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Think of it as testing your resolve. You came out fine. Take a victory lap. It will be hard for fate to come out with anything worse.

There is a reason Toronto has all those ravine parks and river parks. What used to be neighborhoods are now parks because they were built ion flood plains and Hurricane Hazel came and washed them into the lake.

I caught up a few weeks ago. I own a lot of Caanadian utilities so tariffs had a negligible effect. Same with Canadian bank stocks.

I am not chronically ill but I do have scoliosis since 13 years of age. I have had limitations on what I can do as as I approach old age I am seeing effects. When I was 16 I was scheduled for corrective surgery on my spine but it was canceled the day before as the doctor figured that I had stopped growing. Later on my now wife insisted I get a second opinion so I did and I was told that people with 40 degrees or less of curvature will not have problems later in life. Those with 45 degrees or more will have problems. Well I have 44.5 degrees of curvature and for those people it was wait and see. I do have issues. One leg is an inch shorter than the other, making walking not always easy. Any exercise to work my abs leaves me in pain for days and I find standing for too long cause severe pain also. I did find that walking on pavement can hurt but if I walk on rough ground I can walk much easier. I do go to the gym regularly but I do not continue any exercise if it affects my back and try to find a replacement. There is always something you can do and I am glad to see you trying. Stay strong Theda.

Artificial intelligence coming for your job is not the big problem. AI going after your leisure time is the real scary threat. Original content providers such as old fashioned newspapers, magazines and books have been increasingly used by big tech to fill up the information pipeline we all tap into. Unfortunately big tech has figured out how to do this with not paying those same creators making it harder and harder for them to actually create original content. The last thing we need is for AI to do what is already being done to original content but on a much larger scale with no regard to quality whatsoever. We can look forward to an endless stream of shitty books, music, and movies because it is cheaper to do so than actually pay someone to create anything original. I do think people are creative and will come to a workaround at some point. I can also see the rush to have AI do everything becoming a money pit for those same big tech companies and due to any workarounds and bankrupting themselves out of existence.

This legislation was introduced by Trudeau over a year ago when the polls were heading down and everyone expected the Tories to be the ones to have to implement it and then suffer the wrath of the voters and the big tech companies. I suppose the media companies in Canada who are losing out could sue for the wrongful use of their product and try and hit up the tech giants for damages but they rely on those same tech companies to distribute their online product. More paywalls could also be a solution. Or the government could go after them for being a monopoly and severely limit their Canadian operations.

We had our granddaughter over for a weekend sleepover. Had a great day with strawberry picking and swimming at an outdoor pool in the beautiful afternoon. Being 4 years old she was tired and into bed at about 8 pm and dead to the world. At 2 am or so she woke up and wanted to sleep in our bed so I let her in and she snuggled up to me for the rest of the night. At 6:30 am she woke up and wanted me to get up too. I got up and sat on the edge of the bed and realized something was horribly wrong. My side of the bed, and me were wet and smelled of pee. Grandkids. Can't help but love them but still...

I just heard Hegseth calling the bombing the most secure secret operation ever. Wert gave us all a heads up well before. I just have to laugh.

No it won't. Don't worry about being creepy. You come across as too sensitive to be good at being creepy. Enjoy the meet up.

Welcome back Spocky.

The problem with dick waving is that everyone gets to see the actual size and not the boasted size.

Lots of astronomers, amateur and professional, are excited to get hold of these images. Lots of discoveries are waiting to happen and astronomy is one of the few fields that allow amateurs to still make significant discoveries. and yes I am excited too as the entire southern sky will be mapped continuously every 10 days or so, so real time changes can be seen and studied.

I have too may scars to count. Being a clumsy kid and adult does that to you. I have a permanently bent finger on my left hand due to crushing it at work, small scars everywhere from trips and falls but my worst accident left none. I was racing down a steep hill on a gravel road when my front bike wheel came off and I plowed a furrow in the gravel with my face. A woman in a house at the bottom of the hill took me in and washed all the blood of my face and remarked that even with so much blood she couldn't see any cuts. I still attribute the fact that at 69 I still look much younger due to having my face sandpapered with coarse grit at an early age.

Considering how popular CCR was during the Viet Nam era, I am sure the soldiers there heard it numerous times. I certainly did growing up in the 60s and 70s. They could also used Gotta Get Outta This Place by the Animals or Paint It Black by the Stones.

The oil industry doesn't want a pipeline as the cost would be prohibitive to go across to the St. Lawrence. Nobody will step up to build it no mater how much Smith whines.

Apple seems to have tossed a bomb into the AI business releasing a paper that shows how AI can't solve simple problems.

The only thing worse is running into an occupied web. My daughter , at 5 years did this, with a spider the size of a small dog. Of course I had to go and flick it off of her as it was crawling up the front of her dress. What dads need to do at times.

Someone knows their Canadian history.

If I recall correctly did the Saxons not lose to the Normans?

As a manly man, those images of a barechested Putin, especially with that lack of muscle tone, do not evoke masculinity but just another pencil necked geek trying too hard.

Maybe not. I can speculate that the AI race will be as productive as Reagan's Star Wars initiative. Nothing came of it except the bankruptcy of the Soviet Union.

How's that going so far? I doubt that anyone could find a more incompetent Secretary of Defense if the Pentagon held the military equivalent of the Upper Class Twit of the Year contest.

The Gilded Gravy Plane.

Not a lot of thinking thinking things through to a conclusion. But then that seems typical of the people who hold grievances clutched tightly to their bosom.

He did write a book a few years back about his vision for a more fair and equitable economic system. He has some strong opinions on what he does not like, rent seeking behaviour is one, so I do expect him to remake Canada. I have to say that his book is not an easy read without some knowledge of economics.