pedz
@pedz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Got bad news for ya bud 1 day ago:
Yeah, about that.
My province just had a very dry summer with very low water levels. Some wells dried up.
At some point farmers were wondering how they would be watering their crops if it got any worse.
Or what about flash flooding, either on flat ground, or in mountain towns? Or wild fires?
There’s certainly places safer than others, but a lot more people are going to be affected than just coastal inhabitants.
- Comment on Kira asks Sisko for a runabout... again 2 days ago:
I was wondering about the instances when she borrowed a runabout and when the terrorism happened but someone’s gonna have to remind me.
Once she brought back a few Bajorans that were still prisoners since the war, including Li Nalas.
Another time she kidnapped a single Barojan scientist to force him find a cure against a terrorist bioweapon.
What am I missing?
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 3 days ago:
No, but since you’re mentioning it I might try. I’ve been so disappointed by the franchise that I didn’t bother looking into SNW, but just having someone that seems to be on the same page suggest it makes me want to at least give it a try.
Thanks for the suggestion, and the detailed rant!
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 4 days ago:
I’m on the same boat. Apart from Lower Decks, I can’t watch the new shows. I keep hoping a new show might fix it, and be for me, but the longer it goes, the less I’m interested in Star Trek.
Lately I’ve been thinking about unsubscribing from all the Star Trek communities, as all the discussions and hype about the new shows is making me think I’m no longer a trekkie. I loved TNG, DS9, VOY and tolerated ENT, but the new shows are clearly not made for me.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 1 week ago:
The article doesn’t mention any “miles per hour”. Do people in Australia use mph?
In December, the NSW premier, Chris Minns, announced a plan to halve ebikes’ power – and therefore reduce their top speeds – to 250 watts…
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
This reminds me of a Republican politician interviewed on TV being told that crime rates were down, and him replying “but I don’t FEEL safe”.
Reality doesn’t matter.
- Comment on its a 1999 nissan actually 1 week ago:
Oh yeah. A car shows your social status and you want to impress others. If you drive an expensive car, of course women will want to be your girlfriend.
I wonder what his father drives? Did he also give his mother cookies because he didn’t have the correct car to impress?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Same but with the current geopolitical situation.
- Comment on Simple 1 week ago:
These are so disappointing nowadays that I don’t bother trying anymore.
Two or three decades ago, the inside was gooey and runny. Eating one of these was a messy but delicious affair. Now every time I buy one, it feels like a dried paste that has nothing in common with what I was eating as a child. For a while I thought they were just old or bad but apparently it’s just how they are now. So it’s even not worth trying one now.
- Comment on Simple 1 week ago:
Isn’t that the Canadian version, avec la version bilingue de l’emballage?!
- Comment on Just vibing 1 week ago:
Technically, computers are running on DC. The PSU is fed by AC but its sole purpose is to convert all the power the computer needs to DC. It’s possible to only use DC to power computers and it’s probably/apparently more efficient.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Being a cynical bastard is great, since my expectations are that things will probably get worse. I’m alive to watch modern society and capitalism eat itself out, and if things are actually getting better it will be a pleasant surprise.
Otherwise pass the popcorn while I watch us go through the great filter.
- Comment on No explanation needed 3 weeks ago:
The plate will be round but the lasagna stays square.
- Comment on No explanation needed 3 weeks ago:
I can see the logic. It’s made in a pot, eaten in a bowl, fairly liquid and remains liquid while stored.
And lasagna is a square/rectangular food.
But what about stew? My father makes a beef stew in the oven using a square casserole. The leftover is refrigerated in the same square casserole and the whole thing congeals into a square. So to me stew can be square.
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 5 weeks ago:
In French, he is il and it has always looked a bit weird when typed at the beginning of a sentence.
Il y a un I suivi d’un l.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’m not an expert but from what I can find online, houses under 700 square foot (65 sq/m) are not covered by the local construction code so most municipalities don’t want anything smaller. It’s also forbidden to build a house with a single bedroom smaller than 320 sq/ft (30 sq/m), or a house smaller than 275 sq/ft (25 sq/m). According to old number, the average house here is about 1950 sq/ft (180 sq/m).
