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What is your unpopular flim opinion in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Villeneuve has been really disappointing. He was good with smaller, more gritty stuff but isn’t a good epic director.

I really appreciate adding the ability to enable custom search engines for searching with the address bar. As someone who just types my searches direct to the address bar, not having the in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is in chrome, but implemented differently. Firefox actually does it better since you can save them as bookmarks

If you could permanently change ONE thing about the world right now what would it be and why? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

eliminate poverty

Federal dental insurance program to be phased in over 2024, benefits to start in May in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

They'll get more votes but people are still going to vote strategically because what choice do they have.

It's a dire situation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I use sponsor block but YouTubers who do this are still typically channels I don’t like watching. No disrespect to the job but I don’t like feeling like a product.

Much prefer YouTubers who do it as a hobby

Photographing the unphotographable in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Tenant providing bear minimum information and impatient landlord. Engaging post OP.

Photographing the unphotographable in c/[email protected]
Itse finished! Xmas present for my parents in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can find them by looking for 'edison' bulbs. Any of those distinct visible coil bulbs are edison, vintage look.

Where do you source your wood in the Greater Vancouver area? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

PJ White is my favourite - near Lee Valley on SW Marine. I haven't purchased anything since they changed ownership.

I also have a phone number of a tree feller who processes some of his cuts, but I haven't called him. If there are a couple people interested he might be willing to sell.

This may be a little too generous to 2013, but it's not that far off. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There are more useful web apps than before but blog/affiliate sites are a plague.

That said if I could make a ton of money by clogging up the internet with garbage content then I would. There is nothing holy about this place.

Many scientists don’t want to tell the truth about climate change. Here’s why in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's about being doomed and giving up. For me it's just accepting the fact that a change of course is going to happen at whatever rate it is going to happen because the people who are driving it will do whatever they are compelled to do or want to do. Whether that is fast, or slow, or not at all barely feels like any of my business. I do what I can individually.

AOC Says Climate Movement Must Become 'Too Big and Too Radical to Ignore' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went to a climate protest in Canada last week and it was way to tame to actually get anything accomplished.

The main part of the protest was walking down a main artery. For protesters, there is incentive to walk slowly and spread out to make the walk longer and disrupt status-quo longer, but the organizers clearly only had permission to march for a specific duration so they were in the back hurrying people forward so we'd stay within our allotted time window. Maybe 30 minutes. Once a year. It was pointless.

Add to that that 90% of the people there were exactly the people you'd expect to be there and it just felt like a waste of time.

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I've started going to the gym (lemmy.today)
 

I like the idea of body weight routines, but when I've tried them in the past it's usually meant that I tried to convert my apartment into a gym. I try to turn a corner, the sink lip, the floor, the walls and more recently a pull up bar into a sort of "gym" and it's never worked out for me.

I started paying for a gym a while back and have been going almost every day that I can and I've found it a lot easier to help me get into routine to the point that I think trying to start out with bodyweight was a mistake.

As a (perpetual) beginner I've always struggled finding the right intensity and variation of workout. I find the gym equipment lowers that difficulty. I can spend 20 minutes on a bike (no hills, no traffic, no stop signs, no people, no weather) and then stretch using a roller and a pad, then hop onto a machine having never used it before, glance at the instructions, pick a weight and go.

I've just noticed this over the last few weeks and I guess what I'm wondering is if you think calisthenics is appropriate for beginners or is something more suited to people who have 'graduated' from the gym.

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Canada holds interest rate at 5% (www.bankofcanada.ca)
 

Maybe not the end of rate hikes but at least a pause. 10 or so consecutive increases I appreciate the pause.

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Food fillers? (lemmy.today)
 

I like adding things to my icecream, usually peanut butter and frozen fruit. Got to thinking that if I added oats I could actually increase the volume without impacting the flavour all that much (I like oats). I could probably use floured starches or something like that.

Are there other things you "fill"? I think juice + water is the most familiar example. What about something like adding 20% dehydrated milk to fresh milk? Substituting some butter for oil?

Sometimes I find when I'm making my own stuff it ends up being more expensive than buying the packaged variety from the store, but maybe fillers are a way to balance that out.

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