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  • According to everything I have seen and read on the matter, most kids seemed to have a shit time with online schooling during COVID. Too easy to be distracted, frequent technical problems, no hands on activities or labs, no socialisation, no arts programs, no physical education, terrible support for kids who had learning problems or who otherwise required customised education plans, and the much larger class sizes meant an overall poorer quality of education.

    For many, it was an unmitigated disaster, and most kids are much happier to be back at school in person. A handful loved it though. My daughter was one, though she also is very happy to have music classes again, so even she prefers being back in school.

    Our conservative provincial government liked the cost savings though, so they tried to introduce an online course requirement to get your high school diploma, but due to popular demand, they had to include an opt out option. Since the opt out was so popular, they are now making it harder to access by requiring that you fill out a form for it available only by contacting the school guidance office.

    Let's face it, online education is not popular because it sucks unless your program only requires a lecture, you are very motivated to learn and study, you don't need or want to discuss anything complicated with profs or peers, you have no learning or hearing disabilities, and you prefer to avoid people. It is great for work you already know how to do, which is the reason my daughter loved it, and why I like working from home. But default online education? Correspondence school has long been a thing, so if that's you, fill your boots. It seems most would rather pass on it.

  • Range on both is over 500km. They're pretty much the only EVs that have that much range. But the fit and finish on the Ioniq makes it a luxury car by comparison. And they don't have that Musky smell about them.

  • Depends on when you got it. They are worried about people who got it in the late 60s to early 90s, since I think they were doing a one dose vaccine then. MMR since then is a double dose and lasts for life. If you're 35+ you should check with a doctor to see if you need a booster.

  • Aylmer is a Canadian company that used to make really good ketchup. I'd buy it whenever I found it, but nobody stocked it regularly. Looks like they no longer make it, but this might be a great time for them to start up again.

  • Agreed, but they can't seem to push Canadians' personal data into the hands of foreign companies fast enough. You'd think this would be a wake up call, but if our decision makers couldn't already see the threat before, I doubt they will ever figure it out.

  • Never had a console growing up. Played Atari at a friend's place, but most of us had C64 as our main, and we pirated the shit out of everything we could get our hands on. By the time NES was everywhere, the most fun stuff for me was in BBS door games. Trade Wars 2002, Modern Warfare (yes this is what I think of when I hear the full name, though MW is always Mechwarrior to me lol), Pimp Wars, and Max Headroom were some of the popular ones in my neck of the woods.

  • Because that is just one use of the Mode button. Pressing it changes what the port LEDs indicate, so cycling it lets you see status, speed, duplex, PoE status, etc. without having to connect to it. That isn't easy without a raised button. Clear could have been separated as a pinhole and that would have been fine, but this stupidly placed button would still have been useless this way anyway.

  • We need to stop framing the solution as more transit, more bike lanes and congestion pricing and start talking about requiring people to work from home. Stop normalizing spending billions just to put butts in seats.