GreyEyedGhost

To add to this. I've only noticed one person who had cochlear implants, and only really noticed because she also had a speech impediment (then I noticed the "hearing aids" that didn't look like most hearing aids). Her hair partially covered them and I wouldn't have noticed at all if I hadn't been interacting with her.

I do notice more hearing aids and such these days, possibly because I'm getting older and am aware of what my near future holds. I don't think most people will care too much.

On the flipside, the government hosting a fediverse instance of Mastodon would give a lot more credibility than a blue checkmark, and could be easily linked in other social media. This would give all the reach they had before and more, give them independence from external social media control, and would advertise the fediverse and Mastodon as alternatives to corporate controlled social media. Since the big problem with building social media is getting people to leave what they're currently using, duplicating your message into a new and preferred system would ease that transition. And if tools were made to cross post onto different social media, it would make it about as easy as what they're doing now.

I think the biggest problem with thos approach is custo.ers could potentially pay less to get what they want, and thats taking profits away from the company. Why would they want that?

There's no evidence we can go FTL. The closest we have is the Alcubierre drive, which requires an incredible amount of matter with negative mass.

Not so much that things can go faster than c, but that on a large enough scale, the universe can expand faster than c. What this means is, beyond a certain distance, the only way it's possible to travel to or even observe some points is if we have FTL capability. This is effectively the edge of the universe, which is a local phenomenon - someone at our edge of the universe could very well see farther away than we can, but they also wouldn't be able to see past us in the other direction (assuming some models are correct).

But likewise, while Canadians are able to deal with this terrain, out southern 200 km is very similar to America's northern 200 km, and a lot of us sound and look like a lot of you. Infiltrating America and attacking domestically would be easier for Canadians than just about any other country.

I do the majority of Steam browsing on my deck, with much of the rest being following links in Lemmy, etc. on my phone. I also expect I'm not their typical user.

Well, $2 of Coke makes me feel good all day. I bet $2 of coke couldn't do that!

Yeah, I don't see getting worked up about artistic taste. No one is forcing g them to read their stuff, and if someone actually is, their problem should be with whoever is forcing them to.

Let people enjoy their shit and move on.

For at least 5 months of the year no one wants to occupy Winnipeg. That value increases slightly for the other 7 months.

It's always fucking Winnipeg. People need to find a new punchline...

Nah, still trying to see how a problem with a leader of a province doesn't affect Canadians.