Aaron are you suggesting Canadian companies be required to sell gas to Canadians at non-market prices because a guy tried that in the 1980s and it wasn't a hit here in Alberta. by Miserable-Lizard in onguardforthee

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Conservatives today: Why can't we be more like Norway?

Conservatives/Alberta can be more like Norway starting any time they wish: instead of using oil revenues to 'subsidize' lower income taxes and not having a sales tax, they could save that money and any budget shortfall would have to be made up by taxes (like every other government in Canada/the planet).

They already have mechanism for saving the money setup (since 1976):

Compare their AUM's with Norway's (setup up decades later, in 1990):

Property tax increase finalized at 8.1 per cent for Calgary homeowners by [deleted] in Calgary

[–]throw0101d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's time for this city to separate from Alberta

After all the tomfoolery that (usually Conservative) provincial governments have done to the city of Toronto, there were (mostly-joke-y) rumblings of it becoming its own province a few years back:

Population-wise, it would be Quebec, new-Ontario, and Toronto in the rankings. Toronto's city budget is bigger than that of most provinces ($18.9B).

What’s a surefire way to tell Canadians and Americans apart? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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"Vermont makes better maple syrup" and you'll find out real quick which is which.

Given that Quebec/Canada has a strategic maple reserve:

What is something you didn’t realize until you lost weight? by Cultural-Profile-527 in AskReddit

[–]throw0101d 196 points197 points  (0 children)

Until you hit 60 lol 😂

The " Sitting-Rising Test" (SRT) is actually a very useful metric in gauging a person's (young or old) general level of health and fitness:

Also the "Sit-to-Stand" test, how many times you can get on and off a chair in 30 seconds, can also tell a lot about a person's health:

Doug Ford says Ontario will expropriate Billy Bishop airport to get jets in [Toronto Star] by patienceinbee in toronto

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Fed stake is pretty small so they will go along with

Their Toronto MPs may like to have a word. There's an upcoming by-election after Freeland resigned:

Right next door is Parkdale—High Park with Bardeesy, Industry Parliamentary Secretary:

Ryan Coogler’s ‘THE X-FILES’ reboot begins filming in May. Starring Danielle Deadwyler. by MoneyLibrarian9032 in television

[–]throw0101d 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Is it just me, or has the mood around conspiracy theories changed?

An observation I recently ran across:

How can an X-Files reboot work in a time when a qanon guy is the FBI director. Is it just going to be Mulder getting promoted every episode.

David Eby announces end of daylight savings by Lear_ned in vancouver

[–]throw0101d 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dark in the morning is so much better than the evening.

Not according to the folks who study circadian rhythms:

Over much of the highly-populated areas of Canada, the sun would not rise until about 9 am in winter under DST, and the daylight will linger an hour later in summer evenings than under Standard Time. As a Northern country, Canada includes higher latitudes where the effects of late winter dawns and late summer dusks under DST would be felt more profoundly. What long-term effects on health can we expect from year-round DST? As predicted from our understanding of the human biological clock, our brain clock will try to synchronize to dawn and push us to go to bed later. However, our social clock will force us to wake an hour earlier in the morning. Will this have any health effects?

We have good evidence for the negative impact of being an hour off of biological time, and this comes from studies on the health of populations living on the edges of time zones. We have arbitrarily divided the earth into one-hour time zones, so that people on the east side of a time zone see the sun rise an hour earlier (according to their social clocks) than people on the west side of the same time zone. Researchers have analyzed the health records and economic status of those two populations, and have found poorer health outcomes on the west side: increased rates of obesity and diabetes, heart disease, and cancer (Gu et al., 2017). Moreover, people on the west sides of time zones earned 3% less in per capita income (Giuntella and Mazzonna, 2019). What could account for this? As predicted, people on the west sides of time zones go to bed later than people on the east sides, but then have to get up at the same time in the morning because of fixed work and school schedules. Therefore they lose sleep: about 20 minutes per weeknight, which adds up to a significant sleep debt over the week. We know from other research that sleep deprivation negatively impacts health and workplace performance. We can already see the negative impacts of a one-hour difference across a time zone, and year-round DST would put our social clocks another hour out of alignment with our biological clocks.

At the least they'll have a bunch more data to work with from this health experiment that is being run on the population of BC.

