Angel of madness: In the land of the mortals, there lived an average ad. Average in every fucking way possible, named Junk. So imagine his shock when a god appointed him as a champion to basically be a comedian, and bring back comedy. Unknown to him, 12 others came before him and all failed. Thai was devastating news, But the mortal was determined to Carry on. Oh and the powers given to him by the horseman, that probably helped plenty. When he heard the thunderstriders he went “Hey, i could make them laugh, which would help in the mission” and eventually joined, which is a pretty big acc-
The angel of madness Sees the requirements and visibly looks disappointed
Angel of madness: They literally just need to like you and You just have to be heroic. Nevermind what i said. Junks still pretty damn cool for a mortal though! Maybe he could be an angel of comedy… Nevermind. Well, just because he's average doesn't mean he's cool, because if you look at his abilities, THere really damn Good!
ANgel of madness: In Base, He has pretty good Martial arts skills, Being a black belt in karate! He can make a portal to the marathon verse, we'll talk more about that later. He has Battlefield removal, as Anyone who goes inside the Marathon verse, Will not be allowed To escape unless he wants them too. He has plenty of resistances To power nuflication and other crap, but peach doesn't really have any of it so we may as well not mention it. He was able to blow up a 1k m long whale in a single punch! HE also completely demolished the Greenland center skyscraper! That is strong enough to destroy Multiple city blocks. He did this using explosives! He can bypass durability using his conbust gun, Unless you're holy.
Angel of madness: Speaking of the greenland skyscraper feat, he's durable enough to survive it! But now it's time for his arsenal! He has a frag Launcher, which shoots bouncy grenades! Rocket jump, where he has explosives go on the ground to launch him in the air! He can summon sentient Bear Traps that chase the target! Q combusta gun that shoots holy flames! Hell yeah, My type of weapon baby! He also has avoidance and Reality warping! Now his strongest sort of weapon: His Crown! It makes him go to the Marathon Verse, WHich makes him IMMEASURABLE! HE was able to defeat AU Godzilla which destroyed the marathon verse in one STOMP! It also gives him Energy manipulation, Mid regeneration, Existence erasure By using speed shake! Fate, concept, and plot manipulation! Mind manipulation by using hold up, Vibration manipulation, Dimensional manipulation, memory erasure, invisibility and intangibility via Avoidance, and clairvoyance
ANgel of madness: And that wraps it up for my favorite mortal! He really shows that looks can be deceiving. Also, take a shot for every “Manipulation”, I Dare You!
SIde Note: don't do that.
Snail: The Mushroom Kingdom would be a great place to live if you like mushrooms! But it’s ruler Princess Peach is no push over! What you thought she was only some damsel in destress? Not even close home boy!
Peach may often be kidnapped by Bowser but she shows she hang with the best of them! She can hit Bowser so hard he goes flying into the horizon with her umbrella! She can beat you down with her frying pan, golf club and even more! Let’s not forget her power ups! She can use the fire flower to shoot fire balls, the cat suit to climb up surfaces and scratch at enemies, the mega mushroom to turn into a giant and even more! That’s not even talking about her bubble that can defend her from attacks! She can use her heart magic to summon sheep from the sky and make foes sleep, heal herself and even use her own rear as a powerful weapon. Don’t you dare!
She was born as one of the 7 Star children giving her unimaginable power! For reference the others are Donkey Kong who punched the moon out of the sky, Wario who can survive blasts that split the clouds, Bowser who survived being thrown into a black hole and Mario and Luigi the two most powerful and somehow competent fighters in the Mario series! Although Peach may not be as strong as these guys she’s definitely close in power at the least!
But when kidnapped she can sneak out letters from her cage that somehow make it to Mario who can be worlds away? That makes no sense! What the hell! For all that sneak out yourself!
Anyway Peach is clearly a skilled fighter being able to stand with the likes of Mario and Luigi who have been on tons of adventures and have been trained by tons of masters!
Peach has one final ace up her sleeve! The war fan! This power fan is powerful enough to make the toughest look like coughing babies fighting a hydrogen bomb!
So while she may seem dainty and frail know this princess is one you don’t wanna cross!

F(21) back in march on the 23rd i went over to my M(24) ex boyfriend’s place and stayed the night. he was planning on helping me change my oil in the morning. i had brand new 5qts of oil and an oil filter waiting in my trunk. my ex and i are super close considering each other best friends, we did mess around here and there still so there was that fwb aspect but there was alot more to it than just that. We broke up in October of 2022 (it was mutual so we could focus on ourselves) and shorty after that he was filling the void of loneliness by sleeping with a few girls including me still. One of them happened to be a complete psychopath. this girl he met grew a deep hatred for me and huge obsession for him. in the beginning she was stalking me on social media, i would see her name viewed my story and even accidentally liking my photos. It got so bad i had to block her and then i started seeing views from weird random accounts and even her SISTER. it got creepy and weird really quick, she was even stalking him but this time IN PERSON! she had his location too at the time and then he was started to get paranoid as well. he obviously kept her around cuz of the benefits of her having money and always buying him shit and another chick to fuck of course cuz men love their variety amiright? (i don’t judge i’m open) anyway long story short it built up to me waking up the next day from that night to my ex texting her fuming telling me she fucked with my car. I walk over and see the two drivers side tires slashed from what looked like knife indents, keyed all around from the knife as well i assume from how deep scratches were, and the worst of all pouring that 5 qts of oil i had in my trunk all over the interior, radio, seats, vents, everything was drenched and covered in oil. along with stealing my new oil filter…my car was behind a locked gate and unfortunately my dumbass didn’t lock my car, but she still managed to trespass my ex’s property through a different gate that was accidentally left unlocked that night. i used to be an uber eats driver so that really screwed me over financially, i have really bad mental and physical health issues that prevent me from keeping a regular job. the car estimate from all the damage was over $11k and she still owes me $500 for the damages my insurance didn’t cover. i made the police report immediately and now have a detective but it’s been really hard getting ahold of him. the last time i did talk to him i gave him evidence of an audio recording of my ex talking to her on the phone about it and her admitting to it, along with a screenshot from his phone of her admitting to doing it as well. so far i haven’t heard any updates and it’s been two months since i’ve submitted the evidence, my case still isn’t in their system either…i know its typical to be a long process but i’m still very concerned and anxious about this, i want her to face jail for what she did i literally had to get a new used car cuz the damage was that bad. restitution and jail is what sounds fair to me. i’m basically just asking for advice or insight from anyone that’s had any experiences similar to this or redditors who work in law or crime business, please it would be a big help! thank you for reading.

