That's British though. How is it uniquely Canadian, like the date format?

It's not uniquely Canadian, but we inherit the spelling of some words from American English, like "utilize" (instead of the UK "utilise") while using other words from UK English (like honour, colour, etc) instead of the American honor, color, etc.

It's a hybrid system that makes it Canadian, and you can tell if the localization team did a good job or not or if they just assumed Canadian English is either US or UK English rather than a mixh-mash.

It has a SINGLE pair of boards, duh.

So it's a plan with no drawbacks?

I do recognize that this is an issue for the disabled, but it's unsustainable for them as well, and I reject temporary solutions that aren't backed up by permanent ones. If the plan is only to kick the can and wish for a miracle, it's a bad plan.

That's not even wrong, it's just not how anything works. You're comparing a motor to an energy storage mechanism and also ignoring efficiency at the same time.

Monthly payments matter. Also when people are poor and can't afford big payments and the vehicles are very expensive then they wind up spending a lot in interest. TCO matters but so does monthly cost.

They have existed for decades. What did you actually mean to say?

No military of consequence is going to shift to purely electric vehicles any time soon because of refueling times alone, but in number of roles an EV has an advantage because it's quiet and reliable. If you can deliver a tanker truck, then you can deliver a generator.

Most of my coworkers have to go out of county for even fairly basic medical care because there isn't anything available here and wait times can be into the months. I had referrals for over a year that I never even got a call back on. It's not clear why you think that the USA has functional medical care, but in many cases and places it very much does not.

It depends on how you define it. If you think of it from a purely mineral basis then sure, the arctic is not looking at many changes. If you're thinking about the animal life that is there, it's in trouble. We are not the only animals on this mudball.

I want gig workers to receive a living wage whether I am doing business with them or not, but this is the wrong way to try to accomplish that.

The right way is to change the employment laws such that they have to be paid decently, and to raise the minimum wage if necessary, etc.

Trying to solve the problem with tips is completely wrong. They're supposed to be an expression of appreciation above and beyond what you need to survive, not the basis of survival. Trying to trick the customer into paying that indirectly is some bootlicking bullshit which also disguises the true cost of survival.

That's not the argument. The argument is (actually, arguments are):

1) It wasn't worth $20M, they could have done the same thing in house for less
2) It shouldn't have been built in, it should have been an add-on, they could have shipped it with the browser.

1 is the most pertinent given the story we're discussing, but 2 is also important. By putting it into the browser instead of making it an extension when there's absolutely no need for it to be built in, they forced it on users. They also have a Microsoftesque habit of turning on things you've turned off when you do an update, which is sometimes achieved by simply not doing anything rational with users' config settings when the code has changed and their meaning now differs, so that you have to refresh your profile to make the browser work correctly.

Firefox should have less stuff built into it, not more.

You said fuck it and voted for the reality show host with bankrupt casinos.

With bankrupt casinos AND dementia.

You can tell people are rationalizing of course, because basically all of the arguments against Biden also applied to Trump but not Harris. But someone when Biden withdrew, Harris's laugh was a more important issue on the national level than the President having serious cognitive decline.

And for what, so you yo-yos can get money for nothing and your chicks for free?

I've got a daytime job and I'm doing alright.

Your comment subject seems to imply a homogeneity in North American English which is non-existent. For example, for Canadians a cheque is a financial instrument; a check is an inspection or process of confirmation. Nite and lite are merely misspellings of night and light. Also, the last letter of the alphabet is and always will be zed and not zee.

Colour, flavour, and valour are usually spelled with the 'u' here in Elbows Up land, whereas in the US I'm pretty sure the 'u' almost never appears in those words.

And of course, in America the word meter may refer to either a unit of measure or an instrument for measuring. Here in Canuckistan, the unit of measure is the metre.

It should be noted that English is a language that evolved. The biggest fork happened between the Colonies in the New World and the British way back when - North American English kept using words that ended up being deprecated in England.

Noah Webster (yes, of dictionary fame) wrote his dictionary where, as dictionary writer, he got to choose the spellings, and decided the "u" was redundant. So that is the origin of the u-less versions of colour, flavour and other words.

At the same time, all the Englishes adopted new words from other languages and the forks of English grow and separate.

And words like "Utilize" Canadian English adopted from US spelling (hence the scandal because the UK uses "utilise"). But also failed to adopt other US spellings like "donut", keeping the original doughnut. I still cringe at the shortened spelling. (Interestingly, Krispy Kreme used to use doughnut before shortening down to Krispy Kreme).

And "metre" is the official way the unit of length is spelled per the SI. Another Canadianism is the use of the term "hydro" to mean the power utility - we don't say power bill, we say hydro bill. We don't say electric or power company, we just say hydro company.

It's always the little things which makes UK and US English spelling dictionaries not quite Canadian English.

How nice for you and the other guy.

We were both fans. But allegedly it had a low number of tens of millions of users, but then firefox has a decent number of tens, so the percentages weren't terrible.

It's a collecting information about your activity service. It's not for you, it's for them.

yeah yeah if you're not paying you're the product yada yada.

Cool. But it was also useful to me. The bookmarking and tagging was very useful. The recommended articles were really good. And I shouldn't use it because?