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camerondotca, 6 months ago to random

Know what I want? I want your recommendations for an air purifier/humidifier that doesn't suck. Also a shit dehumidifier that will happily be on 24 hours and drain by a hose. Yes. That.

inquiline, 7 months ago to random

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camerondotca, 7 months ago to random

First person I have blocked in ages on Insta and FB wound up being someone I've known since I was mb 14 or 15. Posted a very nicely produced, trained spox telling me that I was wrong to believe my lying eyes and that the destruction was probably not that bad in Gaza. There are limits. That apparently is one.

Daojoan, 7 months ago to random

The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.

It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...

br00t4c, 7 months ago to chicago

Chicago Police Officers Appeared on Membership List of Extremist Oath Keepers Group

#chicago #extremist

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/18158-chicago-police-officers-appeared-on-membership-list-of-extremist-oath-keepers-group

AnnaAnthro, 7 months ago to Quebec

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indianewswatch, 7 months ago to india

'No Reason to Dispute': Australian Spy Chief on Canada’s Claims of Indian Hand in Nijjar Killing

In an interview with Australia’s ABC News, Australia Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) director general Mike Burgess was asked about his assessment of Canada’s allegations.

#india #canada #HardeepSinghNijjarMurder #HardeepSinghNijjar #ASIO #MikeBurgess #IndianIntelligence #diplomacy #sovereignty #australia #FiveEyes

https://thewire.in/diplomacy/australia-spy-chief-mike-burgess-canada-nijjar-india-five-eyes

heliomass, 7 months ago to random

Heading into town today for a meet up with some fellow transit fans from both Montreal and Toronto, so for fun I’ll keep a thread of random transit miscellany and interesting things we find. 🧵

camerondotca, 8 months ago to random

They switched on the heating here today and the whole school smells faintly of that burnt dust.

camerondotca, 8 months ago to random

Don't usually come to office on Wednesday, but we're having a strike vote.

mhoye, 8 months ago to random

So, funny story: remember how that Stanford professor described last years' layoffs as a "social contagion" exercise, where CEOs were just doing it because everyone else was doing it?

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Well, funny story, everyone get your surprised face ready, but it was in fact a coordinated effort spurred by large shareholders and hedge funds to suppress wages:

https://www.teamblind.com/post/How-we-got-here-Some-inside-scoops-from-Microsoft-on-handling-early-days-of-pandemic-to-cutting-over-20K-folks-in-2023-7ndQwLAU

camerondotca, 8 months ago to random

I want to talk about something that I've experienced here in Spain. To be clear, besides Holland and the UK, this is the only other Euro country I've been to. From the outside, and on paper, Spain seems quite good about LGBTQIA+ rights. (you can dig in deeper and tell me I'm wrong: I largely did a "will my kid be killed" level of research). The thing is, all my research said it would be fine. BUT! they didn't talk about the reality on the ground.. so, here's where I say something...

camerondotca, 8 months ago to random

Do I know people in Barcelona?

CelloMomOnCars, 9 months ago to Netherlands

More than 10,000 at #ExtinctionRebellionNL & #Greenpeace protest on A12 highway into #TheHague

"A report earlier this week detailed 37.5 billion euros ($40.5 billion) in [#FossilFuel] #subsidies in the #Netherlands, notably related to the shipping industry, prompting calls for a quick halt to the practice.

The report calls on lawmakers to begin phasing out the subsidies before the country’s Nov. 22 general election.

A new protest is planned for Sunday."

https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-protest-climate-fossil-fuels-f7e19f0f9745c851a470be4de0f9bb2f

camerondotca, 9 months ago to random

Ego is a funny thing. I go to a super local one branch grocery store. It's around a KM away. I often come home with a backpack and an IKEA bag, sort of waddling under the weight of it all. I own a grocery cart that I only use when getting propane for the BarBQ. The thing is I refuse to use it for groceries because I don't like looking old. And today I'm exhausted and I said fuck it and I got a delivery worth of stuff home for free. And I fill dumb for having an ego

Radical_EgoCom, 9 months ago to random

Seems a valid question

camerondotca, 9 months ago to random

Someone I knwo is part of the evacuation from Yellowknife. She posted a picture from the highway out. Seeing the CL-415 coming out of the haze must be both a total relief and horror. Also one of her neighbours just turned on a sprinkler on her house... So many people are going to lose so very much.

camerondotca, 10 months ago to random

Poll after poll show that Quebecers disapprove of the CAQs IF you ask them about specific issues (the economy, healthcare, COVID, housing, environment) but (this data is from June, but I don't think it's changed much) they would still win a huge majority if there was an election. https://338canada.com/quebec/ Part of this is that the opposition parties range from "utter fucking rudderless crap with no leader" to "oh, those are radical lefties" (which really means they are center left on most things)

mrundkvist, 10 months ago to random Swedish

Hey people over 45 -- how do you survive at workplaces where you're not allowed to take an afternoon nap? Massive coffee intake?

#caffeine

jfmezei, 10 months ago to random

Not surprising: during formal innauguration of the short REM stretch earlier today, the Québec premier starts talking about to increase electric car production. It is not the time to discuss increasing car production during the launch of a public transit system. But politicians just think about votes and bragging about job creation instead of making cities less car centrric and more liveable.

cc: @notjustbikes