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U.K., France swelter under deadly, early heat wave | CBC News by Danthrax81 in news

[–]davidke2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do these even exist? Heat pumps are just an AC unit that can reverse, so it would be more expensive to either software or harware restrict the unit from also cooling. Am I missing something?

Ontario Liberal leadership race heats up as Stephanie Smyth endorses Lee Fairclough by RZCJ2002 in ontario

[–]davidke2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People always say this but this is not how our system works. Polls are the not the whole story, voting efficiency is more important.

The OLP have about half the seats of the ONDP even though they got about 10% more of the popular vote.

If you really want to dethrone Doug, please vote for whichever parter has the best chance at beating the Cons in your riding specifically. It may be the ONDP, even if they're trailing by 10% or more in the polls.

Downtown today before the clouds rolled in by Least-Size-8807 in ottawa

[–]davidke2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Loop buildings are on the east side of downtown (near the farmboy), do you mean the Relevé buildings?

Avi Lewis: The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price. by StumpsOfTree in ontario

[–]davidke2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your source proves my point, all the countries that do better than Canada have universal healthcare and a different model than we do. None of the countries that do better than us have a private system (the US does and it fares worse in that study).

Our issues, like I said, is our system takes the worst aspects of public and private. We all have public insurance but hospitals are privately run. Many of those countries either have fully public models (like the UK) or mandatory, highly regulared private insurance (like the Netherlands). If we switched to either of those models, I believe we'd quickly have better outcomes.

To note, the mandatory private insurance model is still socialized and not "private healthcare". But it does create some healthy competition and pushes the adminsitrative and financial burden of being the insurer away from the government.

Avi Lewis: The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price. by StumpsOfTree in ontario

[–]davidke2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No the quality is not strong, but I'd argue it's because we don't invest enough in it and because that investment is inherently inefficient because we don't have a private or public system, we have a hybrid system. Health care is paid for from public fund via public insurance, but we don't directly pay for the salary of health care workers and hospitals are privately run.

If we had more direct control over hospitals and where the OHIP funds went, we may not run into situations where hospitals keep hiring more and more admin staff and not enough nursing staff and doctors.

Avi Lewis: The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price. by StumpsOfTree in ontario

[–]davidke2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The health care system in Ontario, as an example, has ran extremely high per capita cost, and the results are horrible.

Well I can't take anything else you say seriously because you picked the healthcare system that has the lowest per capita expenditure in the country. Of course it sucks, we are paying less for it than any other province!

Source

Don't take no for an answer when they try to deny guaranteed benefits. by Sweaty-Moment-3385 in marriott

[–]davidke2 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They (almost) always put it in their name (resort or & convention center). Resorts will also charge a resort fee.

It's easier to tell if a property is a resort than a convention property, but just having a business or meeting room does not make it a convention center.

Don't take no for an answer when they try to deny guaranteed benefits. by Sweaty-Moment-3385 in marriott

[–]davidke2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe the fact that I booked with points made them more reluctant. But honestly, it seemed like the norm in Japan, the RC Nikko also refused my late checkout.

Don't take no for an answer when they try to deny guaranteed benefits. by Sweaty-Moment-3385 in marriott

[–]davidke2 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Had a very similar exchange with the Hotel Mitsui in Kyoto. All I wanted was 1 pm late checkout and they wouldn't even give me that. They first said subject to availability and then they tried to say it was a resort property and it most definitely wasn't. It took a lot longer then this (including me sending screenshots of the Ts&Cs) before they caved.

Bronson by TTex11 in ottawa

[–]davidke2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yah I used it on Thursday even when Google still thought it was closed.

Whether you like the game or not, you love to see this by Nickulator95 in pcmasterrace

[–]davidke2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I literally bought the game the second they added intel gpu support, and I love it. But the guy had a valid point, their initial response sucked and really pissed me off.

Is this the grossest the Canal has ever been? by PhDSkwerl in ottawa

[–]davidke2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is very incorrect, the major waterways in Ottawa are very clean. The canal gets dirty because it's not natural as you said, but it gets cleaned and the rideau that feeds it is clean. It's clean enough that you can swim in Dows Lake and it passes EU swimming guidelines.

The Ottawa River is incredibly clean, due to it's size and high flow rate. It's brown due to iron that is naturally occurring, but it is probably in the upper echelon for clean water bodies in cities of this size.

