Mezmerize was one of the first albums I ever owned around age 9. I knew almost every song by heart and would constantly sing along to them in the car. I have a vivid memory of singing this song in particular in the parking lot of the local mall when my dad finally decided to tell me what "cock" meant.
It's the risk of knocking it over and making a huge fucking mess, it's thrilling.
Then they did some consultations with the public and said that not enough people wanted it.
Worse than that, Trudeau straight up said "People wanted electoral reform because they were unsatisfied under the Harper government, now that we're in power everything is fine and people don't care about electoral reform anymore."
Source article in Le Devoir (French), I'll quote the relevant part here:
« Sous M. [Stephen] Harper, il y avait tellement de gens mécontents du gouvernement et de son approche que les gens disaient “ça prend une réforme électorale pour ne plus avoir de gouvernement qu’on n’aime pas”. Or, sous le système actuel, ils ont maintenant un gouvernement avec lequel ils sont plus satisfaits. Et la motivation de vouloir changer le système électoral est moins percutante [ou moins criante] »
If your VPN has Canadian servers, CBC always has a very good website for watching the Olympics and IIRC you only need a Canadian IP address to access it.
I bought the fancier model that can connect to the sink for hot water and never bothered setting it up, you get used to the cold water fast enough.
I honestly like it, a blast of cold water up the ass perks me up better than coffee in the mornings.
Contrapoints and PhilosophyTube were two big ones
Care to share why you stopped watching their channels? Because without context, the only potential reason that comes to mind is that they're both trans women...
Birth control seems like a slightly less pressing issue than an ongoing genocide. You're coming off as extremely callous here.
Another issue is how much easier it is to up your nicotine content. When my little brother started vaping, he went up to the equivalent of a pack of smoke's worth of nicotine per day within a couple of months.
Whereas I, who got addicted to nicotine the old fashioned way, took a couple years before I was smoking a pack a day, because otherwise I would have been coughing my lungs out.
Fat-shaming is definitely an issue across the political spectrum, unfortunately.
Vapes are as tightly controlled as cigarettes (at least here in Canada).
The issue is that cigarettes aren't as tightly regulated as you'd think. Pretty much every town has that one spot where local teens know they won't get carded for nicotine products.
Calling him a "cocksucker" is frankly insulting to people who perform the act of sucking cock. Musk is way too selfish to perform the generous and loving act that is fellatio.
Because a lot of Canadians are racist, also people have somehow been convinced that the housing crisis and the lousy job market are the fault of foreign students and immigrants rather than the fault of landlords and other disgustingly rich people.
People in this comment section being shining examples of why some fat people would feel uncomfortable at the beach.
On another note fuck Trudeau for running again, essentially guaranteeing that Canada will have a fucking Con gov't
I definitely don't disagree with you here, but on the other hand, I don't imagine the Liberals pushing a candidate that wouldn't just bring them even further right of centre...
From the GrapheneOS website
8th generation Pixels provide a minimum guarantee of 7 years of support from launch instead of the previous 5 year minimum guarantee
As for issues, the only one I've heard really people complain about is the lack of Google Pay. I've never used it so it doesn't make any difference for me. Apparently, some banking apps have issues on GrapheneOS too, but both my banks' apps work fine.
There's just under 3 million francophones in Canada outside Québec, and only around 47% of people in Québec are French-English bilingual (which is still the highest rate of any province, to be fair).
There are francophone communities all across the country, from BC to PEI, from Yukon to southern Ontario. There's also a substantial percentage of people in Québec who are unilingual francophones.
Once, I was in a sandwich shop in the Netherlands, ordering in English (as I don't speak Dutch). The fellow behind the counter had excellent English. When he heard my friend and I speak to each other in French, he switched to French, and it was nearly as good as his English.
That's a guy working in a sandwich shop, speaking at least three languages rather fluently. Heck, he probably speaks a bit of German too, seeing as we were close to the border with Germany. It blew my mind as a Canadian who's used to people being stubbornly unilingual.
Speaking more than one language is so cool. It's good for your brain, it helps one understand the structure of language better, it opens up doors to new cultures and ideas. I truly don't understand why so many anglophones (and, if I'm being honest, a good number of francophones in Québec) are so opposed to the idea of bilingualism.
