Thanks. One of the best trips of my life.

I see your point, however, China is consistent, and it is not nearly so imperialistic as the United States. I’m not sure which one I trust less.

Seems like a no-brainer. Canada doesn’t have an EV production to speak of. I believe it was originally done to support the U.S. EV industry, but do we really need to be doing that?

But if bacteria killed us entirely, the world would go on with barely a whimper.

Yup. Geographically not north, but we get labelled north anyway.

Politeness. It changes the atmosphere of a conversation/community/country when people are polite.

Many countries have pay per use public restrooms. Sometimes there’s someone sitting outside handing out toilet paper after you pay. Sometimes it a coin insert turnstile. Us oldsters call them Johnny Cash.

So does trying to convince the U.S. to switch.

In Ontario, minimum wage is the same for all.

Here, the minimum wage for servers is $17.20, same as any other worker.

Like cheap fusion power, finding life is always close but never arrives.

Tips. How ridiculous is it that restaurant owners guilt us into paying their employees salaries because they are too cheap to pay them a living wage? How unjust is it that we chose to tip the people who bring our food from the kitchen to our table and leave the hundreds of other service workers without tips?

lol

What are you wiping with???

The goodness of people. I run into it every day. People holding the door, saying kind words, going out of their way to help. I know there’s also a lot of cruelty, but that’s predominantly in the media, not in my life.

Lakes. My small city has 330 lakes. There are more lakes in Canada than the rest of the world combined.

In Vietnam, they call it the American War.