Stop transfering people from sales to engineering!

It is a social issue. People being incapable of taking care of themselves is inevitable. All civilizations had these issues. Families, churches and general generosity of neighbors have always been used to mitigate this.

Now with the wealth gap increasing and the individualistic philosophy in our society with not noticing and tending to these early on. We only notice once the person is a full blown junkie. Many needed help for a a short moment in life and could of become autonomous after, many are both permanently incapable of autonomy. Either way society have to deal with them. We have enough resources! For the price of just one of those opulent pick up we could probably shelter one person for 2-5 years.

Fuck cars

If you go into the detailed explanation (and can read French) they do have some hydraulic pumping included in their “batteries” section.

In their 100% renewables scénario on a peak consumption (105gw) hour and peak energy production (sun at zenith) they would store the excess production like such:

• 7.2gw to water pumping
• 22gw to static batteries
• 2gw back to the grid (chatting electric vehicles I guess).

Also even in their most nuclear scenario (50% nuclear, 50% renewables) they still include 7.2gw of water pumping.

I’m curious of why you put so much value in water pumping? As a Quebecois I have a small notion of how disruptive (flooding of vast areas of land, massive amounts of concrete, dead rivers downstream of the dam ) water reservoirs for hydroelectricity can be and I have a hard time imagining a viable way of relying extensively on that technique.

That’s accurate. There’s always a few steps not included in the tutorial

They article mention it’s more about discouraging teens from starting smoking than making current smokers quit.

It kind of make sense since you start smoking by receiving a single cigarette not by buying a pack. I know at my high school a lot of smokers started smoking by buying individual smoke from the smoke pusher

Early this year forest fire fighters in Alberta were complaining that new houses have so much plastic in them that they were combusting and consumed in like 5 minutes making saving them impossible and slowing the fire’s spread harder.

I’m having a hard time finding the quote. I found this explaining houses burn faster now than before because of plastic https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/modern-homes-burn-8-times-faster-than-50-years-ago-1.1700063

Considering the ridiculous heat of those forest fires 5 minutes is believable

The entire game story is a reflexion on cast/class in society albeit set in a medieval feudal world where nobles wage a war that brings suffering to the peasents who thus starts a revolution

It’s “Final Fantasy Tactic”. I’m currently playing the android port and played the original PS1 one a lot. It’s in my top 5 favorite game for sure

I didn’t really follow up on it. Maybe it was just politician saying stuff or it’s banned but not enforced so nobody cares

What’s the name of that safer alternative?

A more useful guideline would be something like: how to steer a conversation to be constructive for both parties.

I couldn’t get chatgpt to make this into a spectrum like in the pyramid but if you invert the order of the negative impact section and concatenate it after the positive liste you get the text for that pyramid. It does make sense though

Positive Impact:

1. Collaborative problem-solving
2. Active listening and empathy
3. Finding common ground
4. Constructive feedback
5. Open-ended questions
6. Positive tone and inclusive language
7. Clarifying and paraphrasing
8. “I” statements
9. Avoiding defensiveness and judgment
10. Seeking solutions together

Negative Impact:

11. Interrupting or talking over the other person
12. Dismissing or invalidating the other person’s perspective
13. Using aggressive or confrontational language
14. Making personal attacks or insults
15. Ignoring or belittling the other person’s feelings
16. Dominating the conversation and not allowing equal participation
17. Stonewalling or refusing to engage in discussion
18. Manipulating or twisting the other person’s words
19. Engaging in passive-aggressive behavior
20. Refusing to consider alternative viewpoints

There’s also the more potent: “you are right”. Although it has many draw backs

In Montreal an Airbnb cought fire and killed 6 guests and one tenant because the owner converted a house to multiple Airbnb ignoring all regulation (including fire marshal rules)

English article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-old-port-fire-1.6788756

The province ended up banning Airbnbs but I don’t know the details of the bag

In Montreal an Airbnb cought fire and killed 6 guests and one tenant because the owner converted a house to multiple Airbnb ignoring all regulation (including fire marshal rules)

English article https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/old-montreal-fire-airbnb-1.6801216

The french media had some follow up stories describing the owner total lack it respect for regulation. The province ended up banning Airbnbs but I don’t know the details of the bag

I have no source but from passively reading news about this, the main qualm from news pub was that Facebook and Google would display the title (link) of the article, and often with an exert, author name and the domain which is pub name, which is basically most of their content ( nobody reads the article anymore). I feel, Facebook was the main offender though.

Also the goal was to provide revenue for quality content by encouraging. Fake news or simply unverified shock ( click bait) “news” outlet where thriving in this environment and that not beneficial to the country.

I’m not for or against nor well informed so take this with a grain of salt

Vegetables with just a bit of water, not submerged, for 2-3 minutes (6 for carrots) and they come out crispy and vivid with color

“Google is in every part of this value chain. As we see it they hold a dominant position in both the sell side and the buy side in order to favor their own ad exchange,”

I have seen ad tech middlemens that ~75% of the ads they “buy” come from Google dv360 and ~75% of all ads they sell was to Google ad manager.

The only close competition to Google is Facebook and Amazon mostly because they have their own closed garden big enough to sustain ad exchange. On the open web (random apps and websites) it’s all Google.