R and D is funded in nations with universal health care all the time. There’s always been a pipeline and interchange between public and private health research interests. I’m not sure what your point is.

They’ve had something similar available for years. It’s a small plastic square about the size of a lego brick. You put it in your shoe and it makes you limp

What, you prefer to give your data to Sony, LG, Samsung, or amazon? Like they’re not selling it to anyone with a buck as well? Never connect a TV to the internet, period. After that it doesn’t matter what you buy.

I love it. No commute, optional shower, no pants. I’m not a very big pants guy, and that’s a huge seller.

Probably not top ten of mind, but Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has been trotted out by the fossil fuel industry for a generation as a panacea for carbon emissions, in order to prevent any real legislation limiting the combustion of hydrocarbons.

Amen. Too few people understand this or fail to make this distinction.

Nothing is smart if you dont connect it to the internet.

It’s made a world of difference to me in my IT support services business. It’s not always right, but it’s always helpful even when it isn’t. It’s far better at looking at a page of log information and picking out the one bit that explains why the thing I need to work isn’t working. I’ve been emboldened to do a lot of projects that I was previously uncomfortable with. The key is I know enough about nearly anything that I can tell when im being led down a garden path.

The quality of the prompt is everything.

The hill the local kids go tobogganing in winter very likely was already used in that capacity 2500 years ago as some archeological sites have shown.

No doubt by the fossilized remains of kids that perished on the slope by hitting the trees at the bottom.

Like a Jolibees or something?

This sounds like a pretty Calgarian response. While I know that there are black variants of eastern grey squirrels in pockets all over North America, ours were specifically introduced as such. They’ve subsequently pushed out local squirrel and chipmunk populations. I don’t think you can even find a squirrel in Calgary that isn’t black.

So Canada then.

Was that like some sort of take-a-helmet, leave-a-helmet situation? Were there bikers in the ditch who were heading westward looking for a brain bucket?

Telsat Lightspeed, from the Canadian company that invented commercial domestic satellite communications in 1971.

Publicly funded fibre can be provider agnostic. Starlink can’t. Unless Musk is arguing for the nationalization of Starlink, which frankly I could get behind.

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I prefer to unfold a map to read it, as opposed to doing origami just to figure out where I’m going.

Beat me to it. Except it’s more like 25 years. Now get off my lawn.

Navigation isn’t the only purpose of maps. You can display geographical, social, economic, and a whole host of other datasets on to maps. And since maps with fidelity to lat/long lines are no longer a requirement for navigation, there’s a good argument for accurately displaying relative positioning and size.

I would buy that if he was just an actor. The fact that he’s written and produced most of the shit that he acts in doesn’t happen because you smoke weed, it’s in spite of it.