A lot of Nazis and other European facists supported the zionist project because it wpild give them a place to send the Jews.

There used to be a speed camera on this stretch of Bathurst. Doug Ford is responsible for this.

I personally like scihub because it's easier to get papers off of rather than going through my library's portal for a lot of journals.

Well you see, they're misfolded proteins and when they interact with properly folded proteins they uhhh... shit

Did you try any of these and not like it? Yes -> geology

Absolutely bonkers if these mandates are removed but tariffs on Chinese EVs remain. We have no domestic production of EVs and this will tell automakers they dont need to worry about building EVs or competing with China. These are insane policy decisions that just protect automaker profits and removes any incentive for them to adapt or compete.

Im a Canadian geologist so I obviously dont have any personal stake in this but I do want to share my thoughts.

I think anti-mining sentiment is understandable in most places but not always justifiable. Lithium mining is absolutely required to transition from fossil fuels. Unless the number of cars on the road is greatly reduced, replacing them with BEVs will require significant amounts of lithium or improvements to Na ion batteries. There is not enough lithium available to get by just on recycling.

The question then becomes: where should this lithium come from? If it is not mined in western countries like USA or Canada, it will be mined by China or developing countries. In this comparison, who has better environmental regulations? Which countries have more human rights abuse?

If we decide that we can mine these deposits in the west, there is still a question about where they are mined. Do we extract lithium from basinal brines? My understanding is that these are generally more environmentally risky than extraction from pegmatites (the deposit type in New England).

The final question becomes, which communities will have to accept this mining? In Canada, most of the time it is indigenous communities that suffer most of the negative impacts of mining. There are many benefits to the communities too (usually), but the indigenous communities do not have nearly as much political sway as say rich cottage owners might, so their preferences and desires often get steamrolled by government in the name of "progress".

The unfortunate reality is that if we want to get rid of fossil fuels, we need to do a lot more mining and extraction or come up with some serious technological and societal innovation. In a globalized economy, saying that you dont want mining near your home means that you want some other people to deal with the potentially negative consequences of it. I am not saying that we need to allow all mining everywhere, but these are important ethical considerations that we have to make when talking about how we want society to progress.

Sorry for the rant.

Why do we keep putting billions of dollars into a dying industry? We literally just bought a pipeline, we dont need more. I really hate this country sometimes.

I have found Anna's Archive to be more reliable than sci-hub

What is the limit of a "community"? I live in a city where it is certainly not practical to grow the food needed to feed the city inside thr city limits. On thr other hand, in my province there is tons of high quality land that would be more than sufficient to grow enough food for the whole province, especially if the food system shifted to a vegetarian-focused one. Thats a lot bigger than my "community" but it is a lot more practical and arguably more sustainable.

I've used both and while Typst is very impressive and usable, it still has not reached feature parity with LaTeX. That being said, there are some aspects to Typst that are either do not exist in LaTeX or are extremely user unfriendly. Tables for instance, are very easy to import into Typst and can be done directly from a CSV file. I've also personally taken advantage of the YAML import feature to automatically generate appendices from notes that could not reasonably fit into a table. I've definitely had my fair share of experiences wrestling with Typst to do things that are trivial in LaTeX but overall I have a good experience with it. I use it for some report writing at work (and I use a latex-like report template) and so far prefer it to LaTeX. I suggest you try it out and see if it works for you.

When I stopped using proprietary software I noticed that I stopped fearing software updates. Proprietary software is always changing things in ways that dont necessarily improve the user experience, and often make it worse. My experience with OSS has (almost) always been the opposite, every update improves the software and either adds useful features or fixes old issues I've had. I think the only exception to this has been Firefox. I noticed this shift in thinking most obviously when I finally switched from Windows to Linux.

Where do European Neanderthals fit into this story?

Looks great, where is this?

This is kind of misleading since they closed the fishery (I think in the 90s), so the amount of cod catch would naturally plummet. The fishery did, however, need to be closed due to overfishing.

The geothermal gradient is different at different parts of the earth. You can probably bake a pizza at much shallower depths at the mid ocean ridge, near a volcano, or even at an active orogeny.

I wonder at what point the provinces are in violation of the Canada Health Act? Im not familiar with the exact wording of the act but I was under the impression that it was supposed to prevent private health services.

Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers might satisfy that itch. It's not for everyone because it's more of an "ideas driven" story, but I found it to be a very cozy read.

Oh I see, thats very interesting thank you! Are you an archaeologist, or just someone very interested in stone-age history?

I wish Canada invested that money into more worthwhile science rather than giving money to more AI scammers