Pretty tragic. Though I imagine the USA has some wonderful places to visit, as well. I remember cheap flights to Vegas were a thing, they do that as a loss leader. Is that still a thing, or has the collapse progressed that far?

If you have a car (and being an American, you almost certainly would be car-poor), then that presumably opens up a lot of low-cost vacation options.

Not exactly millionaire money, though. It’s a fun vacation option and fairly reasonable as those go.

Wine tours are maybe a couple hundred dollars. We do 'em pretty often. Great deal and you often get a tour of the countryside as well. If you’re ever in the Kelowna, BC area, check it out.

I would like to cordially invite him to poop out his own liver. Either interpretation of that phrase is fine.

Yeah. ZERO chance Canada becomes a state, or ten states. We’d be Snowy Puerto Rico.

Yeah, that guy kitted out in body armour carrying a massive cockrifle is just a secretary, bro. Helping with the paperwork, brah.

Tldr be nice to Nazis so the proles don’t think you’re a dick

They really did! Starship could be a similar leap, if it pans out. It would be an incredible jump in launch capacity and a dramatic drop in price.

A few, maybe. One just means you have to use it or lose it, I think. One is very different from several.

Dandelions have been a companion to humans since the beginning. Through thick and thin, they’ve followed us, supported us, and this is how we repay them.

Ditto mason jar vacuum sealer. So convenient!

I sanitize my cider bottles in the dishwasher. Works great.

I just open the dishwasher. Pull out the bottom rack, shake the top rack a bit and deal with any puddles. Anything that’s not dry just goes back in for another hour. Leave the door open until dry.

Maybe. Not convinced it’d be best for Canada, though. I think California would be better as an independent country that we could then negotiate with on more or less equal footing.

You bring up an interesting issue with equalization payments. California would be a “Have” province and hefty transfer payments would probably be expected.

But mostly, I’m just concerned that California would immediately become the dominant political entity in Confederation. Right now, the centre of the world is basically Toronto. Suddenly, the financial, technological, and industrial centre of Canada would all be in California. I can’t see that going super well. People and businesses would migrate en masse. It could lead to an impoverishment of other Canadian provinces as the capital all moves to California.

Population, GDP, culture… Canada would be eaten alive by California. They wouldn’t change. We would.

FVO readable for future me, it’s not so bad. I don’t have to worry about other people so much. :)

Inert silicon, might as well be forever!

I’m not in favour of this, as a Canadian. The power imbalance is too great. It would make Canada a Californian state, rather than California a Canadian province. They would never accept rule from Ottawa.

Sure. Nothing stopping you writing readable well commented perl. Just avoid some of the more terse statements. It can be a challenge though.

Shrug. If you don’t like Perl, don’t use it.

It certainly has its issues. I find that the things people have trouble with are the things I tend to like about it. Of course, reading it later is a problem sometimes. :)

Write only language!

I still reach for it sometimes.