BinzyBoi

joined 1 week ago
[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Made a wrong assumption then, not that it means anything, but downvoting myself to make up for jumping to conclusions.

What I think is that the Greens and NDP are highly disappointing, and as much as they overall don't align with my values, I'll likely be voting Canadian Future since I refuse to vote NDP unless Jagmeet steps down and they get their leadership act together. I would have voted for the Greens if they ran a candidate in my riding like they said they would on their site, but come April 9th when the entries list was finalised, they were nowhere to be seen. Even then it was only because I've been impressed with Pedneault to the point that it makes up for May still being party head.

I just feel that we could in such a different position where people didn't have this conception of there being a need to strategic vote if these two parties actually fought like they should be. The NDP being this low after achieving Dentalcare for Canadians is beyond pathetic. Jagmeet says it in his speeches, but it should be all over the place with their advertising talking about how they strong-armed the Liberals into passing it.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca -4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Ah, so you didn't even read the comment. Congrats. Go ahead and "strategic vote" and have fun making this country ever so slightly more like the U.S. by forcing smaller parties to dissolve creating a two-party system.

Layton would be rolling in his grave seeing the lack of fight people have for their values these days.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Greens, NDP, Canadian Future. All running with proportional representation in their platforms.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

So you also think not voting Liberal leads to fascism? I love when parties are entitled to my vote, that's definitely how democracy works.

My comment here summarises things.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

You do realize that giving your vote away from a smaller party to a larger one leads us more into the two-party lockup that the U.S. faces right?

Always there's this one-sided thinking of "oh, but if you vote this way, then it's your fault when the party most opposed to you wins. Why do we never ask why the party that's most positioned to beat the party we're most in objection to isn't out there trying to appeal to us? Why must we appeal to them?

By deciding that your vote is a waste when it goes to a smaller party, then congrats! Your "strategic voting" dissolves support for the smaller parties which in turn leads to their eventual dissolution, and then voila, you end up like the states where the larger left-wing party ends up losing support amongst it's own base in pleas to appeal to Conservatives driving the overton window to the right.

EDIT: Quickly adding to this comment that if the Liberal candidate for my riding doesn't explicitly come out in support for proportional representation, I will be throwing my vote elsewhere. Sent an email, and keeping an eye on public events.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, if they bothered to run a candidate in my riding...

Quite literally unbelievable. They say on their site they have a candidate for my riding, I reach out and email the given contact on their site offering to volunteer, I get zero response, and then find out Canada's Future can run a candidate here, but not them. Borderline pathetic.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

Oops, thought that at first, but seems I got my brain in a twist and got the mental math wrong somehow. Thanks for the clarification!

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware we had any footwear brands here! Thanks, I'll keep this in mind for when I need to get a pair.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

If you're a tomato juice enjoyer, the No Name tomato juice is just as good as the Heinz tomato juice. While Heinz tomato juice is made in Canada, I'd much rather not fork my money to an American brand, even if the No Name stuff could possibly be from the same production facility.

Unless you're opting for a low-salt diet, I'd suggest avoiding the PC Blue Menu one though. The lack of salt means the drink tastes a lot more bland, and I personally put it to waste as much as I hate to say.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Selling these things individually isn't all that uncommon. I can't name a single grocer in my area that refuses to sell bars like these individually.

Protein bars are often sold in the same area of grocery stores with options to purchase either individual bars as a pick-me-up snack or by the box for the pantry. They do the same with similar things like Cliff and RX bars so these being sold individually as well comes as no surprise.

[–] BinzyBoi@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeesh, does the link description always include the entire sidebar?

 

I made this community about a week or so ago on the Lemmy.ca to help promote Canadian music and musicians. Been posting each day, with features in the community such as a ListenBrainz playlist for songs shared in the community, weekly featured artists, and weekly discussion posts (currently paused until Monday to sync it with the start of the week).

This is something I'm incredibly passionate about. Canada has a lot of music talent that is overlooked, and while the amount of Canadian music talent has done nothing but grow, the discoverability for Canadian musicians has faltered in recent years with the decline in local Canadian music publications.

Please come in and share tunes from Canadian musicians, inform people of music tours occurring in Canada, and showcase Canadian music news and magazine articles!

https://lemmy.ca/c/maplemusic !maplemusic@lemmy.ca https://lemmy.ca/c/maplemusic

 

Been working on grabbing a few movies from online to download and save as more options for movie nights with friends on top of the DVDs and VHS tapes I have.

I'm aware one can find mentions on Wikipedia or the Internet Archive saying "oh this film is public domain", but the sourcing seems to be sketchy a lot of the time. Like a Wikipedia article will mention a movie is public domain, and then link to a site for public domain movies or the Internet Archive with neither stating why the film is public domain.

Is there a simple means to check for yourself the copyright status of movies? Would help a lot with having confidence in the collection of films I'm building up.

 

Man, what a cop-out.

 

Hopefully this is considered "offbeat". First time posting here.

 

Sorry if this doesn't belong here, more than happy to be pointed in the right direction if it doesn't.

I wanna do movie nights with friends where we watch movies together in the living room on my TV. I have a DVD player and VCR I got from the thrift shop as well as a few movies for both. However, I was thinking it would also be fun to expand the options available by downloading a bunch of public domain movies to play on the TV. Only issue is figuring how I'd work that all out.

The TV lacks any network connectivity features. While it has a USB slot, it can literally only detect pictures and set them up for slideshows. Even tried putting some video files on to test and it won't detect at all. Also because my computer is a desktop, connecting it directly to the TV from the other room is a no-go.

Is there some sort of device that serves this kind of purpose? Like something I can download videos to, and then connect it to my TV in a similar sense you would a DVD or VCR and be able to choose the content on the device using a remote? I'd really appreciate the help and pointers if this is something that exists.

 

Watched this all the time on Treehouse TV as a kid. Apparently it was originally on TVO? Crazy how I remember it so much despite it only having a single season apparently.

 

Figured I'd try promoting the community here. It's only been around a few days, but I would love to make this community an active and thriving one.

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