The same cyclists that stick up their nose at signed and designed cycle routes and instead choose roads with highway speeds, narrow infrastructure and excessive traffic?
The cycling infrastructure is pitiful in many popular areas, and enforcement can only do so much. “Share the road” signs have no place outside of residential low-speed areas (looking at you, Mary Hill Bypass) and cyclists plowing down main drags at half speed are selfishly putting themselves at huge risk. The whole dynamic is a hot mess.
That’s not even getting into the cyclist-on-cyclist viscousness I’ve experienced when I was cycle commuting and following silly rules like stopping at red lights.
How many of your machines use Comic Sans font on the operator touchscreen?
And how many times has someone had to pull the PLC programming to resize the button clip art jpegs to fix and overlap that caused the machine to run 2 different functions at the same time if they tapped too close to one side?
An agreed statement of facts shows Cineplex made more than $11.6 million in the six months after the fees were implemented in mid-2022 and another $27.3 million on fees in 2023.
crashes log in to account unless you enable all cookies for the site
forced 2FA to a phone number (I just hate these, it’s a way for them to steal your phone number)
refuses to let you buy tickets unless you re-enable all cookies for the site (and puts a countdown on that page)
fees are at the end of the page scroll on the 3rd or 4th page in
refuses to let you pay unless you add a whole-ass credit card to your account, while cookies and trackers are enabled, again with a counter
Never have I had to disable Firefox’s onboard blocking to simply pay for something with a credit card online, I’m highly suspicious of Cineplex’s back end and the second any weird activity happens on that credit card, or email address, I’m going after them.
They should be legally forced to use an existing well-regarded payment vendor, because whatever is going on now, they’re doing something either very incompetent, or very fishy.
I can’t give you more information because I literally don’t know more than that.
I’m a bitch basic internet user, and I’ve never had a site do this before, and I don’t have 3 hours to teach myself everything on the subject just for one shitty site, or to research and install whatever the current best suite of un-enshittified extensions is. I have Ublock origin running in Firefox already, so for all I know the cookies are already auto-deleting, but I really couldn’t tell you.
If it was my card instead of someone else’s, I would have cancelled the whole thing and just picked up the tickets in person on the way home or something. Or just not given them my business (so just not seen the movie, because they have a near monopoly out here).
I’m a mechanic, not a programmer, and at this point probably not a moviegoer again, either, because the fuss of dealing with their crap now isn’t worth seeing movies, just like we’ve basically stopped streaming anything in my household and cancelled most of the subs. Now my money can go to renovations and hobbies instead!
In fact, the internet in general is getting to be such a pain in the ass, my usage is probably going to drop off to avoid all these headaches.
I would argue that caring for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s is a specialized skill set, and that most people don’t have those skills but become forced into situations that can lead to elder abuse and devastating mental health consequences.
My own family has looked into living wills after the care of my grandfather in decline, some of it at home. That may be something for you to look into to help anyone who would become responsible for you in such a situation.
I just did front brakes on my mk4 Jetta…. in the middle of a west coast snowfall, aka “the world is ending, just like last year!”
Simpler, cleaner design than industrial equipment, and that stuff is made to be worked on by gorillas like me. Actual work time was less than shoveling it out of 14” of falling snow.
To be fair, in places where income taxes are bracketed rather than in smooth percentages, it can happen. It’s much more common with bonuses and heavy OT to jump you up for a single paycheque, though.
Never heard of 100% taxing here, what I have seen is raises and promotions ending up in a slightly smaller paycheque. Whether that’s due to other factors such as a higher misaligned bracket of state medical insurance or benefits, union fees, I’m not entirely sure, it was more of a warning to watch your first couple of paycheques after a raise.
Honestly, there’s going to be a hard peak to how fast a 3D printer can go, because physics. Unless we start running prints in a vacuum and start tuning local gravity….
Don’t forget that the autotip screens usually calculate that percentage after tax, which is wrong, and make it a pain in the ass to tip a percentage on pre-tax like it’s supposed to be done, so they’re dishonestly wringing even more cents out of you!
The snippet “if the batteries have a shorter lifetime than the appliance” worries me. Seems to me that modern engineers are capable of making their crap’s lifespan just barely shorter than the projected batty lifespan, and people might just be stupid enough to still buy it.
I mean, the disposable vape market is an extreme example, but somewhat relevant I think.
That being said, if the processor on the LG G5 had kept up with the market better, I don’t see how that couldn’t have been a starting point.
