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I've heard about those places where everybody works at a long table like they're at a coffee shop or something like that. We don't have that. We have kind of curvy lines of workstations with sound dampering material between them. Basically a long row of M's with desks in each corner. It results...

Definitely my kind of place. Not cozy at all, but big windows! I love those places when it's sunny, but especially when it's snowing.

The 509 and 510 closed into Union as well. Edit to add: LOL. I went to their twitter feed to make sure I was right about this, and both of those lines are closed right now due to "weather conditions".

I was on an eastbound train this morning, we just passed St. George and there was a garbled unintelligble announcement. Then a guy comes on the train phone and says that due to an injury at track level, there's no service from Bloor/Yonge to Union. So now obviously everybody is thinking they'll...

But people don’t really take calls at their desk for the most part. We go into little phone rooms.

We went to open concept, no assigned desks in 2019. I prefer it to having my own office (which I had for my whole career before that). It makes your day more social and engaging, which is a plus for me (though obvs not for everyone).

Originalism isn’t just “alive” in the US. With the current Supreme Court, it’s the predominant approach, which any lower court departs from at their peril.

The black and dark wood cabinets have a certain sleek look that would appeal to some people. But the ceilings look ridiculous. We criticized that above in this thread, as soon as the first pic of them was posted.

I rely on the 504 to get to work every day, but unfortunately for the last several months, it's been a bus that ends its route at Parliament, so you have to get out and wait for a streetcar to get downtown from there. Pretty inconvenient, especially in the winter. So then I have two not very...

Cristiano Ronaldo gets a salary of $225M to putter around in the Saudi league.

That makes him the fourth (? maybe? Hard to evaluate vs some of the contracts with huge deferred payments) highest paid player ever (on an annual basis), which was obviously too much to pay. I liked Bo, but not at 20% more than Vlad's price...

He thinks Greenland is basically as big as all of Africa, when in reality it's 1/13 the size.

For at least the last few decades, Denmark has taken the view that Greenland can have as much independence as it likes. But Greenland has a population of 50,000 people, and will always want to be affiliated with some bigger country. By default at this point, that's Denmark. It could be the US if...

Haddock is better than halibut anyways, and it's only $21. Rodney's has a $16 fish and chips lunch special. Probably the best fish and chips deal downtown. Ask for skinny fries instead of the big fat ones.

LOL at the thought that defending your small mountainous country against Germany or France is the same as defending your vast, mostly empty, country against the United States. I think we should strengthen our defences against the real threats we face. The US is not a real threat, and if it ever...