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What opinions do you have that you consider (shallow && pedantic)?
  • You're incorrect, "expresso" in French is pronounced /ɛk.spʁɛ.so/.

    I'm a snobby barista, so I stick to the more Italian-like prononciation even when speaking French, but the French word expresso is pronounced as its written.

  • Pierre Poilievre calls supervised consumption sites 'drug dens'
  • It's wild how conservatives constantly have the worst takes on absolutely everything. It'd be funny if I weren't so worried. How they always end up having whichever opinion is furthest away from scientific consensus and/or human decency is actually absurd. You'd think they'd at least occasionally end up having a few reasonable, well thought-out views.

  • Summer plans
  • I'm mostly planning on working, because I need to afford rent and groceries.

    If I'm lucky, I might try to get some time off and do a small bicycle tour in PEI.

  • How do we disincentize car ownership?
  • People who know history are aware that "15 minute cities" were the norm before car-centric infrastructure appeared.

  • Educate me on French Pressing (2 specific questions)
  • I'll echo someone else's suggestion of trying out James Hoffman's French press method. I get pretty clean cups while still retaining that oily goodness.

  • What song you can't believe you were singing as a kid and nobody stopped you?
  • Cigaro - System of a Down

    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.

  • Aeropress has easily become my favourite way to brew coffee ☕
  • It's the risk of knocking it over and making a huge fucking mess, it's thrilling.

  • Canada needs proportional representation federally
  • 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] »

  • How are you all planning to watch the 2024 Olympics?
  • 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.

  • Bidet users, how do you dry your ass afterward?
  • 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.

  • What YouTubers did you used to watch back then but not anymore?
  • 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...

  • 24 June 1979
  • Jim Davis sold it as authentic Garfield™ memorabilia and quickly replaced it.

  • Living in tents on the beach and surviving on sea water. This is what Gazans go through every day
  • Birth control seems like a slightly less pressing issue than an ongoing genocide. You're coming off as extremely callous here.

  • vaping
  • 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.

  • The stats don't lie
  • I blame Nabisco.

  • New York’s Fat Beach Day gives plus-size people a space to be themselves
  • Fat-shaming is definitely an issue across the political spectrum, unfortunately.

  • vaping
  • 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.

  • bc.ctvnews.ca Air Canada's chatbot gave a B.C. man the wrong information. Now, the airline has to pay for the mistake

    Air Canada has been ordered to compensate a B.C. man because its chatbot gave him inaccurate information.

    Air Canada's chatbot gave a B.C. man the wrong information. Now, the airline has to pay for the mistake

    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.

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    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.

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    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)

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    Marqueur de sexe X sur le permis de conduire : la SAAQ dit oui, mais à une seule personne

    ici.radio-canada.ca Un marqueur de sexe X, mais pour 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.

    Un marqueur de sexe X, mais pour une seule personne

    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.

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    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 :)

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    Linux 101 stuff. Questions are encouraged, noobs are welcome! @lemmy.world Evkob @lemmy.ca

    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.

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    ptitbelliveau @lemmy.ca Evkob @lemmy.ca

    P'tit Belliveau Tour Dates just dropped

    L'nouvel album va sortir le 26 avril! J'suis déjà ben hyped pis j'ai mes tickets pour le premier soir à Moncton!

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    Blaine Higgs's election musings to cost taxpayers up to $1M

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    N.B. Power lost $43M last year, saw total debt increase to $5.4B

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    N.B. urged to consider interprovincial licensing of pathologists to deal with 'critical' shortage

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    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?

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    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.

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    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.

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    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”)

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    N.B. government reveals housing strategy, and rent cap isn't part of it

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    Corporations struggle to offer a fraction of what nature can provide 💕

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    Blaine Higgs drops 2 rebellious ministers in cabinet shuffle

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    theconversation.com As the Bank of Canada prepares for a digital Canadian dollar, democratic concerns loom large

    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.

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    Premier Higgs says he won't resign after calls for his removal

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    atlantic.ctvnews.ca Homeless advocate calls for $1B-investment in public housing

    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." ___

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