The last time I looked into it in 2021, Ecobee used google cloud for telemetry and analytics.

The 2022 AB general election was 52.63% UCP, 44.05% NDP. The only reason they have a majority is the dumpster fire that is first past the post.

AB’s about on par with ON, and it’s 5% off from the difference between BC’s two parties in their last election.

And in fact there are people taking steps to force a leadership change. I dont know why you don’t know about it. Maybe you don’t speak with anyone actually in Alberta, and just go off what you read in our right-owned media?

Likely not what you’re looking for, but a note to consider: Most monitored security/camera/automation services (the ones with monthly fees) in Canada use the Alarm.com platform, meaning you’re supporting american indirectly.

Telus launched its own competition to ADC, with their own cameras, etc. But when you dig into the coding a bit, you can see the platform uses Amazon’s AWS, and the cameras are manufactured overseas.

If you have the patience and savvy, the self hosted Home Assistant suggested elsewhere is the way to go.

Personally, I’d rather have an effective politician, rather than an exciting one.

Either way, you apparently missed the AB NDPs electing Naheed Nenshi as their new leader. I’m not his biggest fan, but he’s likely to be more “exciting” for you.

Joke’s on you. My password is Abcd1234!

RUSA interference

The Apothecary in Calgary has a series of lip balms made in-house, that all have beeswax in them (they have complete ingredient listings for all their products on their site)

The tins are approx. twice the price of a Burt’s tube, and you’re also getting ~3 times the volume of product, so it’s a decent trade off.

If there any hives around/outside your city, they may manufacture lip balms as well. Pop in if they advertise visits - or there may be a communal apiarist run shop like we have here - all the bee related products you could hope for, produced by the hives of the local beekeepers.

As was pointed out on the nearly identical post in this group earlier: this is one of several posts this user has created during their 8 days on Lemmy that read like attention seeking, or bad-faith posts.

2 topics in the Bi group about being a bi(?) woman only attracted to men, one in a trans community about being a cishet woman who faked being a trans man to be “gay online”, one about being attracted to a 16 y/o boy. All written with click-baity titles like this one.

Please check the user’s post history, and assess whether it’s worth investing the energy before engaging.

Sounds great, epsecially for people less comfortable juggling multiple websites/apps while shopping. Hopefully the android version will be coming soon.

Maynard’s wine gums are made in Canada, though they’re now owned by Mondelez, which is American.

Well, they’re American, and this is the “buy Canadian” group, so that’s one reason.

That said, I also really like the idea of Framework, and spent a -lot- of time reading reviews and comments because it was one I was seriously considering, too.

General consensus is that the 13" framework is great, but that screen is too small for my use case (I do some graphics work). The 16" is…OK. More of a proof of concept than a fully finished laptop. As someone who buys once every 10 years, I’d rather not sink $3000 - $5000 on something I’ll be frustrated with for 9.5 years.

(Edited to fix typo)

Good to know. I recently picked up an LG TV after my Samsung died (it made it 17+ years, so can’t complain.) I’ve been happy with the TV, so will look into their laptops, too.

Thank you. I’d opted out of framework a while ago, because the 13 is a bit too small, and I’ve heard the 16 has some fitting issues, which, if I got a new laptop every couple years, I’d be down to support them, but that’s not me.

And agreed about popOS, I actually landed on it because it just worked with my nvidia GPU, but if there was some partnerships or whatnot, I wouldn’t die with a new distro.

Thank you! Not sure how my DDG-fu missed Eurocom and that wiki page 😮‍💨.

I’ll take a look!

Thank you, that’s a great idea! Do you have any suggestions for where to look? EBay wasn’t my friend, but I also wasn’t specifying business.

Fair. I certainly had to resurrect WTH loss meant when I joined Lemmy. I was more thinking the Venn diagram of people still clinging to Loss, and people on Lemmy is probably not a perfect circle. But who knows.

Yep, this. In a couple places on the image at least. Thank you for connecting the lines and dots.

To answer your question, the loss meme started almost immediately after the original comic was released. It ebbs and flows in popularity, but seems to be something the internet can’t let go of. Lemmy has a particular fetish for it.

My exhausted brain misread the title as “Blackberry and Seven Day Hello!” Based on how my cat extends his greetings in the morning, Seven Day Hello seemed like a completely logical name for some cats 😂

Spouse of a Canadian nurse who works in forensic psychiatry here! For pedophiles who are caught and charged in Canada chemical castration -is- one of the things that our legal system can order. It seems like you’re under the impression it isn’t already happening, when it is.

I will note that from what I’ve heard, pedophilia comes in two types of “flavours”: the people who are attracted to minors, and are generally direstressed by it and want it to stop, where chemical castration appeals to them as an option to reduce sex drive and thereby the impulses. Then there are those who aren’t necessarily sexually attracted to children, so much as the sense of power that comes from doing these things. I have no evidence, but suspect Epstein et al. to be people with these types of motivations. While the castration can help some of their impulses, there’s more to it that requires other interventions. They’re also typically not interested in reducing this drive because they don’t feel bad about it.

Anyway, gathering more info to better support the folks who don’t want to follow their urges, and stop them from harming anyone before it happens is super important. I think the power motivated are part of a larger problem within our society that isn’t going to be dismantled just through this study. But hopefully I’m wrong, and we’ll at least glean some strategies.

*edited to clarify a thought.

It’s not endemic yet because it continues to mutate, and while vaccinations reduce how many people die, they do not equate to immunity, meaning infection rates continue to be unstable. It won’t hit endemic until the numbers are predictable, and that hasn’t happened yet.

Vaccinations also do not provide much in terms of protection from long covid. I would argue while the acute phase of covid may be working towards becoming endemic, the post-Covid condition is not. 11% of covid infections become long covid (that’s vaccinated and not combined) and 25% of those never go away. On top of this, risk of long covid increases every time someone contracts covid,as does the risk of it being permanent. So with no mitigations in place, we are pushing towards a mass disabling event that none of the health centres, governments, etc. are talking about.