I think that it might be the other way around.
US politics have only relatively recently become so clearly cut along party lines, whereas in Canadian parliament votes in the house are almost always 'whipped' ie MPs are basically obligated by their party to vote the party line.
I don't like homeless encampments, tent cities, favelas etc. They are unsafe, unclean and foster destructive behavior.
Let's destroy them by building safe, permanent homes for people.
It's so strange to me that "free market capitalism" lovers can't see that encampments are a market response. There is a large supply of unenclosed space (parks, sidewalks, underpasses) and an unmet demand for shelter. They shouldn't be surprised when market participants convert the former into the latter.
How effective do they think it will be to police every unenclosed space in the region vs building adequate shelter. Building shelter has all sorts of associated benefits too.
Canadian homeless encampments have become increasingly visible in recent years, and those residing within them have faced a fair bit of variation in how local governments react to their presence. Today, let's look at a remarkable legal case that may change the game regarding how homeless encampments are considered under Canadian law and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Maybe you should secretly learn to drive and then take her on a surprise outing.
My strategy when I get repetitious "whys" has been to ask "why what?"
Make them process the answer you just gave them and reformulate it into a question.
If they don't do a good job just say "I don't understand your question, can you ask it in another way? "
Kids like the 'why' game because it's easy entertainment. Just make it less easy.
It seems he bought Twitter and successfully traded twitter's market cap into right wing populist influence (RWPI) [and presumably a capital gains deduction], and now RWPI into governmental influence.
I'm not saying that it's likely or that it would have any effects.
Yeah, and I'm positing that the probability he did not have a penis is at least 0.5%.
The Bible is not accurate regarding Jesus' early life.
I don't think it's wrong to exercise an iota of skepticism.
Was Luke there at the circumcision? What was his source?
Wouldn't Jesus being trans and Luke being misinformed (or actually trying to avoid outting him) explain why there isn't really any testimony about Jesus's life during puberty? It was an incredibly misogynistic era right? Is it inconceivable for a person without a penis to try to pass as a man in that era?
If a person can better appreciate Jesus by understanding him as a trans-man should a christian tell them they're wrong? Does it put them in spiritual jeopardy? Is it dishonest to say "maybe"? I don't think so.
Could it be that it's using less power as it charges? ie automatically shuts off power hungry features while charging?
Good data is so hard to get.
What I'd actually care about is how many minutes of usage does 30 minutes of charging get me in both standard and ekeing out as much life as I can mode.
Jesus on the other hand 100% had a dick. [...] Jesus was 100% biologically male.
Oh did they find his body?
Wouldn't it be more reasonable to conclude that the probability of Jesus being biologically male equals the human average of males being biologically male? Ie 99.5%.
Couldn't his radical compassion for outcasts and the downtrodden be related to personal struggles growing up with gender dysphoria?
If you believe he was conceived in a virgin, wouldn't it be MORE likely that he had XX chromosomes?
I wish I could give Elon the benefit of the doubt:
Well maybe he meant that the child's birthname is a deadname and out of respect of his child's identity he will not use it.
But he definitely didn't mean it like that. He refused to celebrate his child doing something difficult, and chose transphobia(or at least the approval of transphobes) over having a relationship with his child.
This is the level of critical thinking that conservative pundits are exercising.
I'd probably start designing and building a rolling ball clock/ sculpture, then hit some sort of obstacle and switch to making a self recirculating eddy current tube, get frustrated and try to design and build an electronically commutated counter rotating propeller driver, get frustrated and try to build a garage sized 3d printer, get frustrated and try to build a delayed action door closer get frustrated and try to build a co-planar compound cycloidal reducer, get frustrated and then forget my wife's anniversary until 4pm the day before.
Marriage is a partnership, and parenthood is a partnership, but they are different. Did you get married before you discovered you were pregnant?
My 6 year old son and I spent an hour building them together on valentines day while my wife did whatever she wanted.
The idea behind tariffs is to increase the prices of imports so that domestic production can compete. Higher prices are definitely the point, but the idea is that at least with domestic production the price increases get circulated back into the domestic economy as jobs/wages. But, if the domestic economy can increase production without increasing wage expenditure then the money from the higher prices just goes to the shareholders.
If it's something for which there is no domestic production, it's just a tax, and it should become a question of what does money from the tariffs get used for... probably taxcuts for the rich.
Melania Trump too right?
Yeah,
A woman at a party hoping to bag a dying rich husband retains the right not to be groped/assaulted or raped.
I actually wouldn't be surprised if the modeling industry as a whole was proved to be a sex abuse conspiracy from the get go. Like create this image in the media of beautiful women becoming glamorous successful models that marry dying billionaires, tell them that they have to network at fancy parties where the industry moguls are, convince them to ingratiate themselves to the moguls however they can....
I live in Vancouver Canada, my house was built in the 1950's and the basement has the floor joists of the kitchen [above it] exposed.
At that time forestry here was felling massive ancient trees. I'm curious how precisely I can establish a maximum age of the trees felled.
Obviously I could count the rings visible on the joists and subtract that number from 1950, but not having the tree's full diameter limits measurement. I understand it's possible to compare relative ring sizes with existing [cross referenced] data sets to date timber.
Does anyone have any experience doing this or able to point me in the right direction? Any resources I'm unlikely to find on Google?
In response to today’s post of an interview with the Israeli Ambassador to Canada, Iddo Moed, Canadaland journalists Cherise Seucharan and Noor Azrieh present the following analysis.