But ultimately it’s the municipality’s choice so it can vary depending on the region where you want to build it. I dreamed of having a small house to keep as much land as possible, but after looking into what’s possible where, it would be much simpler to just buy something already built that is grandfathered with the land.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Also depends on local law. I live alone, always wanted a mini house, but they are illegal in most municipalities here because there is a minimum size for a house. So if I really want a mini house, it has to be in a mini house approved neighbourhood, along with other mini houses. Like a mobile house park but for mini houses. They can’t be built anywhere; they have to be specifically approved.
After all, we can’t build a small house among bigger ones. Think about the neighbours’ property value!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Building a dream house also means an ungodly amount of debt for the mortgage. The matching kit is a better financial decision.
- Comment on [REDACTED] 5 weeks ago:
That definition made me think of samaras floating in the wind.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 1 month ago:
As a Canadian, I have never seen a bag of milk “sealed” with a rubber band. Plus, standard bags are way bigger than these. Those bags are not Canadian.
En tant que Canadien, je n’ai jamais vu de sacs de lait “scellés” avec des élastiques. De plus, les sacs réguliers sont beaucoup plus grand que ceux-ci. Ces sacs ne sont pas Canadiens.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 months ago:
Imgur has been pretty shit at hosting images for other sites for about a decade because it’s trying very hard to keep people captive on its site. They added ways to prevent hotlinking and if I paste an imgur link in a chat, starting with i., supposedly a direct link to the image, the preview will not work and the page the link sends to will always open their whole site around that image. They really really want people to stay on there, and interact, or watch ads. AFAIK they have made that change about a decade ago as they wanted to monetize.
- Comment on why 2 months ago:
It’s the same gender than all machines, which is obviously feminine.
There’s no fixed rule for this but if a noun ends with a consonant it’s probably masculine and if it ends with a vowel it’s possibly feminine. Again, not a consistent rule and it will not work for everything, but if you must take a guess, this might help, or not.
Now this reminds me of Sebastian Marx and his videos on French. Like this one on pronunciation.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
In fact, the numbers are estimated to be around 2 billion animals a year globally.
As for people
- Comment on Definitely how it went for me 2 months ago:
I started tinkering with computers a bit before the 2000 and floppy drives were common at that time. Well, there is a right and a wrong way to plug the power cable, and the wrong way emits smoke.
I now have assembled enough PCs to know what I’m doing, but I had to learn.
- Comment on People who think an attack on another user is approproate for this sub, and the mods that enable them 2 months ago:
And that’s how you learn that Lemmy is full people that can’t tolerate diversity. I can read that person’s comments just fine but apparently others downvote and whine.
And they don’t even need to learn another language, just a letter. But alas, I guess this is very hard to do.
- Comment on Me right fucking now 3 months ago:
Unless you buy a plot of land in a forested area, it’s not yours, so you can be evicted at any time.
Or you will need to see a dentist or doctor at some point.
I had that kind of thought multiple times and ir’s so tempting until you think about the details.
- Comment on Any fuckin windows? 4 months ago:
If you consider god as capitalism then it makes sense.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 months ago:
In two parts.
- The before map would be of the only high speed train the US currently has, and it’s the Acela Express. So, something like this.
- If lots of people are consuming Tylenol in day to day life, and it causes autism, and some autistic people love trains, then the US should have a system like the map posted.
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 4 months ago:
- Comment on Trump Says Critical Coverage of Him Is ‘Really Illegal’ 4 months ago:
What kind of dumb logic is that? Maybe you should be arrested for suggesting your president is not right.
It’s obviously not the same. Everyone loves Trump and nobody likes the Democrats. Everybody knows that the elections that gave Obama and Biden’s presidencies were rigged by the wicked woke antifa ecologists LGBTQ terrorists and therefore illegitimate. They were the real dictators coming for your guns, straws, ‘merry Christmas’, and gendered bathrooms.
It’s that simple.
(/s just in case)
