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Major W for Australia.

What did the prepared mustard ever do to you?

You're far, far more likely to get fatty liver disease from products sold by companies like Diageo and Bacardi.

I can tell from some of the pixels, and from seeing quite a few 'shops in my time.

I visited Colonia del Sacramento on a day trip from Buenos Aires, and I remember these beautiful tiles all over the old town.

I'd love to hear about the game ROM. This post is just focusing on a new, slight variant of the packaging, as if the game is a collectible like a stamp or coin.

I was expecting to read about a new variant of the game ROM itself. But, this just sounds like a new, slight variant of the packaging.

It almost feels more like stamp or coin collecting, than video game collecting as I understand it.

Electric utilities are certainly building out infrastructure. It's needlessly costly and slow in a lot of places, but it's happening.

The conversion to all-electric homes is more recent, and hasn't even started in some places. Here in Canada, some jurisdictions require newly constructed houses and apartments to have electric heat and cooling (heat pump, with resistive heat as a backup), an electric dryer and stove, and an electric water heater (tank or tankless). Others jurisdictions are still using gas furnaces and gas-fired hot water tanks.

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There was never a Canada-wide US alcohol ban.

In places like Ontario, which admittedly is the most populous province by far, the purchaser for the government-run liquor stores (LCBO) decided not to buy US alcohol, and the LCBO decided not to sell its remaining stock.

In some provinces, US booze never went away. Here in Alberta I've never not been able to buy US wine or bourbon. Of course, I won't buy it, and I've found some Canadian whiskies I like that are new to me, like Bearface, Red Bank, and Gooderham and Worts. And at dive bars, I've started ordering a Jameson and soda.

This is off-topic, but I find it surprising that relatively small Stockholm is so high on the list.

The "that's a XY problem" guys always seem to think they're the smartest in the room.

We must have different definitions of the word "related".

I remember George Takei shilling those things.

MARC? MARCEL? Come on

I gave away all my ISA cards for free, including my AWE64 Gold.

Most of the tomatoes and cucumbers I buy here in Alberta year-round are greenhouse grown in-province. Our electric power here is basically natural gas with a bit of wind and hydro. Although to your point, we're probably one of the cheapest locales in the world for NG.

But the top of the lid is unlined, I think.

The lack of apostrophe in "dont" makes me think at least part of it was written manually.

It's also a totally readable article, really.

What is the leaching risk, though? If aluminum does get in your food, is it bad for you in a specific way, or is it more like iron?

"Plastic" in general isn't toxic as a liner. It's used in plumbing, and in zillions of containers for potable water and foods. When you get food from even a nice restaurant, they probably marinate meat in a plastic container, and squeeze fruit juice into a plastic container. They sous vide items in plastic.

I've also never heard of a plastic/Alzheimer's connection, only one claimed with aluminum.

I use a glass/Pyrex dish, but put foil on top. I guess you could use a fitted glass lid instead, depending on the container.

It's non-toxic and food safe, and yet a significant number of people on the internet still act like it's poison that will give you Alzheimer's. I wonder how many of those people touch their lips to the lid of an aluminum beverage can. Or how they might bake a lasagna at home.

"girly times" = goroutines?

I thought it was going to be Woz's famous Disk II controller.

Apparently the original IBM 5154 EGA monitor was $850 in 1984 dollars, or like $2800 today. Of course there were cheaper compatible monitors available shortly after that.

The first monitor I bought myself was a 17" SVGA monitor, in 1997. I think I paid $700 Canadian, but I would have paid a premium for a nice picture (I think it was a Viewsonic?).

I think it's just that monitors were so much more expensive then, especially those capable of the 350-line EGA mode.

This analysis is missing that Quebec doesn't have any nuclear plants. (Although NB has one, which counts for half?)

Federal funding for the green line was announced in 2015, and IIRC they originally predicted a 2026 opening date for branches covering the north and south of the city - street running in the north central part and a bit in Seton, a short tunnel downtown, and dedicated ROW elsewhere. This was back when planners were still really into streetcars/trams. The funding mix was supposed to be $1.5 billion each from the city, province and feds.

The city sat on their hands for years, perfecting and re-routing the downtown part[1]. Eventually, the plan was shortened to 16 Ave N to Shepard with a long tunnel downtown. The city ordered $100s of millions of low-floor trains, incompatible with the existing ones, necessitating building a new maintenance facility. The cost at this point was $5.something billion.

Then, in 2020, the provincial government put a "pause" on the project. When it came back to life, costs had increased dramatically, and the city came out with a modified plan the (the $6.8 billion stub train from downtown to Lynnwood). The province then threatened to pull their part of the funding, and commissioned a new downtown segment plan that advocated for elevated downtown, and nothing north of there.

Today? We are building the original truncated south phase to Shepard (by 2031!), but not the downtown part. The city is still debating what's going to happen downtown, dismissing elevated. They are hearing from office building and parking lot owners who are worried about its effect on property values, but I think they are also rejecting any ideas from the province on principle. About the only positive thing I can say is that the project is tangibly under construction now, with actual bridges over roadways done or nearly complete.

I blame the city (both planners and elected officials) and the province in that order, but mostly the city.

[1] One positive thing to come from that is the routing in Inglewood/Ramsay and 26 Ave SE that avoids taking down heritage buildings and destroying a vital community corridor.

I agree. I hate the clustering when I have to actually work with a map and not just glance at it.

A big offender to me is https://urbantoronto.ca/map - You can zoom in pretty far and still get clusters of 2-5 points that are easily far enough apart that they could be individually seen and clicked.

https://www.realtor.ca/map is another annoying one.