OT: Sens Lounge -The four seasons edition

[mysens]

For six figures I’m getting a Taycan without hesitation. I don’t mess with Tesla as a company.

But yeah, there are so many good EV offerings in the ~$50,000 range it’s hard to justify the super high end options.

Have experience with the Ioniq 5 and the Mach E. Mach E is the better car and it’s not close.



All cars depreciate, especially high end luxury cars.

Same as watches. If you can’t afford the depreciation hit you can’t afford the car.

Your pretty much correct on this. I remember you were a watch guy a few years ago....anything interesting you picked up over the last couple of years?

Yeah I would go Porsche too if 6 figures.

All cars depreciate except limited sports cars. Countless sportscars that are 20-30 years old going for more than when purchased.

So true....I sold a car back at the beginning of Covid and since then I could have gotten about 75% more. On the other hand, the car I did buy in March 2021 shot up last summer about 80% and of course has since come down. I am still up over MSRP about 25%. But major hits happening all across the car world. Just a lot more with the EV stuff.

 

[Mingus Dew]

Your pretty much correct on this. I remember you were a watch guy a few years ago....anything interesting you picked up over the last couple of years?


So true....I sold a car back at the beginning of Covid and since then I could have gotten about 75% more. On the other hand, the car I did buy in March 2021 shot up last summer about 80% and of course has since come down. I am still up over MSRP about 25%. But major hits happening all across the car world. Just a lot more with the EV stuff.

Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Micro Rotor and JLC Reverso since we last talked. Hoping to grab a Polar Explorer II in the next 18 months or so.

You guys are correct about certain cars holding value but hard to predict that.

 

[mysens]

Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda PF Micro Rotor and JLC Reverso since we last talked. Hoping to grab a Polar Explorer II in the next 18 months or so.

You guys are correct about certain cars holding value but hard to predict that.

Oh boy, both are really really nice. The JLC is an instant classic. Happy for you man.

 

[Mingus Dew]

Oh boy, both are really really nice. The JLC is an instant classic. Happy for you man.

Thanks man. Both were recent so has been a fun few months for sure.

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

 

[JD1]

I've seen business cases or cost comparisons of an ice versus EV vehicle. They're never realistic but even at that, they only examine the one off cost.

Anyone ever seen a business case that imagines the complete replacement of ice vehicles with EVs?

 

[coladin]

I had an extended 7 night stay at the Montfort , because my surgeon is based out of there. I have to say, as someone has been to the Civic and General locations , Montfort has some pretty good funding going on over there. I don’t know if it is the French angle, or being close to Parliament and govt, but they have really good facilities .

There is a massive Haitian influence in the building with the nurses, PSWs , staff, so I had a great opportunity to work on my French. The Haitian community are an absolute benefit to Canada, and they are a sympathetic, God loving people. A good example of great jobs for immigrants and what I did feel was a genuine assimilation going on with the many Haitians I met. You can feel their roots, but you can also feel the Canadian in them.

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

I’ve listened to many interviews, including professor Ian Lee of Carleton, on local radio over the last decade, and he clearly explains that there just isn’t enough raw materials, on Earth, to replace all ICE vehicles currently in use today, with BEVs (battery electric vehicles)… never mind in the future, and keep in mind the lithium based batteries have a finite life span, and where would the replacement batteries come from?

This is why I believe that FCEVs (hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles) are the future of EVs, as there not the same need for the essential raw materials required for BEVs.


There are still many obstacles that FCEV technology has to overcome, just as there were, and still are for BEVs, and the needed improvements in both methods to fuel vehicles should create competition for market share in the future….the currrent BEV industry, could end up as a bridge technology to whatever ends up being the dominant technology in the future… there have been other types of batteries developed that possibly could apply to the automobile market…. Like Lithium-iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries, perhaps?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/electric-vehicles-world-enough-lithium-resources/

 

[thinkwild]

I remember this exciting new Canadian company Ballard Fuel Cells back in what feels like the 80's doing this commercial of a car run by a hydrogen fuel cell that had water as exhaust. Glad i didnt get carried away and put money in it. It seemed so promising. It is apparently getting some use in large buses in Europe and China where the battery required might be too heavy. And i think China even bought the company and is apparently trying to steal the tech behind it now. But Elon Musk even recently made fun of the idea of Hydrogen fuel cells ever being feasible for the average car. Setting up a distribution network for it would probably be harder and more expensive than the charging station network. Seems a lot of people may still be scared off by

Applying the logic against BEVs, i guess once a startup shows problems, there's no hope, may as well give up on it.

