As an Ontarian who was drinking in Belgium in high school, came home for university, moved to Europe for a few years, then moved to the US, I have to say “What?!”

Everywhere else that I’ve lived has had a far better selection and prices. Also, as someone who doesn’t drive and lived in Toronto in my 20s, walking 30 minutes to the nearest Beer Store (I lived at Yonge and Eglinton) and carrying a 2-4 back home in the winter sucked. Everywhere else I’ve lived, I can buy beer a block away.

False. The Liberals are generally centre-right even within Canada. Your compass is off.

Your Newtonian physics argument is nonsensical and frankly rude.

So when you zip some files and then unzip them, some of the bytes are missing? Really?!

Shoulda known better than to drive [Private] to Publix. That’s how they get ya.

If parliament is prorogued until March 24th, then I guess they’re not going to hit the March 19th deadline to resolve the unconstitutional “Lost Canadians” issue: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/court-blasts-trudeau-government-for-delays-in-passing-lost-canadians-bill/article_5f2076be-b982-11ef-97b5-b76bc081d0ec.html

Note that this is the same cartoonist who suggested that Rashida Tlaib encouraging people in Michigan to vote uncommitted in the Democratic primary (as a protest against US military aid to Israel) was the same as supporting Trump.

Remember when Kevin O’Leary considered running for the leadership of the Conservative party, but dropped it because he’s too stupid to speak French? I love the fact that our two official languages saved us from getting our own Trump wannabe.

This was my first thought, too.

I started taking antidepressants a few months ago to treat ADHD-related anxiety and depression. (The doctor suggested that I could try ADHD-specific meds, but pointed out that I’m already a relatively successful adult, so clearly I’ve built coping mechanisms over the years.)

I’m surprised by how much more rational I’ve become when dealing with stuff.

I first really noticed it when I was crossing at an intersection and a driver turning right didn’t see me and almost hit me. She slammed on the brakes and waved her hands in a clearly startled and apologetic way. Before the meds I probably would have flipped her the bird and had my heart pounding in my ears for the next half hour as I seethed with anger. Now, my thought was “She made a mistake. I’m fine. She knows she made a mistake and she’ll certainly be more careful next time. It’s okay.”

That’s not to say that I don’t get angry anymore. I just get angry about stuff that matters or where I can change something. It feels a lot healthier.

Standard disclaimer: I’m not a doctor. This is not medical advice. It’s just my anecdotal experience. Maybe talk to your doctor about getting tested for depression and/or anxiety. (I had never thought to before this year, because in my youth I was just called “disorganized”, “lazy”, and “scatterbrained”.)

Around 500k without power in the Seattle area.

(Posted in the dark as I’m told that we should expect power by around noon on Saturday.)

Short answer (that clears things up for most non-Americans): There is no national ID card.

When you register to vote, you’re expected to provide proof of citizenship, which for most Americans (who don’t have or have use for a passport) means a birth certificate plus some photo ID (which ultimately proves that a person with your name and your birthday was born on US soil and you are in possession of their birth certificate – so it’s very likely you). Bringing your birth certificate to vote would be kind of risky, since it’s the origin of all of your other ID and pretty much the only record that you’re a citizen. (Work visa holders and permanent residents get social security cards, for example.)

Funnily enough, if you’re an adult immigrant it’s almost safer, because there’s a huge federal paper trail of photos and records proving your citizenship (versus this flimsy piece of state-issued paper that native-born citizens have).

Of course, if election officials have some discretion on who needs to prove their citizenship, it’s rife for abuse.

What national ID?

The US doesn’t have a national ID card. I have a federally-issued ID card as a lawful permanent resident, but the typical US citizen has what? Their main proof of citizenship is their birth certificate, issued by their state, and doesn’t have a photo (and if it did, would probably be a baby photo). The people with passports tend to have enough money to travel internationally, which is a pretty small proportion of the population (as it’s a big country, so even a lot of people who can afford vacations will vacation in the next state over at most).

As a maintainer on an open source project, I assume the sticks are PRs coming in right before code freeze, right? Right?!

What I’ve read in recent weeks is that people have been donating to the “Biden-Harris campaign”, so Harris has access to all that money by default.

While I would love a stronger candidate (Whitmer, perhaps), I understand that Harris is a lot less complicated. My understanding is that she can just take the money and run (for the presidency).

Edit: Personally, I think (and thought back in 2019/2020) that Biden should have pulled the same move as James K Polk, and declared upfront that he would be a one term president. Then we could have had a competitive Democratic primary, which would have stood out against the Republican coronation.

There was a single season sitcom in 1990 called Ferris Bueller. His sister was played by an unknown actress by the name of Jennifer Aniston.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098795/

It’s a wonderful comparison going back at least thirty years: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1994/07/15

While kids are now more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD due to increased awareness and better diagnostic methods, this can also lead to an interesting “reverse echo” effect where their parents have a sudden realization that they’re ADHD too.

Hearing about the symptoms from a doctor talking about your child can be an eye-opener that stuff we called “laziness” and “being too sensitive” back in the 80s might have a better name.

Inferring doesn’t mean the same thing as implying. They’re kind of complementary, like borrowing versus lending.

The OP may have been implying something, but it looks like you’re inferring something (which may or may not what they’re implying; I don’t care enough to parse that out).

The quick adjustments to tileable blueprints sound amazing. Such a great idea!

Somehow I thought the pipette on water to get an offshore pump (like how you can pipette on an ore field for a miner) was already a thing. That and the quick access to landfill will save so much time when designing nuclear plants.

The spidertron stuff sounds nice too, but they’re usually so late game that I haven’t minded the slightly clunky v1.1 status quo.

The ASF has renamed their conferences from ApacheCon to Community over Code, so foundation leadership seems receptive to moving away from the Apache name.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the name is changed in the next couple of years.

The name was originally just a silly joke, since it was “a patchy web server” (as it was an open source web server abandoned by the original author, but kept going by a community sharing patches to fix bugs and add features).

Honestly, I’d love to see a real, factual documentary about the Onion/Avclub over the years.

From what I’ve seen, there’s some fascinating stuff there, from the college town founding through the internet highs and the acquisition by Gawker (after the Hulk Hogan lawsuit), with some employee unionization along the way. Maybe they could even interview the clearly unqualified forum dev who jumped on a live chat to talk about how the Gawker system that replaced Discus was a clear improvement.

I used to be a big Avclub fan until about 2018 or 2019. Then it became way too ad-ridden and clickbaity. The Onon was equally ad-ridden, but felt like it kinda retained its soul.