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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • ‘First Nations Would Not Exist Without Canada,’ Rustad Tells Crowd

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  • It's true they wouldn't exist in anything like the form they do today. For one thing they'd be a lot bigger.

  • What do you think about AI?

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  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • I sure hope this is the end of Discord. Maybe only 10% of people will rage quit rather than show their ID, but if every group has one in 10 people they invite say "nah, that's not happening" and everyone has to admit they're probably in the right, it might make some difference.

  • Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

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  • Okay fine, guess I really do need to learn (the rest of) Rust now.

  • Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?

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  • How in the hell is this the same federation of TNG, Voyager and DS9?

    Clearly it isn't. Why should it be? It's the far future. Giant prison colony, shock collars, cruelty, punishment with no semblance of a fair trial on screen; clearly the Federation are the bad guys now, or at least adjacent to them. I was prepared to accept that premise. Could be interesting... but no, they immediately shove that concept under the carpet and pretend it doesn't matter because this one person involved feels really bad about it. It was all just another convenient plot device with no meaning, and they moved right on without stopping to think about it. It's utterly lazy writing, the kind where they go with whatever half-baked idea they come up with first whether or not it makes any sense for the characters and story. I say that with confidence because I've seen so much of it before. In this case the character they betrayed was literally Star Trek itself, but they're doing it all the time in smaller ways.

    Anyway I'm off to rewatch DS9 instead.

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

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  • Yep, we're stuck with it. It's just depressing.

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

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  • Your logic is even worse than mine! It's quite an achievement.

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

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  • Once the clean energy transition gets going, people come to their senses, and not everyone continues to drive cars every single time they want to go anywhere, what will all the newly unemployed auto workers do? Build parts for Korean attack submarines, of course! Every hundred billion dollars spent will be repaid many times over in enemy ships sunk when Canada becomes the naval military power it was meant to be and the next great war can finally begin. Submarines: the way of the future.

  • Why. (A Rant About Bread)

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  • Well I don't know about the bread itself but for things to put on it there are plenty of vegan options which are much better imo than margarine. Peanut butter was my choice until recently.

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    Where would the thought in the description be correctly be placed in order to receive even a minimum amount of attention?

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  • Not here. It's probably more suited to mastodon or whatever.

  • xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

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  • I had emergency surgery and as a result it looks like I will be zonked out on oxys for the next week. Never had these, what are some good movies to watch in this condition?

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  • Knowing absolutely nothing about you or your taste in movies other than that you're on drugs, my recommendation is Lifeforce (1985).

  • Avi Lewis breaks down his 'Tax Plan for the 99%'

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  • Goodbye EV sales mandate. Hello purchase rebates. Carney shakes up Canada's auto industry

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  • I'm not a fan of having the government subsidizing new car purchases. It's the last thing we need. The sale of cars that run on fossil fuels should be banned ten years ago or as soon as possible. If the government wants to spend more money it should go towards alternatives to cars, not to bribing the relatively wealthy people who shop for brand new cars to put even more of them on the roads.

  • Goodbye EV sales mandate. Hello purchase rebates. Carney shakes up Canada's auto industry

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  • Goodbye EV sales mandate. Hello purchase rebates.

    Of all the politicians, only Mr. Carney has the expertise, foresight, and economic sophistication to do exactly the wrong thing with such precision.

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    RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks

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  • Oh, so that's what they're talking about when they say AI will enslave all humanity. I hope the fractured remains of non-assimilated human societies living on the streets among the security drones and human transport vessels will have enough to eat.

  • Anarchists and Tankies could benefit from a Codex Alera 'Gadara' relationship a.k.a. trusted enemies

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  • Tankies (for any reasonable definition of the word) and fascists should always shunned and opposed, by communists and anarchists alike.

  • Who is minding the water data centres will use?

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  • Evan Solomon, minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation, is very keen for Canada to become an “AI powerhouse,” calling this our “Gutenberg moment.”

    Maybe it's actually our Guttenberg moment, as in Steve Guttenberg in Police Academy (1984). AI plays the role of "Ax Murderer" of course. I'm keeping an eye out for the Michael Winslow character.

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  • One time there was an empty grassy field which was not a city park, and to make that clear — without engendering the local hostility that "no trespassing" would — it's owners put up a sign reading: NO ACTIVITIES OF ANY KIND ALLOWED.

    Most ominous sign I ever saw.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The main reason not to drive in the snow is the way other people drive in the snow.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    In terms of popular baby names, how long before "Rudolph" makes a comeback?

  • Rust @programming.dev
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    estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Butter

  • dailygames @lemmy.zip
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    Squardle has a new game mode.

    fubargames.se /squardle/
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Relativity

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Hard times for the Canadian auto sector, so they say.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Tune up. Drop in. Turn on.

  • Science @beehaw.org
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    Neurons can communicate via hidden network of nanotubes, study finds

    www.science.org /content/article/neurons-can-communicate-hidden-network-nanotubes-study-finds
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Nobody I know uses the word "numptious" any more.

  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cq68j5g2nr1o
  • Political Memes @lemmy.ca
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    Learning on the job

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    In light of certain recent government regulations redefining "child" to mean anyone under the age of 18, I would like to propose that we should adjust other terms for people of specific ages to match

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Cyberastrology: The theory that if you know the exact network conditions at the time someone first connected to the Internet, such as ping times to the major servers of the cyberzodiac, you can

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Joint Call for the Withdrawal of Bill C-2

    pencanada.ca /news/joint-call-for-the-withdrawal-of-bill-c-2/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations Towards the United States and Other Countries

    citizenlab.ca /2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/
  • Librewolf @programming.dev
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    Browsers should probably just stop sending user-agent header at all, ideally.

  • Biodiversity @mander.xyz
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    Bat Appreciation Day: Protecting the Flying Mammals

    www.trvst.world /biodiversity/bat-appreciation-day/
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Trump cuts target world-leading greenhouse gas observatory in Hawaii

    www.reuters.com /sustainability/climate-energy/trump-cuts-target-world-leading-greenhouse-gas-observatory-hawaii-2025-03-11/
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    More carbon dioxide in oceans could harm carbon-eating microbes

    www.science.org /content/article/more-carbon-dioxide-oceans-could-harm-carbon-eating-microbes-speed-climate-change