troyunrau

The first mistake was shopping hungry. Those groceries are: a box of ice cream sandwiches, 24 cans of root beer, and a bag of beef jerky -- teriyaki style.

My party artificer, making a sheering kit...

Nice kitties

Aha, "just south of me", I say from a thousand miles away.

If you're a mountains person, yeah BC is the place to be. But it's also same-same as what you can see in a lot of places in the US in the mountains. Like, you won't tell the difference between much of BC and much of Washington.

If you've got the time, go straight north from your location. Way way north. Go to Yellowknife, and do it in March -- it's about three days driving. You'll get there and they'll have northern lights galore, ice castles on the lake, people driving their trucks on the ice to their houseboats that have just frozen into the ice for the season...

Or go in summer and go fishing there. The lake is 600m (1900ft) deep... Trout like tuna.

Unsolicited advice ends ;)

Assuming you're coming from the US, where are you coming from? Driving or flying? Troy's travel tips and unsolicited advice for free, this evening only!

The government has a monopoly on force. That force should be weilded by the fairest and most impartial people possible. Police, investigation agencies, etc., should be as free from bias as possible.

Now, you have multiple ways to get to that point, and people have different opinions on the purest way to achieve this. But, electing them doesn't seem to be the way. Tyranny of the majority is too strong. And appointment by elected officials is equally problematic. So how then does a system establish that is not subject to abuse by those with power?

I would argue that the best system for appointing law enforcement seems to be via a benevolent dictator or monarch or their representatives. And it only works for their lifetime, unless the inertia of the benevolent institution can be sustained. Well, it's a crapshoot but stable at least for the lifetime of the monarch or similar.

I'd also entertain citizen lotteries for these sorts of positions. But that's a crapshoot on shorter timeframes.

Because, for them, burning it down is the point.

Or come to Canada. We're mostly nice. Ignore those bots in Albertastan

Moths are nudists. Checkmate atheists

Right. I'm messaging three of them now. Apparently they want my credit card

Source?

Someone sold them a bridge, it seems.

The hydrogen economy will never exist in a profitable or stable way provided most hydrogen is sourced from natural gas wells. It's a "value add" for existing producers, and a way to say they can't shut off the wells.

Hydrogen created by electrolysis of water is not energy efficient.