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Give me something spooky

Grace Hospital (circa 1907)

Osborne Street (1909)

The apartment building in this image (“The Roslyn”) still stands today.

Wellington Crescent (circa 1908)

Clearly none of the fancy town houses or apartment buildings along Wellington Crescent had been developed yet when this picture was taken

Market Square (1912)

St Mary’s School and Church (circa 1910)

353 St Mary’s Avenue, to be specific

Sherbrooke Street (1912)

The Assiniboine River, near the Cornish Library (1915)

The building in the image is a public bath house

Edit: the Wellington Crescent photo was from 1908 not 1998 lol

The rest of the world just says ‘jelly donut’

Back in the day, if you were to give a letter to a carrier pigeon, how would the pigeon know to deliver the letter to Maggie McDoodle over at 24-102 MacFerggle Street (or whatever)? How did the pigeon know who the proper recipient of the letter was? And was it common for pigeons to accidentally deliver a letter to the wrong contact?

I’m tryna get my friend off Reddit and to join the Lemmy dark side. He seems cooperative so far. What communities should I recommend to him?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45052471

Something juicy. Something you wouldn’t admit to irl but you’re willing to divulge behind the safety of a keyboard

Now young people can take the bus for free

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57353418

Provincial sales taxes will be removed from more grocery store items under Manitoba's next budget, and one researcher says the province may be the first to do so.

Currently, Manitobans pay provincial sales tax (PST) on prepared food and drinks sold for immediate consumption.

That includes "rotisserie chickens, salads, a case of Bubly — all the stuff that you're grabbing on the way home when you're in a rush and you gotta try and put a meal on the table for the family," Premier Wab Kinew announced in a post on social media Tuesday.

"After our budget passes — assuming it passes by July 1 — that will all be tax free," Kinew said.

It's a "bold move" that will relieve some pressure on Manitobans at the grocery store, says Sylvain Charlebois, director of Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab in Nova Scotia.

Manitoba may be the first Canadian province to eliminate the tax at the grocery store, he said.

"I think it should be welcome news for the rest of Canada, as far as I'm concerned, [and] I think perhaps other provinces should follow suit," Charlebois told CBC News.

For those unaware: algorithmic pricing is the practice of using data about a user to change how much to charge them. For example if a company buys your data and realizes that you just got paid, or that you’re that you’re really desperate for whatever product, or whatever, then they will charge you more. Usually this is done by a company requiring you to download an app so that you can “see” the prices, though it can be done more inconspicuously with online shopping.

This practice is becoming common in some areas. So its good to hear that Manitoba will be the first jurisdiction in Canada to outlaw the practice.

For me, its skating on the river trail

I’m not sure if this is the wrong place to post this; my apologies if it’s not.

Anyway, I have an inquiry about Mastodon replies seeming to not post to show up on Lemmy.

Earlier today I made a post on Mastodon and made it post to Lemmy as well, by @ing the community I wanted it to appear in. Here’s a link to the post on Mastodon, and here’s how it showed up on Lemmy. At first, everything seemed to work fine.

But something I noticed is that, though the Lemmy comments were visible to me on Mastodon, the reverse was not true: most of the Mastodon replies were not visible on Lemmy. So there seems to have been some federation issues there.

So my question is, does anyone know what caused this and if so how I can fix it?