For those auto tips from PoS terminals, if it’s takeout or I’m expected to tip before being served, I give the same as what I would give a street busker or beggar. Sometimes nothing, sometimes a little bit, sometimes more.

I had a nice Canada Day weekend trip to Canada’s arctic circle. The rest of the summer I’ll be in Vancouver pretty much since it’s a nice place to be and I’ll have many people over.

https://thewalrus.ca/who-is-the-real-pierre-poilievre/ (alt. ver. if you run to a soft paywall)

Trudeau and the Liberals seem to be laying the red carpet for career whiner Poilievre to walk in to the leader position next year.

Some cats are just obsessed with cardboard… they’d feel more comfortable in the box a $1000 cat bed comes in than the bed itself.

Exactly. Though for anyone that doesn’t have a speed limiter and towing a 53ft trailer are best advised to pass trucks at a brisk pace, as it’s dangerous for smaller cars and light pickups to stay in the drivers’ blindspots.

Have we as Canadians considered: Rogers owns too much of our shit?

The usual scenario I see is the difference in load weight and the ability to maneuver around curves and hills causes the “elephant race”. Taking 2 minutes to pass is still passing, neither truck driver is wrong to do that.

Since it looks like you’re on a meme posting spree, I just want to wish you a warm welcome back!

You are most welcome.

There is only one bone I have to pick with people who make “slower traffic keep right”, “the left lane is for passing”, and “the flow of traffic” type of comments. That is in the case of a commercial vehicle travelling 65mph passing another travelling 63mph. This is a perfectly valid use of the passing lanes on a highway, unless signs or local rules indicate otherwise (e.g. no trucks this lane). In this case, 65mph is the flow of traffic in that area and everyone behind should be aware that they are travelling faster than the flow of traffic until the pass has completed.

Exactly. Similar to how others responded to a similar comment to yours, there isn’t much slipstream savings without getting into the danger zone of around 30m (100ft), which you can’t get with 3 second gaps at speed.

But you do get more fuel savings from driving at that slower speed, and from coasting and accelerating lightly/cruising. It perplexes me why people alternate gunning it with braking so much on the highway.

Trick is to not give a fuck about how fast other people are going, and cruise at 65mph (105km/h) at a safe distance behind a combination tractor trailer.

You can drive without much stress, because impatient drivers don’t like to be in that spot behind a truck so you are less likely to be cut off. You’ll have plenty of time to react to anything in front, and also be safe in knowing that if there is a pileup ahead, a clear path will be smashed through for you.

Plaid Cymru, Greens and Reform party each having 4 seats despite having a 2000% gap in votes is kind of hilarious.

Even if I’m happy with the result and changing the system would afford far-right crazies a little bit more power, we still need to change the FPTP system.

Just the elevated rails would make it worth the extra $50🇨🇦 for me

Pretty standard move in Parliamentary Politics.

I bet Truss, Sunak and their ilk with find lots of work as talking heads on American and British conservative shows.

Yes please! Give us the Biden Nighty-night Plan for America.

Ree Smog is out! I repeat, Ree Smog is out!

Yes, despite many leftists decrying Labour’s centreward shift, I think this is a good result. This result was helped by that shift in no small part.

Starmer is very well spoken and his morning after speech does well to inspire confidence.

I hope Sunak, the Conservatives and the Daily Mail each get a slice of humble pie after years of their disastrous rule.

On the internet, nobody knows that you’re a pool drain.

That’s a clear sign you might be becoming a robot.