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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Per the article, it's money the government gives these people in the first place, so it kinda is.

It does raise the possibility that if the government had just not made it legally impossible to build these things on a normal property, they'd already exist, and probably in a less dumb place.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, absolutely it's a great skill to have just in case. Ditto for preservation.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yes, but he has four walls now, so he's not homeless and can't complain/can be removed from the statistics.

/s, although that's the vibe of how a lot of systems for poor people work, probably because they're designed by never-poor poiticians.

Edit: And for what they're charging and in what area, I wonder if these are actually profitable rental units.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Carney is still left enough I'd guess it will be hiked progressively. Maybe flat.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

and they made a really astute point that the US’s immense military budget does not exist to produce the most effective weapons (as we can clearly see in their war on Iran)

Sooo what's the casualty ratio right now?

They have great weapons, it's just that weapons can't occupy a country.

Also notice that military contractors give the same average long-term returns as everything else.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yup. Cutting federal staff worth 3.5% of GDP was never going to work.

That's fine. Spending on the military is mildly redistributive anyway.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

And there's other babysitting-type jobs out there, if that's what you want. Actually that's one sector poised to grow a lot do to AI, because AI needs hella babysitting.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you're not eating anything else, but still have a year-round growing season, it takes an acre or two for modern agriculture to feed a person. That's a lot by city standards, but not in general (it was more like 60 in pre-modern times). It's basically what the Ethiopians mentioned are doing, plus the cocoa so they can have things that don't grow on trees, as well.

and will like 30min of effort a day you can have more than enough for your own needs.

Mountains of human experience suggests it takes a lot more effort than that. Have you had to deal with pests, drought or disease yet?

You might still come in under 8 hours a day, but then you add in the cash crops... Again, this is something only white people generations away from subsistence farming seem to think will be easy.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well, the people paying the most taxes are doing just fine.

This specific policy seems like it's trying to alienate people, though. They could have gone with anything besides nationalisation, or at least used a bullshit name for it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Like, radical policies can win, and sometimes aren't even a bad idea, but it just doesn't seem like this one has wide appeal. Unless they win it means about as much as our hot takes on here.

You know how the Conservative party has gotten further and further right to appeal to their own activists, at the expense of appealing to anyone else? There's a similar vibe with this.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it not loading for me, or are there actually just two sentences?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Poor people 40 and up tend to vote more Conservative. They strike the same angry tone without any of the complicated or uncomfortable stuff.

Actually, poor young people are to the right of affluent young people, as well.

 

Don't fucking let "us" touch the courts, Canada.

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Not sure how to link the exact episode about a "possible" invasion of Venezuela. If somebody knows I'll edit.

We'll see how it plays out. I'm still not sure they're actually planning to send 200,000 troops, but Trump said they're going to "run it" somehow.

Edit: Moving to invidious.

Original Gem link: https://gem.cbc.ca/about-that-with-andrew-chang

 

Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style "link aggregator" service on it?

 

It's a few months old, but in light of recent events I think it still checks out. Make sure to watch the walkaround!

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Last trip to the grocery store I couldn't find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.

I'm very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there's even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I'd expected.

 

Refactoring gets really bad reviews, but from where I'm sitting as a hobby programmer in relative ignorance it seems like it should be easier, because you could potentially reuse a lot of code. Can someone break it down for me?

I'm thinking of a situation where the code is ugly but still legible here. I completely understand that actual reverse engineering is harder than coding on a blank slate.

 

This is one of those takes that's so controversial I'm afraid to post it, which is exactly why I have to.

I neither endorse nor disavow this, and no, I'm not in the picture.

 

I considered posting this elsewhere, but only Canadians are really going to get why it's funny. Regina being totally self aware about it's (lack of) reputation made it for me.

 

A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.

I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.

Edit:

So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.

Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed ^229^Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."

 
 

People new to federation are wandering elsewhere. If the logged-in screen is anything like what I see as a guest, I'm not surprised. I found this through my own instance's search feature.

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