So much money already spent on them for nothing. Brutally wasteful.

Well they removed all the parts of him he filled with resin and just joined it back up after. So…skipped the waiting for cancer step?

I think it might be a shadow

Yeah, kinda making my point for me. They’re literally murdering people in international waters, you think they can’t harass shipping that attempts to bypass them?

It’s all fun until the U.S. navy starts an unofficial blockade of Cargo ships bypassing American ports…maybe forcing them to dock for ‘inspections’

Entropy is the engine that sustains life.

I’ve got bad news for you about woolen fabrics…

Friend, that is a REALLY good idea. Do something with it before someone else does.

My father in law converted a #4 slot into a chisel using his grinder.

I genuinely want to understand, is it actually illegal? The YouTuber says that the blockade isn’t legal because UN says this that - but doesn’t that apply to blockades done by other countries, not the country that ‘owns’ the territory?
I thought that Israel has the right to control entry inside their territorial (not Economic) waters the same way the U.S., E.U., and Canada can control entry of boats to their respective nations, no?

The whole point of the tax credits was to convince them to bring the business here in the first place.
Decrease the tax credits by 10%, sure. The business goes elsewhere to build their factory, what’s 10% of $0?

Tax credits are not the same thing as cash. You can’t “spend tax credits” on Canada post, the credits are there to bring the business in and give them credits based on the further income they bring to the country

I don’t see why it should be subsidized with taxes.
Deutsche Post manages to successfully keep mail flowing as an independent self funded service, why can’t Canada Post?
The simple fact of the matter is that the union is unwilling to budge on finding ways to improve efficiency because the more employees they have paying dues, the more they get paid.
If this was a private company, they’d be willing to work it out because they’d be afraid of the business folding, but here they think the well runs not just deep, but infinitely so.

Here’s the thing, right now for my 2-3 days of mail delivery per week, the postal service employee walks by my house every day.
The flyers that get dropped off on non mail days could just as easily be dropped off on the other 2-3 days instead.
This means that effectively for every piece of mail delivered to my house the 40-60% of the ‘last mile’ part of the postage costs are wasted on extra unneeded trips to/past my door.
For normal mail delivery we already have 5-10 day delivery timeframes. Anyone who accepts that variability doesn’t need daily delivery, and those that do need that clockwork delivery are using services like UPS or FedEx.

Because the service you mention is paid for with postage, not taxes. Their shortfall was 841 million last year. Who is supposed to pay for that?
I have direct to door delivery right now. Every day I get flyers for assholes that want to buy my house for pennies on the dollar, and actual mail maybe twice a week.
Why are we paying for delivery the other 3 days?
The simple reality is that daily direct to door delivery isn’t necessary any more, and if I had to go for a 5 minute walk to collect my mail 3 times a week, I’d be fine with that.

Fair enough, I should have been thinking bigger.

The expansion is supposed to be happening everywhere at the same time, not just at the edges.
For example, tomorrow there should be more space between the Sol and Alpha Centauri systems than there was yesterday.
Our present understanding suggests that ‘normal’ universal expansion should not (in and of itself) result in anything moving towards us.

The AD&D “Gold Box” games from SSI Inc. stored game text in 6-bit encoding. The first one of these I played was “Champions of Krynn” and the PC release came on 4 360k 5.25 dsdd floppy disks. They actually needed the packing in those days, and couldn’t afford to spent cpu cycles or ram on built in compression.
I remember opening up the game data files in a file viewer (maybe pc-tools?) and being confounded by the lack of text in the files.

So…Skyrim?

Ah, I reread what I wrote - quick point of clarification, I didn’t work for the CRA call center