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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Most illicit drugs cost pennies per dose to manufacture. Prohibition is basically a price support for drug traffickers. We will never make drugs disappear by making them astronomically more valuable. Regulation is the alternative.

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The extraordinary elite propaganda effort on behalf of nuclear power has worked: public support for nuclear power is at record highs. This took place during a period in which the only nuclear plant built in the US is 10s of billions over budget. Pretty impressive.

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ANDOR T SHIRT SPOTTED

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Lmao it's harder to find good seats at my kids school concerts

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The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

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7 reasons why new small & large nuclear reactors useless 12-23 years from plan to operation Costs/kWh 3-4x wind Nuclear weapons proliferation risk Meltdown risk Radioactive waste risk 9-37x CO2e/kWh as wind Mining lung cancer risk web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j... www.oneearth.org/the-7-reason...

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And thus a dark new chapter opens

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Canada needs to get that vaccine plant we build operating. Now.

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So I got a new work laptop and it has New Outlook. It has an obnoxious feature where it keeps trying to predict the next word I will use in my email and I can't figure out how to turn it off Is there a guide to fixing all windows 11 related stuff to make it work like a normal computer again?

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#DecarbonizeBC

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I don't understand how a relationship works when one partner is anti-choice/pro-forced birth and the other is pro-choice

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You may be unaware, but there are now thousands of students using ChatGPT instead of doing the reading, doing the thinking, and doing the writing. It's a legit crisis, no matter how much AI boosters, Big Tech, and governments may want to ignore it.

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What a cool story! #DecarbonizeBC

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#DecarbonizeBC

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I wrote about this extraordinary moment in which LA leaders still seem to believe they can produce a series of megaevents in cooperation with a federal government that has occupied their downtown and is openly abducting their constituents

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Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.

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Squamish Wildfire (Dryden Creek): Councillor Wilson Williams update to the Squamish Nation #SquamishNationCouncil #SquamishNation #FirstNations #Indigenous #ChairandCouncil #Squamish #SNCouncil

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A thing about teaching systems ideas is that people always want some new revolutionary idea or way of doing things, until you offer one, grounded in actual healthy systems, and then they say, no, not that, we never could, that's impossible.

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vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/09/s... So theres an evacuation alert and a state of emergency. But the "risk to the community has not changed." Is it any wonder why the general public has trouble understanding what we are facing?

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Serious Q that I've never seen adequately addressed in MSM reporting: Does setting targets like this encourage just blowing money? Like shouldn't we want a capability target rather than a spending target?

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I find it helpful to think of children as real people. Are you allowed physically attack a person in your care? No What if you're really mad at them? Also no So why is it ok to attack kids?

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The most bizarre thing about the COVID School Closure Discourse is how commentators take it for granted that closing schools had no effect on transmission or deaths but that's not at all what the evidence says.

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globalnews.ca/news/1121667... Wow, the sinkhole that has closed the Coquihala was "related to Trans Mountain’s pipeline boring work in the area” Imagine if, say, a solar power plant somehow closed a critical highway like this. It would be 24/7 headline coverage for a week. #DecarbonizeBC

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It's because if we emotionally react in a manner aligned with the danger, everyone who holds power immediately dismisses us as totally unhinged So we engage in this "alarm calibration" dance, divorced from physical reality

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#DecarbonizeBC

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Literally every patron of the Vancouver Aquarium can be neatly divided into one of four categories: Tourist/Local * on a date/Is a frazzled, exhausted-looking parent

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if Canada is filled with wildfire-starting arsonists then we should probably make sure climate change is under control so those fires don't get out of control

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I had the pleasure of giving the commencement address to this year's @climatebase.bsky.social cohort, 700 professionals from around the world who spent 12 weeks together to become climate champions in a wide range of sectors. Here's what I told them, conservechange.medium.com/power-comes-...

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WHO using AI slop?

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I still go on Facebook from time to time and when I opened it today, I was bombarded with AI slop about Musk. I presume this is part of the full spectrum public opinion attack going on. I wonder how many people look at this and think it's real?

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i have been reading this 72-page book, The ABCs of Media Literacy, that was given to every grade nine student in Finland last fall. media literacy is a core component of the national curriculum as its essential to being a responsible citizen. its CIVIC EDUCATION. CIVICS. abcsofmedia.com

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This clip demonstrates the power of simple repetition

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public opinion is all narratives

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#DecarbonizeBC

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Since every few months someone with 3 followers demands I outline my exact position on deep-sea mining (ignoring the millions of words I've written on the industry): Hydrothermal vent mining? Ban. Cobalt-rich seamount mining? Ban. Polymetallic Nodule Mining? Extreme caution while we learn more.

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Renewables advocates in Alberta, this is some good stuff

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