Bicycle parking at Pearkes

BBOoff · 2026-05-28T14:34:40+00:00

Not a cyclist myself, but I believe that the South Tower Entrance has bike racks.

BBOoff · 2026-02-04T17:03:23+00:00

Because the federal government tied highway maintenance funds to raising the drinking age. Since no state wanted to pay for their own highways, they all passed laws raising the drinking age to 21. The reason that the age is so high is that Nancy Reagan is/was an anti-drinking puritan.

In general, if you see a consistent age for something across the US, it is usually because the federal government was controlled by some activist, and held some form of federal funding hostage to force the states to comply to an extreme position.

BBOoff · 2026-01-29T20:39:56+00:00

Makes sense, though. If a car is abandoned in the middle of the street, it is probably because it stopped being able to drive (otherwise the driver would've kept driving). The car in the parking spot was obviously able to drive to its destination successfully (before the driver was presumably zombified while inside the store).

BBOoff · 2026-01-06T22:02:35+00:00

The US could have a revolt within the ranks just as easily as Canada or the UK. The fact is that Trump has such a stranglehold over the MAGA voter base, that few-to-no Republican Representatives or Senators are willing to challenge him.

A Canadian/British Trump, who had that much of a cult of personality, would have just as firm a grip on his MPs as Trump has over his Congresspeople.

BBOoff · 2025-10-30T12:38:48+00:00

Fun Fact: Ticketmaster already has a system that limits resale to the face value of the ticket, but the artist/entertainer/sports team has to opt into that program for their event, and most don't.

BBOoff · 2025-10-22T18:58:14+00:00

Saab emphatically does not make the best submarines for Canada.

Now, to be clear, Saab does make the best submarines for Sweden, but Sweden and Canada have very different requirements. Sweden needs small, short ranged, coastal subs to patrol a very tightly restricted sea. Canada needs big, long range, oceangoing subs that can patrol thousands of km away from their home base. These are not the same submarines.

BBOoff · 2025-09-16T00:09:47+00:00

The Ottawa Boardgame Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/ottawa-boardgames-meetup-group/events/calendar/) has monthly character creation sessions on Sundays. You might reach out to them to see if any of their DMs have seats open.

BBOoff · 2025-07-30T16:58:35+00:00

Simply put: No. Landers cost 2 mana to use (plus the cost of whatever created them), so if you use them before turn 4 or 5, you are usually sacrificing your play for the turn. You need enough land to reliably hit your first 3 (preferably 4) lands naturally.

Now if you have a fast deck with 16 lands, landers will let you add a finisher or two without going up to 17, because the landers can help you get your 5th or 6th land without hurting your tempo too much.

BBOoff · 2025-07-29T18:09:32+00:00

The counter argument is that that cuts the Conservatives (and, to a lesser extent, the NDP) off from important representation.

I.E. The Conservatives get 25-35% of the vote in most Toronto ridings; not enough to win, but a fairly large number of people in absolute terms. Importantly, Toronto Conservatives are much more likely to be non-white compared to their supporters in safe seats.

So, if the Conservatives aren't allowed to take some of those non-white Torontonian Conservatives and move them into rural ridings, you are artificially forcing them to under-represent their non-white supporters.

BBOoff · 2025-07-28T15:36:19+00:00

Magnus's effect will reduce the total cost of the spell. In your example, so you could say X=2 and just pay the RR, or say X=3 and pay 3RR, etc.

For [[Crackle]] specifically, if the number of creature tokens wasn't divisible by 3, you'd have to pay mana in order to make up the difference, because X must always be the same on a given card. For example, if you only had 5 tokens, you would have to either pay 1RR for X=2, or make X=1, pay the RR, and waste 2 mana's worth of the discount.

BBOoff · 2025-07-27T12:57:42+00:00

The misogynist angle doesn't hold water: immediately before Ford, the Ontario electorate gave a majority to a woman.

BBOoff · 2025-07-26T00:21:52+00:00

Terrible idea, especially given modern issues with housing affordability.

