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Ducking autocucumber!
Face. My new phone hasn't learned how to read my Swyping yet.
Pathetic fucking cowards. Big talk but no fucking balls. If you're not willing to repeat what you said to his face then you need to keep your Russian cock sucking hole closed in the first place.
Work Reform
‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours
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If employees start ignoring their boss’s calls, texts, and emails outside of work hours, an after-hours emergency might have to wait until the next business day, which O’Leary finds unacceptable.
Did this fucking fascist consider hiring more staff and going 24/7? How is it the problem of salaried workers that their boss is too fucking cheap to hire enough people to get the level of support that he wants?
Antiwork
‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours
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If employees start ignoring their boss’s calls, texts, and emails outside of work hours, an after-hours emergency might have to wait until the next business day, which O’Leary finds unacceptable.
Did this fucking fascist consider hiring more staff and going 24/7? How is it the problem of salaried workers that their boss is too fucking cheap to hire enough people to get the level of support that he wants?
Technology
Any recommendations for printers that don't require proprietary inks, subscriptions or special apps?
MapleEngineer
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We own two Epson EcoTank printers and love them.
It's interesting, isn't it, that canceling those hundreds of renewable energy projects when he was first elected was estimated to cost Ontario $230 million which is exactly the same amount that canceling the gas fired power plants cost us under Kathleen Wynne. I hope this is remembered as the Doug Ford Renewable Energy Scandal. He hasn't shifted his position because he now supports green energy. He has shifted his position because renewables are now FAR more affordable than fossil fuel or nuclear. It's purely economic. Cancelling those projects was an act of pure right wing virtue signalling. The $230 million is only the tip of the iceberg. What you have to ask yourself is this: 1. How much money would Ontario families have saved since 2018 if we had had cheaper, cleaner renewable energy on the grid? 2. How much more is it going to cost to build those projects in 2025 and 2026 than it would have to build them in 2018 and 2019? 3. How far has this put Ontario behind Europe and Asia where they are all in on renewable energy? The $230 million act of extremist right wing political theater is going to cost Ontario billions of dollars over the coming years and has put us a decade behind the rest of the world (other than the US, of course.)
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We are better off not having Facebook be mistaken for a source of news. There is no news on Facebook, only memes, propaganda, and misinformation.
MapleEngineer
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Have you read this article?
MapleEngineer
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Think about it, really, imagine this was coming from someone you respect enough to make you consider changing your mind; should protests that cause no bodily harm be a criminal offence? Should the people not have a way to truly disrupt the system if our existence is at stake? Is the convenience of the ignorant more important than our survival? I’d love to hear your honest answers to these questions.
In theory what you are saying is correct. Disruptive protest for popular causes are very effective. The problem is that these fanatics are driving a wedge between the solution they want and the people they really need on their side for their protests to be effective (the people in popular.) I'm prepared to bet that they didn't convince a single person trying to get around the loop at YUL to join them. How many people jumped out of their cars and asked for glue? Do you think they changed any oil executive's minds? Do you think that they convinced any bought and paid for by the oil industry politicians to change their vote? Do you think that the number of people they convinced to vote for change during the next election outweighs the number of people whos votes they galvanized against them? In order for us to achieve real change in climate policy they need to convince many millions of people to vote for change. I'm willing to bet you $1 that they have done more harm than good.
Please understand that I agree with their goals. I agree that we need to make dramatic changes and as I've said in other parts of this "discussion" (discussion in quotes because there is a lot of whinging, shaming, insulting, name calling, etc. being thrown at me that does not constutite a conversation.) I have made substantial changes myself and have helped hundreds of others make substantial changes. I have had a direct and personal impact on carbon reduction. I just don't agree with their methods. I think that they are doing far more harm to the cause than they are doing good.
MapleEngineer
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The UK is deporting innocent people to fucking Rwanda, lmao.
They were. The new government killed that plan on day 1.
“I acknowledge that at least some of your concerns are shared by many but since we don’t want to do anything about it because that would mean changing our western week-end-at-the-resort lifestyle, we’ll just put you in prison. Fuck you.”
