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I don't know either. There really isn't a universally agreed upon standard for how to leave a toilet seat. Even with a sign dictating the expected behaviour, it's not a guarantee. It's completely illogical to expect a toilet seat to have been left in any specific state*, and therefore the onus is entirely on the next person to set it how they want before using it. This is already how it works. It takes 1 second. I don't know who is complaining about it.

Although, on second thought, the only people who would ever have to move the seat in a seat-down world are those who want to pee standing up, and there might be some value in very gently discouraging that behaviour in a public restroom. Not sure if that's the goal here, but it's a theory.

*Unless there's a lid. Close the damn lid!

You or I might not get a ton of mail, but there are still plenty of people who depend on the service. Not everyone has reliable internet access or wants to put everything online. But yes, lettermail is essentially a relic. Parcels are where the money is. Canada Post is still the cheapest and safest option (except during a labour dispute) when it comes to shipping parcels, not to mention the only option if you don't live in a city.

The problem is with the private couriers -- who aren't legally mandated to sink money into lettermail or rural delivery, and who exploit the hell out of their workers -- using that unfair advantage to capture more and more of the parcel market.

And the funniest part: Canada Post owns Purolator. They've been quietly doing an end run around CUPW's bargaining power this whole time.

Yeah, paper flyers are absurdly wasteful. We as a society should really try to find a way to eliminate them. Unfortunately right now they make up a significant chunk of Canada Post's revenue, thanks to a bunch of unfair competition in the parcel market, where they should be making their money.

Which is why this is going to be so effective as a strike action. The company's income stream gets blown up while the essential service continues to deliver the stuff people actually want in their mailboxes.

Ice Cold Beer. While he's distracted, the rest of our tokens are going in the ice cold beer machine.

I'd like to add that batteries might only last 3 years if you live in a cold climate.

Work yard plale sale

100 GB of emails? The heck are these people sending?

GPUs are specialized to be able to very quickly manipulate vectors, by using a principle called Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD). Where a CPU would have to individually operate on each element of a vector, a GPU can operate on all the elements in one go.

So maybe you could call it a SIMD card or Vector Accelerator or something like that.

I wonder how many of those "empty" condos are listed on airbnb right now.

Trek you yourself wreck before yourself.

Got a nice ring to it. Very logical.

Fair, but then again, iOS autocorrect isn't exactly not AI.

Most people aren't taking the time to type in ctrl+shift+u+2+0+1+4 when a regular minus-dash would get the point across with a single keystroke. But there is enough of a distinction that some people (like you and I) will use the proper punctuation when there is an opportunity to do so.

What I find far more suspicious is the unicode hyphen, because no human would be able to tell the difference, and would therefore always choose to input a minus.