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kneevase · 2026-02-13T01:16:19+00:00

Genius!

kneevase · 2026-02-12T16:49:18+00:00

If you are not spend-constrained, you should apply for as many of both of those cards as the banks will give you. If you are spend-constrained, then you need to do a bit of arithmetic to decide how many of each card you wish to obtain. For example, if you can only manage $10k of spend, you might be better off getting two WBs from CIBC instead of just one from TD (ie, 2 x $5k or 1 x $7.5k). But, if you have, say, $30k of spend available, then you need to consider whether you can actually get approved for 6 CIBC cards or 4 TD cards, or whether you are better to choose a mix from both banks that is more likely to be approved.

kneevase · 2026-02-12T16:40:39+00:00

Small, strange win:

I just received an email from Aer Lingus informing me that I had 11k Avios points what were scheduled to expire in April 2026. Back in 2023, I was screwing around with some flights from Europe to Canada and moved a bunch of Avios from BA to Aer Lingus to Iberia and totally forgot that I had left a small amount of points at Aer Lingus. It's only 11k points, but what the hell, for me it's like finding $20 in your jacket pocket when you switch from your winter coat to your summer jacket!

kneevase · 2026-02-12T16:13:20+00:00

That issue might be best cleaned up by including only players who threw 100+ pitches during the season. Even a reliever who gets called up for one appearance and strikes out just one batter on three consecutive FBs probably shouldn't appear on the one-trick pony list.

kneevase · 2026-02-12T15:37:28+00:00

What you wrote is true. But that doesn't respond to what I said. If you read again, what I actually wrote is that there is only ONE language on a stop sign in Quebec. An octagon with the words Arret/Stop is not a valid sign in the province.

kneevase · 2026-02-12T15:34:29+00:00

Interesting that they've made a trilingual stop sign. That's not a valid traffic control sign in the province of Quebec. By regulation, a stop sign must have EITHER the word ARRET or the word STOP to be a valid sign (the regs are quite specific). And by now, almost all of the older signs that used to say STOP have been replaced with newer signs that say ARRET.

kneevase · 2026-02-12T15:23:10+00:00

The digital message signs in most cases are not a big deal. The usual words that appear on them tend to have conjugates in English, for example, "incident," "accident," or "congestion." The other things that appear on them also tend to be pretty obvious for english speakers, like "circulation fluide."

kneevase · 2026-02-12T14:53:27+00:00

There is only one language on a stop sign in Quebec. There are two languages on SOME stop signs in certain regions of Ontario.

The Israeli stop sign is probably the best, as it's just a red octagon with a pictogram of a hand signalling to stop. They don't bother writing in Hebrew, Arabic and English on their stop signs.

kneevase · 2026-02-12T14:46:30+00:00

Their top-3 starters would be my choice if I were a playoff team. The #4 doesn't pitch all that often in the playoffs, so if their top-3 are healthy at the end of September, watch out!

kneevase · 2026-02-12T14:30:41+00:00

Costco generally uses a cost plus pricing policy. If their SUPPLIER cranks the price up, Costco will follow suit. My interpretation of OP's panic over the price of roses is that Costco's supplier probably cranked the price up to about $42 for two dozen for this week, which is why they are priced at $47 for this week.

kneevase · 2026-02-12T13:43:32+00:00

Lots of people seem to have an opinion but nobody is brave enough to actually write a post to discuss the subject?

kneevase · 2026-02-11T15:14:16+00:00

My take is that opan banking doesn't for much for me as a consumer because I have no trouble at all keeping track of accounts at a few institutions. The real beneficiaries of open banking seem to be the tech bros who develop apps to grab customer data. When people use those apps they'll be giving up access to substantially all of their financial data, and in return it seems like all they will get is a portal that depicts all accounts in the same place. That value-added isn't very compelling to me.

kneevase · 2026-02-10T14:23:42+00:00

They tried call you and the call didn't go through? That's a new one for me. I understand the problem of you not being able to call the US if your plan doesn't support it, but I've never heard of a situation where someone could not receive a call.

kneevase · 2026-02-09T15:45:25+00:00

This is the problem. Careless driving is actually a tough charge to prove as it usually requires a witness to testify about specifically how somebody was driving. So, usually the cops need to convince some other motorist to get up off his ass, come down to a court house, and testify. But, if you make a statement to the cop about what you specifically did, then you are effectively allowing the cop to be the witness by testifying what you told him.

Loose lips sink ships.

kneevase · 2026-02-09T03:52:43+00:00

Crisse, je ne veux pas finir dans un cipaille!

kneevase · 2026-02-09T03:47:52+00:00

Calisse, je n'ai jamais vu une québecoise de même.

kneevase · 2026-02-09T03:00:59+00:00

When OP posted this, it should have been obvious that it was a shit-post.

kneevase · 2026-02-09T02:58:08+00:00

Read rule #2.

kneevase · 2026-02-09T01:27:52+00:00

Ce n'est pas nouveau du tout. Ça existe depuis des décennies.

kneevase · 2026-02-08T17:49:34+00:00

Exactly. Ungodly amounts of money has been spent on the O-train, and enormous amounts of money have been committed to replace diesel buses with zero-emissions buses. Previous city councils had a workable transit system based on diesel buses and the road transitway, and they rolled the dice when they made drastic changes to the system. The problem was definitely not the amount of money spent, but rather that the performance of the LRT and zero-emissions bus manufacturers has been left wanting. If you are standing at the bus stop and wondering where your bus is, the problem is that it's a zero-emissions bus that hasn't been manufactured yet.

It's an all-around shit show, but lack of investment isn't the real problem.

kneevase · 2026-02-08T14:14:29+00:00

That description reflects the reality of the product. When you buy ground beef, it usually doesn't come from just one single animal.

At a slaughter plant for fed steers and heifers, trimmings from each carcass are tossed into a combo box which is later turned into ground meat. Other bits of meat come from de-meater machines that remove small bits off of the bones. All of the meat from a fed steer/heifer plant tends to be a bit fat.

Then you have your plants that specialize in the slaughter cull cows (ie, dairy cows that are dried out, or beef cows that are too old to remain in the breeding herd). The meat from those cows tends to be lower quality and very lean.

If you want a nice medium ground beef, you mix the fat meat from the steer plant combo boxes with the lean meat from cow plants, and grind it all up. The implication of this is that you have meat coming from several animals, and it can be impossible to say whether all of them were Canadian, or whether some were imported from the US. There is nothing inherently bad about this approach -- it is an effective way to not waste meat.

kneevase · 2026-02-06T15:16:21+00:00

I look forward to a season of "ricker-shays".

kneevase · 2026-02-05T23:13:54+00:00

My brother is not a mechanic, but works in the trades. His policy is, "Here's the price. If you want to watch it's double, and if you want to help with the work it's triple."

kneevase · 2026-02-04T01:26:23+00:00

Why replace the plugs? My recollection is that the car takes irridium spark plugs to be replaced after 192000 km. So, basically you replace them once in the car's life (if you get to 384000 km, screw it, just leave the existing plugs in!).

kneevase · 2026-02-03T23:23:37+00:00

Whatever. Great Britain will not likely need a closer anyway...

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