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rekabis

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  • Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app

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  • Treat the cause,

    Right. Like obtaining a controlling interest in Apple is just so easy to achieve. Now, where did I leave my random trillions?…

  • Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app

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  • On iOS you can install a system-wide DNS configuration profile for AdGuard without having to install any app.

    It doesn’t deal with ads served up from the exact same API/domain as the content, but any source of ads that is drawn from a different domain can be blocked and usually is blocked.

    About the only apps I still see ads in are YouTube, Pinterest, and Facebook. All apps that use third-party advertising feeds have those ads blocked.

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  • Some people were never meant to be good little capitalistic drones capable of working long hours just to be profitable to some member of the Parasite Class who already has obscene amounts of wealth but desperately needs more.

    Some people were just meant to go through life vibing with the universe.

    And that’s OK, it just means they are wholly incompatible with our current civilization.

  • 2020: Why Canada should ban the sale, ownership of handguns

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  • And an FN-P90 without the muzzle extension is also much more appropriate in an urban-warfare situation than any handgun.

    150 rounds in 50-round magazines and in-stock storage for two magazines, UN ammunition that has limited range to avoid secondary fatalities, extremely short bullpup length for tight environments, two-handed use so it isn’t easily ripped from your grasp… the list goes on and on.

  • Trump administration plans to demolish White House's entire East Wing as ballroom cost grows to $300 million

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  • Fellow Canadian here, was desperately trying to find the words for a similar sentiment, and here you are being all sorts of fucking brilliantly erudite.

    Nicely done.

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

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  • The working class is the class most likely to be negatively impacted or even die from climate change.

    The working class is the class that has the least ability to make any effective changes to combat climate change.

    In fact, many of the “actions” we are encouraged to do are explicit greenwashing and attempts by the Parasite Class to shift the burden of responsibility off of them (where almost all culpability originate from) and onto the working class (who cannot do anything about it).

    So yeah, is it really surprising that anxiety is sky-high when the consequences are so severe but the primary instigators and generators are simultaneously blaming those who can do nothing about it and taking any legitimate powers away from us?

  • Scottish court says 3 men accused of Owen Sound restaurateur killing will face trial in Canada

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  • Now there is a chance for closure with that community. Let’s hope justice gets properly served.

  • Kill Your Heroes

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  • The alternative is to be one of the defendants in the next set of Nuremberg trials, and the inevitable outcome of that is the hangman’s noose.

    Remember: “the only good fascist is a dead fascist”. We fought against Hitler for a reason.

  • 50-year immigration wait stuns lawyers and families, but IRCC says it's no mistake

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  • Canada has plenty of room for new immigrants. What matters is acclimatization, education, and cultural harmonization, which takes time and cannot be rushed. We cannot just throw open our borders and accept anyone who applies… it needs to start slowly with good systems and workflows in place, and we currently don’t even have that with our now-reduced volumes.

    Now granted, much of our northern regions are - currently! - uninhabitable. But if we were to target the same population density as Germany, we could hold 2.4B people.

    That’s a quarter of the current human population, and a shitton of unused potential. We could easily become a global superpower with that amount of talent.

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

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  • But in this car it’s metal, which makes me wonder if it’s a semi-structural component and therefore the zip ties wouldn’t hold,

    Even if it isn’t structural in the least, the massively increased stiffness of metal over even thick plastic means that even pretty minimal flexing of the vehicle’s chassis would eagerly shear any size of plastic zip ties off.

    This is very much a consequence of paying technicians among the lowest wage in the industry and failing to mentor them effectively. Not to mention being ignored, unsupported, and abused by Manglement.

    I love Canadian Tire for its breadth of products, and have almost always found the staff there to be eager and helpful, but I don’t make use of their vehicle services for a damn good reason.

  • Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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  • Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.

  • A Coder Built a Job-Posting Website. Conservatives Turned It into a Weapon against Foreign Workers | The Walrus

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  • Or, in other words, if a business requires workers to be subsidized in order to remain in business, it has an exceedingly shitty business plan and should be allowed to fail.

    Maybe said owners need to put off that Yacht or Maserati purchase for a few weeks and use that to make wages attractive and liveable?

  • I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌

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  • Animals go where the food is.

    This is why ants invade homes and create nests out in the yard. This is why spiders set up shop inside your home and mice scurry in the corners.

    If you don’t want animals like insects and rodents in your house, eliminate all possible sources of food. While some will always work their way in, the lack of food will mean they’ll always die quickly or leave just as fast as they came.

  • Massive multi-country botnet targets RDP services in the US

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  • Considering how I have seen some servers configured, this is a very real problem.

    RustDesk all the way, baby.

  • China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador

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  • The entire Canadian economy would be negatively effected in the long-term by such a move.

    TIL a higher standard of living is a “negative effect”.

  • China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador

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  • This would be a bad deal for Canada.

    Point out even a single Canadian-made EV that would be affected by this.

    There are no negative effects, so long as the vehicles pass safety standards. Bonus if we can enter into partnerships that would see those EVs assembled here.

    And the low cost of these EVs would make vehicle ownership far easier for our young people, who already have an environment 8× more expensive (compared to their median wage) than their parents experienced at the same age.

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    Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?

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  • I might even start making mix tapes again.

    This is when having a high-end 1989 Technics cassette deck in your 1986 VW Jetta Carat comes in really handy.

  • Getting a small chest freezer from a family member who just upgraded theirs. Tips on what to/how to store food?

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  • If the chest freezer has the ability to turn off the “frost free” functionality, do it.

    Every time you open a freezer, moist air from the outside gets pulled in, and that moisture freezes onto the walls and contents after you close the door. Over time, this leads to a significant build-up of ice that can impede the freezer’s ability to cool and your ability to remove items in there (it starts on the walls, works its way to the centre, engulfing packages it encounters).

    That “frost free” feature is the freezer literally letting the interior defrost so that the ice that has built up on the inside walls can sublimate away. Problem is, both ice and food defrosts, which means moisture has the ability to migrate out of the food yet remain trapped in the packaging, “burning” the food and making it inedible by drying it out.

    And because water has a high specific heat, this freezer burning process accelerates as the food dries out - food that is meant to be moist but has dried out can freezer burn faster than food that is still moist, because it takes a lot more energy to melt ice than warm up dry foodstuffs.

    By turning that feature off, you have to choose one cold day every year (where it is at least -10℃ outside) to empty out the freezer and carefully chip all that ice out (which could be once every several years if you open the freezer only once or twice a month), but the benefit is that any food in there will be good so long as it never defrosts before you use it. You could chuck in a vacuum-sealed hunk of meat, and it could still be edible two decades down the line provided it never had the opportunity to get anywhere close to 0℃.

    If there is no option to turn off the frost free functionality, then your best bet is to adopt a tracking system (spreadsheet, app, whatever works for you) that can effectively tell you what’s in the freezer and how long it’s been in there, allowing you to rotate stuff back out of that freezer in time for you to eat it before it becomes freezer burned.

  • How do I stop sleeping through everything?

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  • You would hate me.