voluble

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[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago

“He got me,” Schmidt said of the snake's bite. "That f***ing Dispholidus boomed me."

Schmidt added, “He’s so good,” repeating it four times.

Schmidt then said he wanted to add the snake to the list of reptiles he wants to observe this summer.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 219 points 2 weeks ago (33 children)

"If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it."

Wonder if Motorola feels the same way.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Could be. I think that would be unfortunate. AB's provincial government has gone rogue, and there is a very vocal minority of crazy people. The majority of Albertans are rational, reasonable people and the province has a lot to offer Canada.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

CC BY-SA is this, in spirit.

This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

There are other flavours of Creative Commons licenses that might suit you better. Anyway, worth looking into.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Another example of the fact that 20-30% of people are totally irrational, and this demographic is well distributed and not region specific.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Another good reason, maybe even the best reason to pass on Marty Supreme, is because it sucks.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Excuse me, for the record it's pretty warm in Calgary right now!

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Mentioning the blatantly obvious cybersecurity concerns about Chinese EVs on the Fediverse? Prepare to get downvoted!

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My most used resource in the kitchen is a culinary school textbook. Plenty of recipes in there if I feel like challenging myself, also good if I forget how to do something simple like how long to poach an egg for or how to make bernaise sauce. Probably can get one used for hella cheap, it doesn't really need to be the latest edition anyway.

Internet-wise, check out the Marginalia search engine.

It's good if you already know what you want to cook, and are just looking for a recipe. Marginalia is focused on indexing old blogs and stuff written by humans, and has tools that allow you to filter out blogspam and recipes that exist only to push affiliate links.

I prefer to avoid popular cooks and cooking websites because they structure their recipes around engagement and polished images & video work, and it's aggravating. 90% of the time all I'm looking for is 15 lines of information. I don't want to click that bell, I don't want 4K slow-mo shots of someone cracking eggs to chill lo-fi beats, I want a recipe.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

EU cares very little for the individual’s rights

Compared to who?

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 months ago

This is so idiotic. At the outset, the notion of writing a whisky act stood a better chance of fucking things up rather than making Alberta whisky less confusing to the market. Saying "we care about Alberta Whisky" then not even putting in the effort to actually write the legislation? Clown shit.

The UCP seem incapable of thinking anything through to its logical conclusion. This type of shortsighted bullshit hangs over absolutely everything they say and do.

 

After announcing his departure, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to reach an agreement with opposition leaders so that his government would survive a few more weeks in Parliament, Radio-Canada has learned.

Sources said the day after announcing he would resign on Monday, the prime minister personally called the leaders of the New Democratic Party and the Bloc Québécois.

He wanted to obtain a commitment from one or the other to vote in favour of the budget appropriations — a vote of confidence — at the end of March, once prorogation had passed, the sources said.

That vote of confidence would have ensured the survival of the government for a few more weeks and given the Liberal Party of Canada more time to elect its new leader.

But Trudeau's gambit faltered, with both the Bloc and the NDP refusing to back the embattled prime minister as they stood by their respective promises that they would bring down the government at the first opportunity.

 

The federal government announced new gun control measures Thursday, adding several hundred models and variants to its list of banned weapons.

"These firearms can no longer be legally used, sold or imported in Canada," Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters.

The announcement comes one day before the 35th anniversary of the massacre at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Radio-Canada first reported the news earlier Thursday.

The new measures, which are effective immediately, list more than 300 makes and models of assault-style firearms as prohibited weapons.

There will be an amnesty period until Oct. 30 of next year for current owners to comply with the ban. The new models will be part of the government's planned buy-back program — the program still has not collected a single gun.

Edit: According to Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc, the list of newly banned guns is currently unavailable and its exact date of release is undefined.

The RCMP stated that the list of banned guns would be available "very shortly". Exactly where the list of banned guns would be available to read was not disclosed.

Edit 2: List of banned guns is at this link

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