-Life expectancy will go up from a world ranking of 48th (USA) to 20th (Canada).
-Education will get better from 31st (USA) to 19th (Canada).
-Math scores will improve from 34th (USA) to 9th (Canada).
-Robberies will go down from 98 per 100,000 population to 62.
-Traffic accident deaths will drop from 12.7 per 100,000 to 5.3.
-You will spend half as much on health care yet get better outcomes.
-Poverty in Canada is 1/3 the rate in the USA.
-Although Canada has fewer millionaires, we more fairly distribute wealth (better income equality).
-The minimum wage in Canada is double that in USA.
and most important you will be happier (Canada ranked 15th, USA 23rd in happiness).
(We couldn't find a politeness index, but thank you for reading)
But the climate.
Canada is 85 per 100,000 and the US is 146 per 100,000. Canada is a world leader in Corrections. We are focused on rehabilitation and reintegration. That's why whenever there is a breakdown of a government Correctional Service Canada is on the Nation Building team that the UN sends in to help rebuild. I worked at CSC for 25 years and knew a guy who was on the UN plane that crashed in Kosovo during the Nation Building exercise there.
I can assure you that the vast majority of Canadians are well aware of that fact and totally disinterested in become part of the US or taking on any part thereof.
Americans joining Canada would have to give up their guns and other weapons, compete that training and licensing processes, and if successful would have the revocable and modifiable privilege of owning a very small selection of approved guns. They would have to accept that religious freedom in Canada, which is much higher than in the US, means that you are free to practice your religion in any way you choose as long as it doesn't effect anyone else's rights and you are free to have no religion at all. They would have to accept that it is settled law in Canada that a woman's healthcare decisions are between her and her healthcare provider and none of anyone else's business. They would have to accept that everyone has the right to marry, has had the right for decades, and that the only thing destroy traditional marriage is traditionally married people. They would have to accept that free speech in Canada does not include racism or hate speech. Most Americans would not fit in in Canada and we are not interested in becoming Americans and giving up the things that make us the best country in the world.
-Life expectancy will go up from a world ranking of 48th (USA) to 20th (Canada).
-Education will get better from 31st (USA) to 19th (Canada).
-Math scores will improve from 34th (USA) to 9th (Canada).
-Robberies will go down from 98 per 100,000 population to 62.
-Traffic accident deaths will drop from 12.7 per 100,000 to 5.3.
-You will spend half as much on health care yet get better outcomes.
-Poverty in Canada is 1/3 the rate in the USA.
-Although Canada has fewer millionaires, we more fairly distribute wealth (better income equality).
-The minimum wage in Canada is double that in USA.
and most important you will be happier (Canada ranked 15th, USA 23rd in happiness).
(We couldn't find a politeness index, but thank you for reading)
To be clear, had the insurance companies not taken all of the money out of their reserves as profits there would be lots of money to pay out the payments that the insured bought insurance for. This isn't about an unsustainable industry, just unsustainable profit taking.
To be clear, had the insurance companies not taken all of the money out of their reserves as profits there would be lots of money to pay out the payments that the insured bought insurance for. This isn't about an unsustainable industry, just unsustainable profit taking.
To be clear, had the insurance companies not taken all of the money out of their reserves as profits there would be lots of money to pay out the payments that the insured bought insurance for. This isn't about an unsustainable industry, just unsustainable profit taking.
We've done nothing and are out of ideas.
Protect the profits!
We've done nothing and are out of ideas.
Protect the profits!
Ya, so, we're not going to do any of the things we promised. We're just going to try to punish our political enemies and fuck shit up while looting every last penny that we can and running away while the country burns.
I'm am artisan maple syrup maker. I build all of the machinery and make maple syrup.
I went to a travel medicine guy in Ottawa when I was traveling to Central and South America. I went to my GP for these because they were just the ordinary vaccinations and he spaced them out per the manufacturers recommendations
In 2019 I asked my doctor to boost all of my vaccinations. He asked if I was traveling to a third world country. I said, "Yes, the United States."
It took three months but he boosted my MMR, my DTP, Hep A and B, and several others.
Yup. Many do but the ESP-32 doesn't. The problem that I was having was that it didn't matter what combination of R and C I used it wasn't fast enough to prevent multiple triggers during the transition through the tristate. The Schmidt trigger made the curve square.
This was the best that I could do with an RC hardware debounce.
This is what it looked like with the Schmidt trigger.
I'm happy to use the Schmidt trigger for my project but I'm not suggesting that anyone else should do it for theirs.
I used a non-inverting Schmidt trigger in one of my recent projects to debounce switch inputs to an ESP-32. It worked exceptionally well and didn't require software gymnastics or additional code. It just made the switch and interrupt work exactly as expected and cost less than $3.
This guy was born in Texas. He's as American as they are not just not as white.
"Immigrant" means non-white in MAGA speak.
Single payer healthcare is so complex to implement that only 22 of the 23 most developed countries in the world have done it.
The US system is grotesque.
