What’re the advantages of a smart thermostat compared to one that you can have a schedule on? Unless they aren’t available without that anymore I haven’t shopped for one just thinking of our office one that has a day / night type settings. The one our office has is fairly plain, LCD screen with like 6ish buttons, shows if it’s fan, off or heat / AC on. Seems simple enough without needing a smart device.

I can see wanting to use an application to set it would be nice but seems like smart devices aren’t worth that comfort.

It wasn’t till I read you original comment that I remembered how awful I felt at one point watching it, I get it and understand not wanting to subject yourself to that sort of feeling willingly. Thankfully it passed and I was able to watch, but I won’t say I enjoyed it, just that in an art sense it has merit.

I found it difficult to watch when i did due to the situation, maybe not right in covid but not out of it either. As depressing as it made me feel at points (girlfriends choice of movie so had to sit through it but we alternate so only fair) I found it amusing that while plainly satire the actual dialogue and actions were pretty much what at least one democratically elected administration showed during a huge crisis. If it aired 10 years previous it’d probably be in the bin of crappy spoof movies for being so ridiculous and maybe get a cult folowing, yet it was practically a documentary with the situation changed.

I can understand not feeling comfortable due to the triggering in it though, it wasn’t exactly a fun watch even if it was a comedy.

I write left handed but do some sports activities right handed, like golf, unlike my brother who plays it left handed but writes with his right hand. Not even blood related, technically step brothers but we only bring that up in bars after confusing people since we look nothing alike. for baseball I keep having to remember which hand I prefer to throw with to figure it out, I’m not good at sports anyways heh.

I grew up where it’d get that cold for awhile yearly in Canada, I can’t say much about dogs but that’s about where it starts to feel really cold without wind. Like another level was reached compared to say -20 or -25C (-20F = -30C). I also used to do a lot of outdoor stuff with a school, when we went out layers was a big thing (probably not as necessary for walks but it doesn’t hurt, extra layers can trap heat to keep you warm). You’ll want some will socks, insulated footwear, probably a scarf or some face covering at the very least. When it’s windy it bites really hard and you don’t feel like you’ll get warm for ages. As for layers, well in that weather we’d wear polypropylene underwear, beneath everything may be overkill for non active work but you’ll probably want some full underwear for anything longer than 30mins. Of course exposed skin is bad so gloves, mittens are better since your fingers stay together. If it’s windy you’ll want some sort of windbreaker outerwear. My experience is out of date so I’m unsure if the materials are correct.

As an example when we went out with the school we had day packs with us, carried extra wool socks and had multiple outer layers to swap with (fleece is very good but not good for final layer). There was also food and water in our packa but that’s not really what you’d need.

So have a few outer layers with some wind protection, make sure to cover any skin for the most part (toques, scarves, mittens). For any dogs I’d think they should be above small side before going too far. We had a tiny dog growing up and his feet would be obviously too cold just from peeing outside in that to -40 weather.

Unsure if that helps or not, stay warm.

Edit thought I’d add, I’ve seen blisters on ears from -35-40C weather, but the person was playing hockey for an hour or so, but I’ve also walked home drunk from the bar at around -30C with wind, which wasn’t awful but I did make a pit stop at a buddy’s place after about a km, that was just jeans and parka type coat. I don’t think I’d have tolerated as well sober heh. Also this info is close to 20 years old now so may be a bit fuzzy on some specifics, moved to a much warmer place thankfully.

Plus NK can send them back to Russia to be deployed again and charge more for an experienced soldier.

Sawmills I knew about rotated areas they’d cut from and did tree planting in the summers in the areas logged to be sustainable. Of course in Canada there’s not much shortage of trees to cut down anyways but I thought that was the usual way in US and Canada. I don’t mean we should be cutting down 1/20th (I’m not sure how many years the rotations were offhand) of the trees each year or anything though.

Upvoting for the acknowledgement, not cause I think you’re dumb. I read things incorrectly all the time. If only everyone could admit a simple misunderstanding gracefully, or at least with minimal frustration.

Definitely the best in my option, in my movie rotation to watch again soon for the whatever time it is for that one.

Glad I wasn’t the only one that needed that little bit of joke explaining. Heh pretty good if you got it without the confusion, I still think it’s good though.

Wait I thought the person you replied to was saying the person who was interviewed name should be censored. Not the poster’s name.

Or am I missing something? That does happen more often than I’d like.

I think it’s even more amusing it’s a Catholic university’s name, unless that’s well known, I didn’t know before the article.

Wait, that’s not common?

In the game lord of the rings online you find Bill for a quest outside of Moria.

As a kid I saw it as an arrow pointing, it points to the small number. That’s how I remembered it. I can now understand it ‘facing’ the big number but it was never pointing any direction other than the point, which is to the smaller one. Now I understand it eats the bigger one but it took awhile to see it as anything but an arrow point, if they drew them with teeth I’d have understood the eating better as a kid but I don’t think any teacher did that. I never had trouble understanding overall so wasn’t an issue.

Add some liquid schwartz and see Barf turn into a dog.

I bet the huddle sections would … have more code and or animations than most football games.

Borg in the middle of a battle, systems corrupted, restoring backups, systems not available for three hours. Then some small ship thinks they know how to defeat the Borg only for their civilization to be wiped out.

When I heard it was forced back my first thought was ‘well that doesn’t help for Xmas stuff anymore, so why not just make a proper deal? It seems like a lose lose for the government’. The prime time was already delayed so figure it out.

For the non Canadians I’m pretty sure they were working to make sure benefit cheques and such got through, so hopefully things like that weren’t delayed cause I do recognize how awful that can be for those that need it.

That’s how I think of the Canada Post strike that was just forced back to work. The timing was great, I didn’t read if they got anything to go back work now (they can strike / deal later or something) but it sure had an impact. I had to actually go to a provincial store for my weed heh, but I’ve been reluctant to order much due to that and I definitely support them for their demands. Everyone should be compensated for the recent inflation and they provide an essential service in a properly run society.