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"It's basically reading"?

Now that so many things change automatically, I deliberately have one clock offline so it's wrong, that I can then check everything that was supposed to change automatically against, before I fix it too. I'm not sure how we got here...

"It's basically math..."

I've been thinking playing cards could be blinds. I think pencils could be cut into measuring sticks, though I bought a set of Song of Blade of Heroes measuring triangles years ago and I think one of the sizes will work for my scale of ships.

Some FB notifications are more interesting than others!

Saw it was released and picked up (and have now printed) the pdf, look forward to diving into it.

It's a few years old now, but this is a summary of things on Erie - www.glfc.org/pubs/lake_co...

They were prevented, either by the US's 2025 attack - though most of us accept their reporting was a lie - or through the Obama-era agreement, which the US terminated unilaterally. There's no evidence nuclear weapons were either imminent or, at this point, the reason for the war.

Exactly!

No, they're in some of Erie's tribs and show up in the lake. Triploid escapees from inland NY ponds show up in Lake Ontario. There are other backdoor ways they can get around the canal in Chicago, like how they got into Erie.

Notably Lake Michigan is the one Great Lake that is entirely American, so that's your problem for now. But as this is something I know about, it's the ones breeding in Erie that are our problem too. But all those states, Canada, and ON, have been working on this American-sourced problem a long time.

Welland Canal is just sitting there too, if it comes to that.

That's one of the few things in the modern NHL I appreciate, getting rid of the goons.

Even as a grown ass adult we were warned off starting anything in a co-ed *charity* hockey tournament against a team that was half named Evans and they apparently had 30 more of the clan in the stands. I sometimes feel like Rutger Hauer in Bladerunner, "I've seen things..."

In hockey where the contact is incidental but constant, and a lot of marginal calls don't get called or seen, those hits can get taken as personal offence. Youth leagues clamp down on fights, but high level youth hockey has a steady stream of suspensions for stick and cheap shot penalties instead.

I played (North American) football too and it's different because the tackling is the sport (though you still see a lot more after-the-whistle scrumming in the NFL (and CFL) when cheap shots happen). You don't get mad when someone tackles you, they're supposed to do that and it's usually legal.

It's admittedly stupid, and not something I'm proud of, but I've felt it. The penalties in youth hockey are severe enough it almost never happens, though it just leads to dirtier incidents with sticks, but after that, the reins are off and things happen.

In the pros, specially the last 40 years, fights tend to be more ritualistic and performative, one goon fights another and you can predict when it will happen. But alternatively, in the game, because it's a contact sport, a blood lust can build up and boil over. Can also be in defense of a teammate.

There were a few nights as late-teen player where we had to leave rural towns reasonably quickly after a game because the locals were mad. And that was low-level hockey on a Tuesday night, albeit in the 80s. A lot of weird things happened.

That's a great cover!

Bringing @otdmilhistory.bsky.social in for a better answer than I could give. I'm sure they exist, though I sort of think the regimental level is probably where the meat is.

His inauguration was shown in schools in Canada, and not just the big cities. I was visiting one in rural eastern Ontario that had all the grade 7s and 8s watching it together.

We'll also have higher education, healthcare, better standards of living, longer lifespans, less pollution, less crime, lower per capita debt, and get invited to all the cool parties.

You seem to be unfamiliar with history, but Canada was always with the UK, and then the Commonwealth, it was the US that left.

And your take on the MAW is hilarious.

Yes, it is. People no longer travel freely across the border, companies no longer trade freely across the border, and there's no sign the stupidity will end when Trump goes. The only way for the MAGA base to learn anything is for the US economy to crater, that's the only win to aim for.

Our dollar stores sometimes have cheap canvas frames/board that could also work, just not cut-able.

I think the solutions so far sound good, you can get thicker foamcore if you go to an arts supply store (here it'd be Michael's, not sure what the UK equivalent is). I think the regular stuff should be okay, and it's cut-able if you want to trim it to fit the hexes together.

I'll throw in Lord Dunsany, though I'll accept he may count as 19th century if we go by birth year, and Satchel Paige, who managed to do serious things while pretending to not know what year he was born.

This has destroyed me. Don’t skip school, indeed.

Also, MANY MANY DIG DIG!