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  • Kitchen remodel incoming, looking for advice

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  • I concur. Use HA with Zigbee and/or Z-Wave. Expose to Google Home as needed. You can expose idividual devices. That said switching to HA as main iterface is pretty painless and HA Voice is better than Google's.*

    With local 4B LLM, so get a small mini PC or maybe Pi 5. I run the LLM on my workstation.

  • How did farming become conservative?

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  • That was very interesting. Thanks!

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election

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  • Completely agree. A lot of countries were on some path or another of dealing with liberal capitalism's collapse that gave us The Great Depression. The propaganda you mention steered these changes right back to the right - towards oligarch class dominance over working people, like it used to be before the depression. Unsurprisingly we find ourselves in a situation very reminiscent to the pre-depression environment.

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election

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  • Yeah, you're probably right. Just looked at unionization rate and it's around 16%. Workers won't see much from this investment.

    Funny exerpt from wiki:

    In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the U.S. Occupation authorities initially encouraged the formation of independent unions, but reversed course as part of broader anti-Communist measures.

  • Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election

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  • Takaichi is known for favouring proactive government spending. She supports heavy government investment in critical strategic sectors in what she refers to as "crisis management investment". These include artificial intelligence, semiconductors, nuclear fusion, biotechnology, and defence.

    Her other policies aside, the economic one looks like a winner.

  • South Korean firms eye Canadian auto, battery, hydrogen and marine investments amid submarine bid

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  • I get where you're coming from but in all likelyhood cars will be with us in high quantities for the foreseeable future. Perhaps less in urban areas but we still have a huge suburban/rural population that would keep driving and therefore the autopark would have to keep being replaced over time. It would probably shrink if we do more transit but it could expand beyond what it is now with the likely growth of our population. We'd likely accept a lot more immigrants in the decades to come as the world burns.

  • Pro-Trump farmer in Missouri faces losing his farm after federal freeze, says he “didn’t have time to research” before voting

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  • so even when we point out to them that they're being taken, they only hear they're being called rubes...

    Beceause too often that's literally what we tell them - you're being taken. Their reaction follows naturally. Ever since I started talking about concrete (class) issues affecting them I'm getting different responses.

  • Strict one eyebrow per cat policy

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  • Leg policy is inconsistent.

  • What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?

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  • I use their WiFi access points. They're great. That's about it.

  • The numbers don’t lie: The housing crisis is not caused by a supply shortage

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  • Letting air out can happen a lot quicker if you give a good reason to people not to care about their home price. For example by providing an equivalent or otherwise decent government pension. My inlaws fall into that bucket.

  • The numbers don’t lie: The housing crisis is not caused by a supply shortage

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  • Financialization occurs irrespective of supply and demand by making more credit available. It's literally injecting money into that specific market. Once people see prices rising, the rising prices become part of the product - people buy as much housing as they can as an investment vehicle. It's like the effect of people buying a stock because it goes up. Everyone I know has either bought additional property as investment or wanted to but couldn't afford it.

  • Man posts his incorrect opinion online

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  • I will never let you in my home.

  • Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies

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  • Walking is only not effective because others with lower ethics will take the money, right?

    Yes. Or rather not do anything to not get themselves fired, but that's equivalent.

    Google won't even notice 800 people disappearing. Large corporations have enough redundancies.

    Given historical precedents, it seems that people are okay with fascism for money. In fact fascism in the past and today has offered people prosperity by getting rid of some vulnerable group that's "getting too much resources" and getting the resources back. Of course it's never the oligarchs. That's how it tends to get consent to take power. This is occurring to varying degrees in more than a few countries today.

    It's why relying on people's moral beliefs to fight fascism isn't super reliable, to say it mildly. Instead we gotta propose an alternative that offers prosperity without getting rid of vulnerable groups. Ergo unionize and take more money from Google as well as make other demands (as a short term alternative.)

  • Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies

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  • Neither is effective. Unionize most of Google's workforce. Then make demands.

  • 💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx

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  • I just got burned by accidental latest tag on a pg container for Nextcloud. They moved some paths internally and it could no longer find the db.

  • How Trumpism Is Trickling Down to Your Town

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  • Yeah. Probably buses too. What's really exciting for me is the significant potential for lowering total vehicle cost.

  • E-uni backstory headcanon

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  • Further mishaps await down the road.

  • How Trumpism Is Trickling Down to Your Town

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  • Just came acoss this. A density of 175Whr/kg in mass produced EVs.

  • McGill Spent Over $1 Million Fighting Unionization

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  • I'm surprised that McGill isn't unionized. UofT is with USW.

  • 💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx

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  • This is a reminder for self-hosters to put their apps (and their data) on snapshotting filesystems with automatic, regular snapahots turned on; and fix the app versions to at least the major version, across all containers. This should bring similar disruption to bare minimum and makes recovery always possible, without relying on specific app backup features.

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    The Insane Plan To Make Alberta America | The Goose 🇨🇦

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    Little Appetite for Fall Election

    www.ekospolitics.com /index.php/2025/10/little-appetite-for-fall-election/
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    Canada Post says layoffs aim to ‘align our management team’ amid overhaul - National | Globalnews.ca

    globalnews.ca /news/11498257/canada-post-cuts-service-managers-cupw-mps/
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    ‘Canada burned the bridges’: U.S. ambassador doubts tariff deal feasible before new year

    www.cp24.com /news/canada/2025/10/28/canada-burned-the-bridges-us-ambassador-doubts-tariff-deal-feasible-before-new-year/
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    When the ICE agent is Canadian… | This Hour Has 22 Minutes

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    Who ruined Tim Hortons?

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    Ottawa limits how many American vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff-free

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/ottawa-stellantis-gm-exemptions-american-imports-9.6950640
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    GM to end electric van production at CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont.

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/london/gm-to-end-electric-van-production-at-cami-plant-in-ingersoll-ont-9.6946611
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    EU official says the bloc won’t ‘lecture’ Canada on tech, AI regulations - National | Globalnews.ca

    globalnews.ca /news/11491464/eu-official-lecture-canada-tech-ai-regulations/
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    Minister defends changes allowing Canada Post to shutter rural offices

    www.ctvnews.ca /politics/article/minister-defends-changes-allowing-canada-post-to-shutter-rural-offices/
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    First Nations in B.C. make legal challenges to huge Ksi Lisims LNG project

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/british-columbia/ksi-lisims-lng-prince-rupert-northwest-bc-legal-challenge-first-nations-9.6950770
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    Feds, province to spend $3B on mini nuclear power plant in Bowmanville, Ont.

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/toronto/carney-ford-announce-smr-spending-9.6949828
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    Inside Palestinian life under occupation | CBC Special Coverage

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    🐞 Any idea what's up with today's ladybug invasion?

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    A reminder that SMRs make us dependent on US nuclear fuel

    www.cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca /eng/reactors/smr/
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    Reasonably priced Brompton clones available

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    Ontario strikes deal to buy land needed for GO train service enhancement | Globalnews.ca

    globalnews.ca /news/11481153/kitchener-line-land-purchase-agreement/
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    'It's time to talk': Carney rules out hitting the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/carney-retaliatory-tariffs-9.6940887
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    Bail reform bill targeting violent and repeat offenders coming next week: Carney

    www.ctvnews.ca /politics/article/bail-reform-bill-targeting-violent-and-repeat-offenders-coming-next-week-carney/
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    Stellantis moving Jeep Compass production originally slated for Brampton plant to Illinois

    www.ctvnews.ca /toronto/local/peel/article/stellantis-moving-jeep-compass-production-originally-slated-for-brampton-plant-to-illinois/