So I’m guessing this means that all political leaders at the provincial and federal level now have top secret clearance, right?

Umm, PP why haven’t you raised your hand?

There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you.’ Fool me—you can’t get fooled again."

George W. Bush – Nashville, Tennessee, September 17, 2002.

I have taught in Quebec schools this year, the first full year that cell phones were banned. I have not seen a single student using a phone. The teachers at my schools have also been unanimous in saying that there has been a significant improvement in the student attention, as well as communication and activity between students.

Any reason it it spelled “Mithrall” instead of “Mithril”? Is that trademarked or something?

I mean, it seems unlikely they could deny that it is heavily based on Tolkien mythology.

The actual numbers are 36% of all Americans, but 80-90% of African-, Native- and Asian-Americans are intolerant.

Definition & Facts for Lactose Intolerance - NIDDK

Wow, that sounds completely different from my experience of CS (at a Canadian university). I had courses in data structures, networking, and operating systems, and programming was something we learned on our own to explore those subjects. Think of sorting and searching algorithms, compression techniques, discrete algebra, and OS scheduling strategies.

I met students who had very poor programming abilities, but were successful at understanding the how and why.

To learn programming as a skill, I would instead go to a community college.

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Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer

I’m not sure I understand what you are saying. When the temperature drops below about -20°C, our heat pump stops working and the system switches over automatically to pure electric heat. It makes our electricity bill triple. Fortunately, that doesn’t happen very often.

I assume they mentioned his height because flying economy would be quite inconvenient and uncomfortable for someone that tall. It would be easy for him to say he has to fly business class just so his legs can fit in the seat.

And since the dogma of infallibility was proclaimed close to 200 years ago, there have only been two instances it has been invoked.

It looks like cruise ships [are significantly worse](epn07501.pdf https://share.google/fD7gRD431iLtVZbUU) than airplanes. About four times more fuel.

Based on what I know of cruise ships, I would bet that an ocean liner across the Atlantic wood burn even more fuel than a plane for the same number of people.

Rough calculation indicates that it would take about 3,000 gallons of fuel per person to go across the Atlantic.

It seems like an eternity ego that someone (Colbert?) coined the phrase, “reality has a distinctly liberal bias”.

Please let me know when the bullet train across the Atlantic and Pacific gets finished.

Donald…I have a cask of very special wine I’d like you to try. It’s an Amontillado. Do come down into the bunker and have a taste.

St. Hubbins, the patron saint of quality footwear.

Doesn’t Quebec’s policy of high-speed internet for everyone include subsidized Starlink for people who don’t have access to fiber? That’s a lot of customers for Musk.

My wife’s electric car has been fine for us. It took about a month until we could get a level two charger installed at home. Until then, I had to drive her to a nearby town to leave her car for 6 hours to charge.

However, our experience when we went on a road trip was less than pleasant. The first 300 km of our trip there were only two charging stations. We checked at the first one, but there was one car charging and another waiting, so we continued on. We arrived at our destination with about 50 km to spare.

The next day we went to a level 3 charging station, but it was out of order. A nearby one had Tesla superchargers, but the other chargers only put out between 50 and 100 KV. It didn’t matter, because the company’s app refused to work for us.

The next closest charging stations were closed, because it was Sunday.

We managed to get to a station a little farther away, and it took about 90 minutes to charge the car.

We don’t live near a large city, so when there are charging stations, there is often a line of vehicles waiting, which puts the time to charge into hours. Equally bad, we never know until we get there how much time it will take.

We live in Canada, so in the winter a full charge drops from over 500 km to about 300. If we have to travel anywhere, we are going to have to rent a gasoline car.

Japan doesn’t even bother with street names, except the largest ones in big cities. If you want to find a house, they are also not necessarily numbered sequentially. Sometimes the houses in a neighborhood are numbered in the order they were built.

If you want to find a house, you go to the neighborhood map and look there. At least, that’s how it used to be. Now everything is GPS. I was using GPS in a car close to 30 years ago, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the first place in the world to have consumer GPS, simply because they needed it.

500mg of salt is about 1/10 of a teaspoon, not very much.