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  1. Comment on Any reccomendations for a ~2 day itenirary in Toronto in ~travel

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    That’s fine, I wasn’t super clear in my original post but I’ll be in Toronto the 7th-9th :)

    That’s fine, I wasn’t super clear in my original post but I’ll be in Toronto the 7th-9th :)

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Any reccomendations for a ~2 day itenirary in Toronto in ~travel

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    Oh now this sounds like the type of thing I'd love and can maybe make my girlfriend go to before our flight out, thanks! This is one thing I do know :) we try visit our friends in Montreal at...

    Otherwise, something fun and historic near Billy Bishop airport is the Fort York Garrison, just five minutes north of the airport. The neighbourhood itself is called Fort York because it used to be the site of the Canadian military fort during the War of 1812. The fort is now a museum that you can visit, and there are signs all over the neighbourhood that mark the original water line of Lake Ontario. Just some fun historic things you can check out on the way out and to Billy Bishop.

    Oh now this sounds like the type of thing I'd love and can maybe make my girlfriend go to before our flight out, thanks!

    By the way, Montreal is also no slouch when it comes to food.

    This is one thing I do know :) we try visit our friends in Montreal at least once a year, so I've had a lot of great food.

    The current favourite poutine place among locals is Ma Poule Mouillée. It's actually a Portugese chicken restaurant but the poutine they offer is incredible.

    Our friends live in West Island so that's a little far but sounds crazy good. If/when we're nearer to that area I'll have to try check it out, thanks (and thanks for the other Toronto recs, too)!

  3. Comment on Any reccomendations for a ~2 day itenirary in Toronto in ~travel

    kari
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    Awesome, thank you! Kensington Market sounds like something my girlfriend would love and the rest of your recs are helpful too :)

    Awesome, thank you! Kensington Market sounds like something my girlfriend would love and the rest of your recs are helpful too :)

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Critics slam Tim Hortons Harry Potter promotion as un-Canadian, anti-trans in ~food

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    i loved Iced Capps. I'm not going to pretend they're anything more than, essentially, a coffee-flavored slushee, but I still love them. I'll get Timbits, too, but they're like fine? If I lived in...

    Iced caps are alright in a sugary way

    i loved Iced Capps. I'm not going to pretend they're anything more than, essentially, a coffee-flavored slushee, but I still love them. I'll get Timbits, too, but they're like fine? If I lived in Canada I probably would never get them, but living in Texas it's a nice treat sometimes when I'm up there (or at the Timmies down here in Austin).

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Any reccomendations for a ~2 day itenirary in Toronto in ~travel

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    See this bit's fine with me... but I did not do enough research to see how much it costs or how far it is :P so yeah maybe that one will be a pass, thanks!

    Casa Loma is a 1900s modern rich guy's house and not historic like actual castles.

    See this bit's fine with me...

    It's also fairly out of the way from downtown, so factor in transportation costs + eating away from downtown in addition to the ~$60 per person admission fee.

    but I did not do enough research to see how much it costs or how far it is :P so yeah maybe that one will be a pass, thanks!

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Any reccomendations for a ~2 day itenirary in Toronto in ~travel

    kari
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    We enjoy nature and museums a lot, so the Zoo/Royal Ontario Musem/Art Gallery of Ontario all sound good. For my girlfriend, besides those things, she likes fun shopping experiences? I guess that'd...

    What kind of things do you guys like?

    We enjoy nature and museums a lot, so the Zoo/Royal Ontario Musem/Art Gallery of Ontario all sound good.

    For my girlfriend, besides those things, she likes fun shopping experiences? I guess that'd be a good way to describe it?

    For me, maybe like, some local history type things are interesting to me? e.g. We might go see Casa Loma because I love specific little museums like that. Genuinely the main reason we're going is that we wanted to visit our friends in Montreal anyways but I really wanted to fly on a Porter Airlines Dash-8 out of YTZ airport :P so anything else to do Saturday/Sunday is just for fun.

    That has been the gist of most of our vacations together so far, to be honest. For example, in Japan it mostly consisted us of eating, shopping, and visiting a few local castles/shrines/temples/etc.

    1 vote

  7. Any reccomendations for a ~2 day itenirary in Toronto

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    My girlfriend and I will be visiting Toronto for around 48 hours next weekend. We get in late Friday and leave Sunday around 5 to head to visit friends in Montreal. I've been to Toronto a few...

    My girlfriend and I will be visiting Toronto for around 48 hours next weekend. We get in late Friday and leave Sunday around 5 to head to visit friends in Montreal. I've been to Toronto a few times as a kid, but long enough ago I don't remember much besides the CN Tower, and she's never been. Does anyone have recommendations on things to do and especially on places to eat? The only real thing we have planned so far is the HHoF, which I definitely want to see again.

    11 votes

  8. Comment on Boox Go 10.3 (gen II) Lumi: An Android tablet that's also, on top of that, an E-ink screen in ~tech

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    I'm planning to (finally) move to Android (well, GrapheneOS) once my current iPhone finally feels too bad, maybe when the Motorola Graphene-compatible phone comes out, but that's one thing I'll...

    I think Android tablet apps situation is a bit sad but is slowly improving

    I'm planning to (finally) move to Android (well, GrapheneOS) once my current iPhone finally feels too bad, maybe when the Motorola Graphene-compatible phone comes out, but that's one thing I'll miss. I mean, I can still use my iPad, of course, but there are definitely some conveniences that I'll lack if I'm on an Android phone like copy/pasting between the two.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Travel tips for Ghana/West Africa? in ~travel

  10. Comment on European Parliament achieves upgrade to air passenger rights in ~transport

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    When I was in Japan I tried to get in line online to eat at Hama Sushi… but that requires an account… which required like 5 tries of me attempting to figure out what values were acceptable in its...

