I am terribly jealous. Congratulations on finding a company with a (somewhat) sensible IT policy.

If possible I would avoid being anywhere densely populated in the Netherlands over New Years. The whole country loses their fucking minds, handing explosives to children as young as ten with the advice: “Go have fun in the street, kid”. Strangers shoot fireworks in every direction, at buildings, into the canals, at random strangers just trying to get to shelter.

When I lived there, my girlfriend and I would always book a holiday well out of town on NYE. It’s insane, and not in a fun way.

Have a look at this short video of some streets “before and after”. Hidalgo (the mayor) has given Paris a complete makeover. People are swimming in the Siene again!

As a persistent Green supporter voting in his riding, I’d be hard pressed not to vote for him.

“My Time at Portia”: it’s not exactly the best-coded game ive ever played (weird geometry and animation bugs, and some of the plots feel half-assed) but the world is big, and complicated, and there’s lots of crafting and relationships, and overall Good Vibes. I built a bus stop last night and married a nice girl who sells flowers. I recommend.

It’s currently on sale on GOG for €3.

This is nowhere near the average Debian update experience. Debian is favoured precisely for its stability and simplicity, so if youre getting stuff like this, it’s far from average.

Those errors look like file corruption. Maybe they were partially downloaded or written to a flakey disk, it’s hard to say. I’d also echo the other comment or that Kali (and honestly Debian) are not well suited for gaming due to the distro preference for Freely-licenced software and favouring stability vs quick releases.

It’s fine if you want to experiment and “swim against the current” to do a thing with a tool for which it’s not designed, but turn around and complain as if this is normal behaviour is either dishonest or outs you as someone who doesn’t have the experience required to make such a statement.

Your story kinda reminds me of this comic.

Here’s the link to the actual article. I get that you’re trying to do users a favour to bypass tracking at the original URL, but the Internet Archive is a Free service that shouldn’t be abused for link cleaning as it costs a lot of money to store and serve all this stuff and it’s meant as an “archive”, not an ad-blocking proxy.

I’m posting this in part because currently clicking that link errors it with a “too many requests” error. Let’s try to be a little kinder to the good guys, shall we?

If users wasnt a cleaner/safer/faster browsing experience, I recommend ditching Chrome for Firefox and getting the standard set of extensions: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc.

mainly due to the cost of fighting the summer’s wildfires.

When people say “we can’t afford to do X to combat global warming” what they’re really saying is that “doing X will be expensive for me. Let everyone else pay for it.”

Climate inaction is yet another case of socialising costs to benefit short-term profits for the few and we need to start talking about it like this.

Carney’s new pipeline plan is a classic case. He’s just racking up the cost of survival in the future so his rich friends can get richer right now. It’s theft.

Do you know how common it is for Israelis to conflate criticism of Israel with racism while they commit war crimes?

Conflating Jews with the IDF is a horrible, one might even argue antisemitic thing to do. They’re murderers and genociders and you shouldn’t be so quick to throw your lot in with them.

They should all be in prison.

Canadian in the UK here. It’s a disaster.

The NHS is treated like “medical for the poors”. If you can afford it, you get private cover and get treated faster by the same doctors sometimes even in the same hospitals.

So you get the same American bullshit: “sorry, that hospital is out of network” and “if your insurance deems this scan to be uncovered, you’ll be liable for a £12k fee. Sign here.” with the added bonus that tonnes of public money is sunk into a national system that’s being parasitised by private interests.

That alone would be bad enough, but the above model also ensures that support for spending on the NHS isn’t as politically attractive, because those with the money have a “fuck you, I got mine” mentality thanks to the private option.

If you want a healthy national health care system, the rich and upper class need to be standing in line with the poor for their health care.

And whose fault is that?

The recognition came amid an international push to end the violence that began with a Hamas-led attack in Israel that killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 others hostage on Oct. 7, 2023.

It’s just nuts that organisations like the CBC continue to parrot this sort of thing, like Gaza hasn’t been under violent occupation for generations.

Jesus, the discrepancy between the Green vote among the young and old is… horrifying.

They’re all on the high seas and they’re all excellent.

The Owl House is also fantastic. You can find the entire series on the high seas with little effort.

I finally got around to watching this, and it’s roughly what I expected: talented, passionate people wanting to do right by the world, being let down by the utter ineptitude of the people running the event (what the fuck was up with the sound???)

No matter how good the conversations were, this video never should have been permitted release. It makes these NDP look thoroughly amateur. A budget YouTuber has better presentation than this. If they can’t figure out how to showcase their ideas with the amount of polish befitting some rando on Tiktok, why should anyone lend them their vote?

I wanna say “duh”, but Canada really does appear way behind on this so maybe it is still a revelation for some?

Your math is waaaaay off. Let me help you.:

Let’s assume that you commute a rather conservative distance of just 25mi to work. That’s 50mi/day, 5 days/wk, plus let’s say half that over the weekend. Assuming an (again, generous) fuel efficiency for your truck at 25mpg, given a ballpark 300mi/week, that’s 12 gallons of fuel/week. The current average price of gas in the US is a remarkably low $3.071, and that adds up to $36.85/week.

Now consider the costs of maintenance. If you’ve really had zero problems in the last 20 years on a pickup truck (honestly this is far from average), you likely did an oil change every 3 months at the very least. These days it’ll run you about $100.

In terms of insurance, I asked this site for the average cost of insuring a Toyota pickup truck for one year: $1937. Let’s be grossly optimistic and pretend that those rates will never go up.

Initial cost: (Provided)                    = 11000.00
Fuel costs: (50 × 6 ÷ 25 × 3.071 × 52 × 20) = 38326.08
Oil changes: ($100 × 4 × 20)                =  8000.00
Insurance: (1937 × 20)                      = 38740.00
Parking:                                    = ?
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Total                                         96066.08

Excluding the cost of parking, the purchase of your miracle never-needs-repair truck if purchased today would be roughly $100,000. Note also how very conservative these values are. It’s entirely possible that your real costs are well above what I’ve stated here.

The total cost of the rental was $1000 plus fuel costs, so using our above figures, that’s a grand total of $1042.99 assuming you drove it roughly 50mi/day for all 7 days of the week. That’s assuming that you don’t opt for the much lower rates that appear to be available to you in the area of $250 - $350/week.

So, if you didn’t own a car and instead only rented one when you needed to “move a couch”, you would save just over $95,000. In other words, your insistence that you absolutely must own your own vehicle has cost you the equivalent of a downpayment on a house.