As for waterproofing, my GoPro stays waterproof but the side door opens to give access to the SD card, battery, etc, so it’s absolutely possible.
Dog ownership is honestly just so easy to fall into without being prepared, and there’s no way to ensure people will take responsibility for the life they’re buying. You’re literally just handing over money half the time, like a car or a TV.
I couldn’t handle anything with the energy of a husky or Aussie or shepherd, but if I hadn’t actively done the research and realized that, I would probably have a shepherd mix with too much energy right now. LSGs are right in the sweet spot for me with work, health and fitness level, etc.
There’s nothing stopping the average person from getting in over their head. Energy levels, space, and size are all considerations that people just handwave and “figure out later.”
For some people, life legitimately changes. Injured or sick suddenly and can’t take care of a doodle’s unrelenting energy anymore? Divorce, a death, a forced move into a smaller space, all sorts of legitimate things, but I don’t think these people’s dogs are the ones filling shelters. There’s no penalty for at-fault surrenders (rightly, to avoid more horrible options being taken), and there’s no required education to get a dog, it’s a recipe for disaster.
People aren’t going to put more thought into getting a dog than other parts of their lives, and people are constantly doing things without thinking nowadays, whether it’s car loans, buying unnecessary TVs/phones/computers, or similar. Overleveraged mentally and emotionally.
I think breeding legislation is the right move, but it would take a lot of will that’s not there and need provisions to handle oops litters and such without driving people underground.
While Canadians raced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 early in the pandemic, only 15 per cent of the population had their updated shot this fall. But the virus is still spreading.
In BC, flu shots have historically only been free for those with health issues, those who live with them, and I guess the elderly probably. BC always left working ages adults with no recorded health issues out to dry as far as I can tell.
When I grew up in the 90s this was the case, I lived in a household with a chronically ill parent and was told this by healthcare providers. That’s why I used the word historically, but obviously I should have been more clear.
To be fair, there are more factors in medication relapse for things like schizophrenia, bipolar, etc, than for even ADHD meds or blood pressure pills. Apparently the side effects can be awful even when they’re working.
Life happens fast. You can be 31 and relatively healthy, then 33 and staring down $1000/month meds with the promise of rapid degeneration if you don’t take them, oh and please book a day off work to make all the phone calls and deal with the paperwork to even apply for pharmacare, because your work plan refuses to touch that amount if you haven’t applied for Fair Pharmacare first….
I won’t commit to saying I can do something professionally unless I’m damned fucking sure I can, because any small failures will become glued in everyone’s memories, kind of like me being around at all tends to stand out. It’s exhausting.
New rules mean B.C. drivers must keep further away from cyclists (www.vancouverisawesome.com)
New regulations have created a new minimum distance B.C. drivers must maintain when passing cyclists, the province announced Thursday....
This was the first result on Google (lemmy.ml)
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Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)
Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms (techcrunch.com)
Worst UI Any% Speedrun (lemm.ee)
Cineplex made nearly $40M from online fees at heart of competition case (globalnews.ca)
An agreed statement of facts shows Cineplex made more than $11.6 million in the six months after the fees were implemented in mid-2022 and another $27.3 million on fees in 2023.
Netflix enshittification will continue until morale improves (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Heartfield: We need better ways to care for those with dementia (ottawacitizen.com)
The best part of driving a shitbox is that I don't have to care too much about it. (lemmy.world)
Why Americans can't keep money in their pockets — even when they get a raise (www.cnbc.com)
Why do we still use stepper motors?
Why are 3D printers still stuck on stepper motors? Why haven’t we transitioned to servo motors with encoder feedback for positioning?...
Anon likes bikes (sh.itjust.works)
This tweet was from 2022. Can someone go check if the prediction came true? (startrek.website)
Anything else? (lemmy.world)
What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? (lemmy.world)
For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
Animal shelters overflow as Americans dump 'pandemic puppies' in droves. They're too broke to keep their dogs (fortune.com)
Just 15% of Canadians got updated COVID vaccines this fall, new figures show (www.cbc.ca)
While Canadians raced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 early in the pandemic, only 15 per cent of the population had their updated shot this fall. But the virus is still spreading.
Pharmacare not the top health priority for most Canadians: survey (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
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Conservatives move to keep abortion off the 2024 ballot (www.politico.com)
“We don’t believe those rights should be subjected to majority vote.”...