[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Partly. Their largest shareholder is RBI, which is Brazilian-American-Canadian. Head office is in First Canadian Place in Toronto. The terms of the deal that RBI cut to buy them has the Canadian government requiring them to keep most of their office side of things in Canada.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

No, they're a big box store, not associated with a mall like a department store.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not a precedent -- this has already happened several times. John Turner was PM in 1984 without having a seat. Mackenzie King won an election and became PM all while not being an MP in 1926. He was even a seat-less PM for a couple of months again in 1945.

Prior to the convention of standing for election soon after becoming PM being a hard-and-fast thing, John A. McDonald was in a similar position at Confederation in 1867, and so were two more 19th-century PMs, Abbott and Bowell.

Given the way that the Conservatives blew several conventions out of the water last time they were in power (proroguing Parliament inappropriately, and refusing to allow a coalition second crack at forming a government after an election) I agree it would be a good idea to make this a law. But ringing an alarm bell over Carney specifically is a bit too much. The Liberals are already talking about which back-bencher will resign and Carney run: somewhere in the West Island of Montreal looks like a likely candidate as they are super-safe Liberal seats.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I haven't been able to confirm precisely, but the Midori browser appears to be from Spain or at least Europe. Their website only comes in English/Español and the only events they have listed as attending have been in Germany. It's Gecko-based, so it's "Firefox-ish". It also takes Firefox add-ins, which is nice.

I've been using it for a couple weeks now and it's been working fine. Spotify hiccups on it, but that's the only site I go to regularly that doesn't like it.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There's not a lot, but if you're willing to look at "Not American" rather than "Canadian" there's a few.

Daily software, I've been using Switzerland's kSuite 's free tier for about a week, for emails and a Google Docs/Sheets replacement. It's been fine so far.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Good thing he didn't throw his drinking problem overboard instead.

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The song is from the So I Married an Axe MURDERer soundtrack.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by pauldrye@lemm.ee to c/connectasong@lemmy.world

A double connection: Nouvelle Vague use Bossa nova rhythms on most of their tracks (though this one is more country). And Martin Gore of Depeche Mode does the backup vocals on this cover of a song that he wrote.

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Hole - Miss World (www.youtube.com)

Courtney Love was briefly the vocalist for Faith No More, before they became famous.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

There's a part of Canada that's south of Crescent City, California.

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A Shelley Homosapien naturally leads to a Funky Homosapien.

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Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by pauldrye@lemm.ee to c/connectasong@lemmy.world

The drummer on the previous song, Stuart Elliot, would go on to be one of Bush's preferred drummers and played on this track. Besides this one he drummed on "Running Up That Hill", "Wuthering Heights" and most of her other singles too.

He also played on a number of other well-known 80s songs: Paul McCartney's "No More Lonely Nights", Alan Parsons Project's "Eye in the Sky", and...uh...Kenny Rogers' "Morning Desire". I guess you can't win them all.

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In the 1970s and 80s the inhabitants of Chelsea in London were called Sloane Rangers -- a UK equivalent of "preppy".

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"The fervor over San Francisco’s glorious new baseball park was cresting. It didn’t matter that the first game was delayed several weeks by a tough winter. When Opening Day at Ewing Field came on May 16, 1914, thousands of fans traversed up to Lone Mountain and poured into their new baseball home."

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by pauldrye@lemm.ee to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world

This flint axe was found in 1912 in West Tofts, a now-abandoned village in the UK between Cambridge and Norwich, It was made by a Homo heidelbergensis or possibly a Neanderthal, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago.

This kind of tool is fairly common throughout western Europe and Africa, but this specimen is unique for having a Cretaceous-era fossil of a spiny oyster in the centre that suggests the axe's maker wanted the shell on it as an adornment.

It's kept in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and you can see more details on their web site.

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Ash - Kung Fu (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 months ago by pauldrye@lemm.ee to c/connectasong@lemmy.world

Kung Fu Fighting to Kung Fu. Not a major hit on release but made some waves after it was used in the end credits and bloopers of Jackie Chan's US breakthrough Rumble In the Bronx. The fighting noises at the start are a sample of Sammo Hung.

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Both songs are produced by Brian Burton AKA Danger Mouse.

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Feist - 1234 (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 months ago by pauldrye@lemm.ee to c/connectasong@lemmy.world

Previous song opens its lyrics with 4 3, 2, 1, so let's go the other way now. I resisted the urge to post her Sesame Street version.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To Jagger and Richards in particular. They ceded the song-writing credit back to Richard Ashcroft in 2019.

If you haven't heard the song he sampled it from it's pretty blatant (starts from 0:18 and just keeeeeps going). And I'm speaking as someone who loves "Bittersweet Symphony".

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago
[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

He's holding a bomb, so I'm guessing he accidentally threw one and blew up the crops where the empty tilled land is around them.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

My mother's cat stares for food from one side of her chair and then, after being fed, stares from the other side of the chair because that is clearly a different kitty who has not been fed yet.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Please remember that the Void™ is for screaming into and the Abyss™ is for staring into. Staring into the Void™ is a breach of your licensing agreement.

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