Welcome to the club, Lebanon!

• a Canadian.

Religion has to do with habits and practices. So someone can brush their teeth religiously.

Christianity is a religion, but it’s also a faith-based belief system that incorporates alternate planes of existence. Some people eschew the religion part but still have the belief system, and some people play inside the religion without actually believing in the spiritual side of things.

I like to explain Christianity as the belief in a multidimensional being who defines the dimensions we can observe and has done a bit of mucking around in a way that was measurable by us. Angelic appearances? Most would call them aliens, as they’d be extra terrestrial intelligences. Spiritual possession? A different dimension that has an effect on the ones we inhabit, but is currently beyond our capacity to fully understand.

The Chinese ambassador says trade is set to treble, so we’ll be seeing a lot more of these shipments.

Land ownership is already a fiction in Canada.

If I buy a book, it’s mine to do what I want with, for as long as I want.

If I buy real estate, the government still gets to say what I do on/with it, and can take it away if they decide they really want it, or if I stop paying them property taxes. That doesn’t sound like ownership; it sounds like a rental agreement.

Is it a blind spot? They did discover and shut down those Chinese “police stations” in Germany….

Next up: no more license plates for their cars, and all the windows can be tinted.

Why am I getting the correct headline but a totally different article at that link?

It goes right into:

GOPer Joins Dems in Calling Out Trump Over Lack of Boat Strike Info

I think the first will be contingent on the second?

Tricky chicken/egg problem, compounded by people like me who do their own bike repair.

The writing was on the wall when Serif sold the product to Canva. We already knew Canva used a rent seeking model at the corporate level, so it didn’t really matter what promises they made about what they’d do with Affinity.

This frustrates me so much.

I paid for v1 and v2 of the suite precisely because I’m willing to pay for a tool that works for me, predictably and reliably and with no compromise in goals. Now I’ll have to switch platforms yet again, because they’re going to monetize somehow, and if it’s not by taking my money, it’ll be by taking something else.

Is Inkscape a reasonable replacement for Illustrator yet? Is there an equivalent for InDesign?

I don’t want to get stuck in a Canvas walled garden, and I’m not going to pay rent to use software.

No taxation without representation.

A shut down government isn’t representing anyone. So it should come out of taxes.

I just checked; mine has a screw in the hole, and looks like it’s designed to come apart.

So I guess they aren’t all the same.

Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company’s capabilities against many Google Pixel phones, according to a forum post about the leak and 404 Media’s review of the material.

Well, they weren’t working anyway. China currently has full access to the US network with no ability to fix the situation beyond ensuring all content is encrypted and over LTE.

How long did your battery last?

I bought a Sonicare around 15 years ago, and it’s still on its first battery and working fine.

I was planning to do what you did to replace the battery when it finally goes, but I still get about a week’s charge on the current one.

Only the president though, and I don’t see HIM wielding cans of mace and tear gas cannisters.

Which peers?

I for one am perplexed; what is that company actually getting out of these affiliate signups? Even after people start paying, it’s costing them more than they’re making, and when they finally charge maintainable rates, everyone can just stop subscribing and lose nothing of value.

Bring back Zeddy!