Yeah, it was funny teaching my grandmother to use a computer… She couldn’t use a mouse, but she typed really fast!

I’m 35 and my daughter is 15. When I’ll be 37, 16-year-olds will litterally be younger than my actual kid. This is all kinds of fucked up.

Usually it’s the same price

Notable exception to this would be the Spigen phone case I recently bought. It’s 20.99 on Amazon, but 39.99 on Spigen’s website.

It’s true for a lot of other things, though, Amazon especially here in Canada hasn’t been the cheapest place to buy stuff in quite some time.

It’d probably come in handy if you started sports shooting. I do Olympic-style air pistol shooting, and part of what I’m currently training on is focusing my eye on the forward sight, not the target.

What’s the problem with his age? It’s about time we start to replace the fucking boomers in government.

There’s a lot of problems with Doge, but age isn’t one of them.

Yeah, I’m with you here. Parties are not a fundamental part of our electoral system, they’re just a way for politicians to organize themselves. In theory you could get rid of all of them tomorrow morning and our institutions would still work: We’d elect MPs, which then elect a Prime Minister, who nominates the cabinet, etc.

I’d prefer having all MPs being still beholden to their constituents; “floating” MPs couldn’t be held accountable. Also, could an independent get elected to a “floating” seat? If not, that doesn’t seem fair to me.

Ranked ballot is easy to use (just put the candidates in order), easy to understand, and makes sure everyone’s preferences are taken into account when selecting an MP.

Story time. A couple years ago, we were sailing off the US east coast around South Carolina, and as you do in that situation, we were trailing a fishing line behind the boat in hopes of catching something. Suddenly, we were surrounded by dolphins giving us a show, jumping in the waves, playing around the bow, all that jazz. The kids were delighted, we were taking pictures and videos and generally enjoying ourselves when we noticed some splashing a little distance behind the boat. We pulled up the fishing line only to find that the lure and tackle were missing. Looks like the sneaky fuckers were distracting us while they stole our dinner!

Adrienne Cowan from Seven Spires and Melissa Bonny from Ad Infinitum

Saw them last year with Kamelot, it was an amazing show. I didn’t know them before but I’m a fan now!

Millenial Québécois here. Never been a souverainist myself, but I’ve been voting Québec Solidaire if only because I could get behind their societal project. Give me a good project and I’ll probably go along with souveraineté if it’s required for said project. As an end itself, though? That’s where you lose me.

Anyway, all this to say that yeah, I feel closer to the ROC than I’ve ever been. I find myself cheering for Ford when he slaps export tariffs, and I’m reading up on Mark Carney and so far I’m liking most of what I see so I’ll probably vote Liberal next election.

I think there should be a ratcheting structure, like an additional 5.1% everytime it’s mentioned publicly by his regime.

I liked Freeland because Russia hates her. I also think she did a good job handling Trump in the NAFTA re-negotiation 4 years ago. Both her and Carney were very good options for Canada, IMO.

In the near future: Journalists use AI to turn 1 or 2 sentences into a full article. Meanwhile, readers use AI to summarize long articles into 1 or 2 sentences.

That’s not US politics. And the rule is temporary; the goal is just to get a breather after a months-long marathon of hearing about nothing else on Lemmy.

Coming at this from the JS world… Why the heck would 2 projects share the same library? Seems like a pretty stupid idea that opens you up to a ton of issues, so what, you can save 200kb on you hard drive?

I’m no Python expert either and yeah, from an outsider’s perspective it seems needlessly confusing. easy_install that’s never been easy, pip that should absolutely be put on a Performance Improvement Plan, and now this venv nonsense.

You can criticize javascript’s ridiculous dependencies all you want (left-pad?), but one thing that they absolutely got right is how to manage them. Everything’s in node_modules and that’s it. Yeah, you might get eleven copies of left-pad on your system, but you know what you NEVER get? Version conflicts between projects you’re working on.

I’m not from the US and my Lemmy feed has been absolutely FLOODED with US political news for MONTHS. Yesterday’s vote was the bushel that broke the camel’s back, and I definitely understand non-political communities not wanting to be even more flooded with US politics than they already are.

Go complain about your broken country in politics-oriented communities, please, and let us talk about other, less despair-inducing subjects.

Not a question, just words of encouragement from a dad who was in a similar situation. My oldest daughter was born when I was 20; I was in my third semester of university at the time. We managed to make it work, but my wife basically dropped her studies and became a full-time mom. It was a bit hard financially during university, but I managed to make it work and I graduated on time with pretty good grades, and I found a pretty good job right after. We were already planning on having kids (obviously after our studies), so we decided to keep going and we had a second daughter 2 years later (I was still in university at the time).

My oldest turns 15 next month, and she’s growing up to be a very well-adjusted, gorgeous woman. She makes me very proud. Well, all 4 of my daughters make me proud (yes, I’m still with their mom. We married after university; there’s no “children out of wedlock” stigma here).

My grandmother used to have one. I never realized how it worked before that video, but I was always fascinated by the fact that the bread would lower itself

Hay is basically cut grass, straw is the part leftover from harvesting wheat and taking the seeds. Both are baled, but they’re used for different things. Hay is food for any animals that eat grass like horses and cows, buy straw is not edible so it’s used as bedding.

Says right in the article that the rate is 9%, and they give up a 10% stake in the company.

I got better terms than that on a CAR loan last month…