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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago

You don't need 5 posts a day for a community to survive here. There's not that many people on Lemmy, things are a bit slower paced.

I mod [email protected] and we'd be lucky to have one post per day, yet I think it's still a relatively healthy community, with a decent amount of engagement on most posts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

This just made me imagine a modded Civic but with rockets.

Honestly, knowing people who mod Civics, I wouldn't be surprised of this has already been done somewhere in the world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It's a complete guide for beginners, they never claim to be a complete list of display managers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

J'te jure, la façon dont certains anglos vénèrent la famille royale ça a la même énergie que les weebs pis leurs waifus.

Oh King-San, please reign over me 🥺👉👈

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

J'ai aucune idée pourquoi t'as partagé ça dans la communauté Canada, mais c'est exactement le genre de trivia niaiseux que j'adore apprendre, alors merci!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The Canadian flag is not a "bog standard three stripes" design. It even introduced a new vexillological term; the Canadian pale.

I don't understand why you think the maple leaf, a symbol which has been associated with Canada ever since there was a "Canada" to speak of, is "cringe".

The Canadian flag is a vexillological masterpiece and I will die on this hill. I wouldn't bother dying for my country, but I would for its flag. It's instantly recognizable, simple yet symbolic, and honestly such a massive glow-up from the previous Red Ensign flag.

You want to see a cringe flag? Look at this atrocity:

Click here if you don't care about your eyesA shitty flag, the Canadian Red Ensign

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I used to be pretty active in my city and province's subreddits, and while there were occasional assholes everyone was mostly reasonable.

I went and checked my city's subreddit the other day and it has gotten substantially worse since I've left Reddit two years ago. It's all people posting the same trashy racist rhetoric about immigrants. We used to post screenshots of those same takes from the local FB groups to make fun of those idiots, now the subreddit is those idiots.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I always enjoy talking to the elder gays, even though sometimes the men will be kinda inappropriate.

My favourite was this one old guy who came up to me while I was on a smoke break at work and immediately asked me "you're trans, aren't you?"

When I apprehensively said yes, he revealed he had transitioned in the late '80s! We had a nice little chat while I finished my smoke, he was really sweet and super proud of how comfortable the new generation of queers was being themselves. I definitely went into the bathroom to have a little happy cry afterwards.

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CARIBOU - Sun (youtu.be)
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CARIBOU is an one-man electronic band, written, performed, and produced by Dan Snaith from Dundas, Ontario. He's also released music under the names Manitoba and Daphni.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I'm sorry your local drag community sucks so much. There's definitely drama in our local scene, but on the whole it's very much a trans-inclusive space here. A lot of the big names in my area are trans themselves.

I hope you get to find that someday, because a good drag scene is welcoming, and it's a great way to express complex feelings about gender and deconstructing societal norms and expectations. But when it's done badly, it can be really bad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

You do realize toilets, bigotry and violence exist outside the US, too?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Your comments would have been fine in answer to someone seeking support for porn addiction/dependency, but it's completely irrelevant in a tech community on a post about people circumventing silly restrictions.

You clearly came into the thread with a specific agenda which was irrelevant to the thread's topic, and spammed the same comment in multiple replies. What did you expect? I don't even entirely disagree with your opinions about pornography but do you seriously think this was the best way to communicate your point?

 

A great musician who faced more than his share of demons. I first saw this video 5 or so years ago, and I've been coming back to it regularly since. There's an authenticity to Stewart's singing, a pained optimism of sorts, paired with the agressive mandolin-playing. It just speaks to me.

 

(For some context, I live in Canada, beer labels are bilingually English & French here)

 

This post brought to you by my local radio station in the early '00s. Thanks CanCon!

 

Starting out as a street musician, Jérôme 50 has become an indie darling in Québec, most known for his hit song Tokébakicitte (which loosely translates to "We're in Québec, here!" and explores different Québécois stereotypes), here's a song from his most recent album released at the beginning of May of this year.

 

I was at work (café) closing up, cleaning everything. I picked up the pot of soup to put it away in the fridge (picture of the type of soup pot, rather tall and unstable).

It then slipped from my hands, in free fall for about 2 inches or so, before catching it. I spilled maybe a quarter of a ladle-full of soup. I was so happy. It could have been so much worse, and it would have taken ages to clean up.

The soup today was a coconut cream curry cauliflower soup. It's good soup.

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Québec's Harmonium was a force in the '70s prog rock scene, and one of the most popular acts of the decade in their home province. They were pioneers of the prog folk subgenre of progressive rock, incorporating elaborate instrumental sections into their music.

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BA Johnston is an artist from Hamilton, Ontario known for his satirical songs and energetic live performances. Some songs will be simple acoustic arrangements, as in Canadian Beers or they'll feature synth and drum machines, like I Don't Buy No Government Weed (Still Buying From Steve). Across all tracks, there's BA Johnston's self-deprecating humour and many references to real Canadian culture (like the mention of the camo Alpines in Canadian Beers, this man gets me)

Seriously, if you ever get the chance to see one of his live shows, please do yourself a favour and go! I don't want to share any details because it's best you go in blind. I will say that a BA Johnston show is an unhinged, multi-sensory experience.

 

Playful as a puppy but smart as a whip, New Brunswick's Motherhood pack deeply conceptual art rock into a delightfully unpretentious package.

 

Summer is approaching (in the Northern hemisphere, anyways) and while I do still bike in the winter, I'm hyped for the nicer weather to go on more leisure rides rather than just commuting.

However, I'm lacking ideas and inspirations for spots to cycle to, so I was curious where everyone here likes to go on bike rides!

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