[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

I'm not American, but why would a rental agency need a customer's SSN?

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

While announcing his resignation, Trudeau reflected on his one regret in public office: killing electoral reform. 

"I do wish that we'd been able to change the way we elect our governments in this country so that people could simply choose a second choice or a third choice on the same ballot," he said Monday.

Can it not still be done?

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

You don't have backups set up in Proxmox?

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I feel like that's the opposite of what we want. Perhaps a storefront where one could choose what they want from different providers for a reasonable price would be good, but consolidation leads to *opolies, which are never good for consumers.

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

There are controls in the case of Casinos, though. The most relevant being no minors.

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Not simply the legal system. With a system designed solely for incarceration rather than rehabilitation, and with little support upon release, it's no wonder those people reoffend.

It's essentially, "Let's imprison this person for a fixed amount of time because of something they did. Then, let's release that person, now with even fewer resources, right back into the circumstances that lead them to commit the first crime and act surprised when they do it again."

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

And if that option wins, a pool of citizens who have marked that they'd be willing to serve a term in government get randomly selected from each riding to fill each seat. You can only serve if you haven't ran federally before.

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Or @pm.me, even shorter

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, I'm quite happy with the timing on purchasing a pair of ratgdos for my two openers. I'd highly recommend for anyone looking for local only control without the myQ bullshit.

Even with the extra cost of shipping to Canada, they're still worth it.

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

On the home heating aspect, our building standards have been wholly inadequate for the climate we live in (coming from SK). Minimal insulation, inefficient layouts, no consideration for passive solar heating obviously leads to more heating demand and the solution historically has been just a bigger furnace.

The typical assumption is a 10-15% increase in build cost can get a new house to net-zero ready, or about 50% better than code. An R32 wall is just as easy to build as an R16 wall, its just more material. For existing homes, yes, heat pumps can be much more efficient than other existing heating methods, but the focus should instead be on reducing heating demand in the first place.

I'm currently working with some indigenous communities on minor energy retrofits while also providing energy efficient new homes. The total retrofit cost is similar to the increase in cost for the energy efficient home versus one to base code, yet they only get 30-50% of the energy savings. It's obvious we need to build it right the first time.

Of course, this doesn't mix well with a housing supply crisis, but what is it going to look like when natural gas is no longer an option?

[-] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

But Gmail includes ads disguised as emails too?

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