She suggested that while flexible working can be useful for those with caring responsibilities, it is important for workers to see leaders in action.
What a delusional idiot.
Few things are more trendy today than openly despising our own culture and traditions — Christmas included
Seriously? There are Christmas lights and nativity scenes all over the place. Christmas decreasing and Christmas trees. Fucking Mariah Carey.
These right wing propagandist pearl clutching concern ttrolls are a fucking scourge on Canadian society.
Ontario’s auditor general is slamming the Ford government for failing to follow proper process around the redevelopment of Ontario Place, including a revelation that senior staff communicated directly with Therme Canada and other applicants while proposals were still being accepted.
To the surprise of no one who doesn't have their head lodged firmly in their ass, the Ford Government has committed another massive grift at the expense of Ontario tax payers.
The new bill plans to restrict trans athletes from competing against women though Alberta can't say how many athletes will be affected.
"If just one trans child is harmed it will all be worth it", says Alberta premier Danielle Smith.
I had a craving. I made char siu and my wife whipped up some delicious curried noodles.
We make our own green curry paste. The makrut lime leaves, Thai green and red chilis, lemon grass, and chicken are from our back yard.
I liked the contrast between the yellow bedspread and the black cat.
I've got it loaded with 8 flavors.
Vanilla
Smarties (Canadian)
Oreo
York Peppermint Pattie
Aztec Chocolate
Skor Bits
Skor Bar
Milk Chocolate Almond Crunch
I hope the kids (and their sibkings and parents and the other team and the umpire) like it.
This is probably my favorite ice cream shop. It's located on Fairmont Avenue at Gladstone in Ottawa, Ontario CANADA. They make awesome ice cream including a large vegan selection. You can buy it by the scoop in cones or bowls, as ice cream based treats, in pints, or my favorite, in milkshakes.
I had a delicious chocolate milk shake this afternoon and it was absolutely delicious. It's not one of those nasty extruded frozen treat things you get at fast food restaurants. It starts with three scoops of hard ice cream and milk and they mix it right in front of you.
If you're in Ottawa please go by and check them out. They're good people and make great ice cream.
https://themerrydairy.com/
I've been making ice cream. My son's softball team plays in a tournament in a couple of weeks. We have what we call the cake challenge where if they do any one of a number of things (hit the fence, score a home run, get a double play, get a bunt double) I'll make a cake and bring it to the next game. I've done it three times so far this year. I Decided that for the tournament I would make ice cream.
So far I've made:
No Nuts
22 x Vanilla
17 x Aztec Chocolate
12 x Smartie
11 x York Peppermint Pattie
12 x Oreo
Almonds
12 x Milk Chocolate Almond Crunch
24 x Skor Bits
12 x Skor Bar
That's 122 x 125 ml cups.
I hope that's enough.
This is just my standard vanilla ice cream base (500 ml 35% cream, 1 L 10% cream, 300 g sugar, 15 ml vanilla extract) with chopped Oreo cookies. I put 12 cookies in each batch and each batch makes twelve 125 ml cups so each cup has a full cookie in it.
A community for those who make and love ice cream. Post pictures, stories, recipes, or questions. RULES: 1. Ice Cream 98. Don’t be a dick. 99. The mod(s) have the final say.
I went looking for an ice cream focused community in the lemmy.world federated fediverse and couldn't find anything so I created one.
The Ice Cream community is focused on ice cream. Homemade ice cream, recipes, pictures, stories, good commercial ice cream, your favourite ice cream treat or favorite ice cream shop.
I make homemade ice cream and am in the middle of a run. I have made vanilla, (Canadian) Smartie, and milk chocolate almond cluster so far but I have a few more to make before I'm done.
I've posted my favourite ice cream base recipe and a recipe for spicy Aztec Chocolate Ice cream.
If you're a fan of ice cream come check it out.
I recorded a short video of the Cuisinart ICE-50 churning a batch of vanilla ice cream. The ICE-50 is a now discontinued and no longer supported with spare parts self-chilling ice cream machine. You just pour in the base, turn it on, and it makes a batch of ice cream in about 45 minutes.
The lumps you see are more frozen pieces of ice cream. It freezes on the wall of the tub and is scraped off by the paddle creating a slurry of more and less frozen ice cream. Once it's put into a container and frozen it's nice and smooth.
I would highly recommend the ICE-50 to anyone who is interested in ice cream making. They have not been made or supported for years but our two are tanks and just keep going. I can't offer an opinion on the newer machines other than to say if you buy one buy spare parts for everything you can. A motor arm, two stem and paddle assemblies or two of each if you buy them individually, a bucket, and at least four covers. That will keep you going for 20 or 30 years as long as the machine keeps running.
Yesterday, I was filling 125 ml cups with ice cream. I got 12 cups filled and in the freezer and had less than 125 ml left so I walked over and handed my 15 year old son the tub and the spoon that I was using to fill the cups.
[Later]
Me: How did you like the ice cream?
Son: It was great. What kind of berries were those?
Me: What berries?
