[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

I would. I'd force my way down your throat, hammer your cunt, and finish balls-deep in your asshole. And you'd love it, my beautiful submissive slut.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago

The Democrats won't win an election while opposing fracking. O&G is far FAR too powerful to let that happen. If Harris stood firmly against fracking, then the opponent would win - be he (and it will be a he) Trump, Musk, or David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz.

No, I'm not exaggerating.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

They would, and they do.

But because they're rich and determined to play both sides of the fight, they also pour some (less) money towards the Democrats to have some leverage.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Frankly, I don't see much of a problem with this.

They'll sell the "Apple" charging cable for $40 or something fucking insane, but as long as you can buy and use a normal USB-C cable that does exactly the same thing, go for it.

Of course being Apple, they will probably void the warranty or add an identifier to their cables so that nothing else works. In that case, I hope the EU bankrupts them completely.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

You misspelled 2026.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

As hilarious as this is, it doesn't really address the question of whether farts will maintain their potency in a jar, or if they'll degrade in the presence of air.

If farts never lost their potency, the entire planet should be unbearable by now.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

That's hardly fair. An extremely determined and well-organized psychopath - who happens to manipulate the premier's office - has been working on this for a decade. Albertans are pretty fucking wishy-washy and wayyyyyy too right-wing, but the hardcore extremist hatred is being carefully stoked by Nazis. Nazis named Take Back Alberta.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

You are falling exactly into their snare.

It's a "mostly reasonable" petition that will get "mostly reasonable" people to support it. In fact, it is a direct, deliberate, methodical attack on the LGBTQ2+ community, and aimed at making them feel unsafe.

If we were going to call this reasonable and ban all religious iconography from the government, then we shouldn't be allowed to sing God Save the King or O Canada on government property. ("God keep our land/Glorious and Free" since 1980).

This is absolutely hate-based, make no mistake.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

First off, 851 people (20%) signed the petition.

"Those individuals" who raised this are undoubtedly tied back to Take Back Alberta - or at least, the organizers are.

They will do the same thing that Westlock did: Present this as a neutral "no special interests" policy, and then advertise the shit out of their rational opinion, attacking the woke extremists for forcing their issue on what should be neutral territory.

Then they'll get about a 51% vote - not representative of the entire town, but enough to ban pride symbolism in the town.

Then they'll move onto the next town - maybe Rocky Mountain House or Didsbury or Sexsmith or Brooks. Actually, scratch that - they won't touch a town in Smith's riding for now.

But over time, they'll get the same bylaw passed in another town and another and another, until they can claim most of the rural electoral districts. Then - maybe after getting a few larger towns or even cities (Lethbridge), they'll petition the government. "Clearly the majority of Albertans support this neutrality, so let's make it a provincial law."

And David Parker will sit back, chuckling in his white robe and hat, as he destroys the lives of LGBTQ2+ people, and finishes his second front - banning abortion in the province.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

Just saw "The Play That Goes Wrong," and it is a two hour masterpiece of a play within a play.

I see videos of complete productions on youtube. Go watch one.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 29 points 6 days ago

Make no mistake - Trump would do that and more.

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submitted 2 months ago by swordgeek@lemmy.ca to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

Hey all.

Canadian here. A number of years ago my family visited New Zealand, and while falling in love with the country and the culture, I also discovered the Hei Matau - the Maori fish hook.

This has haunted me ever since, and I want to carve one for myself. However, we've spent the last decade starting to understand the relationship between European settlers and the North American Indigenous people.

So what I do in my basement with carving tools is my own business, but I ask honestly if wearing a Hei Matau in public is considered respectful or appropriation. And also if the material matters in this context. (It would likely be from a tagua nut - "vegetable ivory" - although it's possible I could get some whale bone from my coastal friends.)

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by swordgeek@lemmy.ca to c/macos@lemmy.world

This is killing me.

We have a snippet of code on a web page. Users copy the code to a text editor, make a small change, then copy the modified version and paste it into a terminal window.

And it fails to run.

I've confirmed this happens with both Textedit and Notes, and also that copying from the web page and pasting directly into a terminal works fine (although without the necessary code changes).

It's something in the text editor copy; and there's no way to either "copy as plaintext" or "paste without formatting" into a terminal.

Does anyone know how I can work around this?

EDIT Apparently some (but not all) spaces (octal 040) are being converted to octal "302 240". I can't figure out how to stop it!

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submitted 8 months ago by swordgeek@lemmy.ca to c/support@lemmy.world

I created this post on my local server, calling for what I thought was reasonable action against a self-proclaimed threat to Canada.

Someone in the community disagreed (fine), and reported the post on their hosting instance (lemmy.world), which led to an immediate deletion of the post (on that single instance only).

Think is, I really don't feel that it was warranted - and neither do most of the community members over on lemmy.ca.

I realize that instances are autonomous, but is there an appeal process to potentially have this reinstated?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by swordgeek@lemmy.ca to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

Yesterday I created a post on a regional community on lemmy.ca.

Fairly quickly thereafter, I got a DM saying that the post had been removed because someone who disagreed with me complained. Oddly though, the DM came from a @Automod@lemmy.world - not the server hosting the community.

Furthermore, I still see the post when I go looking - and there has been a bit of discussion about it.

So my questions:

(a) Can a post be removed from a specific federated instance without being removed from the original instance? (b) Is there an appeal process for removed posts? I'm sorry that the guy got all butthurt, but my post was sincere, measured, and (I think) reasonable. If it offended someone, they should discuss it.

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