectors get cleaner and more competitive, ...
I would love to see the government working with farmers to keep production high and with low footprint. Despite the text being vague on how/who will get the money, farmers are already very thin on their footprint, usually limited to the access of resources to maintain their farms (heat, fertilizers, etc...). A farmer that only has access to gas for heat would not be able to reduce their footprint unless other options are made available.
I also felt like there is no handling "american shitstorm" either, there are plenty of brags on how they capitulate and are one of the least impacted by tariffs because of that.
Also, good thing you bought up the taxes. One thing I found interesting while reading the PDF version earlier, they pretty much teach us on many ways to avoid paying them, I wish that was easily available at the CRA website. =P
dealing with the American shitstormgetting us on a greener path
Can you clarify your position or share the article you read? I might have missed those points when I read the https://www.budget.canada.ca/ report
there are parts I’d like more of and otherd of which I’d like lessbroad compromise that I think is reasonable to a large swathe of Canadians,
A bit vague no? What do you mean?
Thanks.
That $2B USD from the digital service taxes would not be so bad now.
Also, guess who will pay less taxes, and who will foot the bill?
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/11/government-of-canada-releases-budget-2025-canada-strong.htmlA bit better diluted: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/budget-highlights-9.6966595
(detailed): https://budget.canada.ca/2025/report-rapport/pdf/budget-2025.pdf
The author surely likes that the mascot is a dog. It feels more of a read and analysis of the terms of use than a deep dive of the tool but it was a good reading and I liked the suggestions.
I also liked the "reminder".
Edit: you should share this in some community as a post, every time I see this kind of website (pure content no-nonsense) it is shared is in the comments. 15 years ago this kind of stuff was easy to find, but nowadays, I only see them in comment sections. Even the search engine recommended around here would list a bunch of junk in the first pages.
Some good takes there:
People who gravitate to downtown do so because their supports are all within a walking distance - health care, food, shelter for a bit, government services.
Ironically, those living hand to mouth embrace the 15 minute walkable city other wealthier residents eschew. They live a sustainable lifestyle because they must.
But some arguments and conclusions are a bit weak:
Downtowns have been dying for decades due to shifting buying habits to online, to malls, to going out of town to IKEA and outlet malls.
Cleary it is not the marginalized fault, downtown's declined has a lot to do with how the city is managed. And there are plenty of functional downtowns around the world where people buy online, Ikea and malls - so it is not their fault either.
From ground news summary:
What the ground news summary did not describe that most publications seem to list are:
Yeah, the admin team of .ca is great. They are organized, open to input and always take the initiative (.ca toughened up on disinformation this election cycle).
Yeah, but our ...
It was not supposed to be a negative critic of our instance/admins, on the contrary.
I was replying to the message who said this kind of trolling would be removed and banned right away in any instance, which is not true, I was even surprised that hexbear banned the troll just for that post...
But I just looked, the xiaohongshu2 was not banned for the post, xiaohongshu2 was banned for impersonating another user in bad faith. Hexbears took the post quite well, and the text is still there for people to read.
Some countries allow you to vote in primaries if you will be at voting age by the time of the main elections. It also helps when they have consistent voting days, and alternate elections every 2 years (federal/province for example).
If the provinces and cities also lower the voting age, they will be able to vote much sooner than 18/21.
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Seems like NDP is doing a good job then.
Should the candidates try for UCP instead? Their values seem to be aligned with some branches of that party.
also, is @op a bot? +1,4k posts, no engagement.
edit: found this post that paints a different picture of her husband https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/the-ndp-needs-more-not-less-nuttiness/article_e1364ffd-0245-4060-8d5a-fe582030741f.html take it with a grain of salt because it is an opinion piece.