@AJWVictoriaBC @glennbeck My god! How far Andrew weaver has fallen. Even if true she could have said no. But Andrew wants to shut down choices for all other Canadians.
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Scott Graham
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I'm not a fan of @glennbeck. IMHO he's done a great disservice to Americans & the world via his uninformed rants on the science of #globalwarming. But this story is true. It's my mother-in-law he is talking about #cdnpoli Never did I suspect to be agreeing with him!
Glenn Beck@glennbeck
A Canadian woman was just offered doctor-assisted suicide for BACK PAIN. Before any assessment or test was done, the hospital's first question was, 'do you want to die?' That woman, Miriam Lancaster, shares her story: “Here I was, just off an ambulance, just into the emergency ward, trying to find out why I was in such pain. And here she is talking about end of life?! That’s not what I had in mind... I think that the hospital officials took one look at my age, and I’m sure there’s a policy that says, 'anybody over 80, give them this offer.' Perhaps they will take it, and that means we’re freeing up a [hospital] bed.”
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@stevenchase Fucking liar. You tried to make it seem like he is going to nationalize the oil fields.
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Carney asked Tuesday why gas prices have soared to $2 per litre when Canada produces lots of oil domestically. In other words, why do gas prices in Canada reflect global price of oil?
Doesn't really answer but stock response I suppose would be that if we set price controls on oil, it would damage investment in the oil patch.
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@anneapplebaum Vance is america’s Orban. One of the most unappealing characters in American politics who will give out insider contracts in exchange for support. Ie TikTok given to his tech supporters for 1/4th the price.
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In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting this article: Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the EU. Vance wants this for America?
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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@StinkyMolly1 @SimonMahan My mistake.Estimate vary from 1-4 years though silicon refining is getting more efficient all the time.What is the embodied energy payback on a natural gas electrical plant and the pipelines, LNG,etc can’t speak to the slave labor thing but I suppose your kitchen utensils have it
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@ScottGLiisco @SimonMahan Absolutely not true. Excluding the SLAVE LABOR, all the energy it costs to manufacture, structures to secure, maintain, and most of all, dispose of, far outweighs any savings. This is why Govs need to subsidize this commie crap.
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One average solar panel produces ~20 MWh over its life.
That’s roughly equivalent to:
~30 barrels of oil
~8 tons of coal
~130,000 cubic feet of natural gas
Just different ways of delivering the same energy.
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@EnviWood @SimonMahan Battery costs have come down as fast as solar panels and vpp’s can now share power over larger networks and growing all the time.
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@SimonMahan Useful framing. Though dispatchability matters too. That panel needs storage or backup to match what the fossil equivalents deliver on demand.
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@StinkyMolly1 @SimonMahan The embodied energy (burning coal to manufacture) is less than a year and a solar panel lasts well over 30 years.
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@burden_w @SimonMahan Then again most people buy small boats not ocean liners.
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@SimonMahan Ridiculous. Like comparing a modern sailboat to a modern ocean liner. Both can cross the ocean, but only crazy people attempt to run a shipping business with the former.
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@wingod @SimonMahan In Seattle 1kW produces an average of 1,100 kWh per year. Therefore 400 watts would produce 440 kWh per year. X 30 = 13,200 kWh (and this is rainy Seattle) Your calculation seems to be off. Also you capitalize the W not the k. Are my calculations incorrect?
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@SimonMahan Hmm... 300 watts, capacity factor average of 0.2.
that is 60 w/h/day average. Over one year that is 21,900 watt hours or 21.9 kilowatt hours. 21.9 x 30 =657 Kw/hr.
So you are about a factor of 30 off in your calculation.
In the desert, you double that to 0.4 or 1.3Mw/hr.
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@RiseOfAlberta Alberta is not yours to take. You can’t strip Canadians of their rights because you decide a portion of real estate belongs to an arbitrary group of people.
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Canada keeps voting for left wing governments.
Alberta keeps voting for freedom, enterprise, energy, and less government.
We do not share the same values, and Alberta should not have its future dictated by a country that keeps electing governments hostile to Alberta.
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@RpsAgainstTrump Every response says he is full of shit. He only needs one person to see it and be satisfied.
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GOP Congressman Tom Emmer: "Our president, as you know, didn't start this war. He's finishing it."
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@TedSilberstein @SimonMahan Net 10% would have been a much better goal. Diminishing returns on the last 10%
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@SimonMahan Net Zero screwed everything up. Could have been a happy relationship from the start.
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Hybrid cars work by capturing energy that would otherwise be wasted. Yes, they cost more upfront, but with a generator, inverter, and battery, they reduce fuel costs.
