A quick search gave Italy as 3.13 workplace deaths per 100 000 in 2024. It’s interesting to note that France and the United States are higher.

Yeah, I expected it. I guess I don’t see things in black and white anymore.

Basically, yes. Just more sensitive.

same pronunciation

You travel in the wrong circles, my friend.

Ah, but Canada is Canada. More or less consistent around the world. One of the few countries that is.

Yeah, I don’t understand the huge tariff on Chinese EVs. They’ve counter tariffed our canola, hurting the farmers. And we don’t produce EVs, at least not the category they make.

Whoops. Sorry. I guess I saw recent reactions to it and thought it was fairly new.

It’s bizarre to think of a city with the population of Canada.

Giving food French names seems to make them more marketable.

More than just Europe. 99 % of the world’s countries use Celcius.

Smartphones made an incredible change. We used to plan trips months or even years in advance. Mailing to foreign embassies for visas, gathering maps, buying travelor’s cheques, making reservations by mail, researching by borrowing books from the library - all took a lot of time and effort.

If you’re selling to the stores, you generally pack your produce and truck it to a central depot where they manage the shipping to the stores. If you’re selling it at a market, you have to pack your truck, rent the booth, unpack the truck for display, sit there all day(or hire someone to sit there all day), then pack everything up and drive home. It’s way more work and time to do a market.

Technically, silicone does not rot. It breaks down into smaller materials but does not decompose into its base components like organic material.

Bones do rot, just more slowly than flesh.

Hey, thanks. That makes sense.

Yeah, I did the same thing.

This kind of investment gives me hope that fusion may one day be economically feasible.

Yeah. I’m guessing it’s harder to write songs in tonal languages.

And the radio shows.