I can edit my street as a dead end to lower bar traffic, cool!

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.

It’s pay walled but how would China enforce that ruling? Ban all of Intel’s transactions with Chinese entity? Fines?

Here in Montreal we have a very popular car sharing company that allows many of us to not own cars.

It’s biggest issue at the moment is that the company can’t buy cars as quickly as demand increases. This type of cars would be a great addition to their park since a lot of the trips their customer do are short inner city trips.

Looks like it fits on the filter

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

It’s ok we’ll just use more fentanyl

I miss working in PHP. Sadly there’s less use cases for it today (at least relatively to my personal situation)

Apparently, from articles I read about the Canadian law, Australia tried something similar but fang got it reversed.

The problem is that Canada is a small market. FANG doesn’t need the revenue from it but they would hate for these laws to become popular so they’ll try to make an example out of Canada.

Canada just passed legislation forcing Google and face book to pays for each showing (or redirecting?) of a Canadian news url. The law aims at redistributing money from internet giants back to news sites. Google and Facebook are threatening to just outright stop including Canadian news URL.

It’s a bold move from the government, I’m not for how I feel about it.

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

If you don’t disrupt anyone your protest has the same impact as an angry letter.

In Canada the only protests that accomplish anything are when a group blocks a road or a railroad until a very specific request is met. What typically happens is they get removed by police but I’m the background they get concessions so they don’t block another road in next months

Did the west just out bid Russia and turn their mercenaries against them?

“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.