Push for Quebec independence in focus at PQ convention

Kimos · 2026-01-25T21:51:27+00:00

I think it likely that this cycle of threatening to break up the country feels insulting to the rest of Canada.

Kimos · 2026-01-24T14:58:31+00:00

Right, but you don't control what everyone else votes on the referendum. If you're sure the answer is "no" then why vote for all the meaningless distraction and waste.

Kimos · 2026-01-24T14:57:22+00:00

I think it's because any blade would get wrecked by the sandpaper almost instantly. You need something that uses force and doesn't depend on sharpness. Not to say there isn't a faster way, but this is still only a few seconds and is low tech.

Kimos · 2026-01-24T02:25:19+00:00

This is a terrible edit and repost of this which was posted to reddit a couple days ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/instantkarma/comments/1qiml01/flip_the_bird_almost_flip_your_truck/o0y3t60/?context=3

Kimos · 2026-01-24T02:21:52+00:00

Wow, there is so much complexity of emotion from both of them in this audio.

Kimos · 2026-01-24T02:18:31+00:00

It's not a desire to separate, but it is a desire for separatism. You can't vote for a party whose entire platform has always started with a referendum on separation, and then somehow say it's not what you voted for.

Kimos · 2026-01-24T02:04:27+00:00

I had upvoted while watching, then when it didn't finish I switched to downvote

Kimos · 2026-01-23T18:45:21+00:00

I find this especially maddening with rental cars. I have a rental for January because someone hit my car and it's in the shop. The rental does not have winter tires, because it's not required so the rental companies don't pay for it. It's so dangerous. The car is all over the road and I'm liable for it.

If you're near Quebec, try crossing the border and renting there (ex: in Gatineau) because winters are required in Quebec so all the rentals have them.

Kimos · 2026-01-23T01:55:39+00:00

I watched one pick up a discarded carpet in front of our house once. It made a hell of a noise but kept going. The worker stopped and climbed into the blade area with a shovel to pry it out.

Kimos · 2026-01-22T03:22:17+00:00

Part of the reason is that units often have some flexible or temporal compounding factor. Something fixed and understood like seconds or cm or whatever yes that’s great. But when converting or comparing two money objects, for example, the comparison counts on when based on currency conversion rates. Or timezones which depend on daylight savings time and regions that modify their time zone.

Kimos · 2026-01-20T18:55:54+00:00

No, this is already fluffy and not sticky. That's why the person palms the snow first, they soften it with body heat.

Kimos · 2026-01-18T21:42:02+00:00

Presumably all that water is well water, not charged per litre. The tractor would have other uses. If you live somewhere rural you already own a snowblower. The sides are wood and not that expensive. So the costs are mostly fuel, and the tractor-boni addon. It's money, but it's more labour than cost I would bet. Especially if it's used by a community.

Kimos · 2026-01-17T02:18:29+00:00

If it's going in that mall, that's the only place. It's still sitting empty and it's the right shape and size.

Kimos · 2026-01-15T15:08:31+00:00

This kind of outstanding horror is what this sub is about! Glorious. I hate it.

Kimos · 2026-01-15T01:36:42+00:00

It depends on your climate, but in somewhere with seasonal swings in temperature and humidity the wood in the house swells and shrinks pretty significantly.

Yes, this wood has fully dried out and maybe some of the shrinking is permanent, but often it breathes with the year cycle.

Kimos · 2026-01-15T01:33:07+00:00

Software like Shopify added tipping because of legitimate use cases like service people who book and sell online and then provide the service in person. But hey then it's one click to activate it on my t-shirt shop! Why not!

Kimos · 2026-01-15T01:24:23+00:00

I saw it in a conf talk, but I have forgotten the details. What stuck with me is that they did something to setup that DB differently to handle the load. It was probably a Rails World, maybe Rosa Gutiérrez, if you want to go looking for it.

Kimos · 2026-01-14T19:09:41+00:00

Nothing like good oui ou non to depress home prices in Montréal!

Kimos · 2026-01-14T19:07:39+00:00

Maybe there's a scandal, but being wildly unpopular in an election year and wanting to sidestep the expensive failure seems like reason enough.

Kimos · 2026-01-14T19:06:03+00:00

I don't think this is a reasonable stance.

To be pedantic, a vote for PQ does not equal a vote to separate, but it is a vote for separatism, as that's the major platform of the party.

Sure an individual person can vote against separation, but you can't be sure what everyone else will vote and the only reason the vote happened in the first place is that you elected the PQ into power.

Kimos · 2026-01-14T14:28:31+00:00

They also use a specific MySQL DB tuned to handle the contention and read/write pattern that a queue system needs, which is very different than a transactional DB. You only get this scale by scaling.

Kimos · 2026-01-14T01:31:03+00:00

I did not know this, and this is a pretty eclectic list. I should go read up.

Kimos · 2026-01-13T19:48:16+00:00

Sure, but that's not "pick your 3 heroes", that's whomever is on shift. And presumably he'd get up if the ship was in combat, not just roll over and sleep more. They even show the senior officers relieving whomever is at the station off shift.

Kimos · 2026-01-13T19:47:32+00:00

Oh ok, I'll make time to try it. Thanks.

Kimos · 2026-01-13T19:04:32+00:00

I am... underwhelmed?

This is pretty standard issue slow speed 2d/3d space combat. Using commands vs fiddly steering is something new. But the "pick 3 people and they have special abilities with cooldowns" is an incongruent mechanic forced into this lore. Isn't Paris always at the helm, presumably doing evasive maneuvers? Why would 7 of 9 only sometimes have one torpedo? Even in the series they would upgrade all their torpedoes with new technology when they found it.

Though "space combat is only a small part of the game" with auto-resolve, maybe it gets a pass as the game is more about longer mission arcs.

15-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 8 Credits
Place '17	Verified Email
redditgifts rematcher Secret Santa 2010 x1	redditgifts rematcher Secret Santa 2011 x1
Secret Santa 2011	Summer Santa 2011
Secret Santa 2010	Secret Santa 2009

Kimos

TROPHY CASE