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ArxCyberwolf

@ Snowpix @lemmy.ca

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I'm just your average Canadian wolf. I'm a siren enthusiast and railfan as my main hobbies. I run the Civil Defense Sirens Wiki, and am working on restoring a few vintage sirens (such as a FS&S Model L and a rare Sterling Siren MOD. F) as well as a 1970s Safetran mechanical crossing bell.

  • Tis a silly place

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  • Authoritarians are not leftists LMAO

  • Tis a silly place

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  • They think being against authoritarians means you're a Reddit-style neoliberal.

  • Tis a silly place

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  • You could check the MeanwhileOnGrad community that documents every bit of it, but your instance admins blocked it on your instance to keep you all in the dark and shield themselves from accountability. You'll have to view it from a different instance.

  • #environmentalist

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  • Shirley is always serious.

  • Who ruined Tim Hortons?

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  • You get what you pay for. Don't be surprised when you pay employees like shit, treat said employees like shit, and then they stop giving a shit about making your business succeed or fluorish. Want good loyal workers? Pay and treat them properly.

  • Trump says he's terminating trade negotiations with Canada over Ontario anti-tariff ad

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  • Assuming it hasn't already been blown up by Ukraine first. Russia's industry is rather tied up right now.

  • Why are people using the "þ" character?

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  • Come up with a dumb and/or ridiculous gimmick and you'll get plenty!

  • Do you think the average Lemmy user is further left than the average reddit user?

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  • Authoritarian campist bootlickers pretending to be leftists. They have far more in common with the right wing than leftists and can often be found trying to defend Russia, China and North Korea. Lemmy's developers are tankies.

  • what country would you never go to again?

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  • And it's all theatre. It's never actually stopped real criminals.

  • what country would you never go to again?

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  • The United States. I have zero interest in going to a country where I could get kidnapped by masked goons or have my phone stolen by the government for sharing memes they don't like. I have no interest in going to a country where I could get shot and killed randomly by some whacko who had a bad day and decided to shoot up the place. I have no interest in going to a country where I could be charged thousands of dollars for getting hurt. And I have absolutely zero interest in giving my money to a fascist country that regularly threatens my country's sovereignty and whose economy is on the brink of total collapse. That dumpster fire can stay down south, thank you very much.

    Every time I look at the United States and everything that's been going on there, it only makes me more proud to be Canadian and ever more vigilant to prevent the same from happening to us. We have our problems, sure, but at least we have actual healthcare, no mass shootings, and no fascism.

  • One Piece animator defends studio behind fellow anime show One-Punch Man, following backlash over season 3's lackluster animation

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  • They put about as much effort into the animation as Saitama does in his everyday life. Which is to say, almost none.

  • Pizza Hut falls into administration with 68 restaurants at risk

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  • The Pizza Hut here where I live is rather depressing. It's still open somehow, but I never see anyone go inside and the parking lot is always empty and somewhat overgrown. Seems they mainly survive by doing delivery orders, I guess. There's way better pizza in town so there's not much appeal to getting PH.

  • Listen here you little shit

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  • DM: "Why are you skanking...?"

  • Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

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  • Especially nowadays, long after "SJW" stopped being commonly used. If they're still holding on to a 2016 anti-SJW "everyone's so offended!!" mentality, they're probably not worth engaging with. Just shows they never matured past that point.

  • Decisions

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  • So wake up, wake up, wake up

    But don't cry because you'll fuck up your makeup

  • Decisions

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  • Briiiiiing meeeeeee toooo liiiife....

  • DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

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  • It's certainly engaged me to never, ever invest in their services. Ever.

  • Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free

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  • Nah. Switching to CachyOS instead.

  • What are things you know because of your personal interests that most people have no idea about ?

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  • The electric siren was not invented to warn of air raids, but instead to warn volunteer firefighters that a fire call is in progress and to report to the station ASAP. Before the development of the electric siren between 1905-1910, fire departments relied on air horns, steam whistles, tires, or bells. These all had their own major drawbacks: Horns and whistles rely on an external source of air/steam that must be recharged periodically, and a leak can lower the volume or outright silence it if it goes unnoticed. Fire bells, on the other hand, could easily be confused with church bells. Clearly a better solution was needed.

    The electric siren was first developed by a man named William A. Box, and his "Denver" electric sirens quickly became popular and replaced the aforementioned warning devices. The siren's ability to start reliably and rapidly at the push of a button proved valuable and saved precious time, and it costed only a few cents to run in terms of electricity costs. The sound of the siren was distinct, could not be mistaken for anything else, and could be heard even in neighbouring towns. By the mid-1910s and early 1920s, there was already a huge booming market for fire sirens. Companies like the Federal Electric Company (still around as Federal Signal Corp), Sterling Siren Fire Alarm Co (now Sentry Siren Inc.) and Decot Machine Works all competed fiercely to outdo one another.

    While far less common nowadays thanks to pagers taking over this role, fire sirens are still fairly common in the U.S., especially on the East Coast. In fact, several 100 year old sirens are still in service today because they're just that well-built and reliable!

    Here's a video of a roughly 100 year old Denver siren, still operational.