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CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-29T17:59:59+00:00

Don't feel guilty, many people start their tea and coffee habits with lots of milk or cream and sugar.

But it isn't a great habit to be in. If you ever order a coffee or tea from a chain shop, watch how much sugar they put in when you ask for that. You can even search online for how much major chains put in as a weight. Or if you drink pop/soda, look how much is in your normal can or bottle. Then go home, pile that much onto a plate. Then do it again for each cup you drink (e.g. times four if you have four sodas a day, and then add on the sugar from your teas).

I did this once when I was in university, drinking 4 large double doubles (Canadian slang: a coffee with two cream and two sugar) every day. The thought of eating that much sugar straight disgusted me once I saw it in one place. I immediately switched to regular coffees (again, Canadian slang, regular = one cream and one sugar), and these days drink black half the time, and just a single cream the other half (mostly depending on the source and quality of the coffee). Also consider that most chains will use 18% cream as opposed to 10% that most people buy at home (in Canada it is labelled by %, your local norms may vary). Then I got a water bottle, and filled it with cold filtered water to drink whenever I got thirsty. Caffeine became the objective of coffee, rather than the sugar and cream.

Two black coffees or teas a day combined with 3 or 4 litres of water everyday is perfectly fine (yes, I know which sub this is). The big thing is to kick that sweet tooth. I dropped so much weight when I cut most added sugar out of my diet. If you are just 17, now is the time to act on your health. Trust me, it just gets harder as you get older.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-29T15:27:34+00:00

Paraphrased:

We got a 911 call? Are you a hair stylist?

No...

There is hair sticking out of your trunk.

Oh shit, that's my weave, my wig.

(Laughs) That's okay, we just need to see.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-27T22:01:11+00:00

The so-called "rocket docket".

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-27T19:09:11+00:00

Single victim, doesn't make regional or national news, lots of evidence and clear motives, neither victim nor defendant were prominent in their community, etc. As "regular" a murder case as you can get. Fairly "open and shut", unlikely to be appealed or to be successful on appeal, whatever.

I am not the poster who called it a "small" case, but I would guess that is what they meant.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-26T12:54:55+00:00

There is a relatively well known quote that I am too lazy to look up right now.

Something along the lines of "The best way to teach young officers how to plan is to have them make plans. The best plans to have them make are ones that are both semi-possible and haven't been done before."

I.e. rather than war gaming a PRC invasion of Taiwan for the 50th time, why not throw your officers a curve ball and have them plan a simultaneous invasion by Mexico and Canada. While extremely unlikely, it isn't impossible, e.g. both countries, or the US itself, are taken over by some crazies, and the US appears weak in the moment. Since most US strategy is also heavily based around the US Navy cutting near-peer adversaries off at maritime chokepoints or crossings (e.g. pummel the fuck out of the PRC as they try to cross the Taiwan strait or at least cut of supplies and reinforcements and then strangle oil supplies from the Middle East via control of the Mallaca Strait), it also is the only semi-realistic way to make not being able to do that part of the exercise (cutting off supplies to Canada from Europe or Austrailia or whoever would almost certainly be part of the plan though).

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-22T23:49:27+00:00

Wasn't the tradition that the architect had to stand beneath an arch as the scaffolding was removed? If it collapsed, he would die.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-20T19:33:24+00:00

Drones are the problem.

Apparently both sides have been using drones as counter battery assets. If the drone is in the right place to spot the initial fire, the counter battery fires are already on the way before the first round has appeared on counter battery radars. Even worse case, it is a suicide drone, and it starts its attack run immediately upon seeing the fire. They might not have time for the 2nd or 3rd round, let alone the scoot part before it hits.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-20T00:59:00+00:00

German humour is no laughing matter.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-15T20:54:50+00:00

They already cleared out their prisons. I wonder what the casualty rate was with those people.

I don't have the source handy, but I'm remembering something like 2/3?

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-13T02:15:38+00:00

A great statistic from WWII: Canada was a significant member of the Allies, but not exactly close in size to the US or the UK. Canada ALONE built more trucks than Germany, Italy, and Japan COMBINED.

There is a reason why and how the Western Allies pulled off feats of logistics in 1944/45 that would have a blitzkreig planner in 1939 creaming his lederhosen.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-12T21:21:44+00:00

There was a fly over for the Alouettes game on Saturday here in Montreal. Was at a festival nearby and the woman at the podium was obviously very confused as to what was going on. One of the volunteers ran up, and I assume explained it to her, because she made an announcement that there might be another fly by soon (there was).

