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'We are at risk of running out': Calgarians asked to use 25% less water than yesterday (www.cbc.ca)

After a major feeder water main break plunged Calgary’s water supply into a critical state, city officials are now asking Calgarians to use 25 per cent less than they did yesterday, sounding the alarm that the city is at risk of running out....

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Could they use a crawler with visual inspection? It’s not as good as ultrasound because it will only see surface breaking stuff if it’s big enough… But it’s still better than no inspection at all, right?

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There’s nothing more Canadian than hating the federal government.

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One of them also acts as a parasite for the public’s safety.

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The axiom of choice allows to duplicate a sphere…

I know mathematicians tend to approve of it, but the naturalist in me knows it’s bullshit.

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Yeah, I’m really out of my element talking about these abstract mathematical topics… I’m too much of an empirical scientist it seems!

Give me a set and I’ll find a way to measure it! …actually I’d like to know what’s the mathematical definition of measurement, there’s probably a trick there… 🤔

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Well that’s interesting: in order to define unmeasurable sets, you relied on the axiom of choice… I suppose it might be possible to define unmeasurable sets without AC, but maybe not!

Every time I encounter the axiom of choice implying a bunch of crazy stuff, it always loop back to requiring AC. It’s like a bunch of evidence against AC!

I find it interesting that the basic description of AC sounds very plausible, but I’m still convinced mathematicians might have made the wrong choice… (See what i did there? 😄)

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So you mean it might be possible to remove the wedding ring without leaving a mark, making it easier to hide that you’re married?

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Hehe, yeah I intentionally misunderstood your comment to make a joke…

With my so, we actually talked about getting a ring tattoo instead of an actual ring because of how we both never wear jewellery.

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Of course they’re registered as charity… so they can avoid paying tax…

What do they give to the community of there a charity?

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Why is the solution to Canadian oligopoly always “let foreign corporations in”, instead of fostering growth of small local businesses and coops?

This also applies to telecom…

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Here as well security forces tend to act as violent bullies while facing no consequences… I think we have a four letter acronym for that as well.

Pierre Poilievre Wants a Carbon Tax Election | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)

REMEMBER BREXIT? That time a Conservative Party directed widespread voter frustration at a single easy scapegoat, smothered the public with misinformation, and were rewarded with their biggest electoral victory in decades? Something similar is happening today in Canada....

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They’ll blame individuals for lighting fires, and campaign for a water market for “efficient” water usage.

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It was taken down because of illicit meat sake, but the neighbor has concerns because they didn’t like to see the link between animals and meat…

but you could tell it was a little baby

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If it gets us rid of some middle managers, that’s great!

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“brain drain” is always used by right wing and liberalists as an excuse to reduce tax. The only people that really “drains” are the greedy crooks. Calling it “brain drain” just shows what they think of themselves…

University professors, engineers, and doctors (those who are not crooks) will not leave, they have roots at home and will not leave.

Canada Had Designs on Being a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up. (www.wsj.com)

Canada bet heavily on hydro as a means of cleaning up its carbon footprint; it is the third-largest hydroelectricity producer in the world. But with the climate becoming markedly drier in recent years, Canada’s utilities are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars to diversify their grids, in some cases leaning on power...

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You can only stretch facts so far before it becomes an obvious lie. Not everything is a matter of personal opinion.

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Not a doctor, i spent 7 years on post secondary education and i barely raked in a 5 figure student debt to pay off at ultra low interest.

I had a friend studying to become a doctor. Because of that, banks allowed him to take on huge debts and he bought a brand new fully equipped wrangler. No wonder doctors have 6 figures debt if that’s what banks allow them to take… I knew someone else in dentistry who bought a BMW.

Knowing that will make money, they take on more debt. Then they ask to raise salaries… It’s a system that attracts greedy people, the type that will move out of their home country just to make now money.

For me, it would take about 4 times my current salary to move away, because all my family and friends are here.

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In fact Alberta researchers have recommended a tougher traffic light system for geothermal projects than the one currently regulating fracking. It would trigger a major evaluation of operations when 1.5 magnitudes occur and shut down the operation at 3.5 magnitude with the goal of keeping all tremors at low magnitude.

When it’s not oil-related, regulations are tougher?

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Framing it as an environmental problem always implicitly assumed that people understood we need a good environment to be healthy…

People complain about bonfire restrictions in my city, but when I show my air quality sensor data and the effect it has on breathing and sports performance, they tend to be more open minded.

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The council also found that he had violated ethics rules by changing the date of a neighbour’s court appearance for a traffic ticket so he could hear the case — and acquit her — before he retired.

To me that’s the more important issue… It can be hard to measure time accurately, but there’s no excuse for twisting the system to prevent your friend from facing justice!

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Do bald eagles eat raccoons? I heard this food source is plentiful in Toronto!

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On DST, it’s well agreed with my job that I come in an hour later (and end an hour later as well).

I change my clock, but I also change my alarm so I end up waking up at the same UTC time.

It’s easier to stay up late in the summer if I start work an hour later as well!

Map showing the path of totality of the solar eclipse in Canada on April 8, 2024 (www.asc-csa.gc.ca)

On April 8, 2024, a spectacular and rare celestial event is set to unfold over Canada, the United States and Mexico – a total solar eclipse. As the Moon aligns perfectly between Earth and the Sun, temporary darkness will sweep across parts of the country, captivating countless spectators.

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Here’s a couple of differences: With totality, the stars become visible again. The darkness is such that air temperature drops like at sunset. Birds stop signing, and insects start chirping. Also, i think you can see the sun’s corona. While the sun is totally blocked, you can look at it with naked eyes.

I’m not sure how much of this occurs with a 95% eclipse… I would encourage anyone to go to the nearest place to see totality. I will personally visit family living 2 hours drive away to be in the totality zone.

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I have not seen a total one since i was a small kid, so I can’t really say… Totality will have these things last longer, but I’m sure there is no clear-cut difference.

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These reports tend to focus on measuring the outcome, because that’s the measurable KPI.

It leaves as an exercise to the reader to guess the cause, and your comment shows exactly what i believed for years. “There is an inequality of outcome because people typically act differently”.

I now realize that the gender pay gap is just the outcome of bias in the workplace… Whether conscious or inconscious. We must recognize them and actively try to counteract their effects of we want to reduce the gender pay gap. Something often criticized as “reversed sexism”.

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Hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha

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Is it weird to feel that it is still an improvement over the last big software project we heard about? (Phoenix)

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Here we go again… The web, which is what most people think about when saying “internet”, is an European invention.

So the low level stuff is American, but higher level stuff is European. But then again, were could claim that “web 2.0” was invented by American companies.

Internet is 70% American?

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Yeah, they should definitely have targeted vulnerabilities instead. Human skin should not be so easy to pierce with bullets…

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Bunyan sounds the same as some old French Canadian swear word, but is written differently. I think the real spelling would be something like “bon yenne”, and also resembles a French Canadian folklore named “Bon Jean”.

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Within 20 years… That’s a generation. They have time to raise kids to adulthood.

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We had bus drivers protests. They were not allowed to strike because “essential service”, so instead they publicly announced that they would “forget” to check people’s tickets.

Effectively they gathered people’s sympathy while distributing profits. That was effective!

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