This song is so big in my part of the country it’s hard to believe it’s not an international hit. Good nomination!
Yardy Sardley
A typical bike-riding leftist urbanite who also happens to be a hockey-crazy Western Canadian.
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Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Analysis: Carney’s Liberals are attracting support from unlikely places
2·vor 7 TagenIf this is the type of person the Liberals are able to convince to join them, I shudder to think about what’s in store for us under a Carney majority.
Corey Perry’s team has lost in the stanley cup finals 6 years in a row*. He’s back on the Lightning this season and they’re looking strong. I predict the curse continues.
* ok technically the streak was broken in 2023 when Tampa got bounced by the Leafs, but the fact the Leafs won a playoff series at all makes that season such a historical aberration it deserves an asterisk.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Dark Fantasy Pirates@lemmy.zip•On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers (1987) - the only novel in this genre of dark fantasy pirates?English
2·vor 18 TagenI remember finding a series of children’s books by the name Vampirates at my local library roundabout the mid-2000s. I don’t recall much about the plot but I’m confident the elements you’re looking for were all in there.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDBEnglish
101·vor 1 MonatTo add a tiny bit of technical detail here, vanilla Arch enforces support for x86_64 v1, meaning all software available in the Arch repos is built to not use any cpu feature that didn’t exist in v1. Not a bad thing since it allows for support of older (64 bit) hardware, but it does leave like 20 years of microarchitecture advancement on the table.
According to the CachyOS website, they have repos with software built for v3 and v4 which can apparently juice your rig for an extra 20% performance.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Residents of #canada, would you be in favour of your province or territory abolishing annual clock changes and moving to a consistent, year round time?
14·vor 1 MonatYes. In Alberta, especially in the central/northern region, the time change doesn’t serve any particular purpose. Our daylight hours are very long in the summer and very short in the winter, so changing the specific time the sun rises and sets hardly makes a difference.
Personally I prefer standard time over DST, and I think a lot of people here share that opinion. We probably would have switched over years ago if our government had any shred of competence.
*Supports Avi Lewis*
*Joins Liberals*
At least with the Conservative floor crossers, you can see how they would get the idea of Carney maybe helping advance their ultimate goals. But this does not make sense to me. The way Carney is governing is pretty much at odds with Avi Lewis-type policy.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•We can just do the adult check thing the usual way.
23·vor 1 MonatAll of this seems impossible to enforce in the FOSS ecosystem. People can just fork the software and remove any restriction they don’t like. That’s kind of the whole point of free software. Users are free to use their devices however they like, including in ways that are not intended by the devloper.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•We can just do the adult check thing the usual way.
23·vor 1 MonatAnd the address space is big enough you can choose a new random address between every connection to avoid tracking.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Alberta Federation of Labour calls for oil windfall tax to avoid profiteering amid war in Iran
8·vor 1 MonatIt pisses me off how this is the second time Danielle Smith’s party is going to get bailed out by a war.
They’re terrible at running the province 99% of the time, but the moment it seems like the consequences might finally catch up – nope! The price of oil jumps and everyone says “oh yeah, I guess they’re doing fine,” and stops paying attention again.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Alberta@lemmy.ca•Alberta projects deficit of nearly C$9.4bn, citing low oil prices
7·vor 2 MonatenAlberta voted in a government who ran on balancing the budget through the magic of oil prices. Only a couple short years later, all of our public services are in crisis mode and the budget is worse than ever before because the price of oil didn’t meet their projections. But hey, at least they got rid of that annoying photo radar thing, so you can let off some steam via road rage if the O&G market has got you feeling down. Bonus points if you run over any cyclists or trans kids.
Looking forward to 40 more years of backwards bullshit in this province.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you set your Lemmy "type" to: hot, active, new, old, etc.?
1·vor 2 MonatenSubscribed/New most of the time, but I check All/Active every once in a while to see if there’s any drama going on.
Sometimes I’ll hit All/Scaled when I’m really desperate.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Hockey@lemmy.ca•Should the IOC have the USA and Canada redo the Gold Medal game in case it was a big fluke?
11·vor 2 MonatenThat’s the joy of hockey, even the best teams lose sometimes. Anything can happen, that’s what makes it so fun to watch. And that’s why they play best-of-seven in the NHL.
Canada definitely deserved to win, and I’m proud of how well they played against an unbelievably stacked US team. Once it got to overtime it was pretty much a coin toss.
You have to admit, even as a Canada supporter, Jack Hughes scoring that goal like 10 minutes after getting half a tooth knocked out is such an iconic moment for hockey.
Not to make excuses but Czechia did have 6 players on the ice.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•RCMP investigating after fraudulent QR codes found on 75 Kelowna parking meters | Globalnews.ca
12·vor 2 MonatenWow, someone should tell the City of Edmonton about this. Last year they eliminated physical parking machines in the city, and there is a QR code on basically every parking sign now. I wonder if anyone considered how vulnerable QR codes are to these imitation scams.
I assume they already have active countermeasures in place, but then again, online-only street parking seems rather ill-conceived to begin with.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Eh Buddy Hoser@sh.itjust.works•9hr flight, where are you sitting?
3·vor 2 Monaten2, so I can join forces with Marc Kennedy in going around the plane and telling everyone to fuck off. Then I’m gonna ask Ms. Freeland to help shove Danielle Smith into an overhead compartment.
Yardy Sardley@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Let's visit the grocery store before the movie
20·vor 2 MonatenI’m getting an “owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome” vibe
Maybe it’s a form of male birth control? I don’t imagine an array of IR lasers delicately roasting your nuts would benefit fertility.
Maybe not fraudulent since you are getting what you pay for most of the time. But I do agree, 99% of commerce is bullshit in some way or another.
I recently came across a term that describes my feelings on the matter pretty well: it’s landfill-core. Our economy depends on people buying new shit, but in order to have that happen without people’s homes turning into mountains of useless clutter, we have to constantly be throwing away old shit. So it seems to me the purpose of this whole economy thing is to expend tons of energy producing and transporting all kinds of shit, so that it can take a brief detour through somebody’s home on the way to the landfill.
Like, the majority of human productivity goes into extracting resources that just get buried again somewhere else, if not immediately set on fire.



Stop being cheap, OP. You clearly just need to shell out multiple billions of dollars for access to mythos /s