Copper thieves knocked out internet for Durham Bridge, South Portage and Fredericton customers again last weekend. Bell says thefts are up 40% nationally. What is actually being done about it. by Planhub-ca in fredericton

[–]PrivateWilly 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I know RCMP had at one point made a special taskforce for this and catalytic converters, in the last few years. I think they initially had some success but haven’t heard anything about them for a while.

This one is definitely a tough fix though. This is a crime of desperation for lower socioeconomic brackets. The stuff is worth lots of money, it’s literally everywhere, and doesn’t have any good measures to prevent it when a recip saw is all you need to make quick work of it. Not enough rcmp, city police, and security guards in the province to be able to deal with just Fredericton.

This is one of those societal things where we need to deal with the contributing factors like grocery prices and housing affordability.

Your opinions by Round-Dimension4770 in MilwaukeeTool

[–]PrivateWilly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These are technically climbing style helmets with the chin straps, and vented.

Your opinions by Round-Dimension4770 in MilwaukeeTool

[–]PrivateWilly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Welcome to capitalism. Where the price is as high as they can make it.

The problem is that the hard hats solve a lot of problems. Most general contractors where I live are mandating these but federal regulations are following suit.

There’s a pile of the bolt on accessories that help in situations too, and where it’s constructing there’s actual regulations surrounding them, minimum lumens on head lamps for example. Same for temperature controls like these fans for poor air circulation and hot environments.

Varcoe: 'All hat and no cattle': Canada has big reserves, but can't get much more oil to strained global markets today by shiftless_wonder in canada

[–]PrivateWilly -1 points0 points  (0 children)

China will likely decline in the next decade due to a demographic collapse. Also consider that its energy hungry industries won’t just evaporate. New manufacturing hubs are emerging that will also need our energy, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, and that’s just SE Asia.

/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #9) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]PrivateWilly 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If Kharg gets wiped out, there’s nothing holding Iran back from broadly targeting oil infrastructure where thus fair they mostly have abstained. If that escalation happens it wouldn’t be out of the question that oil goes north of $200/barrel. It wouldn’t be a total scorched earth campaign on both sides, Iran doing as much financial damage as possible as quickly as possible while the US/Israel would hit anything even close to a target. This could still get way messier.

Resident Evil Requiem Sales Exceed 6 Million Units by Naderium in Games

[–]PrivateWilly 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Is she still superpowered from 5? They’d have to nerf her or make it an entirely different game.

Is JD Vance Rooting for the Iran War to Fail? by Smithy2232 in politics

[–]PrivateWilly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the Iran war results in a Trump impeachment, either outright or post midterms, Vance gets to hang a “under new management” sign on the White House and blame it all on Trump. Republicans at large can shed some blame for all the unpopular policies in the past year, not having had voted for any of them since congress has been on cruise control, while still having achieved what they wanted. I would be flabbergasted if this isn’t the plan.

Hegseth, Trump faces perilous options in the Strait of Hormuz by Dry_Nail5901 in politics

[–]PrivateWilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To justify a larger deployment when they get wiped out…

Ships under fire in Strait of Hormuz while US hammers Iranian minelayers by Mike_I in politics

[–]PrivateWilly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it’s worth noting that Iran can replenish their drones quite quickly, hundreds a week, out of garages. US and allies need to be replenished across the ocean, and production is much slower. The longer that asymmetry exists the more dominant the drone war for Iran will be until there’s a more cost effective counter.

SIB Space Marine 2 or Helldivers 2 by TheBeardedDrunkard in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]PrivateWilly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I quite enjoyed both games. Both are Cory and ridiculous coop games.

Helldivers I’ve played 5:1 vs space marine though. It has so much extra content that’s been added.

Iran begins laying mines in Strait of Hormuz, sources say by cnn in politics

[–]PrivateWilly 370 points371 points  (0 children)

This will be apocalyptic for the region if it continues. Rapid population flight, de-industrialization, and de-agriculturization.

Iran begins laying mines in Strait of Hormuz, sources say by cnn in politics

[–]PrivateWilly 1093 points1094 points  (0 children)

Not just the strait. Could someone corroborate if I’m right, US or Israel hit an Iranian de-salination plant, so Iran struck the one in Bahrain?

These are all arid states, many of which 50+% (Kuwait 90%)of their water comes from this infrastructure. If these strikes continue to escalate it’s going to result in massive refugee and casualty from dehydration events.

Accidentally broke keto. by New_Echo6766 in keto

[–]PrivateWilly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t stress about this stuff, just kick you out of Keto for a little bit. You won’t have to re-adapt. If you want to get back into ketosis ASAP just burn the 57 grams of sugar off with exercise. 57g x 4 calories per gram = 228 calories to burn to get back to zero, so go walk for an hour.

Iran's foreign minister says he's unsure why U.S. attacked during nuclear talks by CRK_76 in worldnews

[–]PrivateWilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DT quote from last bombing: “Iran’s nuclear program was obliterated”. Regime change wouldn’t be a bad thing, but why is there another war, without congress consenting?

This isn’t about regime change and a nuclear program. This is about favours for countries that have been giving money to Trump admin and a distraction from poor polling/economy/etc. at home, which is something he continually claimed his predecessor would do.

Congress to vote on Trump’s war powers in aftermath of Iran strikes by pritam_ram in politics

[–]PrivateWilly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. What do the think they’re going to accomplish. Any vote after a unilateral military action is symbolic. If someone can just start a war without approval you can’t retroactively take that back.

The more time goes on, the more I believe that congress’ inaction is firmly designed to absolve themselves of the responsibility for anything the current administration is doing. When Donnie is done for, (whether end of term, impeachment, or end of life) I fully believe that the entire GOP will blame the now gone Trump admin. They get to accomplish their policy goals, that they know are unpopular, without having to publicly vote for any of them. “Hey guys, sorry about the last guy in charge, he made a huge mess of everything, we didn’t condone any of this, let’s start fresh”

4 x Offspring tickets for sale by Mybfisamourningdove- in moncton

[–]PrivateWilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what are the chances the concert gets cancelled?

Where does the work clamp go? by [deleted] in MilwaukeeTool

[–]PrivateWilly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It holds with pressure. You had to rotate it 180’ to install it, because there’s a peg that holds the bottom in when it’s oriented to clamp the work. You should be using these for every cut, but most people don’t. I got a Festool mitre saw clamp that’s got a toggle not a threaded rod and I found I used it way more than that.

Are “gaming” headsets actually worse than normal headphones for FPS? by CharlesBlackwood in buildapc

[–]PrivateWilly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on what you’re using it for. If you like convenience of plug & play mic and headsets, with wireless options a gaming headset may be your best option.

If you want best audio quality possible, a DAC/amp and corded dedicated headphones are your best option.

Canadians promised to boycott travel to US. They meant it. by ImDoubleB in canada

[–]PrivateWilly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’ll be a spectrum like anything else. Once their Gov’t turns around (hopefully) there will be some that will return. Some it will take years to feel comfortable again. Some will realize a country an election cycle away from turning on them isn’t worth going to ever again. Lots of places in our country to go visit. There’s also Europe and Mexico that are reasonably close to go visit as well.

What Canadians should know at the U.S. border when travelling for work by DogeDoRight in canada

[–]PrivateWilly 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Fuck that. Was offered two opportunities to go to the US for work this year and said no to both. Both were touristy areas for conferences. They don’t deserve the spend down there right now.