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@_CryMiaRiver Any followup story on this person?

Missed this gem at the time. In March, CBC ran a sob story about a 26-year-old woman desperate to have an arm-flesh appendage sewn onto her groin who feels her future is on hold because of long wait times. A trans activist is quoted saying Quebecers should be “outraged” that in “our own city, in our own province” people are forced to wait so long. Of course in a sane world, Quebecers would be outraged that a clinic in one of their own cities, in their own province, is recklessly lopping off healthy breasts, needlessly castrating young men, inverting penises, and sewing arm-flesh appendages onto women’s groins. People should be marching in the streets demanding an end to this ghoulish crime, not demanding more funding and shorter wait times.

@Tim_Pettit_ Basically then, @eby adopted it w/o understanding the full consequences? T&R calks UNDRIP a framework which infers flexibility to me.

@NoWAYNE3 One might say the part that required adoption of UNDRIP into our law.

Serious question. What is the moral justification for permanent transfers of land, money and rights under Reconciliation? I understand the legal/constitutional but would welcome anyone to try to justify this discrimination morally?

@Tim_Pettit_ They can't lose their base, even if it means losing the next election. He chose party over country.

The NDP double down on DRIPA. Interestingly, it would appear that Mr. Eby and the NDP government are not interested in the interests or rights of 95% of British Columbians.

@DrKindyMLA I don't vote NDP but To be fair, many the staff quit b/c the current Director wasn't qualified for the job. Some agencies just run their course...

This NDP government wants to abolish the Office of the Merit Commissioner whose office is to make sure government appointments are fair and based on merit. Now that the HPOA (Health Professions and Occupations Act) came into full force April 1st, all positions on health boards will be appointed by the Minister of Health. Half the board of the College of Physicians and Surgeons used to be elected and half were appointed. On top of it, all members of the health colleges Disciplinary Tribunal will be appointed by the Director of Discipline who himself is appointed by government. The reason the government wants to abolish the office of Merit Commissioner is to push their political and ideological agenda, even in healthcare.

@TheBroskiUSA @MikeLevin @grok @grok how AMOC affect Vancouver Canada?

@MikeLevin @grok how would such a potential collapse impact the weather in Florida? Would it make summers more bearable?

This should be a bigger story.  Scientists are more concerned than ever that a critical Atlantic current will collapse soon and wreak havoc on North America and Europe. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a massive conveyor belt of ocean currents that transports water from the tropics to the Atlantic.  Without it, severe weather would impact both regions at potentially devastating rates. These scientists aren't just warning us about an environmental issue—they're sounding the alarm about a climate threat that could fundamentally rewrite how future generations survive on our planet. theguardian.com/environment/20…

@TreyYingst Hmmm, so they can't bomb but they can ...? Just looking for the loop hole.

President Trump on Israel: “Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!! Thank you!” President Trump on enriched uranium: “The U.S.A. will get all Nuclear “Dust,” created by our great B2 Bombers - No money will exchange hands in any way, shape, or form.” President Trump on Lebanon: “This deal is in no way subject to Lebanon, either, but the USA will, separately, work with Lebanon, and deal with the Hezboolah situation in an appropriate manner.”

@shanaka86 Um, why can't really big planes can fly it out? Serious question.

