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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 26 points 23 hours ago

We just had this month's Patch Tuesday and they're still dealing with problems caused by last month's?! I really need to try harder to convince my father putting Linux on his current computer is a better idea than buying a Windows 11 computer.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Looks like it really might have vanity for Rubio:

As Vice President J.D. Vance recalled at an event in December, the Journal reported, he was meeting with Trump, Rubio, and an unnamed third politician in the Oval Office when the president accused Vance and Rubio of having “shitty shoes.” Trump asked them all for their shoe size; Vance made sure to put in the record that he’s a size 13, while Rubio claimed to be an 11 and the third man a 7. The president then launched a sideways insult at the guy with the daintiest feet: “You know you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.”

That the “locker-room talk” president would place an inordinate, genital-related premium on a man’s foot size was surely no surprise to Rubio, who has risen in GOP influence in direct proportion to his willingness to contort himself to Trump’s exact desires. It does not seem out of the realm of possibility, then, that Rubio would inflate his own shoe specs to impress Trump with his masculine bulk.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

What I read was that Trump has been guessing the shoe sizes and people don't want to correct him.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It doesn't work like that:

Multiple councillors and the mayor asked if there were options the city could use to gather a higher density bonus fee from the developer, or require more affordable housing units, but staff said that was not possible.

Municipal lawyer John Traves said the municipal planning system is not set up to be disciplinary.

“As much as I’d like to find a way around it, I haven't been able to,” Traves said.

The case is now before courts, which will decide if a fine should be issued.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

And I do hope they find Ocam - I assume he wandered off into the woods or something after episode 8.

I suspect he actually followed orders and went down to Betazed last episode like he was supposed to.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well you've got me imagining fitting a woman into a project like a Tetris piece.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I suppose now it's just a matter of time until a transphobe complains that the women-only option matched them with a trans woman.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

Don't have to imagine it; SNW's Scotty, Martin Quinn, is Scottish.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Instead of "Rubin con", it could split as "Rub in con". If Nus pulled off a good con he'd for sure rub it in.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

a major television network that claims to be news

To be fair, Fox News has argued in court that it's entertainment, not news.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The picture of Anisha looks to me like she's betrayed everyone and the dude in the background with what seems to be a weapon is with her.

Lura is back. I feel like it's been a few weeks since we've seen her.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

I can't remember if it was at university or a job, but there was a server named 'borg' and on there localhost really would have been borg.

 

Just the three big revenue streams that Houston cancelled — $272.4 million for HST (that benefits those with the money to allow them to be big spenders), $160 million for income tax bracket changes, $40 million for bridge tolls (that primarily benefit people in HRM but have to be made up for by everyone in the province) — add up to $472.4 million.

The cuts save the provincial government just $304.9 million.

With the tolls now gone, the province is budgeting $120.1 million for Halifax Harbour Bridges.

No matter how you slice and dice it all, the fact is that Houston-the-professional-accountant seems to have badly messed up the province’s accounts.

 

While mired in controversy from all sides, the Walt Disney Company has unveiled price hikes for Disney+ and its other streaming services today.

As of October 21, Disney+ will cost up to 20 percent more, depending on the plan you have. Disney+ with ads is increasing from $10 to $12 per month, while the ad-free plan is going from $16 to $19 per month. The annual, ad-free plan will go from $160 to $190.

 

There was a time when sneering at international law would not have been a good look for someone aspiring to be Prime Minister of Canada.

But, charting new territory, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre contemptuously called Justin Trudeau “woke” for indicating Canada would abide by a ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — a court that Canada helped establish to punish war criminals.

Poilievre specifically rejects the legitimacy of the ICC charges against Netanyahu, on the specious grounds that Netanyahu was democratically elected.

Poilievre's tweet with an interview clip

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