[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

At 9 years old I thought I'd be living in Ajax, Ontario, when I grew up and was rich. Not there yet with the money, but I'm dreaming a little bigger than that now in terms of where to live.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago

This is something that a Russian Facebook ad-buyer would say.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It took 4-8 years of US rural voters not caring about things until it affected them before they even started considering that Trump doesn't care for any American besides himself. In the UK I don't even know how they lasted in that trance for so long.

My cynical take is that people are going to recognize the destructive effects of a Conservative government only after 5-10 years at the least. If the political blocs don't change, then we'll get milquetoast Liberals again. Conservative media will continue to repeat "Liberals bad" enough for people to believe it again.

I have no experience in political strategy, but the only few ways I see of breaking out of this cycle is to

A: adopt a fairer voting system

B: Link the Canadian Conservative Party to the US Republican party, Project 2025 etc.

C: Announce progressive action so bold with near-immediate effects that it makes a difference to their electoral prospects, without appearing like an electoral bribe/promise.

I have heard little interest in A from government, grits and NDP might be waiting until November to do B so they don't slander people they may be forced to work with, and C is nigh impossible, at least I can't think of any realistic policy example that could achieve that. A proper UBI might be close.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago

Wow so it took only 4 weeks to go from TFG accepting fake endorsements from Swift, to Swift actually endorsing Harris, to Trump rage-posting about her.

Then and now.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

If you still have Best Before Aug 10 in your fridge I don't think you would have wanted to eat that anyway.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago

Imagine communicating something to a former President but through a misinformation party apparatus of thousands and thousands of people.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Um.... just put 3 of them layered in each other. -15°C tripled is -45°C, right?

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Hatted gargoyle goblin is the character I like to play. In one sentence it's a 6-on-6 third person hero shooter MOBA.

I found that compared to League of Legends (at least what I knew of it 4 years ago) and other team shooting games, going after objectives is more important than winning more fights and good K/D ratios, at least at the casual player level.

Like other similar games it takes awareness of where allies and enemies are on the map, coordination between team members to play effectively and some knowledge of each character's ability. But even if you absolutely suck at shooting unpredictably moving targets (that's me), knowing when to push a lane, when to support your team, when to reap the successes of a teamfight and when to pull back will contribute toward a win even if you're 1/15/5. And a lot of punching of course.

Where Deadlock is nice right now is the short queue times and nice pick mechanism, helpful indicators for a lot of things once you know what they mean, and fun movement combos with dashing sliding and jumping.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

$0.11 Canadian/kWh, my usage is about 150kWh per person per month, but I don't have summer AC. There's a higher rate beyond a threshold of 675kW/h but that's still under 15 cents. With a zero-use daily charge including municipal levies about 30 cents per day, and some fluctuations based on power sold, imported and other costs (my last bill had like $3 in credits). All in all about CA$25/mo ($18US).

Charged by BCHydro, the provincial power regulator. I've been really shocked at how cheap utilities are overall in BC, I budgeted about 3 times the amount I needed when I first moved.

https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/electricity-rates/residential-rates/tiered.html

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago

If you can believe it, Trump supporters will accept the Ohio immigrant pet eating story as true.

Somehow media is pitching the "moderate position" as halfway between anywhere within the normal range of political positions and the crazy positions.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago

Great, but why were no one but the bean-counters consulted when coming out with the blatant money-stealing scheme in the first place?

You have a lot of trust to build back because Godot has come a decently long way.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 days ago

These funding milestones sound great! Very excited on future improvements.

Dessalines and Nutomic have done great jobs along with the rest of the Lemmy contributors. Adding Phiresky and Sunaurus to the development team is also very positive and I appreciate the diversification of origin instance in the team. This will be useful in the rare but totally understandable event that a part of the team may need to break for a while.

Multi-communities and post tags would be an absolute game changer if implemented.

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Mmmm. Roasted ham.

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submitted 1 week ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/usa@midwest.social

This is a site that has summarized and cited points from the Project2025 document (with assistance from Google's Gemini AI algorithm along with manual fact-checking) categorized by topic.

If you want a concise and accessible set of reasons on why a Trump/Republican presidency would be bad for the US, to help explain important issues to friends and family without sounding like a conspiracy theorist or a political savant, this resource may help.

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submitted 1 week ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/rail@feddit.uk

Shadow Great British Railways created as legislation to end private operating contracts makes progress.

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submitted 1 week ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

Hey everyone, just a reminder in case you hadn't seen it or forgot from months ago, the Canadian official e-petition is at this link as part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign. Maybe we can get some clarity from our government on what our rights as consumers are when buying access to video games.

Signature collection ends at 9:30am ET/6:30am PT on Thursday 5 Sept 2024.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/quebec@lemmy.ca

L'enquête par ISDE Canada sera ouverte jusqu'au 26 septembre 2024.

Les Canadiens peuvent envoyer leurs commentaires à l’adresse suivante : https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/s/RTR?lang=FR

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

I figured that right to repair is a topic many of us are interested in. The survey below by ISED Canada, a department of the Government of Canada, is open until September 26, 2024.

Canadians can provide their input at the following link: https://ised-isde.survey-sondage.ca/f/s/RTR

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submitted 3 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

Video shared from a Mastodon user.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Some Lemmy user at one point had asked about a "multi-paste" feature, if there was a way to use keyboard shortcuts to display multiple clipboard items and copy/paste them out at will (this user mentioned similar to RTS games they like to play). ~~If someone can find that post, can you notify them and direct them here, please? I'm having trouble locating it but I recollect that it was within the last 3 months.~~ Edit: I found the post!

Somehow this was stuck in my mind when I accidentally pressed a keyboard shortcut, that showed my last 5 copied items. This isn't exactly what the user was looking for but I thought I'd publicize it here.

If you use Fcitx (because you need multi-language input) from the fcitx5 packages, then you may already have installed the clipboard add-on. You can use fcitx with just one keyboard layout. By default, it's activated by Ctrl+semicolon and shows the 5 last entries, but the number can be configured.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27490241

CN and CPKC locked out employees across Canada on Thursday 22 Aug 2024, due to a labour dispute between them and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.

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CN and CPKC locked out employees across Canada on Thursday 22 Aug 2024, due to a labour dispute between them and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.

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submitted 4 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

The edition is called: "Take The A Train 9 Version 5.0 Final Edition Complete Pack DX+"

Train Construction Pack Steam Page

Unfortunately, the ridiculously titled combo pack's Steam page appears to be region locked to Japan, the DVD version is also Japan/Japanese only.

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