“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.
“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”
I suspect that it's very clear to most people at this point that the actions of these fanatics and the whinging, feeble attempts at shaming, insults, name calling, and harassment by fanatics and their apologists online aren't actually intended to change anyone's minds. It's a fanatical circle jerk, as the judge suggested in the quoted ruling.
MapleEngineer
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Just as long as they are prepared to answer to the rest of a society who, don't agree with their methods. The three who the judge in the UK was writing about are spending 2, 2, and 3 years in prison for their protest which showed utter contempt for other citizens.
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You're upset because I pointed out that the comment about the word "sole" was wrong. Dude, you need to get over yourself.
MapleEngineer
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I didn't ask a question, I posted a snippet from a ruling from a similar case in the UK. I was set upon by apologists for the fanatics who showed utter contempt for the thousands of people trying to get to the airport by gluing themselves to the loop at YUL, refused to back down, and here we are. These people think that they can bully everyone into doing what they want them to do. They are wrong.
Here is my original comment for reference.
I didn't even say anything. I just posted the snippet.
MapleEngineer
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That's an interesting point but I disagree. They treated thousands other people with utter contempt. That is not the act of someone who is morally superior. It's absolutely disqualifying.
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“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.
YOU have appointed yourselves as the SOLE arbiters of...
YOU is collection. The collective have appointed themselves the sole arbiters of...
Do you understand now?
MapleEngineer
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you
/yo͞o,yə/
pronoun
used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing.
"are you listening?"
He was referring to them collectively. In English, "you" can refer to one person or a group of people.
MapleEngineer
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What did you think he got wrong?
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Sole.
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It's a self satisfying parade of their absolute moral superiority. It's a public circle jerk.
MapleEngineer
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Read it again. You are NOT morally superior. The three people he was writing about are now spending 2, 2, and 3 years in prison because they mistakenly believe that they are absolutely morally superior and that that absolute moral superiority justifies anything that they do to anyone they see as inferior. This is the same mistake that every extremist makes.
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From a recent ruling in the UK.
“I acknowledge that at least some of the concerns motivating you are, at least to some extent, shared by many,” he said.
“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.
“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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Sorry...granted...SOME Americans believe that hate speech and guns make them the freest country in the world.
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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Most likely. As a Citizen you have right of entry so you cannot be denied entry to the country if you can get to the border. The US never has to let you in.
Canada
China talks of mending fractured relations but says it won’t tolerate Canadian criticism of its human-rights record
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Totalitarian regime that ignores international law, norms of diplomatic behaviour, manages its neighbours, committed genocide against its minorities, and practices hostage diplomacy will tolerate no discussion of the fact that it ignores international law, norms of diplomatic behaviour, manages its neighbours, committed genocide against its minorities, and practices hostage diplomacy.
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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That was a lose interpretation.
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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This. So many Canadians don't understand Section 6. Freedom of movement means that you can cross interprovincial boundaries freely, live anywhere you want to live in Canada, and leave and return to Canada any time. It doesn't mean you can drive without license, registration, and insurance and it doesn't mean that the government can't require you to quarantine when you return.
The Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be a required, full semester course in highschool and a passing mark of 80% should be required to graduate.
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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Just to be clear, these are not Trudeau's laws. Canadian anti-hate speech laws have been on the books for decades.
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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That's exactly it. It's always hate speech that those who are braying about free speech are trying to protect.
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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The funny thing is that Americans think that guns and hate speech make them the freest country in the world.
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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Danielle Smith is working her way through those who have been charged for violating Covid restrictions.
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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The National Post newsroom has the slightest hint of residual journalistic integrity. Their Opinion Pieces are straight up right wing propaganda.
Canada
Joe Rogan says he won't visit Canada due to Justin Trudeau's 'ridiculous free speech laws'
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"Free speech" is a right wing dog whistle for hate speech.
nationalpost.com
"I can't be a racist sack of shit and spew hate speech in Canada so I'm not coming!" - a fetid sack of gangrenous anal sphincters.
