Around here (southern Saskatchewan), it doesn't take much snow to generate a lot of runoff compared to major dumps of rain. Probably because the snow melt is running over frozen ground. I know spring is here when all of a sudden the big puddle in back of our place just disappears overnight.
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Point taken, but I didn't forget about it. I go hiking and tenting on the ice on Lake Diefenbaker, so I know all about it. I just didn't know how to bring it in without lending yet more credence to all the myths and misconceptions.
There are a lot of differences between actual -25C with no wind and windchill of -25C. For example at -25 with no wind, my wool parka with a fairly open knit is perfect on its own for a wide range of activities. But with a windchill of -25, I'm better off with my fleece bunny hug under a windbreaker, then layering up with a tightly knit wool sweater when I'm inactive.
When I still biked, -15 with no wind quickly turned into -25 windchill, but if the windchill was already -25, hopping on the bike didn't make a huge difference, so I dressed about the same in both cases.
Yup. I surprised myself when I pulled the last decade of data for my nearest Environment Canada weather station (Lucky Lake, SK). I don't remember the number, but it was shockingly few days with a low colder than -30C. I was similarly surprised by the low number of days with a low colder than -20C.
In some accents and dialects, "draws" is exactly what you get, so it's not any more of a mispronunciation than "terlet" for "toilet" or any of thousands of other cases.
What? That's horrifying!
This doesn't surprise me at all. Compared to most other forms of social media, lemmy is pretty old-school in concept. Like the earliest forms of social media (USENET, FidoNET, forums, mailing lists), it's based on discussing topics of interest, not following people of interest. Thus, I subscribe to (and post within) "woodworking", not "Paul Sellers" or "Stumpy Nubs". (I do follow them elsewhere, though.)
In addition, it's been pretty close to 20 years since it was standard procedure to go to teenagers for help figuring out "this computer thing" or "this internet thing". Oh, sure, maybe someone my age can benefit from the knowledge of a teenager when it comes to something like tiktok, but the vast majority of even the over 50s have got all the basics and more figured out.
Taken together with the fact that there are a lot more people over 20 than 10-20, I would have predicted that their numbers would be about the same as for over 60. And that seems to be the case.
I suspect that a better breakdown would be 10-year cohorts starting at age 15 instead of age 10, but that might make population-level comparisons more difficult.
Another way to look at it is that lemmy has more in common with FidoNET than with Facebook or tiktoc. I was using FidoNET in my late teens by dialing into a local BBS before internet became publicly available. I'm 67 now, and have just followed the evolution of "topic discussion" over time.
Sure, let's ban everything we don't understand and every tool that can be used to break into something. Next we'll be banning rocks because they break windows and crowbars because they can be used to jimmy locks.
I don't know, I've only ever had a Saskatchewan license. Note that I was not referring to the criminal offense of impaired driving that has it's own provisions for license suspension. I was talking about suspension for "simply" collecting too many points for moving violations (speeding, failure to stop at signs and signals, etc.)
...the misguided pairing of ham and cheese with the fruit.
Long before I had even heard of pizza (raised in the middle of nowhere in southern Saskatchewan), one of our special occasion dishes was ham roasted with pineapple slices.
Leftovers were made into ham and cheese, ham and pineapple, and even ham and cheese and pineapple sandwiches. Sometimes Dad added a slice of tomato and grilled them open face in the oven under the broiler until the cheese browned. Heaven on Earth, and I didn't even like either tomato or pineapple on their own. I still don't like pineapple unless it's paired with ham.
One of the standard condiments when setting out a cold cut, make your own sandwich buffet was homemade pineapple-mustard.
Now I'm hungry, and I just finished lunch!
The only reasonable solution is a points system that leads to license suspension.
When Saskatchewan first introduced their points system, my lead-footed dad got a 30-day suspension for 3 speeding tickets. And it was a full suspension, with no allowance for the fact that he was the only licensed driver in the family, there was no public transit to his place of work, and his job normally required that he drive a company vehicle.
The only thing that saved him was that a colleague in another department was willing to pick him on the way to work and that he was part of a crew that shared driving duties. Well, he could have burned his vacation time, I guess.
On top of that, his driver's license went from basically a nominal fee to over $100 and took a few years of points free driving to fall back to normal.
I don't think he ever went over the speed limit again.
Yes. My also limited understanding is that it might be traced back to some of the original treaties with the Indigenous peoples which said (or at least implied) that the Indigenous peoples were ceding only the surface to a depth of several inches.
Sadly, the government then turned that into "Crown ownership" (as contrasted with private ownership) instead of Indigenous ownership. Much to the detriment of the economic and political power of the Indigenous peoples.
I'm far from being any kind of expert, but yes, that's the way it looks to me.
The pavement and hard packed gravel roads run pretty close to the same, whether it's meltwater or rain, but the dirt roads, ditches, hills and coulees run very differently. My guess is that with meltwater, the ground is still frozen, so can't absorb the water.