F(21) back in march on the 23rd i went over to my M(24) ex boyfriend’s place and stayed the night. he was planning on helping me change my oil in the morning. i had brand new 5qts of oil and an oil filter waiting in my trunk. my ex and i are super close considering each other best friends, we did mess around here and there still so there was that fwb aspect but there was alot more to it than just that. We broke up in October of 2022 (it was mutual so we could focus on ourselves) and shorty after that he was filling the void of loneliness by sleeping with a few girls including me still. One of them happened to be a complete psychopath. this girl he met grew a deep hatred for me and huge obsession for him. in the beginning she was stalking me on social media, i would see her name viewed my story and even accidentally liking my photos. It got so bad i had to block her and then i started seeing views from weird random accounts and even her SISTER. it got creepy and weird really quick, she was even stalking him but this time IN PERSON! she had his location too at the time and then he was started to get paranoid as well. he obviously kept her around cuz of the benefits of her having money and always buying him shit and another chick to fuck of course cuz men love their variety amiright? (i don’t judge i’m open) anyway long story short it built up to me waking up the next day from that night to my ex texting her fuming telling me she fucked with my car. I walk over and see the two drivers side tires slashed from what looked like knife indents, keyed all around from the knife as well i assume from how deep scratches were, and the worst of all pouring that 5 qts of oil i had in my trunk all over the interior, radio, seats, vents, everything was drenched and covered in oil. along with stealing my new oil filter…my car was behind a locked gate and unfortunately my dumbass didn’t lock my car, but she still managed to trespass my ex’s property through a different gate that was accidentally left unlocked that night. i used to be an uber eats driver so that really screwed me over financially, i have really bad mental and physical health issues that prevent me from keeping a regular job. the car estimate from all the damage was over $11k and she still owes me $500 for the damages my insurance didn’t cover. i made the police report immediately and now have a detective but it’s been really hard getting ahold of him. the last time i did talk to him i gave him evidence of an audio recording of my ex talking to her on the phone about it and her admitting to it, along with a screenshot from his phone of her admitting to doing it as well. so far i haven’t heard any updates and it’s been two months since i’ve submitted the evidence, my case still isn’t in their system either…i know its typical to be a long process but i’m still very concerned and anxious about this, i want her to face jail for what she did i literally had to get a new used car cuz the damage was that bad. restitution and jail is what sounds fair to me. i’m basically just asking for advice or insight from anyone that’s had any experiences similar to this or redditors who work in law or crime business, please it would be a big help! thank you for reading.

I have a 13 laredo (pre facelift). I drove my buddy’s 14 laredo for the first time and the steering feel is completely different. My 13 feels nicely weighted and gives me a great sense of the road, the 14 felt like I was turning the steering wheel on a driving game arcade booth. It was super light and vague. I didn’t love it. In my reading I’ve seen people claim the steering set up was different from trim to trim in that model year, as in the 14 Laredo had this set up but the V8/limiteds had the heavier, rack/pinion style. No idea why. Had any one by chance driven a 14 Laredo and another model year to cross reference this?

I just wanted to comment here to help people out cause I see a lot of misinformation out there. I'm probably skipping the metal upgrade for now but for anyone that does i figured this is good info to protect the integrity of their screen tube and avoid needing to buy another since the tube isnt sold separately if broken.
I ordered the metal filter housing and a Fumoto valve as well for my 1k oil change. FWIW I've been changing oil for like 25 years.
Every video and post I see says to bend the metal tabs on the screen tube to swap. I took my metal housing out of the box and this is unnecessary and possibly poses risk of future damage. If know these aren't Ferraris, but this is all part of the bypass system.
If you push the top of the tube to an angle and simultaneously apply pressure at the tube base in the same line as the tabs toward one side, the tabs hat go under the bracket on the opposite side pop right out.
Car Care nut on YT kind of turned me off to the whole idea of the metal "upgrade" tbh after his explanation of the bypass. Seems like a lot of stuck caps can be caused by shops either never changing or overtightening. Going to roll the dice with plastic for now and keep metal as backup.
Just my 2 cents but I feel like the first person to ever do this mod put the bending step in their write up and its just been assumed necessary.

Ugh. I have a baby girl. Just 5 months old. I have three people I know who have or are expecting boys. I can't tell you how many times it has now come into conversation that my baby will have so many boyfriends to chose from, or how she will have a new boyfriend to meet soon, or something along those lines.
Maybe it's just me overthinking, but why are we even thinking about that? She's 5 months old. It has crossed my mind zero times until these comments started coming up in conversation. We don't need to be thinking about any kind of boyfriend. The conversations weird me out. At a play date, a friend said to her "don't tell daddy you have a new boyfriend, hahaha". Like that is not what we are going to be teaching our daughter when the time comes. She will have plenty of time to date or whatever she wants when she's older. Right now she's just a baby. Kids are growing up so fast now a days. She doesn't have to think about this. She obviously doesn't understand now, but I'm sure the jokes will continue to happen as she continues to get older. I want her to enjoy just being a kid.
I know they are mostly joking and refering to when she gets older, but shes not there yet. It's just so odd to me to talk about babies "dating". Why can't they just be normal friends and that's it? Why make it weird by insinuating a "relationship"?

