1: Canada didn't exist yet so yes it was against the British technically. The main British army was really too involved with Napoleon to get much involved though in the war. The main fighting force was with local militias and indigenous peoples led by British officers. The war was really tit for tat until the British brought their Napoleonic Vets over and started raiding the east coast of the US.

2 & 3 : If the aggressor in a war doesn't win and the defender didn't loose any territory it really sounds like the defending country won.

4: Yes it does.

Why is every episode some weird take on a different genre. We had a B&W Casablanca episode, a puppet episode and now a soap opera episode. We've also had murder mystery's and musicals. Can we just have some less experimental episodes? Some have been okay, or even good, but others have been awful. None have really been great.

Complaining isn't really going to help though I guess as all the episodes have been filmed and the show cancelled anyway.

I think it boils down to a lot of frustration on our part. Every time he threatens us or another ally everyone says how sorry they are, but nothing comes of it and it just keeps happening.

From what I understand Canada doesn't produce many value added products. We sell lots of dimensional lumber and crude oil, but not much gasoline and furniture. We even started selling whole logs, to be produced in China and elsewhere.

They thought we'd be so desperate to sign a deal to avoid tariffs that we'd just sign whatever the asked at the 11th hour.

For a guy who was voted in to stand up to Trump, he really seems to be doing a lot of appeasement.

Disappointed, but not surprised. I'm going to have to just double down on boycotting more.

We really need to make it easier to buy Canadian booze from other parts of Canada. I've been picking up a different bottle of whiskey every time I go, but there's always a piss poor selection from anywhere other than my province. I also don't drink too much, so a bottle lasts quite a while, but still.

I almost hit some 10 year old girl the other day when she wizzed out of 7-11 onto the road without even looking while on her e-scooter while holding a sluppee.

There are zero ways to use this cord correctly. Do not tell people otherwise. The proper generator connection is to, as you just said, use a proper generator inlet and interlock like you said you use. Anyone using a cord like this is using it incorrectly as there is no correct way to use it. Both the CEC and the NEC expressly forbid these. All it takes is for a child to unplug the wrong end and touch the exposed prongs and they will get shocked.

A proper generator inlet should have the male ends in a recessed inlet box connected to either a transfer switch or an interlocked generator panel.

Worth mentioning that they are absolutely not safe as the exposed prongs are energised. They are called suicide cords for a reason. All it takes is to plug the cord into a running generator or working outlet first and the exposed terminals are now live.

Its also worth noting that they very often kill linesmen working to desire the utility because people use them to hook up their generators without turning off their main breaker which back feeds onto the grid.

Proper generator inlets are very readily available and if you don't want to go that route, just plug your fridge and other important devices into your generator with extension cords.

So, yeah. About that. A few weeks ago I was hiking with my wife. We saw another couple from out of town in the parking lot and chatted shortly and went our separate ways.

The trails here are somewhat interconnected and we ended up running back into them at a lookout. They recognised us and asked if we could ID some berries they ate.

I guess they asked ChatGPT what they were and it told then raspberries, so they ate them. They were in fact not raspberries. They were thimbleberries, which luckily are also edible, but still. They thought they tasted off, but chalked it up to just being wild vs store bought.

I largely agree with you here. I recently left Spotify and have been growing my locally hosted music library and instead of building my own playlists I've just been tuning into whole albums. I've found that most albums (not all, some albums seem to just be thrown together) have a flow to them and are just much more enjoyable when listened together.