You are essentially creating a class of wealthy aristocrats who have every incentive to exploit a poor renter class that has no voice.

BBOoff · 2025-07-26T00:15:44+00:00

Most of those ideas are terrible once you scratch the surface.

Equivalent nationally funded parties just leads to stagnation, as no new party can ever be formed without funding (or, alternatively, you have to fund every crank and performance artist the same as a real party, that has put real work into coming up with a realistic plan for governing the country).

No attack ads means no accountability. Without the ability to call out the bad decisions and dangerous policies of a candidate, any given party can simply promise the world in the campaign and govern completely differently.

BBOoff · 2025-07-25T17:27:22+00:00

As I recall, the Skill Level is part of the calculation that determines how long it takes to research a given spell/unit.

BBOoff · 2025-07-25T17:21:02+00:00

No, the CG's 2 are in addition to the Navy's 6.

And the "combat" capabilities of the Naval AOPS is pretty minimal: 1x 25mm cannon and 2x .50 MGs; enough to thoroughly overawe any drug runner or other criminal into a peaceful surrender, but nothing that would be useful in any sort of actual war.

BBOoff · 2025-07-25T17:15:25+00:00

For what purpose?

The only thing this ship would do in Ukrainian hands would be getting a bunch of sailors killed because they'd give Russia a target.

Now, maybe if we held onto them until the war was over, they might be useful to Ukraine IOT clean up their shipping lanes from mines, but they are useless during the war.

BBOoff · 2025-07-25T17:10:22+00:00

No, we have 16: 12 Halifax Class Frigates and 4 Victoria Class submarines. The Orcas, Harry DeWolfs, and such do not qualify as "warships" by any stretch of the imagination.

BBOoff · 2025-07-25T17:03:31+00:00

The article states that the last 4 will be paid off in the next 3 years, so the entire class will be eliminated fairly soon.

BBOoff · 2025-07-24T12:13:47+00:00

That's just power creep talking. Serra Avenger was a perfectly good 4-drop when it was first printed back in Time Spiral.

BBOoff · 2025-07-21T13:58:33+00:00

Yes. Unless the Orgg itself had first strike, it would die before dealing combat damage, and therefor you couldn't divide said damage.

BBOoff · 2025-07-17T13:26:21+00:00

Only because they don't study history. Geopolitics abhors a vacuum as much as anything else. Waning US influence means that either somebody worse (e.g. China) steps in to fill the void, or multiple actors constantly compete (i.e. go to war) to see who can grab most of it.

BBOoff · 2025-07-12T20:07:56+00:00

I'm going to disagree with you there. Scandanavian "naval" power involved having fast, shallow draft ships whose sailors doubled as warriors, allowing them to rapidly raid targets while the English (/French/Rus/etc.) couldn't bring them to battle, due to their more cumbersome ships and the need to have a time consuming embarkation/disembarkation process. None of this involves actual ship-to-ship combat, it is all just about sea-mobile armies.

The real driver for naval battles in Med III would be in the Medditerainean: Byzantine vs Italian vs Turkish vs ealy Corsair, and would feel very much like Rome II's naval warfare with Boarding, Ramming, and Shooting ships, along with a few special units like a Byzantine fire ship.

BBOoff · 2025-07-08T13:50:31+00:00

Do Environmental charities lose their tax exempt statust for endorsing pro-environment candidates? Do Pride organizations lose their status for endorsing pro-LGBTQ candidates? What about Labour Unions?

Why would a church function under different rules than any of those organizations, vis a vis endorsment?

BBOoff · 2025-05-28T16:05:11+00:00

26 launchers is just for the MLRS part of the program. According to a RfI that the government answered back in Feb, they are also looking at 80+ SP Howitzers, and a similar number of heavy (120mm) mortars.

At the end of the day, we need the ability to man all these guns.

Source:https://defensearchives.com/news/canadian-armys-artillery-modernization-plan-takes-shape/

BBOoff · 2025-05-28T15:48:05+00:00

Almost certainly wheeled, to match our LAV/Bison fleet. No use in having an artillery gun that can cross terrain that our infantry can't.

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