Those of us in Canada are getting a two-month ‘tax holiday’ on selected items. The complete list of items includes “Jigsaw puzzles, for all ages.”
I didn’t have Jigsaw-puzzle-tax-holiday on my bingo card for this year.
This feels more like a stunt than a policy, and I expect it will be generally perceived as a stunt. That said, I don’t discount the impact of the savings on those who need it most.
Also, my thoughts go out to everyone working on a point-of-sale system trying to get these updates addressed in time, and to those making the difficult edge-case decisions (do they use jigsaws to make 3-d puzzles?).
“Donald Trump is a dangerous maniac who can barely complete a sentence, and it is lunacy to believe he can even recognize the existentially threatening collective action problems facing our nation, let alone actually solve them.”
He also uses USB-C to help explain collective action requiring government intervention.
Proposal: A new national holiday where we all take some time to clean up our list of Interac e-Transfer recipients.
You probably aren’t going to do more business with that person from Facebook Marketplace who sold you a pair of kids snow-pants and claimed they lived “in town”, but took 25 minutes to get to their house.
This post is only for the one person searching for this issue – it’s probably not for you:
I’ve got an issue that started recently (possibly when updating my M1 MacBook Pro to macOS 15 (Sequoia).
The issue only happens with this particular combination of hardware/software: SM57 into my UB802 Behringer mixer, into my CalDigit TS3, dock into Zoom videoconferencing software.
With this combination, I get an odd stereo effect that sounds like (and I think is) the same mono signal slightly out of time in the left vs. right stereo channels.
This is a recording from a Zoom call showing how my voice sounds odd when panned to the center, but fine when panned left or right.
If I use the same mic/dock into any other audio app, it sounds fine.
If I use any other mic, or even the same mic/mixer into the headphone jack on the MacBook, it sounds fine.
Today, I discovered a “fix”: The issue only appears if I pan the left/right mix on my mixer to the center. If I pan hard left or hard right, it sounds fine (even though it all gets mixed down to mono). Since it’s a mono signal from the mic (I guess getting split into stereo in the mixer), it sounds identical in Zoom regardless of the panning.
I don’t know if the ‘fault’ lies with Zoom, CalDigit, or macOS.
People who hate Justin Trudeau really like other people to know that they hate him. They put stickers on their trucks.
People who don’t feel too strongly either way about Justin Trudeau don’t shout about it, or reply in online conversations about it, or wear shirts about it.
There is no sticker for your car that says: “I don’t love or hate Justin Trudeau — I like some of what he’s done and dislike other parts. On the whole, he is not a disaster.”
