Scott
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@Scott_dLB
Occasionally on here, but mostly not. 🇨🇦 living in 🇺🇸
“I have two versions of outlook and neither of them are working” is actually a generational NASA quote now. Not quite One Small Step but every generation lives in a different world
There is a railway that is effectively a straight line from Toronto to Montreal. Shown in BLUE. Building high speed rail along it would make sense. Instead, the Liberals propose a boondoggle of a line, shown in RED, that goes through all these communities they need to win.
The moon has long been a shared locus of imagination and significance for Indigenous peoples. With the return of lunar missions, it is now a frontier for industry. Writer Michelle Cyca explores the economic and colonial logics shaping this transformation. thewalrus.ca/with-the-artem…
Most of Boston was built on land that didn’t exist in 1630
Driving me slightly insane that everyone has to pretend that Andy Weir is a real novelist and not a guy whose books are like 70% math equations
More and more politicians are suggesting that Waymo and AVs more broadly should be legalized only after studies can show that they won't impact ride share jobs. This is a reasonable-sounding rule that would also ban buses, bike lanes, and car ownership in general.
In less than a decade, we've gone from self-checkout being the main way to buy stuff at CVS to almost every item requiring a staff attendant to open an anti-shoplifting cage just to retrieve it from the shelf.
A day later and I'm still trying to figure out why the Alberta and Saskatchewan NDP decided to dump on Lewis as leader. I understand intra-party beef is a thing but surely keeping it under wraps so as to not make the party look dysfunctional was the play?
Because super speeders are such significant repeat offenders, residents in the top 20 districts are exposed to speeding violations 10 times more often than in the bottom 20 districts. Super speeders were caught speeding in the top 13 as many times as the bottom 52 combined.
