u/Kure_Brex

I have an electric furnace that caps out at 1150C, I struggle to get good pours.

This is especially true for alloys, for example with aluminum bronze and nordic gold.

For aluminum bronze I can get a good mix but only a decent pour, there ends up being a lot of waste through slag (and mixing somehow melts my steel mixing rod)

With nordic gold it's just a pain, I can't get it to mix properly at all and the poors always suck.

I think my issue with pouring copper is it cooling down too quickly, leading to the mold not being ful and having clear layers of metal.

Does anyone have any tips to help? I've tried using borax as a flux but find it doesn't doo too much and leaves the cricible (graphite) a sticky mess.

Good day, everyone.

Recently I decided to put some thinking into what a federal support for public transport could look like, and I worked out a per-capita transfer to municipalities with public transport(Sorry if pdf looks like crap, I blame adobe and me not caring to make a more shareable link).

I decided to set the amount to $100 per person, and basing off this wikipedia article, got a cost of $2.7 billion per year based off of 2021 populations, which is much less than I would think it would be.

I didn't think of this as a means to replace municipal funding but supplementation to improve transit quality nationally. I am not aware of other transit services, but I am aware of my own, Halifax Transit, has issues with reliability and funding, extra funding federally could massively improve the quality of transit service while also not needing an insane amount of funding.

I can only assume that public transit tends to cost more than fare revenues bring in (It's a service after all), people don't often consider the savings public transit provides to users.

Keeping to Halifax, about 8% of employed commuters take the bus (12,540), and the average cost to own a vehicle in NS is about $10,600 per year, and a bus pass works to be around $1080. All this combined means the municipality spends about $150m, receives $60m from users at a loss of $90m to save commuters a collective about $120m (mix of 2021 data and 2026 budgets with rounding where I arbitrarily feel like). Based on my work Halifax Transit would get $43m in federal funding, I can only imagine how much it could improve with such funding, that could go into newer more reliable(Or green) buses, more drivers earning a better wage, better facilities, the list can go on!

We deserve nice things, and the federal government can absolutely work with municipalities to ensure we can have them!

Thank you for reading, feel free to share your thoughts, municipal anecdotes, and above else, criticism (I did this all fairly fast with little concern for being perfect, I would greatly appreciate due corrections).

I upgraded an old pc to have windows 10 on a fresh new ssd.

Previously it was on windows 7 and recognized my wifi network, but it will not detect my wifi network on the new ssd, only other wifi networks in range.

Any help would be great!

As many of us expected, this announcement ended up being a developer bail out as a rent-to-own scheme. 90% of the cost is from BC and 10% from Ottawa, that is to say, this is a developer bailout largely backed by the BCNDP.

I do not live and BC, in fact, I am quite literally on the opposite side of the country in Halifax. However, being in halifax, I do believe I get to have a perfectly valid opinion about the unaffordable price of renting.

No matter how it is cut, developer bailouts are bad. The expectation that developers must make prifit Is part of the greater problem of housing shortages within Canada. With the business you take risk, sometimes those risk results in profit, sometimes those risk results loses, If we are just going to have developers bailed out every single time they make a mistake, we're not going to get anywhere.

I was foolishly hopeful that this plan would be public ownership in which these units are rented out at affordable cost, I don't care if it isn't profitable to do so, people need a place to live.

This rent-to-buy scheme doesn't actually fix the unaffordability of housing. The first people To participate in this rent to buy scheme benefit greatly from it being designed in affordable way (assuming it is). However, when they eventually sell the house, market conditions will dictate that the price the house is sold for is significantly higher than what it was bought at.

You have that happen for 3 sets of people and you are back to where we are today with completely unaffordable units that at one point in time were considered affordable, but are no longer affordable because they were sent to the mercy of the market.

I want to have an open discussion about this because it's frankly so frustrating. We have the mechanisms to buy property and simply convert them into affordable, non market, rentals, but carney just doesn't do that because it doesn't benefit private enterprises.

I genuinely can't stand these things, no other ship in the game is a bigger problem than these filthy destroyers, mindless missile drones that obliterate you if you can't see into the future.

Positioning is useless when you are a 25kn BB that takes 3 business days to reposition and the fact the enemy destroyers can see you and can simply look at how you turn and adjust.

I am so damn tired of these things, especially Japanese destroyers, I don't understand how to not get screwed by them every single time. If they do get spotted I shoot at them, and either miss every shot because they are tiny as hell or don't do enough damage quick enough and then they go undetected, to then sneak up on me and unload 100k+ damage with no time to dodge because once again, I can't see into the future.

I just started playing the pc version, and in a match I just got absolutely wrecked because my ship auto turned me broadside.

Apparently there should be a setting to disable this, but I don't seem to have the setting.

Can this setting no longer be disabled?