Dale Rmr

[Dale Rmr @dalermr]

The problem with the west that everybody knows and nobody does anything about

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Today, to approve an oil pipeline;

Canada - Alberta: had to implement higher industrial carbon taxes, net zero targets, spend $20+ billion on carbon capture, and MAYBE start working on a pipeline after September 1st, 2027 to complete around 2034. 1 MMb/d.

UAE: Anyways, we gona build a pipeline to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, it will be done next year. 1.8 MMb/d

🤡🇨🇦

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

I started Oculus while I was living in a trailer working a minimum wage job. I spent years developing the technology and sold it less than 18 months after hiring my first employees. Most of the $2.3B purchase went to them on account of our shared ownership structure.

Wish all you want, but you just aren't correct on this. Individual people create billions of dollars in value all the time.

[SecondStreet.org @SecondStreetOrg]

Countries with universal health systems that ban private options:

CANADA

Countries with universal systems that also allow private treatment:

AUSTRALIA
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
BRAZIL
CHILE
DENMARK
FINLAND
GERMANY
HONG KONG
ICELAND
IRELAND
ISRAEL
ITALY
JAPAN
NETHERLANDS
NEW ZEALAND
NORWAY
POLAND
SOUTH KOREA
SPAIN
SWEDEN
SWITZERLAND
UK
ETC…

Only the most radical of activists would look at all the suffering happening in Canada’s health system … pause … and conclude it must continue.

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Someone please make him Prime Minister.

[Cory Morgan @CoryBMorgan]

A great breakdown of Canada's new "spaceport" and the people who got the contracts.

We are being robbed folks.

https://t.co/IwaG1YIxbg

[Sterling Witt @BluntButRight]

Ler's look at what's happened since the March announcement shall we?

Who could have predicted this???

Three weeks after the $200M government announcement, Maritime Launch Chairman Sasha Jacob sold 3M shares at $0.60 each = $1.8M cash out.

The following week: exercised 2.25M options at $0.167, creating ~$974K in instant paper gains.

That's an 80.7% reduction in his holdings.

Was he waiting for someone to swoop in and save the company with taxpayer money??

[The Reclamare @TheReclamare]

The questions on this Spaceport story just continue to grow and grow

The Canadian government leased the 'Spaceport' from Maritime Launch for $20M/year

Except Maritime doesn't own the land
The Canadian government does, and leases it to Maritime for $13,500 per year

[Morgan Cameron Ross @Morgan_C_Ross]

A 1989 Ford Mustang used by the RCMP in Saskatchewan.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Those wheels you’re looking at are 0.75 millimeters thick. That’s half the thickness of a US dime. Each one was carved from a single block of aluminum, and NASA sent six of them to Mars knowing they’d eventually shred.

Curiosity was built for a 2-year mission. It landed in August 2012, and by December that year NASA had already extended the mission indefinitely. Thirteen years and 35.5 kilometers later, the rover is still going, but the wheels started cracking just 14 months in. The damage came faster than anyone at JPL predicted. Sharp embedded rocks were punching straight through the skin between the treads.

So NASA assembled a Wheel Wear Tiger Team (a crisis problem-solving tradition that goes back to Apollo 13) and got to work. In 2017, they uploaded a traction control algorithm from Earth that adjusts each wheel’s speed in real time based on the terrain, reducing force on the front wheels by 20%. They rerouted the rover to softer ground and started driving backward when possible, because pulling wheels over rocks produces less force than pushing them into rocks.

The wildest part: if enough treads snap off, Curiosity is designed to find a sharp rock on Mars and use it to deliberately rip out the damaged inner section of its own wheel. JPL tested this on a replica rover and found Curiosity can keep driving on just the outer third. They predict this won’t be needed until around 2034.

Every 1,000 meters, the rover pulls over and uses the camera on its robotic arm to photograph its own wheels so engineers on Earth can count every crack. Each wheel also has tiny holes that spell “JPL” in Morse code, which Curiosity uses to measure distance by photographing its own tracks in the dirt.

These photos directly changed the next rover. When NASA built Perseverance, engineers 3D-printed about 70 different tread designs before landing on 48 curved treads instead of Curiosity’s 24, with thicker skin. They tested the new wheels over 60 kilometers and got zero damage by Curiosity’s original failure definition. “A boring graph with no data on it,” as one JPL engineer put it.

A $2.5 billion machine doing self-surgery with rocks on another planet because the mission outlasted its design by 6x.

[Dale Rmr @dalermr]

@MarkJCarney What about trafficking 8 kg's of fentanyl?

Is that reprehensible as well?

https://t.co/cDvTsaWxWO

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Federal Crown drops charges against Calgary couple caught with nearly 8 kilograms of fentanyl on Saskatchewan highway https://t.co/uvsCt0ixBO

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Federal Crown drops charges against Calgary couple caught with nearly 8 kilograms of fentanyl on Saskatchewan highway https://t.co/uvsCt0ixBO

[Regina Pats @WHLPats]

🚨FRIDAY NIGHT GOALIE FIGHT🚨

TAYLOR TABASHNIUK DROPS THE MITTS AGAINST FILIP RUZICKA AT THE END OF THE GAME 🥊

#ReginaPatsHockey

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Did some AI search: Following the Canadian government's decision to lift visa requirements for Mexican nationals in December 2016, there was a significant increase in the presence and operational capacity of Mexican cartels in Canada, which contributed to a surge in drug trafficking, money laundering, and human smuggling. Intelligence reports from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) warned of this, noting that the policy made it easier for criminals to enter, resulting in an influx of operatives from organizations like the Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco New Generation, La Familia Michoacana, and Los Zetas. 

Mexican asylum claims rose dramatically from 250 in 2016 to over 17,000 in 2023. The total number of asylum claims from Mexico increased by over 22,600% between 2015 and 2023, making it the top source country for claims. Reports suggested that hundreds of these individuals have links to drug cartels entered Canada.

[Dale Rmr @dalermr]

kids these days...

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

This might be the first hot take on how technology tells us how to live our lives, destroying our ability to make human decisions.

The technology in question is the sundial.

From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play, as discussed in Kerr’s “The Ordered Day”

[Christopher Kamka @ckamka]

Most career points by a US born player. The little boy in the top right corner of this card. Patrick Kane.

[octopus/caveman @octopuscaveman]

For years I wondered what was going on with Jose Canseco on 5/3/14. I looked it up and it was Kentucky Derby day. This man was watching the Kentucky Derby and thinking “Im faster than these horses.”

[San Miguel Sheriff @SheriffAlert]

Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Me: Just gonna lay low and take it easy tonight

Also me 2 hours later: