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  • I’ve heard reasons for it like "women’s bathroom needs places to dispose of pads/tampons but, like, it’s a box on the wall. Put one in both.

    Also heard reasons along the lines of “men are faster at using the bathroom so why should we need to share with women” (even though with single bathrooms the washing your hands part is the time bottleneck, not the peeing part) or just general disgust at the idea of sharing a bathroom with the other gender (have heard it from both genders).


  • I think having a TPM enables a number of worthwhile security features.

    But most of those security features place the TPM at the root of trust, something that is SEVERELY undermined by the fact that it is not open source, meaning it is inherently untrustworthy.

    Is it not the one chip we should demand and accept nothing less than complete openness in its implementation and complete control by the person who owns the device? I also think the types of protections it grants in theory are very good, but the fact that it’s proprietary means it’s terrible at actually granting you those protections.


  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlReside, vacation, party.
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    Reside: Vancouver. Biased because I mostly grew up here and am lucky enough to still live here but I really do think it’s something special.

    Vacation: Probably Qing Huang Dao. Gorgeous Chinese beach city that I’ve only ever been to twice in my childhood, but it’s also really nostalgic for that reason.

    Party (hardest one for me because I don’t party): Wanted to say New York or Vegas because nothing in Canada really compares to those, but with current events and my skin colour I’m going with Toronto instead. Like to not end up at a concentration camp while partying, but more generally because I know the laws of my own country better than somewhere else which I feel is a benefit if you want to party.



  • I don’t drive so it has more to do with the quality and reliability of transit going to a place than how many traveling minutes it is. Taking a train cross region feels faster than taking a bus cross town even if they take the same time because the train is more frequent, much more reliable, and generally has a lower mental barrier and therefore lower perceived distance.

    Transfers also add significant perceived distance even if they don’t add much actual travel time, because it’s more annoying than just sitting or standing there. The timing of your next bus is also another thing that can go wrong and significantly delay your trip. I often find myself choosing physically longer routes that have fewer transfers.

    Generally, if I’m near the train system, everywhere on the current line is “close” because it’s a one seat ride away on the highest quality transit mode. If not, I’d say 10 stops in either direction on the bus lines that directly serve the street I’m on is similarly “close.” Relatively, I consider one train stop to have the same “closeness” as two or three bus stops regardless of distance, but only because I would just walk if it was one or two bus stops away.

    Also, because I’m walking for my last mile transport, everything feels significantly closer when the weather is favourable. Rain adds some distance but I live in Vancouver so I’ve mostly stopped caring. If it snows though, everything outside my house isn’t “close” anymore because of the gauntlet of death Vancouver streets turn into when snow or ice is involved.






  • I think the ethnicities behind the crime are why it’s been so widely covered and propagandized, more than the crime itself. I don’t think it would be hard to imagine how the media would have treated it had it been all white people. This would have been a one and done story at the national level, if not completely relegated to local news.

    I don’t think it’s contradictory to both condemn the crime itself while also calling out the media’s fixation on this specific crime while conveniently ignoring many others. The crime itself is fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, especially considering how much tax money gets embezzled by much more powerful (and white dominated) organizations and government agencies every single day, but the media fixation because they’re sCaRy FoReIgNeRs is systemic and much more of a threat.





  • but we are all buddies with Russia now

    Russia’s capitalist as it gets now. No one is pretending they’re still in any way socialist or even leftist. The US oligarchy loves them because Russia is now ideologically aligned with them. Cuba’s actually still socialist.

    Also interesting how capitalist Russia is more tyrannical and war happy than the USSR ever was eh? While having a lower productive output than the USSR.






  • Go to any Canadian subreddit, even “leftist” ones, and open a thread about Indigenous rights or issues and holy shit. Really shows how Canada thinks exactly like Israel and how we come from the same philosophy of colonialism and replacement.

    “They should be glad we didn’t do worse to them.”

    “It’s time to just accept being Canadian and adopt our ways like everyone else, stop trying to assert your own cultural identity, we’re all sick of it.”

    “It’s colonialism for them to say the land I rightfully bought from another white guy belongs to them, actually. What about that poor innocent white family whose home is getting taken from them? Two wrongs don’t make a right so obviously you can’t reassert your sovereignty on land we stole from you!”

    “HURR DURR FAKE GRAVES HURR DURR NONE WERE EXHUMED HURR DURR GO DIG THEM UP BECAUSE WE GET TO TELL YOU HOW TO MOURN FOR THE VICTIMS OF OUR GENOCIDE!”

    “I swear if I see another street or community centre with another one of their gibberish names with characters I refuse to learn how to pronounce. I thought we killed their stupid language already, why is the government trying to bring it back?”

    “Everyone else is elbows up ready to build this pipeline, stop holding us back you savages!”

    You know, I used to think we might be able to work something out after decolonization, but honestly there’s no hope and they’re completely justified in telling every single one of us to GTFO as soon as they take their land back.


  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlInfallible logic
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    The landlord is not “as” rich as a health insurance CEO so they’re seen as “one of us” by liberals. They literally only see how much money someone has when determining good or evil, any kind of class theory is totally lost on them. It’s also why they think there are “good” police officers just because they don’t kill people for sport, or that “mom and pop” small business owners exploiting minimum wage labour is somehow different from corporations doing it.