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For what it's worth, I play 18xx with my girls and they are around that age. It's just a matter of not stretching things out and going one turn per day, which seems to work naturally with Diplomacy

Why not play with your kids?

As weird as it is, I play Shikoku 1889 with my kids, betrayal and anger and everything. If anything, Diplomacy might be easier to setup and keep up.

I am legitimately shocked that it was this Triple H. I was sure before reading it that it would be another Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

Nitpick but solid wood furniture does not weigh more than the particleboard furniture from Ikea.

Also, my 2 cents, but it is high time for a return to utilitarianism in furniture. Just getting a basic leather sofa without cup holders and other e-garbage is a huge pain. (Ironically, Ikea is ok for this.)

Prior to Covid, my wife had to exit the country to get photos taken as part of the permanent resident process. We took a trip to Montana for that purpose.

This seems to have changed in the past 3-4 years, but as the GP said, the original process did involve leaving.

This is such a Reddit opinion.

If you are in Alberta or Saskatchewan, the government is decided before your election is done. There is no Senate, like in the US, to balance your needs vs others.

Despite this unbalance, there is a clear majority of Albertans who are anti-independence. (I agree that the government, run by a radio entertainer is shameful and disgusting.)

I don't understand this and would like a clarification.

There are zero Canadian automobile assemblers; they are Canadian subsidiaries of American companies, with some parts manufacturers being here.

Assuming American companies (and companies from subordinates like Japan) leave, what would be the problem in having a similar relationship with China? Is it because their manufacturing is more integrated?

A previous grade school my kids attended (a public school in Calgary) started at 8. They left the house at 7:40ish to go, which was pretty awful.

Eventually we wound up home schooling / remote schooling during Covid and moved to a spot where the school started much later.

Frankly though, not late enough. I let them sleep until 10 during COVID and I feel it was positive for everyone involved.

While I dislike Instagram reels and stories, I do feel like there is almost certainly scientific studies on radicalization that would benefit from actual histories of dumb memes. I feel like that about a lot of things, really.

There probably are some important hidden discord groups that would explain the origin of many political positions. Unlike smokey meetings in scummy bars, that exists now and is on a database somewhere.

Maybe the text should include some extraneous war crime solicitation to ensure a human wrote it. Maybe we should all do so. Death to (insert random enemy here)

I went to a decent high school, this was not something covered in 7th grade. It isn't covered in my daughter's school either.

For the 2026 version of me out there, please ignore. It is nerd posturing, and as real as the boomers at your gym claiming to have benched 225/315/405 in high school, despite having terrible form while doing 185.

Lobbying, as it is practised in the US, is hardly better than bribery. Talking to lawmakers about what is exclusively in your best interest, to the exclusion of everything else, is harmful. You wind up leveraging a group collective's understanding of dishonesty and dark speech patterns. No citizen has the eloquence or bull pulpit to oppose this.

That said, this is how the US works now. It might have started with military-industrial companies, but it is basically wide spread. Unfortunately, once the taboo is broken, it is broken permanently.

> Open-source software isn't a moral good

Yes it is.

I was a little radicalized when ChatGPT literally refused to translate parts of 1000+ year old religious texts and told me it was due to copyright concerns.

I live in Calgary. Both major airlines cost the same. There is no difference in sorting. Both airlines use the 737.

I lived in Tokyo. I used to spend more to avoid getting accosted at the US border. A lot more.

You can't call it choice when your vendors all offer the same product for the same price.

If human activity is taxed, AI activity will be taxed. It's just inevitable. It will be taxed at multiple levels until we figure out the right level to do so. Some of it will be detrimental to AI development but that's normal - in Canada we had a hidden manufacturing sales tax until the 80s which made exports more expensive.

A technology that puts X% of people out of work is going to be taxed.

Your ships would have been sunk during the 2002 Millennial challenge and an entire bureaucracy would defend you for the next 20 years.

Even Cargo Bicycles cost more than $10k. I think a 6 seater people mover is worth far more than those.

