Wil LaFountain

@TonyMacSpeaks It is unbelievable how naive and ignorant you are of the current state of Canada and how it is a direct result of decision made by people who think like you.

I honestly don’t get what’s so hard to understand about Canadian culture. We’re not a melting pot—we’re a mosaic. People from all over the world bring their traditions, and instead of erasing them, we make room for them. That’s part of the culture. Canada consistently ranks among the most educated countries on Earth, has one of the highest rates of post-secondary graduates, and is built on values like respect, inclusion, community, and opportunity. Our culture isn’t defined by one ethnicity, one language, or one way of life—it’s defined by how all those different pieces fit together. If someone can’t see Canadian culture because it doesn’t look like a single stereotype, that’s not a problem with Canada. That’s a failure to understand what Canada actually is. #cdnpoli

@WarPath2pt0 I have been waiting for that angle.

Merry Friday to those that celebrate--🇺🇸

@Ho66470Hokage @lagz152507 @grok What ever works right? Need to make sure to match the indexes (indices?). How did you pick a material that had low scattering but a high index?

@semispacetronic @lagz152507 @grok In Chroma IC's in analogue Television reception we used to use delay lines. It was basically a large opto-coupler with a medium that delayed the light and converted it back to a signal.

Hey @grok why did engineers make this PCB trace longer instead of just taking the obvious shortest path?

@CCIE_24825 @lagz152507 @grok No its not for timing , its for crosstalk.

@lagz152507 @grok That’s also why twisted pair Ethernet cables have different twist rates… so the bits arrive in a deterministic orderly fashion for the ingress.

@Ho66470Hokage @lagz152507 @grok Negative. The majority of the cap is to the reference plane on the next layer, meaning total cap is dominated by length. Since that is now matched to the others it will be close to the same as the other ones.

@lagz152507 @grok It will have far more capacitance/inductance than the other trace.

@lagz152507 @grok Thats not a high speed signal.

@grok Short answer: timing is everything in high-speed signals

@KadrianStahley_ @Layemie001 That was my first thought too. How can I leave waffle marks with that.

@Layemie001 That’s a smooth face on a framing hammer.. useless.

If am hiring you as a framer, this is the first tool I check for.

@SilentSnow89 @s4rah_dev You and your kind are the reason Canada is falling behind. Why do you insist on taking everything down with you?

@s4rah_dev You're missing the part where this is the equivalent of nearly the entire power usage of the City of Edmonton being "created" for 300 jobs at most. That's a lot of pollution for very minimal benefit.

This is a terrible idea. The facility will require 1 gigawatt of electricity. The entire City of Edmonton uses 1.4 gigawatts of electricity. 300 jobs will require almost as much electricity as 1.2 MILLION people.

@MikePMoffatt Quality is inversely proportional to the amount of government involvement, be it funding or regulations. The more we spend on it, the more we regulate it, the worse it gets.

My timeline is full of tweets like this. My genuine question. What constitutes adequate funding of public health care? Public health care expenditures, as a % of GDP, have gone from 5% to 8% in my lifetime. How high is it supposed to get before we have a non-broken system?

So are you racist, or ignorant? Those are genuinely the only two options on the table, and I ask as a science teacher who assigns exactly this reading. The minimum wage — the policy you are waving around like a moral trophy — was BUILT to hurt the very people you claim to be fighting for. That is not a hot take. That is the documented historical record. So either you do not know it (ignorant), or you know it and you are pushing it anyway (worse than ignorant). Let me teach the class you apparently skipped. Princeton economist Thomas Leonard spent an entire career documenting this. Progressive economists — the intellectual grandparents of your caucus — championed wage floors specifically to price "unemployables" out of the labor market. Their word. Not mine. And "unemployables" meant Black Americans, immigrants, and the disabled. Then came the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, pushed by Southern Democrats and union bosses who were furious that Black construction workers kept winning federal contracts by accepting competitive wages. Representative Martin Dies said it out loud, on the House floor, in the Congressional Record: you cannot prescribe the same wages for the Black man as the white man. The FLSA of 1938 then conveniently excluded farm and domestic work — the exact sectors where Black labor was concentrated in the Jim Crow South. Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate and not exactly a wild-eyed radical, called it "the most anti-Negro law on our statute books." That was 1966. So. Racist, or ignorant? Take your time. Now the part where your heart is supposedly in the right place. It is not helping a single soul. A sixteen-year-old with zero skills and an empty resume is HIRABLE at $7.25. That same kid is UNEMPLOYABLE at $15, because no business on this green Earth pays forty-two grand a year for someone who needs six months of training before they produce a dime of value. Two-thirds of more than a hundred studies (Neumark and Wascher) found negative employment effects. South Carolina: wage hikes cut teen employment by 8.9 percent, and cut it for workers without a high school diploma by 15.5 percent. The CBO said a $17 floor knocks 350,000 people OUT of the labor force entirely. Not up into better jobs. Out. Here is the revolutionary concept the crayon-eating wing of economic policy cannot seem to grasp, bless the collective heart: wages are a VOLUNTARY agreement. A worker accepts what a business offers. If nobody accepts, the business raises the offer or it folds. McDonald's already pays well above your sacred $7.25, and they will happily tell you the crew job is a STEPPING STONE, not a life sentence. Walmart store managers clear six figures with no college debt. The ladder works fine. You are the one sawing off the bottom rung with a smile and calling the sawdust "a decent quality of life." And I have to ask what I ask every Democrat, so here it is: what have you actually DONE for the people of Pennsylvania? Because from the cheap seats, the whole pitch is another handout, another dependency, another rung deleted — and a dependent population that has nowhere left to vote but back to you. The antebellum South needed a captive underclass to keep one party in power. The chains got swapped for talking points. The math did not budge an inch. Quinn's First Law of Liberalism, stated plainly: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You set out to lift the low-wage worker, and you erase his first job. Every single time. Somewhere a village is short one economist, and I think we found where. The elevator on this policy never left the basement, and you keep mashing the button expecting a penthouse. Running on dial-up in a fiber-optic world. 404: labor economics not found. But what do I know. I am only a science teacher who actually read Thomas Leonard, the Congressional Record, and the CBO score instead of getting my economics from a caucus meme with a stock photo. @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

@FreezaFreezee Yeah it is the consequences of central planning on a health care system.

