@nopengmi @Prominent_Bryan You clearly don’t know anything about the physics nor chemistry of using hydrogen as an energy distribution mechanism.
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Paul Marriott, PhD. paulmarriott.bsky.social
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Montreal Katılım Şubat 2009
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@Prominent_Bryan You're delusional if you think they're winning.
Hydrogen is infinitely better and cleaner at every step of the supply chain.
Wherever EVs aren't heavily subsidized, no one buys them.
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People who think EVs won't win are delusional
They are the same people who initially wanted to keep their BlackBerry instead of using the iPhone
Jonathan Cohn@CitizenCohn
BYD just unveiled an electric car that can charge from 10 to 70 percent in five minutes, and all the way in nine More proof that EVs are going to dominate the future, just a question of how long it takes — and who will build them Via @WIRED wired.com/story/how-byds…
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@Mavsyboy @Prominent_Bryan Anyone who understands basic physics and electrochemistry knows that you’re misinformed
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@Prominent_Bryan for all you know theres a breakthrough in hydrogen, no one knows how technology will develop
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@keith_lundin69 @Prominent_Bryan How does your local gas station work if the power is out?
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@Prominent_Bryan What do you do in a blackout? How do the emergency vehicles function during a catastrophe?
You cannot ever go 100% electric but it has its place.
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@AliensGov @KatusaResearch Canada is the largest supplier of potash to the US.
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@pmarriott @KatusaResearch That is not true. If you can't research this for yourself, for God's sake, at least use AI. It is not complicated to find this information. Nitrogen suppliers: Trindad, Canada, Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (In that fucking order)
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The Worst Possible Moment
About 50% of the nitrogen applied to U.S. corn goes in during spring planting.
A vessel loaded in the Persian Gulf today takes 30 days to reach a U.S. port
And another 3 to 4 weeks to reach interior farm markets.
The American Farm Bureau Federation sent an urgent letter to the White House on March 9th.
And their message was direct: fertilizer is stranded in the Middle East during the most critical window of the agricultural calendar.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed publicly that roughly 25% of American farmers have not yet secured their fertilizer for this spring.
The choice facing those farmers is ugly.
They can reduce nitrogen application, switch from corn (which needs heavy nitrogen) to soybeans.
Or, absorb the cost and bet on crop prices recovering.
None of those options are good.
One Iowa corn grower put the math in plain terms. Anhydrous ammonia cost him $492 a ton in 2021.
By January 2025, it was $745. Corn prices barely moved. Now add the current shock on top of that.
At current levels, it takes roughly 133 bushels of corn to buy one ton of urea, the highest ratio since the 2022 spike.
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@AliensGov @KatusaResearch That’s potash, though, not nitrogen.
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@KatusaResearch RUSSIA and CANADA supply the US with most of its fertilizer. That is not currently under threat
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@WineSpirit3 @DimitrisSoudas I'm in Quebec and we're still at number 5.
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Poilievre chez Joe Rogan
Ce que j'en retiens
On a vu un Poilievre à l'aise dans sa peau, sans filtre excessif, sans discours préfabriqué. C'est le Pierre que je connais, terre-à-terre, direct, sans prétention.
Il puise dans l'histoire, il connaît ses dossiers, il sait contextualiser ses positions.
sa philosophie qui est ressortie de façon constante tout au long de la conversation : l'État doit se tasser et laisser les gens prendre leurs propres décisions. La liberté, et c'est la voie vers la réussite individuelle et collective.
Poilievre a présenté un Canada sympathique à un auditoire qui en avait besoin. Il a montré qu'il pouvait naviguer dans un environnement imprévisible sans perdre ses repères. Il a évité les pièges. Et il a pris le genre de risque calculé qu'on attend d'un chef qui se bat pour gagner.
Ce n'est pas une victoire éclatante. Mais dans le contexte actuel, c'est une bonne journée de travail.
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@DavidColetto Maybe you should watch more RDI and Radio Canada.
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My wife just made a really interesting point about Canadian politicians doing interviews on American platforms, whether Trudeau, Carney or Poilievre:
“Why can’t they speak like humans when they talk to us here?”
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@Arbether @EricDLombardi It was impossible for me not to get a top score as the field of work I'm in plus my level of education was enough to take me well over the threshold. So I take the point that things are different now and the points system might be different (70 was required back then).
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@pmarriott @EricDLombardi Back when you applied, scores weren’t ridiculously high and getting a rejection would mean you just needed to move out of QC and apply again cause you were almost guaranteed to get ITA again. Nowadays if lose your shot, you might never get it again.
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It’s time to break the glass and
fight decline.
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@Arbether @EricDLombardi Strange as that's exactly the path I took when I became a PR. I was in Quebec on a work visa (though this is some time ago) and then applied for PR. Montreal had a large amount of international students but not the fake ones like other provinces with the certificate mills.
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@pmarriott @EricDLombardi Quebec also has the lowest rate of international students which was the biggest driver of population growth in Canada and were people intending to become permanent resident. By living in Quebec before becoming PR you severely limit your chances to become PR
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@Arbether @EricDLombardi True the CAQ government is against multiculturalism, but that doesn't change the reality of living here. If someone immigrated to BC, say, there's nothing stopping them moving to Quebec. Biggest influx in recent years was temporary foreign workers.
