"Their frustration is understandable, but this kind of expectation betrays a misunderstanding of what's actually driving food prices higher in this country."
I feel like beards are a reaction to the clean-cut look of the 1980s and 90s. The mainstream aesthetic was clean-cut brutalism, from architecture to facial hair. People in media lived in almost empty spaces made of concrete and hard lines. Even the grunge/plaid look of the 90s featured beardless dudes with a hint of stubble.
In the 2000s, there was a reaction against that. People looked for alternatives. Hipsters grew beards and mustaches. Instead of IKEA catalogs, movie characters lived in cottage-core wizard hangouts or busy apocalyptic shelters. This will continue for a while.
In the next decade or two we're going to see a reaction against that. Politics are going to get funky and I think that'll help get us back to clean-cut and brutal. But here's hoping for a hirsute solar-punk future. Given a choice, I'd take a 1990s-style perfect shave in a solar-punk future, but that's just me.
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) discharged toxic sewage at the Chalk River site along the Ottawa River during peak fish spawning season earlier this year, CBC Indigenous has learned....
Effluent is considered acutely lethal when, at 100 per cent concentration, or undiluted, it kills more than half the rainbow trout subjected to it during a 96-hour period, regulations say.
new platforms offer useful products and services at a loss, as a way to gain new users. Once users are locked in, the platform then offers access to the userbase to suppliers at a loss, and once suppliers are locked-in, the platform shifts surpluses to shareholders.
So, it
gives users a warped sense of what they deserve by giving away a costly service, and running competitors out of business.
Then it puts a stranglehold on suppliers by holding users hostage.
Then it fucks everybody by extracting value for shareholders.
The rest of the article seems to be talking about Canadians living abroad. So only a few tens of thousands have to leave annually to get to that total amount. I think that first sentence is just poorly written.
Thinking of the number folks I know who went to the US for retirement, work, or to get married, it seems possible.
I have accounts on various Reddit alternatives and have also had accounts on now-defunct sites. However, none have exhibited the same level of negativity as Lemmy.
People on Lemmy have bailed from Reddit because they have principles. Stuff like Linux. The value of science/education. Lefty-ism (or whatever it's called in their region). FOSS. They are willing to cut themselves out from a larger community to foster one that is compatible with their principles.
From your comment history you seem to be posting stuff outside of Lemmy's core beliefs. That's great! But the people here really believe in those principles, so they react negatively to the comments.
I dunno what else to say. If we want Lemmy to be viable, we need to allow people with other views build communities here. We feel pretty close to a monoculture at the moment.
EU citizens are not doing well when it comes to financial literacy. Nearly half lack an understanding of basic financial concepts, including inflation....
The questions weren't about esoteric financial instruments that allow the rich to get away with murder, they were home ec style questions:
Stuff like
Imagine that someone puts €100 into a savings account with a guaranteed interest rate of 2% per year. They don’t make any further payments into this account and they don’t withdraw any money. How much would be in the account at the end of five years, once the interest payment is made?
Now imagine the following situation. You are going to be given a gift of [€1,000] in one year and, over that year, inflation stays at 2%. In one year’s time, with the [€1,000], will you be able to buy: [more, less, or the same]
Which of the following is true? An investment with a higher return is likely to be: [more risky, less risky]
Maybe part of the reason governments keep bailing out bad financial moves by private companies is because the electorate has decided investing is black magic and ignores it.
Unless we plan to go back to bartering, basic financial literacy is important. It doesn't make you an evil exploiter to understand that we use money
Pretty much this. If people have a better understanding of how our system is supposed to work, they'll get angry when the richbad people take advantage of it.
The latest data highlights how Canada has one of the most unusual economies in recent history. Typically population growth and an economic boom go hand-in-hand. People move to a region due to the robust opportunities, contributing to demand, and thus creating more jobs. That’s not what’s happening.
Instead, people are attracted to a stagnant economy in such a large volume, it has an inflationary impact on shelter. An impact that’s so great, shelter costs are eroding general output on a per capita basis.
I wonder if there's a bureaucratic inertia at work: people came here to go to school 4+ years ago, or waited in a queue for however long it took to get in.