@semispacetronic Sounds like consequences of poor decisions

If you wait 12 hours in emerg in Canada, your visit wasn’t an emergency

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn. The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed. Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit. Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do. They took until there was nothing left to take. America had a greater advantage than all of them combined. And rebuilt the nations it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Not almost unprecedented. It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization. The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead. Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world. That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet. Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination. No other country in history can make that claim. Not one. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has blood in its history. But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter. It’s what it does when nobody can stop it. When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of. By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it. Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision. The values that built this country didn’t just shape America. They shaped the modern world. AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive. 1945 was the first test. AI is the last. That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to. The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

@LoganGrafTax Man that's tough, Im sorry to hear that. I would love to help but that would take my entire net worth so I think Im priced out. Good luck to you.

@semispacetronic It's my aunt selling "her" portion for $5M

4 years ago, both of my grandparents passed away, starting a court battle that's put 200 years of Texas history for sale. The estate includes hundreds of acres near Marble Falls, TX, that have been in my family since before Texas was Texas. Stephen F. Austin himself granted this land to my ancestor, Captain Jesse Burnam, in the 1820s, one of the original "Old Three Hundred" families. There are stories of him fighting off Native Americans and fighting in wars! That land stayed in our family for five generations. There's a state historical marker on it, placed by the Texas Historical Commission in 2014. My family has never had money in the bank kind of wealth. But I wouldn't sell this land for millions of dollars. Some things matter more than money, and history and nature are two of them. My aunt, the executor, has managed this estate about as badly as it's possible to manage one, burning hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees fighting my mom and uncle, to the point that land had to be sold just to cover the bill. Yes, there was a will involved, but it's complicated... Now, more than 150 acres of it are listed for sale by my aunt. My aunt has no heirs of her own tied to this place. And beautiful, spring fed land that survived the Texas Revolution, five generations of my family, and a war with Mexico might get bulldozed for a subdivision. What I'm hoping for is that it doesn't end with a developer. If you know a rancher, a conservation buyer, a family, or a land trust looking for real Texas Hill Country land with real history, let me know.

@Glitter_Spite @PierrePoilievre Having a BBQ with friends and neighbors is not mutually exclusive to the country being run poorly.

@PierrePoilievre Conservatives: “Canada has never been worse.” Canadians: “Anyway, see you at the barbecue this weekend.”

The Liberal Club gets rich making you poor. They bail out bad bets. You pay the bill. Homes stay unaffordable. Conservatives will keep fighting to stop the Carney Condo Bailout, make homes affordable, and build a Canada that works for you.

What if everything goes right? What if you never get cancer or a heart attack? Those things suck no matter where you are. At least in the US they have some of the best Healthcare in the world and your chances of surviving those things are very high. I'd rather be bankrupt than dead.

The people who "love" Canada so much are either 1. So rich that inflation benefits them and reality doesn't matter 2. So poor that they exclusively depend on socialism 3. So old that they've already made it when times were good and are now getting OAS The rest are tax slaves.

@Rezulv @Jagermeis7er @exmuslim00 After 30 years in Canada I moved to the US. Its been great, highly recommend.

@FreezaFreezee Many small towns don't have enough doctors and the Emergency room is the only place to see a doctor.

I didn’t think I would have to clear this up, but based on the comments, I will The 12 hour wait is for non-emergency’s, and the reason it’s 12 hours is because people with coughs or gas or ankle sprains, are in there wasting everyone’s time

@babehonker @gddub Not if she moved to Texas. Canadians that aren't afraid of Texas know better.

@gddub she will move but still vote for the policies that ruined canada in america

Canada's biggest TikTok star started a candy company in Texas USA. Our most talented and entrepreneurial people leave the country because there's such little incentive to try and grow a business here.

@KacyJDixon I grew up farming just like this and now I design satellites. Many farmer kids working at SpaceX.

When my husband and I got married I was in law school working on my Juris Doctor degree and he had a high school diploma. He’s a southern redneck. I can only understand about half of what he says when he gets on the phone with his buddies in Mississippi and his accent takes on new life. He is also, far and away, smarter and more skilled than I. He is currently building a house which he not only framed but also ran the plumbing and electric. I’ve watched him build and repair trucks from, seemingly, scraps. One full DITY PCS, we experienced two flats, two melted wheel bearings, and the axle on our trailer broke. He repaired every single thing without flinching (and without a single curse word, which was confusing to me, as I have an Italian father). He crunched the numbers and calculated the angles so the two of us could survey our own land. He taught himself, and then me, how to operate an excavator so I could have the honor of breaking ground on our build. If it’s electrical or mechanical he somehow knows at least a little something about it. All that is to say: We need to return to teaching men to be men through hard work, dirty hands, and life experience. They bring infinitely more value to society than some dude getting his masters degree in gender studies.