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CanadaPlus,

While housing costs are widely known to cost more in Canada’s two largest cities, he said other goods and services cost more in Alberta — like electricity and insurance, for example.

Huh, I guess burning natural gas isn’t the panacea certain people are selling it as. Not sure what the deal is with insurance, though.

The article also notes that incomes are higher, although that’s bouyed up by a minority of really high earners, so it doesn’t mean too much.

CanadaPlus,

Is that really all it is? I did notice CBC linked that after I posted this. I was wondering if the tornadoes and really cold temperatures make home insurers nervous or something. Then again, we have less pest issues.

CanadaPlus,

That’s sure true. Do they not get as much hail out east?

CanadaPlus,

That’s like, just your opinion, man.

Seriously, this is an opinion article from a guy that wants everyone to switch to bicycles, and has a laundry list of downer anecdotes to support it. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of good my man.

CanadaPlus,

To cut him some slack, it’s hard when you start with a thesis that’s not actually supported by the facts. Mashing together a bunch of tidbits without actually logically connecting them is probably what I’d end up doing too.

I don’t know this guy, and I don’t know why he tried this in the first place, but I’m guessing he’s one of those people that will only accept a radical, even deliberately painful solution nobody else will go for.

CanadaPlus,

It’s hard to say, because it’s not the first thing you learn about somebody. If someone’s dressed remotely nicely, I can instantly tell they’re from the city, and I suspect it’s more likely they’re a liberal, but I don’t really know unless it comes up.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

A multi-material 3D inkjet printer. Most of the rest of science news too.

We have just set up a fund for poor countries effected by climate change.

CanadaPlus,

They aren’t worth anything until you sell them again. Billionaires hoarding houses is mostly hype, we just (measurably, sources available) don’t have as many houses as other similar countries do, for some reason.

CanadaPlus,

A lot of immigrants work in construction. I’m not sure how many exactly, but I’m guessing it’s a higher proportion than locals. I do agree we should prioritise that instead of executives like we are right now, though.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

I mean, if you’ve ever looked into the process, I’d actually argue there’s too much planning going on, and we need to start over. It’s insane that we’re still the easiest destination apparently, that shit’s Kafkaesque.

CanadaPlus,

Most of the people we bring in are, like, doctors, aren’t they? Education is very favoured in the application process, including kinds that they’ll never be able to actually use here (I think I mentioned executives).

So yeah, bring in plumbers, and get them certified to Canadian standards. Zoning needs to die too, and some cities are working on it. Apparently the high interest rates are really biting right now as well.

CanadaPlus,

I stand corrected. Yeah, I hadn’t actually heard that, but you’d expect it would attract immigrants. Construction unions are pretty strong in Canada, so maybe that balances it out.

You’d expect that it would have a neutral-ish impact on long-term housing supply as it is, then.

CanadaPlus,

I mean, it’s not magic, it’s economics. If you’re putting in more man-hours in a competitive market, you should be getting more products out of the other end. Immigrants can plumb just as well as you, of course.

CanadaPlus,

Those are also dumb. We should stop zoning everything just for the sake of the environment and basic livability, even.

CanadaPlus,

Sure. IIRC, though, this thread started with somebody blaming immigration for the crisis. It’s not that, that’s not how it works.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Good. Not sure who Turkey expects to be outraged, they’re still way in the lead on being obstructionist assholes.

Edit: Reading the article, this sounds less like whining and more like Erdogan getting ahead of the real reasons he’s going to do it, and insisting the totally-independent parliament is deciding on it’s own with no pressure at all, totally.

CanadaPlus,

Ask for scalding hot dishwater to show that you’re hardcore. A bowl of hot sauce is also acceptable. /s

CanadaPlus,

Inb4 the JavaScript fanboys appear and argue a bad tool is fine if you’re a genius, actually. Why aren’t you a genius?

CanadaPlus,

It gets the same jokes as Mexican food usually here. Really, some people’s guts just can’t handle any amount of spice, and poo jokes are always a hit.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Butter chicken was invented for the British (in India), but naan bread and the various dal dishes are authentic, and those are the first things I think of. Thai food is good too, but it’s different.

