bradbeattie

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (10 children)

If the camera really does need to be that thick for lens reasons, couldn't we at least make the rest of the body bigger with more battery?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Steam still lists Civ7 as requiring a third-party account and stays off my wishlist while it does.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Speaking of unhelpful, eurogamer.net is littered with ads. They add no value to the original Reddit post (https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1emb4ch/valve_is_finally_addressing_bad_reviews_issue/).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just hold off for now. They might take your money, shut it down, and mandate that you buy "Industrial Annihilation: Titans" for an extra $15.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just copy/pasting something I wrote in another thread as it applies just as much here. https://lemmy.ca/comment/4835622

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Want to sabotage a protest? Encourage advocacy for increasingly tangential issues. Focus splits, folks start disagreeing on new issues, folks start disagreeing on how issues get prioritized, everything falls apart.

Sadly, this doesn't even require a malicious actor encouraging it. Well-meaning folks see a potentially sympathetic audience for their pet issue and boom.

I'll happily debate political beliefs, but not here. In vegan communities, I'm here for the animals and welcome anyone here with similar motivations. Fragmenting the community by requiring increasingly narrow adherence to beliefs X, Y, and Z is not helpful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Probably worth distinguishing the cross-party ERRE survey from the LPC push-poll that was mydemocracy.ca.

Compare as an example the quality of questions and their inherent biases:

The former asked people to rate how much they agreed with statements like

  • Independent candidates should be able to be elected to Parliament
  • The current electoral system adequately reflects voters' intentions
  • Seats should be allocated in proportion to the percentage of votes received by each political party
  • Voters should elect local candidates to represent them in Parliament
  • The current electoral system should be changed

Whereas the latter asked more loaded questions:

  • There should be parties in Parliament that represent the views of all Canadians, even if some are radical or extreme.
  • Governments should have to negotiate their policy decisions with other parties in Parliament, even if it is less clear who is accountable for the resulting policy.
  • It is better for several parties to have to govern together than for one party to make all the decisions in government, even if it takes longer for government to get things done.
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I'm actively working on building something for this. In the interim, most phones have something akin to a voice recorder with transcriptions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Its the same "power corrupts" story again and again. Karina Gould gave an impassioned speech on electoral reform (http://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/house/sitting-64/hansard#Int-8963139). But after replacing Maryam Monsef as Minister of Democratic Institutions, her views suddenly became far more simplistic. In a 2017 interview on CBC's Metro Morning, she was asked "Why is it important that people at the very least believe every vote counts?". She replies "Because they do. … We literally count them: 1, 2, 3, 4, up to the majority that wins."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Agar is only going to work if you heat it. Xanthan gum might be the best alternative here that requires no heating. It'll certainly make it more viscous, but might result in a less than appealing texture. I'd experiment with maybe heating a xanthan gum and agar mix, then removing from heat and stirring in the yogurt. I dunno, requires playing around depending on desired results.

 

I'm new to Summit, but not new to Lemmy. In other clients, I've subscribed to several clusters of communities. I'd love to be able to group them into multi-communities in Summit.

Desired behaviour: That the "Create Multi Community" page show you communities you've subscribed to that aren't yet in any multi community.

Desired behaviour: That searching for communities in the "Create Multi Community page" indicate which of the search results you're already subscribed to.

 

Ended up with a felt version of John Carpenter's Thing.

 

When picking avacados to buy, aim for the ones that are longer than they are round. If it's as round as an orange, you're going to get this kind of all-pit bullshit.

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