Rentlar

Thanks for your vent. Let it out, then you can give yourself a chance to collect yourself. Also, fuck Reddit, and tell off even the Lemmy users that say you can't be you.

If someone's pronouns are too much for me to remember then I'll just say "Hey you". Easy as that. No need for bullshit excuses.

I'm not good at giving dating advice and I'm not LGBTQ+ so take it with a massive grain of salt, but anytime someone asks me about big questions or decisions in their life, I tend to say these three steps:

First, figure out what it really is you want. Short term, long term, career, dating life, whatever.

Second, think of how you can get or achieve that. You can then self-assess whether your wants are realistically attainable and how long or how much effort it may take.

Third, try to find who can help you get or achieve the things you want, or even help you discover what you want where you're unsure. This is where you can assess whether the people in your life, work etc. are helpful or a hinderance to your goals and needs. Having the right people to support you will make any accomplishment easier to attain.

Try to do it in a calm state, you don't have to suppress emotions but just be honest with yourself, so that you can get a better picture of where you want to go from here.

I know of an easy way one can reset their PC...🐧

I think I saw a Rocky and Bullwinkle pinball Machine at an arcade in my metro area (Surrey Central City Fun Park)

I almost always convert cash before I go, from CAD. VBCE has a decent rate even on low amounts of like 150 CAD. If your local exchange will match "any Canadian currency exchange" then check these rates and ask to match. If I didn't bring enough, then I do a little research for no or low fee ATMs then cough up whatever it is.

If you convert from CAD to USD then EUR, you will pay forex fees twice unless you have some special card or US$ account. If you travel a lot, then a forex fee free credit card should be something you consider, unless your points or cashback program is worth more than 2.5%.

I'm not going to get upset at anyone using however many letters to describe an inclusive, group, all of them in the alphabet if they wish. Though if I were in her place I personally would just say MMIWG+, where + is other humans.

Like I think it's bigotry when insisting on removing letters as a policy clearly motivated on exclusion, but in normal conversation, using GBLT+, 2S+, LGBTQ+ etc. for brevity when you are referring to all forms of gender expression, I also won't get upset.

*Upon some more thought, why not just focus on the plus as the banner? Gender expression is a spectrum and unique to each of us. Gender+ (which would be inclusive of agender ppl btw) and Sexuality+ or Romance+ sound pretty cool to my ears, so we can talk about it like an upgrade to people's life and freedom, not needing to conform to cis, binary and heterosexualism, and then we don't have to fit people into one of a myriad of categories we force ourselves to create?

The ad-sponsor description is silly, but Boyle is a decent character and this is fine and thought provoking. He goes from a financial perspective so sure I don't agree with him but he brings sound arguments.

What do you even get from a Luna subscription? Just a Amazon-only rental library of games?

L'année du Linux Desktop

The hilarious thing is Dave the former Microsoft Engineer beat out Microslop by 4 months, vibe coding an AI-less Notepad just for kicks.

I was watching a Canadian political talk show and they brought some clips from early in his first term, him threatening fire and fury to North Korea which is not far off from the language he threatened Iran with.

So it's definitely the same guy pulling the same shtick, maybe with more advanced dementia, but crucially Trump has systematically (with the support from MTG and other MAGA faithful) removed anyone competent enough to prevent him from following through on his impulses. Those impulses that have always been there, and that Democrats and never-Trumper Republicans have warned about.

My read on the situation:

• Iran said "We will stop attacking if US and Israel stop attacking and considers our plan"
• USA said "We will stop attacking, not go through with our genocidal war crime threat, and remove the time pressure we put on ourselves"
• Israel said "We will keep doing our extermination and colonization campaign in Lebanon on the side while you two talk, surely that doesn't count as attacking"

Yeah no worries, I can only make assumptions about your situation when I make my estimate, without knowing everything about stuff like where you live, and to keep the math easy for myself. And I don't think everyone could or should obligate themselves as consumers to go out and buy a new car immediately. When you're in the market to replace (ideally before you desperately need a car when your current one gives up the ghost), that's when you can see a used EV as a better value proposition than a ICE equivalent, or a new EV vs. a new gas car or hybrid.

https://carcosts.caa.ca/ could give you a more representative value of the cost per year of BEV ownership in your province, and compare it to your own records of car expenses.