Rising Toronto rent is leading to this risky dating trend
Toronto daters are moving in together quickly to save on rent. It's a risky move
“At this point, I’m dating to afford a better quality of life," said one dater.Samantha Fink Special to the Star (Toronto Star)
Latest federal polling numbers from Mainstreet
We talked about the possibility of an election, likelyhood and risk in another thread yesterday. With party and leader numbers like these... maybe it's more likely than I thought.
Russia unleashes new attacks on freezing Ukraine, a day before peace talks
Russia unleashes new attacks on freezing Ukraine, a day before peace talks
Russia fired around 450 long-range drones and 70 missiles at Ukraine in a major attack overnight targeting the country's power grid in freezing temperatures, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said TuesdayThe Associated Press (NBC News)
Financial development with Chinese characteristics
Financial development with Chinese characteristics
A speech by Xi Jinping was recently published along with a commentary piece. The speech has been widely quoted in Western media these past few days because it includes a clear call for the renminbi to “attain global reserve currency status.Dialectical Dispatches
Best way to control thermostat schedule - HACS scheduler not working properly
Hey gang,
I've got a chunk of free time lately, and I've been working on some of the backlog issues I've had with my HA instance. The one that is giving me trouble right now is my thermostat - I use Honeywell total connect (or whatever its called), and it works just fine when using the normal thermostat card or controls. However, I want it to be warmer in the day, and colder at night. So I had been using a scheduler entity from the HACS store. It always used to work, but lately I've been getting out of bed and realizing the temp is still set to the nighttime temp.
It's not every day, and it seems to work 90% of the time, but I had always thought that the scheduler entities did a periodic check to see if the thing they controlled was at the proper state? Seems like if the scheduler 'misses' the switchover time, it's just stuck at the night time temp all day unless I manually change it.
So this got me thinking... Is there a better, or more 'approved' way to do this sort of thing?
A few years back there was a news cycle where a bunch of western outlets reported on this image of Xi Jinping being served two cups of tea at a Communist Party meeting, generally casting it as some kind of power move, "look at me and how much more important I am than all of you", type thing. Very similar to the reporting around Donald Trump getting two scoops of ice cream at a White House dinner while demanding that everyone else get one.
Further investigation revealed that this image was taken at the start of a very long Party meeting, which likely explains why Xi felt the need for two drinks, and that furthermore that it has been expected for Party members in China to pay for their own drinks at these meetings since the days of Mao, so the story was a fairly ridiculous mix of projection, Orientalism, sinophobia, and anti-Chinese propaganda, which the OP is invoking for comedic purposes by comparing it with an image of Zelenskyy with two glasses of water in front of him.
Russia delivers massive overnight strike on Ukrainian military sites in past day
Russia delivers massive overnight strike on Ukrainian military sites in past day
Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly 190 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed 12 enemy motor vehicles in its areas of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reportedTASS
NATO chief says Western troops to be deployed in Ukraine the moment peace is concluded
NATO chief says Western troops to be deployed in Ukraine the moment peace is concluded
Other types of NATO assistance will still be provided to Ukraine, Mark Rutte saidTASS
So if Russia doesn't and will not ever accept nato troops or Nato in Ukraine, that only leaves the option of ending Ukraine. Since the war can't go on forever nor does Russia think they can just give up, because that would leave Nato closer to it's borders than it was before.
I not for a second believe that western leaders are so stupid and actually blinded by """principles""" that they don't understand this. They still just seek unconditional Russian capitulation (and regime change) or just keeping the war going as long as possible.
When Support Fades
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When support grows weaker,
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When Support Fades
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When support grows weaker,
need doesn’t disappear ,
it becomes heavier.
Scientists say quantum tech has reached its transistor moment
Scientists say quantum tech has reached its transistor moment
Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional quantum systems now exist, but scaling them into truly powerful machines will require major advances in engineering and manufacturi…ScienceDaily
China to ban hidden door handles on cars starting 2027
China to ban hidden door handles on cars starting 2027
China will ban hidden door handles on cars, commonly used on Tesla’s electric vehicles and many other EV models, starting next year.The Associated Press (NBC News)
like this
Either that or ban obfuscated hardware 9r software in vehicles and require the infotainment section to be modular so that people can change out pieces and upgrade hardware as they want
And do the same thing for all electronics
IMO any type of touch control in a car shouldn't be a thing. Drivers rely on tactile feedback on controls, when you replace them with touch buttons it takes more concentration and therefore decreases the drivers awareness of their surroundings.
Granted the argument is you shouldn't be adjusting it while driving but, my response is why have it in the first place.
European nations cannot be sovereign within NATO
European nations cannot be sovereign within NATO
European nations are invoking the language of sovereignty and resistance to Trump while maintaining or remain or even intensifying the structures of dependency — first and foremost NATO itselfThomas Fazi
Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive
Video description :
Subscription services exist for nearly everything consumers buy. Many, like Netflix or Spotify, start out affordable, but the cost adds up over time. And while signing up is effortless, cancelling can be difficult. Companies such as Adobe and Amazon have even been accused by the Federal Trade Commission of using dark patterns to trap consumers in subscriptions.
But rising costs are only part of the problem. The subscription model is eroding consumer’s opportunity to own what they buy. So how did we get to the point where practically everything is a subscription? And why is owning nothing making everything so expensive?
00:00 - Intro
01:58 - Why subscriptions are everywhere
06:26 - Companies love subscriptions
09:13 - Subscriptions are sneaky
10:29 - Cancelling is difficult
13:39 - Own nothing economy
16:52 - Consumers fight back
22:56 - The future of subscriptions
24:24 - Credits
a chance we shouldn't miss
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in reply to Avid Amoeba • • •Jesus Christ.
I know every online leftist seems to think Carney is the devil, but these numbers should give people massive pause at what the alternative looks like.
It's wild to me that with as centrist as Carney's been, he's barely pulled any of the actual conservative vote to him. Really seems like we have a serious problem with growing entrenched conservatism in this country.
Voroxpete
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in reply to Voroxpete • • •Avid Amoeba
in reply to tleb • • •tleb
in reply to Avid Amoeba • • •I never said both didn't happen, but the important metric is how seats flipped (since afaik there's no info on individual vote intention changes)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Can…
Liberals gained 7 from NDP, Conservatives gained 10 from NDP.
general election in Canada
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)masterspace
in reply to Voroxpete • • •I would like to believe that's true, but I'm not convinced that it is.
The Conservatives had an entrenched 30-33% of the vote, all the way through the Layton years.
Avid Amoeba
in reply to masterspace • • •You can say that again. It's also not geographically uniform. It's much more entrenched in some places than others.
I'd like to mildly push back on this. A lot of lefties, myself included, can hold two opinions at once - that he was/is a necessary tool to achieve the goal of keeping PP from power in the current socioeconomic context, and that he is/going to be harmful in certain ways. Accessible voter pool numbers for NDP/LPC support the hypothesis that lefties have provisionally lent their support to Carney. I have both paid to get Carney elected, and I shit on him regularly. In fact I think anyone who's voted for him should shit on him. The Canadian culture of not complaining much isn't good for us.
Warehouse
in reply to Avid Amoeba • • •Avid Amoeba
in reply to Warehouse • • •Would be almost worth it seeing that. 😆