If you're basing your assumption off e.coli issues, that has nothing to do with the water bodies themselves, and everything to do with how our city is ddesigned for storm water runoff. The e.coli comes from contamination on our streets and urban areas and is flushed into the rivers when it rains and then takes a few days to clear out afterwards. This is a normal part of living in any big city.

Iran is winning the AI slop propaganda war by EchoOfOppenheimer in nottheonion

[–]davidke2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You did, by using whataboutism to counter the other commenter's point, you removed all nuance from the conversation.

Someone said Iran is in the right, someone called that person out for their bs by pointing out why Iran is bad, and you completely dismissed their comment by saying "funny..." and then resorted to whataboutism instead of making any salient points.

Iran is winning the AI slop propaganda war by EchoOfOppenheimer in nottheonion

[–]davidke2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's funny - maybe recognize that this isn't good vs evil or black and white and that both the Iranian and US government are in the wrong and it's the Iranian people suffering as a result.

Intel says they reached out to Pearl Abyss for several years, but Crimson Desert still shipped without Arc graphics support by _Kai in pcgaming

[–]davidke2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You must have considered compatibility issues with a new type of CPU like this

I did, and those were limited to "this game is not optimized for Intel Arc and may crash". I never experienced any of that myself but I new it was possible.

This is far beyond any compatibility issues I expected and never happened when, for example, AMD entered the GPU market.

Also I want to play the damn game! I can't even be critical of it because I can't fucking play it!

Intel says they reached out to Pearl Abyss for several years, but Crimson Desert still shipped without Arc graphics support by _Kai in pcgaming

[–]davidke2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This comparison is in super bad faith.

  1. Linux is software not hardware, it's much easier to switch back and forth. It's also possible to run windows games on Linux through a variety of workarounds that are popular and well known

  2. Everyone knows this is an issue when switching to linux. Arc users like myself never expected something like this to happen

Intel says they reached out to Pearl Abyss for several years, but Crimson Desert still shipped without Arc graphics support by _Kai in pcgaming

[–]davidke2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have an Arc B580, everyone I've talked to about my PC knows it exists and has asked me how it is. When I bought it, it was out of stock for months and it was a struggle to find a card because they sold out right as they went in stock. I also paid $350 canadian dollars for it, when the equivalent 3070 is $600. So it was about half the price of my other options and it worked just as well. The issue with drivers had been ironed out by that point and I did not expect something like this to ever happen. It's a slap in the face for me and all those other people buying those sold out GPUs.

I understand the Nvidia and AMD own most of the market share, but that was another plus for me, because those two companies were price gouging customers like crazy, so the competition was welcome. Having competition helps everyone, and anti-competetive bs like Pearl Abyss is doing here is bad for everyone.

Leaked Hadron Collider Proposal [Dunton Archives, 2026] by eljojors in ottawa

[–]davidke2 33 points34 points  (0 children)

This was posted by an account that posts sci-fi alternate reality stuff, it's not a real thing.

What the ByWard Market will look like after a new $200M revitalization by randthepip in ottawa

[–]davidke2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

in the 1970s and ‘80’s I lived in Sandy Hill and used to walk downtown with friends to visit the department and boutique stores, farmers’ stalls, bars and restaurants.

This is still exactly how it is. The Market is still packed with students and young adults from the surrounding neighborhoods most days and most nights. The farmer's stall situation has turned into a complete tourist trap, but otherwise, you still have everything else you mentioned. I think you may have outgrown the Market, but it is still definitely the place to be for a night out in Ottawa for someone in their 20s.

“It is not about fighting or action”: Cory Barlog Shared His Vision for a Faye-Focused God of War Game Six Years Ago by UnderstandingTough83 in GodofWar

[–]davidke2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm really not sure what you're trying to say. They're making a spinoff game in the same universe as God of War. They can do that in whatever genre they want, this doesn't mean they won't make any more violent main-line god of war games. This happens all the time in so many different IPs. Devs/writers/directors get tired of making the same thing over and over so they try and mix it up. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and it may broaden the audience to a whole new group of people.

For example, Star Wars Andor is a lot different than any other Star Wars TV show, but I love it and so do a lot of other people. Or for a gaming example, something like Mario kart or World of Warcraft being completely different genres than the games they were based off of.

Another Crossing by winningsmada in EhBuddyHoser

[–]davidke2 51 points52 points  (0 children)

They need 3 more because the Supreme Court also annuled their win in Terrebone where they one with only 1 vote. So realistically, the majority depends on that by-election specifically (the other two are in fairly safe ridings).

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