JohnnyCanuck
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 2 weeks ago:
Windows 10 won’t just stop working. I still see businesses rocking Windows Vista occasionally.
- Comment on 4 fundamental forces 3 weeks ago:
That was definitely not clear.
- Comment on What is this font from/called? 4 weeks ago:
Damn you beat me to it. I found this by doing some image manipulation and using a font analyzer: whatfontis.com/ENVG_Upright-Retro-Inspired-Headli…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
verbally told me to only declare anything over $10K.
Sounds like a trap to me.
By “declaring” I’m not necessarily saying an itemized list of every tiny item you bought, especially if you’re under any limits. But I would be prepared to show all of it if asked. All it takes is one border guard having a bad day to make a difference.
And expressly going to another country to buy a product outside the limits and then sneak it back in to avoid duties is entirely different than some souvenir trinkets and candy.
If you declare the laptop, the border guard might just wave you through without making you pay the duty. If you don’t, and they catch you in a lie, good luck.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
As I and others have mentioned elsewhere, you’re taking a risk doing this, as if you get caught it will cost you more.
One other thing to keep in mind is warranties if anything goes wrong with the item. If you are trying to make it look like you brought the item with you, you’ll be getting rid of all the documentation and packaging that proves you purchased it. That includes receipts. Warranties often require proof of purchase, so you may be throwing away your warranty by doing this.
Also, keep in mind that models and model numbers are often different in Canada. I’ve had phones that were identical to the US model but had a different model number. I’ve also had phones where they sold the European version in Canada (again with its own model number) and so it was basically a different phone from what you’d get in the States for the same model name (different CPU, different supported communication protocols.)
Often our model numbers will get a “CA” added to the end making it obvious. Sometimes it won’t be obvious, but won’t match model numbers you can easily find info for online. My current laptop model number is undiscoverable online because it is so rare. There are similar ones for which the info mostly matches my computer, but I’m not always able to find good info.
It’s kind of funny watching Americans talk about this now as it was something we Canadians used to talk about all the time… Strategies for buying goods in the US to save money.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I really don’t like the way this is worded. It sounds like you’re saying that going across the border and buying a “personal” item and not declaring it is just fine.
Yes it is perfectly legal to go across the border and buy something and bring it back (assuming we’re talking about legal goods here, not drugs or contraband items, obviously.)
But you must declare those items. If you get caught pretending it was an item you brought with you but you actually purchased across the border, you may be fined. When you are asked a bunch of questions by the border guard, they’re looking for signs you’re lying. If they get a whiff you’re lying or uncomfortable, they’ll start digging. If they catch you trying to avoid paying the duties on a laptop, not only will you have to pay the duties, you may have to pay a fine on top of that, not to mention every future border crossing you make may be more difficult. If they catch you trying to cheat they are way more likely to implement a fine and put a note on your file.
There are (for now) certain amounts of money you can spend when you cross the border, which changes based on how long you’ve been gone, for which you won’t be charged duties - but you still have to accurately declare what you’ve spent!
- Comment on Face to Face with a Myth 1 month ago:
Those dragon teeth-lips are weird lol
- Comment on Me want cookie 1 month ago:
All I can think about is how they made that inverse colour version. I’m thinking reduce the blue channel to 0, then do the invert?
- Comment on u up babe? 1 month ago:
First I smashed pluto, now I’m coming for uranus.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 2 months ago:
Growing up I always learned (I think) the “insert missing text” symbol was shaped like the one in the pic, like a caret symbol.
The odd thing is I also remember the caret and inserted word being at the top like in OP’s image, but style guides I can find now show the caret at the bottom and the inserted text at the top.
www.csuchico.edu/…/copy-editing-marks.shtml#%3A~%….
…byui.edu/…/chapter_16_deciphering_elements_of_ha… above (search for caret)
grammarist.com/…/proofreading-editing-marks-symbo…
Wikipedia seems to indicate using a downward facing caret, or a caret with an extra upward arm en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_(proofreading)
TIL!
All that to say the formatting of OP’s pic, no matter the direction of the arrow/caret, makes it hard to read. A little “don’t dead open inside” or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Anyone who does will give you the “my brother” nod of approval
- Comment on explain deez nutz 2 months ago:
They’re not recyclable yet. In a few years when we have Mr. Fusions and replicators, things will be different.
- Comment on wrong again 2 months ago:
They were not “making the mice transgender”.
From the Whitehouse’s 6 evil studies list:
Three of them were studying the long-term effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on the growth of the skeleton, how it affects fertility, and if it changes your breast cancer risk. These are all things that people who are against transgender care use as reasons to stop transgender care. So they were potentially a way for the government to say “no” to this kind of hormone therapy and have some scientific backing for why. (Note: the results of these studies weren’t going the way anti-trans numpties would have liked. I’m sure that has nothing to do with it though.)