It’s not as simple as it sounds and this is a very long story. I’m sorry.
When I was 12 I decided that I liked girls. I had been in 3 relationships with girls by the time I was 13. When I was 13 my older half brother from my dads previous rendezvous before he met my mother decided to come live with us. He was 17 at the time and thought it would be funny to out me to my parents. My dads side of the family I have two lesbian aunts and one gay uncle so I grew up around it my whole life but it’s a lifestyle my mom and dad never approved of. My moms side of the family my grandma was heavy into Christianity. Like every morning waking us up to put “holy oil” crosses on our foreheads and on things around the house while she prayed and Sunday’s were for church and church only. So when my mom and dad found out I was a lesbian my dad was pissed and my mom was shameful of me. At 12 wasn’t my first time having feelings for a girl. From age 5 to 8 my uncle who was a drug dealer gangster player was my babysitter. My mom and dad would drop me off with him at 6am and wouldn’t come back for me until 6pm. Neighborhood hood rats always were coming in and out of his place and I remember one caught my eye. I was 6 and I called her a hot sexy mama and my mom slapped the shit out of me. Few years pass and one of my lesbian aunts had gotten with a new girl and I had the hugest crush on her always wanting to be by her and hold her hand. So anyway there’s a backstory not sure if it matters but anyway skip to me 27 years old and two kids and haven’t been with any girls since 13 and my parents found out and flipped. I’ve only ever had one friend and that’s my best friend who I’ve known since I was 11. So my parents know I have no friends or anyone I get to see or hang out with often. I started working at Amazon and I met this masc fem. We instantly clicked not in a relationship way or she liked me. I admit I did have a crush but I’m 27 years old in a 6 year relationship with two kids and haven’t had anything to do with a woman sexually since I was 13. Me and this girl were like crazy identical in personalities and things we liked and movies and shows we liked and our friendship of only 3 months felt like we knew each other our whole lives. We always worked together at work and maybe once a week after work we would go grab something to eat and would occasionally hang out outside of work. It was all innocent and would just be us goofing around the whole time and talking about similar situations we been through in life or with our families. She met my kids and my boyfriend and he didn’t care whatsoever he was just happy that I made a friend which is very hard for me to do and that I was getting out of my comfort zone. My parents didn’t like it but didn’t tell me in the beginning. 3 months pass and one day they start accusing me of sleeping with her and that I’m cheating on my family with her so I quit my job at the drop of a dime and blocked her and another girl we both were friends with at work. Haven’t talked to her since. I am diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and ptsd so usually when my family start coming down on me I shut down completely and basically go into a hole where I will hide for days or weeks. I went back to work at Amazon but this time a different warehouse and the other girl me and my lesbian friend were friends with ended up getting in contact with me again and it made me miss them both but more so my masc fem friend because we were so close and so much alike. I want to unblock her and start talking to her again but I’m scared to because what if she doesn’t respond or she hates me or thinks I hated her for just blocking her and never seeing or talking to her again. Should I reach out?

It’s not as simple as it sounds and this is a very long story. I’m sorry.
When I was 12 I decided that I liked girls. I had been in 3 relationships with girls by the time I was 13. When I was 13 my older half brother from my dads previous rendezvous before he met my mother decided to come live with us. He was 17 at the time and thought it would be funny to out me to my parents. My dads side of the family I have two lesbian aunts and one gay uncle so I grew up around it my whole life but it’s a lifestyle my mom and dad never approved of. My moms side of the family my grandma was heavy into Christianity. Like every morning waking us up to put “holy oil” crosses on our foreheads and on things around the house while she prayed and Sunday’s were for church and church only. So when my mom and dad found out I was a lesbian my dad was pissed and my mom was shameful of me. At 12 wasn’t my first time having feelings for a girl. From age 5 to 8 my uncle who was a drug dealer gangster player was my babysitter. My mom and dad would drop me off with him at 6am and wouldn’t come back for me until 6pm. Neighborhood hood rats always were coming in and out of his place and I remember one caught my eye. I was 6 and I called her a hot sexy mama and my mom slapped the shit out of me. Few years pass and one of my lesbian aunts had gotten with a new girl and I had the hugest crush on her always wanting to be by her and hold her hand. So anyway there’s a backstory not sure if it matters but anyway skip to me 27 years old and two kids and haven’t been with any girls since 13 and my parents found out and flipped. I’ve only ever had one friend and that’s my best friend who I’ve known since I was 11. So my parents know I have no friends or anyone I get to see or hang out with often. I started working at Amazon and I met this masc fem. We instantly clicked not in a relationship way or she liked me. I admit I did have a crush but I’m 27 years old in a 6 year relationship with two kids and haven’t had anything to do with a woman sexually since I was 13. Me and this girl were like crazy identical in personalities and things we liked and movies and shows we liked and our friendship of only 3 months felt like we knew each other our whole lives. We always worked together at work and maybe once a week after work we would go grab something to eat and would occasionally hang out outside of work. It was all innocent and would just be us goofing around the whole time and talking about similar situations we been through in life or with our families. She met my kids and my boyfriend and he didn’t care whatsoever he was just happy that I made a friend which is very hard for me to do and that I was getting out of my comfort zone. My parents didn’t like it but didn’t tell me in the beginning. 3 months pass and one day they start accusing me of sleeping with her and that I’m cheating on my family with her so I quit my job at the drop of a dime and blocked her and another girl we both were friends with at work. Haven’t talked to her since. I am diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and ptsd so usually when my family start coming down on me I shut down completely and basically go into a hole where I will hide for days or weeks. I went back to work at Amazon but this time a different warehouse and the other girl me and my lesbian friend were friends with ended up getting in contact with me again and it made me miss them both but more so my masc fem friend because we were so close and so much alike. I want to unblock her and start talking to her again but I’m scared to because what if she doesn’t respond or she hates me or thinks I hated her for just blocking her and never seeing or talking to her again. Should I reach out?

