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  • The HOA isn't going to be happy about the colour, though.

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  • So we're just spreading trash in the environment and feeling good about it because it can be reused by other animals?

    This just made me look up and learn about the environmental impact of tennis balls.

    Every year, an estimated 300 million tennis balls are manufactured globally, and most of them end up in landfills. The rubber core is pressurized with air or nitrogen to give the ball its signature bounce. However, rubber itself is a challenging material to recycle, especially when combined with pressurization and other materials. The felt covering is partially synthetic (nylon), which contributes to the microplastic pollution problem. Synthetic fibers shed during play, adding to global plastic waste.

  • My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace.

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  • I'm going to add Sony to this list.

  • “All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

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  • I can't tell you about the US but I'm from a "young" country too. Younger than the US. The westward expansion of Canada passed the Great Lakes was entirely dependent on railways. It was a national project to make sure the country could actually exist in the first place. It's what built most of the prairies. Having a railroad that traversed the country was seen as a primordial enterprise that had to be realized at any cost. It was a way to bring European colonizers and troops in the west. Here's another ad in French.

    French colonizers arrived in Québec in 1608. Sure, there were no trains and they relied on the St-Lawrence for more than a century. By the end of the 1700s colonization was expanding westward using canals and locks. First small ones like at Coteau-du-Lac, then bigger ones like the Lachine canal that was built in the 1820s.

    But just like in a lot of other parts of the world, our young country also saw the industrial revolution and the invention of trains. The first rail line in Canada was between La Prairie and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, to help people traveling between New-York and Montreal. Passengers were taking boats between New-York and St-Jean using the Champlain and Chambly, then would have to take a coach between St-Jean and La Prairie, before getting on another boat to finally get to Montréal. So a rail line was constructed. It eventually linked Montréal and New-York directly. Most of it still exists.

    And just like in Europe, eventually railways replaced canals and we had them every where. Every fucking where. I come from the south of Québec and there's easily half a dozen abandoned railways from the 1800s in my region alone. It was possible to go to the smallest villages by train. But then highways, cars, abandoned lines. VIA Rail's network keep shrinking. All of North America's rail network is shrinking.

    No, it's not because we're "young" countries that we didn't have the chance to develop a robust rail network.

  • Do you prefer XMPP or Matrix powered apps as a discord alternative?

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  • And IRC now has web clients that can display inline images, upload them on a channel, preview URLs, push notifications, keep history, and more.

    I use The Lounge but there is also Convos and a few others.

  • “All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

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  • You are clearly stating that you are not an historian and this is just your intuition. People give you information and facts contrary to your intuition, and you accuse them of being mean and agressive.

    No. It's not a reason. It could, but it's not. They are telling you. Sorry.

  • Reddit car crains at it again

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  • To me this is defending motonormativity.

    I also walk and bike at night, sometimes on multiuse paths with pedestrians, dog walkers and cyclists. Dogs don't have lights and are sometimes unpredictable. You know what I do when I'm cycling on a shared path, instead of expecting everyone to flash like a christmas tree? I slow down! This way I can react before hitting a pedestrian or a dog. I'm the one going much faster than them. I'm the one that has to be careful.

    Once I nearly got hit by a truck passing me on a countryside road. It was day time but it was also raining. I was wearing a bright orange t-shirt. But apparently I wasn't visible enough?! In all the cases. I'm sure it was my fault for existing and not taking all the necessary precautions to make sure I can be seen from space and avoid getting hit.

    I don't carry reflective hardware and flashing lights with me just in case I have to walk somewhere in the dark. Sometimes I'm walking a few km in my sister's town in the dark or in the rain. Sometimes I'm walking in another city, or country. I'm not carrying "safety equipment" with me everywhere I go just because some idiot motorists wants to go the speed limit in the dark without regard to other road users, or animals. Whatever happens, it will always be my fault for being there outside of a car anyway. Did I have headphones on? Maybe I was wearing dark makeup? I came out of nowhere! Or maybe I was not walking or cycling at the right place or at the right time.

    Motorists are the one that drive a multi ton lethal vehicle, sometimes in the dark, and everyone not in one is expected to take precautions against them.

    Motonormativity.

    EDIT: Wear reflective gear if you want to. It's not a bad idea. But it SHOULD NOT be expected.

  • Reddit car crains at it again

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  • Smells

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  • I'm a man and don't like most scents of the deodorants/antiperspirants "for men", so I just use one "for women". I smell fruity instead of some agressive chemical fragrance.

  • Just saying

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  • I'm just pointing out that cheaper energy means people tend to use more. I'm very much for renewable energy and against AI. Just that we also need to find ways to be much more efficient with it. I live in a place with "cheap" renewable energy and we use more per capita than most of the rest of the world. So it's just something to keep in mind. I'm saying it's excellent to have renewable energy, it's excellent to have it as cheap as possible, but it can also lead to waste and pollution in other ways.