In 2022, Ukraine's neon supply collapsed. The semiconductor industry panicked, then adapted. It accelerated the migration from deep ultraviolet to extreme ultraviolet lithography. EUV machines do not need neon. Problem solved. The industry congratulated itself for learning the lesson. Here is what it actually did. EUV machines generate so much heat that they require helium for cooling. TSMC's most advanced fabs consume 500,000 cubic feet of helium per year. There is no substitute. The semiconductor industry escaped the neon chokepoint by walking directly into the helium chokepoint. It traded one noble gas vulnerability for another. And the second is worse. Neon could be synthesised from air. Helium cannot be synthesised at all. Neon concentration was roughly 50 percent in Ukraine. Helium concentration is 30 to 33 percent in Qatar. Neon's end uses were narrow: excimer lasers. Helium's end uses span semiconductors, MRI machines, rocket fuel pressurisation, missile leak testing, and fibre optic manufacturing. The diversification of one noble gas deepened the concentration of another. Nobody mapped it. Nobody priced it. Nobody noticed until March 2026. Two days ago, Air Liquide rushed to open an emergency semiconductor materials factory in Taichung, Taiwan. Its Group Vice President Armelle Levieux stated publicly: "There is today a shortage of helium." Richard Brook of Garrison Ventures told the New York Times: "There is a tsunami coming, but it is still a thousand miles offshore." Approximately 200 specialised cryogenic containers sit stranded near the Strait of Hormuz. We are now at Day 28 to 30 of a 35 to 48 day boil-off window. When the helium warms past its threshold, it vents into the atmosphere. It does not wait. It does not negotiate. It escapes Earth's gravity and drifts into space. Permanently. Phil Kornbluth, the industry's most cited helium analyst for four decades, says we are looking at a minimum two to three month production shutdown and four to six months before the supply chain returns to normal. South Korea imported 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar in 2025. Samsung's in-house recycling system, even if scaled across all lines, cuts consumption by only 18.6 percent. SK hynix claims diversified supply but has not disclosed alternative volumes. DRAM contract prices already surged 90 to 95 percent quarter on quarter, a record, before the helium constraint fully bites. The $4 trillion AI buildout runs on chips. The chips run on EUV machines. The EUV machines run on helium. The helium runs through one strait that is closed, from one gas field that is struck, processed by five manufacturers with full order books stretching to 2028. The semiconductor industry survived the 2022 neon crisis by creating the 2026 helium crisis. The lesson it learned made the next lesson worse. And the Federal Helium Reserve that might have served as strategic buffer was privatised in June 2024 for $460 million, sold to Messer Group, a German company with Chinese operations. The market has priced a temporary disruption. The physics has priced a structural shortage. One of them is wrong. Falsifier: Samsung achieves 95 percent or higher helium recycling with zero capacity loss, and Qatar restarts within six weeks. No credible source has argued either is feasible. Full analysis in The Last Molecule Standing, live on Substack now. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Dear @HelloFreshCA . You delivered a big box of food that we didn't order...while we were away. I have called 2x w no resolution. I am not responsible for a box of rotten food I didn't order. Come pick it up. #enshitification

@ATropper76827 @Gaurab Also required precise fibre gratings to stabilize the laser.

@Gaurab Great post!!! I worked on rare earth silica single mode fibre lasers and amplifiers for twenty years. You got every detail right.

The internet runs on a coincidence of atomic physics. Erbium emits light at exactly 1,550 nanometers. Silica glass fiber loses the least signal at exactly 1,550 nanometers. One is a quantum property of a rare earth element, the other is an optical property of melted sand. They have nothing to do with each other. It is pure luck. Before erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, every undersea signal had to be converted from light to electricity and back every 50 kilometers. Each conversion degraded the signal and capped bandwidth. Erbium removed that cap. An erbium amplifier sitting on the floor of the ocean boosts signals 1,000 times and runs for decades without maintenance. 99% of intercontinental data moves through glass strands no thicker than a human hair, amplified by a rare earth element that just so happens to emit at the right wavelength. And erbium isn't even the strangest one.

@BCFerries is yr website glitching? No reservation s available from Tswassen to Swartz bay Thurs March 26th??

@ircrimer @BabakTaghvaee1 By whom....

@BabakTaghvaee1 Did anyone mention he assassinated by who?

BREAKING: Yesterday, an Iranian opposition activist who was also a police officer in the Netherlands was assassinated by the Islamic regime of Iran. He was shot. His name is Mohi Shafii, a 36-year-old IT engineer who was also a police officer. He had been threatened by officials of the Islamic regime of Iran over his activities on social media. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@BriannaWu Pot, meet kettle...

Gender dysphoria is not an art project. The psychological features are extreme clinical distress and an inability to function in your gender role. Wearing eyeliner, low cut tops to show off cute tattoos and cheerily speaking like a 90s valley girl is obviously not distress.

Cancel me if you want. She is not a transsexual. Trans people never had an honest discussion about the explosion of girls suddenly identifying as men like this. Any sane health care system would not give her testosterone. Any sane trans community would tell her not to go down this road. Every parent in America is terrified their daughter is going to get these ideas and destroy her body.

@ImamsOrg Thank you.