Summary

The Inflation Reduction Act passed in the United Sates continues to mingle in background of Canadian policy-making, as massive subsidies from Washington make even the tax on carbon increasingly less efficient, with many leading Canadian companies opting to focus on their projects in the United States. With American carrots on clime policy, the Canadian stick becomes increasingly less effective, as many business leaders see an ever growing policy uncertainty over whatever little of an invective Canada has to offer. This is especially prevalent for long-term decarbonisation projects, that would un-economical without either a nation-wide price on carbon that forces companies to invest in going green, or a recast subsidy regime for green technologies that turn decarbonisation for an expensive exercise into a completive advantage.
While some people believe that abolishing the federal price on carbon on Canada would still allow the country to meet its Paris climate commitments, offsetting the lack of a "climate stick" with a carrot of additional subsidies, it's widely recognised to be an unlikely option. Canada simply doesn't have the either fiscal nor private capital firepower to compete with American incentives. Thus making a combination of a "clime stick" through a federal carbon price, complied with more modest positive incentives remains the only viable strategy to foster a nation-wide tradition to the green economy.
Federal pricing on pollution has also created increasings tensions between Ottawa and provinces, especially in Western Canada - a region traditionally dependent on natural renounce extraction and processing to support their economy, and generate energy. Thus, the main opposition party - the Conservative Party of Canada - that has traditionally viewed the West as their stronghold, has unsurprisingly committed to repealing the federal price on carbon. Something that becomes increasingly likely as the the governing Liberals continue to fall behind the Tories in all provinces except Quebec. Therefore, putting the future of Canadian climate policy at risk.
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You know, businesses hate uncertainty more than anything else.

Environment & Investment Guarantees

To resolve this uncertainty, Canada is launching comprehensive hedging mechanism to guarantee a Pan-Canadian Price on pollution, especially on carbon emissions through Pollution Pricing Contracts for Difference (PPCDs) - a proposal originally mentioned in the Federal Budget 2023, is finally being rolled out across the country in 2024.
PPCD represents a contract between the Government of Canada and a private company that guarantees a nation-wide solution price remains above originally announced projects, such as $170 price per tonne of carbon emissions. If the price falls bellow bellow the original threshold at an expected date, the Government of Canada is set to cover the difference through direct subsidies to the given project and its investors.
To further strengthen the carbon pricing regime, the Government introduces the "PPCD default provision" that allows any company in Canada to claim a fully refundable tax credit to fully compensate for estimated cost of carbon tax paid thought its operating period, including the gap between "would be" and an actual carbon price. Thus, if national carbon price falls bellow its original schedule, not only can a company have their carbon taxes paid back, but also receive full payment for forgone future carbon tax expenses.
The provision can be used by any company without a PPCD contract, and is triggered automatically upon any changes to federal carbon price. It also applies to carbon credit markets, where the Government of Canada is set to guarantee a specific price for carbon credits for specific projects or a market as whole, providing direct finical compensation when the actual price falls short of an expected benchmark.
Simultaneously, Ottawa is set to enter into Carbon Credit Forward Purchase Agreements for duration of 5 years or longer with individual emitters and industry associations. This would allow for the Government of Canada to guaranteed carbon and other pollution pricing for specific projects, directly compensating lower than expected pricing for designated projects.
The Government of Canada has concluded a set of Federal-Provincial Pollution Pricing Agreements, where Ottawa is set to be opearte as a last-resort buyer of carbon credits for local or sectoral marlets, using the federal carvon price as a benchmark. However, under the FPPPAs the federal government has also onbidgted to disapply the federal carbon backstop and fully absorb the cost of pushasing exessive credits. Notably, Ottawa has also committed to maintaining a more harmonious price on carbon across the country, through allowing local authorities to increase the supply of credits to align it with other provinces, so long it doesn't fall bellow the federal benchmark.
Most importantly, however, FPPPAs also oblige provinces to introduce contracts for difference when it comes to energy markets - traditionally a provincial jurisdiction.
Traditionally, energy markets operate through energy generating companies singing purchase contracts with energy distributors to deliver it to final customers. The cost of buying the energy and delivering is effectively passed onto consumers buy distributors with a higher mark up for to maintain to profitability. However, in markets where energy has been generated largely through fossil fuel extraction, the final price of electricity is eagerly determined by prices of fossil fuels.
To ensure the markets operate smoothy, Energy Contracts for Difference are used, to narrow the gap between wholesale price on electricity and the strike price - the point at which energy generation remains economically viable - desired by generators. The strike price is determined through an open auction of multiple generators, on an open auction, until with strike price suggestions being accepted until the budget or the capacity of the grid have been exhausted. The sealed bid for the last project accepted sets a multi-year strike price that all successful bidders receive, that is further indexed for inflation, for annual adjustments.
Thus, whenever the average wholesale price for electricity runs bellow the strike price, the government is set to cover the difference for renewable energy generating companies, to keep their business afloat. However, whenever the reference price - the average wholesale market price - exceeds the strike price, the companies should return excessive profits to the government.
Under respite FPPPAs, the monitoring those markets as well as operating the payments is set to be done by an independent provincial agency, funded through levies on non-renewable energy generation, generally following the approach of the United Kingdom.

The price guarantee however also applied to generation for nuclear energy, clean hydrogen, and - in provinces dependent on fossil fuels - temporary natural gas.

