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  • Homebuyers sue previous owners after discovering violent death occurred years earlier

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  • Are they claiming that the event has given the property a bad reputation that reduces its value by that amount? I suppose those are plausible grounds for a lawsuit. I can't think of any other way a death on the property several years ago could cause damage to the new owners. Surely they're not claiming that the house is haunted (and if that's the issue, I can imagine the judge being extremely unamused).

  • Greece to ban anonymity on social media

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  • anonymity enables greater levels of toxicity

    No. No, it doesn't. Various fora that have required real names and IDs over the years have proven this—people are quite willing to be extremely toxic even if their real names are attached to every post.

  • Are cheap Chinese EVs worth the moral cost? Witness stunned by questions ơn forced labour in China - (video, 4 min)

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  • If it has a screen in it, it also contains basic electronic components—capacitors, resistors, diodes, etc. And unless something's changed in the last few years, those are mostly made in China.

  • Poll suggests Canadians want Carney government focused on affordability in next year

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  • Unfortunately, the US' behaviour is a significant contributor to costs here going up (although not the only one), so it's difficult to decouple them.

  • Are cheap Chinese EVs worth the moral cost? Witness stunned by questions ơn forced labour in China - (video, 4 min)

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  • I'm sure that there is an American auto company's PR arm clinging to the bottom of the rock and hoping that it can scuttle away before anyone flips it over.

    (Seriously, anything with a screen in it likely has some parts that were made by Chinese forced labour, including whatever device you're reading this on.)

  • The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend

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  • Feeding machines to get a pat on the head from the bosses is seriously fucked.

    If the tokens are the company's property and not yours, I guess it's no different from paying for things with play money. (Or maybe the fake money they burn for the dead in China would be a better analogy.)

  • China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US

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  • Pretty sure they've been doing fine without the US market for years.

    (It's going to be interesting to see what happens when BYD sets up dealerships just north of the border, since Canada has given them the okay to import a certain number of vehicles per year.)

  • The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage's Carefree Life in Another World | Anime Announced (Teaser Visual)

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  • I hope they cut the "comic relief" shoutacon tendencies of one of the secondary characters (but they probably won't).

  • Nuclear Reno Job at Darlington Didn’t Include All the Work: Ontario government claims it was on time and under budget

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  • Many are scared of what they can't see (radiation), which isn't completely indefensible but tends to be exaggerated way beyond the actual risks.

    Others are afraid of what they see as "unnatural", not realizing that nuclear fission is so natural that Mother Nature has at least once spontaneously created a fission reactor without the involvement of human hands. (Seriously—it was in Gabon. And there may be more whose remains we haven't found.)

    Anyway, the big heavy-water CANDUs like the ones at Darlington are pretty damned safe by my understanding, and should shut down spontaneously under most failure modes. I'd rather live next to one of them than next to a coal plant.

  • Ontario government sold private jet back to Bombardier, Ford says

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  • " . . . no one lost anything.”

    Well, I'm hoping that you lost some face, Mr. Ford.

  • [Opinion] China-Canada food safety pact could be a killer of a deal

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  • It isn't as though the US hasn't had multiple food contamination issues in the past several decades (does "Boar's Head" ring any bells? And that's just one fairly recent one), some of them resulting in multiple fatalities. Even before their current government came to power, the system that was supposed to prevent that sort of thing was underfunded and not operating properly. The only reason they haven't poisoned a kindergarten yet is that having a school feed all the students regardless of means would cause their parents to have socialism palpitations.

    So, do you prefer your contaminated food with a side of governmental corruption, or one of underfunding and negligence? Are we supposed to stop importing food at all? Are you willing to see your taxes rise so that government labs can perform randomized sampling of all imports? 'Cause those are the options, pretty much.

  • The future of electricity is wind and solar, new report says. Canada is lagging behind

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  • Probably because it's so uncommon. The only commercially viable tidal generator ever built in Canada (and one of the few in the world) was the one on the Bay of Fundy, and it didn't produce all that much electricity in grid terms (20MW, thank you Wikipedia). You need a lot of tidal water level change to get decent power out of tidal generation, so there are likely fewer sites than you think. Plus, one reason the Bay of Fundy station was shut down was that it was rather hard on the local sea life, although I expect some of the same mitigation strategies used on inland hydro dams could help with that if they wanted to replace it with a new station.