Canada
Trumped Again?: 66% of Canadians say a second GOP presidential term would be ‘bad’ or ‘terrible’ for Canada
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They are supposed to oppose things that aren't in the best interest of Canadians, to stop government abuse they absolutely can support things that are in the best interest of Canadians.
angusreid.org
And yet they are braying for Trump Lite who is playing directly from the US christofascist playbook of grievance and identity politics while making impossible promises without ever telling us how he plans to deliver. But, he's"not Trudeau" amiright?
Danielle Smith, a white supremacist supported christofascist who has talked about putting progressive politicians, "in the cross hairs" can choke on a fucking horse dick.
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What are the rules for the handgun and pipe bomb?
MapleEngineer
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Not an expert but I did a quick Google search, read the actual rules, and called out your misinformation. Stop moaning and move on.
MapleEngineer
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Which is why the government is banning then.
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I'm not an expert but I can Google and I can read and it's important to be accurate when you're taking about firearms. Stop moaning and move on.
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You said, "wilderness types" which suggests that anyone who is in the wilderness can get an ATC. That is absolutely untrue. Your being in the wilderness must be a requirement of your job for you to even apply for an ATC.
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And yet mass murders and military and murder fetishists prefer military style weapons. Why is that? Why do those types choose guns based on how they look instead of how they work?
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82% of Canadians supported the changes to the firearms regulations. 66% currently want stronger gun control. I'm not, "gatekeeping" anything. I'm discussing the reasons for what's going on. Labeling anyone who says anything you don't like a, "gatekeeper" or a Fudd diminishes the value of anything you have to say.
Why don't you instead try to explain why you need the prohibited version of a firearm instead of the functionally identical non-restricted version?
Or try to explain why you don't want to use the exact same prohibited firearm if it's coated hot pink?
The gun lobby makes such a big deal about banning firearms based on their looks. Explain why looks are your criteria for selecting a firearm.
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It’s highly unlikely that most people will ever encounter any scenario like that. That’s true. But that doesn’t make it a bad idea to be prepared.
It is an EXTREMELY bad idea. The chances that you're going to kill someone you love goes up dramatically when you have a gun in your home. You're not making yourself and your family safer you're making it FAR more likely that they will be a victim of gun violence.
Do you grind up your hotdogs so that you won't choke on them? Do you wear a life jacket in the bathtub? Have you stripped your bed of bedsheets? Do you wear a bee suit when you go outside? It's highly unlikely that any of those things are going to happen to you, too.
This is a riduclous argument. Literally worthy of ridicule.
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If you think you need a gun for self-defense in Canada you shouldn't have a gun. You're more likely to choke to death on a hotdog, to drown in your own bathtub, to die from entanglement in your own bedsheets, from being stung by a bee, or by being trampled by a cow than you are to be killed with a gun by someone you don't know if you're not involved in the drug trade or organized crime. In fact, you're FAR more likely to be killed by or to kill someone you love if you have a gun than you are to be killed by a stranger.
globalnews.ca
Apparently Polievre's grievance politics don't play very well to an audience with actual grievances.
globalnews.ca
Remember that these are the guys who said that they were preparing to fight UN and/or Chinese troops who might invade Canada? Now their lawyer says that they were used for hunting? Was she taking about the pipe bomb or the handguns? I don't see a single trigger or cable lock in that photo. Was the ammunition stored in a separate locked container? These guys should never be allowed to own a firearm again based solely on the UN/China delusion. These types of violent collective fantasies are extremely dangerous and they absolutely should be disqualifying.
This is nothing to worry about. The only schools likely to choose as a result of this problem are ones where Doug Ford's wealthy family, friends, and donors own adjacent properties (like they do at the Ontario Science Center.) Billions and billions of dollars of graft but buck a beer and lower gas taxes.
