Given that Spez managed to write himself a $193M cheque, I’d say it’s idiots all the way down.

Canada Post says domestic letter mail rates have gone up twice in the last decade: by five cents in 2019 and two cents in 2020. It says the last “major pricing change” was made in March 2014.

It says the impact of the change is estimated to be about 65 cents per year for the average Canadian household, and about $12.07 for the average Canadian small business.

Make it $2 for my household that might mail something once a year and invest yourself in some infrastructure, Canada Post.

Stitcher actually got shut down last August after the SiriusXM acquisition.

The bar for employment is embarrassingly low.

Nearly 83 pages uploaded today 🤔

Police Chief Dale McFee said a heavily armed man entered through the city hall parkade and fired shots with a long gun that could fire multiple rounds quickly, shattering glass and puncturing ceilings and walls.

The man also lit several small incendiary devices, one of which caused a small fire outside an elevator, police said.

I guess we can deduce his stance on domestic terrorism.

Desjardins and TD Bank are among forecasters calling for easing to begin in the spring, while RBC, CIBC and BMO are eyeing closer to mid-year for cuts. Money markets continue to fully price in a first, 25-basis-point cut in June, according to Reuters.

CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld said in a note to clients Wednesday that if inflation comes in below expectations, cuts starting in April are not off the table. CIBC is calling for a total of 150 basis points of rate easing this year, with the possibility the second cut from the Bank of Canada is half a percentage point.

The central bank’s next interest rate decision comes on March 6, with its updated forecasts for inflation and the economy set for April.

I suppose you’ve never heard of chocolate beer?

Grouping them wouldn’t mean merging them. For a lack of better terms a Group (multi-Reddit) would allow each indexed community to retain its independence.

But I do see your point about bad mods. Leaving a rotten community in the index has the potential of making the group look bad. However, that’s where the beauty of federation comes into play where users can unsubscribe from those undesirable communities from the larger group.

I think the multi-Reddit approach as the default would work best. Users subscribe to a “central” Group or Topic and immediately pull content from every federated community that self-designates as such.

One problem with this is if the community changes their mind and turns into something else. Either they check a box and designate under another Group or Topic, or get unsubscribed by users manually.

If approved, TD will deposit funds owed directly into the bank accounts of eligible class members, meaning that if you’re eligible, you don’t have to do anything to collect your piece of the pie.

Direct-deposit pie. My favourite!

Your first mistake was bringing rationality to a bonfire.

Agreed, totally bogus motivation.

“At this point, the accused admitted he was the one who started the fires and, as his main motivation, claimed he was doing tests to find out whether the forest was really dry or not,” Charron said.

Would an adult elementary school jail sentence function as a form of punishment?

Here’s the RSS URL in case you couldn’t look it up right away:

https://wedistribute.org/feed/podcast/decentered

Ontario: open for business and ready to sell out.

While not as high up I was always nervous about falling off the belt loader while unloading a 777. I can’t imagine falling from the passenger deck.

As an example of my parents’ non-tech savvyness they have put off updating apps on their phones for years because they don’t trust that the updates are secure. I just don’t have the energy to act as a constant line of tech support.

From what I’ve read participating in the Federation does require some competent level of commitment. I might end up joining once the process matures a bit more and the barrier for entry is a little lower for complete novices like myself.

Thanks for the service recommendation!

I should have specified that I was interested in creating a Mastodon instance, not Lemmy, but I’m glad to know that I could do that should I want to build one.

I’ve looked into Jellyfin as a secondary service. At the moment my parents have gotten used to navigating Plex and having them re-learn something new over the phone is…not something I have the energy or time for lol