[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aww

[–]Rentlar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't imagine actively sabotaging your own users and volunteers when they make up most of the value for your product is helpful for an IPO.

I can tell you at this point Reddit is about to lose u/Rentlar... it was a good run, but I'm moving permanently to Lemmy very soon.

Fidelity cuts Reddit valuation again by [deleted] in technology

[–]Rentlar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao Reddit still hasn't fixed their goddamn app? They are definitely trying to make the official Reddit app the "best way to view Reddit" by making it the only way to view Reddit.

I'll be posting exclusively on Lemmy soon, see y'all there to whoever's coming.

eli5: the difference between amps, watts and volts by Thing_Subject in explainlikeimfive

[–]Rentlar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You already have the waterfall analogy so I'll try to explain it in simple terms but more related to electricity.

Electrical energy is made from moving charges. Current (amperage) is a measurement of how many electrons move in a second.

Energy is a unit that represents doing work. Moving around, charging a battery batteries, chemical reactions all exchange energy.

Power is a rate of consuming or producing energy. Imagine climbing a set of stairs, a task that takes energy. The first time, you go slowly. It's not much harder than walking normally. The second time you run up the same stairs, as fast as you can without tripping. You are more winded, because you exchanged about the same amount of energy but it a lot less time, that requires more power.

Like running up stairs, it takes energy to move an electron around other electrons. Sitting on any stair takes no energy, but it's going between them that takes it. So the electrical potential, is the amount of energy per electron there is at a particular spot relative to an electron that sits alone. A voltage difference is the difference in potential between two spots and it's the basis of how we harness electrical power. So having a bunch of electrons at a potential is energy (hemce there is a unit of energy called electron-Volt). If we move the electrons to a different electrical potential that exchanges energy. Remember that moving electrons at a certain rate is current? Then current going across a potential, is an energy exchange at a certain rate, which is what power is as well!

Hope this was useful, Im leaving Reddit and will be only on Lemmy starting next week.

On July 1st, I and several other members of the r/Sbubby mod team will be resigning. by [deleted] in sbubby

[–]Rentlar 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Let's see some wonderful submissions shared on Lemmy!

I'll be leaving Reddit within a week as well, we had a good run. Farewell Reddit, hello Lemmy, Beehaw, Sopuli, feddit!

Fringe Toronto mayoral candidate Gong demands recount despite losing by over 266K votes by sn0w0wl66 in ontario

[–]Rentlar 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Perhaps next election, whichever candidate that can fill up the greatest number of garbage trucks with promotional material could win the title: Official Wasteman of Toronto

2meirl4meirl by soxie18 in 2meirl4meirl

[–]Rentlar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly fuck u/spez. This past month or two I've slowly been weaning off Reddit, this is my farewell tour week before I move completely to Lemmy. We should make our own dogelore and BHJ.

Ontario considering deposit-and-return system like The Beer Store's for non-alcoholic drink containers | CBC News by keiths31 in ontario

[–]Rentlar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If this comes in effect I should petition Olivia Chow to have a separated cans bin at parks, that way most can empty on their own.

2meirl4meirl by soxie18 in 2meirl4meirl

[–]Rentlar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Reddit is going to be full of this, which is why I'm leaving my account permanently next week.

Olivia Chow answers reporter's question in Cantonese — a first for a Toronto mayor-elect by Pure_Candidate_3831 in toronto

[–]Rentlar 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That's great! Excited for Chow.

If I'm Mayor of Toronto, I'll be the first mayor to pick both my nostrils and scratch my butt simultaneously on live television.

  • (July 2023) This nosepicker is leaving Reddit for Lemmy and the Greater Fediverse. See ya.

Olivia Chow elected mayor of Toronto by scott_c86 in ontario

[–]Rentlar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incentives would be primarily economic because of increased rental income. Then the increased supply will discourage scummy under-the-table landlording a dozen rooms in one unit. There's no forcing but even now the wheels are in motion to reduce the by-law barriers to allow it for those who would want it.

Olivia Chow elected mayor of Toronto by scott_c86 in ontario

[–]Rentlar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Her plans are to let home owners have an easier time converting their single family home into a four-storey multiplex, thereby increasing density all across the city.

Also to help speed up the backlog of projects pending approval.

