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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Jesse Brown from Canadaland had long lamented Canada's inability to define itself except in contrast to Americans. He's right that we ought to have more positive identity markers but I think it has inadvertently resulted in a very robust independence sentiment. Ie because so much of our identity is defined as differences relative to America the idea of being American is offensive to the core of our identity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Mate I'd be buying a car that ISN'T American, because international manufacturers would be diverting supply away from America. I have and use a bicycle, but it's difficult to bicycle to the ski hill with my family's skis.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As a Canadian shopping for a car should I expect price drops due to diverted supply?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

My buddy warned me about the mint the pervious owners planted, and I pulled it right away. It was right by our basement entrance so I frequently peer in and inspect for mint shoots. I think there must be a buried barrier or something (like landscaping cloth) preventing it from spreading outside the bed it was in. I found a small sprig 4 years after pulling everything I could find.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Part of loving your country is wanting it to be better.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't it a lot more like a capitalist treadmill? Work hard to make number go up! It is in fact beatable in the sense that the number can't actually go up forever, eventually the system crashes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It actually isn't a movie, it's a Broadway musical that was filmed and released without a cinematic release. If you knew anything about cinema or the English language you'd know that, but you're too obsessed with making me look like an asshole to think about it rationally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah we should totally ban drug smuggling!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Obviously Canada wouldn't be allowed statehood.

I think the real question is what are Americans willing to sacrifice in terms of civil rights to subdue Canadian insurrectionary impulses.

America could conquer/economically annex Canada's territory, but to conquer Canadians is a separate question. I think it would take a 10+ year suspension of civil rights in America to achieve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They look awesome. I want the steel one and I don't want to wait until December (at the earliest). Will having the less expensive one potentially in July scratch the itch enough? Maybe I should order both? Decisions decisions...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about crochet but that couldn't have been easy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I did 6 months for each of my kids and it was great.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Canadian homeless encampments have become increasingly visible in recent years, and those residing within them have faced a fair bit of variation in how local governments react to their presence. Today, let's look at a remarkable legal case that may change the game regarding how homeless encampments are considered under Canadian law and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

 

I'm not saying that it's likely or that it would have any effects.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I live in Vancouver Canada, my house was built in the 1950's and the basement has the floor joists of the kitchen [above it] exposed.

At that time forestry here was felling massive ancient trees. I'm curious how precisely I can establish a maximum age of the trees felled.

Obviously I could count the rings visible on the joists and subtract that number from 1950, but not having the tree's full diameter limits measurement. I understand it's possible to compare relative ring sizes with existing [cross referenced] data sets to date timber.

Does anyone have any experience doing this or able to point me in the right direction? Any resources I'm unlikely to find on Google?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

...and a fact check of the statements made in the interview.

 

I'm trying to achieve variable speed control on two brushed DC motors powered by a 3s or 4s LiPo battery (~12V or 15V). This is for a nerf blaster I'm modifying, which is why I'm not using a pre-made speed control ie I want control over the shape/layout. I'd like to vary projectile speed with a thumb knob.

I just finished watching ElectricMonkeyBrain's YouTube video on the TL494 PWM chip.

I was initially planning to vary the duty cycle with a potentiometer on the chip's control pin, to get a PWM signal and feed that into a MOSFET. But in the video he mentions that the chip has an integrated over current protection function. Ie the chip will

monitor the voltage across a sense resistor in series with the load 

and will

kill the output if the sensed voltage/current goes above a reference voltage

It occured to me that I could actually adjust the reference voltage as a way to control the motor speed.

Would this be a better way to achieve speed control and protect my motors/battery? Or is it a terrible idea altogether.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This goose has adopted my parents, and is attempting to establish residency in their cabin. We suspect it is domestic and escaped from its coop. It's a seasonal cabin and they're planning to close up soon. What should they do? Central Ontario. Near Bracebridge.

UPDATE: A neighbor of theirs is set up for chickens, so could accommodate a goose. And shortly after making that arrangement an ad appeared in the community message board. So the goose is going home.

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