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@kyomizuko

Dad to 11 year old twin boys. GUV (Germicidal Ultraviolet light, a.k.a. Far-UV) advocate for pathogen-free indoor air in schools, hospitals, etc.

Ottawa, Canada Katılım Temmuz 2014
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Queens Fort@Bellyhungry·
@CP24 Where are the south asia community leaders?
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Brian@kyomizuko·
@sarkonakj Driverless transport trucks & delivery vehicles will be great too. All of the 🩴🩴 drivers can then be remigrated and we won't have to check the rear-view mirror every 5 seconds anymore, when stopped.
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Jamie Sarkonak
Jamie Sarkonak@sarkonakj·
I can't stand that airport corruption is so bad that we're getting PSAs like "make sure to record your bag being weighed." The third-worldification continues. I hope more robots take airport jobs because they'd be more trustworthy than the current wave of hires, apparently.
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CTV News@CTVNews

EXCLUSIVE: Innocent Canadians are being detained after their bag tags are switched in a drug smuggling scheme. This may just be the tip of the iceberg. ctvnews.ca/canada/article…

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Terrill Tailfeathers@Terrilltf·
Reminder that these folks have no culture. They celebrate a dead colonizer who was the architect of Indian residential schools in Canada out of spite and “white pride.” The white Canadian mullet “culture” is empty and cringe.
Greg Wycliffe@gddub

We did a thing today

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Sheila Naylor@SheilaNaylor2·
@courtneywmh Go fuck yourself. Hard. Twice. Ditto for Trump. With much hate from a Canadian.
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William Courtney@courtneywmh·
"If Ottawa does not buy the F-35s, NORAD 'would have to be altered.'" Imprudent threats could make it politically difficult for Canadian leaders to choose the F-35 over the Swedish Gripen. Golden Dome might also be handicapped. thehill.com/policy/defense…
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Brian@kyomizuko·
@reader24601 @NavyStrang @joshrogin Deterring Russia? What the hell are you talking about? Trump is doing his utmost to help Putin win, or at least not lose his war against Ukraine & in the process has made 🇺🇸 a de facto ALLY of Russia. Thus the nearly complete halt to 🇺🇸 arms aid to 🇺🇦. Try to keep up!
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Neal Urwitz@reader24601·
@NavyStrang @joshrogin You may not agree with his goals or his methods for achieving them, but they’re very clear: force NATO nations to take on the full burden of deterring Russia (and African conflicts in their old colonies) so the U.S. can focus on deterring China and LatAm threats.
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Firas Modad
Firas Modad@firasmodad·
Look, if you have Muslim MPs, you will get constant attempts at Muslim blasphemy laws. And if you have Muslim populations, you will get Muslim MPs. If you don't want Muslim blasphemy laws, you don't want Muslim populations in your countries. Don't let anyone pretend that there's a magic integration moment coming.
Ayoub Khan MP@AyoubKhanMP

I will be writing to the MET police seeking that the speakers and actors on the stage of this anti-Muslim /Islamaphobic performance are investigated under public order and hate crime legislation! middleeasteye.net/news/stop-isla…

