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I would blame Skype itself for being a corporate-owned closed-source flaming pit of doom in this case, not your actions or the snap.

Depends on why they were saying it was a scam. It's functional as a browser, so not a scam on the most basic level. It hasn't always been as privacy-supporting as it claims (somewhere between Chrome and Firefox if all are carefully configured, it seems). Brave also has a dubious crypto rewards scheme baked in.

You willing to pay $100 per burger? How about $1000? A cow isn't sterile. You're starting with contaminated source, so you have to decontaminate it, test it to make sure it really is decontaminated, and seal it medical-grade sterile to ensure no contaminants are reintroduced. And it all goes out the window the moment someone screws up, which happens even with food that absolutely must be sterile, as proven by the shenanigans with baby formula over the past few years. It simply isn't worth it when cooking ground beef thoroughly is so much easier and cheaper, and most of the population is okay with it.

I think Sasaki is only reminiscent of the guy from My Home Hero because they're both middle-aged salarymen who are smarter than they appear. In my mind, that doesn't seem like enough for there to be a relationship between the series.

While the CANDU heavy-water plants that power half of Ontario have proven themselves safe, they're slow and expensive to build (and not cheap to operate, either). If Alberta started building one right now, it would be years before they would see any benefit. Hard to make that work in the current political climate.

Other plant types are, by my understanding, less safe, less proven, or continually five years in the future.

As far as I can tell, there are two real problems with Quebec's language policies in general:

1. Too many sticks and not enough carrots: the Quebec government can't seem to find a way to make anyone want to learn French for its own sake. They can only force people to learn it against their will.

2. They're solving the wrong problem: Whether adults arriving from outside of Quebec learn French doesn't actually matter much. You measure the health of a language by seeing how many children are learning it as a first language, or one of their first languages. French is not in danger in Quebec by that measure. French is not in danger in Ontario by that measure, even though the Ontario government's policies regarding the French language for at least the past fifty years have wobbled back and forth between "lukewarm tolerant" and "weakly supportive".

Thing is, I'd bet the politicians in Quebec know they're solving the wrong problem. Like ultraconservatives, they're playing to a fear that they've carefully instilled into their base.

I admit, I was starting to wonder how one sends flowers to a sick lemmy bot. 😅

As someone who's dabbled in pixel art, I can't help thinking that it should be possible to reduce the number of colours and stray singleton stitches in that one without degrading the image by much, if at all. It would be a bear to get 100% right according to the pattern. Nice job!

All they found were possible signals from ground radar. Which can be created by any type of extra density in the ground. Somehow the media and one Indegenous spokeperson used the term “mass graves,” and everyone and their dog just parroted it into existence thanks to social media.

Let's look at some facts that hold even in cases where the records are missing and the witnesses are all dead, then.

The heyday of the residential schools was the 1930s. Back then, there were no vaccines for childhood killer diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, and polio. Even well-treated white kids living at home often died from those. The kids at the residential schools were packed into dorms like sardines, often underfed, and under terrible stress even when they weren't being actively abused and exploited. The conditions were perfect for the spread of disease, and perfect for a high mortality rate. Logically, many of those children must have died. Their bodies weren't returned home, so they must have been buried at or near the schools (christianity and cremation had an uneasy relationship at the time, so alternative methods of dealing with the bodies are unlikely).

We don't know whether all of the specific ground radar anomalies that have been located so far represent graves, it's true, but the graves are out there somewhere. They didn't just vanish.

(Whether burning down churches is an appropriate reaction to this history is a separate matter. I personally don't believe that revenge is a useful thing, but I can understand the appeal of striking back in that way for people who don't share that belief.)

My understanding (which may be faulty) is that opioids, specifically, rarely cause overdose deaths if the supply is safe. Granted, "rarely" is not "never", and having the other programs does help addicts put their lives back together and kick the drugs for good, but a safe supply would keep a lot of people alive while we try to fund and ramp up those other programs.

I don’t know if I want to know why a girl is doing Lamaze breathing while looking at an enormous frog in front of her face. It is just one of those weird mysteries of life.

In this case, the context just makes things weirder. Yes, really. 😅

(I mean, we're talking about a show that involves three invisible penguins, two brothers who aren't really, their terminally ill sister, a posessed novelty hat, a terrorist's ghost, the most inept stalker ever, and a mysterious object that may or may not be able to change the world.)

The UK had no beavers for hundreds of years, so it makes sense that its denizens wouldn't know that beavers aren't ticklish. 🫠