I'd buy a 6 seater with this range but not with the speed limitations (I think it is like 50-60 kph which is a non starter)

No one is "grateful" for being labelled a security risk. The statement reads more like a Chinese "Ah Q" story than a real response.

(Unless they are piping the F1 Mercedes theme song in the announce system at anthropic, in which case maybe you are right)

I own a Model 3 and I like driving it, but I scratch my head at everyone who claims there are no mechanical problems. I'm glad you didn't have any, but there are some repairs that are almost obscenely common.

In the past year, the heater failed (PTC Heater had to be replaced), and the lateral link ball joint ball joint had to be replaced. That is about CAD5000$ worth of work. There is also an issue with a wire in the rear center seatbelt that broke (but after a check, it doesn't really have any safety concerns wrt airbags so it is OK to leave as is), and the top roof glass cracked. (I also had to replace the front windshield, but that's normal in Calgary and I don't hold it against the car)

I'm not "rough handling", I have a Toyota Sienna without any of these problems. On the bright side, the battery has no problems and no imbalances so fixing it will keep the car running for years (hopefully).

I bring this up because I find it very annoying that people were painting hagiographies of these cars when they have real issues. None of the issues above should be happening. Moreover, there are no 3rd parties providing parts (supposedly because of patents).

In the end, I'll never buy another gas car again but my cute tiny car has a bigger turn radius than my Sienna. It's lost more value than my Sienna. I agree with the poster who said that it isn't even clear if Tesla is interested in cars anymore.

If BYD is also creating cars that are expensive to maintain, then hard pass. I'm ok with having legislation to fix this.

I see this on all sorts of non tesla cars and it makes no sense. I saw it even on brands like Fisker (although that was a solar panel that apparently didn't work).

Just a nice metal roof that won't make me expend more electricity for nothing would be nice.

Windows did not even support Final Fantasy 7 between two versions due to their broken Direct X design. Let's bury that turkey; just because there are compelling blog posts doesn't mean they are a legitimate reflection of Microsoft.

As a customer I expect my software to work, permanently. Don't expect me to cry for the richest companies in the world.

Please eliminate the glass roof. Why do EV companies keep making this customer hostile decision?

On my 2019 Model 3, a stress fracture showed up overnight and everytime I look up I see a 3000$ fix for a car that is worth 10k max.

I have no idea who wants it. It is hot in the summer, cold in the winter and you can have a sudden bill related to a rock on the street.

Somehow everyone, from Tesla to Ferrari has this insane design decision and for something that only makes sense in a very small part of the world.

Please stop.

> Should they have supported PPC emulation forever

Yes.

The idea that people did not thank the US is laughable.

I have literally met Japanese people who have been thankful to the US for dropping nukes on them while pissing themselves about North Korea having missiles. The difference is that they perceived the US as an enlightened hegemony, and this is in part because of the relative pennies spent on Africa.

Incidentally, There is an animated series called Gasaraki with an endearingly simplistic and worshipful view of the US that aligns with how they viewed the US, especially at the end.

Good luck with AI hunter killers replacing good will.

For what it is worth, I live in Calgary and the McDonalds near me does not have deals like that. There is apparently a huge range in prices across McDonalds in a city, so there may be geographic limitations.

I don't go either, and the price is part of the reason. (I would go for the ice cream in summer, or for their cheap drinks promos).

I've been doing level 1 charging for the past 3 years or so. It is fine even in cold Calgary (albeit in an unheated garage)

Unless you are regularly doing upwards of 150 km/ day, it's fine.

Is there?

I walked past a parking lot yesterday and everything was in black, white and silver.

When I bought my house the agent turned up her nose about the wood furnishings instead of "millennial white".

The resale value of macs is one of their selling points, just like cars. Generic colours win. I contend there is no pent up demand.

This is surprising. Has Canonical built something recently that requires "math geniuses with top grades at school"?

The last time I remember using any of their software was Unity. I'm not a Unity hater, but where is the headcount going?

For those who were immediately curious; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36731320

Spoiler: That whole thread is probably an excellent troll ("I might make this a startup"), except a ton of mid(dle brow) people had to ruin it.