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My lovely cat is a senior citizen. She doesn't really like to play with her toys or chase things as much these days (she's on anti-seizure meds that make her a little unsteady which I think have made her play less enjoyable for her) so she spends a lot of her time looking out/sleeping in front of windows. But, whenever she realizes I'm about to nap, she gets super excited, jumps on the bed, yowls until everything is juuuuuuuust right (her soft blanket on top of mine but perfectly flat etc) but once we're both lying down, she starts purring the with the fury of a thousand rusty chainsaws, regardless of whether she's getting skritched. More so if she can get one of my arms working as a pillow.

So, even while her former favourite activities are falling off, we're both finding weird moments of happy while I try to avoid thinking about the inevitable. And there's something just so wonderful about hearing how aggressively happy she is just to hang out nearby for an extended period of time.

Don't really have a point but we woke up from a nap and I wanted to share.

The central bank's GDPNow tracker of incoming metrics is indicating that gross domestic product is on pace to shrink by 1.5%.

Meta is one of the highest performing American stocks and 98% of their revenue is advertising. Make it harder and strike a blow for Canada!

The guide is easy enough that parents, grandparents and other non tech types should be fine with it.

TSN is a Canadian company owned by Bell while Sportsnet is owned by Rogers, both of which are Canadian companies.

For any thinking "I'm not buying anything, the app is free!" Yes, the apps are free, we are the product and more app users = more profit.

(Admittedly, ESPN has a 30% stake in the parent company.)

ESPN is owned by Disney, TheScore was Canadian but was recently bought by an American company.

Reality: On 4 February 1938 a wave of strikes began by dock workers in Hawaii demanding equal pay with dockers on the West Coast of the United States, and a union shop. The strike ended with police shooting 50 unarmed workers in the Hilo massacre. This is a history of the events: https://libcom.org/history/hilo-massacre-1938

Found via: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10424/hawaii-longshore-worker-strikes

Donald wants us isolated, each country standing up to a giant by ourselves. And for some products, there aren't going to be affordable Canadian substitutes. But, if we look around the globe, maybe there are more?

I couldn't help but think this after so many kind folks pointed me to Deezer and other Tidal alternatives that aren't Canadian but at least aren't American owned. Personally, my preferences are Canada first, anywhere else non American second, and then ugh... I imagine others feel similar?

When Neil Young asked us to switch to Tidal, I went along and loved that it paid the artists 10x more per stream.

But Tidal is American owned, spotify isn't...

I'm struggling on this one, a lot of the lil punk bands I love could really use the revenue but, y'know, trade war etc.

Anyone have any thoughts to assuage a guilty conscience on this one?

Every Oscars season this comes up and bothers the heck out of me. There's always indignant lists of movies/people who were "snubbed." And I get it, the internet is fueled by clicks and engagement which are fueled by anger but... To call these "snubs" is to either misunderstand the word snub or to misunderstand the voting process.

A snub implies a deliberate rejection. As if the Academy had a big meeting and said "screw you, Janet!" Which would be amazing but ain't how the voting happens. It's actually a ranked choice ballot voting system, which is very cool but also rewards strong feelings rather than consensus middle of the road picks.

And almost every time you read a snub article, they're not talking "hey this person should win!" It's usually "well, I think they're better than the worst two slots." Which, fair but those were probably big swings with some strong supporters, which are rewarded in a ranked choice system!

But beyond that, even in a two party contest, no one would say the United States snubbed Kamala Harris.

I dunno, just some thoughts, this seemed an appropriate place to share them. Thoughts? What am I getting wrong?

Apologies if the wrong community, if there's a better suited one, please point me to it!

But, I figure we all buy USB-C cables, and being a progressive group of folks maybe someone has a suggestion so I cause slightly less waste pollution and waste? Here's hoping!

Edit: Allrighty, apparently I'm just rough on all my usb cables OR you have all teamed up to prank me.