When I was on reddit, I got into a habit at some point of replying to standalone comments with just a handful of votes to start conversations and make people feel seen. It appears I’ve still retained that.

Unpopular opinions get super-duper downvoted here but don’t “disappear” as often as on Reddit (not including rule-breaking submissions).

I enjoy talking with the local and Lemmyverse regulars and also with most users. Reddit is so big you get lost in the 10000 comments, however many bots are copying top comments from a past repost you wouldn’t know. Lemmy is a good size now, if anything it should grow out instead of up (revitalizing more niche communities).

Topic niches served well by Lemmy: Linux, being upset at capitalism, Startrek, LBGTQ-friendly crowds on blahaj and beehaw, pcgaming, buying local and quality products (there are fewer suggestions but your average reply is better in quality than Reddit), Woodworking, DIY offgrid living (solarpunk), and a bunch more.

1. Approximately $500k-1.1M per bus if you buy from New Flyer. https://www.masstransitmag.com/bus/vehicles/hybrid-hydrogen-electric-vehicles/press-release/21212587/niagara-frontier-transportation-authority-nfta-nfta-approves-electric-bus-purchase-from-new-flyer

2. Depends on where you live. Start from $100M per kilometre.

• If you are in North America, multiply by 3.
• If you have to go through dense city, multiply by 3.
• If you need to build bridges over a river, multiply by 3, or tunnel under a mountain, multiply by 5 for those sections.
• If your city is full of NIMBYs, multiply by the number of groups that would put forward a stupid reason with the aim to kill the project.

It was whitepeopletwitter, 1.5 years ago. My comment was removed for something not in the sidebar rules, then or now.

Linking other communities (vs. subreddit equivalents). For some reason on my last year of reddit some subs started adding rules against mentioning any r/ s. It’s almost universally encouraged here to spread knowledge and grow small communities.

That is really up to you. You’ll have to experience the difference yourself to have a sense of what it’s really worth to you. I do look up the price differences of similar itineraries between carriers, having flown on every major Canadian one. If it’s 10-20% higher, I’d probably jump for my favourite carrier, but if it’s more then I’d consider bearing the suffering to save a buck. The flight length matters, even with the carrier with the highest reputation it is hard to sit in economy for an extended amount of time. For shorter flights you could easily power through a bad experience, but that tolerance depends on the person.

True, inbound shipping to Canada can be quite competitive actually compared to carryon and checked bag prices.

Outbound, Canada Post and most private carriers can cost quite a bit, I’ve found.

(Whoops this wasn’t the Canada thread so it may make more or less sense based on your country’s postage rates).

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They have a huge swath of land that to drive it by truck would make US longhaul trucking look like a piece of cake.

The Far East needs infrasfructure if they are going to be sending stuff in the St. Petersburg and Moscow direction. Otherwise they will only ever have one or two real buyers of their products, China and North Korea.

A train only needs one crew of 2 or 3 in transit, to carry the same load as 100 truck driver crews. So the fact that they are letting their railroads rot is going to bite them in the ass 100-fold if they think over-the-road freight is going to replace it.

It’s okay, the band has “Entry Of The Gladiators” prepared in case this part of the send-off is missed.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Knight, is in fact, Trebuchet/Knight, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Trebuchet plus Knight. Knight is not an chess piece unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Trebuchet system made useful by the Horse corelibs, movement utilities and vital system components comprising a full chess piece as defined by chess.c*m.

Many chess players run a modified version of the Trebuchet system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Trebuchet which is widely used today is often called Knight, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Trebuchet system, developed by the Trebuchet Project.

There really is a Knight, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the chess piece they use. Knight is the piece: the model of the piece that allocates the horse aesthetic to the chess games that you run. The siege engine is an essential part of a medieval battle, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete siege effort. Knight is normally used in combination with the Trebuchet in a chess game: the whole system is basically Trebuchet with Knight added, or Trebuchet/Knight. All the so-called Knight pieces are really pieces of Trebuchet/Knight!

Right. Often times when something is banned, it is usually banned “until further notice” hence permanent or indeterminate length, but not always. It’s the qualifier that will specify whether a ban is temporary or not.

The Prohibition Era was a time when alcohol was banned indefinitely, until it was repealed. Campfire bans generally are only during the season when the risk of fire is high or are disallowed during specific times of day, and those have been around for a while. Being grounded is a ban on going anywhere until a kid meets their parents’ wishes or after a certain time. Temporary parking restrictions for a special event or snow clearing have been around pre-internet and those are called parking bans. It’s not the ban itself that means permanent, even if there were a lot more uses of it meaning “until further notice”, than for a specific length. You could say that the usage of ban qualified with a specific time expiry is more common now than it did before, but I would argue it did exist in the past. Why that is, I could only guess.

I can go check a 20 year old dictionary in a few weeks when I visit family over the holidays and I can check if there’s a significantly different definition.

Ban just means you are not allowed to do something. You can add a qualifier to note how long it is but on its own, there is no implied timeframe, it could be short or long no problem. A permanent ban means explicitly it will not be lifted after a certain period of time.

A suspension means that you stop doing something but you could expect to restart. In most contexts this is on a temporary basis, but you can specify an “indefinite suspension”, which practically is the same as a permanent ban, but perhaps connotating greater chance to appeal it or some conditions that may occur at an indeterminate point that would lift the suspension.

I don’t know of any, but it sounds like a good idea as a browser extension. I’d write one if my code writing skills weren’t terrible.

If you are ever wondering what community to post in, especially deciding between one or another, pick 2 or 3 and post to all of them. People usual don’t mind a small amount of duplicate posting, if it repeats like 10 times in their feed they get annoyed though.

Probably Toronto or Ottawa.

New laptops whose Black Friday prices are within the $200 - 300 US range that I think are a good deal:

Example from Amazon - a ChromeOS laptop

Example from OfficeDepot - a Windows “AI-enabled” laptop

Anyway if you go with any hp I recommend you cut out all the useless crapware that comes with it.

It’s a barebones one (hence the “Essential”), if your Toshiba laptop was a good spec, that one might honestly be better, if it was slow then this might be an upgrade. All depends on what you need out of a laptop.

Screen is 1366x768 so it will be hard to do much multitasking at all and you can’t view 1080p HD video at full resolution.

For the price in USD? I think it’s not good value. A used corporate surplus laptop would be far better. ~$200 would be a good value price for this spec.

Come on, everyone knows Erdogan just wants to play pretend war, holding the American plane in one hand and the Russian air defense truck in the other going “neeeeeeeer… BOOOM!”