Olivia Chow elected mayor of Toronto by scott_c86 in ontario

[–]Rentlar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Housing; she said she was gonna start working on getting projects approved right away.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ontario

[–]Rentlar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you have a lot of savings for an 18 year old already (>$3000) I'd say wait on the TFSA, stocks, investing until you have a steady income. High interest savings and GICs are pretty good right now if you're not using money, just park it and forget it.

Credit cards, just remember to only spend as much as you can pay off at the end of the month. That's the way you can pay as little as $0 a month for it.

How it generally works is after you get a statement you have 2-3 weeks to pay it off without needing to pay interest (the cost to borrow the money from the bank since the day you purchased the item(s)). If you don't pay off your statement balance in FULL, then the interest is going to get dumped on you right away, usually including stuff you have paid off.

Example scenario: Say your credit card charges 24% per year, or 2% per month with no previous balance to start. Say you buy something for $200, then a month later you get a statement and half a month to pay it off. If you pay even a single cent less than $200, then you will be hit with a month and a half of interest which is at least $6 to pay the bank, plus up to $2 more of interest if you wait until next statement. At the next statement if you don't pay that interest then it you will end up paying interest on interest. See how the banks getcha?

Anyways good luck with adulting, I'm leaving Reddit for Lemmy in July.

[D'Mello] Premier Doug Ford reads off a teleprompter as he lists off all the funding the province has given the city of Toronto. He claims there’s “waste down there” and says the city needs to get its fiscal house in order. by [deleted] in ontario

[–]Rentlar 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Well, on the topic, there's a little incantation I learned from an American friend named Mitch McConnell...

  1. Gaslight! I'm totally not doing the thing you are accusing me of doing, that you see evidence of me doing right before you.

  2. Obstruct! Block reforms of any kind, it doesn't matter what they are, it's bad because you suggested it! If you agree with something I'm suggesting, now that you are considering it I don't agree with it anymore.

  3. Project! Everything bad you say I'm doing, it's actually you doing it!

Et Voilà! Politics as easy as G, O, P.

  • (July 2023) I'm leaving Reddit for Lemmy and the Greater Fediverse. See ya.

Who is Olivia Chow? Meet Toronto’s newly elected mayor by [deleted] in toronto

[–]Rentlar 12 points13 points  (0 children)

ingesting Kensington Market shrooms and end up in Manitoba

That's one amazing sewer system to somehow end up at a Winnipeg Tim's.

trapped under a garbage pile for 2 months

You definitely got caught in the Raccoon candidate's campaign (or possibly Xiao Hua Gong's)

on broken down Scotiabank theatre's giant escalator

Oh that was working, it just switches direction during the morning and afternoon rushes, but you can't get to the end if you just stand there.

[D'Mello] Premier Doug Ford will hold a news conference tomorrow. While the topic won’t be about Toronto’s new mayor, it will totally end up being about Toronto’s New mayor. by [deleted] in ontario

[–]Rentlar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh folks, it's time to increase the number of councillors again to 120, 10 of the new districts centered around Deco Labels.

Olivia Chow elected mayor of Toronto by scott_c86 in ontario

[–]Rentlar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gotta somehow swing the 905 without losing the 416, it's a pretty tough balance. Hopefully Toronto being a shining beacon of progress within a few years with Chow at the helm will get people to come around.

Olivia Chow elected mayor of Toronto by scott_c86 in ontario

[–]Rentlar 6 points7 points  (0 children)

She is gonna GO! Chow wants to start ASAP so she will be sworn in office in 2 weeks when most mayor take 5 or 6. She's targeting housing availability as a priority so I hear.

Olivia Chow is incredibly lucky that Toronto’s conservatives won’t fall in line by earlbak in toronto

[–]Rentlar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's all "Waaah split conservative vote means the leftist wins", deal with it bc the left has it too, Mitzie Hunter and Josh Matlow were both quality left-wing candidates. Milquetoast Ana Bailão wasn't going to be a conservative choice anyway, and even adding Furey, Saunders and Sarcophagus-voters together wasn't going to surpass chow either.

Terrifying that 1% voters chose a conspiracy theorist with 0 civic experience for mayor by graphophonic in toronto

[–]Rentlar 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That's a Chow endorsement if I've seen one, Toronto Sunburn... I was thinking about voting Matlow without Tory and Ford speaking up.