If you remember navigating with a compass and map, GPS is goddamned magical.

I haven’t finished listening, but I assume everything went well for the privateers.

It’s not because people kept printing their emails 40" wide on the plotter? TIL.

Well first off, through God Linux, all things are possible. You can have multiple hard links to a file, where a given hard link is deleted, but you can still manipulate the file through any other other links. Alternately, you can open a file, and while you have a valid open file descriptor, delete the file. The file descriptor is still valid until you close the file though, so you can still save (thus move) it to a new location.

Windows locks files when you open them, preventing these kinds of shenanigans.

Was that voat? That one was initially promising, then almost immediately went to shit as all the worst people from reddit went there.

In addition, good elections have a couple more properties. They should be understandable by the average voter. Paper ballots work well for this (esp. in FFTP jurisdictions). Online voting makes it really hard for even experts to completely understand the system, and impossible outside of a tiny number of experts to verify.

Second, elections are a social activity, and should feel like it. Anything that make an election feel like we’re all getting together to select our leadership, rather than an adversarial process should be encouraged. Online anything these days seems to be optimizing for max animosity. A counterexample might be the Australian democracy sausages.

But then you get to mansplain mansplaining! That’s my hobby. My daughter loves it.

Anyone with less capabilities of a medium sized nation-state will not be able to “just smash” an AWS datacenter.

It’s a very traditional Japanese measurement. They use a 1982 Honda Trail 110.

Everything everywhere was surveyed in imperial measurements. As a surveyor in a previous career, metric was the best thing that could have happened. Maps in imperial scales are miserable.

Scribus has really good PDF support. It’s a full desktop publishing program (like InDesign), so it might not be the best for quick conversions. It does a really good job of PDF forms though.

And future me? What has that guy ever done for me? Fuck that guy too.

What about the unlabelled grey “dread zone” between the pacific and midwest areas? That’s accurate, right?

Postal banking is a thing in many countries. Canada Post did banking from its inception until 1968. The major benefits are that there is a post office in every community, even really tiny ones, and that a Canada Post bank system can offer basic banking services to people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

This is an advocacy piece, but it includes the history of postal banking in Canada: https://lindsayadvocate.ca/corporate-pressure-ended-postal-banking-in-1968-its-time-to-bring-it-back/

Guy tried to enlist the boss’s brother in law to falsify work. “We don’t have to walk all the way up the mountainside to do the work, the client will never check it”. Then he went home, leaving said brother in law to do all the work by himself.

A week after getting fired, he called the boss about the performance bonus that was promised at the start of the contract.

Oh, that’s easy. The BoC overnight rate is only one of the factors that go into the Prime Rate, which is determined by the banks themselves. The Prime Rate is also down by about half a percent.

Credit card rates on the other hand, are set by the banks based on how much they want to rip you off. The only government involvement there is that the card has to stay under the criminal interest rate, or 48% APR.

The current Government has proposed to reduce that rate to 35% APR, but we’ll see.

In short, your MP won’t be able to help with your credit card, because cards are issued by the banks, not the Government. Personally, I’d love to see Canada Post get into personal banking, but it’s a bit of a pipe dream.

The degens from upcountry.

Depends on the games you like. It won’t perform well at 4k, or with newer FPS titles. Most games should be playable at low-medium quality settings.

Even if all that were true¹, it still doesn’t justify Russia’s invasion. Russia doesn’t own Russian speaking Ukrainians. Russia has neither the duty nor right to invade to “protect” Russian speaking minorities in any country.

¹ It isn’t

You’re off by a couple of decades. I used one of these at my sister’s graduation in 1991. The camera was old then, but you could still easily buy 110mm film and flash bars. FYI, 1991 wasn’t 50 years ago just yet.