Serious answer to an unserious question: adopting an adult is legally possible in about half the jurisdictions in Canada, and then most of those jurisdictions require the adoptee to be a citizen or permanent resident. https://adoptingback.com/adopting-back/canada-adult-adoption-law/

Oh geez, those registry rules. We used to make jokes about the Soviet Union: “papers please!” US Xenophobia will end up removing all their freedoms. It’ll be about “catching illegal aliens” but the effect will be total internal travel restrictions and tracking for US citizens. I really hope they wake up before it’s too late.

I have an upcoming trip with a US transfer. We booked it before Trump won and started these shenanigans. We worry that the declining traffic will cancel our direct flight and we’ll be left scrambling to find an alternative route. We also worry about US Customs now more than we used to. It would cost us ~$1300 for the two of us to reroute, and we’re seriously thinking about it just to reduce our risk.

In unrelated news, most of the lettuce in the store in grown in the USA. We went shopping yesterday and all the Canadian produce was sold out while the US stuff was sort of rotting. Well, we found romaine hearts grown in Mexico, so we bought that. Thanks Mexico-bros.

OpenSuse Leap or even Tumbleweed. After getting the media codecs up and running, and remembering to set you firewall zone to “home”, you’re pretty golden.

https://greenroninstore.com/collections/the-expanse-rpg

Based on the Modern AGE ruleset.

The irony is that The Expanse was first conceived as an online RPG setting. They couldn’t get funding, so they played it “mail in” style on a forum. This became the basis of the first book. The book series was, in turn, turned into an tabletop RPG. We’ve almost gone full circle.

Okay small win. She didn’t lose her job.

Societal big L Loss.

Obviously we can’t get every species to grow here. But we harvest about 25L of grapes from our single vine every year, mostly for jam. And it’s amazing. The grape we have is something like a concorde, although I’ve never actually dug too deep into the species.

You’d be surprised what grows here. I live in Winnipeg and we grow grapes here.

For produce though, it’s usually things like lettuce, broccoli, etc., that we can grow during summer (only).

We decided to fill an entire planter with beets for longer term use through the next winter. They’ve been seeded already (last fall).

This is a great question. It’s like asking when a rock is too small to be a planet. I suspect there were be a definition eventually that mirrors the planetary definition – something like “spherical(ish) and clears its orbit”. The issue is that Mars would lose its two moons under that definition.

So we might end up with something like “moons” vs “natural satellites” and Mars will just have to suck it up.

CFL fields are 110 yards, which is about 100m. Close enough I guess :)

Must be in Canada. I think I have the same superstore chair…

Excellent content 👏

I did wilderness survival courses by virtue of working in the mineral exploration industry. Some of the stuff they taught us in those courses seemed very bizarre at the time. Like, we were stitching up chicken breasts with fishing line. It’s weird though how you really need to train these things until they become second nature.

Not a paramedic, but storytime…

I had to save someone from choking using chest thrusts at a Burger King a few months ago. It was instant. “Do you need help? (Waits for nod)” Three thrusts and it was dislodged. But the thing is, without the training I got at work (over and over again), I never would have responded so promptly or properly.

Okay, this community needs repetitive content to help train. New goal: turn each of your bullet points into memes for wider reach ;)

Back home in Winnipeg and oh thank God haha. I love visiting Toronto, but I can’t imagine living there. The cost of living scares the hell out of me.

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I’ll add a few.

Canada supplies power to a lot of states, yes, but last year Canada was actually a net importer of energy (not necessarily electricity) from the US. And we could actually end up worse off.

Canada mostly supplies power to blue states: Minnesota, New York, etc. At the moment, we are not aligned in opposition to those states, and it would hurt them the most. It may actually set them against Canada, and we need all the allies inside the US that we can get. See also: Canadian retaliatory tarrifs tend to target red states.

Finally: it might be used by the US as rhetoric to justify actual war. So caution is required. This is as close as we can get to the nuclear option on trade (embargoing resources), so it should be held in reserve as long as possible.

Solipsists: Wow, how did I end up here?

Someone else posed it this way: The Democrats exist to solicit donors; getting elected sometimes is a side effect. Big money has wrecked their ability to oppose what is happening.

Kids these days and their fancy HTML. Back in my day, we used ASCII art to make our memes. And they weren’t even called memes!

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Much appreciated