Since, energy prices remain flat across the market, they become effective regressive when it comes to income distribution. Households have to pay based on their individual consumption, being identical and per household consumption being largely balanced, causes lower income households to spend more on energy since per unit price of electricity remains the same regardless of household income. Additionally, some provinces have energy generation that is largely dependent on fossil fuel generation, causing future ECfDs to increase prices of electricity substantially. Thus, the Government of Canada is set to absorb the cost of energy rebates to households to offset those increased costs, with the specifics determined by the provinces through the Canadian Green Energy Rebate Program (CGERP).
A similar approach is used for critical minerals, where the Government of Canada opens auctions to determine strike prices for natural resource exploration and processing projects, and the guaranteeing that specific price for projects associated with a given auction. If the market price falls from bellow the strike price, the Government of Canada shall compensate the difference, while extra profits from elevated prices shall be compensate to pay-back to Ottawa.
For critical minerals specifically, CfDs are signed over 25-year period, with the strike price being reference against a comprehensive benchmark against fossil fuel. The contracts guarantee critical minerals shall remain more attractive in terms of return guarantees as opposed to fossil fuels.
Finally, the Government is also expanding carbon contracts for difference to all Investment & Innovation Canada institutions, rather than just the Canada Growth Fund, instead incorporating emissions reduction as a supplementary mandate for all bodies of the IIC. Instead, the CGF sees their mandate expanded to support commercialisation of market-ready technologies not just for the green transition, but when it comes to energy production, construction, aerospace, life sciences, communications, and inflation technologies. While managing the issue of PPCDs and other contracts for difference backed by Ottawa - including kickstarting auctions - falls under the jurisdiction of the newly created Office of Contract Guarantees
The Government is also launching a new Equity & Asset Finance Program that aims to provide confessional funding to smaller investors, especially those in equity markets, when it comes to purchasing equity in IIC-backed projects. The Program allows IIC institutions to partner other finical players, and through income-contingent grants, matching programmes, and all other available instruments lend to smaller investors, including individual ones, to cover the purchase of corporate equity for companies that have been listed on a Canadian stock exhale for 5 years or less, or operate in the renewable energy, battery production, clean energy and industrial equipment, IT, pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
Additionally, the Government strengthens the accountability for IIC institutions, through the creation of the Innovation & Business Assistance Council of Canada, including provincial jurisdictions. IBACC provides through supervision and independent assessment the combined and overall perforce of IIC institutions, including their finical health and long-term profitability. It also uses overseeing councils of Regional Development Agencies to monitor the success of individual RDAs, calculating their finical soundness and long-term market impact. The Council is also tasked with screening individual applicants and projects together with relevant institutions within the IIC, using the data collected as proxy for an overall assessment of a programme, or an institution.
The key performance indicators that the Council uses to assess the perforce of specific programmes, as well as IIC insertions include:

• Crowd-in Effect - how much private investment has been committed, as opposed to direct subsidies.
• Degree of Maturity - IBACC assesses whenever a project is immature enough to actually require public business assistance or whenever the funding may not be necessary at all, with further interference crowding out rather than facilitating private investment.

Those two impact assessment remain mandatory for all projects, together comprising the assessment for long-term ability of a project to remain financially viable without governmental support.

• Impact on Competition - jointly with the compensation authorities, the Council assesses whether the project is conducive to greater competition among domestic companies, rather than simply favouring incumbent companies. This also includes the impact of competition in capital markets. This criterion is also considered superior to the productivity and clause, since higher competition is assumed to increase productivity on its own.
• Productivity and Resource Utilisation - to what extent a given project, programme, or institution results in productivity increases, as opposed to simply greater use of existing resources. Notable exception is granted whenever greater recourse use involves higher labour participation.
• Environmental Impact - to what extent the project is conducive to lowering emissions as well as broadener human footprint in the environment. This assessment is only mandatory for companies and projects seeking support for "green" investment, and may override the productivity consideration.

Political Implications

From a policy standpoint, the current policy mix unveiled during the Fall Economic Update 2024 effectively provides comprehensive insurance for the Liberals' climate policy in case they loose the upcoming election - something that seems to become increasingly likely.
However, when it comes to pure politics, both Trudeau and the federal Conservatives find themselves in a tight spot.
For Team Red the problem lies in a trade off they made, opting for enshrining their climate policy through Carbon Contracts for Defence (PPCDs) where even minor changes to price on pollution will result in massive fiscal punishments for the Government of Canada. Additionally, the Federal-Provincial Agreements effectively commit both the provinces and Ottawa to maintaining some form of carbon pricing, with the Feds still maintaining the role of a backstop party. However, Trudeau had to effectively pull the breaks on two of his major policies: the Clean Energy Regulations - with similar objectives being achieved through FPPPAs - and the federal emissions cap, as a concession made as part of an apparent close-door negotiants with western provinces to sign the agreements. Which will be quite difficult to sell to a more progressive side of the Liberal electorate.
Team Blue on the other hand is seemly trying to dial down on their promises to repeal federal price on carbon, instead aiming for the Environmental Impact Assessment, emphasising how the Act may likely slow down exploration and development of critical minerals. The Tories are also doubling down on housing affordability, as slowing inflation shifts Canadians' perception Liberals' economic competence. Nevertheless, Conservatives still resonate with people, on another key issue: national unity. Although Liberals seem to have successfully avoided direct head-to-head collision with the Conservative-run Alberta, lack of Western support for Trudeau climate policies may provide a hook for the Tories to hang on to. Especially as neither party seem to be able to secure a clear majority in Quebec, to un-seat the nationalist Bloc Québécois.

Sorry for the detailed post; consider a part of it me wanting to vent. It could also serve as a warning to others.
I want to get my car serviced. Moved to Chicago a few months ago and the two experiences I've had so far were bad.
Recently took it to Berman Nissan on Kedzie Ave, and the prices were insane. I used to take it to a Nissan dealership in my previous state and the prices, although more expensive than the average shop, were reasonable.
Front rotors and pads, plus engine filter, plus cabin filter for $780 after tax?! They also recommended many, many more things I "need to do", like 5-7 other "issues". Each of them ranged from $180 to $700, EACH. Apparently their oil change costs $120 (not including taxes and fees)!
My previous Nissan dealership did not find issues in the car and I would always do regular maintenance with them and get it serviced every x miles, according to the maintenance guide.
Where can I find a shop that not only has reasonable prices, but also does a good job, and doesn't try to sell you something you don't need or use subpar parts while selling them as genuine parts?
If you suggest a chain, like Jiffy Lube, Midas, etc. Please mention their address as the quality of work will be different from one location to another.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Hello I have a 2010 TSX with 243k miles that I’ve owned since 2013 when I bought it certified pre owned with 30k miles. The only maintenance I’ve had to do for it has been brakes and oil changes so far. After doing a little research on here I decided to change the cabin air and engine filters last year which were extremely dirty as you could imagine. That alone improved my mpg from 23 to 26.
Next I’m going to do the spark plugs since I seem to be way over due for those, my question for you guys is there anything else I should be doing? I feel pretty lucky I haven’t had any issues with the car yet and I want to try to be pro active to hopefully have it last another 100k miles. Thanks

