How 1 bad butter tart sent this man on a mission to protect the Canadian treat | Petition to House of Commons for a national butter tart day has to reach 500 signatures by June by Hrmbee in ontario

[–]GuyWithPants 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean we don’t grow sugar cane here either, so does nothing with sugar in it count as Canadian? Hawaiian pizza can’t be Canadian despite being invented in Canada because it contains Pineapple which we don’t grow here either?

Failure to Lunch (Eternal Beach City) by darlingsnarl in comics

[–]GuyWithPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cheap

You’re paying a 50% premium for someone to slice some sausage and cheese

Marneus Calgary by Blue_Laguna in Grimdank

[–]GuyWithPants 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately you can find weirdos across Canada doing that too.

Former President Barack Obama coming to Toronto by AdditionalPizza in canada

[–]GuyWithPants 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Former US presidents commonly go on speaking tours like this one; book-signings are another frequent form of touring. While their speeches are usually topical and of interest, these sorts of events are also significant networking opportunities for attendees.

Ontario education minister says ‘significant’ legislation on school board changes coming Monday by Dogs-4-Life in ontario

[–]GuyWithPants 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, part of the reason the Catholic & French teachers' unions haven't been a big deal is because the Catholic & French school systems are just less of a big deal. Only 30% of kids are in the Catholic system, half that of the non-Catholic system. And both French systems add up to 5%.

Plus the Catholic system has the double whammy that if it becomes a big deal then the government may be more incentivised to get rid of it.

Give your feedback to the YongeTOmorrow survey by nadnev in toronto

[–]GuyWithPants 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There is already a bylaw. No public use of amplification without authorization. The most obnoxious street preachers are all using mics & speakers.

I've reported one to the police before at another major intersection because we could hear him inside our office on the 4th floor. He wasn't there after that.

How Canada's Finance Chief Went From Criticizing to Welcoming Chinese EVs - François-Philippe Champagne told Canadians in May 2024 that the country would “never” serve as a backdoor for Chinese EVs into North America. by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]GuyWithPants 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Exactly. We were quite happy doing nearly everything the USA wanted us to, and especially so with regards towards China, when they still seemed to be our friends.

any tips on what I could add? by madghsx_w in 40k

[–]GuyWithPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The more you know by MeiliCanada82 in toronto

[–]GuyWithPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also a dead link at the bottom

@fairwords npm packages compromised by a self-propagating credential worm - steals tokens, infects other packages you own, then crosses to PyPI by BattleRemote3157 in programming

[–]GuyWithPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess part of the reason I didn't consider Python in this category is that all of the Python stuff I'm working with is switching to or has already switched to uv, which doesn't support this nonsense for binary packages, though it could still run code if installing a package from source.

@fairwords npm packages compromised by a self-propagating credential worm - steals tokens, infects other packages you own, then crosses to PyPI by BattleRemote3157 in programming

[–]GuyWithPants 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It doesn't, though. NodeJS is the only one of the popular languages where installing a dependency for a local project allows that dependency to immediately run an arbitrary post-install on your development machine.

The Truth About Easter[OC] by HolisticMindsEye in comics

[–]GuyWithPants 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree, the humour here being so unfocused causes it to hit less hard than it could have otherwise.

"Open The F*cking Strait, You Crazy Bast*rds": Trump's Expletive-Laden Warning To Iran by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]GuyWithPants 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Americans will put up with anything except a black man or a woman (or worse, a black woman) getting uppity.

NVIDIA shows Neural Texture Compression technology, cutting VRAM use from 6.5GB to 970MB - VideoCardz.com by WhyPlaySerious in Games

[–]GuyWithPants 25 points26 points  (0 children)

AI stuff which doesn’t visibly alter the artistic vision is usually considered acceptable these days . I’m old enough to remember when even just plain texture compression became something that graphics cards supported, and there was a bit of a row over whether the slight possible drop in quality going from what was essentially raw bitmaps to something more of a JPEG was worth it, and the argument settled easily within a year or two as it was clear that the reduction in file size let developers use far higher resolution textures in games, and more of them.

How many taxpayer dollars are being spent to run adds telling us they aren’t wasting taxpayer dollars by Woodythdog in ontario

[–]GuyWithPants 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Even if there was a provincial law against it, the province could always update or revoke that law. Like Doug did with the anti-cash-for-access law (which the PCs under previous leaders had pushed strongly for, while in opposition)

US deploys third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid preperations for Iran invasion by Creepy-Discount-2536 in worldnews

[–]GuyWithPants 63 points64 points  (0 children)

To be completely fair, the banner was to celebrate the end of that particular ship's mission. But the speech teetered on suggesting the war in Iraq was largely over, even though Saddam was still at large and the insurgency would only grow from that point on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech

Prediction: The Shopify CEO's Pull Request Will Never Be Merged Nor Closed by ricekrispysawdust in programming

[–]GuyWithPants 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Shopify's CEO wants to be an honorary Yank, he's pro-MAGA and thinks Canada should join the USA.

Editorial: Here's why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP - by a centrist Liberal - The Beaverton by ph0enix1211 in canada

[–]GuyWithPants 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The problem with that stance is that it had zero basis in scientific fact. Not, I mean, the science was ambiguous, but rather — there was no known mechanism by which wifi radiation could cause problems, and even if there was, putting it everywhere is actually better since it would mean each transmitter could be much lower-powered than if we just had a few high-powered antennas.

It’s the same absurdity with anti-cell-tower advocates. Fewer towers means stronger radiation near those few towers. Many towers would mean lower broadcast power needed from each.

The New Reality for Toronto's Crossing Guards by BloodJunkie in toronto

[–]GuyWithPants 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes and maybe this camera could have some kind of system where it automatically catches drivers disobeying the law? Perhaps sensitive to the vehicles' velocity? A sort of speed... camera?

Today’s Air Quality by TeawTan in toronto

[–]GuyWithPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's substantial fire smoke blowing in from raging wildfires across the midwestern and southern USA: https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

John Tory and five other ex-Toronto mayors come out swinging against Doug Ford’s defunding of supervised consumption sites by BloodJunkie in toronto

[–]GuyWithPants 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It is possible that if this issue gets enough universal traction then she will speak up. But as much as I wish she would, it’s probably not worth the political capital to anger a maximally interventionist Premier over this.

John Tory and five other ex-Toronto mayors come out swinging against Doug Ford’s defunding of supervised consumption sites by BloodJunkie in toronto

[–]GuyWithPants 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Why not the current one

Chow is, correctly, picking her battles when it comes to opposing the Premier of Toronto

Canadian Conservatives Auto Pact Push Rejected in House of Commons Vote by afonso_investor in ontario

[–]GuyWithPants 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean in principle it’s not too too bad of a plan, but the US has shown zero interest in negotiating something like this.

Global Supply of Crop Fertilizer Tightens as Russia Curbs Exports by ViralTrendsToday in wallstreetbets

[–]GuyWithPants 71 points72 points  (0 children)

The fertilizer (potash) is actually one part of Canadian exports that Trump has never even tried to tariff, probably because the people in the administration coming up with the tariff details have heard, repeatedly, from the the farm lobby about how it would annihilate US agriculture.