It’s not about blocking, it’s about sending a message.

Don’t worry, you’ll be 40+ by the time the updates are finished compiling.

Yeah lettuce seems the biggest challenge to me. All the heads of iceberg lettuce come from the US. What pisses me off is that under the romaine lettuce it says “Product of USA or Mexico”. Which is it? I have no problem buying it if it’s from Mexico (they’re in the same situation as we are) but not getting it if it’s from the US.

I have noticed on some products the grocery story is putting a maple leaf beside the price when it’s made in Canada, but it’s not universal yet.

Solar and Wind are cheaper than nuclear now. The main problem is it’s not sunny and/or windy every day. A carbon capture system doesn’t need to be running 24/7 though.

If we build way more wind/solar than we use then the excess can dumped into things like this.

Sorry but the economics of nuclear just doesn’t work for everything.

Add a bell button and a whistle button.

I think instead of promoting a page where people have to choose a server, just send people to lemmy.world directly. We should probably just get people to sign up there at first and have the ability to migrate their accounts to other servers if they want to do that later.

Having to choose from multiple servers is asking people to choose between a bunch of options they know nothing about. Get people straight to looking at content and posting stuff as soon as possible, once they’re more invested, and understand more about the different instances they can change servers if that’s what they want to do.

But yeah writhing the code needed to make account migration seamless might be a lot of work so not sure if that will happen.

You need to start understanding that the US is not the defender of democracy anymore. When people talk of protecting democracy, no one is thinking of getting from the US because you’re the ones we’re trying to defend against. With each passing day your country is becoming the enemy of democracy.

I know this may be difficult to accept, but the US may become the great villains of the 21st century just as the Nazis were the villains of the 20th. We all hope that that won’t happen, but we see the signs and we have to be prepared to defend democracy from US aggression.

The whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret!

I doubt it, but that could change.

Looks good on a spreadsheet tho. Lots and lots of ships.

But you’re right, their ships are crap. Quantity over quality.

UK and France both have nukes. They just need to let Canada borrow a few for a while if Trump starts mobilizing the US military for a special operation.

This is also kinda interesting… https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2025/01/28/canada-poland-nuclear-energy-cooperation-agreement

It would normally be a nothing burger… except for the timing of it. Poland and Canada both getting threatened by nuclear powers, and when Canada’s PM is on his way out and there’s a whole bunch of other shit going on he randomly finds the time to go over to Poland to make agreements on both defense and nuclear energy. Maybe nothing, but it’s a bit odd, isn’t it?

uncovered a total of four cases where veterans were allegedly offered MAID — all apparently by the same caseworker.

You’re judging an entire country for the actions of one person, when the people in that country had the same reaction as you, and investigated it and dealt with it?

The other story you’re citing is from a conservative US owned newspaper. And what’s wrong with celebrating pride? Also education is under the jurisdiction of the Provincial governments which are democratically elected. So you can see the bias there where the actions of democratically elected government are characterized as being somehow nefarious… for doing their jobs. Also note the part where “sources” say Muslims are taking their children out of school. Just Americans trying stir up shit and create division in Canada for profit. That’s Postmedia for you.

Well we do have the same King as the UK does. That counts for something doesn’t it?

We didn’t know we had that option. But hell yeah… what do we have to do? Make Google and Apple put a “West Europe” label over Canada?

Wait… UK, doesn’t have a president… I think this guy isn’t legit!

The oligarchs profit off of the monetized socialist drivel you see online too.

Interesting that only one item on your list would start a war. Guess you didn’t see enough photos of dead children last year.

Yeah and if Ozzy were using them in a professional context (like for an album cover) then the professional photographer should be compensated.

But if he’s he’s just posting some photos of himself with his friends online, then it’s a big nothing burger and the photographer should be a professional about it and consider it as fair use. Whether it fits the legal definition of fair use will need to be decided in court, but a real professional wouldn’t consider it worth the time and loss of trust with other customers to pursue it.

I think the subject does have some rights though. I’m not a fancy law talking guy, but I’m pretty sure you can sue someone for using your likeness without permission. But it’s a bit dependent on the circumstances, a famous person can’t sue a paparazzi for taking their photo in a public place, but I think they can when there’s an expectation of privacy. You see people’s face blurred on TV shows unless they sign a waiver. If been walking around where they’re shooting a movie they put up signs letting you know that’s happening and warning that you might potentially be in the background of a shot.

It’s just there’s more laws protecting the the people using the camera since big companies will use any loopholes to screw them out of money.

Though in this case I think the photographer is being an asshole. If Ozzy was using the photos for an album cover which he’d make a lot of money from, then the photographer deserves to get paid. But if he’s just posting some old photos of himself with his friends, then the photographer needs to chill.

The Mayans figured a calendar that only went to 2012 would be good enough. And they were right, their civilization didn’t exist anymore in 2012. Only relevance their calendar system had in 2012 was that some people felt like it was a prophecy about the end of the world. Nope, just was an arbitrary date the Mayans rightly assumed would be far enough away it wouldn’t matter.

While I suppose you could make a date format that was infinitely expandable, it would take more processing power and is really unnecessary.

Anyway got until 2038 until we’ll have to deal with a popular date format running out of bits. We’ll probably be in some kind of mad max post apocalyptic world before then so it won’t matter.

You’re saying “imagine” a lot there.

Were there concrete examples of critical software that actually would’ve failed? At the time I remember there was one consultant that was on the news constantly saying everything from elevators to microwaves would fail on Y2K. Of course this was creating a lot of business for his company.

When you think about it storing a date with 6 bytes would take more space than using Unix time which would give both time and date in four bytes. Y2K38 is the real problem. Y2K was a problem with software written by poor devs that were trying to save disk space by actually using more disk space than needed.

And sure a lot of of software needed to be tested to be sure someone didn’t do something stupid. But a lot of it was indeed an exaggeration. You have to reset the time on your microwave after a power outage but not the date, common sense tells you your microwave doesn’t care about the year. And when a reporter actually followed up with the elevator companies, it was the same deal. Most software simply doesn’t just fail when it’s run in an unexpected year.

If someone wrote a time critical safety mechanism for a nuclear reactor that involved parsing a janky homebrew time format from a string then there’s some serious problems in that software way beyond Y2K.

The instances of the Y2K bug I saw in the wild, the software still worked, it just displayed the date wrong.

Y2K38 is the real scary problem because people that don’t understand binary numbers don’t understand it at all. And even a lot of people in the technology field think it’s not a problem because “computers are 64 bit now.” Don’t matter how many bits the processor has, it’s only the size that’s compiled and stored that counts. And unlike some janky parsed string format, unix time is a format I could see systems at power plants actually using.