A couple bombs can take out a gigawatt+ generation plant. A couple dozen acres of solar panels will need much, much more, with each individual strike having far less impact and being far easier to repair after. On top of that, solar can be widely distributed and embedded in much smaller footprints, into civilian areas, and so on. Solar also has less infrastructure requirements such as access to water where destroying a dam for example can render one or more power plats inoperable.

Kristi Nome

Krusty Gnome? :D

Google’s AI “summaries” are complete garbage. They mash together unrelated sources and hallucinate connections between them to the point where literally nothing it shits out is in any way reliable.

The US has virtually no “emergency brake” option in government. In a Westminster-style system not being able to pass a budget immediately triggers an election, while government remains funded based on the previous budget.

The ring doesn’t as much make you invisible as it transports you into the shadow realm. Sauron, however existed in both the real world and the shadow realm, so there was no transporting needing to happen there.

No ads during play would be even better. Puck’s about to drop? Cut back to the game. I would even accept that a short ad runs in between plays as long as it immediately cuts back when play is about to start again.

Also, reduce the play timer to say 15s for all but the first down or switching out to kick.

About 4 hours

Nope!

Some explanation though, Canada adopted the metric system and converted to metric in the 70’s-80’s. I remember seeing street signs in imperial and signs advertising the conversion (“50mph is 80kph” and stuff), so a large portion of our population spent a good chunk of their lives on imperial, or grew up with those people as parents. So, what happened is, the signs changed, and our speedometers changed, but people’s brains still went “this is miles per hour”, and well, it kinda stuck.

Now ask me how far it is from Toronto to Ottawa…

This seems like more of an implosion, we should ask Stockton Rush what that sounds like… oh.

Mixing metric and imperial is base-tier Canadian.

Sure, we will measure our height in feet/inches, except on our driver’s license, and weight in lbs, except at the doctors office. We’ll measure our car’s speed in km/h numerically, but if you hear a Canadian say “miles per hour”, it also means km/h, unless we’re talking about driving in the US, then it is actually mph…maybe.

Now, ask a Canadian how far away something is.

It wasn’t a big deal, but there was a lot of loud, stupid people making a lot of loud, stupid noises about it when it happened.

A few years ago

That was 13.5 years ago.

So, I started a bunch of responses about putting toilets/sinks that HD sells in their washrooms to try to advertise them, but there’s a bunch of reasons why the industrial models work much better in those situations.

Then, it dawned on me… Ikea should open a hotel.

I feel like if that is your (not you specifically) shopping metric for a toilet, you should change your shopping metric to a better diet…

Jesus said exactly that in Matthew 6:5-6

5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Bayonetta - the one where both the protagonist and primary antagonist are a strong woman with magical powers? That Bayonetta? The one whose soundtrack and art style was designed to be primarily feminine?

Also, I’d be willing to bet they don’t consider The Witcher as woke because it has lots of nudity, with the male main character being able to boink a whole bunch of NPCs.

His “donations” are to his own charity, that he then gets to use to reduce his tax burden. Billionaire philanthropy is another avenue of profit for them, nothing else.

A lot of ritual and rules in various religions seem to also revolve around sanitation, hygiene, etiquette, etc. I figure these were built in to the dogma so that people would make sure to wash regularly, prepare food safely, and generally do things that prevent illness spreading, even though they really had no understanding of germs and such.

That example can be traced back almost directly to IBM selling the Thinkpad brand to Lenovo.