Big Jake
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Big Jake
@samueljweber
Lifetime Learner. Tech Enthusiast and Optimist. Proud Dad and Husband. AI is coming for us, good and bad, be rdy.
Indiana, USA Katılım Nisan 2009
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Climate change.
Canada’s boreal forest is far north.
Most parts of it only reach 64F (18C) averages in the heat of the summer.
Its density and climate also means it gets very little evaporation compared to its rainfall, and is subject to frost 9 months of the year, and heavy fog the rest of the time.
This kept this biome very humid, kept soil damp, and left most of the low level foliage coated in dew all day long.
Some parts of the forest even had thick levels of permafrost beneath the topsoil that on rare hot days would seep water back into the ecosystem.
Just as many wildfires started by lightning strike in previous decades as now.
The difference is they struggled to catch and spread in this damp environment.
Now extreme dry weather, record breaking heat, northern thaw, erode that protective moisture barrier, leaving the boreal forest vulnerable especially in the more southern parts.
Boreal forests previously went through this process naturally when an over density caused a drier environment you’d get high-intensity crown fires that were cyclical. Every 50-200 years depending on region.
Now we get them annually.
Boreal forest fires are much more severe than others too. The long history of cyclical burns means the soil contains charcoal, the thick multi-layer foliage adds fodder and causes the fire to spread quickly, and pine, spruce, and aspens are all some of the trees with both the most density and the best for wood burning.
It results in towering forest fires of immense heat and rapid spread.
These forests are denser than anything else in North America or Europe, and the current fire in Ontario alone, is the same square mileage as the entire state of Delaware.
From the time it ignited, to covering that size, took less than 20 hours.
While some in the US still think climate change is a hoax, we are all going to deal with the consequences of it, as we’ve turned the largest forest in the world into a tinder box, and fires in less than 0.01% of it drowns the entire continent in smoke.
Zurac III@Caruzkcab
Will someone explain why we didn't get this Canadian smoke in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, or 2010s? Now twice in the 2020s. Seems weird to me
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@trader1sz I mean I could care less about how troops march like performers. They need to kill. Not dance.
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RT @MarioNawfal: 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Russian dissident Igor Eidman: "There is a high probability that Lindsey Graham was ELIMINATED by Russian intelligenc…
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Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine.
When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers & continued our detention.
They made a huge mistake.
You will be hearing more soon. nytimes.com/2026/07/11/us/…

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Sorry, this is too easy, but I say it with love for you my friends at Google... especially @joshwoodward and @OfficialLoganK
it is absurdly confusing how to build with Gemini or Google. I say this with love as I couldn't explain it when I worked with you!
Do I get the Gemini App and build? Do I go to AI Studio? Do I go to whatever people called the thing you bought windsurf or what?
don't forget that the most important builders aren't hobbyists and are working at companies and have infrastructure and don't know what to do with Vertex or Gemini Agent builder or whatever these things are called now.
What is the app builder for Gemini? google.com/search?q=what+…
Google Search: "how do I build apps with Gemini" returns this support page (after I scroll below the ads for base44, lovable, cybernews whatever that is): support.google.com/appsheet/answe…
I want to just know how to build an app, and the understand how to do it with more opinion. start there please!
I love you all - and want to build with Google - but you are not telling me at all how to build with Google. that's the thing you need to answer. for me as a person, me as a business builder, adn me as an employee in a company.
Josh Woodward@joshwoodward
What's something that you're surprised @GeminiApp can't do well, and we should have fixed a long time ago?
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@pierre_crypt0 @TheCryptoNexus Cuz it was a garbage red card given via replay without any realtime call
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Fifa is probably the most corrupt organisation on earth lmao (why do you think US got this WC after fifa gate disappeared), but that doesn’t make reverting the decision off of a politician call not corrupt or not bad/shady as fuck
Why can’t people all agree this just sucks instead of weirdly defending it :p
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If Corruption 101 were a book it might as well have been written by FIFA lmfao
Lol at u guys acting like FIFA is this pure organization corrupted by big bad america 😭 spare me
swolley@SwollenFistSoap
@TheCryptoNexus Its not at all about the dude playing or not, its the way this red card was overturned. Corruption 101
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