It’s highly likely that people weren’t the target at all; they likely obliterated the infrastructure.

Ah; I hadn’t realized it was in Alberta. That makes a BIT more sense then. Explains the independence petition too.

Then you lucked out.

I used to buy all sorts of stuff at Canadian Tire in the 90s, and while it was affordable, it almost all broke within 2 years, from CCM bicycles that had their frame welds crack to Hunter kitchen appliances that had power supplies that overheated and failed, to even bouncy balls that would harden and crack. Air pumps where the plastic would crack or the pump rod (which was held in by glue) would disconnect, foldable chairs where the stitching would unravel, knives where the blade would snap.

The list goes on and on. Never had that volume of problems with any other store I’ve ever shopped at.

Also, I had relatives that worked in CT in the 90s. They’ve got even worse stories to tell.

I have a story from the one time I took my car there… when I got the car back it had a funny smell in it, and the checklist said that the horn was non-functional. This car had the horn on the end of the signal stick instead of on the steering wheel. I immediately tapped the horn to verify that it was indeed working, and one of the mechanics flinched and got this funny look on his face.

It wasn’t until I got home that I realized what the funny smell was: it was silicone glue. They’d hammered on the steering wheel cap hard enough to break the clips off, and then glued it back on, without mentioning what they’d done.

This was in the early 90s, and I’ve never been back.

Reminds me of Ozymandius.

Have you reached out to https://kinbrace.ca/ ? This is what they do, although they focus specifically on refugee claimants.

Well yeah; any time I hear an American drawl, I’ll pull out the Canadian dipthong.

Like Trump, Musk revealed his personality early on. In the 1990s when Trump was losing his father’s money in casinos, Musk was making his money by using his father’s money to buy profitable dotcom startups and claiming them as his own. Then he sold them before the market crashed.

SpaceX has been kind of a blip in all this; all his other companies are very much run in the traditional Musk style though, with him taking credit where luck and other people’s hard work are responsible.

“Predatory” and “Pseudoscientific” aren’t the same thing. Elsevier journals for example are long-established and highly scientific, but also highly predatory. Arxiv only does pre-prints, but isn’t predatory at all.

This is the phrase I use to place people:

“The barbed wire crosses the creek to keep the wolf out.”

Michigan, I think. And it’s also present in eastern Ontario and southern Manitoba.

“A-boot” is an Eastern Canada thing; west-coast is “ah-bah-Wt” and is common from BC right down into Oregon.

He had a valid point though; hair would not cause rapid deceleration. The bigger question is whether it affects your terminal velocity enough that you would survive the fall.

But even that has too many assumptions. People have survived falls from airplanes flying at 30,000 feet. Was it because of their hair? The displacement of their body and clothing? The surface they landed on?

Probably all of the above plus other uncalculated factors. But I doubt that hair drag played a big part; after all, there’s a reason we deploy 70lbs of horizontal airtight fabric instead of 70lbs of thread when skydiving.

“We” being the collective “us”.

“We” always behaves differently than “I” do. That’s kind of the point.

I have no interest in presenting before the special committee; they should already have all the information they need from last time.

But I’m glad that link is there for any future scheduled public hearings; if there are any in my neck of the woods I definitely want to make my voice heard that corporations have no right to be influencing electoral reform, and that ANYTHING ranked choice is going to be better than FPTP.

I just don’t want to see a repeat of last time where they put multiple badly explained systems on the poll and then had corporations and big moneyed special interest groups advertising and lobbying against abandoning FPTP with blatantly deceptive arguments.

It’s not dying at all; it’s just dispersing. Entropy is odd that way; life turns out to be an entropy accelerator.

It’s like switching from cigarettes to chickory.

I’m curious: what counts as a road with a bike lane? Does that statistic mean that of all the toad surface, 2% has a bike lane beside or on it, or does that mean for every named road, 2% of them have a section that has a bike lane on it?

Because in my city, road improvements are paid for by property development. As a result, we have roads that have “bike lanes to nowhere” where you’ve got a separated bike lane for 2 blocks, that abruptly vanishes at both ends, sometimes into a shoulderless stretch of one or two lane roadway shared by everyone.

If that 2% is actually properly designed bike artery that’s fed by low density shared roadways, that’s actually pretty good. If it’s just randomly scattered throughout the city, it might be more dangerous than having no bike lanes at all.

I used to be a MEC member/shareholder, around 25 years ago. There was an AGM, we voted on major store policy, and there were sometimes even dividends, but usually we all voted to roll those back into the co-op.

Back then, it was very much member-owned.

Since then though, the structure changed significantly, even before the buyout. More and more power was put into the hands of the executive, to try and deal with the cash flow issues the company was having. It didn’t work.

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