Yay? For a city with a budget of $167M for 2025, I’m not sure that this amount is much more than a rounding error.

It’s great that they’re building housing and vastly exceeded their target, but that should be the subject of the article; not the negligible amount of money being thrown their way

Tesla’s stock price isn’t based on car sales, so falling car sales shouldn’t make a huge difference.

Maybe 10% of their stock price can be attributed to the auto sector, but when they can swing that much every week, it’s basically irrelevant.

Serious question: while air drops are likely dangerous and ineffective, are they better then nothing? Bringing aid in by land/truck is impossible right now, so the comparison shouldn’t be to that; it should be compared to getting nothing at all.

It’s not a mistake; it’s a feature.

Tech only standardized when the EU made them or when it was so overwhelmingly necessary. Different plugs, non-replaceable batteries, and various other consumer-unfriendly features are mostly there so it’s hard to switch to a different manufacturer.

With vehicles, the battery is most of the cost of the vehicle. If they allow battery swaps, then people can make their cars last longer, and make their used models more valuable (which is still kinda good for the manufacturer, because they’ll be paying for battery swaps).

There are also arguments that the battery can be a structural component and therefore basically impossible to swap in and out easily. I don’t know how much cost savings this brings, but Tesla thought it was worth it for their 3/Y platform.

Most (maybe all) car seats have two methods of attachment - LATCH/LUAS system and just using the seatbelt.

A quick Google search shows me that they use it in Europe too, but call it ISOFIX. As far as I can tell it’s just three different names for the same system.

The seat belt method should work regardless of whether the car was made for North America or EU.

Plus, safety standards change all the time. This is just one new standard for them to follow (if it is even different at all).

Both can be true.

If everything is Cuba’s fault, then US can lift sanctions and they’ll continue to be failing. But they won’t do that because Cuba, while awful for speech rights, would be pretty good in most other aspects without the sanctions, and a successful socialist country isn’t allowed to exist.

I came from a manual transmission, so the learning curve was easier for me than for my wife who had only driven automatics.

The point is mostly that it generates electricity while slowing down. It’s also just more directly analogous to how the motor works. Pedal down -> electricity into motor. Less pedal = less electricity. No pedal = no electricity in. When there’s no electricity being applied to the motor, and the motor is turning, then it generates electricity (by slowing the motor).

The actual weird thing is just that people are just okay with their automatic transmission cars moving when they’re not directly applying gas. I understand the mechanism behind why it happens, but when you think about it, it’s a weird and potentially unsafe behaviour that shouldn’t be replicated in EVs.

It’s as smooth as you make it. There’s a slight learning curve, and you need to be able to move your foot smoothly, but it’s otherwise pretty straightforward. Some people got used to driving with the gas pedal as an “on/off” button and they need to stop thinking of it like that.

That’s not how tax breaks work. The government isn’t giving money away, it’s just pledging to not collect money in the future. I don’t know the specifics of this deal, and $15B seems like a lot compared to the scope of this project, but it’s likely that if they didn’t offer tax breaks at all, this would have been built in Mexico or USA instead. There was probably a number in between 15B and zero that would have still brought them to Canada though.

Presumably the government accountants who made this deal expect this project to bring in significantly more then $15B in taxes over a decade or so of operation.

It could be a financial thing still. It’s often a lot cheaper to fly to Europe than it is to take a domestic flight within Canada. So when faced with that choice, why not go overseas?

If you don’t think she has a serious chance to win, then I’m not sure I understand what the complaint is here. What “harm” are they causing?

At the end of the day what does LBC stand for if they’re undermining legitimate independent candidates?

The stand for electoral reform (and against the first-past-the-post voting system).

If they’re a serious contender, then it shouldn’t matter how many people are on the ballot; their supporters will be voting for them by name.

Just like the LBC didn’t affect the end result in Carlton, it won’t make a huge difference here either.

Can you define “non exploitation”?

My understanding is that leather is a waste byproduct of the meat industry, so much in the same way that gas is from dinosaurs that are already dead, the cows that provide leather are “already dead” due to their use as meat.

So in that sense, it seems like leather is the more ecological choice, though not knowing your definition of exploitation, it may or may not be exploitative. I certainly wouldn’t consider it vegan though.

There once was a final solution
With suffering and mass execution
They said “Never again”
What they actually meant
Was “Palestine’s just an illusion”

But if we also include all the times that he didn’t kill Hitler, then he actually killed two thirds of a Hitler

Despite these options not being mutually exclusive, I think I would be in the 17.2%. I’m not buying US booze now, but I wasn’t buying it before either.

Mostly this survey is pretty bad, and I don’t think we can make any good conclusions from the results.

The left seems awfully worried about home values

Why do you think it’s the left that’s worried about home values?

I live in Canada. I used to visit the States probably every other year. Then Trump was elected in 2016, and I stopped going. Then covid happened, so I figured I’d wait a bit longer. And now it’ll be another 3 years until I even consider it, but that largely depends on what happens in that time span. It’s not out of the question to just never visit again. There are plenty of other places in the world that I haven’t seen yet.

There’s a good chance that many or all of these cases are in the Mennonite community.

That’s not an explanation of why he should be barred from office.

He’s Catholic, but he’s not trying to make Canada Catholic. Trudeau and Poilievre are also Catholic. In fact, every single PM of Canada has been either Catholic or Protestant.