The bear known as “The Boss” is up there in animal hall-of-fame: https://mountainsandtreasures.ca/the-big-boss-bear-of-banff-national-park/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/the-boss-jason-leo-bantle-banff-national-park-bear-1.6650888

Oooh cool! I’ll be watching for the release of this software with great interest!

https://photon.lemmy.ca/ (among a number of frontends!)

Many songs if I like enough I figure out some of the words when looking for the title. Otherwise I remember them then forget them for a while. A couple famous examples I like:

Dschinghis Khan - Moskau, it’s a bop, i know the melody but lyrics I only know parts of.

O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tea - this one of course I know front to back but I don’t know what a single word means.

The best bike infrastructure in the GTA is no match for the stupidest drivers in the GTA.

On the other side of the country, here in Vancouver, a couple times a year you get a car that decides to turn into the separated bicycle lane.

Honestly inviting anyone over is motivation for me to clean. In my own space, there’s stuff everywhere, but when someone’s coming my standards for personal cleanliness and organization shoot up dramatically.

Once in a blue moon there will be a Reddit-style comment chain on Lemmy, I can tolerate it occasionally when the situation warrants it. When I left Reddit, I was getting tired of every top thread having at least one of the same joke template replies and I’m sure it hasn’t gotten any better since.

Lemmy’s issues are with leftist vs. liberal infighting I would say.

Noooo, what will happen to the industrial disaster recreation videos channel?

Oh the Urbanity, a Canadian couple discussing housing and transit !urbanism@video.canadiancivil.com

Some people are addicted to sugar to the point where every beverage must be sweet flavoured.

I have water, but othertimes I am sugar addicted so I want a different beverage.

Also I have had tap water in various places across Canada. Most are decent, some are especially delicious, some have awful after tastes and even smell weird (sulfur or chlorine). If that stuff runs to your home I can understand why people prefer bottled water, tea or soda instead of tap water.

Ohhh it’s sometimes fine to not follow due process. Yeah just a matter of debate of how violent of a criminal we claim someone to be!

Fuck off with that. Due process is due process for everybody, otherwise there is no justice.

Thanks 캐럴라인 레빗 for your unwavering truthful reporting of Dear Leader.

Trump still has the option to bring it to the Sycophantic Court of the United States.

Well, here’s hoping you have a better time with us on Lemmy! My Reddit account is 8 years old, but I stopped using it and have been on Lemmy full time for 2 years now.

I think the issue is you are posting too early for Reddit, you should be commenting for the first week at least.

Essentially, the coarse-grained spam-filter assumes that anyone that has a whole bunch of posts ready to go the day they sign up is a bot spammer. Even here on Lemmy, if you sign up then immediately try to copy and paste a post 10 times to different communities, you will get reported and banned for spamming.

The principle behind it is like any social space online or offline: if you are a legitimate new member, you will start on the fringes and slowly settle in, from introducing yourself to a few members, attend events, to then asking questions, before making any influential speeches or going into a leadership position. Anyone trying to fast track that will be met with suspicion from members.

Reddit and Lemmy are similar in a sense. you start as a lurker, become a commentor, then you are well-adjusted enough to post.

If you want to talk about personal waste, the problem is two-end: reducing consumption (new stuff) and reducing disposal. Some plastic wrapping, some packaging and single use items are required in some applications (e.g. for sanitary reasons), but we can find alternatives (e.g. bamboo biodegradable cutlery) and look to use longer lasting items over single use. The second is the lack of segragation of waste streams and appropriate facilities to reclaim material from waste. Even if something is biodegradable, if it ends in a landfill it can release methane or if burned it releases CO2. Many landfills have most of their emissions coming from organic and yard waste, and diverting that to compost, mulch and natural gas digester projects.

There are a lot of problems but there are also a lot of solutions. You will have to set aside a level of waste you are willing to accept, and work towards places you can improve or propose items or support efforts that can help. Zero waste for everywhere and everything is an impossible goal that strictly pursuing that will achieve nothing but make you depressed.

For restaurants specifically, when you eat out you can go to places with washable plates and cutlery instead of paper/plastic ones, or for the cheaper end, ones that use bamboo cutlery instead of plastic.

In Canada we have this thing called “bulk barn” (a brand of bulk food stores) that you pay by weight, as much or as little as you want, but you put each item you get into its own plastic bag.

I believe that user is talking about this post (link to article). They are requesting some evidence or research that supports the contrary claim you are making.

No, if a Democrat president had done something remotely resembling one of these things: media, courts, Congress would be in a frenzy to stop it, before you could say executive order.

I mean I can understand the “controlled ineffectual opposition” narrative, but I don’t buy the “Democrats’ inaction means they are just as evil as Republicans”.

In addition to siccing the military on protestors…

• Harris would totally apply tariffs to every country in the world.
• Harris would totally pardon everyone who paid her enough and said good things about her.
• Harris would fire huge chunks of the government recklessly without any regard to what they do.
• Harris would push for a Big Beautiful Bill to withhold funding from judges that would try to hold her administration in contempt.
• Harris would start a cryptocurrency token designed solely to enrich herself.
• Harris would get into rapid back and forth arguments on Twitter (or BlueSky I suppose) with other influential people.
• Harris would try to make every issue about herself, including Canada’s election.

She would totally do all of these things in the first few months, because both sides are definitely the same.