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The antidote to mediocrity: Excellence in all pursuits, big or small. Excellence in method and in outcome. Excellence and Hope.

@BillboardChris This is equivalent to nominating a city’s most notorious criminal for a board seat. Truly bizarre. We either live in different realities or one of us is monumentally stupid.

Look at all these western countries nominating Iran to sit on a UN Committee for women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. Canada, UK, Australia, France, Spain, Germany, Norway …

@OriflammeTech @deicivitas You are probably right.

@deicivitas Just replace them all with Claude. It couldn't get worse.

The Government of Canada and the provincial health bureaucracies have decided that it’s illegal for doctors to purchase MRI machines to serve the people on years long wait lists. Reason? The government first has to study the issue to ascertain whether more MRI machines are needed.

@DeiCivitas Canada’s obsession with incompetent bureaucracies is the primary reason the country is falling behind on the global stage. Just try to do anything with a government agency involved and you will see that endless waiting is the name of the game.

@anishmoonka Small margins make for dramatic differences, in all fields including biology.

You share 98.8% of your DNA with chimpanzees. A group of 200 of them just tore itself apart in a Ugandan rainforest, and researchers have been watching it happen for a decade. A study came out yesterday in Science, one of the top research journals in the world. For 30 years, scientists tracked the Ngogo chimps in Uganda's Kibale National Park. This was the largest known chimp group on the planet, around 200 animals all living, hunting, and raising families together. Then around 2015, the group started splitting down the middle. Two clusters, one on the west side of the territory and one in the center, stopped spending time together. Males stopped mating with females from the other side. By 2018, they'd drawn a line through the forest and refused to cross it. The Western chimps started raiding. Between 2018 and 2024, they killed 7 adult males and 17 babies from the Central group. They ripped infants straight off their mothers' chests. Fourteen more Central males vanished during that stretch, bodies never found, while Western's population climbed from 76 to 108. John Mitani, a University of Michigan researcher who spent over 20 years with these chimps, told NBC he believes the Central group is "doomed." He used the phrase "extinction event." This almost never happens. DNA evidence suggests chimp communities fracture like this roughly once every 500 years. The only other time anyone saw it was in the 1970s with Jane Goodall's chimps in Tanzania, but researchers questioned that case because Goodall's team had been feeding bananas to the animals for years, which may have warped their natural behavior. Ngogo is the first split observed with zero human interference. The cause dates back to 2014. Five males died that year, likely from disease. These weren't random chimps. They had close bonds on both sides of the group, the kind of friendships that kept 200 animals functioning as one unit. Once they were gone, a new top male seized control in 2015, a disease swept through and killed 25 more in 2017, and the two sides just kept drifting until there was nothing connecting them anymore. One part of the paper sat with me. These chimps have no ethnicity. No religion. No political parties. The war started because friendships broke down, cliques solidified, and new group identities replaced years of cooperation. Aaron Sandel, the lead researcher from UT Austin, argued that keeping relationships alive across group lines may be the actual recipe for preventing this kind of collapse. In a species 98.8% identical to us, that recipe failed in under ten years.

@MarilynGladuSL I am not sure “proud” is the right word to use here. I guarantee that is not how you feel.

Proud to be the newest member of our new Liberal Government.

@jozefandrew1 @MatthewSitman There could be an excellent PhD from Purdue and a mediocre one from Princeton. We overestimate the value of the university/institution granting the degree. What really matters is the person, their journey, and their capabilities.

@MatthewSitman Professionally, there is no difference. I have never encountered an academic job committee that cares to make the puerile distinction. Substantively, sure, there is a genuine difference between a PhD from Princeton and a PhD from Purdue as well.

*DPhil not PhD

@DrNescio @globeandmail Are you saying there is no rule of law in Canada? You are misinformed, the US did indeed protect Europe from a mad man in world war 2. Your ignorance and smugness is on a whole new level, my Goodman. I encourage you brush up on your understanding of history and economics.

