briandm.bsky.social
Dungeons and Dragons (playing since Red Box - 1983, DMing since 1989)
Macintosh Computers - MacOS
Human Rights
Art/AV/Exhibits
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Bees and more out in Winnipeg the past week.
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I got a set of the older XM4 on sale a little while ago, that 2 generation old ANC is the best I’ve personally used. Hopefully at some point I’ll be able to try the new one to compare.
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I hadn’t even heard of them until I just looked it up.
At least “The Monsters” line all look the same yeah.
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Stick check by the blues player as he was trying to shoot it looked like to me in the replay
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Gorillas are bigger than typical apes. Up to 6ft (which is Medium technically) but males get in the 500-600 pound range. It’s going to hit harder, and be more durable.
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First period the Blues goalie had caught more pucks than they credited as shots on net, no idea why they didn’t count some. At least 3 that I counted should have brought shots on net up to 11.
I believe after the first the blocked shots by Blues was at least 12 as well.
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I’ve provided feedback to CTV/Bell that while they are so easily buckling under pressure, they have lost a viewer and online reader. (And that they should be shining a spotlight onto the harassment as a story series, not folding to it)
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Around the same time he started with “lost liberal decade” it started showing up on places like National Post, some of the Suns.
Would have to do more checking of dates to see if one started it and the rest picked up, or if it’s a uniform messaging.
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I’m no Musk fan, but I hadn’t heard anything about them putting anything living on the Starship tests so far, and can’t find anything published from anyone claiming they do? Have a source?
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Fascinating image. I may be completely wrong, but I've marked up a copy of the image with my interpretation. Objects appear in pairs either side of the lensing galaxy (same coloured ovals). I've also made a "side-on" diagram explaining the light paths. Seem plausible? More explanation in ALT text.
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I keep extras of the dice type, and hand them out (usually a colour that stands out) so it’s obvious they have the inspiration.
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Because he pouted and demanded to be traded. (While his point production was decent, he also made mistakes, a minus player 2 of the 3 years here)
Ultimately the Jets got the better end of the Trade with LA.
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thehill.com/policy/defen...
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It was over Signal, so was at least encrypted.
But no verification of users added is pretty major.
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My Cat joining our D&D game
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Oh, it hadn’t even been passed yet into law. Introduced, but was delayed in passing by Proroguing Parliament.
I did personally think the amount of gains taxed should be higher, why are these types of gains tax only a percentage compared with other incomes? It does favour the rich.
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As this one had been created, it was expected to add less than 1% to federal income per year. Better than nothing but like the carbon tax bad messaging on its creation lead to unfavourable public response.
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For sure. Something to do a better economic analysis on how and how much it should be increased sometime after the election.
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It’s not actually a cut. It keeps things at current levels rather than an increase Jan 1st 2026.
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It doesn’t reduce any taxes, it keeps them at the current level instead of increasing them.
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If it actually reduced the capital gains tax, I would agree with you, but it just cancels an increase that was scheduled for Jan 1st 2026.
Most of the talking points are trickle-down economics though
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It isn’t a cut, it keeps them at existing levels instead of increasing them. (They would have potentially changed Jan 1st 2026)
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It isn’t giving them a new tax break, it is keeping the existing capital gains tax in place instead of increasing it.
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I watched all the Kids in the Hall :)
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Was a good read. I didn’t know most of his history.
I did notice a couple of typos in one paragraph near the end.
“against goods from cigar, too his cigars into Miami on his way home.”
I would guess that should be “goods from Cuba, took his cigars into Miami”
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Maybe reminder her of some of the Canadian rules on foreign policy.
“While provincial cabinets exercise some prerogative powers, only the federal Cabinet can conduct foreign affairs”
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BYD has some reasonable commuter cars under $20,000 USD, unfortunately there is now a 100% tariff on Chinese cars. Some models could still hit the $30,000 CAD mark.
As of Nov 2024 they stopped considering Canada - hopefully they reconsider after Tesla has become pariah.
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even with several media outlets apparently being on his side, he is still afraid
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MB’s is the Fed plan because the previous provincial Conservatives wouldn’t do anything, so got defaulted to the Federal plan (and tried fighting it)
The current NDP would likely at least match some other province plans if nothing else.
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Completely agree
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Or they had one. That they since corrected.
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You have a typo - it’s “$280 million, to $127 million” not 280 billion
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Implicit bias is used in many things completely unrelated to ‘woke’
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No, provably worse
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...
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Don’t forget Paladins, was just a random pick after messing up a first run as Ranger - really made a difference in so many social encounters :)
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Oh, it’s “Rewiring America” got auto-corrected
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The other orgs that got part of the other amount were Habitat for Humanity, and United Way Worldwide - both of which that are being targeted by FBI now.
I’m Canadian and I know this stuff.
Why is Musk regurgitating this now? And Newsweek not even doing bare minimum checking into it?
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The $1.9 billion and Stacey Abram’s was already proven to be a mix of completely false info, and mixing up groups.
“Rewriting America” got $2 million not billion, she was counsel not leading it. The larger “Power Forward Communities” got the overall grant of $1.9 billion that was split out.
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Fast with no harsh chemicals. This should reduce how much needs to be mined/gathered over time to reduce environmental impact more (and possibly cost)
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Or at the very least their actual silverware utensils used during dinner :)
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Alternatives will be more on the back end, hidden. And it sounds like won’t be direct rebates as cash for people who use less.
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It was something that was up front, you could mostly calculate it yourself (there were estimates of what the increase it had on costs of goods each year.. it was 0.15% of inflation in 2023). The rest you could calculate on your own gas for home and likely home heating. Vs the rebate amounts
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It was the conservative plan before the liberals copied it - it made the tax visible instead of hidden in the supply chain.
One of the things I liked about it, you could calculate how much you were likely to pay in carbon taxes vs how much the rebate was.
But most people didn’t do that.
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I’ve played something like 32 RPGs, there are a few that are different enough that in that genre they are great with a good group - Shadowrun, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Paranoia, Toon, Beyond the Supernatural.
I keep coming back to D&D, and 5e is the easiest to teach edition so far.
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And 2 doors after the statue? There goes the rest of the session 😄