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mpjgregoire

@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca

ingénieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montréal

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mpjgregoire, to kodi
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Is there a way to stream the #StanleyCup playoffs to #Kodi?

#HNOM

mpjgregoire,
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The answer appears to be no, at least not for the version of Kodi I'm running (Nexus). Sportsnet owns the rights for streaming the playoffs in Canada. There has been at times a Sportsnet plugin for Kodi, but I don't see it.

A subscription to Sportsnet would cost about $20/month, though apparently it's included in some cable packages.

mpjgregoire,
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I've considered buying an antenna for my #RPi. Such things exist, but only for DVB, as used in Europe.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Are you supporting anti-war candidates in elections this year?

#EvanPoll #poll

mpjgregoire,
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@evan Vis pacem, para bellum.

In any case, the only election I expect in the next 12 months is for the school board.

mpjgregoire, (edited ) to Montreal
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Le mystère du melon de Montréal enfin résolu ?: https://lp.ca/4QY6Sa?sharing=true

« Je mange ce melon-là aujourd’hui et je reproduis le geste de mon ancêtre. Je goûte comme lui goûtait ce melon. »


mpjgregoire,
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@ottaross I heard the story on , watched a video on YouTube about it, and now there's an article in . I find nothing in the so far, but maybe in the next week...

mpjgregoire, to random
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https://youtu.be/XreO3XkFzH8?si=k1gnQv9_vAI7aTB3

The piper, , was born in Saskatchewan.

Let us honour always those who fought in to free Europe.

dynamic, to random

Can anyone give me examples of Western media that manage to both avoid white savior narratives and tell a story in which the more-than-human world is valued as something actually more-than human?

mpjgregoire,
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@dynamic This is probably not the best answer, but since no one has proposed something better, let me suggest Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.

mpjgregoire, to ontario
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I learned today that the (Ministry of Transportation of Ontario) switched to 500 MPa yield strength steel for their standard bars in 2021.

Imagine, that happened three years, and I was unaware until now.

https://tcp.mto.gov.on.ca/sites/default/files/2022-05/SCB-SO-2022-01%20-%20500%20MPa%20Steel%20Reinforcement%20-%20Structural%20Implementation.pdf


mpjgregoire, to random French
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"En direct de la France, je m’entretiens avec Jean-François Guérin à propos du 80e anniversaire de la bataille de Normandie et de mon passé militaire avec le Régiment de la Chaudière, seule unité canadienne-française à avoir participé au débarquement."

https://twitter.com/PierrePaulHus/status/1798359728197881976

mpjgregoire, to Canada
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"80 years ago, 21,000 men landed on Juno Beach.
14,000 Canadians 🇨🇦 and 7,000 Brits 🇬🇧 took part in the Allied Landing in Normandy, which would lead them on the paths of Victory in Europe.
🌺 History will remember June 6, 1944 as D-Day."

https://twitter.com/JunoBeachCentre

#DDay #DDay80 #WWII #Canada

mpjgregoire, to detroit
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Canada, U.S. mere metres apart as Gordie Howe bridge deck gap narrows
https://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/photos-canada-u-s-mere-metres-apart-as-gordie-howe-bridge-deck-gap-narrows/wcm/e309a924-48a7-4683-8968-df746a019a3a



mpjgregoire, (edited ) to random
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"Chrystia Freeland put out the bunting after her April 16th budget. The fiscal plan had three targets or “guideposts”: keeping the deficit below $40 billion in 2023/24; lowering the debt-to-GDP ratio in the current fiscal year, compared to last fall’s financial statement; and keeping deficits below one per cent of GDP in 2026/27."

But the Department of Finance now says the deficit was $50.9B.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ivison-federal-deficit-higher-than-freeland-said

#CanPol #cdnpoli #deficit #debt
#NationalPost

technicallymims, to random

excellent growth strategy for Threads

RE: https://www.threads.net/@techmeme/post/C7wwEF0qoRL

mpjgregoire,
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@dansup : Maybe he means "A growth strategy for Pixelfed".

