James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org
College professor, part time nerd and sci-fi enthusiast. Not actually a duck, but what’s Humphrey Bogart got that I ain’t got?
Joined Nov 2022
James H McLaren
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"How does a MAGA Legislature extract itself from the box it built?
If Republicans repeal the 1864 law now about to take effect, they make a mockery of their own belief that life begins at conception and all abortion is murder."
~ Laurie Roberts
This, I think, is the problem. The Conservatives (and to a lesser extent the Liberals) depend on suburban voters to win elections. Those voters (mostly) see their homes as a nest egg for retirement. Making a real dent in the housing problem will inevitably lower, or at least reduce the increase in, the value of existing homes. So the right wing parties want to be SEEN to be doing something about housing, but they don’t want to actually accomplish anything. https://www.tvo.org/article/the-ford-governments-scattershot-housing-bill-does-not-enough-of-too-much
@kevinbowrin I live near the line a bit further south and they’ve been running trains pretty steadily the last week or so.
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A train! A train! #ottawa
North-South O-Train testing for Line 2 at Carleton station, exciting.
I like Rene Amilcar. She’ll open the north south line when it’s ready to open. That’s a nice change from the previous Ottawa LRT debacle. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/oc-transpo-boss-will-not-commit-to-trillium-line-opening-date-1.6842852
@HamonWry That’s pretty much the definition of capitalism though: “Government should only give free shit to people who don’t need any free shit.”
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Aww, rats. Peter Higgs dies at 94. I used to live just around the corner from him in Edinburgh. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94
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The fediverse is bigger than Truth Social and most of it isn't even a company... just a bunch of nerds running their own social network on pocket change (as it should be) and the content here is *chefs kiss* so much nicer.
Maybe we should "go public" too LMAO.
@paulbusch There’s also the Ediacaran fossils from 560 Mya in Newfoundland. Shoutout to our Ediacaran friends. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1497/
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Good Morning #Canada
If you're a dinosaur fan, or even if you're not, you've likely heard of Dinosaur National Park in Alberta. But did you know that Canada has a 2nd important fossil site on the east coast? Joggins Fossil Cliffs is a palaeontological site in northern Nova Scotia. It is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site for its outstanding fossil record from the Carboniferous Age (354 to 290 million years ago).
#CanadaIsAwesome #Dinosaurs #Paleontology
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joggins-fossil-cliffs
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Q: "What is the burning question on the mind of every dyslexic
existentialist?"
A: "Is there a dog?"
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Republicans have done the unthinkable. They’ve remade Liberals into the conservatives in the room; the ones who want to preserve the best parts of our culture, not promote and exploit the very worst of it.
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"Most of its expenses are tied to interest on debt, although TMTG also had around a $16 million operating loss for 2023."
Since the total operating losses were $58 million that's $42 million just for interest on debt! *Interest.* How big is the debt? How was it incurred? This is a social media company using tweaked open source software. They didn't make a new technology, there is no need for a huge investment to get a website running.
Where did they money go?
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-truth-social-revenue-2023
@DemocracyMattersALot There's a little stock ticker thing embedded in the article. You can watch Trump's stock crash in real time. Cool!
@talia_christine It was real exciting, after all.
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@CdnCurmudgeon So she only eats hard vacuum?
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Watchdog assessing McDonalds and Greggs IT failures - Payments Systems Regulator is examining spate of outages, which also affected Sainsbury's... - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68628348
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If dark matter is a particle, it's possible that it could self-annihilate, becoming normal matter and releasing gamma radiation. Dwarf galaxies are the best objects to search for this radiation because they're small, rich in dark matter, and don't have other phenomena that could contaminate the view. A new survey examined 50 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way and saw a faint hint of gamma radiation that could be coming from dark matter annihilation.
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.063024
College professor, part time nerd and sci-fi enthusiast. Not actually a duck, but what’s Humphrey Bogart got that I ain’t got?
Joined Nov 2022