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Une fois, j'étais dans une shop à sandwich aux Pays-Bas, passant ma commande en anglais (étant donné que je ne parle pas le néerlandais). Le gars derrière le comptoir parlait très bien l'anglais. Quand il a entendu mon amie et moi parler français ensemble, il a changé à un français presque aussi bon que son anglais.
C'est un gars qui fait des sandwich, qui parle couramment un minimum de trois langues. Crisse, il parle probablement aussi un peu l'allemand vu qu'on était proche de la frontière avec l'Allemagne. Ça m'a ébloui en tant que canadien•ne habitué•e aux gens qui s'entêtent à ne parler qu'une langue.
Parler plus qu'une langue, c'est tellement cool. C'est bon pour le cerveau, ça t'aide à mieux comprendre les structures de la langue, ça ouvre des portes à de nouvelles idées et cultures. Je ne comprend réellement pas pourquoi tant d'anglophones (et, pour être honnête, un bon nombre de francophones du Québec) sont si opposé•es à l'idée du bilinguisme.
Ban them for their actions, but not for Minority Report Pre-Crime.
It's fascinating that you consider participation in the events of Jan 6 a "political view" rather than an action.
Air Canada has been ordered to compensate a B.C. man because its chatbot gave him inaccurate information.
Jake Moffatt was booking a flight to Toronto and asked the bot about the airline's bereavement rates – reduced fares provided in the event someone needs to travel due to the death of an immediate family member.
Moffatt said he was told that these fares could be claimed retroactively by completing a refund application within 90 days of the date the ticket was issued, and submitted a screenshot of his conversation with the bot as evidence supporting this claim.
The airline refused the refund because it said its policy was that bereavement fare could not, in fact, be claimed retroactively.
Air Canada argued that it could not be held liable for information provided by the bot.
Legault sur l'utilisation de l'anglais auprès des jeunes
Lien Streamable pour ceux qui ne veulent pas suivre le lien Twitter pour visionner le vidéo. Celui-ci expire 2 jours après la publication.
Patrick Déry:
>« Il y a des jeunes, malheureusement, qui trouvent ça cool de sortir des mots an anglais ou de se parler en anglais. » > >Manifestement, pas juste les jeunes! 🤣 > >PS. Priceless : le visage de M. Legault quand il cherche à comprendre sa bourde.
Federal cap on international students is unfair, N.B. says
New Brunswick universities are scrambling for information after the federal government announced new caps on international students, set to come into effect for the next school year.
Article en français (Acadie Nouvelle)
Marqueur de sexe X sur le permis de conduire : la SAAQ dit oui, mais à une seule personne
Cette exception faite par la Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec pour le permis de conduire d'une personne non binaire soulève des enjeux d'égalité.
La Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) se retrouve dans une position délicate. Radio-Canada a appris qu’une personne non binaire vient d’obtenir un permis de conduire avec le marqueur de sexe X, une première au Québec. Pourtant, la SAAQ s’abstient de faire le changement pour les autres personnes qui ont formulé exactement la même demande.
[Help] Audio devices disappear after reboot (EndeavourOS, Pipewire)
Hello! I've posted this a few weeks ago on /c/[email protected] but I didn't get much of an answer, I hope it's okay to post it here as well.
I use 3 audio devices on my computer: my monitor's speakers (through HDMI), my headphones (through line-out/built-in audio) and my microphone (line-in/built-in audio). They all work fine, but when I reboot my headphones / line-out don't seem to get recognized at all.
The only solution I've found thus far is to re-install alsa-utils twice after rebooting. Upon the first reinstall, my line-out / headphones reappear but my line-in mic disappears, only to come back after the second reinstall. Technically my sound works perfectly fine after this, but it feels extremely dumb to reinstall a package twice after every reboot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance :)
My audio device configuration disappears after boot-up
Hi there! For context, I'm on EndeavourOS using Pipewire.
So like the title says, my audio configuration works until I reboot my PC and then I need to fix it. I'm using both my CPU's internal audio (to power a microphone and headphones through 3.5mm audio jacks) as well as my GPU (to send audio to my monitor through HDMI). I never use the headphones and monitor speakers concurrently, I switch between them in the device manager as needed.
