dermanus

joined 3 months ago
[–] dermanus 4 points 21 hours ago

Why? He didn't seem to want the job when he had it. His one and only "achievement" was keeping property tax increases low and that was at the expense of the quality of life in the city.

[–] dermanus 5 points 1 day ago

Give your balls a tug. Buying an air fryer that requires an internet connection makes you an idiot, not a victim of capitalism.

[–] dermanus 5 points 3 days ago

For me it's mostly the half baked technology angle. I've been in the tech industry for almost twenty years now and I've seen many, many cycles of hype. This one is less obviously dumb than NFTs but it still has all the same hallmarks.

Maybe it'll be useful at some point for summary or synthesis but for now it's just a neat toy.

[–] dermanus 3 points 4 days ago

When will they ever say thank you?

[–] dermanus 1 points 6 days ago

Trump and Co don't even think about feeding soldiers, let alone poor children.

[–] dermanus 1 points 6 days ago

There is this sort of main character syndrome where they're shocked that other countries respond to things like tariffs, or might pursue opportunities that don't include them.

[–] dermanus 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For the same reason the whole title is in quotes: American literacy is very poor.

[–] dermanus 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In my case the scrutineers were volunteers from the political parties and didn't have to stay if they didn't want to, but I was a deputy returning officer and I couldn't leave until the count of ballots matched the number of ballots I had given out to people.

All of this talk about election fraud is just power hungry psychopaths inventing reasons they lost. Large scale cheating with paper ballots is much harder than digital systems.

One difference I've seen between out elections is we have more polling stations. It's unusual for people to wait longer than 15 minutes to vote.

We always have results that evening. Polls close at eight pm and results are finalized by midnight.

[–] dermanus 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes cause so much harder to modify a paper ballot, especially the mailed ones

Correct. It is. Because to do enough to change the result you need to do it alot, and that's really hard to get away with.

In Canada we count the ballots with witnesses (called scutineers) to validate.

[–] dermanus 16 points 1 week ago

Hah, your dumb car is all "frunked" up

[–] dermanus 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm a daily user for years and I've never heard of this. I wonder if it has to do with the way they're consuming it. Shady vapes from the internet could be causing trouble, not the thc itself.

[–] dermanus 5 points 1 week ago

Burning down the Whitehouse is a point of pride for Canadians.

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