An ‘Elegant’ Idea Could Pay Billions to Protect Trees | Brazil is proposing a fund that would pay countries to protect tropical forests that are crucial to curbing climate change. by corsicanguppy in c/nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 minutes ago

Canada's forest will be listening intently.

'Persona non grata': Israel bars UN secretary general Guterres from entering country by corsicanguppy in c/world@lemmy.world
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 minutes ago

Why, if this keeps up, Mr Miller could write a stern letter, and we don't want that.

'Fallout' Levels Up Past a Major Viewership Milestone Months After Release by corsicanguppy in c/showsandmovies@lemm.ee
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

The bean counters love their trainspottery metrics. Somehow "popular" means "good", and now we have Kardashians.

(I get it -- popular = good for ads.)

If Palestine got to have its own recognized (by everyone including Israel) and sovereign state, what other different current nation would it most likely resemble? by corsicanguppy in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

Their internal struggles seem to be (checks notes) their own fucking business and not part of a decision as to whether it's cool for another country's hateful manipulation for 80 years and the wars that follow from rebelling against the boot-heel.

The Choice America Now Faces in Iran by corsicanguppy in c/world@lemmy.world
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

So he's not a fan of apartheid per se but just hates Iran and feels the victims of Iran's oppression of women - ie Persians - need to suffer for not taking state-orchestrated mass murder lying down?

One wonders what that guy is thinking sometimes.

A difficult one. by corsicanguppy in c/starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

highground

Not a word. That's two words. Stay in school, kids.

Benefits of swear words. by corsicanguppy in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

I can only read 'swearwords' - non-hyphenated and juvenile - so many times before I'm done.

NPR fact checked the Vance-Walz vice presidential debate. Here's what we found by corsicanguppy in c/news@lemmy.world
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 18 hours ago

I refuse to believe it's "post"-truth. It's a truth recession.

We have more overt fact-checking. if that trend continues, it can help push back on the patent falsehoods.

I'll debate the goals and methods of one party vs another, and I'll accept that one of them will have really bad ideas. Fact check the lies so they have to support their points on facts, that is, and I'll accept it.

Judge Unseals New Evidence in Federal Election Case Against Trump by corsicanguppy in c/politics@lemmy.world
Ellen DeGeneres' Unfunny Netflix Special Leaves So Much Unsaid by corsicanguppy in c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

What'd I miss? I've worked for some bosses who were complete assholes, and I've worked for bosses where learning they had ADHD or OCD is absolutely no surprise. I've also worked for people-pleasers and pranksters.

I'm gonna all but beg for downvotes, but i admit I haven't been paying enough attention to spot more than just immature serially-hyper-focused "ha ha look at me that was fun for the 50th time wanna know what my favourite dinosaur is?" behaviour of someone with profound ADHD.

Where was she a documented asshole beyond that? It was in the dreck I just really ignored?

While I have your attention before the downvote, I'm glad that she seemed more relaxed in that special, that she brought Portia up - who is a stunner to this day, wow - for this maybe-last appearance like "this is me happy now" and how far a cry that was from her early days hiding her sexuality from herself, then family, then work. If she's happy as she quits the biz, then I think that's everyone.

Why do all languages share the same intonation for questions? by corsicanguppy in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Sorry; maybe try again and think of some other cases?

US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms by corsicanguppy in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

lapdogs

The Whitehouse is 12 years overdue for its 200-year reno. Are you angling to get it done for free?

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Air Canada customers kicked off plane for refusing vomit-covered seat (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
28 comments fedilink

Pay-wall link: https://globalnews.ca/news/9938774/air-canada-vomit-seat-passenger-apology/

Air Canada has apologized to customers who were allegedly escorted off a plane for refusing to sit in a chair covered with vomit for the duration of their over four-hour flight.

The airline issued a statement after a viral Facebook post claimed two as-yet unidentified female flyers were told there was nothing to be done about the visible vomit on their soiled seats.

Oh! AirCanada!

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Ah, RedHat (rpmdb failure) (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
2 comments fedilink

We've been using Yum (and now its "differenter name is betterer" dnf) for what, 20 years?

error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 13664/139968089683776 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library
error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->failchk: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db5 -  (-30973)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

You think we'll ever get someone with a clue to fix this? Will RedHat going all IBM about source code help?

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Screen width and web dev (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink

Okay, so what's with Gitlab and ServiceNow getting so fat on whitespace that they no longer fit in half a 1920x1200 screen properly?

What's the standard width that actual professional webdevs are building toward? Is there a standard, or like app dependendencies are they back to pre-y2k "moar moar nom nom" methodologies?

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Where's the "Did MSFT sharepoint just go down again today" posting space? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.ml
5 comments fedilink

Look. It happens a few times a week, where reps in 3 time-zones will be fucked by an interruption to azure services like o341 or sharepoint (we don't do VMs in azure; not secure enough).

I'm used to shadenfreuding Reddit over that, or at least finding it's not just our company firewall and VPN taking the Proverbial.

Is there a sub I can join to get the topical junk like that? I'm too indolent - like a fox! - to go to twitter (or ideally mastodon) for a more suitable location; but will I find it there if I do? Can it be here too?

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#174 Fedora Linux With The Project Leader | Matthew Miller, in which RedHat stabbing the GPL in the back may or may not affect Fedora (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
0 comments fedilink

I didn't find this yet, but please downvote to hell itself and drop a link to the proper prior post in comments if you find it.

In here, eventually, are some comments from the Fedora project leader about how RHEL trying to kill open access to source and packaging source code is potentially going to affect Fedora, RedHat's ginger adopted stepchild which it usually overlooks.

I must say there's a LOT to wait through and one of them has a mic with a bad level at times, and I didn't sit all the way through. Tell me if I've been scammed, but I thought this may have value and I'm hoping to hear confirmation of that too.

Enjoy? Or flame me. Happy Friday.

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