    When I was in Japan I tried to get in line online to eat at Hama Sushi… but that requires an account… which required like 5 tries of me attempting to figure out what values were acceptable in its name/address fields lmao.

    (Now they won’t stop emailing me and their emails seemingly don’t have an unsubscribe link, but that’s a whole different issue)

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Jet Lag Season 18: Stateside Scramble | Trailer in ~hobbies

    kari
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    spoiler > It is apparently way worse than I would have expected. Part of the issue is most of the states out there are the size of many European countries, but with pretty small populations....
    spoiler > It is apparently way worse than I would have expected.

    Part of the issue is most of the states out there are the size of many European countries, but with pretty small populations. Seattle is a bigger airport, at least, but everything between Minnesota and there is basically empty.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on REO Runabout, gas truck starting at $21,500 in ~transport

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    Also US and UK gallons are different sizes, to make matters worse, so even if the same measurement was used, the UK value would be slightly higher since their gallons are bigger

    Also US and UK gallons are different sizes, to make matters worse, so even if the same measurement was used, the UK value would be slightly higher since their gallons are bigger

    6 votes

  13. Comment on REO Runabout, gas truck starting at $21,500 in ~transport

    kari
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    Not great but decent for a pickup. It looks like the Ford Maverick (non-hybrid) is also rated for 25 combined mpg. For reference, that’s about 30 UK MPG or 9.41 L/100 km. You also have to think...

    Not great but decent for a pickup. It looks like the Ford Maverick (non-hybrid) is also rated for 25 combined mpg. For reference, that’s about 30 UK MPG or 9.41 L/100 km.

    You also have to think about the fact that, in the US, we have so many SUVs and pickups that that’s pretty much the nationwide average according to the EPA. https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2026-02/420s26001.pdf

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What are the new EU border checks and how will they affect your summer holiday? in ~travel

    kari
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    Domestically in the US and Canada, our trains suck more. Internationally, it’s the only realistic way to get to travel outside your home continent for those in the Americas or Oceania, and even a...

    I can’t understand how air travel still has so much demand when it sucks so much.

    Domestically in the US and Canada, our trains suck more. Internationally, it’s the only realistic way to get to travel outside your home continent for those in the Americas or Oceania, and even a lot of people in Eurasia and Africa (though there are definitely some ferries between southern Europe/northern Africa and trains between Eastern Europe/Western Asia).

    I’m 6’4” and it’s genuinely miserable flying more than an hour or two if I don’t pay for extra leg room but at the same time, aviation is such a cool thing that humans have invented and made travel something that is actually possible for most people (in developed/global north countries).

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Gerrymandle: Daily puzzle game where you redraw electoral district lines to rig results in ~games

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    That was fun! Also a lot harder than I expected (or maybe I just don’t have as much experience as our congresspeople…)

    That was fun! Also a lot harder than I expected (or maybe I just don’t have as much experience as our congresspeople…)

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Is anybody using HEY for Domains? in ~tech

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    I admittedly hadn't even heard of HEY until now so I can't be that useful. I will say, though, that Mailbox (formerly called Mailbox.org and still on that TLD), supports all of that for a lot less...

    I admittedly hadn't even heard of HEY until now so I can't be that useful. I will say, though, that Mailbox (formerly called Mailbox.org and still on that TLD), supports all of that for a lot less money and is presumably less fashy than dhh. They are lacking some of the other features HEY apparently has, but it might be worth looking into. For example, I set up a custom <company>@<my domain>.<my tld> for (almost) every site I sign up for. It's just a catch-all, so it works automatically. At least using Thunderbird, I can reply from any of those subdomains. I'm not sure if replying from catch-all domains works directly on the Mailbox site or in iOS mail, the other two places I use it, but if you set those up as specifically named mailboxes then it definitely does.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Around twenty drown in France as French seek relief from heatwave in ~enviro

    kari
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    That makes sense. It's essentially like a capacitor so it "tries" to resist the change in temperature, so if the days get too hot for too long, it doesn't have time to passively cool down enough...

    That makes sense. It's essentially like a capacitor so it "tries" to resist the change in temperature, so if the days get too hot for too long, it doesn't have time to passively cool down enough over night.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on US Congress clears housing bill, cementing a rare bipartisan feat in ~society

    kari
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    Who came up with this system

    Who came up with this system

    14 votes

  19. Comment on Aer Lingus apologises to Canadian family for refund delay after removal from flight in ~travel

    kari
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    To be fair, they’re 125th in population with fewer people than many cities. Definitely not a small town but also they are pretty small

    It makes Ireland feel like a small town.

    To be fair, they’re 125th in population with fewer people than many cities. Definitely not a small town but also they are pretty small

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Around twenty drown in France as French seek relief from heatwave in ~enviro

    kari
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    Maybe I’m dumb but this is the argument I’ve never understood. Insulation works both ways, right? We insulate our houses here in Texas even though it’s for the heat.

    made worse by the fact that a lot of houses are masonry or stone that are intended to retain heat

    Maybe I’m dumb but this is the argument I’ve never understood. Insulation works both ways, right? We insulate our houses here in Texas even though it’s for the heat.

    3 votes