When I reboot, only my HDMI audio and microphone appear in my device manager. The only fix I've found so far is to sudo pacman -S alsa-utils, which makes my internal audio reappear but makes my microphone disappear. I then re-reinstall alsa-utils which makes the microphone reappear, giving me access to all three of my devices.
Anyone have any leads on how to permanently fix this? My system still works, but it feels really silly re-installing alsa-utils twice after every reboot.
Any recommendations for an open-source RSS widget?
I've been using Feeder on my phone, and while I quite like the app, I would love a widget for my RSS feeds on my launcher.
Are there any apps that include a widget, or standalone widgets, but that are also FOSS?
Quel est votre accent français préféré?
Une des choses que j'adore du français, c'est d'entendre l'immense diversité dans la façon dont nous parlons. Quel accent vous a le plus marqué? Perso, j'avais un prof du Cameroun à l'université et je n'ai jamais écouté autant attentivement dans un cours, son accent était similaire à celui dans ce vidéo.
Un autre préféré c'est l'accent cajun de la Louisiane, en voici un exemple qui parle aussi de la culture de la francophonie en Louisiane. Je suis francophone de l'Acadie (Nouveau-Brunswick) et c'est intéressant de voir les similarités entre nos accents malgré l'influence intense de l'anglais en Louisiane.
Want a more accurate number of Canada's homeless population? Try counting health data
A new method for counting homeless people is offering a clearer look at the magnitude of the social issue, with preliminary results indicating the country's homeless population could be three times higher than current estimates.
Bikes and beer, name a better combo
Bike on a beer can on a bike.
Fun fact: Radler is the Bavarian dialect word for Radfahrer (“cyclist”)
While a digital national currency does have the potential to mitigate key financial issues, we cannot ignore the democratic risks such a currency could introduce without safeguards.
Maritime housing groups are calling for a $1 billion public housing project and a national strategy to help people living rough.
Traduction en français (DeepL)
Les groupes de logement des Maritimes demandent un projet de logement public d'un milliard de dollars et une stratégie nationale pour aider les personnes vivant dans la rue.
Cheryl Forchuck, chercheuse au Homeless Hub, a voyagé dans chaque province et territoire du Canada pour tenter de trouver des solutions à l'itinérance et a partagé ce qu'elle a appris lors d'un forum organisé jeudi au Cap-Breton.
"Le Canada est le seul pays industrialisé au monde qui n'a pas de responsabilité en matière de logement et d'itinérance au niveau national", a déclaré Mme Forchuk.
Selon elle, le nombre de sans-abri a augmenté dans tout le pays.
"Nous assistons à la prolifération des campements, des personnes vivant à l'extérieur parce que le système n'a pas la capacité nécessaire.
Bien que le problème des sans-abri soit généralement traité au niveau local, M. Forchuk estime qu'il s'agit d'une crise nationale et qu'elle doit être abordée en tant que telle.
"J'aimerais qu'une stratégie nationale sur le sans-abrisme soit pleinement mise en œuvre", a déclaré M. Forchuk.
Jeudi également, le Carrefour du logement du Nouveau-Brunswick a demandé à la province de financer la construction de 10 000 nouveaux logements sociaux.
"Au Nouveau-Brunswick, nous demandons au gouvernement provincial d'aider à soutenir le secteur du logement communautaire en investissant 1 milliard de dollars au cours des cinq prochaines années", a déclaré Mylene Vincent, de Housing Hub of New Brunswick.
Selon Mme Vincent, le marché locatif de la province a perdu environ 9 000 logements dont les loyers sont inférieurs à 750 $ depuis 2016
"Nous ne trouverons pas de solutions tant que nous ne considérerons pas nos populations sans-abri comme faisant partie de notre communauté, comme nos voisins, comme des personnes." ___
All of Sid's toys are so gender
[Image description: A screenshot of a tweet, with a picture attached. The tweet by user @TomZohar reads: "ELEMENTAL features Pixar's first nonbinary character" oh so we're just ignoring this legend's impact??
The attached image shows a screenshot from Pixar's Toy Story of one of Sid's toys. A toy fishing rod has had the legs of a doll with high heels attached where the fishing reel would typically be.]