Notices by Dan Neuman 🇨🇦 (dan613@ottawa.place)

@yogthos It's the business cycle. Governments can, if they so choose, do much to diminish the impacts of the cycle. But too many people believe that businesses should be free to cause complete chaos in our lives every decade or so.

@jessew @fcktheworld587 I get those at McDonald's all the time.

The audacity.

*artist unknown, from r/Europe without attribution, reverse image search was unsuccessful

@feld @SrRochardBunson @redstateinsurgents Oh, maybe I was taking this post too literally. https://delta.chat/en/2025-01-23-webxdc-no-billionaires

@SrRochardBunson @feld @redstateinsurgents This is interesting. Using PGP to send .zip files via email in the background, but make it look like chat. Presumably the client takes care of all the encryption key management in the background so it is invisible to the user.

@aral I (an engineer) learned this the hard way with climate science. It seemed counterintuitive (wrong) because I didn't have all the facts. Fortunately I trust experts and was willing to learn. I ran across too many people who were the opposite.

A recent study at UBC in Vancouver found that when plant leaves get too hot, they lose water through the waxy layer on top of their leaves (the cuticle), which is there to stop water loss. This temperature depends on the plant, but likely between 40 and 50℃. It's not clear from my reading as to how long the damage lasts.

This affects the moisture in the plant, but also the water cycle and could exacerbate flooding downwind from forests and grasslands.
https://science.ubc.ca/news/february-18-2025/why-leaky-plants-could-accelerate-climate-change
#ClimateChange

@futurebird There's a lot of narrative content in video games, and some inspire a significant amount of fan fiction. My two stepkids spend a day each weekend writing Zelda fan fiction together. They spend hours discussing how each game has problematic elements and one writes modifications (mods) to fix them.

Many show the problems of authoritarianism, capitalism, and racism (see Cyberpunk 2027 and BioShock Infinite), and that war is hell.

@Fragglemuppet I believe it uses different chemicals (something related to lye) in the process. And since it contains a lot of water, it is more expensive to package and ship. I used to make my own from bar soap, but it wasn't really the same. You can find recipes online, basically grating soap and adding to boiling water.

So. The day after the Ontario election, Premier Ford shut down all the safe consumption sites for non-alcohol drug use. Now people are shooting up in the bank ATMs all across the province because it is too cold to do it outside. Thanks, non-voters.
#OnPoli

@lednaBM Along with his wife and dog. Sounds like carbon monoxide poisoning. So sad that this could have been prevented with a simple alarm.

Toronto's Mayor Chow suggested removing Teslas from their grant program for zero-emission taxis and limos. The city council voted to approve it, 20-4. #Tesla #CanPoli #CdnPoli https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/113988236373609234

TIL that "Sundown towns"* still exist in the USA. And there's an app the helps people navigate around them. #Racism

* A town where Black people are not tolerated after sunset.

https://greenbookglobal.com/road-trip-planner/

@xs4me2 @Makyris The percentages should be by % of eligible voters.

@mollyjongfast @tchambers What about coffee? https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250126-trump-orders-tariffs-on-colombia-after-country-sends-back-two-deportation-flights

@glynmoody @AnnaAnthro Look out for a sharp increase in hate crimes, like what happened in 2016.

@Prainbow @BeAware Baby steps

@knittingknots2 @bmacDonald94 "No Child Left Behind" and countless others we have forgotten. All those Republican MBAs know how to sell a product that does the opposite of what its name implies.

@corpsmoderne @16af93 I was not expecting that.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @notsoloud @emptywheel.bsky.social Let's see if they actually do get rid of Obamacare this time. Also, many senators have tax shelter farms that rely on undocumented labour, so that will be interesting to watch. In a train wreck kind of way.