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Most likely just a mistake, but we need to make sure it never happens again.

Also, do the tanuki kids not age?

Ponko's age came up in the episode where she first starts working and Yachiyo won't agree to employ her unless she's old enough. I think she says she's 58 or something around there, which suggests that the tanuki people age ~8 times slower than humans. Assume 24 years for the whiskey development (9 years of experimentation and yearly tasting to get a decent formula + 15 years of aging to get the bottle Yachiyo serves at the bar when consoling the alien over her(?) breakup) and you get ~3 years of aging for the tanuki, which might not be reflected in their character designs.

Of course, this assumes that the human forms of the tanuki reflect changes in their biological development instead of being "fixed" forms that they've memorized somehow.

Price them appropriately—like, less than a dollar per month per square foot rent, or maybe the cost of a used RV to own—and you might see some uptake. As things stand, I expect these are unaffordable for the people who might be able to use them.

If the idiot owners won't budge on charging too much for too little, they deserve to go bankrupt over it.

How much would setting the main registry file to read-only break on Windows 11? Someone may be about to attempt the experiment . . .

And who were you licensed by? Any schmuck with access to a printer can make up something that says "license" on it.

I am not a lawyer, but by my understanding, treason's pretty narrowly defined as being involved in armed insurrection, assisting the enemy in time of war, or passing official secrets to an enemy country. If Smith has done anything like that, she's managed to keep it very quiet. If she has, at any time, advocated the use of force to drive the federal government out of Alberta, she may have committed a different (also very serious) crime, sedition. I'm sure there are people trying to figure that out right now.

If she hasn't done any of that, she's in the same position as Quebec separatist politicians back in the day: stupid, misguided, and trying to harm the country, but technically not treasonous.

In the event she did hold a referendum and not enough of the remaining sane Albertans turned out to vote in it, the federal government would be best served by quietly dragging its feet on the messy proceedings required to let them leave (while pointedly going through the motions of setting up temporary border checkpoints), bombarding the population with propaganda, and hope that by the time Smith's term ends, buyer's remorse has made things swing the other way.

It's pretty easy to control the air flow inside a tunnel if you install good exhaust fans. Might get a bit wind-tunnel-y for a while, but they should be able to get any toxic fumes out without anyone having to breathe them. A road tunnel needs good ventilation even in non-emergency situations, because the crap ICE vehicles put out in the course of normal operation is going to continue to be an issue for a while yet.

Also what happens when a cybertruck catches fire down there, won’t that kill a lot of people?

While I don't expect Ford to learn from the past, in the hypothetical event that the tunnel were to make it as far as the detailed-engineering-drawing stage, I would hope that the engineers would have heard of the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire, the Caldecott Tunnel fire, the Channel Tunnel fires, and so on, and be able to incorporate appropriate safety setup. Actually, a cybertruck catching fire would be a minor problem compared to a commercial transport full of flammable liquid doing the same—that's usually the big killer in road tunnel fires.

Gentoo still has support for i486, although you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the install media downloads page to find it. (Admittedly, this is in part because the list is in alphabetical order by arch. 😅 )

Daenerys was the chatbot, not the kid.

I wish I could remember who it was that said that kids' names tend to reflect "the father's family tree, or the mother's taste in fiction," though. (My parents were of the father's-family-tree persuasion.)

There are more hoops involved—stuff Windows 10 with your Adobe software in a VM with no Internet connection and you should be okay even after Win10 stops getting security updates—but it isn't quite impossible for you to migrate everything else and have one or two specific Windows programs too. Granted, you may not have the time and energy to go that route.

I was in the French-language Ontario school system until the end of Grade 8, and I cannot recall that we ever used the formal "vous". As in, it wasn't used (in class or in general in that primarily Francophone town) or taught, and the one time it came up in classwork at some point late in elementary school, it was so abnormal that the teacher had to explain it.

Edit: I've been thinking about it since I wrote the above, and I've realized that there may have been an additional wrinkle: the town's majority language was French, but its prestige language was English. So someone speaking to their boss's boss would probably have done so in English (with widely variable degrees of fluency), not French. Under those circumstances, it makes sense that the more respectful speech registers in French had mostly vanished. The teachers were pretty much all of local extraction, so they weren't likely to be surprised by the local dialect.