Front end is hard. Slapping together some form elements, xhr requests, and DOM updates is easy. Building a usable, consistent UI, that makes proper user of the backend isn't. On top of that, every jackass thinks they get it because they're a user, so you get unsolicited suggestions from everywhere.
Source: front end devs sobbing in the cubicle next to me.
a vigil for the former Hooters restaurant in Kanawha City started as a joke.
Ok. Tracks.
"I started out coming in to get a job and it became so much more because I met so many life long friends and my co-workers," former Hooters employee Danielle Hughart said.
Oh. Ok. That's nice.
The vigil began as a joke between friends gained traction on social media and attention from international news outlets.
It's a joke again.
"One of our close friend's daughters, she was just diagnosed with a very, very rare disease and it's very serious. If she don't get help then she's not going to be with us much longer," Browning said.
WHAT?
People from South Carolina drove through the night, because they said they didn't want to miss this 'one-in-a-lifetime event.'
The players could have expected this: they've noticed that the dragon has lair and legendary actions. It's clearly dangerous, and it's smart. The dragon presumably needed line of sight to the caster, an unused reaction, and had to be within 60 feet.
BUT the DM hadn't used the spell before. So the players don't realize Counterspell is a thing baddies do. I dunno.
In my current campaign, my caster is really engaged. He watches for enemy casters to use their reactions. He tracks line of sight and distance. But he's been Counterspelled often enough to know it's necessary.
(This is my table, I don't expect others to enjoy this style of play, but as a DM, my final battles will not use mechanics the players aren't familiar with)
Cunningham is credited with the idea: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."[17] This refers to the observation that people are quicker to correct a wrong answer than to answer a question.
Which programming languages do you know?
Galen Weston calls Loblaw boycott 'misguided criticism', says grocer not responsible for higher prices ( ca.finance.yahoo.com )
"Their frustration is understandable, but this kind of expectation betrays a misunderstanding of what's actually driving food prices higher in this country."
Why are many men growing beards again ? ( lemmy.ml )
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
Toxic sewage discharged at Chalk River nuclear lab ( www.cbc.ca )
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) discharged toxic sewage at the Chalk River site along the Ottawa River during peak fish spawning season earlier this year, CBC Indigenous has learned....
Surging Loblaw boycott shows customer anger with grocery giant, says Mount Pearl organizer ( www.cbc.ca )
Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"?
I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit....
Growing number of Canadians are moving abroad due to lack of affordability: McGill study ( nationalpost.com )
The study found the number of Canadians living abroad relative to the national population was five times higher than the U.S.
Rule ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
silly little rule ( pawb.social )
Android 15 could make it easier to use your phone in landscape mode ( www.androidauthority.com )
I compared Google and Samsung’s AI photo-editing tools. It’s not even close. ( www.digitaltrends.com )
Interesting comparison of the AI eraser functions on the Pixel versus the Galaxy.
Why does the culture surrounding Lemmy seem to be inherently negative and hateful?
I have accounts on various Reddit alternatives and have also had accounts on now-defunct sites. However, none have exhibited the same level of negativity as Lemmy.
How financially literate are Europeans? Not very - but who knows most? ( www.euronews.com )
EU citizens are not doing well when it comes to financial literacy. Nearly half lack an understanding of basic financial concepts, including inflation....
Android 15 may make it even easier to use your phone while in bed ( www.androidauthority.com )
swedish laguage advertisment rule ( sh.itjust.works )
Enjoy
Not a crack house for sale ( photos.zillowstatic.com )
A promising description:...
Android 15 could add a new way to wirelessly charge your devices ( www.androidauthority.com )
Canada Added 58k Workers But Lost 2k Jobs Last Month ( betterdwelling.com )
Can I rock this in public? ( lemmy.world )
I got a poncho for indoor....
Improved Version ( lemmy.zip )
Hundreds attend vigil at former Hooters: A mix of smiles and tears ( wchstv.com )
Healthy Snack Salad ( lemmy.world )
A brutal DM ( startrek.website )
Do humans have an inherent tendency to want to answer/respond to questions?
What to watch for mortgage rates ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
Any reprieve from the rate pain will depend heavily on four developments:...