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[ddplayer01 @_The_Lowdown_]

@RealErikaNaomi The things that changed that are causing larger fires are 1. hotter/drier summers; 2. longer summers; 3.milder winters. In other words, climate change. It makes a much bigger difference to boreal forest ecologies at higher latitudes than it does to temperate forests in Michigan

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@tucuwe @WomanDefiner They don't do that in the boreal forests of the Canadian Shield, which is where the biggest and worst fires are, and those forests have never had a significant mix of deciduous anyways; they've been conifer dominated since the last ice age

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@focktwittter @ryankatzrosene the thing about understanding forest fires is that it involves understanding that they are an inevitable and necessary part of boreal forest ecology. "Preventing forest fires" is an outdated and fundamentally wrongheaded framing.

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@tautologer This is like being surprised that the puddle is the same shape as the hole it fills.

Our definition of what's good or bad *comes from* what actually makes human societies work. We've had to suffer greatly (over a few million years of hominid evolution) to figure this stuff out.

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@MorganLaidler don't feed the trolls

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@OldGreg_Again @Ventruwe Nah, we know none of you can read.

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@Ventruwe Twitter is not the real world.
Twitter is not the real world.
Twitter is a tiny, irrelevant puddle where conversations are dominated by edgelords and outrage-bots. It's 4chan but with a whole lot of state-actor money floating around. Don't believe anything you see here is real.

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@SenAdamSchiff "We have no influence over our own national policies", you write, in a letter wherein you are trying to influence *another country's* policies.

The problem is entirely in your own house.

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@capybaroness well yeah, it's so much easier for a person to make things sound nice when they have zero scruples about lying though their teeth

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@MrBeast that looks like 2,191,455 pennies to me!

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@ImFreeManJones @JohnOCorn a thief is a thief even if he gets away with it.

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@mehughes124 @bigseb31213 Baffling to me how incredibly mis-read these books are. The series is a *criticism* of that type of thinking.

If you're taking it as representative of the 'Chinese worldview', you should be drawing the opposite conclusion. That self-interest is flawed & cooperation is necessary

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@KliminoZepephor @memeticsisyphus you do you, but if you're unlucky enough to cause an accident by refusing to yield in a zipper merge, you will be the one at fault

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@memeticsisyphus this is absolutely fine, because 1. the transaction at the counter takes two seconds so nobody gaf about exact order of arrival; and 2. the deli owner has demarcated two lines with stanchions and put up signage specifically telling people to fill both queues and alternate

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@Cutter911 @akhivae If you want Canadian laws to restrict municipalities, then you have to stay in Canada. If you want to leave Canada, then you are choosing to throw away the "laws of the land", so it doesn't matter what those laws say cities can or cannot do. You can't have it both ways.

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@Cutter911 @akhivae "legal standing" give me a break.

Legal standing according to the laws of which country? Canada? Secessionists don't want to follow Canadian laws anymore.

Similarly, whatever laws secessionists come up with mean nothing to the cities. We will not be participating in this crap

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@buglepong @ethyrmire @plataproxima @Romy_Holland it's not the guru's statement itself that provides new information: it's the fact that everyone sees that everyone else has now heard that fact. This is a new fact about the world that didn't exist before.

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@VicinageClause @PaulMSherman It doesn't matter that for the first 98 days you can only "conclude" things that everyone already knows. What matters is that the logic grows stronger every day, until on day 99 its power overtakes basic observation and allows you to answer a question you otherwise could not

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@VicinageClause @PaulMSherman The statement allows you to begin a process of mathematical induction that you otherwise could not initiate: https://t.co/99ct9Rg9rV

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@thesummerofblog @ConservYIMBY @PaulMSherman Say N is the # of blue-eyed. On day:
-1: if N=1, they would see 0, know they're the one, leave.
-2: since no one left, N>1. If N=2, blue-eyes would see 1, know they're the other, leave.
-3: since no one left, N>2. If N=3, they would see 2 others, know they're the third, leave.

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@AndrewKnack Edmonton council needs to be even more clear than this.

If separatists attempt to create a new country and assert sovereignty over Canadian land, Edmonton will not under any circumstances be joining them.