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kent_eh

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  • Almost one million Canadians have serious climate anxiety, study suggests

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  • It found that 90 per cent of respondents were concerned about climate change

    And the rest have their fingers stuck in their ears chanting "lalalala"

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • If it is a cheat sheet as in commands

    With most modern distros, I would say that most typical users shouldn't have to go to the command line any more than they had to in windows (which is to say very seldom).

    Yet there is that lingering reputation that you have to be some sort of command line guru to even think about using Linux- and that simply isn't true. Hasn't been true for decades.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • back then, I thought it was some scary OS for people who's tech savvy

    That "too hard, too scary" reputation is a big part of what has held back linux adoption.

    But when people actually give it a try, most realize that reputation isn't really true.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • That's the beauty of Linux- there are so many distros to choose from.

    Something for everyone.

    And if enough people don't like the existing options, you are always free to fork what exists and make something that fits your needs better.

  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • Far too many Americans don't even get sick leave at their jobs.

  • Approved Hate Speech

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  • the pope died hours after a Vance Exposure Event.

    Yet, somehow, Trump hasn't succumbed (yet) to extended exposure to Vance.

  • Routine oil change turns into highway hazard after Canadian Tire uses plastic zip ties for repair, says driver

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  • Their mechanics are all licenced

    I didn't say unlicensed, I said inexperienced and underpaid.

  • How China tightens the screws in trade war with the US

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  • it is in fact the west, and especially the USA, that put China into their 90% spot.

    More specifically, it was corporate American and Wall Street who "gave away" the US's manufacturing capability and supply chain to China.

    All in the pursuit of their own enrichment with absolutely no regard for the future.

    and, you know, not their own incompetence and short-sightedness.

    Yup, exactly.

  • Canadian snowbirds fingerprinted and photographed at U.S. border as part of new requirement

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  • If you want to snowbird, you can drive to Mexico

    They would still have to spend a couple of days in the USA.

    That alone is a hard no in the current condition of the USA.

  • Routine oil change turns into highway hazard after Canadian Tire uses plastic zip ties for repair, says driver

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  • This isn't a new problem.

    Canadian Tire has always hired inexperienced "mechanics" and paid them as little as possible.

    Before i could drive, I remember my dad's friends all complaining about their first and last experience having work done on their cars at CanTire.

  • Canada calls on its pension funds to invest at home in age of ‘economic nationalism’

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  • After spending far too long looking up all the acronyms you used, I'm pretty sure I agree with your point.

    (Yes, they may be commonly understood in Quebec, but not so much for the rest of us)

  • Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

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  • Saturday one off protests do jack shit.

    It's a start.

    But you are right that there needs to be ongoing and growing protests before anything will change.

  • Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

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  • The author also said its a rule of thumb and not any sort of magic number that automatically triggers change.

  • Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

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  • The 3.5% participation metric may be useful as a rule of thumb in most cases; however, other factors—momentum, organization, strategic leadership, and sustainability—are likely as important

    Another factor is how deeply entrenched the fascists you are trying to dislodge are.

    The more levers of power they control (and the longer they control them), the stronger and more sustained the pressure against them needs to be.

  • Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

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  • The "left wing media" is only as left as their right wing owners will allow them to be.

  • Canadian snowbirds fingerprinted and photographed at U.S. border as part of new requirement

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  • Simple solution: don't travel to the Fascist States of America

  • Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

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  • My penguin doesn't listen to what Microsoft wants.

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • I know that if AI knows about this stuff it must have been produced by a human.

    For now. Maybe.

    It won't be long before these LLMs will start ingesting the output from other LLMs, biases, confidently wrong answers, hallucinations and all.

  • Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

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  • all websites should block ai and bot traffic on principle.

    Increasing numbers do.

    But there is no proof that the LLM trawling bots are willing to respect those blocks.