Must be confusing for Canadian tourists for whom that hand gesture means “I’m crushing your head.”

If you wait until you’re 40 it’ll be super easy.

Does anyone actually use calendars that put Monday on the left? Not where I live but I haven’t seen the calendars of most of the world.

Rabble dot ca got cloudflared so I can’t see the article, but who needs democracy when you’ve got a strong leader, tough on crime, who can really get things done, forcefully confront our problems, thrust forward with nation-building projects like helping the world burn even more fossil fuels, and boldly invest in the future by buying expensive military hardware from all over the world. Listening to parliament — let alone listening to civil liberties nuts and environmentalist weirdos who don’t have the financial clout it takes to make a difference in the new Canada — would only slow them down.

I wouldn’t call them a necessary evil. More of an ineffective annoyance.

If the fundraiser is in the form of a bake sale, I pledge to go down there and buy a cupcake.

It’s kinda weird that you came back to continue arguing against the human tendency towards curiosity.

If noticing (and reporting on) an odd statistic does not make you want to investigate to find out the cause of it, you are perhaps not cut out for a career as a journalist.

“Nice doggy — go ahead and tear apart that stranger, it’s totally worth it. Would you like to buy some rocks?”

Such a suggestion did not come from me. The investigation might well be as simple as finding the right person to call at the relevant bureau.

You’re suggesting that it’s obvious why world cup-related travel would result in a larger fraction of visa applications denied than other travel? It’s not to me.

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Of course they will. There’s no way the CBC can resist such a thing.

If you seriously want to know, bear in mind that you’re only going to get answers here from the kind of people willing to watch a youtube video based on nothing more than that clickbait thumbnail, and that audience might consist mainly of very weird people.

Oh, two choices. So I guess it probably switched to using your intel i915 graphics instead of the nvidia gpu. I dunno how to fix it, but it seems likely that’s what happened.

It’s sort of frustrating that they discovered this huge disparity between the rates of visa applications being approved from different countries, and then seemingly made no effort at all to investigate the reasons for it.

half of them would simply not open at all with any tweaking. The rest of the games eventually started to run but some of them were hit by performance degradation severe enough to not be playable.

It sounds like your video card driver stopped working and it’s fallen back to non-accelerated graphics.

Thanks, that article looks very helpful. It’ll take me a while to read it but already it makes me want to go back to eating more spinach, for the betaine. I will at least start eating fewer eggs even if I don’t go fully vegan.

Update: My usual supplier of beans does in fact have dried soya beans so I guess I’ll be eating some of those.

It’s about on a par with the “birds aren’t real” theory.

That could be more likely than you’d think considering this 2024 Ig Nobel prize winning research.