[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That makes it 142/433 where the shooter was shot by a “good guy with a gun”. Hardly a great figure either way…

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago

If it wasn’t that it’s Nvidia and that you bought this specifically for Linux, I’d have told you to keep the Nvidia, as you did get a significantly better card for the price you paid.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Same is true about second language French speakers. French conjugates articles (or most things, really, the language is extremely gendered) with nouns. E.g. “the father and the mother” would be “le père et la mère” (le/la is the same definite article in masculine/feminine form, it has no neutral form). English speakers get rightfully confused. It gets even more confusing as there’s a clear trend in the language where many feminine gendered words end with an E (porte/door, table/table, arme/weapon), but not always (nuage/cloud, véhicule/vehicle).

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

Human life is to be protected, rescued etc. in all cases.

Where does a DNR and medical assistance in dying fit in this?

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

1984 supposes it’s coming from big government and social structures. Seems like a lot of people just aren’t watching what big corporations are doing cause it’s getting at least just as creepy…

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

Sadly those kids were turned into confused apologists before they could decide if they wanted to or not

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago

I do wonder what she visibly has that tons of other pop singers don’t to have become so popular. Still, I’m puzzled by your choice of words here. I can’t say I really understand what’s “goofy” about her.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Many of our MPs are landlords themselves, which may influence how... reactive they are to the issue https://www.landlordmps.ca/data-analysis

Our economy is over-reliant on housing as an investment in general, so getting people to do anything about it is hard to begin with https://www.oecd.org/housing/policy-toolkit/country-snapshots/housing-policy-canada.pdf

It's not looking good. We're in so deep already. A lot of people will lose their homes either way.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The people who really think of age verification as effective measures tend to also be against having those in schools in the first place.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Let’s reformulate. No single individual gets to a billion dollars of net worth without someone getting fucked over in the process. The very concept of any one individual having a net worth of hundreds of times the one of the next 99.9% is fucking absurd, regardless of what they did. Nobody “deserves” multiple lifetimes worth of wealth while half of the world’s population is living with dollars a day. It would take collectively for this world’s billlionaires, the equivalent of us foregoing buying a gaming PC (in relative terms) to get rid of world hunger, yet they choose not to. So, yes, they are actively fucking people over by having so much wealth in the first place.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm in Canada. I'd love to be able to say I can totally ditch Maxi or Super C and stop supporting Loblaws and the Weston family, or Metro or Sobeys, but that would mean choosing either buying shittier produce from one of the large discount alternatives (Walmart, Super C, or similar) meaning I'd be encouraging another of those large super vertically integrated grocery chains that are driving up cost regardless, or accepting to pay 1.5x the price for all of my groceries.

Fresh produce I can get for not too expensive from farmer's markets while in season, but for the rest, I have to choose between expensive local grocery, expensive grocery chain, or budget grocery chains that are owned by one of the expensive chains anyway.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The whole point is the freedom of choice. I don't use Arch because it's "one of the hardest most customisable distros", but because it's rolling release, I like pacman as a package manager, and the AUR is a great resource. I used Ubuntu with bspwm and Arch with Gnome, and there's nothing wrong with either of those setups. It's all Linux in the end. Most of the differences between distros (for most "traditional" distros, at least) boil down to the install process, the init system, a set of default configurations/packages, and the package manager.

Don't play gatekeepers, please. It's dumb, nobody asked you to do it, your opinion is just that, and it's exactly this type of community behavior that turns people away from Linux. Thanks.

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