I can’t for the life of me understand why the NDP and the Greens don’t team up and aggressively campaign for electoral reform.

I don’t know why, but I’ve been in a particularly good mood this week. My boss is out of town, which definitely helps, and Christmas went relatively okay which is nothing short of a miracle (only one person had a breakdown, and it was at the very end, and it wasn’t even me!*)

In any case, I’m glad to be in better spirits after a really rough November and December, seasonal depression hit hard this year.

*For anyone curious (and because I feel like oversharing for once); it was my mom after I called her out on her complete lack of effort to gender me correctly. It was an accumulation of various other things going on in her life that triggered the breakdown; her mom’s health is rapidly deteriorating and she’s dealing with my very depressed younger brother who still lives at home. She took it a bit rough on the spot, but afterwards asked me to send her resources to learn more, she’s been listening to a few podcasts hosted by queer people, and she says she looks forward to talking to me more in depth about gender. I’m lucky to have decent parents.

How own wife left him

Well it’d be weird if someone else’s wife left him, no?

If you have an hour to whittle away, Ahoy on YouTube made a great video diving deep into the question of “what was the first video game?”

It’s very well-produced and researched!

Woah cool, thanks for the heads up on Madari! I’ve been hoping for something like this for ages.

For anyone too lazy to check, ESET is a Slovakian cybersecurity company.

It is ridiculous, which is why I really want one.

I haven’t tried it, but James Hoffman reviewed it in what is probably my favourite video on coffee YouTube. It’s definitely not as utilitarian a solution as yours for a travel coffee setup!

This is a sweet travel setup!

I hadn’t heard of the Pipamoka before and I honestly thought for a second that it was going to be a Bripe-like device, due to ‘pipa’ sounding like ‘pipe’.

There are a dozen Firefox forks though. Mulch, DDG, TOR, Fennic, Bromite, etc.

Mulch is also Chromium-based (not to mention also developped by the DivestOS team so as of now unmaintained) and DDG’s browser is based on WebKit.

Only 2/5 of the browsers they mention are Gecko-based.

Perso, je dis chocolatine simplement parce que c’est un terme plus plaisant à prononcer.

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Personally, I say chocolatine simply because it’s more fun of a term to pronounce.

If you’re on Linux, you really should be knowledgeable enough to use a search engine.

Poor Sharon Needles, she’ll be homeless now.

I’ve had some very nice decafs but they’re definitely trickier to nail down.

I’ve found that the best decafs were decaffeinated using the Swiss water process, so I’d look out for that. I’d also keep in mind that decaf beans are more brittle, so dialing in the grind size can be a tad more fickle.

There is an airport that still uses Win 3.1 on some computers, don’t recall the name though.

You’re probably remembering articles stating that Southwest Airlines still uses Windows 3.1, they were floating around the tech news sites during the CrowdStrike fiasco a few months back.

Sadly, it seems to be misinformation.

If our models of social aid aren’t meeting the needs of the people who need help, maybe we should reevaluate our models instead of making life more miserable for the homeless?

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I imagine they’d he in favour, seeing as animal consumption necessitates more plant foods than a vegan diet. Feeding calories to livestock and eating them is much less efficient than directly eating plants.

Nearly 40% have tried e-cigarettes compared to 16.5% of their straight counterparts, the report says.

artificial insemination isn’t torture.

Doing so to a creature who can’t consent is pretty wack though.

cows aren’t kept constantly pregnant

Female mammals, including cows, produce milk as a result of pregnancy in order to feed their young. The dairy industry is for-profit, they’re not going to let their dairy cows have downtime from producing milk if there’s money to be made.

kicking and beating cows isn’t part of husbandry.

The meat and dairy industries have lobbied hard for ag-gag laws criminalizing photography on their farms after abuses have been discovered by undercover investigators and activists. It is undoubtedly a part of animal agriculture. Here’s a whole paper about it, if it interests you.

killing cows at the end of their useful life is fine.

It definitely isn’t the worse part of the miserable lives we make them live after breeding them in massive numbers. It’s probably a relief at that point.

Also, just a sidenote here, I scrolled a bit through your history and you seem to go on the defensive for meat and dairy whenever you come across anything relating to veganism or the negative impacts of those industries. You engage with vegan content much more than I do and I’m vegan! I don’t think I can change your mind about veganism, nor do I really feel the desire to write any more than I already have. But, I don’t know, maybe go comment on stuff you enjoy rather than getting riled up about this stuff? It might make for a more enjoyable experience on lemmy.

Yeah they host their own repo, here’s the link:

https://www.collaboraonline.com/downloads/fdroid/repo/