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Yeah, the boreal forests super rural/unpopulated bc they're mostly up north and on the shield where it's hard to build. That's said, there is quite a bit of logging lands where the…

Mountain pine beetles are more of a BC issue. They don't really exist in Ontario. There are native beetles that target eastern white and red pine, but not with such massive pine di…

I recall sometime last year they were looking at being able to categorize 3 broad subcategories of autism that likely have separate causes and different levels of disability and sy…

To expand on this. California has the majority of illegal migrants. A significant portion of them are "seasonal" fruit pickers where there exist some migrant farmer visas for them,…

Yeah grocery at Walmart is ONLY for shelf stables and some frozens (even that is rare with their freezer operating practices) for me bc the quality of the "outside" is so poor.

Most pop stoics focus on the Greeks :P

My interpretation of the article was the the author really was really into sbowboarding. But 15 years ago. Where now they talk about it with an amount of distance that it really is…

Ok but are there Wired articles about you?

Sounds like yet another example of how AI is kneecapping industries from the bottom by "removing the barrier to entry" but really just removing the training path by doing the work …

I think enforcement would be poor and therefore abuse would be high, but it could be granted that they're not safe for driving and therefore if you own a pair, you must switch to d…

If people from Houston in this thread are to be believed, those incentives don't seem to be strong enough in some places.

Polluter pays models are becoming more common. Idk exactly how they function but in Ontario Canada they just switched from a municipal tax funded WM model to a private consortium f…

I have heard many replace their phones due to dropping them and becoming unusable. But everyone uses a case now and the build quality is generally better that one mishap does trash…

And cars. Lots of diesel in Albania.

+1 Burger King has the impossible whopper and it's definitely better than the McDo smash patties (big mac, mcdouble, cheeseburger etc). Obviously different restaurants, so not real…

What is the turn over time of a semi, it could still take a long time before a majority of the fleet is electric.

Is anybody giving credit to the US for post-war germany? Hilarious example nonetheless. I think the US gets more credit for nation building the case of Japan. South Korea. Phillipp…

Google docs allows using markdown hashtags essentially as shortcuts to switch to title, subtitle, subxntitle

Many groceries near me do price matching, but indeed they limit it to a select few competitors (the big 5's brands in the same price market)

Wise does (did?) that. I was doing large international money transfer a couple years ago and they advertized in app the rates of other companies in the space. At the amounts I was …

Super impressive dedication. Hope this guy figures it out eventually and blogs about it again. This was super interesting and pretty funny.

I personally (thankfully) would not be bc I don't use teams at work or anywhere, But I am certain there are people that would be.

In a literal sense it means you're not valued.

Lot of the comments here immediately made me think of this video where a guy puts a blackberry keyboard onto a flip4. https://youtu.be/qy_9w_c2ub0?si=MvhM3SnTfcN_RCVO

That's probably all that matters TBH. If you can attract top talent to major cities where top schools, research firms, and companies in general, what does the opinions and attitude…