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  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Our EV did not come with a spare or a jack with which to change it. It did come with a spray bottle of 'something' that will fill the tire for x kilometers. More importantly, it came with unlimited roadside...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    I've worked in and around shipping and marine life for many, many years. There is absolutely, 100% certainly a protocol for pre-departure checks by the ships engineers and crew. This is basic, first thing you learn stuff. Probably the engineers...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    'Spunky' is a common dog name here in Canada. This has caused more than a few UK persons to burst out laughing....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    We still have a 'land line' for what I used to think were safety reasons, but nobody uses it except occasional scammers. I have recently realized that the monthly cost of maintaining said landline could be spent on acquiring a...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    I would categorize them as opportunists....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    The worst part about the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraw was that the present outcome was wholly predictable. Pretty much everything that happened after and as a result of 911 was predictable. The US would freak right out and immediately...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    I know that. You know that. Anyone who has been living outside a cave for the last 23 years knows that. Those of us who were not intelligence professionals did not know anything on Sept. 12, 2001. I just knew...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    What the game consoles to, OS or not, is work to purpose. My kids have had various consoles in the house which have done exactly what they are supposed to do for multiple years without issue. I'll grant they are...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    My very first class in grad school for Political Science was taught by a fellow who owned one of the prominent political polling companies in Canada, who largely did polling for the Conservatives. The first class was on September 12th,...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Minor technicality - who can vote in municipal or school board elections varies by province. Here in BC we have occasionally had to fend off idiotic notions like allowing corporations with operations in a municipality to have a vote in...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Here in Canada health care is provided to everyone who is a legal resident, mostly without fees (though a couple of provinces have a fixed monthly fee). Here in BC I see a sign posted at the Emergency Room that...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    AOC would fit quite well into the left wing of the center right Liberal party of Canada. She might find our democratic socialist party a bit too left for her taste (though they do have some impact in government at...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    "I hope those studies accounted for those (and other) confounding effects. (Not certain how, but I'm neither a political scientist nor psychologist.) I'll be in your neck of the woods next month; maybe we can chat about it over coffee."...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    That likely applies for US people living in the US, yes. For those of us outside the self-referential echo chamber that is the US, it is a strange experience to see people like Joe Biden, or even Bernie Sanders or...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    We can assume that there will be large numbers of refugees moving away from the equator over the next 30 years. Many migrants now can be fairly described as climate refugees. Given the violence occurring now against such migrants, my...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    There have been plenty of political psychology studies that show people's political leanings tend to change when they move to a new locale, usually towards the mean of the population where they've moved. It doesn't happen overnight, but we are...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    When my dad was a kid his family relocated to London for a couple of years. My grandfather was going to LSE and my grandmother was nursing her ailing parent. My dad and his eldest brother attended a posh all...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Where I grew up (small town Alberta) we got the dating and sex thing. The key differentiator was between the kids who had received some form of sex education (and thus awareness of birth control) and the religious kids (Catholic,...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Minor quibble. The 'first' movie was always dubbed 'Episode IV'. Literally the first thing we saw as the text rolled up the screen. Most of the rest were just marketing vehicles, but the camp and spectacle of the original was...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    I used to live at an address called '55 East 54th Street'. Quite regularly I would get mail addressed to 54 East 55th St. On one dreadful occasion the passport office mailed by new document to the opposite address, and...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    My grandmother had some difficulty getting out of Hungary in the 80s. She was a Canadian citizen with a British passport and a Hungarian last name. The Hungarian officials just could not wrap their heads around it. My last name...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    The US claims territorial control of 200 nautical miles from shore, as do most other countries nowadays. This was a Reagan thing. With Alaska, Hawaii and other offshore holdings such as Samoa and Guam this amounted to something like a...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Ground fault plugs are default by code for any new builds or renovations here in BC - no idea about the rest of Canada. Honestly they are quite cheap. I retrofitted them to all outdoor sockets and anything anywhere near...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    From Pigeon's historical posts I am comfortable assuming that his electric shower has been jury built out of used toaster parts, and broken down motorcycle and a fusion powered steam kettle. Anyone who is not Pigeon risks their life taking...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Our EV has a backup camera, which is excellent for parking or exiting parking situations. The car also has a variety of regenerative braking modes, which can be changed at will (on the column or on the console). Ditto various...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    I have a friend who has been working in California for over a decade and is still not able to get a Green Card, because he can't prove that Americans couldn't do the work he is doing (spoiler - he...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    I can't imagine opening an account that wasn't at a credit union, but YMMV....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2305430083697 Video of a news article about a person whose truck was stolen with an airtag in it. He tracked it all the way to the coast, inside a container. The ongoing issue is that items which can be very...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Dietary restrictions can be a factor even when survival is at stake. I read... somewhere... about the Greenland Vikings dying out, and one factor was that despite rivers and oceans of fish, for some unrecorded reason they did not eat...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    You're fine Robert. I work with people in dire poverty every day. There are no generalizations. There are some commonalities some of the time. But those aren't the people you are talking about. I also know many people who make...
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