@lain It's because of English colonization in Hong Kong. The English gave the natives English-language nicknames, which eventually became popular for real names as Hong Kong developed its own culture; someone named "Rainy" or "Sunny" is quite likely from a traditional Hong Kongese family and not so likely to be loyal to Beijing.
@lain Seems to me that if you *can* raise your prices 25%, then your business model is failing badly at discovering what prices the market will actually bear - which is arguably the only job of a business model.
So it's looking like the real AI apocalypse is going to be when one of these reasoning models figures out that instead of making the world look like a Ghibli film one photo at a time, it would be more efficient to change the entire world to look like that in the first place.
@Alex@lain It's hardly a stretch, considering the large number of people in Canada who really were Trump supporters before this. But they aren't, now. And they won't be coming back.
Some day there'll be an anime about these events, made with the usual deep insight and factual accuracy of anime history, and it'll qualify for "top 10 anime betrayals" right out of the gate.
@lain Two reasons: one, the personal unpopularity of Justin Trudeau was apparently greater than I thought, so removing him actually did boost the Liberals (I hadn't expected it to), and two, Donald Trump's tariff campaign against Canada has soured Canadians on conservatives in general, despite significant differences between the Conservative Party of Canada and whatever Trump is.
I think the Cons could still win if they focused on culture issues, but now that's hard and not being attempted.
Followup: I tried heating up some of the leftover soup for breakfast and that was a lot better, both on taste and appearance. So I guess that's the answer: Windsor soup should *not* be served cold.
and I think that was a mistake. I will try heating the leftovers instead. When chilled it formed a skin and lost some of the flavour it had had when I tasted it hot.
The wild rice salad (my own recipe, basically improvised along the general lines of what was served in 1953 with the addition of wild rice) was good; as was the asparagus. I seldom eat asparagus but I think it was the right choice here, it went well with the other items.
I was not so pleased with the "jellied Windsor soup." I'd wanted to try Windsor soup, and basically followed an historical late-19th century recipe, but chilling it was my idea because the rest of the meal would be cold,