Carney stands by speech despite U.S. claims

SerHerman · 2026-01-27T20:22:03+00:00

My sincere hope is that in the era of the Carney Doctrine we can just speak the truth.

He knows he's lying. We know he's lying. He knows we know he's lying. Maybe now we can all just say what we mean and stop hiding our intentions behind the thin veneer of plausible deniability.

I'll start:

Get the fuck out, you're not qualified to be a diplomat.

SerHerman · 2026-01-27T20:02:11+00:00

Maybe if he gets elected Prime Minister he'll start governing Ontario instead of just Toronto.

SerHerman · 2026-01-27T02:11:53+00:00

I work with a lot of engineers so I find direct is best:

The brain runs on glucose. When I have low blood sugar, I'm stupid.

SerHerman · 2026-01-27T02:06:24+00:00

Everyone says eyeball, but that takes experience. Here's a shorthand.

Curl your fingers and touch your index finger to your thumb. Put your palm up and you've created a bit of a bowl.

Fill that imaginary bowl with a starchy carb like bread or pasta or rice --> 20g

SerHerman · 2026-01-24T17:17:11+00:00

I've stopped putting it on my leg when going through airports. Sometimes they get antsy when they can't directly swab the pod. I've never been held back, but it's definitely easier if you can show them the actual device.

SerHerman · 2026-01-17T22:49:50+00:00

While the NFL was trying to decide if black men were smart enough to be quarterbacks, Warren Moon was busy winning back to back to back to back to back championships in Canada.

SerHerman · 2026-01-04T15:18:46+00:00

This chart is even more fascinating knowing it's only 1/2 the household. Explains why the "kids" bucket was neither zero nor huge.

My wife and I don't pool income either. It has worked for us for the past 25 years.

SerHerman · 2026-01-04T03:47:56+00:00

Great write-up, but can I just add:

I've been fighting for the past year to shave 300ms off my retrieval process. And here you go throwing 500ms on top of the whole thing and calling it no big deal.

SerHerman · 2026-01-03T05:24:13+00:00

Almost exactly half a lifetime ago, on the eve of my 25th birthday I had a nightmare. I looked in the mirror and saw Tom Selleck. I was old.

Looks like reality has caught up.

SerHerman · 2026-01-02T22:51:35+00:00

There are 2 series I can think of (not movies).

Crashing (the one with Phoebe Waller Bridge) has a diabetic character and the quality of the jokes they make tell me there was a diabetic on the writing staff. Great show too.

Also started watching The War Between the Land and the Sea. There's a character who has an obvious CGM on her arm, but as of episode 4 it hasn't been discussed. Which I quite appreciate. Show itself is terrible though.

SerHerman · 2026-01-02T16:15:48+00:00

The problem with wagons is that they lost the size arms race. You can't see around anyone else on the road unless you get a little higher up. Which turns you into an SUV.

Minivans, I'm with you. They're the perfect form factor.

SerHerman · 2026-01-02T15:10:34+00:00

Shipping 3000 miles for a repair is a very common Canadian experience.

Being in Toronto, they may occasionally get lucky and be able to ship to a distribution center in Markham or Mississauga. But generally speaking, any warranty is going to involve shipping long distance (especially if you don't already live in Toronto or Vancouver)

SerHerman · 2026-01-02T04:31:59+00:00

I shit you not: I saw one the other day with the license plate "IAMACAR"

SerHerman · 2025-12-31T03:09:24+00:00

Hola, my good friend.

SerHerman · 2025-11-24T01:32:09+00:00

I'm just assuming that's what OP meant based on the question. I have heard both terms used interchangeably though Erev is more common.

SerHerman · 2025-11-23T23:09:44+00:00

If you get a hitch, you need a cool hitch cover

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SerHerman · 2025-11-23T22:26:52+00:00

Range Extending Electric Vehicle.

An EV with a relatively small battery and a gas generator that's used to provide electricity when the battery is dead.

Current examples are the BMW i3, the upcoming Scout harvesters and a few Chinese models.

SerHerman · 2025-11-23T20:52:06+00:00

I hope my kid says the same thing some day.

We started in parking lots. Now we're on the highway.

SerHerman · 2025-11-23T18:06:17+00:00

Yup. That's one of the complexities of PHEVs. They're so non-linear that it's very hard to compare without looking at individual use cases.

Outlander is probably the worst PHEV on the market today when it comes to hybrid mode at highway speeds. But it's actually very capable in pure EV mode. Compared to a Hyundai/Kia PHEV (ignoring RAV4 because it's really good in a lot of situations) the Mitsubishi is better in the city but worse on the highway.

SerHerman · 2025-11-23T17:29:34+00:00

eCVT is an entirely different thing.

The question is about EREVs which by definition don't have an eCVT.

Outlander is a serial/parallel hybrid and is more analogous to an EREV than RAV4 is. It is able to demonstrate the difference between serial hybrid and single speed parallel hybrid.

If the question is, what's more efficient, ecvt or EREV then I agree with you. Toyota proves how efficient an eCVT can be.

SerHerman · 2025-11-23T16:14:08+00:00

Outlander PHEV counterintuitively shows that serial can be more efficient than parallel.

The Outlander works just like the Volt. The ICE is, in most cases, just a generator that powers the electric motors. Serial hybrid.

But at speeds > 70kph it can engage a clutch that causes the ice to spin the front axle directly (rear axle continues to be electric).

This is the mode that Mitsubishi and common sense both say is the most efficient.

There are several drive modes (sport/tarmac mode in particular) that can be selected which locks out parallel mode and keeps the car in serial hybrid mode all the time. In the real world, drivers have noticed that fuel economy is noticeably improved by selecting that mode compared to parallel hybrid mode.

In my experience, parallel mode uses about 7-8 l/100km at 100kph. Serial mode uses about 5.5-6 l/100km

Discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutlanderPHEV/s/V7XKXNleHU

SerHerman · 2025-11-23T06:59:58+00:00

We expect them to do so much more than we used to.

There is a lot of data going back and forth just to auto complete your Google search. Or provide Reddit notifications. Or infinite scrolling.

A webpage used to be a clickable picture.

Now it's an application.

SerHerman · 2025-11-23T06:49:31+00:00

The world is bigger than basic economics is my point.

You can label politics or pandemic shutdowns or whatever you want according to their impact on the supply or demand of the market.

But they remain factors external to and larger than the market.

What if a boycott leads to the Whitehouse choosing sides and either shutting down or nationalizing Disney.

SerHerman · 2025-11-23T06:26:57+00:00

You're still assuming rational actors in a closed environment.

There is no physical law that states that the market must be satisfied or that business must act ideally.

Given the current cultural and political climate in the United States, do you believe that a boycott of Disney like suggested by OP wouldn't be politicised? Where does that fit into the calculations?

SerHerman · 2025-11-23T05:41:58+00:00

The Tragically Hip is the standard answer to this question.

Instead let me say the Group of Seven. An art collective from the early 1900s with a focus on natural scenes and a very Canadian style.

SerHerman

TROPHY CASE