They're suspending service to French users, not physically leaving (I don't know where they are). It seems they're not sure how to do that, though.

This would literally work. If one station has $9.49 (/gal) on its sign and the station across the street is $3.79 (/L), there are absolutely enough dumb Americans who will line up for the more expensive gas with the lower number.

A&W nearly went bankrupt because Americans couldn't figure out that 1/3lb is more than 1/4lb. This is a good idea.

There's not a whole lot of entertainment value in having a bunch of people sitting in silence texting other people off screen with the occasional loud video being played to nobody. Even if they are in space.

Handily demonstrating, again, that frontline customer service is skilled labour.

I use a password manager, but that means my password manager is always logged in on an internet connected PC that everyone in my house has access to. A unique password in a text file is probably a better idea.

As many people have pointed out, Bombardier already does build in the US. They have some form of operations in 20 US states and a supplier network covering 47, and the company estimates it supports tens of thousands of American jobs.

I have two TVs running completely off arch. One is a Lenovo Tiny PC, the other is a home server I built.

The frontend for both is just the normal arch desktop, running cinnamon with just some visual customizations. Each one has autologin, and on boot they open to the desktop with icons for Plex and a web browser that has shortcuts to all our streaming services on its home page. I also had Kodi running on them, which is handy because you can boot into it, but everything I was using it for Plex did better. I don't bother with a remote, I just use a Bluetooth mouse.

The little PC in my bedroom is basically just a frontend. The bigger system in my living room is a frontend but also runs a Plex server, some servarr apps, plus a bunch of unrelated services. My wife is not super tech-savvy but it's intuitive enough for her to figure out the interface.

My biggest friction point is my one streaming sports app that won't save my login longer than 7 days, so I have to keep logging in to it but I don't have a keyboard attached. I use a virtual keyboard as a workaround but it takes forever to peck out my login that way, and the app will log me out in the middle of a game if my login expires. More annoying than anything.

I'm not familiar with Waydroid or Big Screen, and I don't use either of these systems for gaming, so I don't have any advice there.

PostMedia also owns SaltWire, a network of Atlantic community papers that includes the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, the Guardian (PEI), the Cape Breton Post, and the Telegram (Nfld).

Well, cancelling successful products is pretty on-brand for Netflix.

This is how nearly all ICE cars have operated since the mid-90s. Most people just haven't learned to take advantage, and still drive full speed up to red lights and slam on the brakes at the last second.

My original brake pads in my '17 Nissan Micra 5spd went 100k kms before failing inspection.

I've been through a few branding/packaging exercises in corporate life (I'm an accountant, not an artist at all). My experience was that the branding can be artistic, but then marketers get ahold of it and shove the artwork into preconceived notions of optimizing shelf appearance and drawing the customer's eye. So there's genuine artistry in it but it's distorted by corporate pragmatism.

The CDs were coasters for sure, but the floppies were free extra storage once you formatted them. Was a handy service AOL provided for a while, distributing free storage.

Doom Shareware was among the top-selling games?

Also if you overheat Teflon it releases toxic fumes. You probably won't get it hot enough by cooking, but if you accidentally left an empty pan on a lit stove it could get hot enough.

The CEOs are earning way more than 200k. The lowest paid of the US auto CEOs earns north of $20 million.

The "modern electronics" you mentioned are very low-power devices in the range of things you can power from a household socket. They're also low-voltage DC, which means that no matter what voltage/frequency you can get from the wall it is being converted, and converting AC to DC is electrically very simple. The difference in circuitry between converting from 110V or 220V is just a transformer with a center tap, and the frequency doesn't matter at all since DC is 0Hz anyway.

With high-power devices, pretty much anything with a motor or a heating element, the device is designed to match the voltage and frequency available in the region they're going to be used. An AC motor's speed depends on the frequency of the power supplied to it, and a heating element depends on voltage, which is why electric kettles and ranges boil water much more quickly in 220V regions. Travel adapters are basically just a transformer, which changes the voltage but not the frequency. The difference between 50Hz and 60Hz isn't that big so most motors will still run but with impaired performance and maybe timing issues, but others will fail in spectacular and dangerous ways. Supplying a heating element with the wrong voltage will make it either not heat up, or heat up too much and start a fire. The different plug types ensure that you don't plug in a high power device to power it's not designed for.

If we were going to standardize on one plug type, we would also have to standardize on one power signal. Ignoring the political issues, that would mean that any region that doesn't already use that standard signal would have to immediately retool all of their power plants, their entire transmission system, every industrial facility, and adapt or replace every AC household appliance. And there's not really any good reason to do it, other than convenience.

To elaborate: in 220V countries a kettle can pull 3,000W. The spec for USB PD 3.1 is max 240W and requires a specialized cable.

Using an online calculator: a 1m cable capable of handling 3,000W at USB-PD voltage would be almost 9mm in diameter.

As a punishment for Canadian wildfires, Trump raises taxes that only Americans pay.

Make it make sense, challenge level impossible

Well, they are putting tariffs on us, but with sound logic and room to negotiate, while the USA is just throwing tariffs on anything and everything for whatever reason they can make up.

I'm not a civil engineer but did some civil engineering in university and have a bit of an interest in urban planning. Still, I'm mostly guessing.

Regardless of where storm drains are placed on a street, they don't have infinite capacity. In a heavy enough rainfall event, they will flood. The placement or frequency of drains isn't the limiting factor, it's the outlet capacity. In nature, rain falls on the ground and is absorbed, and finds its way into the watercourse slowly. In urban areas, storm drains gather up rainfall over a wide area and channel it towards the watercourse much more quickly, and if that outflow isn't controlled it can lead to catastrophic flooding and erosion downstream. Look up 1952's Hurricane Hazel and its effects on Toronto for what that looks like. If more rainfall flows into the system than the outlet can handle, there's nowhere else for the water to go and the drains flood.

With a crowned profile and drainage at the sides, excess water will pool only up to the height of the gutter before overflowing and finding ground or another low spot away from the road, so the road will only be partially obstructed at least until the flooding is much worse (and by then you're probably well into an evacuation). If the road were sloping towards drainage at the centre, then floodwater fills the entire road basin before overflowing, and your road is blocked, and stays blocked until the drains can take the water again, long after the rain has stopped. Blocked roads make managing an emergency much more complicated.