This guy is seriously delusional. > Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first." > "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese." The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada? Seriously? > "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens." These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot. People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
This guy is seriously delusional. > Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first." > "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese." The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada? Seriously? > "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens." These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot. People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
This guy is seriously delusional. > Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first." > "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese." The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada? Seriously? > "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens." These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot. People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
This guy is seriously delusional. > Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first." > "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese." The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada? Seriously? > "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens." These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot. People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
This guy is seriously delusional. > Olienick rejects the allegation he would threaten officers, but qualifies it by saying, "unless you guys are shooting at us first." > "But it wouldn't be you guys," he adds. "It would be UN guys or Chinese." The UN and/or China are going to invade Canada? Seriously? > "I'm not going to be the first guy who's going to do it. I'm going to be the guy that's going to end it if it happens." These people watch way to fucking many US made one hero goes on a killing rampage and saves the day movies. Remember Ashli Babbitt? She and her angry mob were going to overthrow the US government and hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi right up until a bullet ripped through her chest and everyone else went, "Holy fuck, they're shooting white people! We're all going to fucking die!" and the insurrection ended with a single shot. People like this should never, ever, EVER be allowed to own guns. They aren't going to save the country from tyrants. They're going to start some shit because of a delusional collective fever dream and get themselves and likely innocent people killed.
pressprogress.ca
> Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good. Oh no. Not that. Please no. <Tee hee!>
This is the replacement controller I built for the wheelchair lift. The controller itself is in the middle. The four board on the left and right are a testing harness. The red and black wires are 24VDC and the green and white ones TX and GND for monitoring with a terminal program on my notebook (puTTY). Without the test harness it looks like this.  I was trying to squeeze a LOT into the BID box that I'm using for this project. I had to stack boards to get everything in.  The bottom most board is a standard bottom board for the BUD case. It has holes along each side for 2.54 screw terminals and pluggable screw terminals. I'm only using that board to mechanically connect the project to the BID case and for the screw terminals. I almost always use pluggable screw terminals because they're awesome. I can unplug four plugs instead of unscrewing 36 screw terminals and trying to keep the wires straight. There are two top boards. The one on the left carries four relays which turn the negative logic of the Darlingtons into positive logic for the lift. They send 24VDC out to the contactors that run the motors and the door lock. The other small board at the rear has two safety relays which switch power coming in through a bunch of safety switches out to the battery relay and the main contactor. This is what it looks like assembled into its BUD case.  This is all built around an Arduino Nano with a program that I wrote in Great Cow BASIC.
I'm working on replacing the Schneider SmartRelay on an Atlas Vista 613 wheelchair lift that I bought for my dad. The Atlas technician agrees that the SmartRelay is probably shot and the replacement is $1,000 wholesale. I built a replacement using an Arduino Nano, a UNL2803A Darlington array, a switching 7805, a bunch of Zener diodes, and a handfull of Schneider industrial relays. Unfortunately, I let the smoke out of my very last Nano and needed to keep the project moving. So...I took a small piece of protoboard, an Arduino ProMini 168, and some jumper wire and created this Frankenduino. It's the same pinout as the Nano with none of the nice supporting stuff like an ICP port, USB, voltage regulators, etc. It will keep the development moving while I'm waiting for the 10 Nanos I have on order to arrive.
I give you Frankenduino. It's an Arduino ProMini soldered onto a piece of protoboard and wired up to the Nano pinout. I have 10 Nanos on order but I really needed to keep the project moving. This ProMini has an ATMEGAS168 chip on it but that's good enough for what I'm doing.
I think that the vast majorly of us are all for this. I can't wait to hear how they're going to build the 3,500 km of wall that are under water. I assume they will just build the wall on the waterfront on their side of the Great Lakes? This would solve the pornlemmy of what to do when the christofascist dictatorship finally takes hold, down there. I'm very concerned that 30 million refugees are going to head north across the border. They really should head south since there is no way that we can house them here over winter and millions of them will starve and freeze to death.
My wife made potato salad to bring to dinner at friends' house last night. It's about half hard boiled duck eggs by volume. Delicious!
We were invited friends house for dinner last night. My wife brought potato salad. I like lots of eggs in my potato salad. We had a couple of dozen duck what in the fridge so my wife boiled up a dozen and added them. It's about half by volume hard boiled duck eggs and it's delicious.
