Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

10B for battery dead-end. Popular opinion would indicate that this is a great thing.

**Stores enter the final phase** Stores in Toronto are finding the shoplifters have gone to massive grab, and the police don't do anything. The security guards can only smile and watch them go out. This was all to prevent bad PR regarding the disadvantaged. Now they are going full 'armed camp' with trained special constables. Many stores now have 'ring in' at the door, and I expect to see 'man traps' and fully armed guards. Fun. I'm shopping Amazon.

I commented on the Canadian leftwinger CBC, and I expect to get a lot of hate. At least I don't have to look at it.

Blah!!

https://newatlas.com/technology/stanford-alpaca-cheap-gpt/

*AI's cheap as donut holes** Yeah, I need my own copy, just as we reach a point where nobody reads essays any more.

#physics #weather **UN climate report out** Where are the charts? They can't answer the question of where we are, without charts.

**Swifties go against Muskies** OMG, head for the bomb shelters now! ...

#physics #weather **Conflict between 'New Science' and physics** I'm not saying anything. Those who go against 'New Speak (Science)' get whacked. However, this is all over the news, and I can't find a single chart to support it.

**The problem with heritage** These buildings are all wood, contained by weak brick. Montreal is as bad an earthquake zone as anywhere in the world, and the old city is all on soft soil. The alternative, as with Toronto, is to tear them all down, leave the brick facade, put a lot of steel in, raise the foundations on screw piles, and install sprinklers. Sadly, this does something to the genteel aura of decay.

OMG, my dog loves her little skunk buddies.

**Computing** Just found out that the big Canadian monopolies are being attacked by ransomware. Their solution is to ban sign-ons from outside Canada. I feel like setting up a Tor end point....

#physics #weather **Endless cold blobs hit Toronto** A report comes out today on how warm we are. That should make us feel better...

#physics #weather **Arctic air breaking up slowly** The tropical plumes are very weak, so expect a long, cold Spring.

#physics #weather **Not much change on the ocean-current front** Everything will continue exactly the same for the next year.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-old-man-and-sea-ocean-currents.html

#earthquake **M6.7 Ecuador** Lots of soft soils, could be bad.

#physics #weather **Everything's a muddle** No great trends or powerful plumes. And the wind picture changes every day.

#weather **Good-bye skiing** This is a great doomer story, but it's true!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/03/16/california-record-snow-drought/

Snow as high as an elephant's eye...

**Real estate going belly-up**

https://betterdwelling.com/blackstones-real-estate-shopping-spree-is-now-a-mortgage-default-crisis/

#physics #weather **Toronto Storm** Neat energies here.