I am legitimately shocked that it was this Triple H. I was sure before reading it that it would be another Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

> Nitpick but solid wood furniture does not weigh more than the particleboard furniture from Ikea.

What is this special space time dilation wood you found? If its made of hardwood it will be a lot heavier. If it weights similarly and its solid wood is usually very soft and will live as long or less than IKEA furniture.

100% wood is way heavier, even the lighter variant.

Interesting note... I recently disassembled an IKEA cupboard from 1999 made from MDF. It was definitely much heavier than their MDF products (eg. Metod kitchen cabinets) from today.

There has been quite some changes on the construction of IKEA furniture within the last 30 years. There was an interesting video that I cant remember the name anymore about this.

It depends. Solid particleboard is pretty close, but a many Ikea pieces are hollow, with internal cardboard support. I prefer some of these to particle board because of the lightness. Like the Lack or the Linnmon table tops.

> Nitpick but solid wood furniture does not weigh more than the particleboard furniture from Ikea.

While perhaps IKEA sells some heavy wood furniture, most of it is fairly light.

Prior to Covid, my wife had to exit the country to get photos taken as part of the permanent resident process. We took a trip to Montana for that purpose.

This seems to have changed in the past 3-4 years, but as the GP said, the original process did involve leaving.

Thanks. And yea, my PR was in 2004. Citizen now but living in the US again.

This is such a Reddit opinion.

If you are in Alberta or Saskatchewan, the government is decided before your election is done. There is no Senate, like in the US, to balance your needs vs others.

Despite this unbalance, there is a clear majority of Albertans who are anti-independence. (I agree that the government, run by a radio entertainer is shameful and disgusting.)

im in alberta and want an oil export tax that brings albertan exports up to market oil prices. match it to brent crude

this is consistently a self criticism in alberta that we arent actually getting our money's worth from our oil

> the government is decided before your election is done

Speaking of "Reddit opinion".

lol Senate in the US

I don't understand this and would like a clarification.

There are zero Canadian automobile assemblers; they are Canadian subsidiaries of American companies, with some parts manufacturers being here.

Assuming American companies (and companies from subordinates like Japan) leave, what would be the problem in having a similar relationship with China? Is it because their manufacturing is more integrated?

The American, and other auto makers, only manufacturers in Canada because the Canadian and American auto markets have been integrated for over 80 years. Removing Canada's access to the American market basically makes Canadian auto manufacturing uncompetitive since Canada isn't a big enough market to sustain a domestic auto market.

> There are zero Canadian automobile assemblers; they are Canadian subsidiaries of American

Toyota has massive assembly plants in Canada which net export vehicles to the USA. My rav4 hybrid was built in Woodstock Ontario.

A previous grade school my kids attended (a public school in Calgary) started at 8. They left the house at 7:40ish to go, which was pretty awful.

Eventually we wound up home schooling / remote schooling during Covid and moved to a spot where the school started much later.

Frankly though, not late enough. I let them sleep until 10 during COVID and I feel it was positive for everyone involved.

While I dislike Instagram reels and stories, I do feel like there is almost certainly scientific studies on radicalization that would benefit from actual histories of dumb memes. I feel like that about a lot of things, really.

There probably are some important hidden discord groups that would explain the origin of many political positions. Unlike smokey meetings in scummy bars, that exists now and is on a database somewhere.

4chan archives are almost certainly relevant. But the advertisement poster for every single club night in Berlin probably is not - a representative sample is enough. More complete data is probably more useful, at least slightly, but it quickly runs into diminishing returns. The distinction is that certain 4chan posts have outsized influence (power law distribution of influence?), but club nights are all the same. It is conceivable that a certain poster could be important and not recognized as important in the moment, but not as likely.

And that's public announcements. Do we really need to archive more than a few of the "I'm in this city, look at me I'm so rich and beautiful" short videos?

Maybe the text should include some extraneous war crime solicitation to ensure a human wrote it. Maybe we should all do so. Death to (insert random enemy here)

I went to a decent high school, this was not something covered in 7th grade. It isn't covered in my daughter's school either.

For the 2026 version of me out there, please ignore. It is nerd posturing, and as real as the boomers at your gym claiming to have benched 225/315/405 in high school, despite having terrible form while doing 185.