Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.
Most people vote for the party. TBH people who don't are actually voting for what the candidate wants them to see, in practice.
Yes, but we're talking about what should be, aren't we?
Dope! I wonder if there's actual legal force here.
It's a hell of a way of repaying us for all the nasty shit we did.
Just to pre-empt where this is going, sure, the Earth was here before all of us. But unlike the Clovis people, First Nations are still here and suffering from what my ancestors did, which is why that leads to misunderstanding when emphasised.
Where to? I wish I could afford BC...
Holy shit, why even implement the message then? There is no good answer.
TBF Jew is an ethnicity at least as much.
More than usual, even.
That's almost entirely dependent on what happens in the world. Trump mostly shutting up for a just month was enough for the polls to tighten.
Yeah, the US is just kind of a writeoff at this point. Or at least the US Bernie Sanders is talking about.
I've actually heard Newt Gingrich in the 90's mentioned as the originator of the new, obstructionist kind of Republican politics. The cultural phenomenon that propelled Trump to victory has a life of it's own, though.
Crossing the floor is a pretty rare thing in the first place. At that point, maybe we should just move to a party list system.
I really, really hope a return to center of some kind prevails, or at least the party splits in two with a saner half. One of our two major parties basically becoming a US-MAGA fifth column is a really scary prospect.
Uhh, I'm thinking I've had to fill them out to read scientific papers at some point recently. Maybe other more web 1.0 type pages, although most of them are moving over to the Cloudflare JavaScript checkbox service.
Well, I applaud your intellectual honesty, at least, even if I question your priorities.
Ah yes, people used to break the internet, now we're breaking real life.
Wait, TikTok wasn't supposed to be the whole future? /s
Pro tip - I'll absolutely snitch on the guys I know that you probably shouldn't date. Maybe you have a male friend that's the same.
You just kind of come across as a dick in a different way here.
What about AT protocol?
Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style "link aggregator" service on it?
An article about Project Arrow, an all-Canadian EV
Today is Remembrance Day, but it’s likely that many of you have forgotten about Project Arrow . Named after the Canadian-made Avro Arrow interceptor aircraft from the 1950s, this all-electric SUV concept with autonomous driving capabilities is a collaboration between nearly 60 different companies in...
It's a few months old, but in light of recent events I think it still checks out. Make sure to watch the walkaround!
So how is not buying American going for you?
Last trip to the grocery store I couldn't find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.
I'm very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there's even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I'd expected.
Has anyone ever done a Speculative Evolution book or work on Carcinisation?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25237011
About Carcinisation
About Speculative Evolution
Just imagine... Crablike humans, crablike dogs, crablike birds!
What's some good FOSS news?
I just found out DivestOS is dead and could use it.
Is it better to start from scratch rather than refactoring?
Refactoring gets really bad reviews, but from where I'm sitting as a hobby programmer in relative ignorance it seems like it should be easier, because you could potentially reuse a lot of code. Can someone break it down for me?
I'm thinking of a situation where the code is ugly but still legible here. I completely understand that actual reverse engineering is harder than coding on a blank slate.
Preventing child sex abuse must involve treating pedophiles, even past offenders, say experts - CBC Radio
This is one of those takes that's so controversial I'm afraid to post it, which is exactly why I have to.
I neither endorse nor disavow this, and no, I'm not in the picture.
Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses - Nature Communications
Many animals convergently evolved photosynthetic symbioses. In bivalves, giant clams (Cardiidae: Tridacninae) gape open to irradiate their symbionts, but heart cockles (Cardiidae: Fraginae) stay closed because sunlight passes through transparent windows in their shells. Here, we show that heart cock...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33597552
Summary from the 404 media newsletter
Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients.
Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.”
“We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago.
From the article in the link above:
 reputation made it for me.
Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21879517
A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.
I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.
Edit:
So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.
Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed 229Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."
Physicists are one step closer to developing a clock based on energy shifts in atomic nuclei.
A link to the preprint. I'll do the actual math on how many transitions/second it works out to later and edit.
I've had an eye on this for like a decade, so I'm hyped.
Edit:
So, because of the structure of the crystal the atoms are in, it actually has 5 resonances. These were expected, although a couple other weak ones showed up as well. They give a what I understand to be a projected undisturbed value of 2,020,407,384,335.(2) KHz.
Then a possible redefinition of the second could be "The time taken for 2,020,407,384,335,200 peaks of the radiation produced by the first nuclear isomerism of an unperturbed 229Th nucleus to pass a fixed point in space."
US president says he is 'very close' to presenting proposal to free remaining hostages as Israelis protest over latest deaths
Per the rules, this is the original headline. However, the interesting part is that he's preparing a Gaza offer that he says will be "final".
They've hewn very close to the whole "unconditional support" thing, so I'm curious what that means exactly.
A guide to inter-Canadian trash talk (and island capitals I guess)
How do you find the center of two concentric circles with just a straightedge?
The Wikipedia article on Steiner constructions mentions it, but doesn't explain it, and the source linked is a book I don't have. This has come up in a practical project.
Does anybody have a table of coke or charcoal burn rates?
In air. This seems like it should be incredibly basic information but I can't find it anywhere.
Just watched this and thought it was dope. I especially liked the Roman buffets and Foreman grills.
20 million meals later, Chef Robotics is making robotic food prep work
I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
Models that are more reliable and less energy-intensive could help us to better prepare for extreme weather.
Is there a precedent for a really delay-tolerant command line interface? (A bit off-topic)
I've been playing with an idea that would involve running a machine over a delay-tolerant mesh network. The thing is, each packet is precious and needs to be pretty much self contained in that situation, while modern systems assume SSH-like continuous interaction with the user.
Has anyone heard of anything pre-existing that would work here? I figured if anyone would know about situations where each character is expensive, it would be you folks.
