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frozenicecube@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Nova Scotia Power customers question power bills that have doubled, tripled311·3 months ago- The previous liberal government in power for 8 years did absolutely nothing to solve the NSP issues despite promising many times to work on lowering power rates.
- The current progressive conservative government in power is actually about as left leaning as the provincial liberals, so this particular issue has nothing to do with conservative vs liberals.
The real issue is that the utility should never have been privatized (yes decades ago by a PC gov’t).
frozenicecube@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Four dead and more in hospital with methanol poisoning after drinking 'free shots' in Laos12·6 months agoFew points:
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Depending what’s being fermented the quantity of methanol can be quite low. Most “sugar wash” type home distillations are quite low in methanol. Certain fruits can yield higher but this isn’t the cheap “moonshine” you’d find and even then it’s unlikely to poison someone in the volume present.
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The distillation process doesn’t add methanol, nor ethanol, just concentrates it by boiling it off and leaving behind the higher boiling water etc. Drinking any fermented natural alcohol still results in the consumption of some methanol. In fact if you look up your local regulations, every country has an acceptable amount of methanol they allow in commercial products. Drinking a distilled product concentrates what is already present, so binge drinking it can result in more consumption of methanol as a by product, but doesn’t magically make some shots deadly.
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Most home distillers err* on the side of caution and throw away their foreshots and heads “just in case” and also often take the end of a distillation run (tails) and keep those out of their hooch as well.
It’s not exactly “easy to fuck up” to the point you poison someone with methanol, though to be fair to you this is a pretty wide spread myth.
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frozenicecube@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizesEnglish121·1 year ago“I WAS IN THE POOL!!!”
frozenicecube@lemmy.cato Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•My 2tb jellyfin server with a disney collection go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrEnglish0·2 years agoYou’re not wrong but there are still drawbacks to Kodi where Jellyfin ends up being better. In my use case, with 5 tvs in the house, 2 are hooked up to Nvidia shield tvs but the other 3 are Chromecast w/ Google TV which have very limited storage unless I want to spend a fortune in hubs for each one to add a USB drive or micro SD.
With kodi installed I would regularly hit the storage limit of the device and have all kinds of weird bugs. Just as an example I had my daughter set up with a kids only account, but account switching would cause Kodi to become unresponsive for anywhere from 30 seconds to having to do a hard reset of the device. Jellyfin gives me the same access to my library with a lighter, more streamlined, persistent interface across devices and with easy and fast profiles. It still allows me to keep a pi as the host so the whole setup is low power (important for me as we’re on solar, every watt helps!)
I don’t really need the Kodi plugins I used to have if the main purpose of streaming my local content isn’t smooth and simple for the family. This is coming from a long time XBMC user, I’ve been running it since my original modded Xbox in the early 2000s.
frozenicecube@lemmy.cato RetroGaming@lemmy.world•(Most of) my handheld collectionEnglish1·2 years agoDbrand is awesome for skins! Verticals are a miyoo mini, anbernic rg35xx, and anbernic rg351v.
frozenicecube@lemmy.cato RetroGaming@lemmy.world•(Most of) my handheld collectionEnglish1·2 years agoHere’s mine minus my switch
For anyone just reading the comments, please be aware that this is old news. Article from Jan 21st.