Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦

yeahhhh, Canadians have seen how this played out with Tims and it's not good 🥲

here they shifted to frozen par-baked donuts, shipped from factories & finished locally. a move that coincidentally also eliminated all the baker positions, the best paid workers in the store 😒

exactly; this complicates matters around increasing US oil production

nobody wants to be the fool who drilled a well that breaks even at $70, if next week oil is back to $65 🙃

A blank, generic cereal box with the caption "libc-rial! it's .so good"

Someone said something about ingesting libc and this is what popped into my head

"No wind is favourable to the one who knows not to which port they sail."

Seneca the younger said it some 2000 years ago, and it still applies today—to software, to government, and yes, especially to war.

to paraphrase a learned colleague: "How close are we to being done, on a scale of 0 to bullshit? Oh, a 7, great"

indeed, the "Iran–Pakistan relations" wikipedia article starts off by saying that the countries "have a complex relationship", which both:
• feels like an understatement, and
• is about as much as I'd be comfortable saying, given my lack of expertise with both countries 😅

I mean...not in the current conflict yet, as far as I know, but this happened two years ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Ir...

weirdly enough I had a similar problem on one of my feeds. I presume there was a hiccup of some kind? refreshing the page fixed it. 🤔

Doing research for my tech for good jobs posts always makes me want to yell at American companies that list "remote" roles when they mean "remote US".

Please y'all, other countries exist.

strong argument for Karma in this life, that the USA now comes to Ukraine with hat in hand, looking for help dealing with Shaheds
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geez. wtf happened to Ms "I don't wake up every day looking for a way to sue Donald Trump. But we are 10 days in and I've filed three cases already"?

TiL: Česká Kanada exists 😊🇨🇿🇨🇦

Our History - New Orleans Pizza New Orleans Pizza is 100% Canadian pizza brand. Since 1978, New Orleans Pizza has grown across Ontario, Nova scotia and New Brunswick.

New Orleans Pizza follows this exact same pattern as well: originated in the suburbs of Ontario, etc.

and they've backpedalled hard on their branding strategy any time the USA has done something politically unpopular 😅

www.neworleanspizza.com/our-history

omg, the Česká Kanada thing is amazing 😅

I once found this gem over in Pakistan. I assume the name is probably just for cynical real estate marketing purposes
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apparently building a Hyperloop is indeed too Hardt a challenge to pull off 😅

Turkey says missile launched from Iran destroyed by NATO A ballistic missile launched from Iran and heading towards Turkish airspace via Iraq and Syria was destroyed by NATO air defence systems, Turkish officials said Wednesday.

worth remembering amongst all this, that Türkiye is a NATO member.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

have been struck by lightning. despite this, we still outshot the other teams on the exercise 😅

hear hear. also, if the case can be made that Türkiye is under deliberate attack, that gives them a lot more latitude to take matters into their own hands. which I'm pretty sure is not what most other factions in the region want 🫠

(as an aside for friends who are also learning Japanese: imho "まだまだ勉強中です" is a super next-level response to "日本語上手ですね". both humble and gracious 😅)

I'm also amused to no end that figuring out a good reply to "nihongo jouzu desu ne" is such a common issue, that there are actual mini-tutorials with suggestions 😅

this one's one of my favourites

www.instagram.com/reel/DAYjCXi...

similarly: knowing that "nihongo jouzu desu ne" is polite & heartfelt encouragement, not objective praise, is part of the language's cultural context

thus, ironically, knowing that "nihongo jouzu!" does not actually mean your nihongo is jouzu, is a sign that your nihongo is becoming more jouzu 😅

so. part of learning a language is learning its cultural context and nuances

one of my colleagues told me her shorthand way of assessing someone's Japanese fluency: how they say "no" to a request 😅

if they say "iie" ("no"): beginner

from there: the more indirect the response, the more fluent 😆

ngl, it amuses me to no end that there are tutorials on how to respond to "nihongo jouzu desu ne"

as in, that's how common an issue it is 😅

www.instagram.com/reel/DAYjCXi...

Provincial and territorial leaders announce plan for a connected electricity grid Eight provinces and two territories have signed a deal to build cross-country electricity transmission infrastructure. Read more.

woot woot ⚡

financialpost.com/commodities/...

Buena Vista Social Club - De Camino A La Vereda (Live at Carnegie Hall) [Official Audio] YouTube video by Buena Vista Social Club

¡Sí, señor! 😅
¡Óigame, compay! No deje el camino por coger la vereda

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyvK...

depends what's on offer and what your alternatives are!

if you get a fantastic deal from one of the Gulf carriers and are ok with your flight being extensively delayed or cancelled altogther: maybe 🤔

if you need to get somewhere on any kind of reliable schedule: probably not 🥲

the parallels with Tim Hortons in Canada are uncanny tbqh

we don't like it because it's good so much as we like it because it's familiar 😅

oh hear hear, as much as I like Over The Distance better as a song, I would absolutely endorse that one too 🥲

Canoeists battling octopus help NWT snow carvers win Finnish medal "If you choose not to find joy in snow, you will have less joy in your life – but still the same amount of snow." Three NWT carvers recount a trip to Finland.

“If you choose not to find joy in snow, you will have less joy in your life – but still the same amount of snow.”

cabinradio.ca/281793/news/...

this is legit one of my favourite things about the language and I love it so much 🥹

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