[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 hours ago

Why Lemmy/The Fediverse is so good: you can watch the world fall part from dozens and dozens of apps!

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

There can't be any corruption in the process if the process doesn't move! taps forehead

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Even if it is presented more mildly in context, I hardly see it as a shortcoming. Sure, someone that doesn't just go along with whatever people are saying makes one's job difficult but it can lead to better outcomes.

Perhaps some would want to work with Trump and Vance instead so that every brief will have to be in the form of a picture book?

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

Bring your best self, instead of your best caricature impression of somebody else you think would be successful.

The goal is just to get to know each other and talk a bit, and see if you both think that hanging out with each other more would be fun. Frame it like that and you might feel a little less anxious or awkward.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 69 points 20 hours ago

What the... this is so infuriating to a railfan. It's like they are trying to attach a 2x viewer multiplier by putting Elon-related keyword in it when Tesla has so little to do with it.

It's not a Tesla train, nor a battery from Tesla, nor operated by Tesla, not even a new route (but granted an expanded timetable)

I wish media hyped trains like this in general and not limited to implicitly attributing it to Musk (who made hyperloop specifically to distract from High Speed Rail, mind you)... "GIGA TRAIN brings commuters to work", "Hyper train first electric regional service in California - you won't believe the capacity!"

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

The Harris campaign knows how to clapback real hard, that's for sure. The Trump campaign's words, even with all the relevant context included, speak for themselves.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 day ago

I see another person ascribed to the Alito School of Deliberately Misinterpreting Legal Text To Suit Your (and your donors') Needs.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, with electoral college that strategy is acceptable... buuuuuut...

DON'T sleep for a second on the downballot races, for House Rep., Senator, Governor, state positions, ballot measures (including on a woman's right to an abortion), and everything else applicable to you on Election Day. DON'T stay home even if you don't like your choice of President/VP or that your state won't affect who will reside in the Oval Office.

Any of these other races can be close. Each has a piece of a government that has big effects on many of the issues you care about.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Ms. Leavitt, why don't you go pay NY Judge Merchan a visit, and tell him that?

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What I always find crazy is the cost of pre-natal, delivery and post-partum healthcare in the US. Barely any politician talks about it and no parents seem to talk about it until slapped in the face with the hospital bill. Even with insurance it's on average a US$2800 downpayment...

If the US wants more babies, I think fixing this is a good start. Hilariously, a budgeting post on the cost in Canada says it's CA$10-15k but that is the total expected amount to raise a child all the way to 18 years old, which is in stark contrast to the US one looking 3 months ahead at best.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago

Sucks that part of Germany is falling asleep again.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago

Pokemon Sex is too on the nose and not suitable for all ages, sooo...

Pokemon Mate sounds friendly enough to be marketable as an app.

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submitted 3 days ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/usa@midwest.social

This is a site that has summarized and cited points from the Project2025 document (with assistance from Google's Gemini AI algorithm along with manual fact-checking) categorized by topic.

If you want a concise and accessible set of reasons on why a Trump/Republican presidency would be bad for the US, to help explain important issues to friends and family without sounding like a conspiracy theorist or a political savant, this resource may help.

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submitted 4 days ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/rail@feddit.uk

Shadow Great British Railways created as legislation to end private operating contracts makes progress.

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submitted 5 days ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

Hey everyone, just a reminder in case you hadn't seen it or forgot from months ago, the Canadian official e-petition is at this link as part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign. Maybe we can get some clarity from our government on what our rights as consumers are when buying access to video games.

Signature collection ends at 9:30am ET/6:30am PT on Thursday 5 Sept 2024.

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submitted 1 week ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/quebec@lemmy.ca

L'enquête par ISDE Canada sera ouverte jusqu'au 26 septembre 2024.

Les Canadiens peuvent envoyer leurs commentaires à l’adresse suivante : https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/s/RTR?lang=FR

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submitted 1 week ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

I figured that right to repair is a topic many of us are interested in. The survey below by ISED Canada, a department of the Government of Canada, is open until September 26, 2024.

Canadians can provide their input at the following link: https://ised-isde.survey-sondage.ca/f/s/RTR

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submitted 1 week ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

Video shared from a Mastodon user.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Some Lemmy user at one point had asked about a "multi-paste" feature, if there was a way to use keyboard shortcuts to display multiple clipboard items and copy/paste them out at will (this user mentioned similar to RTS games they like to play). ~~If someone can find that post, can you notify them and direct them here, please? I'm having trouble locating it but I recollect that it was within the last 3 months.~~ Edit: I found the post!

Somehow this was stuck in my mind when I accidentally pressed a keyboard shortcut, that showed my last 5 copied items. This isn't exactly what the user was looking for but I thought I'd publicize it here.

If you use Fcitx (because you need multi-language input) from the fcitx5 packages, then you may already have installed the clipboard add-on. You can use fcitx with just one keyboard layout. By default, it's activated by Ctrl+semicolon and shows the 5 last entries, but the number can be configured.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/politic@lemmy.world

I wanted to get the Lemmy community's opinions on this, because I made a comment 2 months ago, wishing for someone with these qualities to replace Joe Biden who at the time wasn't considering dropping out. I will be holding myself accountable to my pledges.

Thanks to everyone who answered on !politics@lemmy.world, but only links are allowed so it was removed. I did follow through with my donation to charity regardless.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27490241

CN and CPKC locked out employees across Canada on Thursday 22 Aug 2024, due to a labour dispute between them and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/trains@lemmy.ml

CN and CPKC locked out employees across Canada on Thursday 22 Aug 2024, due to a labour dispute between them and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

The edition is called: "Take The A Train 9 Version 5.0 Final Edition Complete Pack DX+"

Train Construction Pack Steam Page

Unfortunately, the ridiculously titled combo pack's Steam page appears to be region locked to Japan, the DVD version is also Japan/Japanese only.

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