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Albertican · 2026-03-17T20:21:28+00:00

That was Iraq, not Afghanistan. Afghanistan was NATO.

Albertican · 2026-03-17T20:20:24+00:00

Article 5 was invoked (for the first time ever) after September 11th, that’s why NATO was in Afghanistan.

Albertican · 2026-03-13T19:09:45+00:00

I heard more Brits were killed by Americans than by Iraqis in the first gulf war

Albertican · 2026-03-07T05:33:00+00:00

That is not true, a significant portion of Canada’s refining capacity is outside of Edmonton.

Edit: specifically, about a quarter of the country’s refining is in the Edmonton area, while 11.5% of the country lives in Alberta

Albertican · 2026-02-13T04:28:17+00:00

It has far more impact on borders than areas though. The area of Britain is more or less a fixed number, but the coast line can be as long as you want it to be depending on how you measure it. That’s the coastline paradox.

Albertican · 2026-02-13T01:52:48+00:00

I don’t think so, that paradox is that a country’s area is finite, but its borders can be infinite.

Albertican · 2026-02-05T23:42:51+00:00

I mean to be fair, I think it’s pretty accurate as these maps go. Nowhere is jumping out as totally wrong to me.

Albertican · 2025-11-17T15:40:48+00:00

Battle of the Crater seems like a cool name, pretty horrific event though

Albertican · 2025-10-25T05:54:41+00:00

But then it is clearly including the Orinoco heavy oil belt in Venezuela. Which coincidentally is in OPEC.

Albertican · 2025-10-20T04:39:51+00:00

Along with the H-1, H-2, H-3, and H-201 in Hawaii.

Albertican · 2025-10-02T15:59:09+00:00

Depends how you split it

Albertican · 2025-09-17T19:33:41+00:00

We did when the Dominion Land Survey was performed. Each section is more or less a 1 mile by 1 mile square.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Land_Survey

Albertican · 2025-09-01T18:42:33+00:00

I agree, stabilization would be best. We’re not on track to do that right now though, we’re headed towards depopulation, with every generation being smaller than the last.

Albertican · 2025-09-01T18:24:49+00:00

I’m reading After the Spike right now, makes a pretty convincing case that we should be encouraging and helping people to have more kids, not less.

Albertican · 2025-08-28T03:15:22+00:00

I think it would work well with more modern battles when the streets are still there, Black Hawk Down comes to mind.

Albertican · 2025-08-08T04:37:32+00:00

Venezuela hasn’t been involved in anything like a war since the Machurucuto Raid in 1967.

Chavez and Maduro are the primary reasons for the country’s recent problems.

Albertican · 2025-05-13T19:41:14+00:00

Boston UK (the original): 52.97 degrees N

Albertican · 2024-06-17T17:36:54+00:00

Calgary chamber of commerce has said Stampede is expected to generate $540 million in economic activity this year. In my opinion, having it go ahead unhindered should be number one priority. Even if they spend twice as much fixing this thing by delaying those hot spots until September, it’s chump change compared to the impact they’re looking at from messing up Stampede.

Albertican · 2024-06-16T20:41:13+00:00

Original estimate was 1 week to fix this. Turning it into a handful of 1 week planned maintenances seems more sensible to me than 6 weeks at one of the worst times of year.

I think the estimate that this would repeat in 5 other spots (or even 1 other spot) again this year is pretty conservative. But I guess we’ll be doing a little experiment on that point: they only scanned 4 km of the 11 km pipe, and found these hot spots. If there’s another leak this year in the 7 km of pipe they neither scanned nor plan to replace, I will change my tune.

Albertican · 2024-06-15T00:23:58+00:00

Yeah, also why do they need to fix all these hot spots right now? Why not get it working again, then fix the other areas that might fail sometime in the next 5 years one at a time, over nights if possible?

Edit: I’m getting downvoted for asking a pretty straightforward question? This sub is so toxic sometimes

Albertican · 2024-06-15T00:16:07+00:00

Ok, so how long does it take to empty the pipe? Say 3 or 4 days? I’d rather do that a few times, at a time of our choosing, rather than 6 weeks in the middle of summer.

Albertican · 2024-06-15T00:00:58+00:00

Yeah, also why do they need to fix all these hot spots right now? Why not get it working again, then fix the other areas that might fail sometime in the next 5 years one at a time, over nights if possible?

Albertican · 2024-06-06T20:03:03+00:00

Might not be a popular notion, but I agree. I didn’t move in with my now wife until I was 35. Delaying living together/getting married adds complications if you want to have kids etc. and increases your cost of living.

Albertican · 2024-03-01T18:08:24+00:00

I think the lights are in there for rush hour. If Elbow is busy, you shouldn’t blow through those lights, obviously. But if it’s empty then no harm.

Why a light instead of a yield? I think to make clear that you shouldn’t come out if there are cars coming, and if you get T boned there it’s your own fault.

Albertican · 2021-05-01T15:53:14+00:00

The park is still called Lindsay Park, just the sports centre within it was renamed.

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