[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago

When asked about Smith's comments about him, Poilievre himself began to discuss his conservative counterpart, but pulled himself back."Well sh…," he began, stopping before a "she" could cross his lips. "People are free to make their own comments. I speak for myself."

Fine, so what is Poilievre actually saying? From a National Post article:

Poilievre has promised to pay for it by cutting “waste,” eliminating bureaucracy and contracts with consultants and bringing in a rule that any new spending needs to be offset by spending cuts of the same size. He has also vowed to cut foreign aid and stop what he called “handouts to insiders.”

Sounds kind of DOGE-y to me?

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago

I work with 32MHz microcontrollers at work and you can do plenty with them. It's a different world from say general CPUs where speed is king. You're often more concerned about timing reproducibility than outright clock rates. There are also considerations about power consumption, electrical noise, functioning in extreme environments, etc. that may inform your decision to go with one controller over another.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 months ago

I have no first-hand experience with it either, but understand that in addition to its direct shitty flu-like symptoms and the telltale rash, it has this strange ability to factory reset your immune system so you get to go through all those other diseases your body fought off in the past again.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 months ago

I remember attending a trade convention in Toronto where they were showcasing this block of pure gold around the size of a loaf of bread. It was surrounded by Mounties but they welcomed me to come forward and even asked if I wanted to try and lift it. My God that thing was heavy!!

Then as I was about to leave, they said "Hold on sir, show us your hands." I did and they said I was good to go. I asked what that was about and they said some people try to scrape a bit off under their fingernails as a souvenir since gold is one of the softer metals.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 months ago

Darn, I was kind of hoping for a viking raid of Mar-a-Lago followed by some pillaging up and down the gulf coast. Get some pirates back in the Caribbean and rename the Gulf to something even more obnoxious.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 months ago

Wow. He might wanna stay away from high windows for the next little bit?

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 months ago

Dang, that reads like a commercial for pharmaceuticals.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

Most recently? My wife was wfh and out of the kindness of my heart I brought her a coke. She was on a zoom call with her entire team. I was pantsless.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

You have to understand that religion was banned by the communist regime of the day. Admitting to it could get you locked up.

But my dad, as a tourist making this casual observation about flagrant rule-breaking going on in plain sight even as he spoke, broke the tension completely and made the locals admit there is a lot of rule-breaking going on everywhere.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago

#2 is certainly food for thought. So the idea is that from a journalistic fact-checking point of view, it is more important to convey the information exactly as it was presented than to verify its accuracy?

This would explain why science/engineering-based articles are so commonly inaccurate or missing in critical details. The journalist can fall back on saying "I have a recording of an interview with the expert after we downed a few pints at the pub, and I'm just parroting back what he said. Don't shoot the messenger!"

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 years ago

Cutting/deferring carbon taxes is such a bad idea. It sends the wrong message. There should be no exemptions. This is the cost per tonne of carbon. Period.

If there is a segment of the population who suffer disproportionately due to the tax, you compensate them by providing a larger share of the rebates. This already happens with rural residents who have higher costs and fewer options in terms of transportation.

Now let's say you lived down east and took out a loan to replace your oil furnace with a heat pump. You figured an increase in the rebate that would come with the promised carbon tax hike would help you pay it down. But then they decide to defer the tax (and therefore the rebate) instead. It's a betrayal.

[-] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 years ago

Edge is a Chromium browser isn't it? Then again, so is Brave and the article indicates they are making a point of removing this stuff from their build. Safari is it's own thing though afaik.

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