Heavens no. Hopefully his support continues to wane, he loses the election, and we forget all about Canada’s little PP.

Also, he is 47. Men’s bodies age rapidly around 45 and again at 65.

Indeed. Charcoal filters are to catch some odours, the aluminum will catch some grease, but ‘natural gas’ is a whole lot more than methane, and think the same is true for propane.

Thought this was an Onion article!

Hey plebs! I demand you work 50% more to develop AGI so that I can replace you with robots and fire all of you and make myself a double plus plutocrat! Also, I want to buy an island, small city, Bunker, Spaceship, And/Or something.

I keep seeing articles like this, but I think this entire narrative is being pushed by companies that have been selling tea and infusions as non-alcoholic gin and Rye at exorbitant prices. This article is a case in point. However, there is nothing novel about some people choosing not to drink or being unable to.

What I think is new is that we have smart watches that monitor various health metrics, including sleep and heart and stress. And these watches creat awareness of the impact that alcohol and other drugs have on our sleep and other factors. So I think the generational conclusion isn’t so much a new trend based on age, but I suspect aligns to the adoption of smart watches.

And then there was that multi year, piss-up known as the Covid & lockdowns in which people drank far more than historic averages, so the other fascinating conclusion in this article that people are drinking less could actually just people returning to past norms.

Then there was the insane price increases at bars and restaurants. Cocktails have nearly doubled in price and even bottles of low end beer have nearly doubled. So I get a lot more people wanting to hang out and drink at my place (I make cocktails) simply due to affordability and budget constraints.

Finally, there’s this whole return to office and spending time with clients and coworkers and I’m seeing the slow return back to prior behaviours.

President Krasnov is barely a month into his presidency, so I’d hold off on any conclusions for the time being.

The studies I read, there was no ventilation / exhaust fan. The point was that low income households using these stoves often don’t have proper ventilation and it makes them dangerous. I didn’t find much evidence that using them with proper ventilation is actually a serious problem.

Further, cooking releases all sorts of chemicals from incomplete combustion in the air if something is burning, as well as the toxic chemicals release from nonstick cookware at very high temperatures, so cooking without ventilation is bad for your health would be the message I’d take away. I find most people are completely unaware of the hazard.

Just a lack of Nazi hunters.

Somehow most people figured out email. It’s like picking Gmail, Outlook, Proton, Mailbox, Yahoo. Doesn’t matter, pick the one you like, create as many accounts as you want, or make your own server if you want.

This isn’t a Fediverse or Lemmy problem, but is speaks volumes of how broken the Internet has become and how far we’ve fallen. 😔

I’d be more forgiving, but what MS Copilot sucks at the worst is working with Office files: PowerPoint: completely useless

Excel: useful for some tasks if I reformat all my sheets into tables, so mostly useless

Word: can’t even answer why the formatting of the file from my coworker is a mess (which is every coworker), let alone try to fix it. But it will gladly take a succinct piece of information and make it into an insufferable 50 pages of fluff. It summarizes documents well and helps with reviews.

OneNote: creating content it’s ok, but useless at retrieving info.

Outlook: It tries to help, mostly confirms that my language is may be perceived as cold and offensive. Which is good, because that was my intention.

It is surprisingly helpful with PDFs and extracting data and cleaning up formatting.

Unsurprising, it does great with CSV and other open data formats. Maybe there is a lesson here?

Rust people are so annoying.

TBF, Elon’s cars are great at killing groups of people with toxic gasses and then incineration their bodies. Just because he isn’t efficient today, doesn’t mean he isn’t working on being a better Nazi tomorrow.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fatal-crash-four-dead-lake-shore-cherry-1.7361751

Mailbox.org works for me.

Indeed. My Alienware doubles as a space heater in my north facing office.

Awesome! Send them to Canada, we can build data centres and sell the cloud services back to Americans powered by the electricity that we expect to be tarriffed, and cooled by the water we won’t sell.

My favourite are the kids excited that their mom 3D printed the save icon when she showed them a floppy disk.

Kiss of the Spider Woman. Back I the 80s our parents left us to fend for ourselves. I was around 10 years old and my parents were at a job site in northern Canada where the only channel was CBC. Definitely an intense movie, I’d say more than the Exorcism which aired another night. My brother missed the first, but had serious nightmares from the Exorcism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_the_Spider_Woman_(1985_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist

I’m not sure why this is news or why this is a cause for worry. There are 750 detachments, over 20000 officers across a country the size of Canada. Its a small number of weapons, especially considering the vast majority are handguns. It’s going to happen. The way this alarmist article is talking, it sounded like hundreds or thousands of weapons are missing and continue to go missing on a weekly or monthly basis. Instead, the majority were reported in 2016 which could be due to a reporting anomaly. (ie missed from previous reports)

Finally, there are over 20 millions guns in Canada and guns are only involved in a small percentage of violent crimes here. Vast majority are sharp objects and the fastest growing is flammable liquid attacks.

Energy conservation has been part of that messaging. Running appliances and low peak times etc. All of that is out the window for AI.

Energy conservation is the dumbest thing we have ever talked about. For prosperity and well being, electricity should be cheap and plentiful. It’s pollution and greenhouse gases that need to be curtailed. Another mixed up policy mess of messaging, and it is being unravelled by AI.

Clean electricity should be so cheap that every other option isnt feasible. Instead, it’s talk conservation, reducing wealth and quality of life.

Duolingo is a game for points and badges. it’s not actually useful for learning anything.

It’s true:

3.0 - aka the Windows Protection Fault release 3.1/3.11/WFWG, now with far fewer WPFs 95 - I lost nearly a year of life waiting for it to reboot, again. 98! Second Edition TBF ME - Lets remove stuff and cause cause problems XP - SP2 - I can login before my PC is taken over by RPC calls from the Internet! Vista - UAC up the Longhorn ass 7 - took long enough 8 - 1.5 half complet OSes 10 - erased 1 OS, completed the other 11 - I am still waiting for file Explorer to open. Where is fileman.exe? It’s so laggy, why does the context menu draw out one row at a time.