I highly recommend configuring qBittorrent to only connect to the VPN interface, so if your VPN is off it will simply not connect to the internet at all.

That’s where I stopped. It was a perfect miniseries. I saw there was going to be a second season and I just rolled my eyes and resolved not to watch it. The first season ended perfectly to me.

Many boroughs in Montreal have their own rules on short-term rentals, but the provincial regulation is getting tightened up a lot after that fire that killed 6 people in Montreal.

A lot of them are “laneway houses,” a way to subsidize your own home by renting out your alleyway frontage to someone else.

No way, they stopped doing this? I haven’t listened to Radio 1 for a week.

Yes, the generic names make it a nightmare to search for things relating to them.

Then you put it in the wash and grab another. I have four I cycle through.

Try a handkerchief. It’s life-changing when you’re sick: no more raw nose!

With many, many loopholes.

I thought Quebec had strict rent control? That shouldn’t have been possible. It’s the kind of thing I would expect to hear out of BC or Ontario.

Just don’t watch video on data.

I have 200mb of data and it turns off when I run out. If I ever get caught in an emergency, I’m screwed.

Plus, half the time their website seems to crash.

At least where I am, they are pushed based on which cell tower you are connected to. My old phone did not even have functional GPS and I still got emergency alerts.

Honestly, fuck the economy. Areas dependent on fossil fuels should have h started diversifying decades ago, but they stubbornly refused to — and continue to do so — to their own detriment. We’ve known for a long time that being entirely dependent on a single natural resource for the bulk of our jobs and trade was a bad idea: just look at the mill towns in BC when their mills closed. At how devastating the softwood lumber disputes were. It was pure hubris for provincial and local governments to push forward with continued dependence on single resource economies.

I agree that we’ll never entirely end fossil fuel use because plastics are an amazing material, but I absolutely do not agree that we need to continue fossil fuel extraction for the sake of the “economy.” This is shortsighted thinking: the “economy” will be destroyed in the longterm by climate change. Natural disasters, human displacement, crop failures, water shortages, wildfires, the list goes on and on.

It just doesn’t do much of anything. We’re not going to reverse, or even halt climate change with it. For any industry that cannot be made green that has to continue in the future, we should obviously do it, but the claims about it by the fossil fuel industry are severely overinflated.

The first time I read about CCS I actually laughed out loud. Somehow I’d assumed it would make some kind of usable carbon that we could bury to augment soil, but no. They’re literally catching ~30% of the CO2 gas from an industry’s tailpipe and putting the gas underground in an “airtight” chamber.

Like, are you kidding me?

Time for Ban 2!

I moderated two subreddits over 1m users, one over 250k users, and a handful over 10k users.

Every. single. one. of my team members has left, except for one on one of the tiny subreddits.