corsicanguppy @ corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca

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On the surface this looks like a good idea.

In reality, though, it's not.

It will prevent the collection of resources that can be used to fund conversion programmes for 3 years, so at best it's kicking the can down the road a bit. But

1. It opens it up for more exemptions
2. we don't have the time

And, worst of all, all the problems will be the same and it will be harder to restart the tax to find conversion programmes.

The carbon tax has two great benefits, but only when it's properly funded. Now we still wear it around our necks because people who can't do math and are being told it's bad will still "know" it's bad, and the benefits won't be as obvious.

We can either have the cake or eat it. Conservatives say with no cake we're better off, but now we're due at the birthday party with no cake, no gifts, and starving.

based

I'm hoping that groovy term fades into the tubular before I have to understand what virtue it's actually signaling.

Why are we writing 'Defence' without the air-quotes?

What was he doing with a usable bolt in that weapon? We typically had to sign them out for the one day a week we needed them on-base. And there's No Way a reservist would have something like that.

While on a particularly stupid project that I knew was destined for failure, I actually requested to come into the office on a constant basis because I knew that it was going to fail horribly and I didn't want my non-presence to become the scapegoat for the manager's pitifully bad choice.

I mean, I was there all the time, right? How can I have been the cause of this otherwise perfect project failing so miserably?

I like that I have the choice to use those 1-2 hours to get stuff done for work, to clean up something at home, or just go onto the patio and stare at the sky for 5-30 minutes.

All of those bring me far more satisfaction than riding the train, and I'd happily do any of them instead.

Careful: each arm can only actually support about 17 lbs. I have a cat that weighs more than that.

It's weird how no one forced people to synchronize clocks over a streamed connection, but that's the reason why they're killing the entire thing. Something seems fishy here.

Maybe keep the signal around on radio, and just let everyone else go fuck themselves.

So you're telling me it's a place with a house I can rent?

Metaphors are hard.

Ironically you're probably writing on the most tracked OS ever, odds are.

The joke's on them: I do nothing online in a literal fashion. #litchally

Capacity planning isn't a housing problem, directly. This is just one more symptom of the mind-numbingly-stupid "run to fail" operating mode currently used by Translink, BCFerries, and other P/P/P businesses.

How did 2022 Provincial Bill 7 die and why? As the very first step toward better management of BC Ferry Authority, it would have put us in a better position to demand, as residents, better service.

And then we can fix translink for the same comically-bad management at the smaller scale.

It's not usually our goal to side with oppressors in conflicts like this. Can we get a list of other governments we're not allowed to have opinions on? Any of them the economic powerhouse as this one?

Israel could leave the UN.

My uncle took a voluntary in early COVID days as the lymphoma required more and more frequent transfusions onsite amid sick people and he with no immune system. He didn't want to risk his daughter's pregnancy, fraught as it was already, and when the transfusions got too frequent and his time left was too short and risky, he gathered his family and left us peacefully at 5 pm on a Tuesday.

I miss him dearly.

My cousin's child was perfect and strong, and she's already the free, fearless, astounding personality as the grandpa she never knew. She will know all the stories by heart, though.

PCLinuxOS is the bastard child of mageia, itself the child of mandriva, of mandrake and conectiva, the last a very, very excellent RH derivative from way back but loved by its Brazilian parents and truly groundbreaking. Live upgrades between major distro versions!

It's an RPM distro - thus massive validity checks all the way down - with highly versatile app versioning and ranges, and no fucking systemd.

It just has a terrible installer and no templates or boxes for vagrant / etc.

speeding ahead and attempt to play chicken at the merge

That's the zipper merge around here.

TMAS;DR (too much ad shit;didn't read)

Nitpicking has been their M-O from day one. This is just more of the same.