The official numbers aren’t hard to find, so why not use ones that are directly comparable to the (probably wrong) claim you’re responding to?

So far this year the CPI is up by 1.5% (or 0.7% seasonally adjusted which would be a 2.8% annualized rate) over the three months they’ve measured so far as of the latest from statcan. The “shelter” component is up by 0.2%. The correspondence of those figures with the actual “cost of living” is somewhat dubious of course, and I too am curious where the 6.1% came from.

Edit: Had to correct the annualized rate because I am bad at numbers.

What a headline. Average rent fell by 5% in the year ending April which is a pretty big decline. It did not fall by 5% in April which had me wondering for a moment if I’d missed some catastrophic event putting an end to life as we know it much more quickly than expected.

You see Lemmy, when a cabinet minister and an oil company love each other very very much, sometimes they just want to start laying pipe without worrying about the consequences.

In addition to doing serious harm to Canada’s security and its international standing, this bill would do lasting injury to the reputation and legacy of this government and its prime minister. If it passes, we could be stuck with the results for a very long time. This is not one that will be quickly forgotten; the disaster will take years to play out.

If your MP is Liberal, perhaps they can be persuaded to help spread the word about it among their fellows if not in public, for the good of their own party.

When The Witcher 3 came out I had the money and bought it shortly after release at a local shop, because my net connection then was way too slow to download anything measured in gigabytes.

I think it was a set of 3 CDs. I took them home, started installing, and then found out that 3 CDs was nowhere near enough and it wanted to download somewhere in the 10s of gigabytes before I could play. It took about three days.

Remember, just because the USA and Russia are all in favour of it that doesn’t mean Alberta separatism is a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea no matter what they say.

An X.com link to someone blathering about an imaginary “partnership with China”? I can’t be bothered to dig for anything meaningful in this puddle of murky effluent.

A quick grep | wc of the Wikipedia list of Toy Story characters suggests that they’ll run out somewhere around the year 2120 if no new Toy Story movies are made. Perhaps Debian should start getting its movie studio department working on a new one before then, just in case.

Storing data in Canada won’t make it any safer if Bill C-22 (formerly part of C-2) passes and leads to a data-sharing agreement with the United States.

One thing you might want to mention in your letter to your member of parliament is that this bill would not only endanger Canadians, it would hurt Canada’s international reputation as well. The whole world would have good reason to think of Canadian electronic service providers as less trustworthy.

It may be true that Canada is behind some of its peers when it comes to spying on its own citizens and making secure communications illegal, but this bill would go beyond “catching up” and would put our country near the top of the list of the worst offenders among countries normally thought of as democracies.

What could possibly go wrong?

Noise? Traffic? Parking? Endless construction? Corruption? Wasted investment? Climate change? Opportunity cost of not doing something more useful with waterfront property? All I know is Doug Ford’s in favour of it, so it must be a bad idea.

Congrats to GameStop on being described as “struggling” when I would’ve expected “defunct” by now.

Them going “retro” makes sense to me. I happened to be near one of their locations the other day and remembered that the last time I went in there it was to ask if they still had a bin full of second-hand PS3 discs somewhere. All I got was a succinct “no.”

It wasn’t that it’s a bad analogy that provoked my ire (although it is) — it was more about the apparent intention behind it. The problems with “social media” are not inherent to social media. It’s not a fundamentally dangerous drug, it’s a whole universe of different forms of telecommunication which people have come to rely on in myriad ways, the most prominent of which are badly designed for nefarious reasons that are completely avoidable without demonizing the whole concept. Aim to stop the abusers who’ve taken it hostage, not to abolish the whole concept or restrict it through unconscionable intrusions on civil liberties.

I can only assume that you’ve never known anyone who lost their life to an opioid addiction. There’s nothing wrong with that; lucky you. I remain in favour of your right to express your thoughts in public even when you have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

If it’s a wasteful outrage machine why are you here?

How is it that people are even talking about a “social media ban” as if it’s a thing that could actually happen in Canada? WTF happened to you Canada?

Browsing around nethack.org I found this link if anyone’s in need of an introduction to nethack: https://web.archive.org/web/20210212161326/http://www.linuxvoice.com/nethack/

The comments are full of people sharing their yasd stories.

The significance of the number is not that it “lost 0.8%”, it’s that this month’s number is like last month’s well above the previous trend line, making the record high look that much more like a meaningful change and not just a random fluctuation.

The data is still noisy month-to-month and just how meaningful it is remains unclear, but this data point is nothing but good news for linux market share and framing it as somehow the opposite is misleading.

Early 90s the pirate BBS scene was still going strong. You could dial in and tie up your phone line for days at a time. My guess is it was about as common then as it is today, relative to the size of the game industry.