 

[mysens]

I had an extended 7 night stay at the Montfort , because my surgeon is based out of there. I have to say, as someone has been to the Civic and General locations , Montfort has some pretty good funding going on over there. I don’t know if it is the French angle, or being close to Parliament and govt, but they have really good facilities .

There is a massive Haitian influence in the building with the nurses, PSWs , staff, so I had a great opportunity to work on my French. The Haitian community are an absolute benefit to Canada, and they are a sympathetic, God loving people. A good example of great jobs for immigrants and what I did feel was a genuine assimilation going on with the many Haitians I met. You can feel their roots, but you can also feel the Canadian in them.

I have gone there a few time just recently to pay daily visits to my brother. I have to agree with you, what a really nice facility. My brother also said the food was the best “hospital” food he has ever had. Another Huge bonus is the abundance of parking. The Civic and General are absolute nightmares for parking. Lineups down the street and if you don’t arrive there 45 minutes before your appointment because of the parking chaos, you will likely be late for your appointment.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

Ottawa leafers in a nutshell

Was sitting in a business lounge earlier this evening... chatting with a few people before boarding :

Turns out 4 are from ottawa. I mention that I am a big sens fan... they laugh and say "you must be the only one"

 

[bicboi64]

Full Moon

Feb 24, 2024 starting at 6 am and ending at 7:30 am

Look up if you are awake.

I am staring at it through my office window and it is amazing

My family does a small prayer every month during full moon. Honestly one thing I've always appreciated about being raised in a religious household. Introducing me to sky gazing in a fun way as a kid and I still schedule my dog walks at night to get the full dose of the moon!

 

[Masked]

I had an extended 7 night stay at the Montfort , because my surgeon is based out of there. I have to say, as someone has been to the Civic and General locations , Montfort has some pretty good funding going on over there. I don’t know if it is the French angle, or being close to Parliament and govt, but they have really good facilities .

The Montfort is far nicer than the other hospitals in Ottawa but that newish health clinic out in Orleans is amazing. Feels like a mall. The west end has nothing close to those. The Queensway Carleton is a dump that serves all the western suburbs.

 

[coladin]

The Montfort is far nicer than the other hospitals in Ottawa but that newish health clinic out in Orleans is amazing. Feels like a mall. The west end has nothing close to those. The Queensway Carleton is a dump that serves all the western suburbs.

I believe that Orleans facility is part of the Monfort family as I saw pictures of it everywhere

 

[Mingus Dew]

Going to try to see Dune 2 in IMAX this week.

 

[Beech]

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1988; 85 of us graduate from University in mechanical engineering. about 400 graduate with an engineering degree. ~ 25 graduate with a physics degree. a further 200 graduate with an applied science degree (math, chemistry, etc.)

so some 700 kids, out of some 4000 seniors.. 1 in 6.

the 4000 seniors are about 7% of all of society (Back then, today it is closer to 12%).

so in 1988, in Canada, some 20,000 people graduated with a science degree. Over 45 years, that is 900,000. Times 2 to account for an increase in education levels. You land at 1.8 Million.

Canada is 39 Million.

so a whopping 5% have a degree in a science field.

48% have no post secondary education, 50% of society has an education, but not in science and a Gluon is; your kid putting Alymers wood glue and gluing his brother's hand to the wall!!! A Boson is your neighbor who cheers for the Leafs. A spin of 1/2 or -1/2 is your washing machine. The graviton is what happens when you slip on ice.

Why do you expect society to understand?
Why do you expect society to not be fooled, manipulated, and so on?

Did you know Tarasenko has Sen in it?????? Huh, have we moved passed that one? or is it still the captivating phrase of the day!!!!

My mom was visiting some 10 years ago. An old movie is on. Roman era.. She turns to me and says 'look how they dressed back then".. I di not have the heart to tell her 'it is a movie producer's version.. the real people were very different'.. She has a grade 7 education.

 

[jbeck5]

My family does a small prayer every month during full moon. Honestly one thing I've always appreciated about being raised in a religious household. Introducing me to sky gazing in a fun way as a kid and I still schedule my dog walks at night to get the full dose of the moon!

What does the full moon have to do with religion?

