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They send you an altered cashier's check (amount changed from $5 to $500 or whatever) and ask you to keep $400 and wire back $100. If the bank doesn't catch the fraud at the time you cash the check and you complete the transaction, now the scammer has your $100 and you are on the hook for the amount of the fraudulent check after it fails to clear.

There used to be a show called Street Cents on CBC that focused on consumer and media awareness. On one episode, they torture tested Nalgene bottles.

It's been a while but if I'm remembering right, I watched them survive:

• being thrown off a building
• being run over by a bulldozer
• being dipped in liquid nitrogen and hit with a hammer
• being heated with a blow torch

The lids broke in some of the tests, especially if they had liquid in them, but the bottles themselves are basically indestructible.

I've seen a knock-off bottle break when somebody set a backpack down on it too hard.

Using warm water is unsafe. Cold water only.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/food-safety-basics/big-thaw-safe-defrosting-methods

I uninstalled Duolingo the day they started offering to restore your streak for money.

I live about 100km from my hometown. It's where I was born and I lived there on and off for about half my life but I no longer think of it as home.

I read another article that said they're planning to use a custom fork of Chromium.

Zelda and Chill

Doomsday preppers

There are two kinds of people who own a pressure canner - people who enjoy making preserves and fucking crazy people.

That's the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage!

Speaking as somebody just on my way home from a trip to Newfoundland, you'd have to try hard not to see pitcher plants there. A huge swath of the island has very poor soil, so there are carnivorous plants all over the place. I hiked the Tablelands trail in Gros Morne National Park and there were pitcher plants along the entire thing.

He's always been awful (he got famous in Canada by making wild claims about bill C-16 when all it really did was add gender identity to the list of protected classes for the purposes of human rights legislation) but he definitely got worse after his trip to Russia.

He talks a lot about personal responsibility but when it came time to kick his benzo addiction, instead of taking personal responsibility and dealing with the withdrawal symptoms, he tried to convince his doctors to put him into an induced coma. They refused because they didn't think it was safe or ethical, so he flew to Russia where it's easier to find doctors who are less picky about safety and ethics. I'm convinced the coma gave him brain damage because he's been way more unhinged ever since.