nik282000

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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

👏 Turn 👏 off 👏 the 👏 power.

Even just for an hour. Until all levels of US government understands that Canada is able to disrupt their country in a massive way they will keep playing these stupid games.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So, you think Poilievre was the right choice then? The guy who consistently voted against affordable housing?

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Found the BMW driver.

Adding narrow shoulders, speed bumps and plastic bollards to the center of roads all slow down traffic because they makes it difficult and uncomfortable to speed. They also drive all the assholes back to main streets instead of taking their big-brain shortcuts through residential areas.

Speed cameras reduce speeding on the main streets by costing you money. After your 3rd, 5th, or 15th automatic ticket you will eventually slow down. You can't narrow the ridiculous 4 lane city streets in Brampton to slow people down, you can't put speed bumps in an 80 zone, speed cameras are a cheap and easy to deploy method of convincing drivers to slow the fuck down.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

They disproportionately effect assholes who speed. The fines are harder to pay if you are poor but they are equally easy to avoid for both rich and poor.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Why many Canadians are digging in their heels

Because every level of american government has failed to do it's job of maintaining stability and have instead allowed a handfull of racist, bigoted, psychopaths to start wars, disrupt trade, and directly deal pain and death to their own people.

Is the news so slow that the CBC even needs to ask?

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Poe's law strikes again!

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Uhh, yes they did. There are trees that have evolved to take advantage of the aftermath of wildfires.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

I can bring my own gun!?! Everyone else makes me leave it at home!

-- F150 Driver

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Apple was so successful in avoiding taxes in Europe that it is estimated that it paid in some years a tax of just 0.005% on its European profits.

And that is why stealing from a corporation is not a crime. They have deprived you, personally, of benefits and services that your government can not afford because of tax dodging. They are killing you, personally, by privatizing your health care, by opposing electrification, by using single use plastics for nearly all packaging. They are keeping you, personally, poor by suppressing wages, raising prices, and outsourcing labour to markets where slavery is not only tolerated but the norm.

You can not injure a corporation, you can not hurt it's feelings. Pirate, lie, steal, cheat, get every penny you can from the 1% and use it to help the other 99.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Carney is looking less and less like the genius economy understander I was told he was and more and more like ~~a bog standard orthodox Friedmanite.~~ politician

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

More ISPs, there is one independent ISP left in Ontario and they are getting murdered by Bell/Rogers.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

My employer's stock price is 400% of what it was when I was hired, my wage has gone up 20% in the same period.

I can not wait for this house of cards to collapse. I have enough food, water, and locally stored media to barter my way though the first hump and get rescued by the Europeans.

 

Totally unrelated to the Boeing that lost a wheel last week or the Boeing that had "a strong movement" today, injuring 50.

 

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$40M that came of a Conservative motion which was backed by the NDP.

 

London, Ont., police officers participating in a competition in Dubai alongside a Chechen group accused of committing atrocities in the conflict with Ukraine

 

When it comes to preventing your plate from being duplicated, Sgt. Schmidt said "there's really nothing you can do," because by the time a driver gets a bill or ticket, their plate has already been cloned.

"You have to clear your name and prevent this from continuing," he said.

A clear and concise "get bent" from the OPP when asked how they intend to address crime.

 

I made this 'fix' about 7 years ago and the device is still in use today. I know which one it is because my 5ohm resistor came out around 4.9 so the device always runs 2% out of spec.

 
  • 1/3 Whole wheat flour
  • 2/3 White bread flour (all purpose works as well)
  • 70% Mill Street Organic Lager (any light lager works)
  • 2% Salt
  • 1.5% Yeast

Bulk ferment for 2 hrs with one or two folds at 20min and 40min. Proof for 2 hrs then bake in an oven that was preheated with a cookie sheet full of water (careful of the scalding steam when you open the door). As soon as the bread is in the oven spray it down with way too much water (careful of your oven window) then close the door to trap all the steam. You should get some good spring and that nice crunchy/speckled crust.

Protip: 500g of flour is the perfect amount for a 355ml can of beer.

 

"Not every item within [the plastic manufactured items category] has the potential to create a reasonable apprehension of harm"

As long as we agree not to be apprehensive about the harms resulting from the use and manufacture of all plastics, they are ok. Got it, bring back the straws and stir sticks!

The challenge to the federal government’s proposed ban was brought last year by the Responsible Plastic Use Coalition (RPUC) and several chemical companies. They argued that the federal government had failed to demonstrate that it had enough scientific evidence to justify the regulations. RPUC was formed in 2021 in response to the “toxic” designation, and currently includes more than 30 processors and resin makers, including Berry Global Group Inc., CCC Plastics, Dow Inc., Ingenia Polymers, IPL, LyondellBasell Industries, and Nova Chemicals Corp.

https://www.canplastics.com/canplastics/judge-quashes-cabinet-order-underlying-canadas-single-use-plastic-ban/1003462513/

 

TL;DR This is a drop of the solvent from pen ink dissolving into water and filmed at 1500fps, played back at 30fps, the field of view is 5-7mm ish.

Phenoxyethanol is the solvent in ball point pens that gives the ink it's distinct smell. It is just barely soluble in water and saturates at a very low concentration, it is more dense than water but small droplets will float unless the water is already saturated. It also has a significantly lower surface tension than water.

On first contact with water the droplet of phenoxyethanol spreads out and is supported on the surface. Soon after the edge of the droplet starts to split into dendrites that wave violently and send out extremely high speed ripples across the water. As the droplet shrinks and breaks up smaller arms form on the larger ones until the droplet wiggles itself into non-existence. What the hell is going on?

When the droplet first contacts the water it begins to dissolve and immediately saturates the area directly below the drop, at the edges of the drop the saturated solution is pulled away by the surface tension gradient around the drop. This gradient sets up a flow of unsaturated water up from below the drop and away, across the surface, both supporting the droplet and pulling it out wider and thinner. Tiny inconsistencies lead to the formation of of the dendrites, as the area between two arms becomes saturated they are pulled apart (and closer to other arms) leading to the rapid back and forth wiggling. This continues at all scales forming similar shapes on the scale of several mm down to fractions of a mm.

It took me weeks of messing around with the camera and reading about fluid dynamics to figure this out. I even spoke with a couple of fluid dynamics experts who both told me "hey, that's really weird, why does it do that?"

For a more detailed view I have a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npkv8gspVO0

 

It took me a whole summer but I'm finally getting consistent results from the pizza oven.

 

After messing around for the summer I've settled on a favorite dough. It works just as well in the electric oven as in the wood oven and has a great flavour thanks to the use of beer. I was worried that the alcohol and carbonation might interfere with the yeast but it doesn't seem to slow things down at all. At 70% hydration it's super sticky and a hassle to kneed but it only takes a couple minutes to get all the flour incorporated, then I let it proof for a little longer. After proofing and dividing I give it a serious stretch and fold before shaping and that makes up for my half-ass kneed.

TL;DR

  • 2/3 ap flour, 1/3 whole wheat
  • 70% hydration with 2/3 of that being room temp lager
  • 2% salt
  • 1.5% yeast
 

For 15 years I would see one or two u-turns a year while commuting, now I see at least one per day. wtf?

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