Yeah, a core train line down the Fraser valley would be amazing. Something to connect from Hope all the way to Whistler with high speed commuter rail.

That said, I think we can do multiple things at once. :)

We could definitely use better transit, as well.

That is my thinking as well and a good point to explicitly mention in a letter to an mla or MP.

If someone drive a truck full of money up to my house, I’d be hard pressed to say no. See Notch and Minecraft.

Amen. About the only thing that unites Quebec with the rest of Canada is a mutual distaste for the French.

The Anglo-Dutch wars. William of Orange landed troops in London in 1688 and took the throne with Mary II. It’s more complicated than that, but it was a whole Thing. Charles II died, leaving James II in charge, but Catholicism was on the way out, and conveniently, William of Orange, a Protestant, was married to Mary II.

The undercurrent of anti-Dutch sentiment started back then still has remnants in the language. See “going Dutch” “Dutch courage” “Dutch treat” “Dutch uncle”. :)

I’m mostly teasing. It’s more funny than serious.

Have to capture the Dutch-Canadian.

Fun game. Hmm. Poutine van der Windmill.

Nobody does anti Dutch racism quite like the English. Comes of them being conquered by William of Orange back in the day.

It’s been a while, so probably new to me. Yay.

I gotta check if Laid Back Camp has a new series!

Let them eat cake.

Probably pickled onion. Like in the rollmops pickled herring jars.

That is a weird argument. TBH there are only like six ACTUAL temperatures: fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fuckin’ cold. Everything else is paperwork and doesn’t really inform your day to day. The difference between say 30 and 29C is maybe undoing a button on your shirt.

One quibble - it fully ignores humidity, as does C. The subjective feel of a climate doesn’t depend only on temperature. 50% humidity at 10C is very different from 50% at 40C.

Subjectively? I only really think there are like six temperatures. Fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fucking cold. My clothing choices change at each stage of that scale.

Just because F encapsulates that in a positive integer 1-100 scale doesn’t really make it appeal to me. C feels much more natural, more human, because you’re not dealing with ludicrously small increments that don’t matter for day to day use, and the 0-30 captures almost all temperatures you’re going to actually see day to day.

It irks me that people are trying to turn their personal prejudices and habits into like, objective universal laws.

There are very few places that experience -17C and 40C for that to be really useful. And I don’t get it at all. 0 is cold, 30 is hot. Not a difficult concept.

Intuition is entirely based on familiarity.

Aren’t you a peach.

Well, here’s a straw man for you. Go nuts.

Yes. I’m glad you understand my argument. And can you distinguish the difference between launching Earth-monitoring satellites, communication satellites, exploration satellites, and penis rockets for billionaires?

Clearly you hate jets, so flying jets to deliver medicines to sick children are a bad thing? You are a horrible person.

Two can play at the wilful misunderstanding game…

I’d check for native species of clover, which is invasive in most of Canada.