Hi neighbor, thank you. Enjoy the holiday too!

Happy holidays to Windsor from Detroit!

Not anymore. There's also one next door.

Pinged once. Never seen before. Never seen again.

That's what gives it away. A "tower" that appears once, randomly, and never again.

Those are stingrays.

I upload all my network tower data to the online database.

I meander about town.

I am keenly aware of my surroundings and what is/isn't (supposed to be) there.

The triangulation is difficult when there's only 1 point. But the gps and all that is accurate to a few meters.

Yeah, I would expect them to turn up and stay relatively static. Is the triangulation that accurate? I'm guessing you don't have a stingray on your front drive either

Fair enough. But towers don't just show up randomly. And/or only once. And they typically don't move. As many of the ones I've discovered have.

And I'll tell you I know there isn't a tower/repeater/femtocell in my driveway as can be found in the database/map (not the one shown).

I dont think thats true, some are definitely base stations. You can get ones that use your home internet as the backbone. I'll try find one.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell

Furthermore, femtocells lower contention on the main network cells, by forming a connection from the end user, through an internet connection, to the operator's private network infrastructure elsewhere.

Dunno if these things are still a thing or not, but it sounds like it would show up as a cell tower.

Apparently those things are just basically amplified antennas. They don't clone or pretend to be towers. They just boost signal. And send it along its way to wherever signals are impeded. And then back again.

There's no middle man listening in.

How would this differ from a personal mobile network repeater thing?

Like this thing: https://www.telcoantennas.com.au/cel-fi-go-g41-smart-signal-repeater-for-the-telstr

Usually its help writing resumes

Thats a VERY good question. If you find out the real answer from your friends and neighbors, please share it here. Holding companies to account is important.

According to the article: "Diageo said it will engage with the community and find ways to support its employees through the transition, and work alongside Unifor to assist unionized workers."

I wonder what support they mean -- actual support, or a corporate "damn that sucks for you" support.

200 jobs lost in a city the size of Amherstburg is significant too.

Damn. I live in Amherstburg, this is going to suck for the town.

LMAO🤣 +1

Tim's has nothing to do with canada and was removed from the citizenship test years ago.

The 2 acceptable answers:

They'll win it next year.

When hell freezes over.

Dude’s first stop into Canada was to get timmies. I think he passed the citizenship test.

That's cute and all, but real citizenship test require far more rigor. To properly assess his worthiness officials will need to know his opinion of the Leafs chances at a Stanley Cup.

I'm jealin'...

Bummer, we lived in a 4 Plex in BC for a while. It made housing affordable and they layout was well planned to maximize space.

I find the problem is that employers only want skilled, licensed, experienced workers. It is very hard to get hired or registered as an apprentice.

From my recollection, a Chevy bolt drivetrain has less than 5 moving parts and say 10 bearings. The complexity is in the electronic control systems. I hope to see more electronics repair shops doing board repairs because they’re really expensive as a unit.

RIP to measles being officially eradicated in 1998 in Canada. We have grown complacent and some people need to learn the hard way why these diseases suck and ruin lives. It's just a shame that the consequences of their actions are not limited to only harming themselves. I do not envy immunocompromised people in the anti-medicine culture that is being fostered across the world lately.

this is a disturbingly annoying post to read.

These are very good points I hadn't considered that deeply before. I wonder if auto technicians as we know them currently will go the way of the candlemakers? Antiquated by electrification.

I'm not familiar with the maintenance requirements of electric cars. I have heard that they are generally lean on the maintenance and have less wear and tear due to being inherently simpler machines in comparison to combustion engines.

1. Require auto technicians to own thousands of dollars of their own tools.
2. Pay auto technicians piecework.
3. Senior techs take on “gravy” work that pays better per hour, leading to very long hours for the junior techs to make ends meet.
4. Society and government guide everyone with three brain cells into university degree programs for decades on end.
5. “There aren’t any automotive technicians”!

Plus, it’s very obvious that there’s a massive push towards ending fossil fuel use in the personal transportation space, and electric cars simply don’t have the same maintenance requirements. It’s like stating your intent to become a professional typist in 1988 when computers were clearly going to massively impact the line of work.