This is like how BYU kids do "soaking" because that's not like...real sex

Weird parallel, I helped re-draft sport organization constitutions (I'm a bit Roberts Rules dork and the 24yr old parliamentarian) and the failure to create a plausible amendment process in the US constitution is a valuable lesson. Unless org. governance is a "living document", it ends in tears

We know that girls that play sports in school reap a range of massive benefits. Any policy that reduces or denies this to any girl for some largely imagined problem is unconscionable.

The richest 1% emit as much carbon pollution as the poorest 5 billion people combined ⚖️ Exploitation of earth’s resources is benefiting the wealthiest at the expense of the majority. Is our civilization worth risking for the wealthiest 1%? Read more at www.pollutingelite.earth #PollutingElite

Has Alberta considered just not always being *that guy* www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why are they all like this? Nearly 90% globally and over 80% of Canadians want stronger political action on climate and nearly half of Canadians would contribute 1% of their income to make it happen. Why are our leaders cowards? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

C-59 is "responsible" around uses of the word "clean" to protect consumers around 'climate change greenwashing" but sure lets continue to pump massive amounts of GHG into the atmosphere but not count it. That's fine to lie and mislead. Carney Liberals going full UPC. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education instead of lining the pockets of the military industrial complex?

To bring back an old skeet that always speaks to me: "you can both not wish someone dead while also not mourning their death"

This explains it better than I can

The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.

wait.. NEVER is a pretty big word. Did everyone just memory hole what the US did to Laos during Vietnam? they bombed a neutral country for nearly a decade. 2 million tons of bombs were dropped. Laos remains one of the most bombed countries on earth per capita. www.legaciesofwar.org/legacies-lib...

The world is not made of numbers. Quantifying is something we do TO it. Our emotions shape how we decide to do that, and then what data we over-value and what data we under-value when it comes time to actually make that decision.

You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual. That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.

Right now, news outlets around the world are posting stories about the 15 fatalities from a funicular in Lisbon. Meanwhile, over 3,000 people die from car accidents worldwide *every single day*

Beyond the absurd politics. Can we talk about being wrong, and being hilariously awful wrong. Like not even in the ballpark. As the reference says, 1% gets your full need. And he goes with 100% gets you 20%. Oof. The orders of magnitude that estimate was off. Lol

Excellent distillation of the use of computer tools as a creative use rather than replacing creativity. T-pain can sing but used Auto-tune to enhance art not replace skill.

again, while i appreciate the tool, international agencies will not save us. there is no "responsible adult" who will step in. The ICJ can't even prosecute clear war crimes and genocide. Politicians of all levels need to be carefully selected/elected based on their climate goals.

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

then dont? i now tell my kids "remember, when we talk about the USA, its important to realize they dont have freedoms like other countries. They cant say what they want, believe what they want, have free healthcare. thats what happens when you dont have a democracy, so make sure we fight for ours."

www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal... gee i wonder who wrote it? "Rick Judson has spent his career as a pipeline professional in the oil and gas sector." When I want unbiased view, I definately go to to the guy who made his living supporting the thing. shame @winnipegfreepress.com

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

Me explaining bear baiting to my 12 yr old. Her response: "so I'm assuming old rich guys did this?" Me: "good guess, but in this case, it was oddly an everyone thing,"

I know I'm jaded etc but I remain skeptical given evidence that, that international courts have any kind of power to affect change. it certainly wouldn't hurt, but given that provinces are ignoring Canadian rulings (not withstanding clause), the influence is most likely to come from trading tariffs

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

the lesson of history is that all wars "come home" at some point, that Bolton (who deserves war criminal treatment) should fall victim to a war weakened government turned back on itself is somehow fitting. outside the whole "the US is rapidly become a dictatorship" thing.

The explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable than before. They've just gamed the system to line their pockets. Is it any wonder why so many working people feel the game is rigged against them? (It is.)

There was brief attention during the Iraq War to this problem, but I think I we still don’t know what it looks like to try to have a rules governed international order when the superpower right in the middle of it is a rogue state.

This continues to infuriate me. The answer is easy: drop Chinese EV tariffs, discuss how to bring Chinese manufacturing to Canada auto plants. Drop canola tariff. EVERYONE WINS. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On Air Canada, if a business needs to get back to work legislation passed, it should cost 5% of total equity and CEO pay gets cut by 50%. Don't like that clause? Then negotiate.

Over the past two decades, China has leapt ahead of other countries in innovations in the energy mix of the future: solar, wind, batteries, and newer frontiers like smart grids. Latest in the Power Moves series with Max Bearak: 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Man Who Drinks 5 Diet Cokes Per Day Hoping Doctors Working On Cure For Whatever He’s Getting theonion.com/man-who...

this whole series goes from kinda silly to actually pretty good. its a perfect example where a fanfic community greatly improved the world building to a huge degree.

what a great day to live in a free country we should all realize how lucky we are here in Canada. But not so fast Americans, you go over there with Russia, North Korea, Iran, DRC, Venezuela, Cuba. That's your group now.

Also note the density is impacting our radar. So sure we have a severe thunderstorm watch. Is it coming this way? 🤷‍♂️

Is it good when the air quality guy graduates from half-mask to full-eye covered gas mask?

Relatively? Yeah. But an AC still pulls more. Now... Heat pumps. Now we're talking no guilt at all.

And I get it… China is a problematic dictatorship but… you know man… if Canada's going to ride the coattails of an autocratic regime, the US is looking daily more like Loserville.

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of fire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. Living in the Pyrocene means a new reality: knowing what the latest wildfire smoke forecasts are, in order to plan your outdoor activities. I review the best tools to do so:

My Canadian education hot take, we should dump Pre-Cal as the "harder" math stream, and instead swap it for statistics. it can be just as theoretical but way way more useful in far more variety of fields and in life.

When you consider the whole, an EU automaker pays 15% tariff to import a car. Ford pays 50% for steel and aluminum, plus 20% minimum on just about every other component. So yeah it sounds shit, but 15% doesn't sound so bad now? In many cases DU firms will still be more competitive then US ones.

the goal for canada wide shouldn't be HSR, it should be "fast rail". keep existing lines for freight only. Make a new Crown and fund a new Intercity network. As dedicated passenger it should be much faster. Include in the right-of-way a transmission corridor at same time. Electrify and E/W grid

European Economic History from 400 CE to 1700 CE

Anyone else have a house hold chore that you are desperately waiting until you can pawn it off onto one of your children? Mine is emptying the dishwasher. But usually not done until 930. My oldest is 11. It's not long now...

Summer nights

oh for fucks sake. now people are opposed to batteries? you know what.. fuck rural areas then. build everything urban, cut rural development entirely and leave them to rot.

I'm a firm believer the magic number for a family of 4 is 2k. And for couple it's 900sq ft with a reasonable basement otherwise 1200.