    You don't have to make a false dichotomy where it's either one or the other.

    EDIT: Just to give you an example. People know here that our energy is "renewable" and cheap. So when we're asked to reduce usage during peaks, there's a few people yelling at the top of their lungs that we just have to build more dams, flood more land, and that "water will always flow in the turbines anyway".

  • Stephen Colbert’s unaired James Talarico interview hits 6.4 million YouTube views and results in $2.5 million raised for Talarico’s campaign in 24 hours

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  • It's a natural phenomenon but AFAIK it can be accentuated or accelerated by the rise of the sea level, or the passage of boats and vessels. It can be entirely normal, but it can also be provoked or worsened by other factors. And that's why we document and do some research about it?!

    I'm not a climate scientist but luckily the Wikipedia's article on the Streisand effect has a link to coastal erosion if you want to know more.

  • Stephen Colbert’s unaired James Talarico interview hits 6.4 million YouTube views and results in $2.5 million raised for Talarico’s campaign in 24 hours

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  • It's Barbara Streisand's.

    The term was coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick of Techdirt after Barbra Streisand attempted to suppress the publication of a photograph by Kenneth Adelman showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California.

  • Just saying

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  • Have you read it? Translated or in French? Because this is a list of facts, with a conclusion addressing what you are pointing out. It's literally from the government of the province.

    Le Québec, avec son climat hivernal rigoureux, connaît des besoins élevés en puissance électrique lors de périodes de grand froid, alors que toute la population doit se chauffer simultanément. Ces épisodes, appelés périodes de pointe de puissance, ne durent que quelques heures par année, mais exercent une pression sur le réseau.

    Translated: The province of Québec, with its cold climate, has high energetic needs during the peaks of extreme cold periods, because the whole population has to heat their homes at the same time. Those periods, called power peaks, are only lasting for a few hours every year, but are putting pressure on the network.

    Also, those places have summer. Most of the population in Québec and Norway don't live in an arctic tundra.

  • Just saying

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  • Just saying

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  • If the electricity bill would be lower people would use more energy and switch to electric cars real fast. I'm sure some people would not change their habits, but I'm inclined to think a lot of people would just use more and care a bit less about trying to use it as efficiently as possible.

    Just take cars as an example. Everyone wants low gas prices, but when gas prices are low, people are buying bigger cars that consumes more gas/energy. Another example are places with renewable energy powering the grid, having cheaper electricity, but also ending up using more per person.

    The province of Québec is one of the biggest consumer of electricity per inhabitant in the world, behind Iceland and Norway. Source in French.

    Those places have super high percentages of cheap renewable energy being generated, but they also consume much more per inhabitant. Sure, if we cover the earth in solar panels, reservoirs, tap geothermal, and have enough energy to waste for everybody, and every manufacture. But this takes resources, space, batteries, and ends up polluting too. The less we need, the better it is for everyone.

    I'm not saying we don't need renewable nor deserve lower bills. Just that the actual system of consumption cannot only be reduced to "more cheap renewable energy". I'm in Québec and energy is mostly renewable and relatively cheap here. But we also can't just continue to build giant reservoirs visible from space to quench our insatiable appetite for electricity. We'll have to learn to use less energy too; be more efficient with what we have. Not just convert everything to renewable and call it a day.

  • Your car is spying on you – and Israeli firms are leading the surveillance race

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  • Fuck cars. I'm car free and glad to be. My bike doesn't spy on me. And I don't really fancy getting an e-bike that requires an app just to work. The only thing spying on me is my Android phone.

  • Me_irl

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  • And then 30 minutes before your flight you hear an announcement saying it will now depart from the gate at the other side of the airport.

  • Canada Is Edging Toward a Two-Party System. That Would Be a Mistake

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  • Every time the constitution is on the table the country nearly implodes.

    Will all the provinces agree on a new constitution this time? It only led to two referendum the few last times we tried.

  • Can’t buy RAM sticks

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  • And gamers will still pay for them, apparently.

  • Guilt by Association: First ‘Antifa’ Case Sweeps Anti-Trump Activists Into One Terrorism Conspiracy

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  • The Dow is over 50 000!

  • micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world
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    Show us how you haul stuff with your bike

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Did Via Rail get more expensive? Some commuters say they're being priced out

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/via-rail-expensive-9.6941115
  • HistoryPhotos @piefed.social
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    Steamboat on the Yamaska river (Québec, Canada) by the late 19th century

  • Bicycle Touring and Bikepacking @lemmy.world
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    Exploring Parc du Corridor Aérobique in the Québec Laurentians

  • Pareidolia @sh.itjust.works
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    Happy train door

  • Bicycles @lemmy.ca
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    Taking advantage of Québec's bike infra

  • Bicycle Touring and Bikepacking @lemmy.world
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    Last three weekends at Yamaska National Park in Québec

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    And Debian is supposed to be the stable one