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What kind of weird decimal system are you guys using in Canada?

I only used one decimal point, if I used two decimal points it would be 0..66

It was a joke, c'mon man, I'm not as dumb as I look PS- just for the record, the metric equivalent of 2/3 is 0.66

I'm in Europe, what's the metric equivalent?

uh, not good, you're confirming my fears but still, with new gear, give it a little time to adjust. even with my Gnetik2, it took me 5-10 ice times to adjust and make adjustments to where I felt comfortable in them I remember trying the RGT pads in the store and liked the lower part of the pad boot/shin, but had reservations about the stiff thighs. They guy in the shop was like "you'll get used to them" and I was like "yea, maybe, but maybe I won't"....

...just throwin' it out there

I've been eyeing Warrior RGT as my next set of pads for a while. I tried some in the store a couple of years ago, I liked the feel, except the very stiff thighs, as you noted. That kind of scared me away from them. Let me know if you adjust to them, I'm still thinking about a pair. Instead of the RGT, I went with Brian's Gnetik2, which I've liked for the most part, but took some adapting. The elastic toe-ties really messed me up, felt too loose, but I just replaced them with regular skate laces, and all was well again

Wow, impressive. I just take an all-in-one shower/shampoo gel in a zip-lock bag (got the zip-lock bag idea after the bottle busted open in my bag once). I keep a Swiss army knife and extra laces in my mask-bag pocket. Otherwise, that's it.

You're going to have to send me a few pics first, I'm not so easy ...but seriously, what are you talking about? In the US, if you get sick or dies from a vaccine, that's where you report it. The CDC and FDA then review it and track it.

One the one-hand you can say it's over-reported with fake cases, and that may well be true. On the other-hand, you could also say that people are not aware of it or failing to register actual cases there, so you can also say that it's being under-reported, and that may well be true also. The sad reality is that this is the best, and only, vaccine death/injury reporting system there is. It's this or nothing.

Exactly, how do we "follow the science" here, if the best there is available is an unvalidated self-reporting database? Isn't that kind of alarming?

I read the full Atlantic article you linked, it tried to discredit him because he was on Tucker Carlson, and ramled about if he was really the inventor or not, but otherwise I agreed with most of it. From the article: Regarding the article I linked to the BBC reporter, since those numbers of vaccine deaths you gave are not from a "peer-reviewed" paper, I can scientifically say it's "baseless" But really, most countries are relying on self-reported cases to count vaccine deaths and injuries. Which is I guess about as random and reliable as a Facebook survey (?) In the US they have VAERS website to report vaccine incidences. Here's a summary of the data. More vaccine reported deaths than all others combined. There were +6,000 reported deaths in the US in a 7 month span. Reuters "Fact Check" says it's not false, but "missing context" that just because someone dies soon after taking the vaccine does not imply the vaccine killed them. Fair enough. But that's what the best data available says.

The survey was done by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh and had 5 million participants, it's not a Reddit poll with 20 people. And looking at other stats in the poll, eg. they found rural Trump supports and young black people are also very vaccine hesitant, I would say it mirrors many other surveys. I wouldn't say it's "baseless"...and how do you "peer review" an on-line survey anyway (?) Regarding vaccine passports, it's not just like you can't go to a concert or something, people are losing jobs, kicked out of schools, not allowed to travel to see families, etc. Then there's the question of your right to medical privacy and other issues, eg. what if hackers download vaccine passport databases and dump all your details online somewhere? Oh wait, they already did that. And yes, mRNA has been around a while. Here's a 3 hour interview with one of the inventors of it. He is himself vaccinated, but points out some issues and dangers about the vaccine and how it's being rolled out. ...and sadly, young, healthy people are also dying from the vaccine Yes, it's a very small percentage, but then COVID deaths in young, healthy people are also a very small percentage. So pick your poison. Literally.

The whole population of the world (8 billion people), or even a big majority, will never-ever be vaccinated for various reasons. COVID is something we have to accept and learn to live with The vaccine wears out over time and/or doesn't protect from new variants, so a "booster shot" is required every 6-12 months. So even if everyone in the world did get vaccinated, after a year or so it's back to "zero" and start all over again. Vaccines don't prevent you from getting COVID, it can reduce the effects of it, and the can reduce the viral load that you can transmit to others. Taking any vaccine has inherent risks/side effects/etc. With new mRNA vaccines that have been pushed out quickly, alot is still obviously unknown and data is still being collected. The government should not be forcing people to inject things into their bodies, and mandating "vaccine passports" to prove it (strange how fast so many people went from "puch a nazi" to "show me your papers") On a final note, interesting study, the people who are most vaccine hesitant, based on education level, are those with PhD's. To that I say: don't "follow the science", but rather "follow the scientists"

I've been rehashing some old 90's bands too lately (sadly hardly nobody makes decent music anymore). Was just deep-diving into Soul Asylum, was never really too into them before, but I managed to dig up and string together about 10 good tunes of theirs. For hockey, I only listen to Rhino Bucket or AC/DC. For the last 25 years, it's always this tune before playing.

That was my grandmothers favorite saying ("every cloud has a silver lining"). She was a WW2 refugee, left her home in Estonia in the middle of the night with my 4 year old father in one hand and a bag in the other. Never saw her home again. But she always looked on the bright side. It's so easy to look at all the things we don't have and complain and be depressed. But life's too short, you gotta look at what you do have and be grateful for that. There's always something good somewhere.

My wife told me marriage is just two people asking each other what they want to eat until one of them dies.

Oh yes, I do recall the celebratory penny-farthing parade was quite a spectacle ... except for that old Coopy-Loopy chap who imbibed too much ale and mucked things up once again...

Alright alright alright ...got any weed on ya?

Dark makes sense for the road team, you're travelling and not always keeping them in pristine shape, ie. getting dirty and not washing them all the time. I think the reason for the switch to dark for home was to have more "colorful" jerseys for the home fans, but I've always like the white jerseys better anyway. So I'm with you, they should have left it as it was and kept the dark jerseys for the road.

...ah...late to the party with the Lionel jokes... nevermind...

Hmmm...I thought the dark jerseys are the home team...now about that shutout...

It's also amazing how Kivkenieks moved up from the bottom rungs on Junior hockey to the NHL: https://eu.azcentral.com/in-depth/sports/nhl/columbus-blue-jackets/2021/07/14/matiss-kivlenieks-kivi-death-blue-jackets-goalie-remembered/7934855002/