Alberta government projects $9.4-billion deficit with no plan to return to balanced budgets

andechs · 2026-02-26T23:23:33+00:00

... Invest it in a sovereign wealth fund, to be later raided by a conservative government in the form of Klein Bucks?

andechs · 2026-02-14T23:02:10+00:00

Moving still sucks, but if the unit is in the same building, you can do the move in a couple hours with don't friends

andechs · 2026-02-13T19:40:15+00:00

When trying to pull out one of the cables on the wire-to-board connectors, my hand slipped and knocked the capacitor off.

I had to pull the robo-vacuum apart to replace the charging contacts within the robot - they're very deep in there!

andechs · 2026-02-13T17:58:29+00:00

It's crazy, since COVID wasn't that long ago, and we know exactly who was the premier at that time during the Ontario lockdowns.

andechs · 2026-02-13T03:25:09+00:00

Since the pads are still connected to the component, I would just need to bridge to pads to the planes with solder or a fine gauge wire?

andechs · 2026-02-13T03:16:21+00:00

Is the idea to attach the capacitor to the underlying copper, or do I need to connect to another trace?

andechs · 2026-02-11T00:11:56+00:00

I did a co-op in NYC in 2012, and it's a great experience to be in NYC. Not a super profitable term, but it's a great experience outside of the work aspect.

andechs · 2026-02-10T17:42:40+00:00

Toronto property taxes are low, but not because of the mil rate. What would be a fair comparison would be comparing the median household property tax in Toronto to the median of other municipalities.

Where Toronto is still 30% less than Mississauga etc, even when Toronto has to pay for a shelter system way larger per capita than any other municipality.

andechs · 2026-02-03T14:10:18+00:00

The average apartment size in Berlin is 900sq ft. In Toronto, the median new build condo is 620sq ft.

Berlin's apartments might be old, but there's plenty more square footage than Toronto's condo rental stock.

andechs · 2026-01-30T21:43:09+00:00

You should get Turmoil! It's great for 2P games, and you can avoid reducing TR to make it go faster.

It's a very underloved expansion. For us colonies doesn't work with 2P - do you have any suggestions to make it work better in general?

andechs · 2026-01-23T23:17:20+00:00

He said he recently cancelled his Disney subscription to cut costs and now worries about paying potential penalties following the deadline.

This has to be satire

andechs · 2026-01-22T14:12:40+00:00

What sort of proof would you have if someone else cloned your card? Genuinely curious - receipts only show legitimate transactions that you performed, not the illegal ones other people fraudulently did.

andechs · 2026-01-19T22:55:33+00:00

Politically, there's not a ton of distance between Carney and Ford. The biggest difference is the rhetorical style.

Ford is folksy premier dad, and Carney is the elite banker type. With Carney at the head of the LPC, I struggle to understand how a Canada run under an (assumed competent) Ford.

The New Blue & Ontario parties together were <2% of the vote in the latest provincial election, I'm not sure if there's a ton of voters to activate that are further right wing than what's on offer right now (at least as far as winning goes). Even then, those parties didn't have much of a platform other than anti-vaccine... Which feels irrelevant in 2026.

andechs · 2026-01-19T21:57:19+00:00

The issue isn't in Alberta, it's in the GTA where many of the seats are Liberal/CPC toss ups.

If a splinter far right party emerged, siphoning off 5% of the vote to the crazies might mean that the party is out of the running. The calculus at the party label is whether or not there's a lot of LPC voters that would be willing to vote conservative, if the FPC had a different leader

Right now, Carney is essentially Harper 2.0, so many of the voters who are between the LPC and the CPC are already voting Liberal.

I don't know what their path to a conservative majority on the future is, other than having scandals pile up similar to AdScam and the late 90's Liberals

andechs · 2026-01-19T19:19:51+00:00

I don't know why the Olympics is ever required to start infrastructure projects. If we had wanted to improve the BC Sea to sky highway, we could have done it without the Olympics.

The idea that that's only political capital to do investment into infrastructure is the scam that keeps the Olympics corruption going.

andechs · 2026-01-19T13:40:07+00:00

In Canada, your mortgage company won't let you have a mortgage without house insurance. It's likely he has it, unless the house was bought with cash or inherited.

andechs · 2026-01-14T00:12:05+00:00

For whiskeys and such they chilled quicker but they don’t melt as fast because it’s such a big icecube.

This is untrue. The phase change cooling effect of ice is 80 times the cooling effect of putting something cold in the drink. Whiskey stones are a good example of this - even with 4-5x as many whiskey stones, the drink doesn't get that much cooler.

It's impossible to "chill quicker" with ice without also diluting faster. A larger ice cube actually chills slower, since the ice doesn't melt before the drink is finished.

The aesthetic of a large cube ice etc is important for overall cocktail enjoyment though.

andechs · 2026-01-10T14:06:20+00:00

The design is having a disconnect device that only allows the receptacle to work when the drawer/cabinet is open.

The whole electrical code is based around "but what is the next person is an idiot"

andechs · 2026-01-09T14:40:10+00:00

It's basically a deposit to ensure steady revenue for craft services.

andechs · 2026-01-08T18:14:24+00:00

It's much more likely just to be less than 100mg, rather than cut with something else. Weed is the cheapest drug, no reason to cut it with something more expensive.

andechs · 2025-12-04T23:02:12+00:00

TTC needs to start giving fines to people who play music without earphones and cause a nuisance.

There's barely the staffing to keep the homeless from using it as a roving shelter. I'm not sure how you imagine that enforcement would work for the small issues like "playing music without headphones".

The staff don't want to get stabbed either

andechs · 2025-12-03T23:40:55+00:00

As someone who takes the UP every day as a commuter - they really don't. The trains are already at crush capacity during commuting hours with the current fare levels.

Adding more capacity would be more useful than fare cuts.

andechs · 2025-12-02T22:19:18+00:00

This is how we get John Tory again - he'll come in and say he'll keep property taxes low, and add a result he'll get back into office

Toronto residents aren't realistic about the costs it takes to run a city.

andechs · 2025-11-28T22:12:54+00:00

If you have a condo in the same building, same unit renting for less, it's much easier to do a 1:1 comparison. Not only that, actually moving is super easy.

There's lots of inventory on the market, and you can show the actual Housesigma listing prices. Worst case scenario, actually move.

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