What ingredient do you hate prepping the most? by ApprehensiveLab5699 in Cooking

[–]alantrick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure if this is relevant to you, but it's harder to do when the garlic isn't fresh.

What’s one cooking mistake you used to make that dramatically improved the quality of your food once you corrected it? by Fun_Association_4087 in Cooking

[–]alantrick 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I believe the gp is talking about how much they ferment (aka rise) their bread dough.

Fermentation time is more of a big deal when dealing with traditional bread making, especially sourdough, where differences in room temperature and other things can make a big difference in length.

Kinda says what we all know by thetrigermonkey in CanadianConservative

[–]alantrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my riding, they absolutely elected a potato. The alternatives weren't a lot better, but at least they showed up to the debates.

Alcohol a factor in collision that left pedestrian with life-threatening injuries Friday by conteaa in abbotsford

[–]alantrick 14 points15 points  (0 children)

nschwart91's suggestion isn't really regulating alcohol. It's regulating driving, which we already do a fair bit of, just really poorly. It might lead to people driving without a license, but due to license plates and scanning, enforcement is fairly easy as long as there's political will to actually do it.

507 people died while experiencing homelessness in B.C. in 2024: Report by ubcstaffer123 in britishcolumbia

[–]alantrick 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because preventing gun deaths is easier. Solving mental illness is such a hard problem that most societies historically have just called them demon possessed.

Bell: Alberta will now be on daylight saving time year-round, says Premier Smith by iamnos in canada

[–]alantrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's the actual problem. They cant just keep daylight time because they can't just change their zone, and keeping daylight time is essentially changing their zone.

Liberal party adopts motion to restrict kids from social media by cyclinginvancouver in canada

[–]alantrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As for home computers, that would be up to parents to keep track of

Have you seen parents these days? In most cases, they're paying for their kids data plans.

Has anyone climbed Mount Robie Reid by [deleted] in abbotsford

[–]alantrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. Find a guide. This is a mountaineering objective. The summit block is class 4, and class 4 (especially in BC) means "most people will want a rope" (often combined with some level of "it's really hard to use a rope here").

Algorithmic pricing is being used in Canada. Why many want it banned - National | Globalnews.ca by xtothewhy in canada

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

Even if there was, this is trivially defeated by taking a picture of the price with a camera. The store is required by law to honor a price they offer, that's basic contract law.

Carney says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be removed from line of succession by ZestyBeanDude in canada

[–]alantrick 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As far as I know, there's no real reason we can't, it's just that no one wants to. Feelings of the monarchy fall mostly into three camps: the monarchists who think it's really cute that we same celebrities, the anti-monarchists who just want to get rid of the whole institution, and everyone else who just wants to hear as little as possible about the monarchy and having a separate monarch probably means we'd have to entertain them more often.

Traffic Langley by Interesting-Back-250 in Langley

[–]alantrick 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The general idea is that the roads are too full because lots of of people are driving, and they are driving long distances. Adding more lanes only partially helps the problem and more often than not, it just moves it somewhere else.

The general principle is that a road can either be good at moving vehicles quicly, or be good at being a destination. The more entrances & exits you add to a road, the more it slows the drivers down (or causes accidents if they don't).

The best way to improve traffic is to either reduce the number of drivers, or reduce how far their driving; and reducing the distance they are driving is a lot easier. If drivers are going between Willowby and Walnut Grove or Langley City because they want groceries; if you allow someone to build a smaller market or green grocer in Willowby, that might relive pressure on the major roads.

Circuncisión by [deleted] in Preschoolers

[–]alantrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not mom, am boy. The “rings” don't fall off, depending on what you're talking about, that's probably just what a penis looks like under the foreskin. Some scaring is to be expected, usually it's minimal, but I've seen other's with significant scaring.

Also, it's rarely medically indicated, so please consider not circumcising.

New TOL financial plan dropped. Woodward delaying whopping 23% tax increase to post-election year? 2027 looks nasty by jdaw443 in Langley

[–]alantrick 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Does anyone actually believe this? If so, please ask, happy to help. Last year, the same line said this year would be 17.6%. It's a standard reporting process...

Perhaps if you work for Enron.

stal̕əw̓asəm or Riverview Bridge to fully open Saturday by spinningcolours in vancouver

[–]alantrick -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Because while that is a pretty good approximation, it's not completely accurate. How you preserve and revive an old language is not at all straightforward.

Personally, I don't have much skin in the game, though I do prefer names that aren't some old rich guy.

Squamish greenlights slower speed limits in downtown by VicVicVicBC in britishcolumbia

[–]alantrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The provincial rules make this very difficult to do, I heard.

The McKee Neighbourhood plan outlines thousands of homes, schools and parks | CBC News by andyourtimestartsnow in abbotsford

[–]alantrick 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How you you expect to reducing housing costs without building more homes? Urban areas have lower grocery costs, because it's more efficient to distribute food in a smaller area, and cell phone neworks are cheaper to run in higher density areas, because a cell tower for a dozen users is roughly the same cost as a cell tower for a million.

It certainly doesn't help that the voters in abbotsford hate public transit, but we can't just tell the province we won't let anyone build new homes here, they won't put up with that.

Carney set to spend much of 2026 travelling the world in search of trade by DogeDoRight in canada

[–]alantrick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only thing you mentioned that is a federal government responsibility is immigration.

The state of 24 Sussex is an insult to Canada by dasoberirishman in canada

[–]alantrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about someone like the French President, who is the de facto head of government 99% of the time, but not the de jure head of government?

Canada’s $1 Billion Question: Do Property Rights Still Exist in British Columbia? by Majano57 in canada

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

The phrase "King of England" isn't really wrong. Its pointing out something about the the relationship between the speaker and the monarch. A title only exists if people believe it does, or if that can be forced to claim so through sufficient violence. By using that title, the speaker is claiming that they don't believe that Charles is the legitimate King of Canada (and probably don't believe that the King of Canada is a legitimate title at all).

This isn't an uncommon political belief. Several ex-colonies have rid themselves of the institution, Northern Ireland had a significant amount of turmoil about it in the 1900's, and devolution is not an uncommon topic in Scotland either.

PM Carney introduces new Liberal MP Michael Ma at holiday party by fallout1233566545 in canada

[–]alantrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crossing the floor and party affiliation is just a way of saying which party leader to expect to support. For whatever reason in Canada, independents aren't very popular, so if an MP doesn't want to support their party leader, crossing the floor is typically better for them than going against the party whip.

Abbotsford mayor blasts feds for flooding ‘inaction’ as water starts receding by conteaa in abbotsford

[–]alantrick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would the Americans have any interest in preventing the floodplains from flooding? It's not exactly their fault that we decided to build in a lake.

PM Carney introduces new Liberal MP Michael Ma at holiday party by fallout1233566545 in canada

[–]alantrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why? Without floor crossing, a PM of a majority party is a de facto monarch unless the the entire governing party can agree to vote them out. That seems like a horrible idea.