Rural Life. Mom & Wife. Geology page: @rockstellstories on Instagram “If it can’t be grown, it must be mined.” “There is no consequence-free form of energy.”
ICYMI: California is sliding into a fuel supply crisis as refineries close and in-state production drops. A reminder that traditional fuels remain the backbone of our energy system.
https://t.co/aWk1DC0ym0
I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place.
I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.
I've zeroed in on a grand unified theory of why Canada sucks right now. In thousands of decisions, whenever it was a choice between Z or boosting the economy/increasing affordability/bolstering public safety/etc. ... policy makers ALWAYS chose Z.
“Team Canada” discovers meetings are actually hard to get in DC.
The gong show known as the ‘team Canada’ federal government committee trying to represent our trade interests is so far out of the loop in Washington, DC, they have to hire a lobbyist to get meetings.
What a diplomatic face-plant.
The ‘team’ is struggling now that they are no longer on CBC saying ‘everything is on the table”. Now they’re at the table in DC, and no one wants to meet them.
Turns out being on the ice in DC is harder than being in the locker room in Ottawa trash-talking Premier Smith for having the temerity to go there, meet people and make the case for Canada and Alberta in person.
Perhaps its time to ask her advice and get some introductions from her to a few key Presidential advisors, governors and senators.
Or just keep burning taxpayer money on sad pay-to-play meetings with the kind of people that need a broker to convince them to meet you.
What an international diplomatic embarrassment this NDPLiiberal government continues to be.
#DanielleSmith #melaniejoly #cdnpoli
When do drugs really expire?
Which ones take decades to degrade?
Why does the US government use secret expiration dates for pharmaceutical stockpiles — but make pharmacies & hospitals discard perfectly potent meds?
I went down a wild rabbit hole for us
🇨🇦 PM Trudeau has a -40 favourability rating & doesn’t have the votes to command confidence of the House—but that doesn’t mean we’ll get a much-needed election anytime soon.
This is political vanity at a dangerous time.
But it is wildly on brand for Trudeau. No surprise here.
You act surprised. We are reaping what you sowed.
This is what happens when a Prime Minister spends 9 years pushing toxic woke identity politics, dividing and subdividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion, region, age, wealth, etc.
On top of driving people apart, you systematically break what used to bring us together, saying Canada is a “post-national state” with “no core identity.”
You erased our veterans and military, the Famous Five and even Terry Fox from our passport to replace them with meaningless squirrels, snowflakes and a drawing of yourself swimming as a boy.
You opened the borders to terrorists and lawbreakers and called anyone who questioned it racist.
You send out your MPs to say one thing in a mosque and the opposite in a synagogue, one thing in a mandir and the opposite in a gurdwara.
You have made Canada a playground for foreign interference. You allowed Iran’s IRGC terrorists to legally operate here for four years after they murdered 55 of our citizens in a major unprovoked attack.
You passed laws that release rampant offenders from prison within hours of their 80th arrest.
And what is the result? Assassinations on Canadian soil, firebombings of synagogues, extremist violence against mandirs and gurdwaras, over 100 churches burned or vandalized (with barely any condemnation from you), all for a total 251% more hate crime.
And, while you were dancing, Montreal was burning.
We won’t let you divide us anymore. Call an election now.
We will fire you and reclaim our citizenship, our values, our lives, our freedom and, most of all, our country.
Do we eat a credit card’s worth of microplastics every week?
“It was a very powerful message. But the problem is it's wrong,” says @Jamie_Woodward_@OfficialUoM
Find out why: https://t.co/70Bbu3F6ws
I've just had this confirmed. I thought it was too insane to be true, but it is. This is a video of some climbers on Mt Dukono on Saturday who suddenly realised how bloody stupid their decision to climb was 😬😱
Via: @MurtadhaOne
🪨💧Water (tentatively) discovered on Mars! Amazing!
But.
The water is contained in fractures of VERY deep mid-crust rocks 11-20km deep.
That’s 8-17km deeper than the deepest well ever drilled in Sask (DEEP Earth geothermal well near Estevan is ~3.5km deep).
#RocksTellStories
Did you know that the electric toaster, which we use almost daily for a quick breakfast, was invented by Albert Marsh in 1905?
Here are 20 such inventions and their inventors that have made our lives easier.
A Thread 🧵