Son: The ones in the ice cream.
Me: Did you not taste them?
Son: No, I don't like berries.
Me: They were (Canadian) Smarties (see NOTE).
Son: Smarties?
Me: Yes. You really should try things that I hand you.
Son: [Nomming on the smarties left in the bottom of the container covered in melted vanilla chocolate.] Uh huh.
NOTE: Canadian Smarties are like M&Ms but with milkier, smoother, better quality chocolate.
We've had the machine on the right for years. We bought it new. We bought the one on the left at the Liquidators restaurant auction. I've got vanilla base in both. I'm going to put one batch in the freezer for the family and the other in 125 ml cups for my sons softball team. (Canadian) Smartie, I think.
This is a picture of the side of my market ice cream freezer. It's a bar fridge sized vertical freezer that I put in the back of my van and run off the van's AC power to get to market then switch over to a small, very quiet generator at market. These cards have magnetic strips on the back so they stick to the freezer and I can move them to the back when a flavour sells out.
Most of our ice cream starts with the same vanilla base recipe.
RECIPE
1 L (4 cups) table (10%) cream (Half and Half in the US)
300 g (1 1/2 cup) granulated sugar
500 ml (2 cups) whipping (35%) cream
15 ml (1 tablespoon) vanilla extract
I add 250 ml to 500 ml of whatever the addition is. (See NOTE 1)
PROCESS
Pour the 10% cream into a 2 L (8 cup) container.
Add the sugar and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. (See NOTE 2)
Add the 35% cream and vanilla extract and stir to mix.
Cover the container and put it into the fridge to chill or add it directly to your machine.
NOTE 1: If I'm using (Canadian) Smarties (like M&Ms but better) I use less because they pack very densely. If I'm adding nuts or something that packs more loosely I use more. When I'm making raspberry or blackberry or other fruit ice cream I use about 300 ml of mascerated berries (add about 12.5 g (1 tablespoon) of granulated sugar to the berries then mash them coarsely with a fork. Set them aside for 30 minutes or so to mascerate.) If you're using raspberries or blackberries or any other berries in the family always add them at the very end, just before the ice cream is finished or better, stir them in by hand after the ice cream is frozen. Berries in the family will produce very airy, almost foamy ice cream if added at the beginning.
NOTE 2: The sugar will not dissolve easily in the 35% cream or a mix of the 35% cream and 10% cream. It's much easier to dissolve it in the 10% cream then to add the 35% cream once it's dissolved.
This is a home made 18% milk fat ice cream with cinnamon and cayenne. It starts as a rich, creamy chocolate ice cream with a hit of cinnamon then it brings the burn.
The is a great ice cream for people who want a bit of pain with their pleasure.
Aztec Chocolate Ice Cream
INGREDIENTS
500 ml (2 cups) whipping cream (35%)
150 g (1 1/2 cup) granulated sugar
50 g (6 tablespoons) unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cayenne powder (see NOTE)
85 g (3 ounces) semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
15 ml (1 tablespoon)vanilla extract
1 L (4 cups) table cream (10%) (Half and Half in the US)
PROCESS
Put the whipping cream, sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, salt, and chili powder in a pot.
Heat over medium heat whisking constantly. It will begin to foam up as it begins to boil. Turn the heat off immediately.
Add the chocolate and stir until it's completely melted.
Add the vanilla then slowly add the 10% cream while stirring (or whisking.)
Put in the fridge for a couple of hours until well chilled.
Put it in your ice cream machine and run it until it's frozen.
Get a bowl, a spoon, and a Kleenex and you're ready for a delicious ice cream experience.
P.S. The tissue is for your runny nose.
NOTE: 2 teaspoons gives this ice cream a nice little burn. You can use more or less to get the heat level you want.
My boys were having a snuggle nap on the couch. I took a couple of pictures of them because they were cute then the big guy went for a BIG yawn. He's over 10 kg of cat and just over 10 years old. The smaller guy is around 5 kg and 6 years old. The big guy was a ditch kitten that someone tossed in the ditch in front of our house. We caught him and took him in. The next year someone ditched another kitten in front of our house and we took him in. Unfortunately, the second one slipped out the door and disappeared never to be seen again. The big guy was devistated. We decided to get him a companion and adopted the smaller guy from a cat rescue. They are abslutely inseparable.
I used to post quite actively in r/soapmaking since, well, I'm a soap maker.
My wife and I raised the pigs, rendered the lard, and mixed it with other oils and lye to make soap. You know, soap making.
r/soapmaking was filled with people who bought soap that other people made, melted it, mix in perfume and glitter, poured it into moulds, and sold it. I pointed out that they weren't actually making soap but were doing arts and crafts with soap that other people make.
They set upon my like a bunch of extremist vegans at a BBQ. I said that there wasn't anything wrong with doing soap arts and crafts but that it wasn't really soap making since they didn't actually make soap.
They called me arrogant for not accepting that not making soap was soap making and banned me. I can't remember whether it was permanent or temporary but I never went back.
