I’d poach them. Salt the water and get it boiling, turn off the heat and put them in the water until they are just no longer translucent, like 3 minutes depending on how big they are.

Pull them out and season them however.

For a soup just add them at the very end similar to the poaching instructions.

Eby’s being a little bitch in BC about this.

BC has rejected PR three times now, I’ve got zero reason to believe that the electorate would vote yes if they tried a 4th time. Why waste the money? Another province needs to be the guinea pig for this.

Unfortunately, the implementation of PR is full of misinformation, people not understanding why it is better, and pet desires rather than a desire to improve the status quo.

For me, it is meeting the people on the team where they are to support them. Some people need me to just get out of their way and let them do their job while being there for the occasional time they need some guidance, while others need some more attention because they seek out my guidance more often, or need a bit more steering to ensure they are making the right decisions.

I also try to be clear about my overall expectations. They should never be surprised by my reactions to anything, they know where I tend to be a stickler about doing something a specific way, and they should know where I’m willing to be a bit more relaxed. I show appreciation when someone does well, and provide coaching in private when something doesn’t go well. They know that I accept that mistakes happen, but my expectation is that they learn from it and avoid it happening from then on.

People consistently vote against proportional voting systems it seems. We have had 3 referendums on the topic in my area and it failed each time.

51% vote? More like 38-40% vote. That is all a party typically needs to be able to get a majority government.

$60 for phone service is highway robbery. Unless you have specific needs that the big 3’s main brands plans give you, you should be on a discount carrier. For years now you have been able to regularly get a plan in the $28-32 range for 20GB data from Virgin/Fido/Koodo. The only downside has been they were LTE only for a long time, but 5G isn’t really a noticeable upgrade, and it looks like they have all upgraded to 5G for their plans since I last looked.

I’m currently on a plan from Koodo that is only $24/mo for 10GB data which is plenty.

These are the plans that seem to creep up in price over time until you switch providers when another good deal comes up.

3 Months is pretty bad. But I’ve found both Fido and Virgin are terrible for this. Every 6 months or so they sneak in a message about a price increase in your bill and raise your bill by a few dollars.

Its seriously embarrassing how bad our banks are at security. I’ve complained before and got the response “well you are covered if anything happens to your account”, they didn’t seem to understand when my response was “but I don’t want to have to deal with arguing to get my money back”

Stuff like this is exactly what I was worried about.

The other thing that banks so that really annoys me is they say “don’t share your password to anyone” and then only give the option of a 3rd party company that you provide your login to in order to link accounts between banks. What happens if one of those businesses gets hacked? Would they reject claims because you gave them your account details?

No, assuming it isn’t someone that I otherwise have a personal relationship with, they owe me nothing. The significant other is the one that has broken the social contract of the relationship and shoulders the blame.

House of Blanks is great for basic t-shirts. They have some good sales a couple times a year.

Given what you say about Province of Canada that is likely where they get their blanks.

In North America and Europe, tap to pay was implemented prior to smartphones that could scan QR codes being ubiquitous. Most of us have had cards that support NFC payments for longer than we have had a phone that can read QR codes so it made sense for phones to pick up the technology that worked with the terminals businesses already had than try to implement a new system.

The QR code thing is primarily a Chinese solution to the payment problem (all other Asian countries I’ve been to have widespread NFC acceptance). Payment cards were never widespread within China the way they are in other places, until AliPay and WeChat Pay became a thing people still primarily used cash for their daily communications. If businesses don’t already have credit card terminals but people have smartphones then the QR code starts to make more sense.

One interesting thing about this is that even before North America was widely using NFC payments, people in Hong Kong were using their Octopus transit cards as contactless payment at all kinds of businesses throughout the city. Yet that technology didn’t seems to make it into Mainland China.

I unfortunately have to use Chrome at work and uBlock origin light seems to work well enough. When I’m at home the pihole does most of the heavy lifting for the adblocking.

The whole TV streaming space is just super depressing. Even though I try to self host as much as I can, nothing I’ve found comes close to the experience of Android TV even with the ads (though you can replace the launcher to fix that problem).

Pretty much, you need to invest in all the pillars to deal with the drug addiction epidemic. Just decriminalizing doesn’t solve the problem for society as a whole, the non-drug using public also needs to see a marked decrease in drug users on the street and reduced crime for a program to be a true success.

I said from say one that this was doomed to fail because they weren’t primarily investing in mental health and addiction treatment that was sorely needed. Of course that is the expensive and hardest part. Decriminalizing drugs is the “quick and easy” part.

The article says that they say it only affected customers that check out as a “guest”. Presumably most customers use an account when making a purchase.

That said I saw the people reporting it initially saying you didn’t even need to submit the form to be affected so I don’t know how they can tell how many customers were affected.

Its somewhat homophobic in a “Hurr Durr, you are gay and like to take it up the butt” way. Plus the general stigma around men using sex toys.

My initial thought was that this is an attempt at a prank (not a very good one) between two military members.

I’m a big fan of spicy food, but I rarely use hot sauce and am not a fan of buffalo wings. For me I like foods that have chiles where the spice is part of the flavour that makes the dish taste good.

The weird part is that that Christmas a few of us got gifted the bills fresh and uncirculated from the bank. We all joked about the maple rumor that was going around and found that some of the bills did smell like maple and others didn’t.

If you have network issues generally best practice is to unplug everything for 30 seconds and then turn the devoces on one by one from where the internet comes into the house and let each connect before moving up the chain. So typically modem then router then computer.