This is a pretty good analogy for the power grid system and adding renewables. Gas, coal, nukes fill in the gap
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@energykor_ @SimonMahan They are getting closer especially with vpp’s
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@SimonMahan Good analogy. But it works both ways. A hybrid still needs the engine. The grid still needs dispatchable generation to keep frequency and voltage stable. Renewables reduce fuel burn, but they cannot run the system alone.
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@MichaelLaRosaDC @SykesCharlie @WalshFreedom Poor Tim. Trump can run around and pick up any trash to clear the hurdle of enough voters to functionally destroy the lives of most Americans and Tim tries to propose a way to get enough voters so this misery can end and gets ratio’d by his own side (lead by Charlie Sykes???)
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Thank you @WalshFreedom. Well said.
Joe Walsh@WalshFreedom
Darn it. I logged on here to grab a link real quick and I saw this @Timodc “teaser,” and I got so ticked off, I have to quickly break my Good Friday social media fast to respond. Tim, I’m not talking about CANCELLING Hasan Piker. He can say & do whatever he wants. I’m talking about CONDEMNING him. Loudly. Repeatedly. And if we can’t condemn an America-hating, Jew-hating Communist, then there’s no one to condemn. And Tim, wtf, you say the “whole country is moving Piker’s way on Israel & America,” so we all just gotta embrace his - antisemitic, America-hate, Communist dictator-love, Jew-hate - viewpoint becuz we’re all part of a pro-democracy big tent? Look, I’m all about a big tent. That’s part of why I became a Dem. But fuck a big tent with an antisemitic, America-blaming bigot like that. I don’t want in that tent. Just like if I were still a Republican, I wouldn’t want in a tent with Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, or Tucker Carlson. Dang Tim. And if as you intimate the whole country is becoming anti-Israel, so we should too? Fuck that. So if the whole country was becoming pro-Putin, we should too? Bcuz that’s where the voters are? Fuck that. The @BulwarkOnline needs to do some real soul-searching. Quickly. I mean, what the heck do you even stand for anymore at The Bulwark? You’d lock arms with Piker to defend democracy? Would you lock arms with Candace Owens to defend democracy? Ok. Back to my Good Friday fast.
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@JonahDispatch Donald Trump has pardoned more millionaires and billionaires absolving them from their debts that could pay off the small debts of all these relative low income people many times over
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@Dragons_Novel @Sammy_canada2 Whose culture? Italians, Irish, Swedish, British **all white people. You know “culture and way of life” is code for white suprematist racist.
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@ScottGLiisco @Sammy_canada2 Too many 3rd worlders who don't respect our culture and our way of life.
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@DominicJPino @scottlincicome @PostOpinions Trump fancies Milei as a protege. He is nothing of the sort. Milei has used strong economic moves to snap the Argentinian economy. Trump has made moves to line his pocket and turn America into a kleptocratic communist nation
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"Formerly an economist — and a disciple of Milton Friedman and Adam Smith — Milei has long understood that socialism leads to poverty and capitalism leads to prosperity."
@PostOpinions
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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@robcarlsonca I didn’t know that the province of Alberta gave $244 billion dollars to the federal government.
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Wild idea.
How about we let the provinces in green below come up with a plan to grow GDP, while the provinces in red sit quietly and take notes.
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@Dragons_Novel @Sammy_canada2 Too many colored people for you?
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@Sammy_canada2 Weren't there any in Norway? England? Scotland? Germany? Why is it always the Middle East or Africa?
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@ssmethurst_gva @BillAckman Is it better to have more whites kids?
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@BillAckman no one asked for this. Europe could have just offered huge tax deductions to have more white kids. instead they opened the doors to every tom dick and harry even if they had an IQ of 60 or less.
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Europe is on a path to destroying itself.
Unchecked immigration of millions of immigrants that burden their welfare states, bring violence and terrorism to their shores, and take over local governance, one city at a time.
Anti-capitalist policies that make it difficult for businesses to adapt their workforces to a rapidly changing competitive environment now accelerating due to AI.
A business environment and tax regime that is antithetical to startups.
The absence of any progress or innovation in AI and limited access to the compute necessary to compete.
Energy dependence due to the green movement at a moment when energy demands are rapidly increasing.
And now, the abandonment of the U.S. when we have asked for limited assistance — base access and flyover rights — in the midst of our efforts to eliminate Iran’s nuclear and ballistic threat which is already within striking range of Europe, after we have invested nearly $200 billion in helping Ukraine.
NATO is about to be toast. Europe’s defense burden is about to rise massively while their economies continue to fall further and further behind.
In short, Europe needs to wake up before it is too late, and it may very well be too late.
Bill Ackman@BillAckman
An important read on Europe and NATO.
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