Looked it up in case my memory was bad. From wiki,

Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used, and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An alternative definition is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition; it may include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and squash, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses, but exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains.

Which agrees what I was taught in school.

Could be worse, handing them to religious nut jobs to sexually abuse. Of course some governments are full of religious nut jobs so you have the worst of both worlds.

Weights and measures would be exactly as it sounds, your Federal government decides what an inch, etc is. It did this in 1866, passing a law that 1 metre = 39.37 inches, or an inch = 25.4000508 mm. And on July the 1st, 1959 declared the yard of exactly 0.9144 metres or 25.4 mm exactly, aligning with the British Commonwealth.
Imagine if different States had different inches, even that 2 millionth of a difference adds up.
Remember too that weights and measures were one of the 1st things regulated in the middle ages, selling under weight bread or meat was a serious crime, so the need to regulate was well known when your country was founded.

Yes, originally the idea was that BC would change to DST in sync with the US western States with the law passed in 2019 IIRC. Then this year the Premier decided to unilaterally change it. The excuse being that with our relationship in the dumps, we were tired of waiting. The cynic view was the change was to distract from the budgets deficit. Now we'll see what happens this winter when the clocks don't change.
Ontario passed a similar law, where they're waiting on NY and Quebec to implement it.

Yes, it is interesting how our countries have evolved. It's the opposite here, originally we had a strong Federal government as we had just watched your civil war. It has evolved to the Provinces having a lot of power and the Federal government less. Partially due to us having a living Constitution. The feds can still use bribery. Healthcare, Provincial thing, the Federal Canada health Act says if the Provinces meet certain criteria, Federal money will be supplied. I think that is how highways work down there.
We also don't have something like the Interstate Trading Clause, it's easier to trade with America then other Provinces, though Trump has motivated us to fix that. It's all a balancing act and part of it is having independent courts. Helps that Judges have mandatory retirement at 75 here.

Luckily the towns etc don't seem to be inclined to randomly change time zones, just decide which side they'll be on, and stay there, while others not near the border don't even consider unilaterally changing their zone.
But yes, things should be local if possible. Here, all the feds do is make suggestions and even let the Territories decide on their own and I'd guess the courts would stop the Federal government from intruding on the Provinces time management if a Province took it to court. Always seemed weird to me that the States were hampered by Congress from deciding on these types of things.

Depends on where a town is more attached. If you're close to the border and the closest big cities are in a different time zone, it might make more sense to align with them. Here in BC, it's the towns that are close to Alberta that decided to be on mountain time rather then pacific and are now wondering which way to go. Or like one town I lived in, officially the time zone boundary went through the town. They decided to stay on MST all year round so in the summer, they aligned with the rest of the Province and in winter, aligned with Alberta.
There's towns on Provincial/State borders too. If the time zone follows the border, it is easier for the town to pick one. Kansas City might be like that.

Ah, like how the Yukon went to permanent DST a few years back and most of BC going to DST this year. Of course in BC, it is up to individual towns etc to decide and along the east they're still debating it.

Except most of the world didn't get a vote.

Watching various mechanics on YouTube, American cars now have the same problem, no parts availability along with shit manufacturing with plastic parts. Even simple stuff like tranny fluid is not available or on back order. Things like trannies no longer having dip sticks too, want to check the level, hope you have access to a lift. Of course this stuff is supposed to be good for the life of the vehicle which is now maybe 5 years.

I know someone who inherited the family drainage company, basically ditch digging and burying big-O pipe on farm land. He has millions of dollars of equipment, GPS, lasers for getting the slope right and such. At the end of the day he still needs a couple of guys with shovels for various reasons from the excavator getting tangled up in some unforeseen manner (buried wire often) to finishing the ends of the ditches.
As usual, 98+% can be automated but there's still that 1-2%.

As a revolution, the American revolution was a complete failure at overthrowing the British government, got no where near Parliament. It was a very successful war of secession which resulted in independence from the British government. There has been other successful wars of secession, though many such as various ones in Africa ended up authoritarian.
The Russian revolution resulted in an Authoritarian State with brief periods of democracy and is still authoritarian.
The French revolutions, as you state, resulted in a mixture of democracy and authoritarianism.
A good example of a successful revolution was the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which actually had little violence as revolutions go and resulted in neutering the power of the King in favour of Parliament, with Parliament slowly getting more democratic since then.

Would that kind of user even be interested in Notepad++?

You should check out the abandoned well situation in Alberta. Likely to cost Canadian tax payers up to 100 billion to clean up as those companies shouldn't be expected to clean up their mess. Some of those wells are also giving off toxic fumes. Also check out the unpaid land taxes in Alberta for those same wells, because why should oil companies pay land taxes.
Not to mention the massive amount of land given to mining bitumen.

Only 49,000 Chinese electric cars getting imported into Canada right now. This is likely to increase if America screws up the CUSMA deal as looks likely.