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Chapter 2: In Inertia
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In this chapter I took inspiration from a very creative venlil who decided to remain anonymous
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Memory Transmission Subject: Kos, Venlil Civilian
Date [Standardized Human Time]: July 12 2136
It happened in a fraction of a second.
I was on my ship, traveling FTL in a subspace. I served as a captain of an interplanetary transporter Fertility. On board I carried loads of green fruits destined for a venlil colony where they meant to ripen upon arrival. Now they were exploding from the vacuum.
My very ship was torn into pieces within an instant. There was no time for my brain to process what happened. I braced myself for a slow death. I felt the oxygen leaving my vessel and temperature dropping rapidly. I felt pain in my chest.
Death… never came to me. I remain seated in my chair and the pain begun to subside. I watched as inertia took hold of my cockpit, lifting everything around me. The sight was bewildering, but I still don’t know why I wasn't suffocating. I released my harness and floated out of the room. Behind the doors was a dark hallway. The power was long gone so I decided to walk straight instead of trying to breach the doors in the darkness. At the end of a hallway, I reached an intersection. Only one of these tunnels had a light at the end, which was the way I chose.
Was this the afterlife? Was I dead, about to meet the creator? I was wondering as I floated through the tunnel. The light was just a reflection of what’s behind a corner. When I peeked, I saw that the entire vessel was torn in a half. The further corridor was abruptly cut by a precipice. I could even see the generator room that wasn’t spared by a sweeping force. I drifted across the ship, awestruck by the surreal scene. It was when I noticed that I had full control over the direction of my floating in inertia, which was against the laws of physics, more akin to out of body experiences.
And so I found myself suspended between two halves of my ship, unable to fathom the reason for this purgatory state. I lived a good life. I wandered out to open space, to try and see my ship in full. I noticed another object lingering close to my ship. It was a wreck of what looks like a space buoy. It collided with my ship, which means I was torn out of subspace before that.
Was that an FTL disruptor? It started working a moment before I passed through it. That was the best theory I could have thought of. I decided to investigate the buoy to test my hypothesis. The hull of the buoy had imprinted lettering in venlang.
MADE ON VENLIL PRIME
The name of my homeworld did not give any answers. I needed to look further. I tried to check behind the hull of my ship and I was met with an immense pain in my paw. It was illuminated by this system’s star. I pulled my hand behind the hull and hugged it, trying to ease the pain. Even after hiding in the shadow of a shipwreck, the pain was so unbearable, it was clawing on my senses.
I felt tears accumulating around my eyes, they were also affected by inertia, rendering my vision blurry. I returned to my cockpit. There was nothing rational in this place. I just wanted to see my family and friends. Whatever deity rules this universe, I was pleading for their mercy. The void remained indifferent.
When my feelings calmed, I began to think of my crew. They were still on this ship. I went to look for them on the other half of the vessel. Behind the precipice was a maze of corridors. A faint beam of light penetrated through the broken hull at the starboard side of my ship. It means that any illuminated area was off limits. Most of my crewmates must have been ejected, because I only found someone at the stern. It was my FTL engineer, Qualen. He was pale from freezing and suffocating. His eyes were popping out of the sockets, and his mouth expressed a pure terror. I wondered where his soul could go, or be. Maybe he didn’t die yet. Perhaps I was the first to die, and time passed unbearably slowly for the rest.
I returned to my cockpit resigned. I decided to wait for something to happen or to think of some bright idea. None of it ever came. I only noticed more anomalies. The objects that floated in inertia were now frozen in time. Even Qualen’s body wasn’t moving across the corridor. I started experimenting with the new laws. I threw an object and watched as its momentum was decelerating. Everything was trying to reach the frozen-in-time state. A thought came to me, that I am in fact Faster Than Light, and the entire world has come to halt. If that was true, then why was the starlight so painful?
I went exploring the front part of the ship. Despite being engulfed in darkness, the sun was my enemy now. I’ve reached the front sleeping quarters, which were reserved for the highest rank personnel, including captain. I’ve found a journal on a shelf. I returned to the cockpit to use the remaining light to read it. The journal belonged to Vesen, the first officer. I couldn’t find her anywhere. Maybe her body was floating in a dark room, or she was engulfed by the rays of the star and I couldn’t reach her. Maybe she was ejected and she disappeared forever. I decided she wouldn’t mind if I read through her journal.
Most pages contained a standard overview on Fertility’s state. Fuel, food, water, oxygen, power, crew. In the middle Vesen started writing more personally.
“Day 7 [July 10 2016]
I’ve read thoroughly through the crewmates’ dossier. There are individuals acting strange. I have seen the rations shrinking slightly faster than in the past 7 days. Even the social meetings were dropped more rarely, or very late. Those are the tiny hints for something bad. There is a predator disease developing on Fertility. I couldn't find it without commissioning a brain scan, so I had to guess based on the dossier.
There was one individual with an uneasy past. The FTL engineer Qualen was caught in a ln arxur invasion on one of the colonies. He barely survived and escaped by hiding in an unexplored by exterminators forest. He was hiding among wild predators, until the arxur took every survivors as a cattle. I am positive that Qualen was afflicted with predator disease after that time, and now he's spreading that behavior among the oblivious crew. In a meantime i must isolate him until we return to Venlil Prime”
I was shocked after reading this. Qualen had a predator disease? I have known him for many years, he couldn't possibly be dangerous. He was like a brother to me! His name would have been cleared if we ever reached civilization and brain scanned him.
But then again, he was the only other venlil who wasn't ejected from Fertility. Is he the reason I can not rest? It must be, there's literally nothing else on this shipwreck!
I have realized the purpose of this place. It’s a judgment. The sun was an instrument of execution, like a flamethrower for exterminators. I have to incinerate the body of a predator diseased crewmate before I can finally reach peace. The danger keeps me trapped from eternal rest, I have to burn it! I rushed out of the cockpit and reached the familiar precipice.
And I froze. The frame of the hull on the other side was lit by a star, locking me out of the stern. The rays were slowly traveling towards me. It made no sense! Everything was supposed to be frozen in time, but we are still orbiting around the system! I have returned to a dark hallway to gather my thoughts. I had to cross the precipice and burn the body of Qualen, but to do this I need to walk through hell itself. The alternative was to wait until the sun passes me unnoticed. I could not see any good spot to hide, as the ship was full of reflective surfaces. Both choices are equally risky but I chose the first option. It would be a problem if the chance I had was also time sensitive.
I returned to the great crack and took a good look at the spotlit surface of the corridor. I mimicked taking a deep breath for good luck and launched.
I felt like I was boiled in water, when I dived into the starlight. Whatever I tried to do on my most primal instincts, I was thrown out to square one, and even now the pain did not abandon me. I screamed into the aether, floated erratically, anything to let the endorphins ease my suffering. It took a long time to find relief, and I remembered that I don’t possess a body anymore and no natural pain relievers are produced in my brain. The only thing that suffered was my very soul.
When I returned to the precipice, I saw the starlight was already licking on my part of a ship. In no time I will be caught by dawn. I thought of going outside of my ship, while I still could. The reflective interior couldn’t be safer than the vast space. But I still could not outrun the starlight. I would be hiding in an umbra of Fertility. If I stray too far, I will be caught in penumbra. More than that, I couldn’t expect it, there are no reference points in space.
