This is a really interesting idea. I'd never put this together myself, but its really compelling. It really shows the value of the phrase "history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme".

The bad news is that we lose Windsor in this trade. The good news is that we pick up Seattle and Minneapolis.

According to Denis Leary, he would be an "asshole". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

I'm from Ontario and its very simplified in my experience as well. Maybe the problem is the sample audio clips they have are all 'posh', its not how most people speak. Two large examples I can think of that even have their own wikipedia pages are the Ottawa Valley Twang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Valley_English) and the 'Torontomans' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_slang). I grew up in Toronto, and the latter isn't just something funny you see on tiktok, people actually talk that way.

Reminds me of the Dan Luu article from a few years ago: https://danluu.com/look-stupid/

If anything, this probably shows their reddit heritage.

People are already correcting you, but I find it hard to read this much into the case of this particular text. We'd need to know the full context to what exactly happened, but they might have chosen to sacrifice the catalog for many reasons, not just because of an anti-scientific bend. Maybe it was one of many copies that they held, yet the other ones didn't survive.

We also need to consider that these sorts of texts did survive because of monks. They kept the embers alive. Without them, we would have nothing, not living among the stars.

My Volkswagen has assistance features which routinely fail on snowy days and can’t seem to be disabled. The best you can do is disable them for a minute (!) at which point they start blaring again. Its ironic because the time you need the most focus is the time the car lets you focus the least.

It can absolutely be disabled they just wouldn't get the same brownies points in EuroNCAP by allowing _you_ to disable it.

If I spent more than 50k on a car like that, I would absolutely return it and file a complaint.

Car companies care a great deal about after sales stats. This trend will continue because we as users on average tolerate it.

BMW has the same issue but luckily still buttons to disable them. Snow will quickly result in "Forward collision warning failure" and "Blind spot detection failure" and if more snow "Lane assist failure" because the sensors get covered in snow.

Oh and before you even start driving let us "bing!" you with a message that the temperature is below 4C. As if you didn't know that already.

Get yourself a VCDS cable & software and disable that shit for good.

I don't live in London, but was there a few weeks ago and walked right by one of the buildings featured and didn't notice. Goes to show that you should always be looking up.

Since I had to find the link: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/