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by mig39 5y ago
Nah, I think they genuinely mean "trolls" who happen to be parents and have to explain to their kids what they do for a living.
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by mig39 5y ago
Are you confusing the EFF and FSF?
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by mig39 5y ago
See also: Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with YouTube -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28943886
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by mig39 5y ago
> For example, this thread is 50 Tweets long. Fifty. Tweets. Long! You should check out the blog post instead, then. https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/16/sociopathic-monsters/ It's weird to use Doc
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by mig39 5y ago
Western Canada checking in. Everything fine here.
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by mig39 5y ago
Sounds like my summer vacation in Newfoundland in July 2021. Not much has changed! Kidding. Unless they were fishing for cod (usually offshore), they weren't doing so well on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. And the trees in t
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by mig39 5y ago
Can you cite one of these sources? The archeological record doesn't seem to show a large aboriginal population in Newfoundland around 1000 C.E. I don't think the Beothuk, for example, were ever very numerous, certainly not as num
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by mig39 5y ago
Unfortunately, the aboriginal population of Newfoundland didn't survive contact with subsequent European settlers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beothuk
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by mig39 5y ago
The best way to avoid a strike is to have a strong strike mandate. It's easier to bargain, to play "chicken" when you know you have your membership behind you. It's not easy to threaten a strike when you have a 60% vote,
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by mig39 5y ago
I just signed up for 3 months of Mullvad a few weeks ago. So far so good. Didn't even need my name or anything. I paid anonymously. It's super fast with wireguard. No affiliate links, no special discounts, no special sales pric
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by mig39 5y ago
See also The Three-Body Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem And it's also the name of a great book that might be appropriate here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thre
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by mig39 5y ago
When Prohibition was active in both the US and Canada, St. Pierre & Miquelon was the place buy smuggle booze into Canada (and the USA). In recent times, it was the source of tax-free, cheap Canadian cigarettes and Canadian booze. Nei
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by mig39 5y ago
That doesn't make much sense. USPS can just deliver to France and let them deal with it. Or drop it off in Canada and they can forward it. There's a ferry that runs between St. Pierre and Newfoundland a bunch of times every day.
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by mig39 5y ago
Who watches the watchmen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%...
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by mig39 5y ago
This is the ultimate dad joke.
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by mig39 5y ago
In the link, he says that he can't even use his account to post on the support forums, so is using an alternate account. So I assume it's the entire Google account.
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by mig39 5y ago
Was there a new feature? My AirPods have been on FindMy for a long time already.
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by mig39 5y ago
I've been running the developer beta on the 6S since the beginning. Seems just fine to me!
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by mig39 5y ago
Some of the users of the safety deposit boxes were either unable to use banks (legit Marijuana businesses), or immigrants who came from situations where the banks were never trusted.
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by mig39 5y ago
The Canadian version: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic...
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by mig39 5y ago
Would be fine if it was a "paid" vacation.
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by mig39 5y ago
Thanks for the great explanation. The height analogy made it click for me.
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by mig39 5y ago
What's always interesting to me is that in Canada, A&W is almost "premium" fast food. More expensive than the competition, and generally better quality. They also advertise a lot of "no hormones, grass-fed, cruelty-
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by mig39 5y ago
Something really awesome about Quebecois swear words! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity
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by mig39 5y ago
If you're confusing it with the Australian city, you should know they're both named after the same person :-)
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by mig39 5y ago
I've been using Windy to keep an eye on Hurricane Larry and my friends and relatives in St. John's, Newfoundland. Looks like they're about to be clobbered in a few hours.
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by mig39 5y ago
The person who writes the article often doesn't write the headline.
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by mig39 5y ago
> another business trick is in McDonalds -- the company that supplies the beef in Ireland is called "100% Irish Beef" This is definitely not true. And it's a common myth in Canada as well.
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by mig39 5y ago
Whatever that goalpost is, it will be moved once it's met.
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by mig39 5y ago
The Rhinoceros Party did this in Canada, in the 80s. They found a guy named "John Turner" to run against the prime minister of the same name, in the same riding. Funny stuff! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh

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