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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Thank you for the info.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

Paywalled, can't read it.

Does this mean I would pay taxes just for holding US securities (eg., stocks in US companies)? Or only when selling? Does it make any difference which brokers are used?

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Agreed. I got to see him speak once years ago, wonderful lecture on the nature of creativity, lateral thinking, and just... stuff. Hard to describe, but just excellent.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I heard the owner of a local cafe a few years ago complaining about how "he couldn't find any good workers" ... I asked the girl across the counter later if she was willing to state how much she was paid. Minimum wage. Approximately half of what the local government officially acknowledges what a living wage is here to afford a one-bedroom apartment.

If your business can't afford to pay your employees enough to feed, clothe and house themselves with a full-time position, then your business isn't viable. Period.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Agreed... that's why I posted it, not in any way to support it. I'm fine with the post being downvoted into oblivion; but Canadians need to know this stuff is out there and people are unfortunately viewing it.

 

No comment other than the phrase in title is prominent on the hats intentionally shown behind the young man being interviewed here. I'll let everyone reading this decide for themselves whether this is a problem or not.


EDIT: For the record, perhaps my original commentary on this post was attempting to be too 'clever'. I was most definitely * not * trying to promote these chuckleheads. It was posted in order to ensure people know the enemy -- there are some scary forces working in Canada to instill the horrors we are seeing down south, right here, right now.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Reminds me of the mainframe in "The Desk Set".

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

Would a honeypot community help, where anyone visiting a post there gets blocked or tarpitted?

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It's not the EU, or anyone outside of Russia, who would 'unleash WWIII'. It's the aggressor's choice, since they started ALL of this, whether that occurs. They could definitively stop this RIGHT NOW by just telling their troops to go home.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He is right. No other nation with self-respect should be granting any state visit from the FOTUS (Felon Of The United States). He is an adversary to us all and should be shunned on the international stage, period.

Tell your US Embassy representatives that you will be happy to reconsider engaging once the leadership has changed.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

I do not assert that merely swallowing water with fluoride offers any benefit to do with dental health.

It should be obvious that the act of directly swallowing water containing fluoride would give the water little to no opportunity to interact with one's teeth, which would be required for the intended preventative effect.

This is very similar to the decision by most nations to put low base levels of iodine in table salt. Given peoples' daily habits and diet, it was determined to be a safe and reliable way of ensuring exposure to a needed substance for general health. Not everyone has or will have the discipline to apply fluoridated paste to their teeth regularly (hell, many people don't even brush their teeth regularly!). Nor would many people take steps to ensure they had a recommended dose of iodine if they had to think about it, rather than just getting it through their daily meal ...

It should be clear to anyone that it's the incidental daily, weekly, monthly, yearly cumulative effect of fluoridated water, even in the brief interval before it is swallowed, swishing in the mouth and in direct contact with teeth, that can be of benefit.

Explain to me the science of how municipal fluoridation causes health issues so severe that it should be discontinued.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 224 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (42 children)

This is even more nuts than removing fluoride from municipal water systems. At least with that, parents who believe the science that their kids' teeth will be better off with targeted fluoride treatment can buy the drops and tablets, and those who are afraid for some reason can choose to just not use it.

This is just trying to ban access to fluoride entirely, despite research showing its benefits and the distinct lack of significant harm. Madness.

What next, are they going to criminalize sending fluoride drops/pills through the mail, like mifepristone?

Calgary, AB Canada removed fluoride and a decade later added it back after seeing the effects of its absence.

 

As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, "coincidentally", is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.

First they came for ...


EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

 

While GNU APL has, as its primary focus, adherence to the APL2 ISO 13751 standard, it is open to enhancements which do not violate compatibility with APL/2.

So, as of SVN 1847M:

      s ← 'Mississippi'
      ≠s    
1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      (≠s)/s
Misp
 

In response to suggestions by a lunatic in the US Oval Office, Green Party Canada's leader Elizabeth May suggested Canada should invite western states Washington, Oregon and California join B.C and split from Canada to form the 'Cascadia' eco-state.

(Note this article is from Jan 8, 2025 and Elizabeth May has since become co-leader of the party alongside Jonathan Pedneault).

 

Would be a darn shame if tariffs applied to it for the US... oh wait

 

I was searching online for quite a while this evening, chasing a half-remembered bit of trivia, that trilobites were supposedly unique in their use of calcite for their lenses, composing the ommatidia of their compound eyes.

It must be so obvious to scientists in the field of studying insects that they never mention it in their papers...

So, what compound(s) do modern arthropods use in their compound eyes. If it isn't calcite, what do modern 'bugs' use?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/APL@lemmy.ca
 

Whether you are an old hand at APL, or someone just discovering the language, having the symbols in the standard layout right there on your keyboard is a great help... dedicated APL keyboards are pretty expensive, so consider these stickers that let one adapt any standard desktop or laptop keyboard!

APL keyboard sticker set on Tindie

To set up your keyboard for APL programming on Linux, see here.

 

If you haven't heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.

This probably cannot go on forever... but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a 'Prime Directive' of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, ... centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth's own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?

Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/APL@lemmy.ca
 

For Funtoo users, simply sudo emerge dev-lang/apl :)

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/gmecanada@lemmy.ca
 

Normally I avoid linking to the old sh$thole here ('cuz you know, f*ck u/Spez), but this is an exception.


DFV posted DIRECTLY to 'stonk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/s/8TNza7V2IN

Discussion over on the 'stonk sub: https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1d6r84q/roaring_kitty_theroaringkitty_on_x/

Twitter post tonight: https://x.com/theroaringkitty/status/1797418617908154621

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/APL@lemmy.ca
 

GNU APL is easy to build on your own Linux machine, though the steps aren't detailed on the website.


Benefits of building yourself locally:

  • One can customize how many cores GNU APL has access to
  • Customizing optional extensions like PNG image, SQLite, GTK support etc.
  • Having the latest bugfixes

  1. Obtain the latest source

  2. Configure using autotools

    • cd trunk
    • make clean
    • ./configure CORE_COUNT_WANTED=3 RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes --with-ctrld_del

    Use ./configure --help to see other options, adjust to taste

  3. Build and install

    • make -j && sudo make install
  4. Set up your default workspace

    • cd ~
    • mkdir -p GNUAPL/workspaces

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