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The only time I've found the ideological tagging feature(s) useful was for media markets I wasn't familiar with but unless they're a super niche or new publication, a Wiki page will usually be a lot better for understanding the editorial stance of a publication.

Yeah I've avoided them like the plague just on the basis of being a YTer sponsor. Having worked as a media monitor I get the use for tools like these but they seem to either pick up the weirdest garbage sources or be little more than glorified RSS/newswire feeds.

Hell I think Ground News pushing their 'service' so aggressively is a good example of how bad people are at gauging sources. I know they offer features beyond the ideological tagging but the fact they keep pushing that as their core feature doesn't give me a great impression of the median reader.

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One of my favorite pictures of my friend’s cats. 😹

Oh fascinating! I did not realize they still had that kind of fabrication capability. Honestly seems like a good example of the TTC having sector leading capacity in some regards alongside absurd levels of technical debt in others.

I still can't believe they're installing single blade switches on the network. Where are they even finding a vendor for those at this point? I tried to find another system that was still sticking to them but I think the TTC might literally be the last major holdout.

Guess we should count ourselves lucky no one has developed (or at least published) a cryptolocker virus that runs on whatever crusty RTOS Siemens and co are using for their PLCs.

To be fair there is also the secret third thing: bored skiddies. Given an alarming amount of industrial control systems are sitting on flat unprotected networks and haven't gotten firmware updates since the mid aughts it doesn't seem that far fetched.

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A giant 1980s style Macintosh computer towers like a temple ruin amongst a jungle canopy, all rendered in black and white pixel art.

I love that this implies they're using the Macintosh instead of something like the UNIVAC, IBM 701 or even IBM 5150 as the start of "business computing".

To be fair, POTS having independent power is more a quirk of it predating the concept of the grid. And FTTH strands do stay live in outages so the concept isn't completely dead. I wonder if early fiber/lightwave committees debated if ONTs should have battery backups to power handsets.

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Brutal. 😬
I'm confused how OC is still managing to have so many dropped trips even with slashed service. Are they still struggling with finding drivers or have the paddles gotten even more insane with the new routes so trips get dropped as buses get stuck shuttling between routes?

Oh god that's rough. Did you get burned by a dropped trip or traffic throwing off the timetable that badly?

Absolutely. Feels like everyone is in headless chicken mode across the board which isn't great. I'm sure there's people trying to formulate more concrete strategies at the NGO and party level but none of it really gets traction outside of maybe a handful of wonk circles.

I get your point about the electorate having their brains cooked on immigration and that is going to be a years-long mess to undo. I don't have especially high hopes this government will even attempt to work on this. US nativism might be the only thing that can snap people out of it at this rate.

Honestly just focusing on pointing the CRA auditors to tax havens and accelerating EV adoption with more aggressive credits and better coordinated L2 and L3 charger deployment would do a loooot to enhance this government's reputation in progressive circles and be fairly widely popular.

Yep. Somehow. Two big central condensers one next to the other on the side of the house. I need to ask them what their power bill is like and how that nightmare is even connected internally.

Central lol

Friend in Utah recently had their family move into a tract house on the edge of the SLC/Ogden hell sprawl and the unit is so horribly designed it has *two* full size air conditioning units despite only having one storey. Gotta hand it to the builder, that's an entirely novel level of inefficiency.

Even a site like YouTube, that should be a straightforward index of videos, is practically impossible to search because the recommendation algorithm is embedded into every component of the site. Even searching for something viewed a week ago can be a chore. Everything becomes amorphous content soup.

...algorithmically driven platforms/sites. The "early" web was by no means perfect but every website feeling like the same algorithm driven soup of no context clips and posts with inflammatory comments pushed up for engagement reasons makes me feel insane. The web feels like a digital Gruen transfer

Yeah for as gooped up as the internet has made a lot of people it's still been an incredible resource for learning and allowed awkward sickos like me to make life long friends.

Think the key distinction to any counter argument to an argument like this would be contrasting pre and post...

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(baby Blue Jay) #birds 🌿

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I totally understand the feeling. Hell, having a nuclear research facility in town must make for some fascinating school field trips! :v

That's a separate domestic SMR design project by AECL iirc. The Darlington installation is the first commercial installation of the GE Hitachi SMR design.

Wait why is the Darlington SMR on there? It's already under construction, how would they even be able to fast track a project that's already at the construction stage?

...could be applied in practice because new system proposals and extensions stalled under Carter/Reagan. I know someone that works in digital signalling that keeps thinking of moving to Europe because he's unsure if he'll be able to find employment in the US or Canada once his current contract is up