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@pmarriott @EricDLombardi The fact they can move doesn’t mean they will because of French, plus they will have harder time getting PR through federal program by living in Quebec. The large influx of people past few years came from people wanting PR. And Quebec has been openly against multiculturalism
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@Arbether @EricDLombardi Well it's not as simple as you imply. Anyone immigrating anywhere in Canada can easily move to anywhere else once they're approved. Quebec is already multi-cultural ... so that's not it either.
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@pmarriott @EricDLombardi Yeah, its nice when they have total control over immigration and are against multiculturalism. Which other provinces had the same.
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@mellowpastiche @JustDeezGuy And yet it is the heart of every single ASIC development flow on earth. There's not a single semiEDA company that doesn't rely on linux clusters for all of their design and development.
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@JustDeezGuy Linux is literally just an outgrown hobby OS kernel and a collection of random freeware
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Your periodic reminder:
1. The BSDs are rightly proud of being actual operating SYSTEMS, not “distros” cobbled together.
2. macOS is a certified UNIX™️ with a FreeBSD-based userspace.
Nuno Afonso@nafonsopt
For anybody saying "Just use Linux", you need to realise that Linux is worse than Windows. Windows has all the bloat, and while you can have Linux without any of that you still don't have tools like Remedybg, RAD Debugger and Super Luminal. Once you have such tools, then Linux is a suitable app development environment. But _it is still trash_ because of the whole Linux model of you needing to compile everything. The fact that you cannot run an app built using a newer version of glibc is an insane decision. I shouldn't have to upgrade my whole machine in order to run something built on a newer version. I shouldn't be worried that an upgrade will break my machine. I shouldn't be forced to compile things from scratch to work on my machine. I shouldn't be forced to install N packages, I just want self contained binaries I can just download and run. I shouldn't be forced to develop with an old distro to have "max glibc compatibility". I shouldn't have to worry about X11 / Wayland / Window Managers. I shouldn't have to worry about asking the user to select a folder, display a dialog or show notifications. Linux is such a huge waste of potential, if they got their shit together they would completely obliterate Windows. I first got into Linux in 2000, and even back then there was this "it will take over Windows any time now!". It's been _26 years_! The same way I'd pay quite a lot for Windows without any bloat, I'd be willing to pay for a distro that gives me all this.
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@ukserf @simonmaechling Clearly you’re not aware that every amino acid in your body contains nitrogen. And hence every cell.
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@simonmaechling Sounds deeply improbable. Most of the nitrogen atoms in the human body are in the lungs and have come from the atmosphere.
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40-50% of the nitrogen atoms in the human body ultimately come from synthetic nitrogen fertilisers (produced via the Haber-Bosch process).
Peter Waddell@dburner996
Every 1 million tonnes of lost urea production in the world in 2026 reduces grain production by 7-8 million tonnes. A sobering thought.
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@GaynorGled94272 No my replies were not off otherwise I wouldn’t have seen your reply.
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@pmarriott Your replies were off .Sad your friend found the system so difficult . It’s a known fact homeless people and those with mental illness are being advised for AD in Canada . Here it was just re Terminal end of life ,but the process 1
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@MikePMoffatt Yet Quebec would come in around number five. Despite a crap CAQ government, Montreal is still a great place to live.
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New World Happiness Report is out. Canada's rank has fallen to 25th overall (from 6th in 2013). More alarmingly, we're now 71st in happiness for 15-24 year olds.
Anglo-American countries score particularly poorly on youth happiness, but Canada is particularly struggling.
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@GaynorGled94272 My replies are always on. I know from personal experience that there's no coercion - in fact, the opposite is true - MAID was harder to get than my friend hoped and the process took longer than he wanted. I'm in Canada so have no knowledge of the UK legislation.
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@pmarriott Turn your replies . Quelle surprise . It as a high academic you can’t see the difference between choice and coercion that’s your issue. I agree to A/D but not under Eugenics . Which MAID is and UK A/D bill is .
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@GaynorGled94272 @PeterHRatcliffe No, you're wrong. Read this article written about my friend who willingly chose MAID. montrealgazette.com/news/the-life-…
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@PeterHRatcliffe No . State eugenics is not providing compassion at the end of life . Good robust pallative care and resourses across the health spectrum is choice . Yes Choice . Not some clearing machine to save govt money for more state corruption
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It is very important for families who have experienced MAID chosen by a family member to speak out.
It is important to demystify the option of MAID as we must fight to preserve that right for those who wish to choose it.
Thank you.
Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦@KristinRaworth
My step mother used MAiD. I don’t know if she would have died within a year but I know she would have lost capacity to consent, advanced consent being also removed by this bill, I do know she was in pain every single moment of her life. I know her disease was going to kill her slowly and brutally. I know MAiD was what she wanted and the most peaceful way to go. This bill is not reflecting the reality of those who are dying from debilitating illness.
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@DeaugustineRock @PeterHRatcliffe "I'll take made up facts for $200 Alex".
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@PeterHRatcliffe You might want to check the suicide rate in those countries and also have you looked in on Sweden lately? How about Denmark? Looks like open warfare and gangs are controlling the country in the former rape is up in all of them massively
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Those happy Scandinavian countries have one important thing that keeps them so happy.
Uncorrupted highly intelligent leadership that actually works to better the lives of everyone in their country.
It’s the start and end of great government.
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