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[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Makes "what's your mother's maiden name" security questions extra stupid, it's just my mom's name.

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not a question, just words of encouragement from a dad who was in a similar situation. My oldest daughter was born when I was 20; I was in my third semester of university at the time. We managed to make it work, but my wife basically dropped her studies and became a full-time mom. It was a bit hard financially during university, but I managed to make it work and I graduated on time with pretty good grades, and I found a pretty good job right after. We were already planning on having kids (obviously after our studies), so we decided to keep going and we had a second daughter 2 years later (I was still in university at the time).

My oldest turns 15 next month, and she's growing up to be a very well-adjusted, gorgeous woman. She makes me very proud. Well, all 4 of my daughters make me proud (yes, I'm still with their mom. We married after university; there's no "children out of wedlock" stigma here).

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

My grandmother used to have one. I never realized how it worked before that video, but I was always fascinated by the fact that the bread would lower itself

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the recreational marine market, where fire is a beyond catastrophic event, everyone seems to have standardized on LFP for its safety characteristics. We're replacing lead-acid (mostly AGM or sealed deep-discharge variants) batteries anyway, so just going to anything lithium-based is already a huge improvement in terms of weight, volume and storage performance.

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I think you're confusing the PS1 in the ad with the PSOne which came out later and had rounded edges.

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I've always wondered if vegetables from a farm that uses horse-drawn tills instead of tractors would be vegan... It's a real question, but everyone I ask thinks that I'm trolling.

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

You might be right, but our southern neighbours also have a Senate and it doesn't seem to help...

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I am one. I'm a pretty weak monarchist, though, it's just that I look south and I'm glad that there's a "higher level" looking over our politicians. Even if the GG nominations aren't always ideal, at least in theory they aren't beholden to popular opinion. The fact that they're nominated and not elected ensures that they don't have the legitimacy to push their own agenda either. So it's a powerful position, but mostly symbolically and there would be a lot of backlash if some ambitious GG tried to use this power for anything other than extreme cases.

In my opinion, this is partly why our politics haven't yet devolved to the point of getting a Donald Trump. You can say what you want about Trudeau, but at least the government doesn't shut down every so often just because they can't agree on a budget.

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There's also a Kirkland near Montreal, so it could be Canada. But as it's already been mentioned, it has nothing to do with location in this case.

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 weeks ago

Enel is currently doing exactly that with their electric car chargers (the Juicebox), they've decided to pull out from the North American market and just shut down the servers. Like WTF, at least open-source the thing...

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's as if they don't remember playing telephone when they were kids.

[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Meanwhile, I'm a dev who can actually talk to people, but I still have to go through 5-6 layers of business people mangling what the user said...

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