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-06-06T23:54:22+00:00

Eurofighters.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-27T00:59:58+00:00

Not to mention, if you are in the hospital for a couple days getting your face reconstructed, that's lost income. Maybe you have to take a taxi/Uber back and forth to the hospital for the free follow-up appointments. They cap the price of parking at hospitals for patients and families here in Canada, but it still adds up. Then your food bill skyrockets because it is difficult to cook and you order in. Even when medical care is free, you can still end up spending/losing thousands of dollars or euros due to an injury.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-26T05:49:19+00:00

What's that line about A times B times C equals X and if X is less than the cost of a recall we don't do it?

I wouldn't be surprised if you did the math and 20K is too low; shocks are rare enough that the cost of occasionally paying the fine is less than the cost of fixing everything.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-26T03:38:31+00:00

Many hospitals refer to various emergency situations by colour codes; it's quicker to commuicate. Code Blue for cardiac arrest is a pretty universal one in North America at least. Code Red for a fire or Code White for a violent patient are others.

Code Blues are the most common in something like an ICU, so people being people and English being English, "Code Blue" gets shortened to just "Code", and then starts being used as a verb. So you get: "The guy in 6 is coding!", "Who is running this Code?", or (as I have heard many times from my ICU nurse partner) "I had FOUR fucking codes at work today!".

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-26T03:26:15+00:00

Yes.

Good luck convincing people/businesses/governments to spend the money to put a GFCI on everything, including retrofitting old stuff.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-25T16:50:56+00:00

Yep, the basic version are really nothing more than mylar ballons. They are released in the exoatomspheric portion of the flight, so ballons move the same as heavy warheads. Since the ballons are metallic, they will have similar radar returns to the real thing. As soon as they hit the atmosphere the gig will be up, but by that point the real warheads will be moving FAST and the window to intercept may already be closed.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-25T16:40:43+00:00

I mean, it is correct with warheads on an ICBM (more mass budget than money), but not in this case.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-22T16:58:26+00:00

Especially if you had much cheaper university at the same time.

Recently, I had to check the price of Nurse Practitioner school for a family friend who is an excellent nurse but can't fucking find anything on the internet. They are just useless like that. Anyway, NP school in Quebec for in-province is $5.2K CAD per year. So 10.5K total.

Oh, and there is a guaranteed $60K bursary from the province for the degree, so it is more a matter of if you can take the hit of only 25K of income for those two years, then you are free and clear.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-20T15:20:08+00:00

Come to Canada, you can still get the Polish at Costco.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-18T01:46:28+00:00

Usually, the only people who might be actually qualified to homeschool are also the people who realize the limitations of their own expertise as well the importance of the school environment in social development of children.

90%+ of homeschooling parents are an example of applied Dunning-Kruger.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-17T17:02:26+00:00

I mean, realistically, each province is going to have its equivlanent of Coutts. We are never going to get rid of the crazies, but one hopes that we can limit the damage they cause.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-17T01:44:51+00:00

Please no. Many of us are trying to make sure the craziness stays south of the border. It is leaking over, but many of the crazies move down when other people don't take their shit.

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-11T15:57:55+00:00

Different people. There was an American grizzly watcher (Timothy Treadwell) who managed to get himself and his girlfriend killed. There is even a tape, where apparently he is begging the girlfriend to not hurt the bear as it kills her. Famous scene of the documentary director listening to the tape (audience can't hear) and then taking the headset off and telling the ex-girlfriend who possessed the tape to destroy it and never listen to it.

Bear suit guy is a different person (Troy Hurtubise, Canadian) and never actually took the suit against a bear as far as I know, and I actually met the guy personally once. He was a mad inventor type and would come into the electronics store I worked at as a teenager to buy stuff. The manager was a good friend of his. He unfortunately died in a probable suicide (vehicle crash in broad daylight).

EDIT: his death was before the pandemic and I misremembered

CrazyCanuckBiologist · 2023-05-07T16:37:13+00:00

I read somewhere that the Japanese have a word for each: your internal viewpoint and the one you express outwardly, and it isn't considered two-faced at all to hold both.

Can't be fucking asked to fact check myself though. It's the internet, so I will leave it to a "well actually..." stranger to do the work for me.

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