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Omg pick an endian! I prefer big-endian (year, month, day), since it will naturally sort into chronological order. One might argue that little-endian (day, month, year) has merit in some situations where you want to see the most variable component first. But this mixed up month, day, year order is just confusing nonsense.

ISO 8601 ftw

I think I will pronounce it something like veh-heh-táh-bless from now on.

I’m partial to kombu over bay leaves, though it’s hard to source where I am. It is at least edible after you cook it to death, and it has some additional merit as a folk cure for flatulence.

Canadian gardens are generally boring also, though there will always be that one down the street where they go all out. But I have come to realize these are, in fact, necessary. You need to feel humiliated and apologetic about the state of your own yard. It builds national character.

You’re right about England though! Wow, even the rolling countryside looks so carefully manicured. Really drives home to any Canadian our colonial peasantry roots. Highly recommend the visit. 10/10!

Good call!

I wish the twoonie polar bear was at a slightly different angle so that you could see his ass better. They do have tails but they’re not big compared to the animal. Still, I think I can accept that there’s a tail there somewhere?

Hmm… I don’t like coffee, beer, or wine either, though tea is ok I guess? Specifically, I find coffee and beer too bitter and wine too acidic. There is something else in the flavour profile of coffee too that turns me off, but I’m not sure what it is? And for some reason, red wine invariably gives me a headache, so when forced to drink for some social occasion, I always go with white.

Cat hair was what did it for me.

When I see “vejan”, I want to pronounce it like Spanish with a hard H.

The $2 coin in Canada should’ve been called a doubloonie but we got twoonie instead. (Both play on the $1 coin being called a loonie after the loon pictured on the tail side. As a bonus inconsequential hot take, I believe all tail sides of coins should feature an animal with an actual tail, for clarity. So the loonie is fine, as is the Canadian nickel, which features a beaver with a big ass tail! The quarter features a moose. While said animal has a tail, only its head is shown on the coin, so that’s a bit confusing.)

Do you avoid eggs in any form, such as in a cake batter or egg noodles?

The pickiest eater I know is a super taster. I can understand why they would be more picky. I have read that it may be a survival adaption. That is, if you have one super taster in every community, they may be the first to realize the food supply is poisoned or tainted somehow and warn everyone else.

I know people who are sort of the opposite extreme. Some like spicy food because everything else tastes like nothing. My dad, who lived to 100, said towards the end that the only thing he could still taste well was orange juice.

In all honesty, I would probably drive in your situation, though I might invest in a folding bike/e-bike I can toss in the trunk. It’s crazy how small those things are now! They had some Urtopias at the local bike shop last time I swung by, and I swear they fold up smaller than most adult scooters I’ve seen.

Fwiw my commute is about 35 min by regular bike, 25 by e-bike, 15 by car if the traffic is light (that’s a big if), or around 45 by bus. E-bike is my preferred option.

I think my political views were birthed at the municipal level? It’s less partisan and soundbitey, and it’s easier to understand the cause and effect of decistion-making. These days I worry that with the death of local media, people are no longer engaged in the local scene, and corruption at that level of government will grow as a result.

But it’s a pretty good feeling when something you advocate for is actually implemented and effects positive change to your community, however minor that might be. It doesn’t even require a whole lot of effort. You can fill out an online questionnaire regarding a proposed development in your hood for a start.

But at the municipal level, it’s pretty easy to see what works and what doesn’t. You face it every day. And your views on larger scale issues can develop from there, armed with a well-honed BS-detector. This is not to say you don’t need to study political philosophies and the issues of the day that affect state/national/international politics, but you seem to be doing that already.

• a matryoshka doll arrangement of nested shopping bags with a dollar store receipt in the middle if you get that far
• a frayed bungie cord
• some spent inhalers
• a random assortment of usb cables with some of the wiring exposed
• a multitool where one of the blades no longer stays in place and flops around hazardously
• a leaky bottle of bug spray

Oh, so some useful items then!

So…you’re a bot boss then?

This is really good news. It’s hard to overstate how much damage a large, unforecasted CME event could do. It could be civilization-ending given where we are at this point.

RAM prices are just going to keep rising and rising, aren’t they?

It was actually cracked by German-speaking Polish mathematicians even before the war broke out (the Enigma had been used for diplomatic communications with German embassies in the 30s). Then once they realized through intelligence gathered with their early version of the bombe that Poland was about to be invaded, they smuggled out all the gear and it eventually wound up in England.

Turing did make significant improvements to the design though, essentially making it programmable, and he is often cited as the father of the modern computer.