otter
@otter@lemmy.ca
I live in Canada on the west-coast. I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer that I could use.
- Comment on these eco-facist stickers 1 week ago:
From what we can see on our end, this account doesn’t match the pattern of the other harassment accounts
- Comment on A Very Lonely Caterpillar, Possibly the Last of Its Kind, Has Died 1 week ago:
:(
- Comment on Any tips on immigration? 1 week ago:
In Canada, healthcare is a provincial responsibility and so it might be different across the country. With medications especially, we have a patchwork of overlapping rules and support systems. The new national pharmacare system was supposed to be the first step towards fixing that mess, but unfortunately with the new government:
thetyee.ca/…/Canada-National-Pharmacare-What-Happ…
Also no problem and welcome to Canada! :)
Feel free to ask questions in !canada@lemmy.ca or !askacanadian@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Any tips on immigration? 1 week ago:
By
.govdid you mean the Canadian government sites? If not, these links might help (in order of how helpful it might be):www.canada.ca/en/…/settle-canada.html
- Comment on do it now 1 week ago:
thank you, all of those accounts have been banned, along with any others that matched the pattern from the last week.
PartyDonut@lemmy.zip, from your previous comment, seems to be unrelated and doesn’t match the pattern, and so they were not banned
- Comment on Should street racers who accidentally kill people really go to prison? 2 weeks ago:
Your question comes down to murder vs manslaughter
In many parts of the world, murder requires intent while manslaughter does not.
- Comment on Apple Airpod Subwoofer 2 weeks ago:
Catching up on this, I checked our internal tool and all but one of the flagged accounts from the past month had been banned already. I took care of the remaining account now
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, I can confirm that both of the accounts match the pattern and it looks like both have been banned at the source instance by
ttrpg.networkadmins - Comment on SBA #119 maths 2 weeks ago:
Yup, I found an old comment of mine but unfortunately that post was deleted. The numbers are different but its the same riddle
I think the confusion is in the way it’s displayed. The notation in the comic is ambiguous, where the division is shown as a symbol, while the multiplication is implied with the brackets, so some people see the question as
8/(2*(2+2))=1, while others see it as8/2*(2+2).For the later, my understanding is that multiplication and division actually have equal priority and are solved left to right (rather than an explicit order as PEDMAS and BEDMAS seem to suggest). So the second interpretation would give
8/2*(2+2)=8/2*(4)=4*4=16The reason this isn’t a problem more often is because
- math questions should be written unambiguously, using symbols everywhere and fraction bars
- in real life problems, there is a certain order in which you manipulate the numbers, and we can use correct notation (with an excessive number of brackets if needed) to keep it crystal clear
- Comment on Money can be exchanged for goods and services 3 weeks ago:
Even Khajiit is affected by global supply chains and shipping disruptions
- Comment on Is Temu leaking the end of the US? 3 weeks ago:
Thank you, they have been banned from Lemmy.ca
- Comment on A Mutation Gave Humans the Gift of Speech. These Mice Have It, Too. 3 weeks ago:
In a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers found that a simple expansion of existing neural pathways allowed these mice to broaden their vocal repertoire — the same mutation believed to have paved the way for the development of human language
I think they meant that its the same mutation both times
The study: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10458-y
- Comment on New strat about to happen 🚨 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines 5 weeks ago:
It helps those that want to sell unregulated and unproven snake oil
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- Comment on Innovation 1 month ago:
Why not wear it on the inside of your wrist?
Its easier and more discreet to check, you don’t need a complicated new setup, and you won’t have any issues working with your hands.
I know some people do this already, and flip it around depending on the setting. Inner wrist when walking around, and regular placement when working at a desk.
Unless I’m getting whooshed here
- Comment on Don't blink 1 month ago:
If anyone is actually worried about this
The conjunctiva is a thin membrane that covers the inside of the eyelids and the white part of the eye (sclera), making a continuous sealed area that nothing can escape from except the front.
