Tucker Carlson says Trump admin using Charlie Kirk’s killing to trample free speech by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

The FCC does for example prohibit "obscenity" — not profanity — on cable. No doubt it is mentioned somewhere on their website.

I don't even know if windows is good or not now. by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

I still have a laptop with a tiny shrunken Windows partition on it in case I need it for some reason, but I've not actually booted it since installing debian. I can't be bothered to figure out how to clean up the bloat, disarm the telemetry, avoid the online MS services, block the ads, dodge the bugs, wait for the updates, get used to all the various stupid ways the UI has changed since the win XP I was familiar with, et cetera.

Using Windows these days is just way too much work, I don't know how anyone even does it.

Tucker Carlson says Trump admin using Charlie Kirk’s killing to trample free speech by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

They are the regulator for cable TV and therefore do regulate cable news shows. https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/cable-television

Help me to remember a video game by kbal in c/[email protected]
Does Pierre hate Harper by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

There was no recession in 2015.

Does Pierre hate Harper by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Huh? That chart looks fine for Harper — the 2008 financial crisis really wasn't his fault — and quite bad for Trudeau, if we assume that it's accurate, that it's representative of something meaningful, and that everything else that happens in Canada is to be blamed on whoever's prime minister at the time. I'm guessing it's that last assumption that might be wrong and the break into a downtrend in 2015 started as a result of something that changed a few years earlier, but who knows.

Jeremy Corbyns 'Your Party' announces roadmap for founding process by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Having gone so far as to read the wikipedia article, I guess it's the most hopeful sign for democracy I've heard about in years.

Jeremy Corbyns 'Your Party' announces roadmap for founding process by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

First on the order of business: Come up with an actual name for the party.

What is a typical spelling mistake you make? by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I habitually throw random spelling and grammatical mistakes into my posts and comments all the time, to make it less likely that anyone can fingerprint my writing style and thereby dox me. That is the only reason for any such errors.

Canadian Tire, Tim Hortons form loyalty program partnership by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Canadian Tire gets to be associated with a brand known for being not Canadian, and Tim Hortons gets to bask in the warm glow of a giant big-box retailer known for selling plastic lawn furniture. Synergy!

NATO at War With Russia, Kremlin Says by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

As declarations of war go it's not much, but it's more then Ukraine got when they occupied Crimea.

Average 1337x user by kbal in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 68 points 3 days ago

Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I'm probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to "Shrek (2001) [1080p]".

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Nobody I know uses the word "numptious" any more. (fedia.io)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Nobody I know uses the word "numptious" any more.

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4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The online message board's lawyers say that UK safety laws don't apply outside the UK. This basic principle may soon be tested in court.

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Learning on the job (fedia.io)
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In light of certain recent government regulations redefining "child" to mean anyone under the age of 18, I would like to propose that we should adjust other terms for people of specific ages to match (fedia.io)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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In light of certain recent government regulations redefining "child" to mean anyone under the age of 18, I would like to propose that we should adjust other terms for people of specific ages to match this new and increasingly popular language regime:

Child: Ages 13-17 Toddler: Ages 9-12 Infant: Ages 5-8 Newborn: Age 2-4 Foetus: Under 2 years old

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I have cut my hair. It was a little bit overdue. (fedia.io)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have cut my hair. It was a little bit overdue.

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Cyberastrology: The theory that if you know the exact network conditions at the time someone first connected to the Internet, such as ping times to the major servers of the cyberzodiac, you can (fedia.io)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Cyberastrology: The theory that if you know the exact network conditions at the time someone first connected to the Internet, such as ping times to the major servers of the cyberzodiac, you can predict their future.

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Joint Call for the Withdrawal of Bill C-2 (pencanada.ca)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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PEN Canada joins 39 organizations and 132 individuals in a joint letter demanding a complete withdrawal of Bill C-2. The following letter was sent this week to Canadian authorities…

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Unspoken Implications: A Preliminary Analysis of Bill C-2 and Canada’s Potential Data-Sharing Obligations Towards the United States and Other Countries (citizenlab.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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On June 3, 2025, the Canadian government tabled Bill C-2, omnibus legislation that, if passed, would introduce a wide array of new federal agency and law enforcement powers, and would significantly reform substantive and due process laws in Canada for migrants and asylum seekers. Our preliminary analysis of Bill C-2 situates the legislation within the context of existing research by the Citizen Lab about two potential data-sharing treaties that are most relevant to the new proposed powers being introduced in Bill C-2: the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention (2AP) and the CLOUD Act. Both of which carry significant constitutional and human rights risks.

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My thumb is itchy. (fedia.io)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My thumb is itchy.

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30 years ago somebody told me their opinion about "Changes" but I didn't know what Changes was. I just remembered to look it up, and according to Wikipedia it could've been any of about 50 things. (fedia.io)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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30 years ago somebody told me their opinion about "Changes" but I didn't know what Changes was. I just remembered to look it up, and according to Wikipedia it could've been any of about 50 things.

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Browsers should probably just stop sending user-agent header at all, ideally. (fedia.io)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Browsers should probably just stop sending user-agent header at all, ideally.

If anyone else was wondering why some websites and the "Alternate Player for Twitch.tv" extension stopped working in the latest Librewolf update, it's because they changed the userAgent string from Firefox to LibreWolf and way too much shitty code is confused by it looking like firefox but then not being firefox.

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Bat Appreciation Day: Protecting the Flying Mammals (www.trvst.world)
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Wishing a happy International Bat Appreciation Day to all who celebrate.

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