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I have successful installed a sonoff orb-dim switch in my wall and made it work the way I want it to and I cannot remember the last time I was this pleased with myself.

November 6:
Bell*> posts $4.5 Billion-with-a-B profit in Q3
November 12:
Bell> Due to uh… infrastructure investments… yeah… we're uh… going to charge you more for your internet service starting in February. Also—remember—there are no comparable internet services, so you can't really leave.
(*yes, /that/ Bell; they're still here in Canada)

The Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance, the second novel in the Fractional Fiction series, asks what happens when a scientist trained to study transgenerational trauma in laboratory mice discovers that the patterns she has been mapping exist in her own…

The Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot | David Boles, Blogs
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance,…

It's good to see an academic journal publishing serious scholarship: "many controversies around this dramatic episode cannot be resolved until a more objective and quantitative analysis is carried out."
Remember kids, numbers are transparent and self-evident in a way that words can never be. Thanks be to economics.

As I head out the door to attend my local Remembrance Day ceremony, here is a story from the CBC about the USA and Canada in WWII.
““We each share a border. If something happened to Canada tomorrow, wouldn't I want the United States to defend them? If something happened to us, wouldn't we want Canada to help defend us? So I'm telling you, we need as countries to resolve these issues that we are having right now, today.””
#canada #usa #wwii #veteransday #remembranceDay
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-wwii-victoria-cross-9.6971182

“Abundance has a way of leading to amnesia.”
#remember

The One Thing You Can’t Afford to Forget
“Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God…” (Deut. 8:11) Dr. Harold Urey, a Nobel Prize–winning chemist, was once walking along a sidewalk when he ran into another professor. They chatted for a few minutes, and as they parted, Dr. Urey asked, “John, which way was I going when I met you?”

Good Morning #Canada
December 8th, 1869, Timothy Eaton opened a small dry-goods and haberdashery business at 178 Yonge Street in the city of Toronto. From that humble start grew a national retail chain that eventually would bring Christmas Window Displays that attracted crowds for 100 years, and the tradition continues today. The heyday for the window displays was the 1940s to 1980s when Eatons and Simpsons competed for children's noses pressed up against their windows. But every store, large or small, had their own creative display in December. In the 1990s retail chains started to falter and disappear and some displays, like those from Woodwards and Ogilvys, were preserved by museums. I remember our annual visit to Eatons and Simpsons on Yonge Street in the early 60s, when Mom and Dad would load up the car with 7 kids and we'd tour the Christmas displays.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HappyHolidays
https://www.tvo.org/article/walking-in-a-window-wonderland-a-brief-history-of-torontos-department-store-christmas-displays

Whenever someone says "my vote doesn't count" we can just remember that time when Americans voted for a convicted rapist and wannabe fascist -- or didn't vote at all -- and cross-border travel went into "absolute collapse”.
#FAFO #USA #Democracy #TheAmericanFascist
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-washington-state-border-crossings-2025-blaine-9.7040836

This episode of Ideas is powerful. Still - and not to minimize the experience of veterans - I'd really love a parallel series focused on the moms and dads, partners, and kids who stayed behind.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canadian-war-museum-v…

Not a war story: this is about what comes after | CBC Radio
Canada’s veterans have a conflicted relationship with Remembrance Day, an idea that may be shifting as older war vets leave us. In a two-part series, IDEAS shares postwar experiences from The Canadian War Museum’s oral history project called In Their Own Voices. *This is a two-part series.

Good Morning #Canada
Before #WWII, Canada could still be considered a tiny nation in terms of our influence on world affairs. But after the conflict broke out, we contributed well beyond expectations and our navy was an example. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) started the war with only 13 vessels, but when WWII ended, we had the 4th largest navy in the world. By 1945 the RCN had 450 ships in all, plus many smaller auxiliary units. This 1945 figure breaks down as follows: 2 cruisers, 17 destroyers, 68 frigates, 112 corvettes, 67 minesweepers, 12 escort ships, 75 Fairmile motor launches. During WWII, Canadian shipyards built a total of 4,047 naval vessels and 410 merchant ships for a grand total of 4,457 ships. The naval vessels included over 300 anti-submarine warships, as well as thousands of landing craft, escort ships, minesweepers, and tugs.
#CanadaIsAwesome #RemembranceDay
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Royal-Canadian-Navy/Second-World-War