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They are talking about one gigantic nuclear explosion (81 Gt). Why couldn't multiple smaller explosions achieve the same outcome?

I "vibe coded" this little app to scratch an itch. Movies seem so long these days, I wanted to be able to search on the running time to find shorter films, but I couldn't find a si…

I wanted to test out Gemini and was able to "vibe code" a web app in a few hours. I used 2.5 Pro experimental and was really impressed. Though it was mainly an experiment, I think …

These days B.C. seems to be preferred due to the colonial connotations of "British Columbia". https://tnc.news/2024/02/21/stop-saying-british-columbians/

A study of sixteen people... Also this site is awful and wouldn't let me right click to copy the text. Edit: Here's a link to the study from a better source. Also, this study unsur…

"There are complex reasons for our dire wildfires, but scientists say climate change plays key role" [0] "Our forest management practices, they've been like this since about the '8…

"Bill C-18 has become law and remains unworkable. The Government has not given us reason to believe that the regulatory process will be able to resolve structural issues with the l…

There might be some other people out there like me with school age kids. I find that my kids schools and the various PAC (parents advisory committee) groups all use Facebook to com…

They may have water now, but it isn't drinkable. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/10/running-wate...

OP has heavily editorialized the title. Actual title is "Jackson’s Water Crisis: The latest updates" and the article states that the Army corps of Engineers arrived sometime prior …

Similar from a year ago: https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-carb-lo...

That Chinese WZ-8 looks just like the paper airplanes I made as a kid.

Cool but don't read all the way if you haven't done today's Wordle!

If the star is 120 million light-years away, does that mean this explosion actually happened 120 million years ago?

This would be more meaningful if it wasn't an advertisement for her substack.

Canadian and BC resident here. The Tyee is left-leaning but hardly "fringe". I would suggest they rely less on clickbait than many mainstream publications. https://mediabiasfactche…

The author lowballs the emissions produced by air travel. He appears to only account for greenhouse gas emissions (1.9%) while ignoring total emissions which are 3.5% and growing e…

not just sci-fi! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

UAE is a US ally and so they likely do not want to put a chill on their relations. "The United Arab Emirates has been described as the United States' best counter-terrorism ally in…

different, but non paywalled article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/climate-...

The idea that vegans are wealthy and white is simply false. Around the world it tends to be the poorest people who do not eat meat, and in the US most vegans are low income and mor…

Despite all the hand-wringing in this thread, Canada has had anti-hate speech laws for some time now and our society has yet to collapse. https://cfe.ryerson.ca/key-resources/guide…

I'm pretty happy that I will finally be able to cast fitness plus workouts to a bigger screen.