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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 . Such things exist, but only for DVB, as used in Europe.

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...

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@mpjgregoire hope the enthusiasm keeps going and we can find the melons in the stores soon.

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

mpjgregoire, to detroit
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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.

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

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.

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

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mpjgregoire, (edited ) to politics
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"[H]ighly-educated people [...] tend to be significantly worse at gauging others’ political beliefs, often assuming other people are much more extreme or dogmatic than they actually seem to be. This is perhaps because, compared to the general public, highly-educated or intelligent people tend to be more ideological in their thinking, more ideologically rigid, and more extreme in their ideological leanings."

#MusaAlGharbi

https://musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/smugness-partisan-diploma-divide

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#politics #education

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Research "suggests that those who are highly educated, intelligent or rhetorically-skilled tend to be significantly less likely than most to revise their beliefs or adjust their positions when confronted with evidence or arguments that contradict their priors. This is because, in virtue of knowing more about the world, or being better at arguing, they are better equipped to punch holes in data or arguments that contradict their priors, or to otherwise make excuses for “sticking to their guns”."

mpjgregoire, (edited )
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Bill Buckley had a quip about the political wisdom of the highly-educated...

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