One is studying (as best I can determine) how GA therapy works, I guess because we don’t really fully understand it. This one used “transgenic” mice (scary!) to help isolate the processes. That means they were genetically modified.
There was a very scary one about how such hormone therapy affects the effectiveness of the HIV vaccine. (They made sure to list this one first with its homophobantitransantivax trifecta).
One study they claimed in their list was actually just a comparison of asthma between men and women (nothing about transgender, but it mentioned “gonadal hormones” which is like, so gross).
A bunch of the info came from here: motherjones.com/…/white-house-scared-of-trans-mou…
I also read through the abstracts from the studies listed and linked in the Whitehouse press release.
- Comment on frfr no cap 2 months ago:
What happened to her left side?
- Comment on fireflies 2 months ago:
Now let’s talk about the Kentucky bluegrass lawns the leaves fall on…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This account looks pretty sus. Lots of click-bait and rage-bait questions and contradictions in a short time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Most of the shenanigans are with ink printers, no?
- Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today? 3 months ago:
Send him a pigeon, duh!
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 3 months ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering? 3 months ago:
I.e. If they don’t care about themselves, why would they care about anyone else or the environment around them?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah, if you had that on your screen at work and someone saw it, you’d likely get talked to by HR. It’s not a grey area. I’m not saying it’s raunchy or pornographic, it’s just not appropriate for a workplace, hence not safe for work.
- Comment on Violent Acts of Many Jan. 6 Rioters Pardoned by Trump Are Shown in Videos 3 months ago:
That’s a whole lotta love!
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 4 months ago:
To be fair, I don’t think all of the blame can be laid on execs. Game directors and Art directors are often the source of the issue.
I’ve seen execs come to a studio and say: “Make something AAA, a single player game with unique gameplay and a great 10 hour story, and get it done in a couple of years. Don’t worry about the bottom line, we want a showcase experience.”
Then the directors come back with: “Okay, showcase you say? How about a AAAA 20v20 open world multiplayer shooter (nobody is doing that!), SaaS (to keep’em coming back), with ultra realistic graphics (it’ll be epically fun that way), a $100million budget (we’ll outsource to save money), MTX so we can make tons of money (we get profit sharing right?), and we do it in 3 years (for work-life balance)?”
Devs are just sitting there shaking their heads and thinking… “Here we go again…”
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 4 months ago:
I’ve always disliked how washed out BotW looks. It’s like they could only process limited colours so they reduced the contrast and everything is light grey with a hint of colour.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 7 months ago:
Agreed, just making a joke because of the context.
- Comment on Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions) 7 months ago:
Real men sit to pee so they don’t have to clean their own piss up later.
Whenever I talk about this, some asshat will come along and make a comment about sitting on a tree. No, dumbass, I don’t sit to pee on a tree. Or a urinal. I sit to pee on my toilet at home so I can tell you what an idiot you are while I’m pissing just to prove how manly I am.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 7 months ago:
Yes, but it’s essentially incremental engineering, made possible by ginormous funding, including NASA money, and a private company doing things that NASA can-t politically afford.
NASA spent about 50 Billion today-dollars developing (not launching) the shuttle program and that went to private contractors (Boeing, Lockheed, United Space, etc.) Starship has a long way to go to hit those numbers.
I really don’t find anything SpaceX is doing revolutionary
Really? Nothing? Many people said what Falcon 9 now does on a regular basis could not be done. No one was even trying. The closest plans were still going to land horizontally and went nowhere. Now, you have to explain why you’re not landing your booster, and what your plans are to fix that going forward: bnnbloomberg.ca/…/china-wants-to-replace-jeff-bez…
They quite literally revolutionized the space industry in terms of the cost to launch to orbit.
Imagine NASA crashing 4 Shuttles before getting landing right. There’d be no NASA by now.
Yet another way they’ve revolutionized the industry. Almost everyone is doing expendable tests now so that they can move forward quickly. Columbia started construction in 1975, launched for the first time in 1981. When they launched it, it was a fully decked out space shuttle and they put the whole thing on the line - including two astronauts. Imagine NASA trying to do that now. They’d be grounded so hard they’d be jealous of Mankind having a table to land on.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 7 months ago:
The router might have a page for fixed IP addresses.
- Comment on Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station? 8 months ago:
Starfield has Chunks, a full on fast food chain with multiple locations. Some are on space stations, some are on planets.
You can also find their vacuum-sealed food everywhere.