  • Poilievre says PM Carney 'squandered Canada's leverage' with U.S. in response video

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  • He gets insulted a lot because he fails to offer an alternative to what the government is doing that makes sense in view of the current state of the world. His alternative this time seems to be, "bow to the whims of a foreign madman," which . . . just no.

    Yes, a large part of his job involves disagreeing with the government, but he tends to do it with all of the depth of a toddler who's just learned the meaning of the word "no". Suggesting good alternatives is also part of the job, and he's terrible at that—often he suggests nothing at all, and many of the suggestions he does make are obviously bad (or obviously unpopular, which for his purposes amounts to the same thing). During the last election, he didn't seem to have much of a policy platform beyond "Liberals bad!", and seemed to be doing his damndest to avoid being asked questions. In addition, he's clearly not easy to get along with even for members of his own party, or they wouldn't be fleeing like rats from a sinking ship.

    Just being marginally civil about his "no" isn't enough.

  • Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison

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  • Don't try to monetize fan anything. Ever. Don't even ask for donations. While keeping money out of it doesn't really protect you under the law, it vastly reduces the chance that the copyright holder will be interested in going after you unless you get so popular that they can't ignore what you're doing.

  • 4/20: Where is Weed in Anime?

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  • I don't think marijuana was ever popular in Japan, though, even before WWII, so banning it was likely seen as a nothingburger. Opium was the widespread drug in that part of the world (and even that wasn't native to Japan), and you do occasionally see opium use in historical anime, although it isn't treated in a positive light.

  • GitHub Reports DMCA Takedown Record and Surging Anti-Circumvention Claims * TorrentFreak

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  • Inertia. Mental inertia, that is.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 17]

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  • A couple that I've caught at least one episode of and that have not so far been mentioned anywhere else in this community that I've noticed:

    Monster Eater: We've all seen this plot before: Low-ranking fantasy-world adventurer gets backstabbed by his party, then turns out to be powerful after all. The interesting thing about it, sort of, is the animation, which is being done paper doll style (that is, a lot of things sliding or rotating in the same plane as the camera without changing size or shape). The artwork style is pretty bog-standard, though, and the overall effect is weird. Don't know whether I'll continue with this one.

    Kami no Shizuku / The Drops of God: Once or twice a year, I pick up a mundane drama type series as a break from my usual diet of fantasy, sf, and action material. Now, I'm only one episode into this one, and I have absolutely no interest in wine. But I've watched anime about other things that I have absolutely no interest in, like ballet or karuta. Unfortunately, compared to those, I felt that this show spent a little too much time rhapsodizing about its central enthusiasm. I'll try another episode or two and see if it's able to draw me in anyway. At least the characters are adults, so I know it won't degenerate into clichéd teen romance the way Ao no Orchestra did.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 17]

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  • Mao - it’s as if it’s the early 2000s again. This reminds me strongly of Inuyasha, and to a lesser degree, the whole range of swords and demons anime of the era, even down to the very traditional art style. And like its progenitors, while it might not be really significant, it’s entertaining enough.

    Unsurprising, since the Mao manga is the latest from Rumiko Takahashi, who also did Inuyasha (and Ranma ½).

  • Air Canada suspends 6 routes 'no longer economically feasible' amid jet fuel cost crisis

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  • The price of crude oil went up because, worldwide, we presently have less of it to meet the same amount of demand, so suppliers can afford to charge more. That translates into the prices of all products, worldwide, made from crude oil going up (and as a knock-on effect, the price of pretty much everything everywhere going up, because most goods still need gas/diesel/aviation fuel to be transported beyond a small local area).

    In other words, it doesn't matter what specific source a given company is using, because some of what would normally be their oil is being sold at a premium to people who used to get their oil from that war zone.

    (And as the rotten cherry on top of all this, add speculators, hoarders, and the commodities market.)

  • General Lemmy.Cafe @lemmy.cafe
    nyan @lemmy.cafe

    lemmy.ml blocked silently?

  • Unixporn @lemmy.ml
    nyan @lemmy.cafe
    TDE

    Shadows of the Past

  • Do It Yourself @beehaw.org
    nyan @lemmy.cafe

    Chair repair--looking for advice

  • Gentoo @lemmy.cafe
    nyan @lemmy.cafe

    So I guess everyone is . . .