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Binzy_Boi

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The local Albertan, rediscovering what it means to be me. May play devil’s advocate at times, as I like being nuanced.

Enjoys electronic music, adorable art, rhythm games, and perogies among other things.

I have lemmy.world and piefed.world blocked. Sorry, too much American politics and an unfortunate amount of casual transphobia for my liking. Feels like talking to a brick wall with people and I can’t be bothered anymore.

Also have lemmy.ml blocked for transphobia and gross dismissal of human rights issues in China by the admins.

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I have .world blocked, but looking through the link it seems as if Mwmbl could be added to the search engines.

It's open source, and is in the process of a UI overhaul. Main guy behind it is Welsh, so it's unlikely it's based in the U.S..

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Heard this of Matrix despite it being a decentralised network. Only Matrix servers hosted in the UK will be subject to ID verification laws unless other countries implement the same laws. The Matrix Foundation will not be able to force age verification requirements on remote servers unless they somehow built it into their source code, which is open.

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This just in! Local highschooler causes country to collapse after killing 9 classmates and herself!

Truly the most rational take to have right now.

Selfish Rat (ぬめのこ)

Original on X via XCancel.

Four panel comic. The first panel shows Nazrin from Touhou in a chibi-style fashion sitting atop a pile of cheese stating "I love cheese! I LOVE CHEESE!" The second panel has her wearing a cheese wedge like a shirt saying "That's why I am cheese now!". In the third panel, Nazrin, on the right side of the panel in her cheese suit, reaches a piece of cheese out to Reimu, another Touhou character on the right side of the panel, while asking "Hi! Do you like cheese?" with Reimu responding "Ah! Yes! Thank you!" while reaching to grab the cheese. In the fourth panel, Nazrin holds the cheese away from a surprised Reimu as she yell "NO! IT'S MINE!" with an angry look on her face.
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Good call, might check if there's peaches in the frozen section as well.

Used to have a gripe with peaches when I was younger since I grew sick of them from us having them so often. Was never about the taste itself more than it was how often we had it.

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Funny you mention this, I noticed that there were the frozen blueberries and frozen wild blueberries at Real Canadian Superstore yesterday, and was wondering what the difference was. I know Loblaws is far from ideal, but at the very least they were grown here.

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I'd love to add yogourt, but unfortunately I'm lactose intolerant. Thanks for the suggestion though! Assuming I can find frozen peaches that are grown here, I might consider this and throw a few in rather than make them the main star.

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Thanks! I might give this a shot, especially since we have a seed library where I live.

Binzy_Boi OP ,
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I'm lactose intolerant, but I can try giving this a shot with some oat milk. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Alberta Children's Hospital?

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I knew this looked familiar! I used to pass by here all the time walking from the Woods Homes Campus to Alyth.

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Late to the party, but thanks for making the swap!

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...we do? Never heard of this and I've been here all my life.

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If it helps, there are Conservatives that are getting sick of the shit the UCP has been pulling.

My grandmother has been a longtime Conservative since she has family that works in the oil sands, and she was telling me when I visited her last that "they need to get rid of Danielle Smith".

If she votes NDP I'd be coloured shocked. She's not the most political person, but she's very much not the "culture war" type of person as much as she is pro-oil.

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Canyon Meadows Theatre isn't that far off from the C-train station. Cheap movie tickets, last I remember they were $5 each.

Fish Creek is pretty nice and also not that far a walk from the station of the same name. Good for a nice nature walk.

If you're willing to take the train further, there's a lot of thrift shops by Chinook Mall you can explore, and the Devonian Gardens downtown is a great spot to sit and relax.

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It's been gone a few years now, but I remember place on 51st Ave called Tofu House that was really good. I've been out of the city for a few years now, so unsure if they moved and changed names, or if they're gone for good.

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Sounds good! I'll wait until Friday to see if anybody else showcases interest as well and then go forward from there!

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Should have gone through now

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As much as I like that there's a Canadian alternative to GitHub, I'll probably personally stick to Codeberg and Forgejo instances due to the non-profit aspect of things personally.

Volunteering in Calgary?

I'm looking for a community or local organization that I can contribute to and feel passionate about. This forum doesn't seem to be super active, but if anyone out there is reading this, I am curious to hear people's experiences volunteering in/around the city, and if you have any personal recommendations based on your own ...

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If you like gardening, you might like volunteering with the Calgary Seed Library: https://www.calgaryseedlibrary.ca/

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7/11 and Circle K both sell Bear n' Beaver pop.

London Drugs sells Grizzly Energy. Think Circle K sells Red Rain.

Co-Op tends to sell local products in general.

