Exports more than it imports because it doesn't classify Canada 'tarsand' that it imports as oil, but the refined products after it as oil. Oil production in the united states peaked in the 70's. Thats why we had the oil shock in the 70's, we ceased to be able to dictate the price.
Safe flow and extraction rates. for long term oil field health. As in to minimize sudden ground shifting as you remove what's keeping it up int he porous rock. Which if done incorrectly can permanently lock of parts of the oil field is why 'armchair' analyzers are always wrong about 'we have enough oil for ourselves'.

Over blown and over hyped. Turns out gravity is 'really' good at bringing things down that have no way to keep up their own momentum.

First it was just someone no one heard of just, popping up out nowhere. Putting pull requests in multiple projects and distro's to add age verification.
Now a push to charge for access.
Next comes the knock on your door asking if you're using unauthorized software.

With how SystemD acts like the old Microsoft, assimilating everything into one giant blob of code violating the unix like philosophy. Won't be long till systemD asks this upon every boot.

Nothing you said disproves that. It's not a hack, just turning the og console into an emulated version of itself, at that point you might as well emulate the entire thing on a modern pc. Because you're no longer using real hardware and any advantages that come with that but all the disadvantages of imperfect emulation.

A hack would be tapping into the internal video data lines/output/traces to input into an hdmi encoder chip for an hdmi port. But no we don't do that now, we just cram a raspberry pi, and emulate the entire video subsystem to get an hdmi output. Or in this specific case. a Hack would be overclocking the actual chip.

I am hating the recent trend of sticking a raspberry pi into a retro console to 'emulate' part of it and calling it a hack.

If you're going to do that, might as well emulate it via software on a pc. you can leverage a full modern graphics stack, api's,a nd shaders to enhance the game.

Here in British Columbia we just changed our clocks for the last time and will remain on UTC-7 indefinitely. Parts of B.C. (the northeast part) have been UTC-7 all year for a long time. The southeast part has been Mountain time (UTC-7/UTC-6) for a long time. Neither are changing how they do time.

I applaud losing the time change but I'm not crazy about permanent DST. People obviously haven't thought this through, what it's going to feel like come November.

...laura

Near-lifelong B.C. resident here...

People have grumbled about time changes as long as I can remember. Pick one. Stick to it. Just do it.

I can't say I agree with their choice. Not so much the crazy late sunset in the summer - we're used to that - but the very late sunrise in the winter. The sun will still set by 5 in December and January. So what?

...laura

"Please" and "thank you" are relics of a bygone age to most people.

The one that pisses me off is the habit of customer service people addressing men respectfully ("sir"), but not addressing women with respect ("ma'am" or equivalent). This isn't an issue in places like Texas, but it's very much an issue here in Canada.

...laura

When I first saw 4k I was startled by the picture quality. I also winced at the price tag, and shook my head at the lack of native 4k content. I now own a 4k TV, stream lots of 4k content on line, and generally like what I see. I shoot my own YouTube videos in 4k.

Is 8K just not that much better? Lack of content? Or just bad timing, people would rather spend money on food than a new toy?

...laura

Like that is 'really' what it will be used for. Instead of killing off political dissent and stopping movements like amelia before they get started.

Yes they do. When markets and Capitalism satisfy lower needs in the famous 'maslow's hierarchy of needs'. Peopl can turn to each other with less suspicion of them being a threat to these needs. It also helps when a society is more homogeneous culturally and racially because it gets past the primal 'us vs. them' tribalism our stone age brain runs on.

Subaru do a lot of things well - they're masters of all-wheel drive - but this is nuts.

I bought a VW Taos earlier this year with the usual trial subscription to Sirius XM. I was going to pull the plug when it expired but Sirius XM offered me a steep discount if I re-upped, so I did. They did it so readily that I wonder how many people are paying full price...

The bulk of my listening is two channels, Hits One and The Pulse.

...laura