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Going to keep myself in the dark until tomorrow morning. Good luck Canada’s democracy!
Rentlarto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How are Americans preparing for the Trumpist supply shock?2·11 hours agoSure. Most people probably have a bit of fresh food to rely on in the immediate term if disaster hits, but by the time you get to it, you should have a gauge on how long you will need to make that 72 hours supply actually last. Water is also vital but it does take up more space so as a baseline 72 hours of each is a good starting point.
Nvm that gives the frontend link only. Link to original comment doesn’t appear to be a feature on alex.lemmy.ca. However there’s only one extra step you need to do.
You just have to remove the alex.lemmy.ca/ part before the actual server name to obtain the original URL.
Rentlarto Canada•Even if Pierre Poilievre loses the election, he will have jolted Canada rightward5·1 day agoOn the other hand maybe his character and judgement will be strong enough to do better.
Canadians including myself are all too familiar of politicians losing their convictions to appease established political interests. The fact that Carney has been an outsider to our politics until this year, has me optimistic that he would more likely than most to hold onto them to do what is right (in the utilitarian sense), not just for the connected elite. But it can happen to anyone so I’m not holding my breath for it either.
Correct. The frontend URL solves the problem for you in a sense, when you open alex.lemmy.ca/[other server address]/post/[other server post #] you can stay logged into lemmy.ca and it shows the correct thing.
The idea though, is that each client (at the moment, Lemmy v1.0 may change this) is expected to handle it their own way, so the original URL is ideal (other frontends call this Permalink) if you are making a lemmylink redirect link. Does the linked clips icon for someone not on your server give a link to their server or one to Lemmy.ca? The original one is always the on the originating server of the person who submitted the post or comment.
Rentlarto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How are Americans preparing for the Trumpist supply shock?731·2 days agoRegardless of whether you think something catastrophic will happen tomorrow, next month, next year or never, it’s a smart plan to have an emergency stash of shelf-stable food and drinking water to last 72 hours per person in your household for whatever natural or manmade disaster.
Rentlarto Canada•Even if Pierre Poilievre loses the election, he will have jolted Canada rightward22·2 days agoIf Mark Carney wins, he will govern in Poilievre’s shadow
Only if we Canadians let him. If Carney, who professed environmentally conscious thinking in his book Values, is willing to borrow Poilievre’s ideas for a campaign, I imagine he is also willing to listen to ideas from the people just the same in government.-
Now’s (or Monday if we hear the result is a Liberal majority) is not the time to despair. It’s the time to put our own progressive slate of ideas together and tell our MPs what we want and how we as Canadians can accomplish it. Rhetoric is rhetoric, I think it’s high time for action, no matter what the ultimate make up of the House is next week.
Rentlarto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•I flew propeller planes for 17 years – here's why they're making a comeback1·2 days agoI will admit there is some speculation on my part of what will happen in the future. But the proof to my central claim of battery-operated passenger planes that are in operation today is linked right in my previous comment. I’ll link it again here in case you missed it:
https://globalnews.ca/news/10567635/canada-first-ever-commercial-electric-flight-bc/
It’s not all a pipe dream.
And like I said I agree that fuel is more practical for most flights today, I’m not ignoring the current limitations you state. I do, however, believe that over time these can be overcome, to significant benefit, such as the $2/hr operating cost of the electric plane vs. $172. If you are most worried about airborne hazards, sodium ion batteries are far more stable than lithium and perform better at extreme temperatures, but the energy density does not currently surpass lithium so it’s not a practical for aviation yet.
What I want to say is: Just because it doesn’t work for most applications now (which you have made clear in your argument), don’t rule it out for the future.
Rentlarto politics @lemmy.world•Pete Hegseth’s Personal Signal Chat Phone Number Is All Over the Internet51·2 days ago(944) 753 - 9547 [WHISKEYLIQ]
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The proper way to link to someone’s post or comment is to copy the Permalink, or the URL at the rainbow star logo symbol. That doesn’t really solve your issue though.
Some apps automatically convert links to avoid the logged out issue, some don’t.
Another solution is https://lemmyverse.link/ to make lemmy links server agnostic.
Knowing the Leafs they will only won this series game 7.
Rentlarto Canada•He is one of the richest man in the world. He owns one of the largest corporation in Canada. Do you know who this guy is?5·2 days agoI’d posted a couple times in !chatter@lemmy.ca but it hadn’t caught on. Would be good to start a new community for this.
Rentlarto Fairvote Canada•Mark Carney speaks positively about working on electoral reform3·3 days agothen maybe he’ll set the wheels in motion to get to PR
My feeling is he’s not going to do it of his own volition. I am more confident that he would help get that to reality, if there is a widespread push from Liberal, NDP, Green, and Bloc MPs to do that, through Private Member’s Bills, petitions, cabinet meetings etc.
No major disagreement from me.
That’s a sound plan IMO and I’m in support of doing all of that. We can act in this way, but during the campaign the parties have been pressed to make a unilateral declaration on how the state will be organized, which is not within their capability.
Also note that Canada has already paid a toll with our aid workers being killed by Israeli forces, so we still have to keep that in mind as we proceed.
Party leaders can indicate their ideal goals, but there’s nothing any of the leaders can promise about the fate of Palestine itself, or whether it is free and democratic, or if a despot gets installed, since it relies on so many factors outside our control.
While the underlying issue swirling around the UK courts’ confusion of gender vs. sex, male vs. female is just as confusing to me and I have no clear answers for that, the Blahaj admin’s move is I think the right one.
That instance prides itself as being a safe-space for LGBTQ+ folks, so explicitly allowing behaviour that does not recognize its users’ identities, is reasonable grounds for defederation.
Many saw the move as a revival of the party’s identity, and some even speculated that the Liberal government might fall and the NDP could mount a breakthrough campaign.
Even as I saw the government forcibly end the workers’ strike and the NDP break the confidence agreement over it, I saw it at the time more as political maneuvering, than an actual revival of the party. I wanted Singh and MPs to stand with striking workers literally rather than just figuratively. They say a lot of nice words like “we will fight for you”, but are always light on details about what they would do if they were in power, and we have not seen concrete action taken yet either (I get that legislature wise that’s not entirely their fault).
The Gaza/Free Palestine problem is also an Achilles’ heel wedge issue destroying the party as well. Canada and by extension the NDP can do little about that besides posturing, while it is both in International courts and being massively funded by the US. Most of our energy should be on problems we can solve rather than those we can’t, and we shouldn’t shun people completely because they don’t come with picture-perfect views on one issue or another, since that is what gets exploited by bad-faith actors and trolls.
I have real hope in the BCNDP, ABNDP, SKNDP and MBNDP for having actual ideas to solve actual issues of inequality, homeless and the housing crisis, healthcare. The ONDP is on the right track but still quite irrelevant…, and Singh seems to be following in their path rather than Western NDP style which I think we need some aspects of again. Tommy Douglas, a prominent Saskatchewan CCF leader and Premier after all.
Rentlarto Fuck Cars•In a conference sponsored by Hyundai, the US Transportation Secretary claimed bike lanes cause congestion and decrease road safety11·3 days agoAn appropriate sentence for Secretary Duffy would be prison until he’s watched every video on the Not Just Bikes channel.
Good Cop Bad Cop Lutnick strikes again.