Some pop brands have pages to tell you where you can buy their product:

https://www.thepopshoppe.com/pages/retail-locations
https://bearnbeaver.com/pages/store-locator
https://www.drumsodaworks.com/where_to_buy/
https://beaverbuzz.com/
https://drinkgrizzly.com/pages/store-locator

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I swear before the Valley Line the space was like that, even before the library moved out of the mall is the thing. There was the field where the gulls would hang out, but that portion of the parking lot was there well before the rest of the parking area for the transit terminal I recall.

Quick edit: Found evidence using ESRI WayBack, this is what the area looked like in 2017, right before shovels were in the ground in the area iirc:

https://files.catbox.moe/efr0o3.PNG

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This just reminds me of the thing Google pulled not long ago asking users to submit pictures of their younger selves to generate their adult self at the baseball game with them.

Immediately thought it'd be stupid to do that since people are gonna work their ass off to bypass AI guardrails in any case including generating child porn, and lo and behold, few days later I find a tweet of someone calling out another person for creating AI-generated porn of their own daughter.

O(rule)ginal Content

"Dependency" comic by XKCD, but recaptioned. Pictured in the comic is a large structure with one stable pillar, and one comically thin pillar holding the structure up. The entire structure is captioned "my music taste", and the comically thin pillar is captioned "random nine year old playing osu in the library ten years ago". The original comic comments on modern digital infrastructure depending on "some random guy in Nebraska thanklessly maintaining a project since 2003".
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I am livid. I can not put my anger into words right now.

The "strong, Conservative woman" claims that her party doesn't use the notwithstanding clause "unless the stakes warrant it."

Right, because clearly the biggest threat in Alberta is trans people. Not lobby money from the oil and gas industry, not the rising cost of living, not the mental health and addictions crisis, it's clearly a group that makes up 1% at max of the population of the province.

Calling herself a "strong woman" is so unbelievably rich when all she seems able to do is effortlessly punch down on the everyday person. Like awww, how cute, she's fighting fucking Big Teacher and Big Hormones, fuck off. "Strength" in defending the status quo requires zero effort whatsoever as it simply means doing fuck all, and I will be unapologetic in saying that she is doing nothing but continuing women's status as objects by acting as a mere chess piece for the male CEOs in oil and gas and other profitable industries that direct her and the UCP's decisions through political donations.

Un-fucking-believable.

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Reminder that Dennis Prager thinks bisexuality is the norm rather than heterosexuality.

So... checks out?

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"No they won't"

Right, because other unions didn't come out in support for Air Canada flight attendants to help them with their win.

Clearly labour leaders, especially ones that oversee over 170,000 union members, will do nothing and learn nothing from what was accomplished with Air Canada.

I don't buy that one bit.

Edit: I got the number wrong, whoops.

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Except I am giving facts? The guy said that the NDP was in control of the province for a "long time" before Lougheed was premier. The Alberta NDP never held government before 2015, the Social Credit Party was the ruling party in Alberta for nearly 40 years before Lougheed was premier. This is something that can be easily found through a Google search. He also claimed that Lougheed ran on diversifying the economy, and did nothing to do so afterwards, which is also provably false. The Heritage Fund was founded by Lougheed's government to save money for investment in sectors, and it was following premiers that squandered that fund to the infamy it holds today.

So in the midst of implying my intelligence is lacking by stating that the schoolboards here have somehow failed me because I made a simple comment he disagrees with, he also spouts outright misinformation. I gave facts. I gave facts about the current state of affairs in regards to the teacher's strike in response to someone falsely accusing people here of doing nothing, followed up with my opinion on what can be done, and then was greeted by further insults by someone who was blanketing Conservative views on me from the start for the very nature of where I'm from because they met some people that hold those beliefs.

Me saying "the rest of country turns it's brain off", may have been a little more loaded than I realised, I will take accountability for that, honest mistake on my part.

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The separation referendum is being stalled by a referendum to stay within Canada, where the petition to start it has already received enough signatures to start the referendum at 456K signatures.

Polling for separation is laughably low. This is not something that will happen, and not something legally feasible because of Treaty rights, and other numerous legal barriers. Smith herself has admitted she herself does not support separation, but has felt backed into a corner by her base as she fears a party split handing the NDP a win next election cycle more than she does the referendum succeeding, as she sees the former as a far more likely scenario. This can already be seen with the variety of right-wing parties in Alberta as opposed to the province's left-wing being much more unified behind one party. Basically all this is an issue that could solved by implementing proportional representation in the province.

The pushback is currently being coordinated, it has only been a week since the back-to-work order, I personally feel it is way too early to judge a lack of action, but regardless students have been pushing back in the meantime the labour movement sorts things out on their end.

I do appreciate being distinguished as an individual and not as a part of the government or the worst of the crowd that voted them in.