I gave my parents shit (mildly) for raising me religious.

Me and my sisters were raised very science and math focused...so we don't believe in magic or the supernatural.

And now my dad is like the biggest atheist book pusher. I think he has 2 or 3 copies of "the god delusion" by Richard Dawkins just so he can lend out to people. He loves arguing against religion.

We asked "dad, why would you put us in Catholic highschool and get us baptized and confirmed if you don't believe in this stuff?"

He's like "well yeah, NOW we know it's BS...but all this stuff wasn't out back then" lol but then I can find countless people speaking out against the idea of god and making a lot of sense going back decades...

And the he'll say he believes in ghosts... I'm like what?????

Anyways, previous generations are funny when it comes to myths. They're almost so open minded that they're close minded.

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

1988; 85 of us graduate from University in mechanical engineering. about 400 graduate with an engineering degree. ~ 25 graduate with a physics degree. a further 200 graduate with an applied science degree (math, chemistry, etc.)
so some 700 kids, out of some 4000 seniors.. 1 in 6.
the 4000 seniors are about 7% of all of society (Back then, today it is closer to 12%).
so in 1988, in Canada, some 20,000 people graduated with a science degree. Over 45 years, that is 900,000. Times 2 to account for an increase in education levels. You land at 1.8 Million.… Canada is 39 Million.

so a whopping 5% have a degree in a science field.

48% have no post secondary education, 50% of society has an education, but not in science and a Gluon is; your kid putting Alymers wood glue and gluing his brother's hand to the wall!!! A Boson is your neighbor who cheers for the Leafs. A spin of 1/2 or -1/2 is your washing machine. The graviton is what happens when you slip on ice.

Why do you expect society to understand?
Why do you expect society to not be fooled, manipulated, and so on?

Did you know Tarasenko has Sen in it?????? Huh, have we moved passed that one? or is it still the captivating phrase of the day!!!!

My mom was visiting some 10 years ago. An old movie is on. Roman era.. She turns to me and says 'look how they dressed back then".. I di not have the heart to tell her 'it is a movie producer's version.. the real people were very different'.. She has a grade 7 education.

 

[jbeck5]

I believe that Orleans facility is part of the Monfort family as I saw pictures of it everywhere

What's the deal with that place?

I live very close by. Every time we drive by, that building looks like a ghost town. At night, the parking lot is completely empty and you can't see a single person inside.

Yet I see ambulances zooming by a dozen times a day at all hours of the day.

How are they receiving or sending so many ambulances while also looking like a ghost town?

Anyone been in there or work there or understand what exactly their capacity is?

 

[Beech]

What does the full moon have to do with religion?

I gave my parents shit (mildly) for raising me religious.

Me and my sisters were raised very science and math focused...so we don't believe in magic or the supernatural.

And now my dad is like the biggest atheist book pusher. I think he has 2 or 3 copies of "the god delusion" by Richard Dawkins just so he can lend out to people. He loves arguing against religion.

We asked "dad, why would you put us in Catholic highschool and get us baptized and confirmed if you don't believe in this stuff?"

He's like "well yeah, NOW we know it's BS...but all this stuff wasn't out back then" lol but then I can find countless people speaking out against the idea of god and making a lot of sense going back decades...

And the he'll say he believes in ghosts... I'm like what?????

Anyways, previous generations are funny when it comes to myths. They're almost so open minded that they're close minded.

So, you know someone who died and came back from the dead and confirmed there is no God?

Here is an interesting twist on that; should someone die and come back from the dead, they have effectively confirmed religion.. only religion addresses raising of the dead and attributes it to; GOD!!!

And so, no one can prove or disprove God existence.. Unless they come back from the dead. In which case, there is a God.

Now science man, read Dr. Leon Lederman's book.. he is, or was, the leading expert on the Higgs Boson.. Physicist have theorized that it is one of the fundamental particle in existence.. Journalists used the term God particle.. but that was a miss-quoting of Dr. Lederman. He had toiled so hard to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson, in his frustration, he said that "Gad Damn particle'.. Journalists used the "God particle" term.. suggesting it is at the base of creationism.

Its existence allows the standard model to be mostly validated and ties in all the known forces except gravity.. Effectively is explains our world..

the Higgs boson is made up of: nothing.. empty space (Per Ledermann). Elementary particles can be seen as particles or waves.. essentially energy. Effectively all existence is created from emptiness and is based upon energy.

now read Genesis .. genesis 1, 2 and 3 to be exact. They lay claim to the same thing. And written around 1400 BCE.. Long before we knew about Higgs Bosons.

