Except that humans are far more than AI... "The great deception of our age is not that AI will replace humanity, but that it will convince us we were never more than machines to begin with." - that's a quote from Reclaiming Reality: Restoring Humanity in the Age of AI

I'm Canadian - Assisted Dying is has become 4th most likely cause of death in this country and about to become the 3rd most likely cause for all ages. It has reduced health care burden, and death is a quick way out when the social health care can't keep up with our again population. Thorny for recent cases where children are finding ways to die against the wishes of their parents, or siblings. There are real legal cases of this. For example https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada... Overall, it's disgusting. My sister worked in palliative care in Montreal, Quebec and had to quit because once MAID was introduced the entire culture and ethos around dying shifted. I don't believe we (including ourselves) have the right to choose when we live or die.

This. Ozone-depleting gases are far more significant than GHGs.

Thank you! So I read that our ocean contains 1,335,000,000 cubic kilometers of water. There is over 1 billion tonnes in a cubic kilometer. So the entire ocean weighs over 1.335e18 tonnes Therefore if 7.5e12 tonnes of ice was lost, it means an increase in ocean seawater of about 0.00000562%

Forgive my ignorance - What is 1tn tonne in kilograms? Is 1 tonne different from 1tn tonne? I presume yes.

I have a claim of over $50,000 USD with Celsius - mostly in USDT because I was trying to gain interest with a firm that claimed to be "safer than a bank" without the risk of crypto volatility. Big mistake. I will never trust exchanges again. Much the pool has been eaten away due to the exorbitant lawyer costs involved in processing such a massive case. :-(

I thought renewables were promising until I tried living off the grid in a northern climate. Forget it! Despite multiple massive solar panels and huge battery systems the house can barely muster enough electricity to keep the 800W blower fans on the oil furnace running alongside the refrigerator - especially when you only have 10 hours of overcast sky. Abundant wood and lots of oil to the rescue. I can't imagine trying to run the property off solar and wind alone without a huge amount of fancy equipment, massive batteries, and large wind turbines.

The Canadian Liberal government is also trying to push C-11 to give it special powers to censor either "shadow ban" or "uprank" media content on Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms. It's somewhat frightening because it will effectively give it direct power to sort and thus largely control the media content that millions of people consume so that it can reinforce its own narrative and priorities - similar to what it's already doing with the taxpayer-funded CBC News. Please petition against this here: https://action.openmedia.org/p...

Our company almost lost a 300k annual contract because we nearly failed to uphold New York state's new diversity rules for contractor obligation. The reason why diverse workforces result in "growing profits" is mostly because if you fail to meet the diversity requirements of the contracts you a bidding on - you will lose out. This forces companies to demonstrate "DEI" or seek to attain "MWBE" (Women and Minority-Owned Business) certification. I know software contractors who can far more easily get Canadian liberal government software contracts if they can demonstrate they have a high concentration of LGBTQiA2+ members on their software team. Thus the "diversity" cause is heavily cyclical. (In our case, we had to fire a woman Project Manager in order to subcontract the work to a middle-aged white man who was subcontracted by a MWBE-certified New-York state business. We paid top dollar and the individual had almost no work to do. We paid to "check the box" because our hands were tied.) Diversity is good for cultural strength and multiple perspectives, but "affirmative action" creates a culture that elevates race and sexual orientation above actual skill and hard work. That will destroy the ethos of productivity and replace it with hollow displays of "compassion" and various forms of virtue signaling.

The other day our company showed us pie charts of the employees based on their race, religion, and sexual preferences. In the next sentence they said "we need to improve those numbers". Huh? And how exactly do you plan on doing it? Affirmative action for one characteristic will always result in discrimination against another characteristic. The focus must be "fit for the job"; nothing else.

As someone who has thousands of my hard-earned dollars sitting in Celsius (as do millions of others), I sure hope this gets worked out. Now I know why the FDIC exists.

The horses trampled an older indigenous woman (seen in a red coat) who was on a mobility scooter. She was in the hospital but it doing better. Both of these events occurred on February 18. https://twitter.com/joe_warmin...

There are a lot of wild views out there - especially from the state-funded CBC News. Some of the best raw sources are YouTuber "Viva Frei" - who has dozens of hours of unedited footage of the protest and people. Also, my sister was there for several days and wrote this account: https://glorianahope.medium.co...

I agree it seems too outlandish to believe. Here is Hayley's Facebook account - you could ask her about the details surrounding the truck and seizure of her bank account: https://www.facebook.com/hayle...

I couldn't believe it either until I got it first hand. That's why I left her name - Hayley Pardo. Find her and/or Kate King on Facebook. It's shocking but entirely true.