Sir_Osis_of_Liver @ Sir_Osis_of_Liver @kbin.social

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The government should up the ante. Facebook should be treated as a publisher. Make them legally liable for all of the libel, defamation and slander etc being thrown around on their sites. Now THAT would throw a monkey wrench into profitability.

Having said that, even my 83 year old father can navigate his way to CBC, CTV and Toronto Star without issue, and he still gets a paper home delivered. He's only ever gone to FB for family stuff, never news. I'm not sure how much effect Zuck's hissy fit is going to have on most people.

This is the same douche canoe who used to work for Peter Nygard

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/nygard-winnipeg-councillor-kevin-klein-1.5901405

He's absolutely corrupt and a complete political opportunist.

I was in that boat. I'm 56 now, and I've already had friends taken by cancer. It seems much more like a crapshoot at this point.

I only really remember PeeWee's Playhouse on the big screen in the student union building on Saturday mornings when we were all hung over. It was a trip.

I'd worked on and off in the US for 10ish years at one point. Whether it works out financially depends entirely on where you end up. Sometimes wages are higher, sometimes a fair wash. Housing is likewise. Reading Pennsylvania is cheap, San Fran isn't, and so on.

It's the same in Canada. Want to live in the GTA or Vancouver? You're gonna get reamed on housing. Okay living in Regina, Winnipeg or Moncton? You'll be fine.

You also have to take a very close look at benefits. Employers like to play a shell game with benefits. At one place the health coverage may be better, but retirement contributions worse, or fewer days of paid leave etc. That salary can get chewed up pretty quickly with additional healthcare costs, not to mention school and property taxes, and, in places like Florida, home owner's insurance.

Can it be beneficial to work in the US? Absolutely. But it's not necessarily beneficial.

@ LonelyWendigo

What? That's a rationalization for your preferred system.

Depts of Winter -35C
Spring/Fall 0C
Heights of Summer +35C

In Fahrenheit that would be:

Winter -31F
Spring/Fall +32F
Summer +95F

Which is completely arbitrary.

China Three Gorges Corporation announced that the 16-megawatt MySE 16-260 turbine had been successfully installed at the company’s offshore wind farm near Fujian Province on July 19. The behemoth is 152 meters (500 feet) tall, and each single blade is 123 meters (403 feet) and weighs 54 tons. This means that the sweep of the blades as they rotate covers an area of 50,000 square meters (nearly 540,000 square feet).

Many of them have been 2-3 years late, but Taishan-1&2 was 6 years late. Instead of less than 4 years, it took a bit over 10.

But you can't realistically compare construction projects in China to those in the West based on labour and environmental regs alone.

It's no great mystery. 3500MW Darlington cost the equivalent of $23B in today's money. OPG just couldn't afford to replace something like Nanticoke (4000MW) with reactors at the time.

Point Lepreau cost $3.8B in today's money, and needed an extensive refurbishment 28 years later. The refurbishment was supposed to take 18 months and cost $1.5B (2010). It ended up taking almost 5 years and cost $2.5B ($3.1B in today's money). For only 660MW, that's some expensive power.

Edit: There was supposed to be a Unit 2 at Lepreau. Some of the concrete work was done for a second reactor at the same time as work on the first unit started. After all of the construction delays and overruns, they decided not to go ahead with it. It's been brought up a number of times since, but the economics kill it.

When the identical reactor at Gentilly was due for refurbishment, Quebec Hydro was "Naw" and decommissioned it.

The sale of AECL to SNC-Lavalin by Harper, and their change to emphasize support and maintenance rather than new reactor sales means that utilities would be looking at reactors like the Westinghouse AP1000 or Areva EPR/EPR-2. They've got a really bad track record for massive cost overruns.

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Might I suggest defenestration? It's super effective.

TIL Elon is a lightweight drinker. Weird flex, but okay.

I graduated high school in 1985. This movie spoke to me at the time.

I rather like kbin and feel no need to go back to the other place.
At least not until it starts randomly logging me off.

$276 in today's money.

I couldn't remember when Spotify last raised prices. They certainly never made a habit of doing it.

37.8C is 100F

That was a form of detention for us. They'd keep us until the buses had left, then let us go. We had the choice of walking home or phoning our parents. I did a lot of walking in the '70s.

PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!

Anything over $3M should be taxed at 80% as it used to be. The point wasn't government revenue, but to eliminate the incentive for execs ransacking the company.

My 83 year old Dad uses Facebook, but only for family stuff. If he wants news, he goes to CBC.ca or sometimes CTV. He still gets his local paper too.