That sounds suspiciously like vaccine herd immunity; be careful or the Department of Health & Human Services will come for you…

…or to really mess with people, Half Life: e

Since Euler’s number is a smidge under 3 (~2.72).

Never mind that they’ve been seeing a sales decline for longer than just the past 100 days, and their sales declines aren’t limited to just the US.

Here in Australia their burgers have gotten so expensive, and so small - you’d be forgiven for confusing it with one of those gummy burger packets!

At least Hungry Jacks (our version of Burger King) has largely still maintained the same size; the Whopper offers infinitely more value and the Angry variant (spicy fried onions and jalapeños) kicks ass!

We had a not too dissimilar experience here in Australia with the privatisation and/or ‘deregulatory’ sabotage of our public infrastructure (SECV in the ‘90s, Telstra in the ‘00s, NBN in the ‘10s); I liken it to pigeon politics - they fly in, shit on everything, then promptly fuck off!

I imagine with the amount of snow cover you guys get up there - solar wouldn’t be feasible for ~40% of the year and likely cause massive load balancing issues in the summer due to the glut of supply, so that’s probably why they try to cap the size of systems you can install.

Feels very short sighted though, could be putting surplus production towards industry, rather than incentivising them to shut down!

Best of luck to you, hopefully Carney is going to be able to help address some of the issues you guys are facing!

If you’re still curious:

I’m a Data Analyst, I’m always curious! 🤣

You’re getting absolutely railed on your connection charges; that’s like $4.88CAD a day!?

I recently resigned with our provider so we only have 21 days of usage, we’re in summer, and we have a 5 bed, 3 bath two-storey home with solar panels for 4 adults and a child:

Factoring in the exchange rate, $1CAD ~= $1.12AUD; just makes the comparison even worse.

My state’s energy composition locally is ~35% renewables, mostly wind and solar, with the rest being a mix of natural gas, black & brown coal.

As an aside, our feed-in tariff (i.e. how much we get paid to export excess solar into our grid) has absolutely cratered over the last few years: down from ~15c during COVID to only ~3.3c this year - it really incentivises us to explore solar batteries as an option.

Damn, that’s a pretty good rate! Hydro power - I assume? We also have a daily charge to maintain a collection at ~ $1 AUD/day… is it similar there?

Sure this was a thing back in the day with incandescent lightbulbs - but like, you can leave a 10W bulb on for like 4 days straight for the price of ~1kWh (~20c USD here in Australia), right?

AEnWo, pronounced “oh no!”

That looked incredible in motion, and incredibly painful upon completion.

I agree with Ricky Morton, they fucked up that spot massively by parting - leaving next to no room to cushion his impact and slow down his momentum.

These types of daredevil spots are becoming way too common in general, and by doing so, taking away from their overall impact… these types of spots used to be so rare that they’d be talked about for months and years to come (Mankind & Undertaker, blah blah blah). Now they’re so common, we’ll forget about this by the time of the next major show.

Oh, absolutely!

My morning caffeine clearly hadn’t kicked in because I stupidly forgot to circle back round to that point. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Ultimately, my biggest worry is that Trump’s absolute piss-poor understanding and implementation of tariffs has very likely ‘poisoned the well’ to the point that they could probably never be successfully implemented in our lifetime by an actual competent Government - assuming the US ever gets another chance to elect one ever again.

An SUV outselling a sports car isn’t all that surprising, to be honest.

New cars are expensive AF nowadays, it’s a lot harder for people to justify spending that much money on an (arguably impractical, but definitely fun) 2-door coupe, versus a car capable of lugging around a bunch of people/cargo - while still being pretty quick in a straight line.

As an aside, I do hope that recently announced Slate truck takes off - and finally puts some downward pressure on the price of new vehicles.

Smart, specific targeted tariffs paired with grants/incentives to American companies to foster local production of critical goods (think CHIPS Act) can be a good thing, if they are done in such a way that it doesn’t send an entire industry/market into financial shock.

Like, if you want to onboard silicon wafer manufacturing (as a prime example); you would announce a small tariff to start off with, and a clear road-map of it increasing over time - allowing time for companies to build the necessary infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities onshore.

Once the industry has settled and matured, those tariffs could begin to be slowly pared back to ensure that free-market competition continues to keep prices in check.

But this would only work in an actual free-market economy, and not in the oligopoly-in-a-trenchcoat that currently exists in the states.

I’ve still got Twitter installed on my iPhone, despite rarely ever using it in the past and having not even launched it in well over a year.

But out of principle alone, as a form of silent protest I refuse to update it to X.

I’m an Australian, so I feel kinship with Canadians over this entire issue.

I wasn’t being serious in the argument, rather using absurdism to point out that the entire “Canada as the 52st state” is unworkable - and would gloriously blow up in Trump and the republicans face.

It’s honestly a much less stressful thought exercise than the potential balkanisation of the United States - nuclear power experiencing a civil war would not turn out well for anyone.

2 quick points;

1. I’m not American and I don’t want to see Canadians lose their sovereignty.

2. I was using argumentum ad absurdism to point out that this entire “proposal” would be self-defeating for Trump and the Republicans. It’s an absolute non-starter.

At least make the offer enticing, give Canada the option to join as 10 states (one per province); giving them an allotment of the 435 house seats and 20 senators.

I’m pretty sure that would be more than enough to swing the house, senate and presidency towards the left for the next few generations at least.

Canada could literally save the US if that were the case.

Okay, I’m OOTL on this one - who are you referring to?

I imagine that FC6 should play at least as well as FC5; and I’m glad that you enjoyed it!

I was primarily referring to the fact that it has the lowest review % on Steam of the modern Far Cry games (FC6 at 70%, 3-5 all at 80%+).

I’m sure I’ll give it a try once the kid’s a little older, I have more time on my hands, and it goes on sale to the point that I can pick it up without second-guessing the decision (probably sub-$20USD?)

It has Metastasised.

Seeing as Murdoch was born in Australia, and Trump is a well-known rapist… this is an even more apt comparison than you may have thought!