STATEMENT FROM THE GLOBAL IMAMS COUNCIL TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND TO CANADIAN LEADERS To our Jewish neighbours and friends in Canada: The Global Imams Council (GIC) unequivocally condemns the shootings at three synagogues in the Greater Toronto Area. Firing bullets at synagogues is an act of raw antisemitic terror. It is evil, it is criminal, and it is an attack on the Jewish community, the Jewish people, and on Canada itself. There is no “context,” no “but,” and no political cause on earth that can ever excuse or in any way lessen the moral turpitude of such an attack. We recognize that these attacks come after two years of the most violent and vile antisemitic rhetoric, accompanied by open calls for violence, that were unleashed into our world on October 7 by Islamist terrorists funded with billions of dollars by the regime occupying Iran. That day did not just bring mass murder and kidnapping; it also unleashed a wave of ideological hatred that has sought to normalize threats, intimidation, and incitement against Jews everywhere. The shootings of synagogues in Canada are a direct extension of this climate, and they must be confronted with the full moral and legal force of our society. As Muslim religious leaders, we speak to you plainly: these attacks violate the most basic principles of our faith and of every civilized legal and moral order. Our tradition categorically forbids acts of violence against our Jewish fellow Canadians with whom we have been privileged to share this country, and forbids the targeting of any of our fellow Canadians or the violation of any house of worship. Whoever the perpetrators may be, we condemn any individual—Muslim or otherwise—who supports or engages in the glorification of these acts or any other act of antisemitic violence, or who supports, promotes, or finances banned terrorist entities in Canada. There is no religious, political, or ideological justification for such violence nor is there any defence for remaining quiet or ambiguous about the targets of the attack or their motivation. The Global Imams Council has never wavered in its Islamic condemnation of antisemitism and of the extremists who weaponize it against our Jewish brethren. Our record is clear and consistent: the fight against antisemitism, as the toxic glue that binds extremists across the spectrum and corrodes democracies, is non‑negotiable. Nor will our resolve to combat this evil be in any way deterred by those who try to intimidate, harass, or smear Muslims who stand with their Jewish neighbours against antisemitic hate. To Canada’s political leaders and police officials—partners with whom we have worked and will continue to work to combat hatred and extremism—we say: targeted gunfire at synagogues requires a visible, immediate, and comprehensive policy response from law enforcement and elected officials that matches the gravity of the threat. We should not have to wait for a large‑scale atrocity like the Bondi Beach attack for Canada to apply the same level of seriousness, coordination, and resolve to protecting Jewish life here at home. We therefore explicitly and publicly support the demands of Jewish community leadership for urgent, concrete government action. We back, in full and without reservation, calls to: Dramatically strengthen and streamline security funding for vulnerable religious institutions—especially synagogues, Jewish schools, and community centres—so they can protect themselves immediately. Enforce, with maximum seriousness, hate‑crime and terrorism laws against individuals and networks who glorify, encourage, or facilitate antisemitic violence, both online and offline. Identify, expose, and disrupt foreign and domestic extremist actors who incite or support attacks on Jewish targets in Canada, including those linked to state sponsors and organized extremist movements. The Global Imams Council stands ready to work in partnership with Jewish communities, law enforcement, and all levels of government to confront this threat. We will use our pulpits, institutions, and networks to challenge those who fuel antisemitism, and we will support robust legal and security measures to prevent further attacks on our Jewish neighbours with whom we have been privileged to share this country. We are grateful to be joined in this note by GIC leaders in Europe, who have co‑signed this statement and who are painfully familiar with the trajectory of this type of antisemitic violence when there is not a whole‑of‑society, unmitigated response to prevent it from metastasizing. Signatories: The Global Imams Council - Canada The Global Imams Council - Europe

@tudofogo @HenMazzig Oh, so you support the IDF then? Just clarifying.

@HenMazzig I don't know. If you don't want a country to retaliate after you bomb them, perhaps you shouldn't bomb them.

According to ABC, the FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran could plan to retaliate against America by launching drones at the West Coast. “We know Iran has an extensive presence in Mexico and South America, they have relationships, they have the drones and now they have the incentive to conduct attacks,” warns John Cohen, the former head of intelligence for the Department of Homeland Security.

@WaterHist @CultureExploreX A n d...unfollow.

The hijab is not modesty, it’s a perversion of it. That’s why it is offensive to people. It’s not a symbol on the head of a beautiful person, it’s a forced covering to make that person invisible. It’s gross. Stop trying to convince people the two are equivalent. It’s more like the difference between discipline and child abuse.

What struck me wasn’t the clip. It was the need for a “community note” to explain away something obvious. For most of Western history, women covering their heads was normal. Victorian Britain, rural Europe, churches across the continent. Modesty, tradition, and social norms shaped daily life. No one panicked about it. Yet the moment someone points out that this resembles how Muslim women wear the hijab or how Christian nuns cover their heads, people rush to sterilize the observation. “Nothing religious here. Just a shawl.” That reaction says more about modern insecurity than it does about history. Many in the modern West treat faith like something embarrassing that must be scrubbed out of the past. Meanwhile, go to Eastern Europe and step into their traditions. Women still cover their heads as an act of reverence. One civilization apologizes for its traditions. The other quietly keeps them.

@shanaka86 @grok can Canada provide oil & gas that is held up in the Straight of Hormuz?

