pedz
@pedz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on People putting a leash on their pets to stop them from running off is being a responsible owner, yet when someone puts a leash on their kids, its being an abusive parent... 2 days ago:
AFAIK it’s acceptable if the parent is walking or sitting with the child. It’s only abusive if you tie the leash outside while you go run some errands in a store, or if left attached in the backyard.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 1 week ago:
Bah, sound quality is just okay. It’s fine for podcasts and electronic without bass, but it’s kind of annoying for some types of music.
It works but… meh.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 1 week ago:
Headphones on a bike are illegal in my province. So I once bought a bluetooth speaker for my bike. I don’t really like imposing my music to anyone and tried to keep it at a minimum level but stills didn’t like it. So now I use bone conduction headphones. Unfortunately they are also in a grey area where they could also be illegal.
In short, if you want to listen to music on a bike here, your only legal option is a speaker. Anything else is unsafe and could traumatize a poor car driver that hits a cyclist that didn’t hear them coming (according to the police here).
Otherwise get a car and blast the music with the windows open like a normal safe person. or close the windows and don’t hear anything around, but this is much safer than having headphones while cycling, obviously.
Same with walking or jogging with headphones. Are you out of your mind? Some poor car driver could hit reckless runners jumping in front of their car because they couldn’t hear it coming.
No, society wants everyone not in a car to keep quiet and don’t ruin their silence, with all the soothing car noises, so it’s safer this way. No headphones on a bike, it’s not safe! You need to hear that car blasting music that’s coming at you.
- Comment on Trump: The EU is ‘nastier than China’ 1 week ago:
As someone that had to learn English as a second language, that man has a strikingly limited vocabulary for someone that’s supposed to have it as his native language.
Someone should make a list of his greatest hits, like nasty, and disgraceful.
- Comment on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup 3 weeks ago:
A bit ironic given the fact that they want to push everyone on the cloud and run Office apps in a browser. Or is this just corporate?
I’ve been doing tech support for a few corporations and they were literally removing the local applications like Word, Excel and Outlook to force users to use the web versions because it was costing them less money for licensing.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 3 weeks ago:
It was the same on the municipal level for me. I can call 311 or write to them, but it was kind of nice to be able to tweet at my neighbourhood and have people interacting with me and them on local issues.
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 3 weeks ago:
Even right now. Look at how people have to wait in huge lines to get some gas every time there is a natural disaster, or extreme weather. After a few days, or even hours, it’s mostly gone.
- Comment on The IOC probably hopes that countries other than Belarus, North Korea, Hungary and International Olympic Athletes will want to show up for the 2028 games. 1 month ago:
If there is anything that life showed my at a young age, during gym classes, it’s that sports people and competitive people will not stop for compassion or ethics.
They can come from the most democratic country, but those athletes will have trained all their life for this moment, and they would still go even if the Olympics were held in a North Korean torture camp.
Again, they trained all their life for this, so what’s a few human rights violations, or even a little bit of blatant corruption, if you can say you won the Olympics?
- Comment on Trump could meet King in Scotland to plan state visit 2 months ago:
Maybe King Charles could also use this opportunity to remind Trump that he is also the King of Canada.
- Comment on Changes to law would give police ‘licence to kill’, UK rights groups warn 3 months ago:
The profession seems to be custom made for them.
- Comment on If a 2M employee return to work order is declared soon, I could see us in the US finding ourselves with tent cities full of white collar workers. 3 months ago:
Confiscate? They are getting it back at some point? Because in Montreal and North America in general, the police just treat homeless people’s stuff like radioactive trash. They just clear the place with machinery and put all the stuff in a trash container.
Some homeless people here have lost ID cars and important documents because once the police decides the camp is gone, the homeless can’t go back to get their stuff. Its just all going to the dump, with everything inside.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Isn’t Molson a Canadian company? WTF would they donate to this crap?
- Comment on ‘Shameless’ MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski blasted for hypocrisy over Trump visit: ‘Bending the knee’ 5 months ago:
In the past two years, Trump has called for every major American TV news network to be punished, according to a CNN review of his speeches and social media posts.
He has imprecisely but repeatedly invoked the government’s licensing of broadcast TV airwaves and has said on at least 15 occasions that certain licenses should be revoked
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 6 months ago:
I’m not sure about the circlejerk thing. I am vehemently anti car and would like to circlejerk on one of the many “fuck cars” communities, but any post that gets some attention gets filled by comments of people not from those communities.
So I very often see posts where I agree with the content but the discussion and the comments are all over the place, from car apologists that are like “but IIIIIIIII live in the woods therefore public transit is not feasible for anyone”, and it makes “circlejerking” difficult.
Like, if you have a community about mushroom and want to have enthusiasts discussing mycology, it’ll be fine until a thread becomes popular and fills with users not from that community, asking what is mycology and why they should care.
To be honest, I had the same issue on reddit too and that’s a major reason why I stopped going there.