No one knows if there is or there is not a God. If you chose to believe do so.. if you chose to not believe do so.. It would be nice if both sides left the other alone.

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Tunoc.. this is what you come back with.. this is what is important? the exact, or more up to date population of Canada!!!!!1

And you wonder about Electric cars and batteries!!!!

 

[jbeck5]

So, you know someone who died and came back from the dead and confirmed there is no God?

Here is an interesting twist on that; should someone die and come back from the dead, they have effectively confirmed religion.. only religion addresses raising of the dead and attributes it to; GOD!!!

And so, no one can prove or disprove God existence.. Unless they come back from the dead. In which case, there is a God.

Now science man, read Dr. Leon Lederman's book.. he is, or was, the leading expert on the Higgs Boson.. Physicist have theorized that it is one of the fundamental particle in existence.. Journalists used the term God particle.. but that was a miss-quoting of Dr. Lederman. He had toiled so hard to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson, in his frustration, he said that "Gad Damn particle'.. Journalists used the "God particle" term.. suggesting it is at the base of creationism.

Its existence allows the standard model to be mostly validated and ties in all the known forces except gravity.. Effectively is explains our world..

the Higgs boson is made up of: nothing.. empty space (Per Ledermann). Elementary particles can be seen as particles or waves.. essentially energy. Effectively all existence is created from emptiness and is based upon energy.

now read Genesis .. genesis 1, 2 and 3 to be exact. They lay claim to the same thing. And written around 1400 BCE.. Long before we knew about Higgs Bosons.

No one knows if there is or there is not a God. If you chose to believe do so.. if you chose to not believe do so.. It would be nice if both sides left the other alone.


Tunoc.. this is what you come back with.. this is what is important? the exact, or more up to date population of Canada!!!!!1

And you wonder about Electric cars and batteries!!!!

So zombies are the only way to confirm god.

No wonder people stopped taking religion seriously lol.

 

[maclean]

I mean, people have died and come back to life. Most of them describe a very similar experience. But that's not a controlled environment so it's not science. The ethics committee might have trouble with a study on that. What would be the control group? What's the placebo for death?

 

[Micklebot]

I mean, people have died and come back to life. Most of them describe a very similar experience. But that's not a controlled environment so it's not science. The ethics committee might have trouble with a study on that. What would be the control group? What's the placebo for death?

I got super drunk on my 18th birthday and felt like death the next morning, would that work?

 

[jbeck5]

I mean, people have died and come back to life. Most of them describe a very similar experience. But that's not a controlled environment so it's not science. The ethics committee might have trouble with a study on that. What would be the control group? What's the placebo for death?

I'm not saying people don't get resuscitated, but this idea that there's more to life, like an afterlife, is unfounded and not based on any type of real evidence. It's basically someone's made up story that people ran with. It's not based on any scientific research or anything. It's mythical stories and fairytales that people have been lead to believe in throughout the ages and hold onto that belief for comfort.

It's not biology that demonstrates an afterlife.

The whole idea of an afterlife doesn't even make sense from an evolutionary perspective.

If you go back far enough, all life on earth was as simple as bacteria. Do they have ghosts? Most people say no.

So at some point we evolved to have an afterlife? How? You see shifts/mutations in species, and the changes that are more likely to allow a species to survive and reproduce are likely to stay on.

How the heck does an afterlife help an animal reproduce?

Maybe someone could explain how an afterlife develops through evolution, but I'm not getting it. It doesn't align with what I have read and know evolution to be.


Also, curious what a primitive form of an afterlife is. Like primitive eyes were an area where your skin was more sensitive to light and could see shadows or whatever. How would an afterlife even start up?

Anyone with a sound understanding of biology/evolution who also believes ghosts are real care to explain this one?

I feel like there's a reason there's no mention of any of this stuff in a biology curriculum. It's old age folklore, like vampires and werewolves as far as I know. Just stories. Not scientific reproducible demonstrations.

 

[Micklebot]

I feel like there's a reason there's no mention of any of this stuff in a biology curriculum. It's old age folklore, like vampires and werewolves as far as I know. Just stories. Not scientific reproducible demonstrations.

Are you saying that Morbius and Blade weren't a documentaries? This changes everything...