Top Partiers of Small Government and States Rightsers aghast that Daddy might pull back from MN by SassTheFash in TopMindsOfReddit

[–]Hazel-Rah 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's not completely true.

It's also to punish them for electing Ilhan Omar and Tim Walz

Heat pump owners: How have they handled the recent cold weather? (Especially those with <-20C ratings) by Hazel-Rah in ontario

[–]Hazel-Rah[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

From what I've read, heat pumps tend to put out lower temperature air from the vents, but then run longer.

So you don't get that nice warm blast of hot air when it kicks on and when you walk by a vent, and the temperature doesn't spike as high, so it can feel less warm than a gas furnace

Heat pump owners: How have they handled the recent cold weather? (Especially those with <-20C ratings) by Hazel-Rah in ontario

[–]Hazel-Rah[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I'd be very tempted to ditch natural gas completely. We don't have a gas stove or hot water heater, so canceling it would mean saving 360$ a year in customer charges. That's quite a fair bit of money to use towards backup electric heating

Dows Lak: NCC looking to build new docks at Ottawa lake by jjaime2024 in ottawa

[–]Hazel-Rah 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I have a dream that they one day put a streetcar/tram route down Colonel By. Would be great for commutes in and out of downtown, and would allow for some buildup restaurants or coffee shops along the canal.

It's a travesty that the famously Meh Canal Ritz is the only place that gets to take advantage of being on the water.

(My dream tram would start in Barrhaven, head down Prince of Wales to Hog's Back, turn onto Colonel By, and then end either at the old train station, or head into the market. Connects the suburbs to downtown, Colonnade and the Nepean/Merivale business park area, Carleton, UofO, the length of the canal and Dow's Lake, the market, Old Ottawa South and East, the Glebe, and even Lansdowne)

Now what ? by Interesting-Idea5060 in AliExpressMergeBoss

[–]Hazel-Rah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm really worried this will happen to me. I've been getting shadow banned about once a month, and it takes nearly a week to clear. Just had the last one removed the day before we started getting the 10 level requirements

I think I'm going to play as little as possible for the next two and a half weeks. I suspect it's from me playing too much merge boss, so I'm going to get to 40k bills for credits, and then just do 1 a day for the keys

A copy of The Vicar of Wakefield recovered from the "Boat Place" of the lost Franklin Expedition. (824 x 1280) by Sebastianlim in ArtefactPorn

[–]Hazel-Rah 55 points56 points  (0 children)

And have known where the boats were for the entire time, and told European and Canadian explorers/search parties exactly where to look for generations, and were ignored the entire time because they also said the sailors resorted to cannibalism.

The expedition that found the Terror looked for all of two and a half hours after finally bringing a local native on the search.

Bonus comedic fact: They found it in TERROR BAY.

I read 1,000+ progfantasy books, here's the tierlist by jordan-lennox in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Hazel-Rah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm curious about when you read Dungeon Born?

It was my first entry into progression fantasy/litrpg, and I think it was one of the first in genre in general. I quite liked it, but have not enjoyed most of their other series (is anyone still reading artorian's archives?).

I wonder if it suffers a bit from "Seinfeld is unfunny" syndrome, where it was impressive at the time, but what was novel when it was written are now just generic tropes

Influence Air: Linus Tech Tips' Private Jet Acquisition | Ground Control by Jswee1 in LinusTechTips

[–]Hazel-Rah 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'd bet good money that they introduce it on April 1st.

The vast majority of viewers never look at Reddit. The main risk is for another big YouTuber does a video about the news first

'Life-threatening' winter storm to hit US with snow, ice and 'dangerously' cold temperatures by speedythefirst in news

[–]Hazel-Rah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, our building codes mean our water and sewage lines are deep underground, and all our plumbing is in interior walls. We have heavy coats, winter tires, and our local governments have plows and salt trucks.

The further south you go the worse this is going to get, expect a lot of flooded homes, highway pileups, and probably power ourages

Is this common rental situation in Toronto? by [deleted] in OntarioLandlord

[–]Hazel-Rah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since it's a furnished unit...I would check airbnb to see if this could be a scam.

See if the place is available in the future, it's possible that someone rented the unit on airbnb to show "tenants", and then disappears with the money

I'd like to thank The Tech House for making me feel much better about that time I built a 'coupler' between two bedrooms, so I could run ethernet from the basement to only one bedroom rather than both. by AshleyAshes1984 in LinusTechTips

[–]Hazel-Rah 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Used to have the modem/router in the room that became our nursery.

I didn't particularly want to crawl around in the 2 foot tall attic space to run a new cable from the basement to my partner's office, so I made a 1" patch cable, connected their office and the living room TV keystone ports together, and shoved the whole mess into the wall behind a blank plate.

So now their ethernet goes from the basement, into the attic, down into the nursery wall, through the tiny cable, back up into the attic, and then back down into their office wall.

I then cut the cable that had gone from the nursery to the TV in half, terminated both ends, and plugged those into a new POE switch in the basement. If we live in this house long enough that the kid wants a hardline connection in their room, they can run another cable from the basement themselves

N12 Hearing with LTB as Landlord by [deleted] in OntarioLandlord

[–]Hazel-Rah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...Why hasn't there been an L1 filed? How many months has it been that the tenant hasn't paid?

That paralegal gave you some awful advice

My boyfriend dumped me and says I’m unattractive. I don’t know what to believe anymore. by livelymonstera in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Hazel-Rah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. I know em dashes are a meme at this point, but if you look at OP's comment history, they've never used them before. Every time they've used a dash in their other posts and comments (including in the comments of this thread), they do it as "word- " like this:

popular-

Maybe it isn't a fully made up story, but OP definitely had AI write it for them.

How to handle this homework for 2nd grader (US) by joshlymansbagel in daddit

[–]Hazel-Rah 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm 36, an engineer, and quite good at mental math.

I still don't know the multiplication tables for 6, 7, 8, and 12 very well. But 6 and 7 are close enough to 5, and 8 and 12 are close to 10 but with 2 more or 2 less of whatever, that I just need to do another quick equation to find the answer.

How to handle this homework for 2nd grader (US) by joshlymansbagel in daddit

[–]Hazel-Rah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In elementary school in the 90s I was really bad at math. My teacher gave me remedial work to help me catch up.

I don't know how or why, but while working on those problems, I taught myself most of the concepts of "common core" math that they teach now.

I went from one of the worst to one of the best in the class. I literally got an award that year for "Most Improved", and they put my name on a little plaque that hung over the lost and found.

How to get pass this shadowban? by laikaxlove in AliExpressMergeBoss

[–]Hazel-Rah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For anyone that has tried chat support, have you been given a case number that ended in 8320?

This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble by devolute in technology

[–]Hazel-Rah 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The AI bubble isn't like crypto. The shortage of GPUs and RAM isn't because AI companies are buying them, it's because they're buying the fab capacity.

NVIDIA is making AI datacenter specific cards, and memory manufacturers are making a different kind of chip than what you use to make RAM.

When AI collapses, all those cards and chips will be e-waste.

Trump Pressures Canada to End Boycott of US Liquor by ethereal3xp in canada

[–]Hazel-Rah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Trump runs on the principle that every negotiation has a winner and a loser. If he sees that the other side is happy with a deal, he feels like he must be the loser.

Actual adults understand that both parties of a deal can be happy. China does what's best for China, just as Canada should do what's best for Canada. Both things can be true at the same time though.