First they'll need to fight to even have a fair election in 2026 and 2028. (Hell, even to have an election).
Until I was around 12 our family almost exclusively used powdered milk (mid-eighties). I don't recall seeing liquid milk in plastic bags like this. Is it an eastern Canada or Ontario thing? In Alberta I don't think it was common.
Indeed, Esti de câlice de tabarnak, c'est pas possible comment que t'es cave ... eh?
(Thank you Wikipedia.)
Imagine the reduction in e-waste if everyone in high school took a short course in how to use a soldering iron, solder-sucker/braid and heat-gun to replace common bits in consumer electronics. So many things could be saved that get thrown out only due to a bad microswitch or cracked solder joint to a USB or headphone connector ...
True. It isn't always about a cost/labour analysis. Sometimes I want to repair something to learn how to do it. Sometimes I want to repair something because even though 'my time is valuable', I hate the idea of throwing out something I know will rot in the landfill for a thousand years. Sometimes I'm just attached to the thing and afraid I won't find a replacement that is as good (which is often the case).
I hate our throwaway culture, it's good to know how to fix things even if it isn't technically 'cost effective' to do so.
So... hope someone archived the National Archives? :o
You know, when it's a regular citizen doing this prosecutors will have a warrant for arrest signed, even if it has to be done in the middle of the night on a weekend, and have a strike team arrest and detain those responsible within literal (really, literal) hours. Why does this not happen NOW?? (I know the answer.)
A losing battle ultimately, I know. Ultimately moving off their services is the best way to demonstrate.
Thank you for your post!
It's been quiet here for a while as you can see. But I think it's time to welcome any new Redditors!
Delphi has been the object of teasing over the years, as for some reason lots of devs only think of old-school teaching Pascal, rather than the incredibly powerful, modern language Object Pascal became. In fact the lead for Object Pascal went on to develop C# at Microsoft, if I recall, and a lot of the good ideas there came directly from Object Pascal.
I hear it is still used a lot outside of North America?
Embarcadero still develops Delphi, but they charge a mint for it, sadly. (Well, for an individual hobby dev that is -- not a lot for a company dev budget).
The modern free alternative is Lazarus + FreePascal. it's available for a ton of platforms, and it's the open-source spiritual successor to Delphi. It's worth a good look if one wants to make cross-platform UI apps.
https://www.freepascal.org/download.html
https://www.lazarus-ide.org/