lobut

@ lobut @lemmy.ca

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3 yr. ago

After watching it, it looks like a non-issue. Clean Energy Canada agrees with no forced labour but disagrees with blanket banning China and going for a targeted approach on Chinese companies that don't follow -- like the Clean Energy Canada lady said about iPhones and everything else.

How convenient it's supposed to be a "good first step" when we've walked a goddamn mile in this already. Let's do this when we need it for this specific use-case and not a moment beforehand.

1d ago

Fox News cuts off reporter describing Trumpian foreknowledge of shooting attack

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lobut @lemmy.ca 1d ago

Ignoring whether it's a conspiracy or not. The right can thank themselves for sowing these. I mean, they somehow got people to believe that Biden didn't win the election with no evidence. Let's see how this one goes!

2d ago

Free soup

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2d ago

In case anyone is feeling a bit thirsty, I watched this the other night about what someone did with puddle water:

https://youtu.be/eUtJr2D8vMA

It's a very calming watch and you get to see how many organisms live in there.

3d ago

Pizza Cake on trans kids

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lobut @lemmy.ca 3d ago

Yeah, for some reason there's some real moral outrage required specifically for pizzacake. It's not enough to dislike her comic but it seems like they need to vice signal as well.

3d ago

wish i wasn't 3 15 years ago

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lobut @lemmy.ca 3d ago

I remember when a meme was coined by Richard Dawkins before the Internet meme became the standard.

3d ago

'Why does he keep speaking English to me?' Chinese woman scolds AirAsia crew for not speaking Mandarin

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lobut @lemmy.ca 3d ago

People being surprised that bad people can come from other countries is a weird take on US exceptionalism that I didn't expect.

4d ago

Wife changing money

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lobut @lemmy.ca 4d ago

I've just read Easy Money and then Number Go Up ... it's like built into the community that you should DYOR (do your own research) and getting scammed is like a college hazing ritual. "I guess I should have studied more" it's weird how people feel as though consumer rights and protections are no longer applicable with this ...

4d ago

Noah Hawley On 'Alien: Earth' Season 2, 'Far Cry' & 'Fargo' Future

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lobut @lemmy.ca 4d ago

It felt like it should have been the first episode. It did kind of break up the show itself midway and as I really hate kids in shows and I hate adults pretending to be kids even more ... having an Alien-ish episode made me re-engage for a bit but you're right in that I don't know why I should care.

(I can't seem to get Spoiler tags working on Connect, so SPOILERS BELOW!)

spoiler

You get to see to Boy Cavalier (or whatever) bribe the guy on the spaceship which is a "sort of" reveal ... then you think about it and it's kinda dumb. The guy has to crash the spaceship and he's not likely to survive? Also, it'd be a better reveal if we thought Barefoot was like an honest dude, you know? Then his betrayal would mean something. Instead when I watch it, I'm like, "wow, that's a zero latency call happening between Earth and Space".

4d ago

Atlantic writer sued by Kash Patel says she’s been ‘inundated’ with new sources

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lobut @lemmy.ca 4d ago

From what I can see ...?

There's a movie called Slumdog Millionaire where it's a guy that comes up from the slums and enters the "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" gameshow.

He changed the word "slum" to "rum" because he drinks booze and I guess enters the Whitehouse.

I don't think the poster thought more than the wordplay but others are tying in other class and cultural aspects of the movie and applying it this instance. Others are saying name calling is sad.

I'm tired, it's a Friday night and I'm figuring out whether to study more on how to get better observability on my k8s cluster or just do more agentic programming stuff because my director told me this week that AI is going to take over everything and we're just going to write JIRA tickets and let the AI bots code and we're not allowed to code any more and I feel like I need rum myself to deal with this internal struggle I'm dealing with.