That oxygen radical doing its thang

Love the headline

I’m a big fan of The North East ;)

It’s interesting that it is smooth specifically in the x direction, but the y direction has more abrupt changes.

We have data at 5m resolution for free, or better. Source: am geoscientist

This is a weird presentation. Was someone trying to make a minecraft mod or something?

Manitoba should invade down that highway – see how the rest of Canada feels when the Riel Rebellion …

Ah nevermind, let bygones be bygones.

Or logging, or farming. There’s a bunch of reasons to have low population density road networks.

Taping a banana to the wall

Still one of the coolest moves ever. It’s ironic that it likely increased the value of the piece.

I’m not sure if this is super ugly or super sexy.

$1M/day…

Okay, assuming $50k/yr cost per person, that’s something like $135/day for each “cop”. That’s like 7000 people if salary was the only thing.

Since I don’t think there are even 1000 of them deployed in DC, then there’s a lot of overhead going somewhere else. Uniforms, admin, whatever. Likely some good old fashioned corruption and grift.

Also, I’m kind of surprised that number is that low.

Saw (or rather heard) a few at a football game recently. They’re still here, but at least it isn’t a stadium full.

Instead we use cowbells like God and nature intended ;)

You could have survive in Crimea for another millennium!

At this latitude?

Technically, if the bicycle is motor assisted, then yes that would also illegal in Canada and on rare occasion. There was a recent case here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/amherst-man-charged-with-impaired-driving-while-riding-e-bike-1.7576394

However, the original story and this one share a common theme – attempts to circumvent a driving ban by using a motorized vehicle that straddles a grey area of the definition. And both involved them playing in traffic.

As far as I know, no recent cases have involve true non-motorized vehicles. Legal precedent suggests that bikes, skateboards, horses, etc., are allowed to be operated over limit. However, you can still be charged with all sorts of secondary things depending on how you’re operating.

That truly is beautific

Epic answer haha. My other half grew up in a Soviet apartment block, so I get stories from her about that on occasion. Mostly about not owning any of it except their contents. Definitely a “poor but housed” situation – don’t look behind the curtains. I’m not sure it’s a good idea either. During the collapse of the Soviet Union when the power and heat shut off, they were burning furniture in there – but I guess that’s a testament too a solid construction haha.

Anyway, fun reply! :)

Was in Regina for the weekend (I’m a Bomber fan, don’t hate me) and had a nice time! We were looking up real estate and comparing against Winnipeg and it seemed similar ish. But that doesn’t tell us about the rental market which sometimes has weird emergent phenomena.

If you were benevolent dictator of Canadastan, how would you fix it?

My first reaction is: “Good!”

Providence has always been a sleazy college, taking advantage of the Christian isolationist elements in rural MB. “Bridal college”, we used to call it.

But when the foreign student cash cow arrived, they pivoted in that direction. I would question the value of the education that those foreign student were getting.

Foreign students are great for Canada if Canada, but with conditions: their education has to be an actual education (otherwise we’re just exploiting them as unskilled workers); they shouldn’t be paying exorbitant tuition to fund education (this is exploitative, and a failure of the province to properly fund education); private universities should not be able to use this program as cash cows; and we should be finding a good match between good students, good schools, and reasonable levels of immigration.

Anyway, I rant.