Banning hunting a species the province is trying to eradicate might sound counterintuitive, but Brook said there has been no evidence that sport hunting has lowered wild boar populations. That’s partially because the animals reproduce relatively frequently and have large numbers of offspring, averaging two litters of six piglets per year, he said.

“Unfortunately, not only does hunting not eliminate them fast enough … it also breaks up groups and spreads them around the landscape, because very rarely will hunters actually remove a whole population,” Brook said.

Huh. TIL.

Yeah, I’m not sure where they get the impression that we aren’t in the middle of a crisis right now. I guess average prices in TO dropped a couple of percent, but I don’t think anyone under 50 has seen their situation improve.

The federal government already plans to spend billions of dollars in housing through Build Canada Homes. The Parliamentary Budget Officer this week estimated BCH will add 26,000 homes over the next five years, half of them subsidized.

That is not enough. CMHC says we need something like 5 million new homes by 2035 to restore housing affordability to pre-pandemic levels. 5k houses/year is nowhere near what we need. It’s nowhere near the 500,000 housing starts/year Carney was promising during the election.

Everything you said is spot on.

I had kids older. I don’t agree with OPs advice for not having kids in your twenties. I’d argue a planned pregnancy in your twenties is the way to go.

No love for acid rain?

Remarkably self aware

We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

lol

I find that my players take a lot of cues from the scenario. If there’s an obvious way for them to get involved, and a clear benefit to the character, they jump in. If not, they treat it as part of the world and continue about their business. But they are relatively passive, story-wise and expect a bit of railroading to tell them where to go.

It isn’t the first time they’ve screwed up the NESS.

When my players came up with an idea that derailed my plans for the current story arc and made it way more interesting. They all got into the idea (pretending to double cross the jerk they are being paid to protect) and forced me to ad lib a tonne of new stuff.

That’s the kind of thing that makes me love TTRPGs.

Alien: Acceptable Los[s]es

I would like to see this movie.

I did this for my Waterdeep: Dragonheist campaign. The paper was yellow journalism through and through: they misspelled PC names, misattributed actions, and obviously supported one of the factions. It was a lot of fun. I fully recommend it.

Finally, someone to blame!

how is this surreal it just makes sense

Foreign forces were also stationed around the city during the war. Some UK military sources maintained to the BBC that the stories were an urban myth. But in 2007, a US military veteran testified that there were ‘tourist shooters’ in and around the city.

I generally listen and compare it to what I do.

If it’s useless, I silently feel smug and superior. If there’s something good, then I try to take it onboard.

Sign me up.

Go for it!

I do something similar a couple days a week. It looks just as good as a similar cut I’d get from a barber.

Will it be bad? Yes.

Will I watch it? Probably not.

But I might watch it when it comes to streaming services.

Norton proclaimed himself “Emperor of these United States” in September 1859, a role he played for the rest of his life. Norton had no formal political power but was treated deferentially in San Francisco and elsewhere in California, and currency issued in his name was honored in some of the establishments he frequented. Some considered Norton to be insane or eccentric, but residents of San Francisco and the city’s larger Northern California orbit enjoyed his imperial presence and took note of his frequent newspaper proclamations. Norton received free ferry and train passage and a variety of favors, such as help with rent and free meals, from well-placed friends and sympathizers. Some of the city’s merchants capitalized on his notoriety by selling souvenirs bearing his image. He died January 8, 1880.