When I stopped using proprietary software I noticed that I stopped fearing software updates. Proprietary software is always changing things in ways that dont necessarily improve the user experience, and often make it worse. My experience with OSS has (almost) always been the opposite, every update improves the software and either adds useful features or fixes old issues I’ve had. I think the only exception to this has been Firefox. I noticed this shift in thinking most obviously when I finally switched from Windows to Linux.

If you want a resource to direct people to for healthy eating, I really like the latest version of the Canada Food Guide, which came out a year or two ago I think. No food pyramid, emphasis on eating whole foods, encourages plant-based meals, and practical advice like “plan your meals” and “eat with others”.

I’m really glad they published this guide because there was a lot of lobbying and controversy from the meat and dairy industry surrounding it, because it was encouraging plant based meals with large vegetable portions.

Archean eclogites? 🤔

Im not a vegetarian but I get a lot of joy in cooking a tasty plant-based meal. I find that a lot of meat-based meals that im used to cooking really center the dish on the meat in a way that I feel kind of stifles my creativity in the kitchen.

I hate how this implies the Liberal Party is left, but I guess its NYT so “left-wing” is anything left of the Trump “moderates”

Its a plant, but I dont know if its a true mustard

This is an interesting project. Mining is a very capital intensive business so I really hope it works out for them. First nations do not often reap their due reward for mining on their land so I hope this proves to be a viable model.

On a seperate note, I find the tag line “more viable than the ring of fire” pretty funny because thats true for most projects in my opinion. I remember first hearing about the ring of fire ten years ago from one of the guys that helped discover it like 10-15 years before that. The fact that we are barely closer to mining it now than we were back then says something. Im sure it will happen some day because there is the political will for it, but it honestly feels like a money pit.

Its quite bitter and doesnt have the fun spiciness of regular mustard

I wonder at what point the provinces are in violation of the Canada Health Act? Im not familiar with the exact wording of the act but I was under the impression that it was supposed to prevent private health services.

Im in Ontario

This might be worthwhile if I get really into gin but for now I will probably try to explore what I can get in the store

Thank you for an incredible response! This is a great intro for someone like me who doesnt know much about it at all.

The pink areas around the core are a result of a few compounding factors:

1. Kids moving out of their homes and not being able to afford housing in the same neighborhood
2. Rich folks buying up old century homes that had previously been converted to multi-unit low rise apartments and converting them back to si gle family homes
3. A refusal of the city to up zone these neighborhoods to appropriate levels of density

The result is fewer people and fewer families in these areas

Why do we keep putting billions of dollars into a dying industry? We literally just bought a pipeline, we dont need more. I really hate this country sometimes.

Srsly Wrong is pretty good leftist utopianism hosted by two Canadian wrong boys

The research Im familiar with would benefit more from larger number of CPUs rather than GPUs, which I understand to be the tool of choice for AI. Im sure there are many fields that could benefit from more GPU power but will they actually be able to use these resources or will the resource allocation prioritize “AI” projects?

Actually after looking up whether the Digital Research Alliance if Canada is involved (It seems they are), I feel a lot better about this announcement. My experience with this group has been quite positive and their administration and allocation of research clusters to be pretty good.

I wish Canada invested that money into more worthwhile science rather than giving money to more AI scammers

And here I am in southern Ontario, fed up that im surrounded by lousy seds for hundreds of kilometers

Yeah, sharing with cars is fine on gravel roads and small country roads, but even moderate amounts of traffic on rural roads makes for a pretty unpleasant and daunting experience in my opinion. I do hope quebec improves the Route Verte, hopefully it can serve as an example for the rest of Canada.

The Go train can be used ti get further out and there is some good cycling not far from Hamilton and a lot of good multi day routes out of kitchener like the BT700 but im personally a little underwhelmed by southern Ontario geography, its very fast and goes through lots of farmland, and the on-road portions cam often be sketchy. I have had an overnighter in mind that I’ve wanted to try out from Barrie that would take me north into the shield, but its a route I sort of made up myself and haven’t had a chance to scope it out. Im a bit nervous to attempt an unknown route but I may just go for it and hope for the best since I wont be too far from help if something goes wrong.

Gorgeous! Being in Toronto, I envy the accessibility and extent of the Route Verte and the routes that connect to it.