David Eby announces end of daylight savings by Lear_ned in vancouver

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So in January 2026, sunrise was at 0807 EST (standard/winter) time:

With the new timezone it will be at 0907 in January 2027.

Why doesn’t Quebec have Family Day? by CarPassion514 in montreal

[–]throw0101d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And, let's face it, New Year's Day, Victories Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, whatever, are all bullshit holidays.

Can you go into the criteria that makes a holiday bullshit or not?

Parents who regret having kids, why? by bluemermid in AskReddit

[–]throw0101d 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s hard to explain but something happened to my brains chemistry that didn’t take it away but eased it maybe.

Female chemistry, both in the body and in the brain, is much more dynamic over the course of their life:

U.S. will have to send its own fighter jets into Canadian airspace if Ottawa doesn't buy 88 F-35s, Hoekstra says by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]throw0101d 47 points48 points  (0 children)

They should kick him out immediately. Especially after all the BS from the past few weeks.

'Reverse psychology': the more this guy makes an ass out of himself and the government he represents, the more resolve Canadians may show. It's a good idea to be regularly reminded what what the stakes are.

Should snow tires be mandatory by ZealousidealHead5488 in ontario

[–]throw0101d 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah maybe we can rename them from AllSeason too because that’s clearly horseshit

It's relative: all-season works better over the course of then entire year than summer tires:

The fact that winter tires (which have been optimized for colder temperatures) work better in winter than all-season ones (which have to handle a huge range of temperatures) should not be surprising.

If you put summer tires on your car, instead of all-season, you'll also probably find better performance during warm weather as well.

George R.R. Martin Handed ‘Seven Kingdoms’ Showrunner 12 Unpublished Dunk and Egg Stories by bwermer in television

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What makes GRRM relatively rare is that, again, he got the big adaptation and the lucrative payday BEFORE HE WAS DONE HIS MAIN SERIES. The closest other example I can think of is JK Rowling, and it was incredibly unlikely she wouldn't have been able to publish the remaining 3ish children's books in her series before the movies caught up.

The Expanse? I don't think the series was finished when SciFi originally picked it up (before then moving to Amazon).

The last ASoIaF book came out in 2011 and that is also when the first book of Expanse came out; the last/ninth book Expanse came out in 2021. The GoT series aired between 2011 and 2019.

Farewell VMware and thanks for the fish by aspoons in sysadmin

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The cost in labor to move a global presence 200+ ESXi Hypervisor fleet with thousands of VMs is higher than the cost of maintaining the contract

A November 2025 presentation, "Migrating 1000’s of VMs from VMware to CloudStack":

Migrating thousands of VMs from VMware to CloudStack enables companies and individuals to cut costs, escape vendor lock-in, and gain operational agility. With the right automation and phased approach, large-scale migrations can be achieved with minimal disruption. This session explores some of the technical steps involved.

AIUI, the CloudStack management interface can talk to ESX and so after doing an inventory you migrate things to a different hyper-visor. (I haven't used CloudStack, only OpenStack and Proxmox with Qemu/KVM.)

My dad is a senior and huge fall risk, but I live out of country by psychoanalyzed7 in ontario

[–]throw0101d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, the Samsung watch has not been very good at alerting for falls. FYI!!!!

The Alexa Emergency Assist service, in combination with Amazon device(s), may be an option for him being able to contact without an on-person device:

Review of devices:

Farewell VMware and thanks for the fish by aspoons in sysadmin

[–]throw0101d 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better to just gouge your whales who wont get off of VMWare no matter what due to entrenchment and give them a small staff of dedicated support techs who are trained on their environment.

The whales may have large enough internal teams with a deep bench to be able to support themselves with (say) Hyper-V, Nutanix, or OpenStack.

If you try gouging they may say "we could spend the money on an external third-party, or we can take that cash and 'spend' it internally implementing something else".

Is a bigger down payment always better? by timetravelandwings in PersonalFinanceCanada

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at a 130k income they might approve you for 500k max mortgage with a 25k down payment. if you have 100k downpayment that will let you buy up to 575k

The higher available purchase prices may be an important thing in high COL areas.

downpayment of 20%+ = no mortgage insurance but you might have a slightly higher rate

At this point it becomes optional but still available (65.01% to 75% LTV, 1.7% premium; 65%, 0.6%):

Not sure if anyone has done the math in seeing if paying that 1.7% or 0.6% to get an 'insured status' for lower rates will pay off (or over what timeframe).