It was too late to do anything now. There was only one thing to test. The starlight might be an absolution. Maybe if I’m engulfed in it, I will be able to find the real afterlife. Absolution was not a concept from the venlilian faith, but again I can not think of any religion where the star smolders the soul of the wronged. Whenever I wanted to test it or not, the rays were approaching through the reflective walls of the hallways. I returned to the cockpit to wait for my fate. I thought of just closing the doors, but the electricity could not work and I was in inertia, I had no way to grapple and pull the doors together manually. I could only sit in my seat and wait.
What if there’s no good ending for me? If the star was an act of extermination of a soul, only a predator hell was awaiting me. Will I suffer for nothing forever? Will the souls of predators eat me until I stop existing? Will they keep eating me until the end of time? Or maybe they acknowledge me as one of them, as I could also have predator disease? Do predators even have souls? I was caught in a stream of thoughts as the starlight was closing in. I launched to the furthest corner, buying as much time as I can. I didn’t think the reflections even allowed the light to reach me. It seemed like the starlight was approaching me no matter what. If that’s the case, wouldn’t they reach Qualen’s body as well?
I had to stop that thought, as I was out of time for pondering. I took another nonexistent breath, closed my eyes and tensed all my muscles.
It was impossible to describe the agony I felt at that moment. My impulses forced me out to the center of the room, and my entire body was exposed to the scorching force of the star. My very soul was screaming out of my control and I was torn out of my mind. I lost my vision and heard ringing in my ears from the noise of my own throat.
Soon the blurry vision returned to me, but I was still screaming in pain. Through the pain I saw I was in a completely different room. There was a spotlight above me, and the walls were dim. I was laying on a bed that felt like it was made of cracked concrete. Everything that touched my body and the light itself was painful. Even the ungroomed hair was piercing through my skin. I heard a hum in my head, coming from a translation implant. There was someone in that room speaking an alien language. The figure appeared in my range of vision. It was tall and wearing a coat. It said that the others will come in a quarter of a paw, and that everyone was expecting me for a long time.
It came closer and I felt numbness as I deciphered the face of a blurry figure. It had front-facing eyes! IT WAS A PREDATOR! It truly must be a predator hell! I tried to move, back off, run! But my entire body was heavy. It felt like I hadn’t slept in a whole life. All my limbs, tail and neck were completely exhausted! The pain could not mellow either. I was trapped in a painful reality, awaiting to be tortured forever! The monstrum said that I must not worry about anything and allow my body to rest. It finally introduced itself as a human.
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I have a horrid fear of being cheated on, I have been cheated on in the past, and I have a fear of abandonment so bad that I am pretty prone to codependency. I was in a long distance relationship for a year and a few weeks ago moved in to his apartment.
Im thrilled to be here, I love him, he is my favorite partner I’ve ever had, and my best friend. I have a severe fear of being cheated on. I have struggled with even hearing about his coworkers. I’ve tried to bite my tongue and tell him to make me uncomfortable with these things because I need to get over it. Exposure exposure. Right when I moved out here he turned find my iPhone on for both of us. It’s a kind of nice gesture, especially with him being my only point of contact in this state. Only I know he can look like he’s home all day if he just switches location to something like his iPad or EarPods.
Sooooo of course I’m checking it non stop. And then at the same time he can always see me coming home from work. 3 days in a row I saw the same girl coming from our apartment building when I get home. She makes eye contact with me and I smile but my gut tells me that’s his other girlfriend. It threw me into a full on panic attack on the third day and he got mad at me. I told him I just want him to hold me and tell me I don’t have to worry but he says getting accused of being a shitty person this much makes him not want to be close to me like that. He asked what even happens to make me feel this way and said “that’s what it’s like having neighbors” which I mean- I get it. I know I’m irrational right now but I can’t get it together.
At this point he doesn’t want to hear it and he says he’s given me enough reassurance. I realize the average person wouldn’t move a partner in from out of state if they had a local affair partner. Im also aware that she’s likely not thrilled to see all of my things here if she’s real. But in my head they just sit and go through my stuff and make fun of me. (I know I’m nuts still but for reference this is how my ex cheated on me) I’m trolling adultery Reddit, I try and come home early and surprise him and now that’s my only goal on the daily. To come home and see them together because that’s all I can see in my head. And I want to feel validated in some fucked up way even though it’s my biggest fear just to feel less nuts.
Right when I started my new job he took a two week break between his- so he’s gonna have all this free time, and it’s making me feel so horrible. I want to quit and stay home, I want to hide microphones and cameras. (I do NOT want to actually do these things but I get compulsions to do it to just feel safe) I feel crazy. I feel like there’s no way to get out of this without breaching serious trust or pushing him away with lashing out. I can’t ask for reassurance because of his take on it and also because I know that doesn’t fix the problem it actually makes it worse. I’m lost and dying over this and desperate to fix this. His stance is that the last gf he had like this cheated on him, and he’s going to get tired of hearing about it one day and snap. (We’ve dated twice. This is honestly our main problem) I asked for what he thinks I should do and of course he wants me to “just stop” and “get over it” that I spend “too much time justifying why I have these fears” and that I need to “just decide to not have them anymore.” Like bro I wish I could I’m in agony.
Admittedly other than me being sensitive and looking for anything that could be a sign of cheating (and getting delusionally creative over it) I actually don’t think he is cheating on me. But I still can’t stop feeling like and treating him like he is because it’s taken over my brain. I’m trying to recognize when the line gets crossed and learn how to not cross it again but his patience is getting thin.
I’m lost because all of his responses border on defensive, which I get but doesn’t help. I also feel like I’ve ERPd (exposure role play) the hell out of this but like… it doesn’t matter. I would rather be dead than cheated on. (I know how ridiculous this sounds) The outcome is pretty miserable- it’s me packing my car and leaving which. I guess is whatever but the implication is that I legit will never trust again and will basically mean my life goal (finding a forever person) is pretty much fucked and I’m over it all. I’ve been through this before I can’t even believe I trust anyone now as it is (which I mean.. I guess I can’t even though I want to) and I just can’t stand not knowing what’s real. I am constantly sick to my stomach. I know if he is cheating it makes him shitty and not me. I try to gas myself up and remind myself how much of a catch I am (outside of this exhausting little trait of mine) and the confidence seems to help on good days- but when my body is literally physically reacting to the anxiety of my fear that’s a hard thing to maintain or even fake.
I have a coworker whose bf cheated on her and now they live together but I can’t ever imagine that. I don’t want to lose him but I’d never feel safe or be able to look at him again. I don’t think it’s appropriate to ask her for advice on how she figured out to trust again- but I think in my case it’s beyond trust issues at this point.
Sorry this is long as fuck. I’m at my wit’s end and I think he’s getting there too. (I have a therapist but since I’ve moved and everything it’s messy and hard to see her right now)
Is this really something I can just turn off?

