Daniel ☈

Environmental policy nerd, aviator, engineer, musician. Not to be taken seriously. Bad takes are my own.
En français ou anglais, come vous voulez! he/il

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

For context on the air conditioning debate between the US and Europe...one must consult the ancient texts:

1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.

-- Douglas Adams

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

Habitat loss is probably *the* single biggest mechanism by which species are going extinct.

The vast majority of extinct species weren't intentionally hunted and killed. We just cleared out their homes to build ours.

[Daniel ☈ @DannyLioned]

@GunOwnersofCana @Polysesouvient Have they ever commented on the vehicle attacks in Toronto or London? The poly shooter was also motivated by misogyny, so I feel like I must be bad at googling because I can't find statements on these incidents.

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

oh shit do you Yankees not like it when someone threatens to annex your country against your will?

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The best response I’ve seen to AI anything has been, “why should i bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write”

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The peril of labeling direct government spending “wasteful” at face value is that cutting a $15 million annual screwworm monitoring program will now cost $1 billion to address in its absence.

[blue @bluewmist]

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors
so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.

[Polling Canada @CanadianPolling]

Gonna dumb it down for yall

Social media ban for minors means age verification for everyone

Big fat fucking no

[Dieter MacPherson 🇨🇦 🚀🌕 @dmacpher]

Just open it for foot traffic and turn it into a venue with food trucks, some live music and portable facilities.

Let Michigan watch the party.

@MarkJCarney

“Bash on the Bridge”

[CaptainSauce @TheCaptainSauce]

Ban kids from the mall and they'll hang out in the ally behind the mall.
Ban kids from the big social media platforms, the ones that invest the most in safety and moderation, and kids will just go to sketchier platforms.
Governments know this. They only do it to force online IDs.

[Theresa 🇨🇦 @TheresaLubowitz]

Let's be clear, Carney is trying to be *seen* as making child online safety a priority. But these bans are not based on actual research, have been shown to be ineffective when implemented, and drive child internet use underground where kids become even more at risk of harm.

[Richard Warnica @richardwarnica]

I have never had strong feelings one way or the other about expanding Billy Bishop. I have personally used the island airport more than I’ve used the island beaches in my 15 years in the city. But I think the current debate is being framed in a totally deceptive way.

[Terry McBurnie @TMcBphoto]

Images over Toronto today of the NORAD live-fly training exercise ahead of the FIFA World Cup. Pictured are USAF KC-135 Stratotanker 58-0107, Top Aces Alpha Jet CHETA02 C-GVNY, and 2 RCAF CF-18 Hornets.
It was challenging to see, but the tanker had visible vortices in the haze.

[David Rider @dmrider]

“Canadaland brands itself as Canada's media accountability outlet … The court's findings describe an outlet that republished a known false claim, ignored documents in its own possession that disproved it, and never asked its subject to respond.”

[Daniel ☈ @DannyLioned]

@Monkeytraining @RobotPete Was tough to find, fast planes are already North of Parry sound!

[Michael @aGuyOnMyPhone]

When asked explicitly “who is my neighbor” Jesus tells a parable in which the answer is a persecuted racial minority which he deliberately sets up in contrast to the members of your tradition, blood, culture, etc who bear power and prestige

[H @hellohalima]

Must be nice to have a science centre. Fuck you @fordnation

[Alan @ubicuite]

dans ma France, l'interdiction de ces conneries étasuniennes serait constitutionnalisée

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Sterilizing vaccine.

They’re in human trials now, so hopefully they’ll be available to regular people within the next year or two - assuming it’s true that they prevent transmission, as opposed to the current Covid vaccines’ only reducing symptom severity.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.

This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.