Also the area behind/around the eye is cushioned by fat and muscle so there’s no room for it. Your eyes don’t bounce around for a reason
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 1 month ago:
Oh that’s a good point
Maybe it’s a farm or greenhouse with plants in different stages of growth?
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 1 month ago:
I appreciate whoever took the time to find enough berries and pre-berries, and then arranged them so nicely
- Comment on Are you a "weedhead"? 1 month ago:
Thank you for compiling the links :)
- Comment on Are you a "weedhead"? 1 month ago:
It’s worth a read, but if you don’t have time
What makes this revival uncomfortable is its timing. Phyllis could not respond. Her family, largely gone. There was no one left to correct the record or explain the circumstances. The image became a blank screen onto which modern viewers projected assumptions about drug use, morality, and personal failure.
Yet when her life is examined even briefly, those assumptions collapse. There is no evidence that she was a habitual drug user. No record of repeated arrests. No trail of chaos or criminality. Instead, there is a woman born into economic uncertainty, injured young, living through wartime upheaval, briefly targeted by an unjust legal system, and then settling into a quiet, unremarkable life.
The insult survives because it is easy. The truth requires effort.
The Reddit comment that circulates alongside Phyllis’s image captures something essential about her case. In 1944, freedom was conditional. It depended on fitting into social expectations, on being legible to authority, on not attracting the wrong kind of attention.
The same laws that ensnared Phyllis were used disproportionately against the poor, women, and people of colour. Their eventual repeal is often celebrated as progress, but repeal does not undo the damage done to those who lived under them.
Phyllis Stalnaker did not become a symbol in her lifetime. She did not campaign, protest, or write memoirs. Her story matters precisely because it is small. It reminds us how many lives were quietly constrained by laws that have since been forgotten, and how easily a single photograph can erase complexity.
Her revival online offers a choice. She can remain a joke, or she can be recognised as what she was: a woman shaped by her time, subjected to its injustices, and deserving of more than a label.
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- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings 1 month ago:
I think he still has majority voting power in Facebook
- Comment on Is there a platform like github that isn't for code? 1 month ago:
Yeah I guess there should be rudimentary markdown to LaTeX translation programs, right?
I haven’t tried any, but I would think so yes. You can probably run a script over the files to accomplish the same thing :)
- Comment on Is there a platform like github that isn't for code? 1 month ago:
If it helps, a number of courses at my university used open source git based textbooks. For example, you can replicate this Statistics textbook using any static site generator designed for documentation: moderndive.com (github.com/moderndive/ModernDive_book/)
We use vitepress for our docs: fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
Or you can get even simpler by using plain markdown files organized into folders
- Comment on Is there a platform like github that isn't for code? 1 month ago:
LaTeX has been around for a lot longer, and Typst is one of the projects looking to replace it
Typst is a lot more intuitive and easier to use, but it might be missing some packages and tools that were designed for LaTeX.
For your purposes, I think it would work just fine
- Comment on The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep 1 month ago:
They explain where the confusion comes from in the first two paragraphs.
Different wavelengths of light do affect some biological processes, and circadian rhythms are affected by light. From what I understand, there is some consensus that the brightness of the light source can affect sleep. There is no consensus on whether some wavelengths of light are better than others, but it was a reasonable thing to explore.
- Comment on 8<9 1 month ago:
Cat just needs one solid killshot to win.
Cat might need three, if we are going off the assumption that it needs to take out all three hearts. Although I think octopi have one “brain” type organ
- Comment on Why you running if you got nothing to hide ? 2 months ago:
Lol, so it has come full circle then
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 2 months ago:
Even for the classes with excellent profs, sometimes I’d have to do the thing above.
If I had midterms or an important project in one class, I might have to skip the prereading / review for another class. After that, I’d get to class and not understand much of it. Then I’d catch up the best I could during weekends, reading breaks, or just during finals season.
