Donald…I have a cask of very special wine I’d like you to try. It’s an Amontillado. Do come down into the bunker and have a taste.

St. Hubbins, the patron saint of quality footwear.

The ability to think has been in US Republicans’ crosshairs for several decades now. It was just usually in their own country.

Why is the x-axis, showing time, so weird? It starts off with one and two, then 3, 6, 9 and 12, but the spacing between them seems almost random.

This was a very clear and well presented explanation of gps. Thanks!

I’m actually rather astonished that her accent is so heavy and her diction is so stilted, after living in the US for 30 years. It’s as if she doesn’t have to speak to anyone in English. She also seems to have trouble pronouncing words correctly, even when they are written for her.

I didn’t correct “in search for” to “in search of”, so you still had your chance to be pedantic. I didn’t want to be greedy.

I think he’s suggesting that people emigrate, rather than immigrate.

Kraft Dinner, or KD.

Doesn’t Quebec’s policy of high-speed internet for everyone include subsidized Starlink for people who don’t have access to fiber? That’s a lot of customers for Musk.

My wife’s electric car has been fine for us. It took about a month until we could get a level two charger installed at home. Until then, I had to drive her to a nearby town to leave her car for 6 hours to charge.

However, our experience when we went on a road trip was less than pleasant. The first 300 km of our trip there were only two charging stations. We checked at the first one, but there was one car charging and another waiting, so we continued on. We arrived at our destination with about 50 km to spare.

The next day we went to a level 3 charging station, but it was out of order. A nearby one had Tesla superchargers, but the other chargers only put out between 50 and 100 KV. It didn’t matter, because the company’s app refused to work for us.

The next closest charging stations were closed, because it was Sunday.

We managed to get to a station a little farther away, and it took about 90 minutes to charge the car.

We don’t live near a large city, so when there are charging stations, there is often a line of vehicles waiting, which puts the time to charge into hours. Equally bad, we never know until we get there how much time it will take.

We live in Canada, so in the winter a full charge drops from over 500 km to about 300. If we have to travel anywhere, we are going to have to rent a gasoline car.

Japan doesn’t even bother with street names, except the largest ones in big cities. If you want to find a house, they are also not necessarily numbered sequentially. Sometimes the houses in a neighborhood are numbered in the order they were built.

If you want to find a house, you go to the neighborhood map and look there. At least, that’s how it used to be. Now everything is GPS. I was using GPS in a car close to 30 years ago, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the first place in the world to have consumer GPS, simply because they needed it.

500mg of salt is about 1/10 of a teaspoon, not very much.

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.