What are these MAGA clowns doing in Canada's Parliament. The Conservatives are embarrassing to us as a country. The fascist virtue signaling is sickening.
For two or three weeks each spring and fall it gets very noisy on the homestead.
My wife has a large dehydrator. She had to fly to Vancouver suddenly a week and a half ago and left me with a huge box of fresh peppers from the garden. She asked me to dehydrate them so I spent an hour chopping them up last night while my son made dinner. Then, I put the diced peppers in the dehydrator and left it running overnight. These two 250ml canning jars were the result. Apparently she can add these to things during the winter and the rehydrate up nicely and no one can even tell. They smell pretty good, too.
ottawa.ctvnews.ca
This is just stupid. I'm an atheist. A devout atheist. This is not "secularism", it's stupidity. As atheists, my family celebrates the traditional secular commercial Christmas. We will also happily attend Chanukah celebrations, Kwanzaa celebrations, winter solstice celebrations, Nicholas Day celebrations, Yule celebrations, Festivus celebrations, or whatever else we are invited to attend. Our beliefs are not so delicate that they could collapse just from being exposed to others joyous celebrations. We love participating in other people's joy. This sort if fanatical secularism sucks all of the joy out of the season.
globalnews.ca
At this point, it might be more efficient to start reporting on anything that the Ford government does that isn't a cynical, abjectly corrupt effort to enrich his friends. What a disgrace.
Pork, rice, onions and herbs rolled in Savoy cabbage leaves and poached in tomato juice.  I vacuum sealed them individually for the freezer.
I do a lot of soldering and for the last few years have been using SMD components. Up until recently I was buying short pieces of tape with a few dozens or a hundred components. The amount that I do has really increased and running our of components began to irritate me so I started buying them on commercial rolls of 4,000 or 5,000 components. The full rolls are unwieldy so what I really wanted was a cartridge that was small enough to have a bunch of them in a drawer or plastic storage box but big enough to hold a fair number of components. So...I designed this. It's 60mm x 60mm x 11mm and is designed to dispense standard 8mm x 1mm component tape. I've got other versions for wider and thicker tape. It will hold a good 2m or tape which is around 1,300 components. The paper tape with the components comes out the straight slot while the clear plastic cover tape turns back out of the curved slot. The little tab holds the cover tape back so it doesn't get in your way. The splitter between the straight slot and the curved slot keeps the components from falling out until the tape emerges from the straight slot. I think that the coolest feature of this design is the holes around the corners of the cartridge. They allow you to gang cartridges together into stacks using standard LEGO Technics connector pins. The cover also uses connector pin like projections to attach to the cartridge. With the cartridge being only 11mm thick you can't put two pins end to end so I needed two holes so that the pins in adjacent connections can alternate which hole they use. On 16mm and wider cartridges I could have used a single hole but will keep the two holes for compatibility with the narrower cartridges.  This is a rough prototype to test the fit of the tape. It seems to work quite well.
With maple syrup season fast approaching (4 months ish) my thoughts have turned to working on the Sapmaster once again. I'm going to design and build a new top and bottom board this year to fit in the BUD DMB-4774 DIN case that I use for the SapMaster controller. That's going to involve a bunch of SMD soldering which reminded me of the irritation that soldering with loose pieces of SMD tape causes me. To that end, I went looking for an SMD dispenser cartridge that would meet my needs. I couldn't find one so I decided to design my own. This is version 4.1 of the design. It holds around 5 feet of standard 8mm paper tape which is around 1,000 components. The tape comes out the straight slot at the upper right. The clear cover tape goes out the curved slot and can be hooked under the little pin upper left. The point of the splitter between the straight and curved slots holds the components in place so they don't fall out before you pull the tape out of the slot.  I will generally use single cartridges with a cover but the friends I work with say that they want them to connect together. I considered a number of options but they all involved pins and holes or tabs and slots and I wanted the individual covered cartridges to be nice and clean. What I settled on are the holes you see around the corners of this cartridge. The accept a standard LEGO Technics connecting pin and allow you to gang together any number of cartridges. I'm all setup to make versions for different widths and thicknesses of tape as well. The cover has four LEGO Technics like pins to plug into the holes in the cartridge. I expect to start printing some to actually use in a few days when the magnetic base plate for my 3D printer arrives.
