I mean, if they drop a hot fucking meme like this every time I wouldn’t even be mad.

Canada and the US have rising tensions due to Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs and anexation, leading to the unusual booing of the US anthem at a recent NBA game in Toronto. Trump’s provocative remarks about Canada potentially becoming the 51st state, although unrealistic, have angered Canadians and created political complications.

Canada has significant global trade and political views, they’re proud of their identity, strong social democratic values and a distinct cultural and political separation from the US. The idea of Canada becoming part of the US is just not feasible legally, politically, or practically, and there is no genuine support for such a notion within Canada.

Canadian elections are coming and they’re crapping themseves. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, previously leading in the polls, now faces challenges due to the shift in focus towards how Canada will handle the US threats. Because this is all crazy AF, the Liberal Party now has an advantage, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his likely successor, Mark Carney.

The Conservative Party has to condemning the US Right while defending Canada’s autonomy, complicating their political strategy. They had recent strong polling, the election is no longer a straightforward win for the Conservatives, and Trump’s actions may ironically benefit the Liberals, potentially granting them another term in office.

Yeah, I can tell; I’ve had a sharp uptick in people picking arguments and then sticking their fingers in their ears.

In elementary school, I was all about patriotism. The flag was cool. we (country) were the bad-ass owners of our own fate and we’re cool. We are the melting pot, by the people for the people.

Up through Desert Shield, I was still like yay, America.

W lost his luster, I got old enough to feel the embarrassment of broccoli and NUCULER. I wasn’t rah rah anymore, but those that are, live and let live right?

Dixie flag wavers were racists, that was easy, but the 1776 flag, will maybe they’re historians.

I was mostly over our the right’s shit by Clinton. But then Clinton had some of his own disturbing shit.

When Trump hit the first time, I saw, 30-40% of the population throwing flags up and starting fascist fights. Complete and Immediate disillusion.

At his point, someone flying the US flag is a BIG red flag. The Dixie flag is stupid racists, The 1776 flag is libertarians who fall into camps between uninformed and uninformed racists pop it up there with the don’t tread on me bullshit.

At this point, if you’re not retired military from a better time, there’s very little you can do to show me you can fly an American flag and not be a horrible person.

I use moon reader pro and a premium tts voice.

If you can find an audiobook, it’ll be better, that said it’s really really easy to get epubs.

Also epubs are like a couple hundred k tops. So downloading them is super quick.

The same background music to different lyrics

Metal did that for years and hardly ever got dinged. Change some chords around and give it a new edgy chorus and different drum solo. We didn’t GAF. Ohh did you hear that new double bass line? WOAH.

This particular take (repetitive nickelback) originated from Karl Puschmann in 2017. He was comparing ALL of their 89 songs. You’d find the same for most bands that make it. Nobody is making 100 unique songs if they’re writing their own stuff.

G&R and BonJovi were full of repetition. G&R released multiple versions of the same song on two albums and pulled it off (don’t cry UUI 1&2). BJ Blaze of glory was huge, but most of the album was the same slide guitar, same chords, same theme.

For nickelback, there’s some obvious stuff in there like Someday / How you remind me. But even if you only take the top stuff outside of those two, there’s plenty of variety in beats, styles, tone. Photograph, Rockstar, San Quentin, and Faraway are quite unique compared with each other.

But like OP mentioned, He re-uses that gravely rolling of vowels in every style. But if you then go back and look at old Aerosmith or Metallica (before black). They consistently voiced things the same album to album.

IMO, it sounds a lot like Kroeger is whining when he’s singing and a lot of people don’t have much of a stomach for that. He sounds fine, the songs are catchy, the lyrics aren’t miserable, but it just grates on you. I think it’s a lot of subconscious effect because there are TONS of articles asking why people hate nickelback, but there are too many different consensuses for all the hate AND to have all the sales for it to be as easy as formulaic songs against the b-roll on their album.

I guess there’s always one in a crowd but damn. That’s like having a right nutter in RATM

It did! But we also ended up being more efficient per grey-matter mass.

FTA

This reduction in brain size however does not mean that modern humans are less intelligent. Human brains have evolved to work more efficiently and utilize less energy.

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Thanks for that, also absolutely love your name.

So you think that AI can’t serve as a disability aid… Interesting.

I don’t use the fancy autocomplete. I ask the AI to generate a boilerplate with X framework/language. Then I’ll ask it to stub in whatever major features I know I’ll want, maybe ask it for a handful of libraries.

Initial setup is all busy work.

I wonder if there were articles like this when the pocket calculator came out.

You know, for 26 bucks a delivery, why the hell isnt there local competition?

If you don’t like something that someone is doing in your own community ban them and block them. Lemmy is far too small for a childish bullshit.

Ah, I must have misunderstood when I read that Sweden was banning gas cars all together in Stockholm. Guess they’re just ahead a bit.

My point is that charging is forging a head elsewhere in the world. Unless he figures out a way to make electric car charging illegal it will continue to surge here because there’s already enough electric on the road to necessitate it.

China’s absolutely chock full of EVs. The Nordic countries are about to ban gas.

There’s enough EVs out there right now that need the charging that with the rates go up they’ll still exist.

Kodak existed to make and sell film. Film is very cheap to make, But the technology and details behind it are very difficult. They had a great formula and tech for film worked out. This gave them an edge over competition.

Kodaks camera designs were simply to get more cameras in the hands of the people. This old cameras lasted forever and there was no resolution difference from camera to camera, since it was all in the film.

The question, is kind of loaded. Are we looking for the company to come back and operate as if it was a time machine and the management move forward in time, is it just what would happen if you loaded down a camera company full of engineers. Is it both.

They died because film was replaced by digital and there is no consumable there.

They got in on the digital camera scene and made some cameras but they could never compete price wise because as a company they were designed as a consumable vendor.

For a while the professional lens scene was pretty hopping. Canon, Nikon, and Sigma have that market mostly wrapped up. Canon would have had to come back around then and make their own lense line, probably prosumer level at a lower price. There was probably some room for competition in between the cheap digital lenses and the pro lenses where they could have made a superior product for just a little more money.

When mirrorless cameras came on the scene, They could have came back and probably managed to muscle into that scene. Again prosumer. Manufactured in China to save money.

Right now there’s not enough market for point and shoot. There’s almost no market for film. There’s still room to be made putting larger sensors lenses and better focal options on cell phones. But honestly, there getting so much done with software and AI that that would be a very difficult proposition.

To be honest, Kodak was pushed out by a bunch of companies that could do it cheaper and then by their expertise and edge evaporating as the products they had, became completely obsolete and were replaced by entirely different things outside their wheelhouse.

The only chance to come back would be to wedge themselves into professional photography in the middle of Nikon, Canon, and Sony. They need to add some features that haven’t been done yet. There’s enough processor in cameras now to do in-camera background removal. Maybe they could show you in a mask what in the scene is in focus, eliminating accidental wrong picks on f-stops or poor lighting causing soft shots. Maybe they could make the pipeline fast enough to take multiple automatic raws around each shot a lot like cell phones are doing now to help you catch people blinking.

Maybe they could drop into the 360 camera realm there’s not a lot of good competition there at high resolution. Matter of fact there’s not great competition or innovation on the really big 360 rigs that matter port and the like are using.

the US (42%)

Cmmon, we JUST figured out how to manipulate our own votes, give us a couple years at least.