Look at Saskatchewan, Canada. We're the only province with a public telecom, SaskTel.

Most people in the cities and even larger towns have fiber, and our cell plans are significantly cheaper than anywhere else in Canada despite being a rural province with a large coverage area to population ratio.

We also have decent electricity rates considering we have no hydro, and the cheapest natural gas in Canada. Thanks to SaskPower and SaskEnergy.

Public utilities are the only way to do it, I'm always shocked to see people defend privatization in any way.

Super unrealistic!

Fat Spiderman could never get a cab out here on the Prairies, he would show up in a battered farm truck and empty beer cans would fall out when he opened the door

Often they have signed leases with themselves. With original owners, holding companies etc.

This is a way of extracting value from a corporation without paying it as a dividend or salary. Dividends go to all shareholders. Lease payments go to one specific one.

So obviously if there's no reason to pay these leases anymore, somebody powerful is going to be very upset.

For real, shit-disturbing teenage me would have immediately flipped from "furries are dumb and weird" to "what's the minimum requirement to count as a furry" as soon as I found out that animal control would have to pick us up.

The thought of an old-school dog catcher chasing me with a net while I ran away wearing floppy dog ears is just too amazing to pass up.

What about a fish. Could I be a fish? Oh, what a time to be grown up and with kids of my own instead of being able to be a ridiculous jackass.

Ballsy? He's an outright copyright troll and anyone celebrating him here in the comments should read the article...

He wrote a knockoff book and then tried to claim Tolkien's characters as his own and sue his estate? Does nobody remember the days of BS software patent trolls trying to claim they invented "the app" or "method for clicking on things with the mouse cursor?" Do we remember how mad we were at those shysters?

This guy deserves whatever he gets.

UEFI is flawed for sure, but there's no way that any remaining patents on FAT32 haven't expired by now.

That's a bit much, isn't it? It's a brand new weird-ass truck, people are going to talk about it. And the article isn't exactly celebrating it.

If this article was about a new car from another brand, would you complain about it? I thought we wanted more content on this platform. Or we could just stick to memes I guess...

My wife is literally from the other side of the world... So now you have me wondering who our last common ancestor could be and how many degrees removed we are.

Hex could even be A tier except...

• 10 million metric sizes
• 10 million imperial sizes
• heads get full of rust or dirt
• note that this makes it even harder to tell which damn size they are
• usually mild steel so they strip, especially when it turns out you're using imperial in metric and vice versa

Too many years of wrenching on old equipment has soured me on all except for the good old fashioned hex bolt (S tier) and Robertson (A tier).

Even slotted beats most of these if the steel is decent, scrape out the rust and whack it with an impact screwdriver. I've turned many torx and hex in particular into slotted over the years.

From a pure practical standpoint, it doesn't make sense to eat carnivores. Terrible feed conversion. We don't want to raise meat to feed it to meat. Traditionally, ruminants were a way of converting inedible grass into nutritious meat and dairy.

Also, carnivores are a lot harder to handle... They bite! Cats jump and dogs dig. I farm. The livestock stay inside the fence, cats and dogs go where they please.

The animals in your first list are carnivores (cats are an obligate carnivore) while the second list are herbivores or omnivores that do well on a vegetarian diet. That's why we eat the second list and not the first.

Also humans like dogs, they're a lot like us despite being a smelly 4-legged bitey critter. It's quite odd, really. We've evolved together for millennia at this point. More so than any other species on earth, dogs have a place in our society alongside humans, with their own jobs and skill sets.

Ask a friend or someone who knows you well. I started taking Concerta a few years ago and told a friend I was working with. I said "I took one this morning and I don't feel like it did shit".

He assured me that in fact I was a different person to work with, focused and detail oriented and not annoyingly chatty. ADHD meds should just quietly make your life better, not have a strong feel. Though the first time you take amphetamines or bump the dose you can expect to feel a little speedy I found. Good opportunity to clean your house.

One thing I noticed is that it feels like ADHD meds manipulate your luck. When you take them, things just go right. My wife informed me this is because I don't rush or make stupid oversights that feel like bad luck, but it really does feel like they are concentrated luck in pill form. If you feel like the bad luck and chaos that follows you around is gone, they're working.

Concerta helped me get my life together but I hated the side effects, thirst, flushing, exhaustion. I took Adderall XR for a year which was great, and then switched to pure dextroamphetamine XR because it was covered by my insurance and Adderall was not. It does the job without any side effects other than needing to drink a bit more water.

Possibly even more significant, those are some large cables and even larger contacts required. There's no way a 1MW disconnect is just a little plug you stick into your car.

In fact as an electrician I can't think of anything even near megawatt class that would be connected with a portable cord, or at a voltage that would be safe for consumers to handle.

Maybe someone in the mining industry or similar can chime in, but I currently run a pumping station that includes 3000HP motors (2.2MW). These are 4kV 3 phase units where each phase cable is as thick as your arm. All connections are bolted and taped to avoid corona discharge. Just dragging the cable to the car would be more than the average driver could handle.

I don't see a way to get these power levels into a car short of a standardized and semi-automated docking system. Or maybe go back to the idea of standard swappable batteries where the battery then is charged rapidly for the next customer.