to look at only one facet of this: it is wild how solar deployments in Germany are massively outstripping those in Canada, despite our solar resource being ~20% stronger

I'm a firm believer in science and evidence-based decision making. but I have also been the one to say "look, you need to smudge that computer before you try and re-purpose it"

Evening soundtrack. I know this is like buying a painting because it goes well with your living room decor, but I find Brahms to be really good writing music. Good performance of this one, though.

this reminds me of all the incredibly sketchy connections we had up here in the "dawn of the internet" era, lol Sault College was connected by a directional wireless link to AlgomaU. some inconveniently located trees meant that if it rained while they were in leaf, throughput went to zero 😅

some days, you're reminded that even yokozuna are fallible. other days, they remind you why they are yokozuna.

today's ad targeting win. thanks, Sanofi, I'll get right on that after I go to med school. 😅

for this month's Observer sports column! I went to Romford to watch some ice hockey by myself and I had........the time of my life? observer.co.uk/news/columni... [free to read!]

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canadians all collectively like "yay we still have a government" tonight 😅

in my army days, our Quartermaster sergeant would assess potential assistants like so: Sgt: "YOU THERE! CAN YOU COUNT." Pte: "Yes, Sergeant!" Sgt: "I'LL BE THE FUCKIN JUDGE OF THAT! COME WITH ME" having just spent a week fixing problems with counting days & hours…I understand why he was so surly 😅

since time immemorial, the first closure of #Hwy17 North heralds the official arrival of winter in Northern Ontario 😥

"God's Not Dead 5" sounds like it should be the latest installment of a video game series along the lines of "Devil May Cry". not...whatever this is 😆

I'm searching for examples where companies promised an "AI" product but it's actually humans doing the job. I remember there was a robot delivery company who tried that, also the recent Musk scam with puppeteered robots or builder.ai. Do you know of more examples?

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you know that tweet about how being a billionaire is probably the cognitive equivalent of being kicked in the head by a horse every day? I was fortunate to learn that lesson in a different form, thanks to my high school japanese literature teacher bsky.app/profile/shad...

go to look up what gas a hazmat placard refers to, and...I can't believe how incredibly feckless this technology comes across as 🤦

Tim Hortons is confessedly mid, but I've been to four different ones today, so like... not beating the allegations up here 😅

high winds, rain, sleet, snow... weather lately keeps reminding me of this classic Irish forecast 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxan...

I often remember how fast the CEO of Parler went from "We believe in Completely Unrestricted Free Speech!🤘" to "GODDAMMIT STOP POSTING PICTURES OF YOUR OWN FECAL MATTER" and on the grand scale of things, that kind of post is not even a tiny snowflake on the tip of the iceberg

this is anti-Satanic discrimination

TiL the US Army, Coast Guard, and Marines had them in the past too. amazing.

Yesterday I learned that the US Navy has a tiara option for female sailors to wear in dress uniform and I for one think they are missing a huge opportunity for recruitment by not making this more well-known. I did not know the Navy had tiaras when I was picking my service branch. I feel cheated.

chanced across this while going through old songlists, an amazing tune I haven't thought about in a dozen years. 🎶 Porter quaffed down with a laugh / the gentry have their aching livers 🎶 Water is alright in tay / for fish and things that swim in rivers www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlJl...

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

remembering the sage advice of our IT Security Manager many years ago: "Well folks, we've screwed up everything we can screw up for one day. Time to go home and try again tomorrow" 😆

that kind of day, where literally everything you review has problems with timezones. 🤦

today's "Meanwhile in Canada" content

hear hear. if you were going to start an airline with no airplanes, nobody would take you seriously but propose a rail route, and people act like suitable rolling stock will just materialize out of the ether

I completely defend the right of every musician to look however they want when they're playing but it still cracks me up when everyone in the band is giving totally different vibes 😅

vocalist: overacting; into this song 200% drummer: about ready to murder something bassist: going pretty hard for a wedding gig keyboardist: chilling, having a good time guitarist: about as excited as a 3rd grader playing their first recital www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P17...

everyone else posting amazing aurora pics, and I have a fantastic view of... lake effect snow 🥲

friend elseweb is very amused at my suggestion that Nederlandse Spoorwegen (the Dutch rail operator) should start running trains to Canada. calls it the "NL to NL" rail proposal 😆

Nevada said its recent ransomware attack began after a state employee searched Google for common software but "was instead shown a malicious ad that led to a fraudulent website impersonating the legitimate project." ‼️ An ad-blocker is one of the top security and privacy defenses online. Here's why:

A bass for when the record producer is unhappy with your tone www.guitarworld.com/gear/bass-gu... @weirdguita.rs

Lake Superior is beautiful, majestic, but also merciless. there's a reason we call it Lake Fuck Around And Find Out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH0K...

Anarchism: Doesn't Sound So Silly Now, Does It? An introduction

amazing ruling if I understand correctly...the gov't lawyers focused on arguing against the lower court's TROs...but didn't argue for a stay of its enforcement order (the consequences of the gov't violating the TROs) the depravity of this administration is matched only by its incompetence

The CPL Final is in the middle of a snowstorm in Canada, true North American soccer heritage...how could it get any better? HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!

extremely underappreciated point when it comes to *a lot* of health issues ⤵️

more amused than I should be that this is the Rt Hon Paul J Martin (named after the _father_ of former Prime Minister and Canada Steamship Lines CEO Paul Martin)

If you gender-flip the lyrics of The Gambler it's a better song Please enjoy that knowledge

moose have surprisingly disparate habitat requirements. they need aquatic plants & new growth forests for food, but mature forests for shelter. their environment needs to be cold & snowy to deter predators, parasites & heat stress, but not so much as to make finding food difficult. the result? 🫎⤵️

let me put it this way: my introduction to japanese slang conveyed the potency of some expressions with phrases like "usually said just as the right hook is connecting".

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

today's fun air travel fact: something can make no damn sense and still be an airline's official policy 😅 this post brought to you by a friend pointing out that a one-way ticket between 🇨🇦 and 🇪🇺 can cost almost as much as a round-trip ticket -- or even more 🙃

without downplaying the need to deal with "wtf is going on with young men" and especially "wtf is going on with white people more generally" I think mainstream discourse hasn't yet come to grips with "wine moms are the vanguard of the Revolution and gen Z women are its elite shock troops"

Blah blah blah men…Young women are ready to set the country on fire

oh yo??? 😅 🇪🇺🎤🎶 www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

shit, Zohran's acceptance speech even makes *me* want to move to NYC 😅🫶