My wife had to run off to the other end of the country very suddenly yesterday. She had planned to process two boxes of late season tomatoes. It fell to me to get it done. I diced them up and put them in the freezer so that she can make sauce when she gets back.  The big guy thinks that any time I'm at the butcher block in the morning I must be slicing ham. He loves ham. I told him I was working on tomatoes but he was quite persistent about making sure that I wasn't slicing ham. I even showed him a chunk of tomato and he went away but he came back 5 minutes later to see if I was still not slicing ham.  Chicken treats = happy chickens and more eggs. The chickens love the trimmings and rejects. They were very excited when I let them out this morning and they found a bunch of tomatoes in their yard.
My wife had to run off to the other end of the country very suddenly yesterday. She had planned to process two boxes of late season tomatoes. It fell to me to get it done. I diced them up and put them in the freezer so that she can make sauce when she gets back.  The big guy thinks that any time I'm at the butcher block in the morning I must be slicing ham. He loves ham. I told him I was working on tomatoes but he was quite persistent about making sure that I wasn't slicing ham. I even showed him a chunk of tomato and he went away but he came back 5 minutes later to see if I was still not slicing ham.  Chicken treats = happy chickens and more eggs. The chickens love the trimmings and rejects. They were very excited when I let them out this morning and they found a bunch of tomatoes in their yard.
www.cp24.com
It would be great if they would censure Steve Clark for overseeing the $8 billion greenbelt graft instead of this pearl clutching virtue signaling.
But your honour, it's devastating to our defense! - Occupiers lawyer.
But your honour, it's devastating to our defense! - Occupiers lawyer.
ottawacitizen.com
> None of the local witnesses the court heard from this week had any contact with Lich or Barber, who are both accused of mischief and counselling others to commit mischief, among other charges. If you organize a murder and encourage the person who commits the murder but don't have any contact with the murder victim are you free and clear? Barber and Lich are garbage humans who organized and encouraged the violation of the people of Ottawa.
But Steve Clarke orchestrating or being unaware that his chief of staff was orchestrating a multi-billion dollar abjectly corrupt transfer of 8 billion dollars of unearned benefit is totally cool? If these people had a shed of shame they would know that they should shut their fucking noise holes because they have lost any shred of a fuck that anyone ever gave about their fake moral outrage.
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Remember how canceling the gas plant was such a big deal? I bet the apologists will be out in force explaining how the fact that we are on the hook for this abjectly corrupt effort to transfer billions of dollars of unearned benefit to Ford's wealthy developer friends/donors is, "ToTaLlY dIfFeReNt." 
Remember how canceling the gas plant was such a big deal? I bet the apologists will be out in force explaining how the fact that we are on the hook for this abjectly corrupt effort to transfer billions of dollars of unearned benefit to Ford's wealthy developer friends/donors is, "ToTaLlY dIfFeReNt." 
www.theguardian.com
An interesting article about the extreme right in the US and how they are not interested in governing or working for the people but are focused instead on tearing apart the US government, taking away rights and freedoms, and turning the country into a christofascist dictatorship with oligarchs in charge. When we look at the now extreme Canadian right, with soaring food prices and housing prices and a failing healthcare system and faltering public education that is now focused on pronouns and hurting the most vulnerable Canadian children we cannot help but draw parallels. They don't have a platform other than TrUdEaU bAd, pronouns, drag queens, and we're going to fix everything, no we don't have a plan, no we can't tell you how, just trust us. These people are focused on tearing apart the polices and services that make Canada among the best countries in the world to live in. Their base seethes with resentment about being made to feel ignorant, racist, and intolerance and that seething resentment is manipulated into fear, anger, and hatred toward those who make them feel bad about themselves. We need to wake up and vote down this nonsense.