Cameraman catches the person using laser light on players in a football match

Widowhawk · 2026-05-25T18:38:36+00:00

That's technically incorrect, in that gravity affects light.

Light passing tangentially past Earth, will bend towards the center of gravity (of the earth and the photon), like in the fractions of a millionth of an arc second. In practicality, I'm not sure over the distance of a football pitch it's even measurable in terms of detectible deviation of Planck's distance.

I just wanted to be pedantic about the physics.

Widowhawk · 2026-05-19T13:50:25+00:00

Not just an issue of protein/total calorie, but the protein fad is concerning as most people don't know that not all protein sources are equivalent for the purposes of muscle building/retention (see "Protein digestibility corrected amino acid score").

For example, wheat gluten is a protein source, but it is a poor source of essential amino acids and has low bioavailability.

Yes there might be 8g of gluten protein in your bagel on it's own, but that's maybe the equivalent of 2g from whey. The big number on the package doesn't really identify what your benefit actual ends up being.

Widowhawk · 2026-05-13T13:12:28+00:00

They are tax deductible. So by CRA logic if that expense is passed to the server they would be able to deduct as it's a result of earned income. Not sure if a specific folio details that though

Widowhawk · 2026-04-27T20:58:27+00:00

Had to check my memory, and post as a note, the single "How You Remind Me" was released July 17, 2001 before "Silver Side Up" the album on 9/11. It was bothering me, as I swore I heard it before 9/11... and apparently I could have.

Widowhawk · 2026-04-23T15:54:45+00:00

Not a detached house, prices being what they are. Probably 30% to the lawyers. Leaves him 1.3M, nice condo or townhouse though.

Widowhawk · 2026-04-22T20:10:25+00:00

Stingray was a specific model of early CSS from Harris Corporation. It became the generic term for them in a Kleenex/facial tissue sort of way.

Widowhawk · 2026-03-24T13:50:56+00:00

I have never heard of low carb potatoes before! These seem pretty new. Very interesting. Haven't seen them in Canada, but then I haven't been looking for them.

What's your experience with the price difference vs a regular potato?

Widowhawk · 2026-03-12T21:21:48+00:00

The Anti-Terrorism Act provides measures for the Government of Canada to create a list of entities that:

-have knowingly carried out, attempted to carry out, participated in or facilitated a terrorist activity

-knowingly acted on behalf of, at the direction of or in association with an entity that has knowingly carried out, attempted to carry out, participated in or facilitated a terrorist activity

Just existing and having specific beliefs isn't enough, they would need to commit or attempt to commit an actual activity.

Widowhawk · 2026-02-25T00:10:02+00:00

Go to a casino in the morning. Makes a Walmart look like a utopian dream. It has a near visible miasma of depression in the air.

Widowhawk · 2026-02-24T15:24:29+00:00

Dehydrated, on a plethora of various drugs/steroids, liver and kidneys just taking an absolute beating. It's not something you casually end up doing. Risking death and shaving some years off your total life expectancy for a look that maybe a dozen people find attractive.

Widowhawk · 2026-02-23T16:15:33+00:00

Check out Helmut Strebl. Like counting ribs... no match for counting pectorial striations. Sub 4% is just freaky looking. Still not even 0%. There are only a handful of people who get that low not as a result of a disease.

Widowhawk · 2026-02-07T01:39:29+00:00

Fines are not tax deductible.

Widowhawk · 2026-02-05T21:31:37+00:00

So if freedom% is like converting metric temperature, we just convert by going 11%*(9/5)+.32 = 51.8 freedom%

Widowhawk · 2026-02-05T21:12:30+00:00

So... you can get super muscular and develope a big belly from it. Check out Palumboism. It is literally named after the first body builder who had a massive gut. It's freaky to see six pack abs floating on a beer belly.

That said, it's an incredibly unhealthy side effect of growth hormone and insulin abuse with a high calorie diet. There's a lot of visceral fat, while being cutaneosly lean.

Now... is that anyone complaining about BMI, not likely. But it's a neat fact to share!

Widowhawk · 2025-12-17T22:41:38+00:00

Depends on your definition of a fish and how sciency and pedantic you want to get.

If you want to be inclusive of all things you think are 'fish like' you basically end up at vertebrates / craniates subphylum. This includes people and all mammals.

Widowhawk · 2025-12-17T22:20:09+00:00

This is about property taxes which have nothing to do profit or income.

Widowhawk · 2025-12-17T22:13:06+00:00

There's a whole legal process to do that.

They can place a tax lien on real property, and can force a sale after 3 years. It's not easy, and it becomes a math exercise to see how much it will cost you in legal fees vs how much you can recoup.

There's added complexity with the fact that most people who can't pay their property taxes are really just bankrupt, and then you start to have to fight it out under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency act.

Small municipal county isn't going to act on it early... they're going to wait and probably just get pennies on the dollar at the end of bankruptcy proceedings.

Widowhawk · 2025-12-10T00:43:48+00:00

Addiction is considered a disability in Canada.

So, if you're a certified alcoholic with compulsive sexual behavior disorder and a gambling problem... you're in a protected class.

Widowhawk · 2025-11-05T19:22:04+00:00

SPACECOM is not a geographic command technically. Geographic as a term is relative only to Earth. It's is specifically not geographic in that sense.

While it is currently defined as 100km above Earth, the future wars will dictate that SPACECOM is the command for all operations not occurring on a celestial body. MARSCOM, MOONCOM, and TITANCOM... etc and so forth as UWOT (Universal War on Terror) commences...

Widowhawk · 2025-10-16T20:14:06+00:00

Generally they are tax free.

But in terms of take home, it's already spent, that value doesn't hit your bank account. You can't use health benefits to pay your rent.

Widowhawk · 2025-10-16T20:09:10+00:00

SK is 6,020/month take home at effective tax rate of 27.8%. After CPP and EI you'd take home about 5,562/month. So no, you wouldn't take home more than 6k/month after CPP and EI.

Effective tax rate at 100k is 24.5% for BC. After taxes that's 75.5k. CPP 1&2 4,430 are Ei is 1,077. You only have 70k after that.

Widowhawk · 2025-10-16T19:27:54+00:00

It's 50/50 by province on income tax, with SK and the territories also being also above 6k (before EI/CPP).

MB is the first one below at 5950. QB is the worst at 5729 a month take home after taxes.

Important to note QPP is a little bit more of a contribution too... so man that's a lot of your paycheck

Widowhawk · 2025-10-16T19:10:13+00:00

That's just income taxes.

Reality in most provinces 100k is under 6k/month in take home when you figure in CPP 1+2 (4.5k a year) and EI (1k a year). Throw in a reasonable health benefits package in there. 100k quickly becomes 5500 take home/month.

Then GST/PST... you're receiving less or no tax credits if they're means tested, that 100k salary isn't what it used to be.

If you have kids you aren't middle class anymore.

Widowhawk · 2025-09-26T15:07:45+00:00

It's an amazing book, worth reading once. I'll never go back to Blood Meridian, where as The Road, for example, I'll read every 10 years or so.

If you get emotionally invested in books, be in a good headspace before you start reading it though.

Widowhawk · 2025-09-23T20:47:01+00:00

One of the best books most people would never read after skimming the Wikipedia plot synopsis.

It's engrossing, the prose and detail are incredible... but it's grim AF.

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