CanadaPlus,

Do Mexicans even know how to be offended, or is it a foreign concept completely? You guys like Speedy Gonzales.

CanadaPlus,

Everyone knows it’s a shitty photocopy of Tex-Mex. We eat it anyway because it’s greasy, cheap food with a strong but not offensive flavour of some kind.

CanadaPlus,

Gee, how far back does it have to go to be authentic? Tomatoes weren’t in Italy until after Columbus brought them (of course after 1300), and didn’t catch on until well after the later date mentioned of 1700, so there goes all of Italy’s most famous dishes.

Hamburgers are American food. Not Native American food, but American. Next you’re going to tell me baguettes are Middle Eastern food because grain was domesticated there, or that camel meat is Native American food because they evolved in America before crossing the land bridge in pre-human times.

CanadaPlus,

Yeah, tandoori naan is apparently popular across neighboring countries too. I’d say India can still claim some co-ownership, just like Europeans and their various loaf breads, but I guess that’s a matter of definition, so sure, it’s not exclusively Indian.

The dal dishes are Indian, though. Curries in general are Indian - that one goes all the way back to Harrapa IIRC. Since you seem intent on keeping score, that’s 2 to 1.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

That’s neat (the cultural part, sorry you got teased so much). I guess America creates enough butthurt for the whole continent, amiright? :P

CanadaPlus,

And then they combine a few stock ingredients together with it in one of many ways. Their marketing doesn’t even bother to claim it’s anything special, it’s just like “here’s a new, even more convoluted way to combine the exact same shit! DONG!!”.

It’s still hits the spot, though, and to cut them some slack my bean crunchwrap is mostly vegetables, which is more than you could say for pizza or a burger and fries.

CanadaPlus,

Good old environmentalism. Never define what it is exactly, and fight yourself getting there as a result. I wonder if there’s a parallel timeline where global warming, species preservation, protecting the public from toxins and being anti-science all have their own separate lobbies, that occasionally collaborate when they align.

CanadaPlus,

They were never renting, but yeah I’d hope the video is right the the border would have stayed porous.

Why are we so concerned with oxygen production yet we never hear about nitrogen production, though we actually need 78% nitrogen vs 21% oxygen to survive?

Excess oxygen is actually harmful to humans, but all the climate warnings are about losing oxygen, not nitrogen edit: but when we look for habitable planets, our focus is ‘oxygen rich atmosphere’, not ‘nitrogen rich’, and in medical settings, we’re always concerned about low oxygen, not nitrogen....

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Atmospheric nitrogen is useless to most life, as it’s extremely hard to break down into other nitrogen compounds. Certain bacteria are the exception, and they’re very important both to ecology and human agriculture (although less so since the Haber process was invented and artificial fertilisers became available). The other natural source of nitrogen compounds is lightning strikes.

Oxygen is completely the opposite. It’s unstable in an Earth-like environment (which is why fires happen), and if you find it in such an environment there must be something special producing it continuously. It’s not the only biomarker astronomers look for, either. There was a planet with insane amounts of a chemical called DMS found recently, and that’s just as eye-catching, if weirder.

Deep sea divers also use a nitrogen mix (nitrox) to stay alive and help prevent the bends

You’ve actually got that somewhat backwards. To go really deep you switch to heliox or similar. Nitrox is for intermediate depths where you need less oxygen than in the normal nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere, but nitrogen narcosis isn’t an issue yet.

How did Lemmy World become the default instance?

World was already the biggest by far when I first started lurking back in July, and it’s just getting more dominant. Before, there was quite some diversity in the distribution of generic communities, but nowadays the vast majority of posts that reach the top are from over there....

CanadaPlus,

And you were doing it before it was cool?

CanadaPlus, (edited )

I see waaay more complaints about Hexbear than Reddit refugees.

