Care to share sources for any of these claims?

I assume by “the trans athlete in swimming” you’re referring to Lia Thomas. Here’s an excerpt from her Wikipedia page:

In March 2022, Thomas became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in any sport after winning the women’s 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:33.24; Olympic silver medalist Emma Weyant was second with a time 1.75 seconds behind Thomas.

1.75 seconds is hardly “30 seconds” as you claim. Note that this is the only event she won, no one seems to care that she also placed last in the 100 freestyle event, or that even in the event that she won she was over 9 seconds slower than the women’s record for 500 yard-freestyle.

As for the MMA fighter, after a quick search I’ll assume you’re talking about Fallon Fox? It’s true she did injure one of her opponents, Tamikka Brents. I don’t know much about MMA, but seeing as it’s a sport where people punch and kick each other violently, I’d assume injuries happen.

Let’s assume she did have an advantage as a result of going through male puberty as a teen. Where do we draw the line in regulating biological advantage in sports?

Caster Semenya, a runner who was assigned female at birth and has lived her entire life as a woman, has higher levels of testosterone than the average cis woman. Should she be banned from competing?

Michael Phelps, a cis man with many Olympic medals in swimming, has an unusually large wingspan, double-jointed ankles, and produces around half the lactic acid of an average person, all of which gives him a biological advantage. Should we rescind his medals?

Why is “unfair biological advantage” in sports only brought up in the case of trans women (or in the case of Caster Selenga, gender non-conforming women who are mistakenly assumed to be trans?)

All companies using this shit software should be barred from being landlord and the province should take over

Everything that is necessary for survival (food, water, and shelter at a minimum) should be a public good and not managed by profit-seeking individuals or corporations.

It’s worked fine for me across three different addresses. The link I shared in my previous comment also has info on how to report if it doesn’t get respected, as the other commenter suggested.

FYI, you can just slap a note on your mailbox saying “No unaddressed mail” and you’ll stop receiving the vast majority of junkmail.

Here’s a link to Canada Post’s website with more info.

I work as a barista and get much too annoyed by people ordering a “regular coffee”.

Like I know that 99.999% of the time they mean a drip/filter coffee (excluding that one lady that one time who was surprised I didn’t parse “regular coffee” as a latte), but like can you just say drip coffee? Or even simply “coffee”!

I honestly don’t even know why it annoys me this much.

Not only is it more readable and aesthetically-pleasing, singular “they” is more inclusive of people outside the gender binary!

Singular “they” actually predates singular “you”.

0, badass is not something I’ve ever felt, nor particularly strived for.

I’m more of a goodie-two-shoes people pleaser type.

I really wish the Greens would push the Libs hard on electoral reform. It’s wildly undemocratic that we have a riding (Riverview) where the Cons won with ~39% of the vote, when the Libs had ~34% and the Greens had ~25%.

I’m glad David Coon kept his seat

Same, he and Megan Mitton in Tantramar are excellent MLAs and we sorely need voices other than Lib or PC in the legislature.

I’m sad for Green candidate Kevin Arseneau who lost his seat in Kent North, he was a very dynamic speaker in Fredericton.

I hope the remaining Green caucus pushes hard for electoral reform; the Lib majority tonight was won more off of Higg’s failures than by the actual Liberal platform. As always in NB elections, we voted a government out rather than voting one in. I wish that would change, but it won’t as long as we have first-past-the-post.

I’m not thrilled by a Liberal majority, but I must admit I prefer the Libs’ tendency of inaction to the Cons active destruction when it comes to policies near to my heart, including healthcare, education, linguistic rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and our relationship with First Nations.

I don’t dare put any hope in them to move our province forward, but at least they won’t be as active in making NB worse as the past Conservative government was.

I am i mean 😅 which is simultaneously hilarious take my shift on August after bullshit about it with and you want to be nice to you comes across as an avid beer drinker I’d be down to hang out with me you’re automatically turn on von when not on home network remotely through it with and you want to be nice to you know you can be a fan of this is the tipping culture I want to be nice to you know.

Stephan Merchant didn’t voice Cave Johnston but he did voice Wheatley, another character from Portal 2.

hoping to eventually switch to searxng

Do it! Easily the best search engine I’ve ever used. I do recommend going through all the settings beforehand, though.

I knew that on Lemmy someone would have commented this before me.

I use https://search.bus-hit.me/ but honestly searxng is best used with personalised settings.

This tweet honestly recontextualised the song enough for me to appreciate it.

He won’t, and if he does it’s inevitably going to be ranked ballots which unfairly favours the Liberal Party and won’t have the desired effect of increasing the representation of people who vote anything other than Lib or Con.

Why would the current government do electoral reform years (and two elections) after failing to deliver on the promise that “2015 will be the last federal election under first-past-the-post”?

Plus public opinion of Trudeau is so poisoned that, at this point, his supporting of electoral reform would likely just make it even more unpopular amongst the electorate.

I use Librewolf on desktop and Mull on mobile. I have a few extensions on both, which could definitely contribute to issues. When I have issues (usually government sites or financial stuff, sometimes DRM-related stuff for media) it’s easier to just use a Chromium-based browser with no extensions than try to troubleshoot specifically what’s causing the issues. I keep Falkon (desktop) and Vanadium (mobile) installed for this purpose.

I get the feeling a lot of issues people are having in Firefox might be due to extensions or settings, which gets “fixed” by using another browser (which happens to be Chromium-based because most browsers are) and they blame the issue on Firefox itself.

I currently work as a barista, but I’ve also previously been a pharmacy assistant in a methadone clinic for recovering opioid addicts.

Honestly apart from the paperwork and the stakes involved if one messes up, the jobs are pretty similar.