@PhilipFadi @globeandmail I suspect they like the way the rule of law is respected, how EU citizens are protected against oligarchs, how a mad man is not allowed to destroy Europe.

Majority of Canadians open to joining EU, new poll suggests theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

@Doveofwar @PattJosh @HotSotin The communist model in China is actually quite capitalist. Not to the extent of the US obviously, but there is a lot of economic freedom and incentive to build and excel.

@PattJosh @HotSotin What happens when China is communist and India is capitalist?

Crazy idea: Let's split a country in socialist and capitalist halves and check in on them in 75 years.

@KatKanada_TM We would be ceding our sovereignty and gaining little in return. Our geographic reality makes such a deal not worthwhile. Canada should instead focus on strenghening cooperation between its provinces. Why look outside our borders?

Are you open to the idea of Canada joining the European Union like CTV claims? 🤨🤨🤨

@KirkLubimov Is it any wonder Canadian fertility rates are at all time lows? What are policy makers smoking? Dumb policy making on a grand scale.

How Canadian taxes work: (Avg after tax income across all provinces) If you make $65,000, your after tax income is $52,787.1 A household with 2 $30,000 incomes will take $26,986 each. The will make combined $5k less but will take home $1,185 more. They can actually get more benefits as well so their take home could be much greater. If you make $250,000, your after tax income is $160,285. A household with 2 $108,000 incomes will take $81,284 each. They will make $34k combined less but will take home $2,283 more. If you make $1,000,000, your after tax income is $521,560. The government takes almost 50% of your income. In Nova Scotia your take home would be less than half of what you earn - $498,437. Basically working for the government first.

Toil is the price of ambition.

@pawnalyze If Hikaru cannot figure this out over the board, then he has no business competing for the world champion title. Everything else is noise.

There are 13 games in the Lichess database in the position where Hikaru blamed his seconds. The most common move (7 out of 13) was Ne4, the best move. Hiakru played h4. It seems like we're at the point where top Chess GMs need to hire analytical experts / software engineers to be part of their team. There's no reason a human should be at fault for a move like this not being in the file. This is an easy problem to solve with software.

@sarobertsonca Canadian public institutions, including public universities, move at a snail’s pace. This frustrates talented individuals and forces them to look south of the border. Talent needs momentum. Talent needs speed.

Mélanie Joly says there's "enormous amount of interest" in Canada's global talent attraction strategy: "There is an amazing opportunity because we believe in research and we believe in science while other countries are turning their back on academic freedom."

@J_K_Wood The Daily Mail demonstrates once again why its publications aren't even worth the paper they're printed on.

“Children don’t make you happy” - The Daily Mail I'm no researcher, but I downloaded the dataset and looked for myself. The study's numbers say the EXACT OPPOSITE of the headline 👇🏻

@FoxNews Does the pope forget that god’s people themselves waged war all through the old testament until they no longer could? The pope needs a reminder that war is but a continuation of policy through other means. Pacifism is not christian, it never was.

REPORTER: "Pope Leo said yesterday, and I quote him, 'God does not listen to the prayer of those who waged war.' Can you comment on that?" KAROLINE LEAVITT: "Our nation was a nation founded 250 years ago, almost, on Judeo-Christian values. And we’ve seen, presidents, we’ve seen, the leaders of the Department of War, and we’ve seen our troops go to prayer, during the most turbulent times in our nation’s history." "I don’t think there’s anything wrong with our military leaders or with the president calling on the American people to pray for our service members and those who are serving our country overseas. In fact, I think it’s a very noble thing to do."

If we assume the point of investing is ultimately to improve your quality of life and the quality of life of those you most care about, investments that consistently add stress over long periods of time probably don’t make sense. Money is traded for things or experiences that catalyze certain feelings. If your investments are generating the opposite spectrum of feelings, it might be time to reassess. It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees. Money is a means, not an end. And in the end, most things matter very, very little. Do what helps you sleep at night and wake up with a low heart rate. To me, those are the hallmarks of a world-class investor who gets the big picture.

Good advice