corsicanguppy @ corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca

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This is the baffling part. I live in a country that periodically grades the taste of regional water supplies, in addition to testing for solids and the usual. And I live in a part of that country consistently known for really great-tasting tap water.

It's baffling that they'd sell water in a can. Please don't tell me it's bottled in Atlanta, where they bottle the worst-tasting coca-cola in the world, or it'll be extra-baffling.

water in cans[.] this rivals one of own business ventures

Your own business venture? Not mine. Whose?

Yeah, but there are some really short-sighted people who still get to vote, for whom "preventing that thing that will only probably happen and is really bad" isn't a value proposition. It's weird, but you know they're out there. For them, ya gotta sell them on "this gives you more money in the end" and hope they can do basic math.

Even that's a long shot.

One name is as good as the next.

There's no reason to change. If you feel otherwise, let me change YOUR name and then we'll talk further.

Money money money money.

I left Canada for America in 1999, riding that pre-y2k boom. I stayed for about 5 years.

To be clear, I gladly chose to make less money and move back.

I submit that there's, oh, so fucking much more to calculate than fucking stinking lucre.

I also submit that the people who leave for raw unadulterated greed above all other things can fucking go. Canada is an objectively happier country on the list despite our lower raw dollar wage numbers.

If people figure that out, like I think I did, it's very cool to come back. Doesn't make news headlines though.

Now, offer a chance to go live in a country objectively happier than us and I'd consider it.

You say I need to get my wife to spend her yearly bonus on an 85" 8k TV ... for science?

I'll do it. It'll be hard to pitch that but dammit it's for science.

There was a time when people were buying the smart TV because Netflix and Apple were then apps on the TV and used the same remote.

But the apps are old and crunchy, the tv shovels ads at you, and the steamers are no longer offering the value required to make smart TVs a prime consolidation target.

I am looking forward to the contraction of the market and a shift back to "just a TV with 4 HDMIs" models. No tuners even.

My buddy was named Chuck. It seemed just a little juvenile but he said Mr Manson seemed too posh. Yeah, he came up on internet searches too, and people needed to overlook the results.

Go back and read some of the things Danielle Smith has said, and ask yourself whether a former teacher could survive being in her presence for very long. The syndrome memes can only take us so far.

You mean in the sense where overexposure to news makes someone generally paranoid, combined with the fact that a massive fire in colombia is not likely to enrich their perceptions or help them understand the world around them any better?

We don't day no but we say "maybe tomorrow" like the jingle. And sorry.

... But as soon as someone showed you The Line, you could no longer NOT see it, which meant you had to sell it.

probably because monitors where so big

Nah. Legroom.

Legroom is key for some of us, and the shallow side runs have nothing underneath for space.

Tropic Thunder.

I liked the RDJ gimmick, but the rest was really dumb. Everyone else likes it but i even bought a copy based on terrific reviews and ended up giving it away. So it was pricy too.

Salmon

I worked on one of those fish farms in '91 : floating clusters of nets holding salmon raised to be sold, etc.

Mortalities were worthless, even the super-fresh ones. The morts would be dead but their gills would still be pink, so you know they were fresh.

On discovery, all work would pause. One person, with the speed and care one would give an organ donor, would ferry this mort and any others off to the adjacent farm with the smoker someone built on the detached workshop section.

Fresher than fresh, this poor fishy would be cleaned and prepped and in it would go. When she and her friends came out, it was amazing salmon.

Good times.

You can actually set a thing on the tab so it mutes that particular site automatically. It's very cool.

I happen to use it for the very nerdy purpose of muting the fucking ads after I finish a puzzle on sudoku.net or so, but you may have a more lofty purpose. Hope it works for you as well as it works for me!

I think it may have a problem on some screens.

"stop the ambulance so I can talk about pastafarianism!"

No, time and place. As much as Israel is committing war crimes on the daily, interrupting government who cannot affect that becomes a nuisance and hinders the impact of protests that are properly targeted because it makes protestors appear only obstructive instead of selectively so.

Disrupting muni gov business is like blocking one lane of a superhighway in protest.

So, and correct me here,

• Mr Singh wants to allow gigs and other neu-age non-standard workers access to funding support as their primary gig income ebbs and flows.
• Mr Polievre wants to invest in companies who will naturally grow and spread the wealth

Okay? Now opinion.

Both M-Os fit their political party themes: NDP is always pro-worker, with support and inclusion, like a pat on the back for people left out in the cold or people who like the dole and wanna be on it (which, I admit, is a miniscule amount).

Conservatives are pitching from the dugout as well, a common "trickle down" and "table scraps" idea that suggests as more companies get more investment, they'll naturally employ more people. Even though that doesn't follow on theory (that proof has a missing-middle so big we could drive a Boeing through it), nor in practice (oh, hey, Boeing again, but we could look at almost anything local, since, ever), I do admire the attempt to trot the same thing to different people and hope for a win this time.

Man I hope people know trickle-down has never worked, and that the moment food gets scarce the table scraps dry up fast. As wildly inefficient and ineffective ideas go, those two are great for ensuring company CEOs get the money they need so they can put the money back into the communities of faraway island nations with no extradition.

I think the point was that we don't want to provide the intimate minute details of our private spending to everyone who asks, lest we risk judgement by the same fools who lob the "well if you have nothing to hide" fallacy.

I worry that either externally or internally you've set up a false dichotomy here.