I’ve been using RIF and old.reddit.com for as long as they existed. Reddit since the big Digg transition. Hope to never see the same happen to Lemmy!!

I believe in Canada we have high standards for our potable water, unlike the UK for example our water heaters need to be up to par (UK typically has seperate taps AFAIK).

So no need to boil, also if you’re trying to get rid of chlorine you can just use Brita filters, carbon filters that restaurants use do the same AFAIK. Also even cities like mine which (at least at some point before now) had way more houses than apartments still chlorinated the entire city’s supply.

Filters are insanely good these days. I was thinking about getting a life straw, but there’s a slightly more expensive alternative that can do like 500x more filtering before it needs to be replaced, and comes with a pouch you can fill and then pour into a regular water bottle. Life straws are meant to be drank from directly, and the alternatives that company offers are just water bottles with life straws built in - so you put unfiltered water in the bottle itself… Probably gets gross or requires constant cleaning

The Netscape loading logo was pretty cool, and of course it took a while to load every page!

A bit later than what I’d call the early internet, I’d say my favourite memory was winning a Super Soaker CPS 2500 when I was 13.

Wait so the US is lying to you because they’re financially supporting Ukraine & with weapons, while they’re being fucking invaded, because Poland (an independent nation) decides to send ground troops into Russia (maybe to slow down the invasion of Ukraine???)

Seems to me like you’re operating under the assumption that the United States of America runs the entire world. They don’t.

Yes, lemmy is pretty good quality, we of course need more people to browse new, I hardly ever on Reddit, but when I do it’s shit compared to here 👍

It’s wine when they have it but yes it turns into literal horseshit by the time it trickles down.

There’s just enough people in the middle class, pacified by their Netflix accounts and multiple yearly vacations to not give a fuck about the rest of us ☹️

And of course us working smucks get to taste all that shit just enough to want to struggle paycheck to paycheck, if we’re lucky

After loving the shit out of Control, I have to go back and play this sometime. I always knew about it but never seriously looked at playing it.

Speaking of, I might replay Control on the PS5. It was pushing the limits of the PS4 Pro

Awesome! That means you’ll make a mental note and avoid making the mistake in the future?

That, or this is clearly a potentially intentional (or unintentional) misuse of the saying “I could’nt care less”

It’s because you’re a non native speaker. Should of is a phonetic mistake that can be traced back to repeating words you hear over and over again before you know what they actually mean

…the reason “in some dialects of English native speakers really do say ‘should of’ etc” is phonetics. Kids hear “should’ve” and repeat it phonetically, before learning the actual words or their meaning. Combine that with the awful state of education and literacy in the USA (and other countries etc) and voila, you’ve got some armchair internet expert justifying it with some big words trying a weeeee bit too hard to make it work.

Then you’ve got teachers who still gaf and know their shit who will correct this before middle/high school, and no, last I checked it was never added to the dictionary or considered correct. Language of course is living and ever changing, but the line must be drawn somewhere lest we devolve into shouting and grunts like neanderthals

I see this is NOT a place for open discussion. Noted.

Maybe not fuel savings in an economic sense, but definitely still in an environmental sense. Of course the emissions are going to be substantially lower when you are idling versus driving in a city for example, but when every car doesn’t idle for let’s say 5 or 10 minutes every day, all over the world, those little “non matters of fuel savings” tend to add up. Like all the grains of sand on a beach

Arrrr matey, I code all my pirate maps in base64. I suggest ye do the same, matey. Arrrrrrrggggh 🦜

😂 this is why I avoided programming, focused on hardware, and ended up cooking in kitchens lmao.

I was never a fan of sitting at a desk staring at a computer screen all day, even if I was good at it. Even with how complex hardware is these days, it feels more orderly and defined, if there’s m wrong with your rig, it’s most likely x, y, or z causing it, and it’s almost always x etc

I’ve been banned for spreading racist hate by warning someone looking for a realtor to avoid one that was discussed without issue in the sub 9 months prior… For running a racist ad poking fun of Asians… I think they replaced the humans who double check bans and reports with monkies, or AI

Didn’t they go from like 200 to 2000 employees? And yet they:

• no longer answer emails

• No longer respond to DMs within their platform

• have a ban appeal form they don’t even check. I literally made stupid jokes about a plot to poison Biden to see if it was monitored. 99% sure it’s not…

I’m sick and tired of thos being the Age of Faceless Corporations. Google and Facebook normalized it. Everyone else is moving towards it. Twitter automatically responds with 💩. Hell even local businesses (chains and non chains) like Score Pizza or Kingston Burger Company don’t list a head office address, email, phone number or anything. They just want your money but not to have to deal with you.

Like what’s going on with the world these days? It’s obviously natural for the human mind to seek smart or lazy ways to do things, and there’s always been that loser at work everyone has to pick up the slack for… but these days it feels like everyone is pushing things to the limits, like it’s reversed and everyone wants to be slackers until the people picking up the slack get burnt out, or the business or organization just becomes a shell of what it wants was while simultaneously demanding more and more money. Policing for example, budgets are probably historically high, mostly from taxes, they don’t police the streets or hand out tickets, people drive and park however they want, corporations and driving instructors have non-road legal cars (way above 30% tint in front windows etc).

Oh man they’re just hiring babies in Belleville? Better than Kingston, not so much cradle robbing but more so foreigners buying up all the franchises for international students or other immigrants to work at. It’s not like fast food jobs are glorious whatsoever, and it just means some local isn’t going to be working the job to live paycheque to paycheque.

The new fast food staff though, they tend to drive a lot of nice expensive cars which makes me scratch my head a little. Must be a family gift, or they live 10 people to a 5 bedroom or less. If it isn’t age or race, it’s class warfare. I’m all for immigrants having the opportunity to start a new better life somewhere, but I worry that all the people who spend years financially leaching money or resources from their home nation just come here and displace struggling locals.

Sorry to politicize your hilarious video, but it just keeps bringing me back to the concept of us desperately needing a UBI