CanadaPlus,

I didn’t read the point that way at all. They seemed to be implying that Reddit users scared people away from .ml and to .world. I have no personal issue with you guys from lemmygrad and hexbear, but a lot of people do since you can come across a bit abrasive. So, I thought that was a bit of an ironic thing to say.

CanadaPlus,

Oh, yeah, if that’s what they meant, I do remember that. The biggest struggle was that the software was itself a bit rough, as (admittedly) a refugee myself, which to the admin’s credit has gotten much better.

Who's winning the war in Ukraine?

The media won’t give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that’s true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large...

CanadaPlus,

Russia should have had the conventional phase all finished in a couple months, so by that measure Ukraine. Russia has also lost territory the whole way past the battle of Kiev, so by that measure also Ukraine. Neither look set to win any time soon, so by that measure (which is probably the important one) it’s a stalemate. The big variables now are Western support and Russian political stability as the conflict drags on. Neither side is close to running out of men.

The claims that Russia was winning the whole time come from basically the geopolitical version of flat earthers, who believe exactly the opposite of what everyone else does. Or actual Russian agents, but as far as I can tell that’s rare.

CanadaPlus,

To their own disadvantage, more often than not. Even Sun Tzu said not to do this.

CanadaPlus,

Really? I don’t usually watch those, but I’m pretty sure they’re holding a weapon and definitely not signaling intent to surrender in the ones I’ve seen.

CanadaPlus,

Has somebody done this?

CanadaPlus,

That might do it, if they really land on top of each other. OP said it was air molecules colliding with each other in the shock, though.

CanadaPlus,

There’s a few questions here. At the atomic level, quantum mechanics comes into play, and instant change basically breaks it, so you’d expect it to be slightly gradual somehow.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

Wouldn’t that mean opening an evacuated tube should produce a flash of radiation, and supersonic planes should absolutely glow? I’m skeptical.

CanadaPlus,

Oh, so you’re assuming all the air is instantly pushed to the person’s skin? Yeah, that could do it. Actually, if the stuff is pushed arbitrarily close together you get black holes. I read OP as the destination air gets moved out more evenly, and just the vacuum remains.

Supersonic planes do get hot, because the air basically heats until the flow is subsonic again, so they would glow in the infrared a bit. Normal atmospheric pressure, as you noted, isn’t enough to make anything nuclear or even chemical happen.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

I feel like a mathematician would go a step further and not even assume a specific geometry. Maybe a human is just a subset of points in a measure space, with a measure fixed at 1 human-unit.

CanadaPlus,

Oh, you’re assuming a monolayer. Yeah, you’re right then. I thought you were talking about the vacuum end and the air was magic-ed out in a more orderly fashion at the other end.

CanadaPlus, (edited )

That’s true, and in this case where the layer is a single molecule thick, pores and even cellular structure will add to it quite a bit. Hell, at that scale it’s probably hard to define any solid boundary to the body at all, since you’ll have things like the surface of evaporating sweat. Once again, we need to know a bit more about how the magic works to give a single answer.

Our mathematician would have to add a measure on subset boundaries I guess. Or maybe just hand the problem off to a big boy who can handle things in the real world (zing!).

CanadaPlus,

Yep, and then she convinced a nation to adopt her back. It sounds like said nation might be reconsidering (based on other comments), but if they don’t she’s as native as the next person.

I mean, if they wanted, it’s within the rights of a sovereign nation to literally sell citizenship to the highest bidder; Monaco does it. This case isn’t nearly that mercenary, but either way if we say self-governance we should walk the walk as well.

CanadaPlus,

Agreed.

Why do many microwave ovens hum in an interval of a minor 7th?

Something that I’ve noticed across most of the microwave ovens that I’ve used is that when they hum while cooking food, I can pick out 2 distinct tones. One of them is pretty clearly 60 120 hz, the 2nd harmonic of the AC power frequency. The other is consistently a minor 7th above that (which would be somewhere around...

CanadaPlus,

Wow. This question is a good but very specific observation, and I did not expect an actual answer.

CanadaPlus,

No you’re not. I think this conversation is done at this point, unless you can bring something fresh.

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