I’ve heard that Sceptre is a good brand for that

The simplest solution is just don’t buy these TVs

https://youtu.be/2ooj5Jhx-yI

Relevant XKCD

It wasn’t always so one sided. Jane Jacobs wrote about the power and effect of local community surveillance over the streets in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. When we zone for and build mixed use streets with enough density and points of interest to ensure foot traffic at all points in the day from a variety of ordinary people, with a healthy percentage of them being established locals, then it’s much easier for good samaritans to notice when something goes wrong (like a kidnapping attempt) and intervene. Privacy used to be a lot easier to achieve too when you needed it.

Longer trips should probably be multimodal if you can no matter where you are in the world. How are the public transportation and bike shares?

Seems to be gaining popularity with real estate and construction to help visualize spaces as they’re being built and/or sold

Are these posts/ads coming in after Carney roasted them?

Alberta’s shorts are great 💙

As someone who owns both an old Pebble watch and an Apple Watch, there are definitely a lot of days where I think Pebble got it more right than Apple. I think I’d be happiest with something in between that wasn’t artificially weakened by Apple gatekeeping all of their most useful APIs.

The world doesn’t have enough sectoral bargaining

More fentanyl comes up than is caught headed down. The fentanyl problem feels like it’s blown way out of proportion in order to justify the use of emergency powers to enact tariffs without going through congress.

Almost every trip inside cities, between cities, and even to some rural places could be done with alternatives to cars.

I know it can be hard to imagine a world where cars get minimized to filling a small niche role in a broader transportation system, especially when today most people in Canada and the US think cars are synonymous with mobility. Other countries have shown that car lite/free lifestyles are not only be possible with today’s technology, but desirable.

The alternatives are more space efficient - meaning less traffic congestion, they’re better for the environment, and people’s health and wellbeing.

Even if you’re one of the few who insists on keeping your car, wouldn’t it be nice to give safe, viable, and reliable alternatives to everyone else who doesn’t want to drive so they can get out of your way on the roads?

One of the easiest ways might be to have him take a look at an app like GroundNews, which displays biases of publications and shows blindspots in the media according to political lean. The biases and differences in headlines, presentation, language used, and what stories get reported at all by any given publication become very apparent.

Edit: Maybe reading Chomsky would be better. Ground News has problems.

Second hand pixels exist and you’re not giving Google any more money

Landlords who allow their properties to go unused, underused, and/or fall into decay while they speculate on property value should be taxed. This behaviour should have penalties because they’re really not adding anything to the community and taking up limited space that someone else could be using.

Have you tried OnlyOffice?

Property taxes. Land value taxes are just better.

Does anyone use MPL anymore? Is it a decent middle ground or the worst of both worlds?

I don’t trust most of these websites to give an objective answer for most people’s ridings. Better to spend a bit more time and look at the poll data and riding’s history yourself.