Original is in French: https://www.reportagesphotos.factualite/1470-ces-huiles-dolive-sont-les-plus-polluees-de-toutes-les-supermarches-concernes/ What is surprising is that Lidl's olive oil is the best, and disappointing is that one of the most sold olive oils in Canada and likely in Costco Name Terra Delyssa extra virgin olive oil is singled out as being contaminated by plastics or hydrocarbon chemicals:" Ainsi, quatre références seraient de très mauvaises élèves selon 60 millions de consommateurs : Naturalia « Vierge extra Like a Virgin », La Vie Claire « Vierge extra », Cauvin bio « La bio » et Terra Delyssa « Vierge extra »" In English: According to 60 millions de consommateurs, four references are very poor performers: Naturalia "Vierge extra Like a Virgin", La Vie Claire "Vierge extra", Cauvin bio "La bio" and Terra Delyssa "Vierge extra". Anyone from Costco care to comment if this analysis holds ?

Hello I have a 2010 TSX with 243k miles that I’ve owned since 2013 when I bought it certified pre owned with 30k miles. The only maintenance I’ve had to do for it has been brakes and oil changes so far. After doing a little research on here I decided to change the cabin air and engine filters last year which were extremely dirty as you could imagine. That alone improved my mpg from 23 to 26.
Next I’m going to do the spark plugs since I seem to be way over due for those, my question for you guys is there anything else I should be doing? I feel pretty lucky I haven’t had any issues with the car yet and I want to try to be pro active to hopefully have it last another 100k miles. Thanks

I’m changing the oil in my Prius. Napa auto parts has silver, gold and platinum tiers of oil filters. How do I know which to choose?
On a meta level, choices like these seem to come up all the time. For someone like me without a background, how can I know what is and isn’t important without asking someone else (like what I’m doing here on Reddit)?
Edit: 2011 Toyota Prius, unknown engine, 150k miles

Just like last season, this thread will keep track of who we work out as draft workout season gets underway.
I will endeavor to keep it updated as news comes in, but please feel free to drop any names/links in the comments and I will add it to the list.
Big shout out to everyone who helped out in the comments last year!
NOTE: Crossed out names have since withdrawn from the draft pool

Name	College	Position	Height	Wingspan	Class	Age	TS%	3PA	3P%	FT%	Source	Stats
GG Jackson	South Carolina	Forward	6'9	7'0	Fr	18	47.4%	170	32.4%	67.7%	Source	Stats
Jordan Walsh	Arkansas	Forward	6'7	7'2	Fr	19	51.3%	72	27.8%	71.2%	Source	Stats
Jett Howard	Michigan	Guard	6'8	6'9	Fr	19	56.2%	212	36.9%	80%	Source	Stats
Enrique Freeman	Akron	Forward	6'7	?	Jr	22	62.4%	3	33.3%	61.6%	Source	Stats
Craig Porter Jr.	Wichita State	Guard	6'2	6'4	Sr	23	55.5%	102	36.3%	68.5%	Source	Stats
Trey Jemison	UAB	Center	6'10	7'2	Sr	23	58.5%	1	0%	64.4%	Source	Stats
Patrick Gardner	Marist	Center	6'11	7'2	Sr	24	57.3%	149	38.3%	67.7%	Source	Stats

I walked out of work and saw a small quarter size oil spot and oil on my breather tube. Is this normal? I measured oil down to the ML when changing it. Filler cap is tight and no oil from filter. Normal or bring it in?