Some people struggle to make the split between religious people and religious extremists.

Not all Muslims are part of ISIS, not all Jews are Zionists. I don’t know what’s so difficult.

404 media doesn’t make you create an account, they just send you a link to your email, but having to create a throwaway email every time so they can’t track what I read is a hassle I just don’t care enough for. I’ll either skip the article or use a proxy.

Teeeeeeeeeeechnically, the term is correct, the Nazi regime did offer socialist benefits… Only for those they considered “nationals”, hence NatSoc.

Socialism alone does not guarantee democracy nor freedom of speech, it is strictly a financial system where the means of production are owned by society. The prefix “national” then defines who that society is.

Even the Saudis were smart enough to diversify their economy.

/j

It’s definitely some sort of patois.

Pirates, says so above!

Looks like a spam account

Thankfully, this isn’t legal in most Canadian jurisdictions, speed cameras need to be marked with a sign.

I want to run my own voice processing service, ideally. Something that runs off of my home assistant server, would be cool if it made use of a Coral AI or similar.

My understanding is the software is the problem, I don’t understand why though.

Is it easy to set up a smart speaker with Home Assistant? Last I heard, it was kind of a PITA.

At the very least, it makes it quite hard to read the post.

Sorry, it took me a while to figure out what you meant, I thought you typoed “question” and couldn’t figure out the rest of the sentence until I finally realized what the word “ques” was supposed to be (doesn’t help that my brain kept reading it as “kwes”, as in “quest” 😄).

The correct word is “cue”/“cues”, as in “social cues”.

Vidéotron generally owns their network.

In Canada, it can be done through Interac.

…sooooo, it’s okay to do bad things because the neighbour is doing it, too?

Everyone speeds and runs red lights in my neighbourhood, dang maybe I shouldn’t cosplay as captain safety and I should just run red lights too so I’m at my destination earlier than other people.

Besides, the vast majority of people will be poor once arable lands disappear due to climate change. There are other ways to give people a happy and fulfilling life than by running an unsustainable rat race towards infinite growth and infinite consumption of resources.

We did it to build our highways. Do you regret that decision?

Yes, fuck the car industry, I wanted bullet trains.

But this is why we have been second last next to Luxembourg in the 38 countries of the OECD in per capita productivity growth since 2015; Canadians love making ourselves poorer for no reason, and the rich love investing outside of Canada.

Digging up fossil fuels and preventing our children from having a livable future is not the only way to sustain our population.

I love how they never address the fact that the punishment is way heavier for a cyclist than it is for a driver. Nice distraction.

No! This is Patrick!

It very much depends on the dog. I’ve seen some nasty dogs in my time, where the dog wasn’t cleaning itself and the owner never gave them a proper bath, and then there’s dogs like mine, never smells of defecate or urine, gets cleaned professionally once a month and grooms himself thoroughly. His fur is soft and non greasy, he’s properly de-shedded, and his coat type means mud turns to dust and simply shakes off.

Same goes for cats, I’ve seen dirty cats who spread shit everywhere with their dirty bums and I’ve seen hygienic cats that never skip a groom day.

I will admit that cats are lower maintenance. A dog is like a child you can’t drop off at kindergarten, and they require hours of exercise and attention every day, but that’s exactly what I signed up for: something to occupy my mind and keep me exercised. I can’t cani-cross a cat, unfortunately!