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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 10:49:22 AM

I just listened to PP's campaign stop in Surrey British Columbia. He was asked a question by a friendly media person about whether he would stop antisemitism at universities and stop funding universities that were antisemitic.  I might as well have been listening to Trump.  He said that not one dime of federal money would go to universities who allowed antisemitism.

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Off the Record / Re: Syt's Pictorial Collection...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 10:46:20 AM

I want to hear more about the monkey hand puppet

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 09:31:58 AM

Elizabeth Warren on Colbert.  Lays out Democratic strategy on tariffs and insider trading.  I think tariffs is perfect and insider trading is a lemon.

Strategy is what I want, not gestures.

You mean she has a good plan that will fail on tariffs but a bad plan that will ultimately succeed on insider trading without making any political gains?

I'm at loss how the cult will move on anything.

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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by viper37 - Today at 09:14:51 AM

That plastic wrap ban removal doesn't make sense to me.  A lot of my food is still wrapped in plastic    when did it become banned?

Makes sense to reduce plastic sure but going to banning extremes is also unnecessary.  Both wood forks and straws are fine with me btw. 

It's in court

There are many ways to reduce single use plastic consumption for the food industry, but it's obviously hurtful for some chemical industries while beneficial to others.
The plastic bag replacement was seen as a calamity at first.  Now, no grocery store would want to go back to that.

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Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Josephus - Today at 07:33:36 AM

Fuck, I knew shingles weere painful....but ....oouch.

#6

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 04:19:07 AM

Extremely informative clip on AI.

Executive summary: we've hit diminishing returns and Skynet is apocalypse porn.

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Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 03:28:06 AM

Elizabeth Warren on Colbert.  Lays out Democratic strategy on tariffs and insider trading.  I think tariffs is perfect and insider trading is a lemon.

Strategy is what I want, not gestures.

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Off the Record / Re: Syt's Pictorial Collection...

Last post by Syt - Today at 02:54:33 AM

He looks so jolly. And tall.


Someone on reddit found a boy's diary in a thrift shop where the kid noted on Stalin's death.

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Computer Affairs / Re: Is it a good time to upgra...

Last post by HisMajestyBOB - Today at 12:18:27 AM

Man, I'm still using the same MacBook Pro I've had since 2014 as my daily driver. My kids use it too, for Minecraft and YouTube.

I'm starting to get nagging warnings that my shit is too old to support the latest version of X software, but so far there have been workarounds. 

Had to do a totally new windows install on a random hard drive, turned out not the one I would have chosen.

I wonder if this was typical of computer setup these days, as have to say its quite a swerve back towards difficult compared to 10 years ago- nothing on 20 years ago and setting pins and all that of course.

That's why I keep around my Apple II GS and play around with that from time to time. Nothing like working with really old stuff to make the new stuff seem simple.

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Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Bauer - April 19, 2025, 11:42:13 PM

That plastic wrap ban removal doesn't make sense to me.  A lot of my food is still wrapped in plastic     when did it become banned?

Makes sense to reduce plastic sure but going to banning extremes is also unnecessary.  Both wood forks and straws are fine with me btw.