adairfromns.bsky.social
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Good thing no dictator has ever done counterproductive things that impoverish and restrict their subjects.
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Would question your sanity if not approved! Looks like a great terrace/surrogate balcony.
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My great grandfather gets a mention in Hank Snow's autobiography cuz he had a car in 1920/30s Nova Scotia and gave him a ride.
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So difficult but so popular! You could go to a party with teenagers and mistakenly walk out with the wrong pair after. They probably won't even notice, they've got a few.
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But definitely a great thing if they can pull it off. Allowing growth in electric load will simplify large loads coming to the area. On that vein AB and BC should definitely look at increasing interconnections.
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My guess would be that this only flies if they can add some large industrial load (they do mention mines). If the link below is correct a 900km line to tie in ~85MW of load and a possible 40 ish MW of surplus capacity might be expensive. energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia...
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I missed out on that -"kids, you gotta drive, I'm watching my favourite show"
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Also for tying in wind
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And pretty sure it was in there at least partially cuz the Protestants didn't want their kids mixing with Catholics so gave then separate schools to avoid this. Toronto at least was a very anti-Catholic place until at least the 60s.
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Gotta upgrade to full suspension just for the bubble turbine.
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Watching the ride rise noticeably on my shorts across the Bay of Fundy on the NS side was pretty surprising (but I was on a beach with easy access to high ground).
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Much howling to come I suppose. Just not quick enough.
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Any 100 year old wiring in the house? Or a vintage fuse box?
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Another item - phone (cell) numbers for your neighbours. People across the street from us were at work outside of town and couldn't get back home - both north- and southbound lanes were used for southbound traffic. We ended up with the kids in with us when we evacuated.
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If your house burns/floods and you can't back or out of town you can lose all that data easily. Once something starts the neighbourhood may be blocked for access or traffic won't allow returning.
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All told, we were pretty lucky but there were very mixed experiences with some coming out ahead and others really suffering for a long time.
One item that I forgot to mention was an offsite backup of all your data/photos/documentation- preferably not located nearby.
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At least initially much of Soviet industrialization was very explicitly American led. Later on they rolled their own but from a base that they imported (well, I guess the Fiat -> Lada factory was later). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgogr...
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The US already spends as much on public healthcare as a comparable country (Medicare, Medicaid, military, other gov employees of all levels, etc). That's 8-9% of GDP.
The tariff bit? Dunno where to start on that.
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The guy's obviously out to lunch in the revenue bit but I imagine most are missing that the US already spends twice what most comparable countries spend as a % of healthcare. Change the system and you could save something like 8-9% of GDP and cover everyone.
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I had a little mini project looking at failure rates on transformers. There were a not small of 75 year old units still trucking away happily.
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Probably the most useful thing for us (evacuated due to wildfire, town closed for 2 months) was home owners insurance that covered rental and other expenses for that time period.
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Perhaps not the helpful response you were hoping for but shows that if you aren't prepped odds are there will be some less optimal stuff along for the ride if you have to evacuate. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Was in San Marino a few weeks ago (was nearby, seemed like a cool thing to do). It's already playing regulatory/tax arbitrage against the rest of Italy. Lots of small industrial just inside the country.
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My great-grandfather used to run an import/export business delivering product from St Pierre et Miquelon back in the prohibition days. I'm told it was a profitable operation.
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Only disappointment is that Hydro One is no longer covered so I can't check in on my old colleagues.
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Normally yes but in the case of a fire the fire can spread even if there are enclosures to at least partially shield the adjecent units. Also firefighting may require complete isolation of a substation and require work to restore power.
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Yup. That takes the math from reasonable to 100% BS if they aren't random and aren't truly independent events.
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My guess is this is what they're going for in the stats - 40% success = 0.6 probability of failure. 2 independent event so 0.6 x 0.6 = 0.36 chance of failure on both. ~65% chance of success on one or both. Or 100% BS.
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Great for travel if you're washing clothes in a hotel sink. Rip off a little bit and it cleans well.
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Was going to suggest adding @robsonfletcher.com, but on 2nd check through I see you've already got him on the list.
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More of a letterkenny fan myself
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Once used Modar to guess a guys university roommate's name 20 years later based on the fact he had sent a kid to a small city I lived in as a missionary and that he was drinking diet coke at 8am in meetings. Seems surprised.
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/3 The idea that the American people were a simmering cauldron of anxiety about trans issues and the GOP just finally acknowledged it is ridiculous. The trans panic is as cynical, bad-faith, and artificial as the “people eating dogs” panic. “Moderating” to their framing is capitulation to evil.
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"Monarch and 'is hairs?"
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Pretty sure it was SCO and Darl Edwards for me. If I remember correctly Prenda Law was after that.
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Folks covering DC need to immerse themselves in the Silicon Valley playbook. (I'm native to both.)
Boundaries don't exist there. You just do something, and see if there's pushback. And then see if you can keep going anyways.
This is how Uber steamrolled over municipal taxi rules
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(Internet rando sobbing in my corner)
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Came here to check for references to the Scunthorpe problem. Was not disappointed.
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Time to rejoin and point out you were right?
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Pretty sure the "what happened to you?" part infers you were considered cool by the junior section at some point.
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EE here. I'm 90% convinced that this is just made up junk with just enough real to make it plausible. And some very real hardware to back it up, that's standard industrial stuff he's playing with, or at least the trade fair setup of such.
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And definitely don't put it in a bag. Cuz that would look like a bag of....
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What you're looking for is a shadow cabinet. They're pretty common elsewhere, the opposition parties in parliamnetsry democracies often have people in the same seats as cabinet, taking shots specifically at their gov counterpart.
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Failed Canada expansion that failed cuz they didn't have anything in stock. Seems like there might be. A connection there!
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Until the 1960s or so Toronto used to be very anti-Catholic Irish (and probably the Italians as well). Big Orange Order city. x.com/todreamsproj...
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From a Canadian listener the first half was pretty US focused - the history of why the auto industry is integrated between the two countries before NAFTA and Mexican production growth is reminiscent of what we hear today, with roles perhaps reversed. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/c...
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Scale, scope and unhingedness. And on top of that no guardrails because noone in Congress or Senate seems willing to do anything other than do exactly what Dear Leader says so pressure points are likely fewer and less effective.
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You missed a word - AGAIN. "imagine being a US ally and having to fill rooms of your smartest, most boring bureaucrats whose mission is to find creative ways to damage the US economy for countertariffs AGAIN"
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