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How big things could get done—even in Canada
  • Article blaming government involvement in project cost overruns and clearly intentionally ignores that private business projects overrun too, we just don't see it because it's private business. Biased. Blech.

  • GIMP - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released
  • Thanks, that's good to know! It may have been around the 2.8 timeframe. But it definitely sounds like it's gotten better. I'll definitely be trying again.

  • GIMP - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released
  • I use it on Windows. Admittedly it launches better in Linux but it takes an age to launch in Windows. But yes, that was some time ago. Version 2.04 or something like that.

  • GIMP - GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released
  • My question is: does it launch faster? I love GIMP for how powerful it is while still being free, but I hate how long it took to load. I was using less powerful alternatives on a regular basis just because I didn't want to wait for GIMP to open.

  • Minister Jeremy Harrison fired Crown corp board chair who blew the whistle on apparent conflicts of interest
    • Cries in Saskatchewan. -

    The Sask Party have somehow maintained control out here for 17 years... It's sad but I don't foresee it changing. Us and Alberta are the home of the "F Trudeau" crowd.

    I will yet again cast my ballot against them in an effort that feels about as meaningful as pissing into the wind. But I'll still do it.

  • Officer charged with failing to provide life-saving aid during call | Suspended with pay
  • Oh look, another cop being "punished" with a paid vacation.

    ACAB

  • Chunky crochet scarf that I made for my husband
  • Oh interesting, it's basically tapestry crochet but with half-doubles instead of singles. No wonder the blocking opened up the stitches so much! Thank you for sharing!

  • Chunky crochet scarf that I made for my husband
  • It's beautiful! What technique did you use for the color work? I don't recognize it. I've done a lot of Mosaic crochet but this doesn't look like mosaic to me.

  • Parents are often told it takes a village to raise a child. So, where is it?
  • What about those parents whose precious children can do no wrong and when part of "the village" tries to discipline them for acting out, or tries to rescue them because they ran willy-nilly into traffic, the parent freaks out and threatens to sue the "helper" for daring to touch/talk to/look at their child the wrong way.

    If you want "the village" to help, don't freak out on them and then whine that you've got no help.

  • Ion Launcher: A beautiful, functional & customizable launcher
  • I've been looking for a new launcher. Though this one isn't selling itself with no screenshots. I don't use telegram, so I don't know if there's screenshots in there.

    Edit: They posted screenshots in the Google Play page. Found them.

  • Anyone been having problems with your Lemmy client? Eternity is kinda broken since an update
  • I'm using Voyager and everything's been good for me.

  • parents scammed out of 10K line of credit - best way to pay it off
  • You would be far better off speaking to one of those debt consolidation places than trying to juggle it around like that. I'm not sure where you are located, but hopefully there is one that can help.

  • Toronto newcomers paying up to 12 months' rent up front to secure housing
  • I mean... No jobs? I wouldn't want to rent to someone who had no job either. That's an insane risk. Even as a Canadian citizen who was born here I would not expect someone to rent to me if I had no job.

  • For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta’s electricity is coal free
  • Sounds good when you phrase it like the headline. But all they've done is trade coal for natural gas. So it's still a carbon heavy power grid, just slightly better than coal.

  • What kind of bird is this? +help needed!
  • Ya it could be a Grackle. Does it move the injured wing in any way normally? If it can't move the wing at all normally it may not heal well without medical intervention. Unfortunately their wings are very delicate. It sounds like you've done all you can in terms of phoning vets and rehabs, so I can't really help much there, but just keep up what you are doing and keep checking with the rehabs that take small birds. Either the wing heals on it's own or not, but either way it feels like you are doing all the right things. I hope it works out!

  • Pride System Icon
  • I wasn't aware that we all had to adhere to YOUR standards of which softwares are useful/needed.

    Sometimes people just want something. Maybe it doesn't align with what you want, but that doesn't make it wrong.

  • Canada's 1st full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina
  • Sask is, in fact, quite far behind.

  • ALLISON: Schools shouldn’t sacrifice student performance to vague notions of ‘equity’
  • This opinion piece fails to explain how inclusion is causing the problem. Correlation does not equal causation, but the link between inclusion and the test score is not elaborated on beyond a brief mention.

    Why not both?

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    Fennec vs Mull: pros and cons of each?
  • I use bypass paywalls clean on Mull by activating the Secret menu and choosing to install add-on from file. Works great for me.

    Secret menu is in the About Mull page (tap on the logo 5 times) then back out to the settings pane to see some additional settings items added like install add-on from file.

  • Alberta government wants power to remove municipal councillors, repeal bylaws it doesn't like
  • How ironic. Alberta, the one complaining about the Feds imposing on "their jurisdiction" and then they go and impose all over the municipalities. The hypocrisy is ridiculous. They really are just in it for what they want. Screw the Feds, screw the cities, just let us be dictators! Ick.

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