Not to mention the confusion between an American gallon, which is 3.79 litres, and an imperial gallon, which is 4.55 litres. That’s a 20% difference.

I knew a woman who had two young (pre-teen) daughters. For whatever reason, she taught them to use the term “front butt” for their vaginas.

Maybe this kid’s mother had a hysterectomy and explained it as losing the front butt (although I know that’s not correct, it may have been a simple explanation for a small child).

After you accomplished some missions, you had enough money to buy a docking computer. From then on when you got close you just pressed a button and it would dock automatically, playing The Blue Danube waltz just like in 2001.

I wonder if he was allowed to kill himself, as an alternative to something much worse (e.g. being killed in a much more painful or gruesome way). It’s clear that the truly powerful people couldn’t let him testify against them.

This sounds horrific if true, but I would really need some hard evidence and not second or third hand accounts to believe it.

C’mon, weren’t you blown away by the (at the time) novel digitized voice? “He slimed me!”

Of course, escape from Castle Wolfenstein did it even earlier (“was ist los, was ist los” and “ach, mein leben!”).

My own experience going long distances in an electric car is less rosy. We drove from Ottawa to Toronto, about 500km, in two days. Our car is a Hyundai Ioniq 6, with a maximum range of just over 500km. However, in cold weather we are lucky to get 400 km.

On the first day, we drove about 200 km and there was only one charging station. That charging station could handle two vehicles, but one of them was not working. There were three cars waiting in line to use it. We kept going.

The next day, we drove another 50 km to get to a charging station. It had three days open, but the maximum charging speed was 100kW, and we managed less than that. It took almost 90 minutes to get a full charge. It could have gone faster if we had pre-conditioned the battery, but we were worried we wouldn’t be able to reach the charging station if we had done so.

Between Ottawa and Toronto, there wasn’t a single charger that could do more than 150kW. In ideal conditions, the ionic 6 can charge up to 80% in under 20 minutes, but in the winter, when there are no 350kW charging stations, that’s a dream. And there are so few charging stations that it’s common to have to wait for one or two cars to finish before you can even begin.

There is a Canadian company called Indigo, unrelated to the bookstore, that makes machines and CO2 canisters that can replace SodaStream. They are also significantly cheaper!

Around me, they are carried by Home Hardware and Giant Tiger stores.

I don’t know if it’s still true, but I believe that MySQL used to ignore anything after a semicolon in a single command. It’s obviously better to prevent SQL injections and used parameterized queries, though.

Sadly, the US system is not the same as imperial. As far as I know the main difference is the gallon.

1 gal. Imp. = 1.201 gal. U.S.

I also hate having lb.f. and lb.m (pounds force and pounds mass), which have different units and at sea level are different by a factor of about 32).

Unrelated to the bookstore, as far as I know. It’s different branding and everything.

One of our former neighbors had two of them. I think about 160lb each. They protected his beehives and would attack bears that tried to get in

I just went to the emergency room today (in Canada). I had slipped on ice and my knee was too painful to walk.

Arrive at 9:00 am. Small town, no charge for parking at the hospital.

Go into the emergency department, no one waiting there. I take a number, it’s #2.

Five minutes later, I’m with the triage nurse. She decides I should have an X-ray before seeing the doctor. That takes 30 minutes.

Wait 15 minutes for the doctor, she stays that nothing is torn or broken, I just have a sprain. Gives me a knee brace and prescription for an anti-inflammatory.

Walk out 90 minutes after I arrived. Total cost: $0.00 (plus $2.85 to fill the prescription).

Similar for SodaStream, which declared that it was an Israeli-Palestinian partnership, providing sorely-needed jobs. It was located in an illegal settlement, and now has moved to Israel proper.

I found Indigo, a Canadian company which makes SodaStream-compatible machines and CO2 bottles, and significantly cheaper too!

The Tyee provides tax receipts for any donations they receive over $5.

As I recall, the intercity trains in Germany are late something like 30% of the time.

I don’t know. I think the Constitution only matters if Trump and mega don’t control all three branches of the government.

After all, weren’t the search and seizure is everywhere. Disregarding habeas corpus. Disobeying court orders to release detainees. Bullying allies and doing his best to undermine NATO.

Now he wants the federal government to have control over National elections, and it seems pretty clear that if the Republicans look like they’re going to lose control of the house or senate, elections will be suspended completely.

Every time Trump crosses a red line, people, Democrats especially, just draw a new red line.

I sent in a donation immediately to The Tyee, because of the power and importance of this article. I’m considering a recurring donation as well.

All too often, we think “what can I do?”. Well, supporting this kind of courageous journalism is a start.

I can’t speak about all Asians, but I know that in Japan anorexia is considered a virtue. There is a lot of social pressure not to get fat, especially for women. I think the pressure has decreased, but not disappeared.

And the Japanese government actually fines companies if two large a proportion of their workers is overweight, so I would imagine that being overweight makes it harder to get a job as well.

Maybe because, while they are both stimulants, they are chemically extremely different.