True, L2 charger is much cheaper than a heated garage.

The average level 1 charger overnight is enough for the average driver, except on excursion days, then a fast charge will top you up enough.

Bulletproof is just the beginning. A British car show did a multipart series of segments trying to ruin a w124 model, a 300te seven-seater ‘station-wagon’ and I think the cannonball ended it.

Lots of great features. The memory-adjusting drivers seat, third row, flat deck when seats were down that’s just long enough to sleep on, the cargo cover, the crazy stable 5-point suspension and self-leveling system, sensitive AWD drive, skookum quiet sunroof, great wipers, wood trim, and ultra rugged mb-tex seat fabric. Also relatively safe, for the time.

In 2003 I bought a 1993 Mercedes for 5% of its sticker price, inflation-corrected. 80K Km, new-looking. Everyone warned me about maintenance costs but the '93 was a rugged beast. Family road trips and multiple moving days and a lot of mileage. I was prepared for some expensive repairs due to money saved in purchase costs but got through another 10 years no problems, other than the 4matic AWD computer which just turned it into a solid RWD until I bought a used replacement.

Gaming the ripe time to pick a used model really depends upon design and manufacturing, but the sweet spot for reliable brands seems to be 5-10 years.

OK, but to be fair, we really really shouldn’t have been drinking out of hoses

Just gotta point out that if colours carry meaning, be careful about blue in Canada. Blackshirts and Brownshirts you’ve no doubt heard of, but in Canada our version was Blueshirts!

We always had consistent antifascist pushback to keep that shit from blooming too much, but they still had an effect. Those folks never really go away, and every generation makes its push. So keep it up folks!

The espresso machine and burr grinder are on the counter, and I have a coffee shrine shelf with moka pot, an old school percolator, pour-over gear, a french press, a stovetop steamer, and hand grinder for power outages. I am not a snob, though, really! Just prepared.

So when my live-in adult children started buying instant, I was a bit dismissive, but sure, whatever, eh. Then I realized they were getting Italissimo instant espresso, and I smelled it and a flood of childhood memories came back, it was the brand all my relatives and their friends had on standby when the moka pot would be too fussy… and it’s actually good.

• lynx

lol you win, but it’s the only weird thing on your list

Side note, there was a gui version of lynx that ran on the early Mac.

Also, the far right has more international solidarity than the communists even.

The “GST discount”. Heavily in use in rural areas.

Calls someone a turd

Stinks up the place

What a fine example you set

The farmer in this meme is a proponent of regenerative agriculture, just sayin’

That “freedom” is a thought experiment that assumes equal resources. Poverty is coercive and undermines the argument. Typical econ.

My dad got cancer, he was triaged into a special unit right away where they triangulate radiation on a tiny spot in the brain, he got a room to himself for a while, then a chemo regime and limited but helpful home support, and when all that excellent and responsive care didn’t pan out he got hospice that was thoughtful and caring.

No waits. The triage is strong in Canada.

All the sudden

Ouch. Eggcorn alert

OK so you don’t know any truckers and the soccer moms are hiding it… check out the caffeine treats by the till next time you roll through a truck stop. Don’t buy any though, it’s brutal. So yeah stimulants are used widely, lead one to another as habituation and escalation kicks in and self-medicating goes off the rails for many.

I like how you are being condescending and dismissive, while confidently missing the point!

Oh yeah, that is a cool remote. My observation about the awkwardness of a laptop in the living room is more about furniture and the layout of most media rooms. A second screen or a place for the laptop usually isn’t quite right, or downright bothersome. Even a desktop can be a problem.

My media server is hiding in the tv stand because it is NUC sized, an old mac mini. It could directly play to the tv, but for various reasons I wind up with apple castoffs, so an apple tv running Infuse is the front end. If I didn’t have that gear I would be running a modified android player.

I wind up in a lot of living rooms mucking around in their media systems and the furniture aspect matters to a lot of people. Also convenience is paramount, they want a media appliance in front of the couch, computers are for desks.

I know my family is grateful that I no longer force them to mess with a computer to watch something. Inconvenient and frustrating.

This is awkward in most living rooms and the remote control sucks. Source: my house, and my job.

Less awkward, ironically, when using airplay to an appletv.

Oh, that company is run by millionaires not billionaires and they are pretty sincere in not wanting to keep data that is requested for removal.

Having been hit by accessibility and copyright legal trolls has made them kind of gun shy though.

I have convinced them that they won’t miss it, plus I set up an easy and documented workflow.