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Brian@kyomizuko·
@evilpotato23 @AHjerdin @Yorkslrehlker So Norway should learn about medical tourism from India? I don't think Norwegians want to get into the medical tourism business, fool!
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Arya
Arya@evilpotato23·
@kyomizuko @AHjerdin @Yorkslrehlker Search on YouTube, google anywhere u want india is famous for medical tourism it's quite fast ,cheap ,high quality I'm taking about private healthcare not public
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Brian@kyomizuko·
@FrankCaputoKTN Blame the Liberal Party's insane immigration policies. We now have corruption seeping into EVERY aspect of Canadian life because due to "LaBoUR ShOrTaGeS" (which were NEVER a serious problem) 🇨🇦 supposedly had to import millions from scammy cultures that tolerate corruption.
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Frank Caputo
Frank Caputo@FrankCaputoKTN·
EXCLUSIVE: Luggage-tag switching scheme involves flights from Canada to countries where drug smuggling can carry death penalty. Note the important advice at the end of the article. ctvnews.ca/canada/article…
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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde@JesusFerna7026·
Let me lay out the unpleasant arithmetic of the replacement rate, and why a modern society finds it so hard to reach. A population of 100 women in an advanced economy needs 210 children to replace itself. Why? Absent sex-selective practices, roughly 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. Evolution overshoots male births because boys are more prone to early death from accidents and disease. Therefore, of 210 children, about 108 are boys and 102 are girls. Not all girls reach the midpoint of their fertile age: accidents, suicide, homicide, and illness take some. In an advanced economy, about 98% of them survive, leaving 100 women to replace the original 100. Now consider the distribution of children per woman. Imagine 15 women have no children. Five do so by choice, for various reasons (professional, affective, religious). Ten face unfixable fertility problems, theirs or their partner’s. The 10% figure is conservative: the medical literature points to around 13%, and that does not even count male fertility problems. Of the remaining 85, 10 have one child, 60 have two, 10 have three, and 5 have four. I am stopping at four to keep the post concise; very few women in younger cohorts have five or more children, but I could adapt the example to account for them. Hence, the 100 women in this population have 180 children, for a completed fertility rate of 1.8. Interestingly, this is roughly the rate we saw in many advanced economies until the early 1990s, and in the U.S. until around 2008. But we are still 30 children short of replacement! Voluntary childlessness is only 5%. Three-quarters of women have two or more children. Look around: most of your friends will have two, plenty will have three or four. And yet, we are well below replacement. You would not look at this population and call it selfish (is having two kids hedonistic?) or accuse it of losing family values (only 5% of women are choosing voluntarily not to have children). The point is simpler. To reach 210 births, you need a substantial share of women to have three or more children. Two as the “normal” pattern will not get you there. And modern society makes three or more a costly proposition for most families. Of course, current fertility rates in most advanced economies are well below 1.8. But my point is that, under present social arrangements, we should not expect 2.1, even if (to humor last weekend’s debate) we banned smartphones and TikTok. We need many, many more families with three or four children. More pointedly, there is no self-regulating mechanism that pushes a society back to 2.1. The market-clearing analogy many economists use is flawed; scarcity feedback does not work the same way. (Another post on this another day.) And, as I often read, the claim that “nature” somehow regulates current overpopulation is just childish mumbo jumbo. So yes, the arithmetic of replacement rate is unpleasant.
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Brian@kyomizuko·
@Afinetheorem You forgot to mention the MANY serious technical issues with the F-35⤵️ and its astronomical costs, as well as the fact that the U.S. government can disable any F-35 operated by an "allied" nation, at will. x.com/kyomizuko/stat… x.com/kyomizuko/stat…
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@TerryGlavin The F-35 is a classic "white elephant"! "There have been so many problems with the aircraft, it's difficult even to summarize them. Pilot blackouts, premature part failures, software development disasters...Firing the main gun can crack the plane." extremetech.com/defense/320295…

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Kevin A. Bryan
Kevin A. Bryan@Afinetheorem·
I'd bet my left arm this is related to Canada having decided to buy Saab Gripen's. More braindead autarky around the world: the Saab's are mediocre planes that would do nothing in a major conflict; the shift from F-35 is due to Colby etc using high-leverage threats on allies. 1/2
Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby@USWPColby

A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense. 1/3

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Richard H. Ebright
Richard H. Ebright@R_H_Ebright·
Ebright: "Collins and Fauci deliberately misinformed the public about the origin of COVID, and many scientists, science journalists, and general journalists joined them in deliberately misinforming the public about the origin of COVID"
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Richard H. Ebright@R_H_Ebright

Ebright: "All informed persons, without exception, understood by…2020 that COVID likely entered humans through a research…incident, involving…gain-of-function research…enabled by US…funding approved by Collins and Fauci in violation of US…policies" foxnews.com/opinion/david-…

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Brian@kyomizuko·
@Alex_Panetta This pressure from 🇺🇸 to ⬆️defence spending is really odd when you consider that Trump has made 🇺🇸 a de facto ally of Russia, at least in the context of the Ukraine war. There's also the abandonment of Taiwan, currently in progress. What's the defence spending supposed to be for?
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Alexander Panetta
Alexander Panetta@Alex_Panetta·
/ Basically the idea was: "If Canada doesn't care about defence spending, we will squeeze it on the things it cares about." Maybe like trade. Other international agreements. Of course, the surprise today is that Canada has actually committed to a serious ramp-up in defence spending. Including spending on non-American gear. Which may be part of the issue down in DC.
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Richard H. Ebright
Richard H. Ebright@R_H_Ebright·
Ebright: "All informed persons, without exception, understood by…2020 that COVID likely entered humans through a research…incident, involving…gain-of-function research…enabled by US…funding approved by Collins and Fauci in violation of US…policies" foxnews.com/opinion/david-…
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Brian@kyomizuko·
@Hutchyman She's the poster child for a VERY HIGH land value tax. It's the only way to squeeze a few dimes out of these parasites, who are causing misery to millions of regular folks through exorbitant housing costs.
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Hutchyman
Hutchyman@Hutchyman·
#VanRE Developer Helen Chan Sun is the sole shareholder that holds title to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Lower Mainland real estate. But the multimillionaire will spend the next 40 days in jail for failing to come clean about her finances. share.google/KSr7lmxWGwuDiu…
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DouglasTodd
DouglasTodd@DouglasTodd·
Vancouver developer Helen Chan Sun jailed for ignoring court orders Sun is the sole shareholder of a company that holds title to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Lower Mainland real estate. But she insist she earns $70k a year. In her case, forget "progressive taxation" (see below). Great research by Jason Proctor. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
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