Four B-2 Spirit stealth bombers flew into Iranian airspace undetected and dropped dozens of 2,000-pound bunker-busting munitions directly onto IRGC underground command nodes, weapons depots, and missile assembly facilities. Each B-2 carries 40,000 pounds of ordnance. Four aircraft. 160,000 pounds of precision-guided munitions delivered in a single sortie against the most heavily defended airspace Iran possessed. Possessed. Past tense. The B-2 was built for one purpose: to penetrate integrated air defence networks that no other aircraft can survive and destroy targets that no other weapon can reach. The United States has 20 of them. Each costs $2.1 billion. They have been operational since 1997 and have been used in combat exactly five times: Kosovo 1999, Afghanistan 2001, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, and now Iran 2026. Every previous deployment lasted weeks. This one is five days old and CENTCOM confirms operations are ongoing. What the B-2 is doing right now is collapsing the mountain. Literally. The IRGC spent decades building hardened facilities deep inside Iranian rock, on the assumption that no conventional weapon could reach them. The GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition penetrates reinforced concrete before detonating. Satellite imagery shows collapsed tunnel entrances, cratered launch complexes, and flattened command nodes across multiple sites. The Iranian air defence network that was supposed to prevent this, four Russian S-300PMU2 batteries, forty-two indigenous Bavar-373 systems, legacy Hawk and Rapier units, was functionally neutralised within hours of the campaign’s start. The B-2 is now operating in what the Air Force calls a permissive environment. Meaning there is nothing left to stop it. Iran built its deterrence on two pillars: missiles that could reach the Gulf, and underground facilities that could survive anything thrown at them. Both pillars are being dismantled simultaneously. The missiles are being destroyed. The facilities that built them are being collapsed. Here is the question nobody is asking. If Iran’s offensive capability is being systematically eliminated, and its air defences are neutralised, and its leadership is being decapitated, and its nuclear industry has gone silent, and its underground infrastructure is being collapsed, then what exactly is the threat that prevents tankers from transiting Hormuz? The answer: everything the B-2 cannot reach. Proxies in nine countries. Drones launched from mobile platforms. Anti-ship missiles on dispersed coastal launchers. Mines. Submarines. Small boat swarms. The asymmetric arsenal that does not sit in a mountain waiting to be bombed but moves, hides, and strikes from geography that stealth bombers were never designed to address. The B-2 is destroying Iran’s conventional military. It is not destroying Iran’s ability to threaten a tanker. Those are two completely different capabilities, and the insurance market knows the difference even if the headlines do not. The most expensive aircraft ever built is doing exactly what it was designed to do. And the Strait of Hormuz is still closed. That tells you everything about the nature of the blockade that a $2.1 billion bomber cannot solve. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@TheRealJoeKewl @DanFriedman81 And Jack Reacher

@DanFriedman81 John Wick is a franchise centered on this premise

There’s a trope in fiction where there is a character who is extremely competent and dangerous, but is peaceful and just wants to mind his own business. It is a mistake to fuck with this guy. But, just as Chekov’s gun must inevitably be fired, the guy who should not be fucked with must be fucked with. He must be forced to put his skills to work. I can only think of one story where there is a guy who should not be fucked with and everyone has the good sense not to fuck with him, and it’s Tom Bombadil in “Lord of the Rings.” Tom Bombadil is an incredible thing to have in the story, because his existence dwarfs the conflict and all the stakes. The Ring is the most powerful magical object in the world… except for Tom Bombadil, to whom it is a trinket that he can’t be bothered to care about. Sauron is an existential threat to everything and everyone, except for Tom Bombadil who could put the Dark Lord in the dirt before breakfast without breaking a sweat if he could be made to notice what is going on. The epic scale of the story is a triviality to Tom Bombadil. No matter what malign force sweeps across the world, it would never be stupid enough to show up on Tom’s doorstep. He’s just there, a monstrous leviathan with inconceivable power he never demonstrates, existing beyond the scope of everything else, sitting by the river, singing silly songs while the other characters go on heroic journeys he couldn’t even begin to care about.

@SteveKooner Also: ICBC routinely requires people to sign away access to their medical records even though the legislation says 'reports' related to injury.

The BC NDP’s no-fault laws have turned ICBC insurance into a “road tax” of poor value that is unfair to victims and policy holders alike. Funding for care is routinely cut off for victims who are unable to get legal care or access to the courts. The NDP no fault road tax needs to be replaced with a fair system that restores rights for seriously injured victims of road accidents.

@Wiseman36 Explain further please

The amount of media literacy and critical thinking required to navigate what's happening down here in Puerto Vallarta is insane. The polarizing differences between how the locals talk about it vs what's being relayed to me from American Media.