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  • Liberal government adds hundreds of firearm models to list of banned weapons

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  • If you have good reason to believe these people will harm someone with their guns, please report it to the RCMP, instead of wishing that their guns were a different colour.

    Follow this link and use the contact information to file a report. Please do this immediately if you think someone is in danger of being harmed. https://rcmp.ca/en/firearms/contact-canadian-firearms-program

  • Liberal government adds hundreds of firearm models to list of banned weapons

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  • I take it they haven't harmed anyone? Are you concerned that they will?

  • Liberal government adds hundreds of firearm models to list of banned weapons

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  • The notion that there are Canadians who own a gun simply because they think it's cool, is ignorant to the facts of what it takes to actually get a license to acquire and possess a firearm in this country.

  • Liberal government adds hundreds of firearm models to list of banned weapons

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  • Out of curiosity, what do you think the firearm regulations should look like in Canada?

  • Liberal government adds hundreds of firearm models to list of banned weapons

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  • Even prior to the May 2020 OIC that reclassified AR pattern & other firearms to prohibited status, Canada had a pre-existing, highly restrictive system of firearm regulation. This system remains in force.

    Citizens who want to purchase a firearm need to undergo mandatory education, and a rigorous, lengthy, and costly application process that obligates the applicant to list comprehensive personal details, including previous romantic partners, and multiple character references. Every applicant undergoes an RCMP background check, and restricted firearm licensees undergo daily checks. No license for firearm ownership is given in Canada without direct RCMP oversight. The RCMP can deny a license to anyone they see fit. Citizens can report problem firearm owners, and those owners can expect a rapid visit from the RCMP.

    Restricted firearms are only allowed at an approved range, or trigger locked, in a locked case, and away from ammunition. Any other condition of storage and use is a crime.

    You should know that, in Canada, it is absolutely impossible to buy or own a firearm on a whim.

    For the record, I think this is overall a good thing, and was a system brought about as a result of Polytechnique in 1989.

  • USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading

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  • It makes delicious cheese. Pasturisation kills bacteria and denatures enzymes that are helpful in making good cheese. After proper aging, it's safe to eat. Parmigiano Reggiano is made with unpasturised milk.

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  • ITER seems interesting to me. What gets you excited about ITER? Seems to me that their operational timeline is so far in the future, and the outcomes are unknown. As an engineering artifact, I understand its boner factor. From a broader human achievement standpoint, I can't really see what all the buzz is about. I want to learn and try to understand.

  • Is a filter for muting Lemmy 'power users' possible?

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  • Thank you!

  • Is a filter for muting Lemmy 'power users' possible?

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  • I don't want to call anyone out individually. But I have come across accounts with 7-8k comments in the span of a few months. I don't really think it's worth reporting them, and don't have the time or energy to research and block them individually, I'd just rather have them automatically muted on my end via a tool or plugin.

    I assumed this would be something I'd have to program myself, just wasn't sure if it was clearly not possible or practical for one reason or another.

  • Honey

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  • What websites still feel like the old internet?

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  • It's not obscure, but, for me, Wikipedia is the ultimate example of the old internet that still persists today.

    Free to use, no account required, ad free, non-corporate, multilingual, heavily biased toward text, simple and utilitarian design. Hyperlinks concatenate relevant pieces of information, which serve as the means to navigate the site. The code is very simple (seriously, view the page source of a wikipiedia article). It's based on the human desire to learn and share knowledge with others, and has remained resilient to corruption by commercial interests that pervert that desire for monetary gain. It's a beautiful thing.

  • Trump Breaks Down Onstage | At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

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  • One of the strangest elements of this story is that the Village People and Rufus Wainwright are on the Trump campaign playlist.

  • I'm just trying to buy a hoodie

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  • This is the sort of thing that the old internet could really deliver on. Chances are, a search query could lead you to some guy's hoodie blog, and he just liked hoodies, and posted honestly about them.

    Now, it's all a mess of SEO pumped affiliate link lists filled with crapware. If the query is even thinkable, there will be AI generated pages stuffed with sponsored links, ready and waiting for you. And with search engines preferring recent results, that's the type of page you'll be served.

    I've had decent luck using marginalia search to seek out some of those old internet type results. Obscurity works as a barrier to corporate infiltration. Plus you get page results that don't have a million tracking and analytics scripts running on them, which is refreshing.

  • This Windows 11 Start menu change is now coming to Windows 10

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  • You're right to point out the difficulty of preparing installation media.

    Also, for the average person, friction will probably happen during installation - possibly having to circumvent safe boot to install and run a new OS (knowing how to enter the bios, feeling comfortable playing around in the bios, knowing how to even disable safe boot once you're there, not exposing your device to security vulnerabilities by having safe boot disabled), the need for an existing understanding of how partitions work and how the partitions are structured on your specific device in order to test the waters with a dual boot setup on a drive that has data/functionality you want to preserve. Needing to know the 'what' and 'why' of swap, /home, and /root partitions. These points all came up on a recent installation, and I'm sure they would scare some people off.

    Installation will be easy if you have the time, motivation, existing knowledge and/or bandwidth for a learning curve. But not everybody has that.

    And that's just installation, to say nothing of the actual use of the desktop environment, which is not as intuitive as its often claimed to be.

  • Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterday

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  • It seems unlikely to me that their public statements about their situation are a full and accurate reflection of their feelings. I mean, what else are they going to say? "Fuck Boeing, fuck this failed mission, we're pilots with families and it's less than ideal that we'll be stranded up here for 8 months doing busywork while our bone density gets nuked"?

    If my employer sent me to a remote island without any of my personal effects, on a vehicle that couldn't safely return me home, I'd look at any list of tasks they sent me with some measure of bitterness. Even if it was my favourite remote island. Being trapped there would change the colour of things. Working is probably the only thing they can do to keep from going insane.