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I just lost my premium subscription after about 2 years of paying $3/month in Argentina. Here it’s $24/month (family plan). YouTube is unbearable with all the ads. Sometimes a 10-minute video has 3 as breaks. I’m only using it for precise purposes now, not scrolling and exploring, and finding alternatives as much as possible.

Our generator will kick in within 30 seconds automatically, and has enough fuel to run the entire house for about 2 weeks.

I remember going to see a high-tech nursing home, where they had video conferencing with doctors and remote sensors for falls and things like that. That was in about 2000 or 2001. Yes, they are still talking about it.

And I just moved from a province in Canada where the provincial government has to law forcing municipalities to remove bike Lanes, and disallowing people from suing the government for any death or injury caused by a removed bike lane.

It’s not getting better.

Of course, for the majority of Canada, an e-bike is (like bicycles and motorcycles) only safely usable about 7 months of the year. If you need a car for the other 5 months, it doesn’t always make sense to have an e-bike as well.

It’s worth pointing out that Elon left South Africa in 1988, before Mandela was released and apartheid was abolished. He would have experienced the full brunt of the racism (on the good side, of course).

The thing is, Bernie stole money from rich people. That’s the unforgivable sin.

I just moved to get back from Ontario, and my car insurance doesn’t seem to have changed much. On the other hand, I was able to buy a house for 2/3 or less of what it would have cost anywhere in Southern Ontario.

We have discovered some drawbacks, but all in all it has been a positive experience.

I tried that recently on a call to, I believe, the bank. It ended up just disconnecting the call. Clearly they know about this trick.

We have that problem with our late parents house. The grand piano was placed into a second-floor room by removing the window casing and using a crane.

We are hoping that the piano will sell with the house.

I wonder if this is just the new way to legally pay off Trump q? Anyone who sues immediately settles for large sums of money. You can’t even question it, because it’s how the legal system is supposed to work.

Foreign governments and corporations can pay him off just as easily and blatantly as domestic ones.

Even decades later, that phrase never fails to make me laugh.

For anyone who doesn’t know it, former Prime Minister John Chretien is from Shawinigan (note spelling). One day, an angry man made it past his security detail and started shouting at the prime minister. Chretien grabbed the man by the throat until his security officers could hustle him away, and ever since then the move has been known as the Shawinigan handshake.

What do you think this is, Russia?

I don’t believe so. As I understand it, all doctors are eligible to perform any procedures. Some of them just decide to get better at it before they do.

My grandfather had polio, and walked with a can his entire life. At least that’s what I can tell from pictures, he died before any of his grandchildren were born.

Strange to refer to it as a supercomputer, when as far as I know, it was the only computer in existence, or one of very few.

Given that large areas of the world do not see breasts as sexual, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that breasts are erogenous because our society has said that they are, rather than any innate characteristic.

When I lived in Africa, women and girls had no problem exposing their breasts, but would go to great length to keep their thighs covered.

I’m confused by your use of the word “earned”. I don’t think it fits in this context.

For me, The Black Panther lost my interest when a super advanced, technologically-driven state decided that the best way to choose a ruler was to have two guys punch and kick each other.