@technicallymims

mpjgregoire, to random
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Ribfest,

mpjgregoire,
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We found the Dinosaur barbecue better than the Hogfather — less sweet.

preslavrachev, to random
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Some days, it pains me that we've built such a useful service, and so few people get to even give it a chance 😔

I've done everything I possibly could (incuding, more than halving the monthly subscription price), but product marketing is something I personally suck at.

So, I am begging you, the community, to help us out. If you know anyone who would benefit from our social media news and stories aggregator, share this post with them.

Thanks! 🙏

https://murmel.social

@murmel_social

mpjgregoire,
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@preslavrachev
This is an interesting idea, probably useful to many people. You need to describe it better though. Maybe something like: "Murmel e-mails you links to the most important news stories of the day by checking what the people you follow on Mastodon are discussing." (That's probably still too long.)

@murmel_social

wdenton, to random
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This Grauniad story forgets Kim Campbell, Canadian prime minister for 132 days in 1993, between when Brian Mulroney resigned because the entire country hated him and the election where the party was reduced from 156 seats to two.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/03/claudia-sheinbaum-president-mexico-party-supermajority

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@wdenton I heard on that Ms. Sheinbaum is the first woman elected to lead a North American country — PM Campbell was chosen by her party but didn't win a mandate from the public. Possibly The Guardian heard such a claim, the muddled it.

mpjgregoire, to Mexico
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comments upon the election of as the next president of :

"The fundamental paradox of Mexican society is this: The presidency is too strong; the state is too weak. López Obrador aggrandized the presidency still more and thus weakened the state even more. Now this powerful presidency will be occupied by a protégée beholden to a predecessor who aspires to control everything from behind the scenes."

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/06/failing-state-mexico-sheinbaum/678585/

mpjgregoire, (edited ) to random
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One of the great things about elementary school-aged children is that when you tell them there are such things as imaginary numbers, they believe you.

Quaternions will be harder to explain though...

mpjgregoire, to random
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Emigration from Canada to the U.S. hits a 10-year high as tens of thousands head south
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-moving-to-the-us-hits-10-year-high-1.7218479

Via https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/06/brain-drain-from-canada.html, where celebrates this as a brain-drain to the US.

As the comments point out, there's a real question about who's moving: is it young, ambitious workers, or older Canadians trading an expensive house in Toronto for a retirement in Florida? The article is essentially anecdotal.

Either way, we need to fix housing policy.

mpjgregoire, (edited ) to random
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The best thing about working with is the sense of accomplishment you feel after finally completing that task you thought would be trivially simple.

18+ mpjgregoire, (edited ) to politics
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Once again, the one-sided of Mastodon means we're not exposed to other points of view. Here I see nothing but delight that Mr. Trump was convicted; on Twitter I also read people arguing that the prosecutor's case was bad law, that Mr. Trump's slimy behaviour wasn't felonious and people are right to be outraged by a politically-motivated prosecution.

(E.g., here's an argument from a lawyer who opposes Mr. Trump and his conviction: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-ridiculousness-of-the-trump-indictment-part-two-the-federal-felony-hook-problem/ )

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mpjgregoire,
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"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion."

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MessagingMatters, to random
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Will voters before the ?

mpjgregoire,
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@MessagingMatters I wish they would, but no.

AnnaAnthro, to Quebec
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minister of higher ed won’t yield on reforms despite financial hits to ,

“Quebec’s university policy changes are part of Déry’s effort to increase funding for French universities and reduce the number of non-French speakers in ’s post-secondary institutions.

French Language Minister Roberge has also complained too much English is being spoken on Montreal streets.”

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mcgill-concordia-budget-cuts-tuition-french-funding

mpjgregoire,
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@brian_gettler @AnnaAnthro Québec -- francophones included -- benefits from the presence of #McGill, #Concordia and #BishopsUniversity . If the government would start by acknowledging that, then we could have a productive conversation about what role they should play in #Québec society.

#polqc

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