...and a fact check of the statements made in the interview.
I'm trying to achieve variable speed control on two brushed DC motors powered by a 3s or 4s LiPo battery (~12V or 15V). This is for a nerf blaster I'm modifying, which is why I'm not using a pre-made speed control ie I want control over the shape/layout. I'd like to vary projectile speed with a thumb knob.
I just finished watching ElectricMonkeyBrain's YouTube video on the TL494 PWM chip.
I was initially planning to vary the duty cycle with a potentiometer on the chip's control pin, to get a PWM signal and feed that into a MOSFET. But in the video he mentions that the chip has an integrated over current protection function. Ie the chip will
monitor the voltage across a sense resistor in series with the load
and will
kill the output if the sensed voltage/current goes above a reference voltage
It occured to me that I could actually adjust the reference voltage as a way to control the motor speed.
Would this be a better way to achieve speed control and protect my motors/battery? Or is it a terrible idea altogether.
I met a Ukrainian today. He is my age. I met him at school drop off, our sons are in the same kindergarten class.
They recently arrived here from overseas. I welcome them, but I wish we had done more to help Ukraine.
There are numerous places in the world where people are being displaced by state violence, but I don't think there's anywhere that it's being done by a global power so directly. It's similar to Gaza/Palestine & Israel, but Russia can end the war by simply going home.
If we had been meeting our NATO obligations for the last 30 years, would this family have been driven out of their home? I don't know. (I actually know almost nothing about their personal circumstances)
I just feel like we should have done more, and that it's not too late.
I have recently rewatched the movies Inside Out and Home Alone, having previously seen them while childless (I.O. as a young adult, H.A. many times at various ages).
The parental behavior draws a lot more of my attention, and it really changes the movie for me.
The parental panic when they don't know where their kid is, or if they're safe, just hits so much harder. Like, it's not that I didn't understand the movie before, I guess I just have a new appreciation for the parents emotions.
Are there any other movies that you appreciate differently now that you have different experiences?
I know this isn't build a pc, but everything over there is so gaming oriented I thought I might get better advice here.
I'm a noob that wants a home media server for sharing photos of my kids with my family (across the country), video library sharing to some family members, and streaming my music collection to my phone (and maybe my dad's).
But I'm considering ripping my father in laws extensive bluray collection (well seeing it up so he can rip them into my library) so I reckon a full tower is required for HDDs.
I'm imagining unraid, with a big pile of used drives. What I like about that approach is that I can economically add storage as the video library grows as I/we rip. Or are used HDDs a false economy.
I think the only processing intensive thing in the use case list is ripping and video library sharing. I have no concept of what sort of processing is required. Should I get a graphics card?
There's a Lenovo TS-140 (E3-1226 V3) available available used for $80 Canadian. Is that a good place to start?
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A man was arrested after being found with a loaded gun and thousands of dollars worth of drugs in Vancouver.
The cyclist was riding on the sidewalk, and ran a red light (a bit more justified to flag him down). He fled, eventually ditching the bike and fleeing by foot.
I hope the police didn't screw up by performing an unjustified search.
My friend John mentioned that he has been feeling depressed lately. There have been some bad things in his logs that would make anyone sad but the things that normally bring him happiness aren't doing anything for him lately. It's something he has struggled with in the past. He has a counselor and has been prescribed anti-depressants. I'm not worried about him harming himself.
My understanding is that part of being a friend to someone facing depression is reaching out to spend time with them.
How much should I reach out? I don't want to harass him, and he has a wife and other friends (that are emotionally closer than me). His wife for sure knows what's going on, but I'm not sure about his other friends (our kids go to the same school so I actually see him more then most of his friends).
I understand that sometimes depressed people neglect chores in their life, should I ask his wife if there's anything I could help him/them with?
I glove you.
My neighbour (40/m) ("N") confided that his recently retired father (70/m) ("G") has started going to the casino twice a day (all day but he comes home for dinner).
G's losses affect the food they eat (multi generational household).
N doesn't really know what to do. I'm not so concerned for N, moreso his mother/G's wife.
It's not my business but, when I was a kid my boyscout leader committed suicide after gambling away his house so I'm pretty sensitive to this sort of thing. I'd like to help if I can.
Any advice?
This goose has adopted my parents, and is attempting to establish residency in their cabin. We suspect it is domestic and escaped from its coop. It's a seasonal cabin and they're planning to close up soon. What should they do? Central Ontario. Near Bracebridge.
UPDATE: A neighbor of theirs is set up for chickens, so could accommodate a goose. And shortly after making that arrangement an ad appeared in the community message board. So the goose is going home.
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around the scale of the problem of nuclear waste. If we took all the nuclear waste produced in a year and evenly blended it into all gasoline burned in a year would the radiation be deadly? Dangerous? Detectable?
It's easiest to get numbers for the US.
2 000 000 kg of waste per year
510 000 000 000 Liters of gasoline
Obviously this isn't a real proposal, although I think it would reduce carbon emissions...
Wikipedia says
>A superhero or superheroine is a stock character that typically possesses superpowers, abilities beyond those of ordinary people, and fits the role of the hero, typically using their powers to help the world become a better place, or dedicating themselves to protecting the public and fighting crime.
So yes, he is definitely dedicated to protecting the public, but it feels wrong to call him a super hero. What do you think?