There’s still time to shift gears. Last month, Mayor Olivia Chow was successful with a surprise motion to get Toronto council to disband the TPA board. Gone are the lawyers, economists and accountants. In their place is an interim board made up entirely of city hall staffers like city manager Paul Johnson.

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So, People’s Party of Canada it is /s

Vote Republican if you want someone to represent you that runs away from accountability.

Even if it’s just another low bumpy noise and other sensations that distract my brain, it has worked for me. My ringing is quiet enough that it doesn’t bother me and I really don’t notice it until I’m somewhere quiet.

When your ear is hit with loud noise your ears make themselves less perceptive to noise and you get temporary hearing loss, but recovering in a quiet place makes this goes away.

So while hearing loss over chronic exposure to loud noise tends to be permanent, if you can try to do the opposite to increase the perceptiveness of your hearing to quieter sounds, your brain may be able to recover the signals better. The cause and the nature of each person’s tinnitus is very different, and it’s a mix of physical damage to your ear and psychological effect in the auditory processing part of your brain. The former may be irreversible but the latter is where you can improve it by training.

It takes 0.0 GW to say you’re going to build a gazillion data centres to juice stock prices. Big tech has taken enough money from people to dump it wherever they want or package it in deals to keep hyping equity value. The hard part is actually doing the builds that are promised.

I think that Donald Trump doesn’t need to convince people that he feels their pain, but I think he does need to make the case that Democrats are too weak to fix it.

The GOP pollster/strategist is correct. Democrats cannot rest on their laurels and grin at this news hoping to sail through the midterms. These potentially Democratic voters have to be presented with real solutions to the issues of affordability and getting rid of authoritarianism, and candidates with real conviction to do that.

It’s true that there is plenty of alarmism when it comes to the potential outcomes of this decision, and I’ve uttered my criticism to one such piece shared to Lemmy.

I think this article goes to far doing the same thing but taking the opposite conclusion, that this decision has absolutely no effect on private property holders. The fact I keep returning to that makes this so murky for me is that Musqueam and Tsawwassen also assert competing Aboriginal title rights that appear to be awarded to the Cowichan alliance instead of other nearby bands.

The court made a decision (I won’t accuse them of brashness or extremism as this is after years of deliberation and fact-finding) that awards the Cowichan these rights, which although an analysis I read says it covers only Crown and lower level government owned land, the Aboriginal title system supersedes in some respects the fee simple one, and exists along it or in other ways needs reconcilition in others.

People will naturally have questions and concerns about what this means about private property ownership in the area, just like the appealing Indigenous groups wondering about the effect of this decision on their own treaty claims. Seizures under owners’ noses won’t happen, but it’s like if your house or apartment is now ordered by a court to be part of a Homeowners’ Association that you didn’t sign up for, because of ill guarantees made by the Government a long time ago that you never heard about. It will affect property owners in some way in the process of requiring negotiation to reconcile competing guarantees the Crown has made. Even if nothing on paper changes to Land Title Act entitlements, the fact that Aboriginal title needs to be reconciled does affect what those entitlements are ultimately worth.

Not that it’s hard to implement, but neat that it is already being practiced in tgese systems, similar to noticing floors 4, 13 or 14 being skipped in a building.

Lots of great advice in the thread, the head finger thumping thing the other user suggested has worked for me when my very mild tinnitus flares up. If it’s bothering you as much as you described, you should see a specialist.

To add one more piece of anecdotal advice: in a quiet space, try listening to music or soundscapes with headphones on the lowest possible volume setting, that isn’t muted and that you can only hear when really listening in, and try to pay attention to the distinct sound elements like a particular instrument, singer, birds, wind, running water, background conversations. I imagine it’s partially training your brain to focus away from the ringing, and partially putting your mental energy into waking up the follicles that are hurt.

In Toronto you’ll find Canadians that are all sorts of colours names and sizes, and a restaurant somewhere that serves your home country’s cuisine. Most people in the city don’t care.

The closer to the urban centre you are the less you are likely to be judged for looking foreign, though that chance is very small to begin with. If something racist gets shouted at you in public here, people are going to look down and walk away, look with disgust at the person making that remark, or tell them off.

Outside of the city, bigots are still the vast minority, but there may be more subtle ways you could be looked at differently, well-intentioned but largely due to the unfamiliarity with outside cultures.

Interesting that numbers can be excluded from the ordering system like that. I wonder if other numbers considered unlucky or meme numbers have been excluded before…

Things never just worked all the time and I don’t expect they ever will.

My preference is that I don’t need perfection, but if something doesn’t work, I’d like some kind of indication why and what I as a user or someone of advanced competence can do about it. (See Linux vs. Windows for example)

The issue you are facing about lagging and not responding tech is threefold:

1. Microprocessors can do so much more than electromechanical parts of old, for much cheaper and take up far less space. The downsides are that they are embedded on a board and can’t be replaced without specialized tools, and second is that some companies (looking at you, Apple) bar the chip manufacturers from making replacement parts or put onerous software blocks so that independent technical experts cannot repair it themselves even with the skills and know-how.

2. Personal appliance device makers, to save money, use the cheapest processors they can get away with, which are slow compared to the software they are expected to run. So they lag, and they need multiple taps to respond.

3. Software makers tend to have high end hardware for developing and testing, though some product makers will have test devkits to emulate hardware. Like the makers of an app for Google TV don’t have every specific model of TV. When they update they have to make assumptions about hardware performance, or they just don’t care and ship something unoptimized.

This literally happened for me with the movie(s) Wicked. I didn’t watch the first part just to have it end half way through the story and be told to wait until next year. Then the second half comes out, and after the opening weekend where a couple downtown theatres had busy double feature special events, Part 1 was playing in theatres literally nowhere in my city. And no way I’m signing my life away for Bezos BS just to watch this. (Does a stream even earn the movie studio anything significant? The theatres get nothing…)

I only bought a ticket to watch Part 2 because I viewed Part 1 by other means. The theatres missed out on an opportunity for me to watch the first one in succession with the second. And if I didn’t watch the first, then I wouldn’t have watched it at all and the theatres and publishers would have missed out on a sale.

If the copyright industry calls missed sales “stealing”, the theatres and publishing licensors steal from themselves by making it difficult to view the full story.

Yeah, the latter is lost baggage insurance offered by premium travel credit cards or airline affiliates.

Metaverse and AI, lmao

Carney’s managed to get PP whine about him discussing Alberta’s oil pipe dreams of all things… Canadians are catching on that Pierre will not be happy even if Conservatives get stuff they have presently or previously campaigned for.

I’m sure Bubba is talking about his mouth.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/toxcancel/

You can use a plugin like this one for Firefox. Generally my preference is for redirecting to be done client side rather than for me, or prepared as an alternate option. Like in the cases of Youtube -> Invidious, Reddit -> Redlib, sometimes the service is offline which makes it hard to know what was originally linked.

(Beat me to it!)

Anyway, what’s immediately interesting to me is Markham-Unionville is where incumbent Liberal candidate Paul Chiang dropped out from the race in April over translated comments that appeared to suggest turning an opposition candidate to Hong Kong authorities for a bounty.