Jokes are supposed to be funny :(

Shitty modern electric stove tops use infrared radiation. Good modern electric stove tops are induction

Right? Why wasn’t that the headline?

If it shocked you, it’s faulty

Why would they invented a plugs that’s not grounded?

Because the importance of grounding was something we figured out after those plugs were invented?

Does the mandatory national service pay $30+/hour, with raises if you stay voluntarily after the mandatory period is finished? That might do it.

And how is this allowed?

It isn’t.

Z and I switching is weird

I do, everything at Tim’s is garbage, why would their lids be any different?

I’m mostly in agreement, and would prefer worker-owned co-ops over crown corporations in theory, my only issue is one of scale, and that’s unfortunately where a crown corp wins out, unless UFCW starts opening union co-ops across the country to compete with Loblaws.

Which they should, but UFCW doesn’t have the guts to try

A national crown corp could pull it off just as well as a national private corp like Loblaws could

Yeah. We could have been Norway, with a ridiculous sovereign fund, but instead the right wing gave it away

I would make the comparison to SaskTel or Canada Post

I do quite like co-ops, but I was thinking a crown corporation, just because that way they’d have the scale to seriously threaten Loblaws and the like.

Of course, the problem with crown corporations is that as soon as the Conservatives get into power, they’ll sell it for pennies (and probably to Loblaws)

We don’t need a foreign grocer, we need a publicly owned option

It will be if Poilievre wins the next election

Fuck Deep Saini

Those are all serious concerns, and I expect PHEV vehicle design to change over the next few years (my only concern is how many “few” is).

The more sensible design if you’re are going for ‘ICE as backup’, not ‘electric as efficiency improvement on top of ICE’ is a typical electric ‘drivetrain’ and battery, with a generator, more similar to diesel-electric trains. A switch to diesel in general wouldn’t be a bad idea either, but the north american market would be resistant.

Depending on how gas prices and the EV market go, I wouldn’t be surprised if drop-in engine replacements for converting ICE vehicles to hybrid become easily available in the next 5-10 years either, especially on larger vehicles.

It’ll still be a typical ICE transmission, which will still be less efficient, but you can run the engine at the ideal RPM all the time which helps make up for that. Where to put enough battery to be worthwhile is problematic, but the vehicles that would benefit most tend to have vestigial truck beds, so there is that

Also, PHEV vehicles will retain most of the benefit of all-electric, while alleviating range anxiety stemming from deteriorated batteries

We’re not all troglodytes, but unfortunately a lot of the people here are. I’m hopeful for the next election, nobody likes Danielle Smith, even the people who voted for her. Here in Edmonton most of the city goes NDP