Yup, if you’re pronouncing Calgary as a 3 syllable word, you’re doing it wrong.

But then again, there are some cities where people add letters that aren’t there, like Vangcouver

Wait, that’s on gem? I need to stop sleeping on this service. That movie is a classic.

City Planner Plays is quite literally the Bob Ross of city building games. He uses his actual professional knowledge of city planning to build really creative and compelling stuff, and he makes it seem easy enough that you want to try doing it yourself. He has commissioned a library of chill lofi beats that he plays in the background of all his videos, which adds to the vibe immensely. And on top of that, he seems like a sincerely pleasant guy, just having fun doing a thing he enjoys doing. It’s an absolute gem of a channel.

Trump done pissed off the cowfolk! If Calgarians are mad about this, just think how mad the rest of us must be lol

Eagles sometimes hunt geese, so the eagle would probably win a direct 1 on 1. But geese are aggressively territorial and will fend off predators in groups, sometimes even alongside other species.

Canada geese have also taken down an alarming number of planes, so that’s something to think about.

Great speech. I have some amount of regret for not putting more effort into learning french, because that last french section seemed especially moving.

I unironically support this

Mobile-first is supposed to be a specific way of implementing responsive design, but I think a lot of people say “job done” after the first step and never get around to the whole responsive thing. I think it’s easier to use a mobile layout on desktop than it is to use a desktop layout on mobile, so in that way I think mobile-first is a good principle to follow. But I agree, making a desktop layout that looks good is ignored far too much these days.

The one thing that really grinds my gears above everything else is how on some news sites, there’s an autoplaying video at the top of the article that follows you when you try to scroll past it. An autoplaying video is bad enough, but that’s just infuriating.

I find news sites tend to make the most aggressively bad UX decisions, most of them are a nightmare to visit even with an adblocker installed.

And 100% of the time the thing you end up clicking is an ad. It’s definitely intentional.

Yeah, failing to call in the exterminator the instant you see evidence of this type of invasive and predatory lawmaking is itself an act of treachery. It’s completely unacceptable.

I can’t even conceptualize what Canada would gain out of a treaty like this. It just seems like a cyberpunk version of an east india company. I’d rather not have some gig-contracted soldier showing up at my house to violently enforce their empire’s claim on my digital soul.

Our government needs to be doing the exact opposite of whatever the US is trying to compel them to do.

This guy Systèmes

Such is the problem with dictators in any situation. A benevolent dictator might be one of the most productive ways to run a project, but at some point there has to be a successor. Even a mildly-less-benevolent dictator could cause a lot of damage. Linux needs a governance structure with checks and balances even if it means slower decision making; it’s too important to let fall into the wrong hands.

This was never about the border or drugs

You got that right. That stuff was pretty much all post-hoc improvising to attempt to make trump’s ridiculous tariff idea seem less irrational and stupid.

I’m waiting to see what nebulous and impossible task he comes up with this time in the 11th hour, one last chance for Canada to prove its worth to the imitation mob boss who’s running the country down there.

I agree though, whatever he wants this time, we should call his bluff. As much as he wants to paint Canada as the abuser stealing billions from the american economy, everyone can see that the opposite is true. Deleting our trade deal with them will be hard at first, but it will ultimately be a good thing for Canadians.

I’m gonna join in with everyone and recommend completely zeroing all the drives (make sure you unmount them before doing it). It will take a while but at least you will have drives in a known state and can eliminate that as a possible issue.

So there’s a definite lack of a flare before touchdown. My instinct is that a sudden, last-second change in the wind caused the aircraft to lose control authority, and the pilots were not able to de-crab or flare the plane. It looks like it landed very hard, slightly sideways, and the landing gear immediately buckled and the plane started to roll.

I’m wondering if there might have been some wake turbulence on the runway. Particularly because the airport was already operating in chaos mode, after getting hammered by a massive snowstorm that forced 300 flights to be cancelled on a holiday weekend.

Does someone have a link to the Tasha Yar one? I forgot to click save and I’m too lazy to comb through the meme haystack

I love listening to solo piano or ambient music while reading. Any other type of music is too much for my brain to handle.

It’s an adjustment I had to make when everyone started working from home in 2020, and I find it works well on transit too. Might just be that I’ve trained my brain to go into focus mode when I hear that type of music.

This reminded me of Long Long Man

Ads are a bigger business than you might expect. Get enough eyeballs in one place and brands will be tripping over themselves to give you money just to mention their name. Take the superbowl for example. It’s usually the most viewed event every year in the US, so naturally there is a tradition of advertisers pulling out all the stops and making high-budget bombastic commercials for that specific occasion. You can imagine how attractive it is for brands to want to put their ads on big social media sites, where psychological tricks are used to capture as much attention as possible at all times, instead of just once per year.

Then there’s the user data angle. The big sites all have millions of users who constantly give away personal information without even being prompted, and that makes it really easy for the companies who run them to analyze what makes each user tick and serve ads to the people who are most likely to click on them. This elevates the rate brands are willing to pay even further.

Those two things, along with a suite of anti-competitive practices, are enough to get sites to the point of being mostly profitable. Venture capital and hype-based market speculation get them the rest of the way.