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Biscuit is really sweet. The name Biscuit reminds me of phrase making biscuits (cat kneading): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneading_(cats)

Thanks for your comment, and your other posts on PR! Your comment motivated me to spend 15 minutes looking into this stuff online (I found this a very clarifying 5-10 read: https://www.fairvote.ca/what-is-first-past-the-post/). And that 15 minutes of research fired me up! This is important stuff !!

Why are bills rushed through outside of emergencies (e.g., COVID pandemic, last summer's record-breaking wildfires, a potential war)? It seems each day I feel less represented in this 'democracy' (read plutocracy)

This certainly mirrors what I've seen on the ground. In the last 10 years, predatory publishers and publication mills went from known issues to the new normal. And yet despite how easy it is to publish, interest in reproducibility seems at an all-time low. It's jarring, and I'm kind of making a career change out of research as a result, because what I do as a lowly assistant is essentially engineering results and marketing as opposed to anything having to do with discovery or science. I interpret it as capitalism's going to capitalism.

This has resulted in a 47% growth between 2016 and 2022 in the global number of published papers (Hanson, et.al. 2023). Moreover, we should expect a further spurt of growth following the widespread advent of large language models in late 2022. During the 2016-2022 period there was little net increase in the number of PhD students globally or in the funding of science, both indicators of science activity. Increased paper productivity implies either that scientists became suddenly much more creative over the period, or had spent more time writing, and therefore reviewing papers: an increase in paper productivity but a decrease in scientific productivity.

Stop eating. You give me pats now.

Black tea: Yorkshire Gold (by Taylor's of Harrowgate). Other: Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time tea

Baby got back!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's had difficulty getting through ISL (which is great)

There's a cat in that image

Talk like that worries Toronto Coun. Gord Perks, who chairs the city’s planning and housing committee: “What happens to the city of Toronto if nurses can’t live here? If people working in your local grocery store can’t afford to live here? If the people who work in your local packing plant can’t afford to live here? What does Toronto become? It’s not a pretty picture. It’s a terrible, terrible future.”

From July 1, 2020-2021, the most recent year for which detailed migration data is available, 203,115 people left Toronto while 92,175 people relocated there from within Canada. Nearly 80 per cent of those who left the city stayed in Ontario while 20 per cent left the province for another part of the country. “I don’t think any community can thrive without a strong middle class and that’s essentially who’s leaving,” said Moffatt [senior director of policy and innovation at the Smart Prosperity Institute and an assistant professor in the business, economics and public policy group at Western University]. “It’s a massive problem.”

It’s a problem not just for Toronto but for the municipalities that these urbanites are flooding into that lack the infrastructure to support their new residents. [Moffatt] uses his own hometown of London, Ont., as an example. City council adopted its official plan in 2016, which projected a population of 458,000 on Canada Day in the year 2035. As of last Canada Day, the population is 474,000. “In a matter of seven years, it’s already had 20 years of growth,” he said.

Everybody should be worried about Toronto becoming the next San Francisco, said Moffatt, referring to a city now dominated by rich tech people with homes worth an awful lot of money, high rates of homelessness, and where schools now provide housing for teachers because there’s nowhere they can afford to live.

This is frightening, dystopian stuff, and i don’t understand how police and govt allow for this.

I certainly don't have all the answers, but I see it as modern day colonialism (i.e., implicit and explicit attitudes that the 'in-group' has the right to displace, eradicate, and fabricate whatever it wants to establish the social order it desires in other parts of the world) with deep historical roots. As a white-skinned person of European ancestry living in the land commonly known as Canada, watching the global power brokers' actions surrounding the Israeli government's genocide of the Palestinian people has helped me better understand the colonialist genocide that the country I call home was founded on in terms of relations between Turtle Island/North American Indigenous Peoples and the European colonizers. I saw a great quote on Lemmy recently, something like, "those who don't know their history will repeat it; those who seek to eliminate or rewrite history seek to recreate it."

Has Miez always liked belly scritches? Most sources say cats don't like being pet on their belly, but Miez seems to love it

I love Chantal Hébert. She's one of my favourite parts of CBC election coverage. What a rad Canadian

CanadaLand is still on your list? https://www.readthemaple.com/i-went-to-jesse-browns-talk-on-the-slow-pogrom-in-media/

I hope you're right! I have very little confidence in mainstream news media these day to do anything besides serve the interests of corporations and the wealthy. Recent examples: (coverage of) Colonialist genocide in Palestine, carbon 'tax', recent capital gains tax. This issue is compounded by how few Canadians read non-mainstream news. I know you do, but I think we're clearly outliers since we're on Lemmy

Called out in parliament, maybe, but not by anyone inclined to vote for him. I've never met a Conservative voter who thinks critically when it comes to voting (and I've met several with advanced degrees). Policy and performance don't matter; they vote for 'their team' and based on beliefs - not evidence - that 'conservatives are good with money' and similar swill. It's more like being a sports fan or a religious devotee than a rational elector, ime

The petition is open from April 10th to August 8th. So far, it's received over 11,000 signatures. I just signed it. You need to provide an email address (in addition to name, postal code, etc.), which they send a link to, and by clicking that link your signature is added (this is a 1 signature per person safeguard). I looked at the collection/disclosure of personal info briefly. It looks like no info other than #s signed per province/territory will be disclosed and all personal info will be destroyed 6 months after the e-petition closes.

Link to sign the e-petition: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4922

Adorable. I like sound of kitties snoring

<3

It'd be nice if a feature like this got fast-tracked, because I see this a notable limitation to the Lemmy platform. As an instance, growing in size and maintaining an identity/brand butt heads. Ideally, you'd host whatever people want to contribute that is legal and cool, but you might also want to highlight certain content. "Local - hosted" and "Local - favourites" feeds, or something like that, might work