From CTV today:
“I feel sorry for Americans,” said B.C. Premier David Eby.
“If you can’t be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world.
“And that is a very lonely place to be.”
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I saw this little one person electric vehicle in a mall parking lot the other day and then again blocking traffic on a 60 km/h road nearby where I'm pretty sure the Ontario electric vehicle experiment doesn't allow them.
I wondered because I don't think there's any way to get to this mall legally in this – they're allowed on 50 km/h streets, and this mall can only be reached by a 60, a 70 and a shared use (bike) path.
#electricVehicles
I should take a camera on the dog's every first trip out in the morning.
Today's surprise was a cluster of large ink cap mushrooms under the tree. (Tennis ball for scale.)
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Eight track players were crap when they were new and fashionable. Too often an album would Clunk! change tracks in the middle of a song.
@weirdestate@eigenmagic.net This house in Ottawa was once an ordinary bungalow, but a big room and fireplace was added to the front, and the decor is not something I can easily describe. I don't know what is holding up the middle of the old part, there used to be a wall. (Bonus challenge, try to find the basement stairs.)
https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29406769/33-rutherford-crescent-ottawa-9001-kanata-beaverbrook
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@jerry@infosec.exchange I'm seeing a recent flock of signups for accounts that do nothing more than put a link to a business or porn site in the bio and then go silent.
I presume they are trying to game the search engines.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @iris@neuromatch.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @User47@vmst.io
Tesla says some of the Model 3's have laminated glass in the side windows.
https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders/vehicles-charging#model3
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @Affekt@hachyderm.io @indi@mefi.social I have a few exceptions, like the shirt I'm wearing that says (Ottawa Humane Society) Wiggle Waggle Walkathon 2002. It has a few holes caused by cats.
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@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca I cut a rectangular hole into the cardboard box that the Merv filters came in, so it would fit onto the back/intake side of the dehumidifier. My first try with a box fan did not work as well.
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Apparently the firefighters are expected to pull this up and read it while they are at a crash scene.
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@mattblaze @iris @ai6yr @User47
Im not able to attach the picture right now, but I was impressed by the page that tells the rescuers where they can apply tools to lift the car. The safe lift points are tiny.
The entire bottom is not to be stressed, except out near the doors, and the four lift points are a very small fraction of that.
This is patently stupid; #YouTube seems to think I'm a teenager. Also doesn't seem to have noticed that I'm in #Canada where there are no social media age laws. Nor do they seem to know how long I've had a gmail account.
#gmail #ageverification
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@erin Sometimes the collection guys get in trouble with their boss for zipping around unexpectedly early and not collecting enough.
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@ryanc@infosec.exchange @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer A sensor in my homebrew thermostat quit responding yesterday morning, immediately after reporting a temperature of minus 40.
The house was getting nicely toasty on a cold day ...
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@KayJanes@mstdn.social I learned this week that the trees need these mushrooms growing among their roots to provide nutrients in return for giving the mycelium sugars.
@TechConnectify The last time I was able to buy dishwasher detergent as a box of powder, it was actually a solid lump in the shape of the box. Not so easy to scoop as I had hoped.
I hate dishwasher pills, and I hate unwrapping them, and I hate having to touch them while unwrapping them.
With Canada setting up a sovereign wealth fund, I suppose the sovereign citizens are going to be even more sure that they will soon be able to trade their birth certificates for this cash that was set aside for them.
#sovereigncitizen
I wonder how many people have started using 8647 as their pin number.
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@stephanie@ottawa.place We have a thunderstorm warning now, too, so they can fight. Will the smoke win, or be washed out of the air for a while?
With a second (and spectacular) fire in a few months, the Ottawa fire service says that removing weeds with a propane torch is a bad idea. Even a short time after getting 10 cm of rain.
#weeds
https://youtu.be/UGgbDtI8BzA
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@Sanderde@mstdn.ca They appear to be threatening to send people with leaf rakes into Canada.
“We are done accepting apologies in place of action. If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” the letter said.
“That means our own agencies exploring direct involvement in cross-border fuel reduction and firefighting capacity.”
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The wet bulb temperature, in contrast, is much more rigorously defined. You can measure the wet bulb temperature on your own:
Make a little fabric (muslin, traditionally) sock for the bulb of a glass thermometer. It has to fit tightly.
Attach a 1m string to the top of the glass thermometer.
Dip the bulb and sock in water that's at the ambient air temperature.
Whip the thermometer around your head a few times; record the temperature straight away.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you get a consistent measurement.
It's actually pretty hard to do it. You have to measure the temperature before the water evaporates, but after the bulb adjusts to the cooler wet bulb temperature.
2/3
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@MattMoose@mastodon.world I suspect that the cookie banner is a test to see if you are a real person, because clicking it off must be storing another cookie that says you saw it.
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@ZachWeinersmith This is generally true except for the recipes (baking, usually) where the ratios are extremely important. Too little cream of tartar and the texture will be wrong, too much and it leaves a bad taste.
#baking
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@oldredsubby@sfba.social I don't always get previews for the article links like this one immediately.
Could you please add a few words as you post them, for why you think the article is important?
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@kaia@pleroma.soykaf.com He should have tried wracking his brain instead of just racking it.
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@douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org I think a data center is a lot less flammable than a warehouse full of plastic toys. There is a server certification test that sets a propane torch inside a server cabinet with the requirement that all of the flames have to stay inside the case.
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@dukethinrediv@dice.camp @prahou@merveilles.town The ship's prow is pointing left. See edit 7.
I'm not sure what I've done right today, but a good fraction of my YouTube recommendations are for Sesame Street''s Lefty the Salesman.
Sesame Street: Gangsters -An Plan
From The Onion News Network:
U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating In Combat
https://youtu.be/LXjvr9CPQjs
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@MLE_online You might also want to use scissors to cut a tube lengthwise and flatten it to measure the circumference.
I can see why the Canadian Wood Council wants more wooden apartment buildings, but I don't think I'm going to be comfortable with six or more flights of flammable exit stairs.
#buildingcode
Ontario sees jump in mid-rise wood construction following 2023 building code change - North Bay News https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/cost-effective-and-efficient-residential-wood-construction-growing-in-popularity-12404128
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@mooseandriosmom@mindly.social Thank you. I had only ever heard the Anne Murray version without knowing any of the history of the song.
RE: https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/116838744194258399
From the video:
"it's not because you have very strong views, it's because you can't explain a single one of them"
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The mystical "good Brexit" that you need a wardrobe that is a gateway to Narnia to go visit.
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@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz It seems a bit ironic that I get stuck in a CloudFlare "Performing security verification" endless loop while trying to follow that link.
Another example of why I don't believe AI is going to replace humans.
The automatic captions should read "Globe and Mail journalist Andrew Coyne"
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@Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol @FeloniousPunk@beige.party The deal is meant to give buyers of the advance messaging a head start on the next stock market changes. Welcome to my insider trading.
From the article "The vehicle was impounded for a week, and the driver’s license was pulled for 90 days."
I can't imagine him going to pick it up at the impound lot.
Arnprior man charged after ditching flaming vehicle on Highway 29 | 96.1 Renfrew Today https://www.renfrewtoday.ca/2026/06/26/314988/
Of the food borne illnesses in the news I wondered what happened to good old fashioned ptomaine poisoning. Why isn't anyone getting the dreaded ptomaine poisoning any more?
Ptomaine is a generic term for decomposition products like cadaverine and putrescine, which are not particularly dangerous, it's the bacteria that makes people sick.
Now I need to go look up Lumbago ...