I was just thinking back to the mental health screening I had earlier last week with a psychiatric nurse. It just broke my heart to see how overworked she was. Working through lunch, then giving me a callback after 6 PM. Ontario's premier Doug Ford is purposefully making her life miserable so he can show a balanced budget, while lavishing hundreds of millions on land speculators and alcohol purveyors.
I wish I knew how to get through to non-voters that elections are important. #ONPoli#CanPoli
This is a neat trick: recycle steel and cement at the same time using renewable energy. The cement acts as slag on top of the molten steel to prevent it from reacting with oxygen in the air. The cement can then be reused. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxee01m5yero
If you have only basic cooking skills like myself, you may not know that there are TWO kinds of cocoa. The first is baking cocoa that you see in the baking aisle. It is naturally alkaline and works with baking soda to make cakes rise.
The second is dutched cocoa, which has been processed to make it neutral. It is a bit more mellow in flavour and darker in colour. Most importantly, it dissolves in hot water more easily. If you make your own hot chocolate powder, dutched chocolate is what you need. It is also nice for powdering desserts and icing.
Posting from my new M2 iPad Air. It is so light! This is an 11” model, whereas my last one was the 13” one (with not nearly enough memory). I’m surprised that the virtual keyboards are different, so I’ll have to get used to that.
I used to always get the pro model, but I’ve come to terms with the fact that the hobbies I think I’ll have rarely come to pass. I’ll get the new pencil once I make a real commitment to learn how to draw.
@dan613
I was just pricing out the 11” Air yesterday as my iPadPro from 2018 is faltering a bit. Glad to read your comments, thanks.
(Procreate is a great art program, and “Every Tuesday” website & YouTube channel is very helpful with all aspects of iPad art, as is “James Julier Art Tutorials” on YouTube.)
@tantramar@dan613
Speaking of needing a prompter, the encounter between CBC comedian Dan Dillabaugh and Poilievre at a campaign event in Halifax is painful to watch.
22minutes has done this to a lot of politicians. This has to be the most ungraceful one of them all. The normal response is to just smile, let them do their bit and move on.
Just really gives insight to how the man thinks. Sort of like how you can tell a lot about a person in how they treat servers at a restaurant or caretakers.
Huh. So Google AMP was supposed to speed up the Web, but actually had some lag issues. To hide this, they came up with a performance metric that doesn't actually show a useful performance. And then they eventually abandoned AMP. True to form. https://mastodon.social/@adactio/112161621153529972
I just discovered that @MonaApp will save the Alt Text in the captions when saving a photo. It makes sense, since it also copies the caption into Alt Text. This should be more common. Are there other Mastodon apps with this feature?
The youngest let it be known that my spouse has, for the last 4 years, likened me to a house spider when reminding her kids not to startle or overwhelm me. Writing this from under a piece of furniture.