Learned something new today: 1. About half of the warming from flying comes from contrails, not CO₂ 2. Just 3% of flights cause 80% of contrail-related warming 3. Rerouting those flights to avoid contrails would increase flight time by only ~1% Via Hannah Ritchie

Value for tax money needs to be the next viral tik tok trend.

California is #1 in solar and #1 in price increases. Nevada is #2 in solar and #50 in price increases. Maybe... just maybe... it's NOT the solar that makes California expensive.

We should build so many new houses everywhere that there's a massive oversupply and the price goes to zero Make it a worthless asset so that everyone can have a place to live

Ironically the "socialism" here is the regulation stopping the market from responding properly to more demand for housing In a market not distorted by building regulations, there'd be houses being built as fast as possible to respond to increased demand But zoning, NIMBYism,

Elias @levelsio Humans are nature too

Most Canadians do not want to join the US. Mostly because we don't like being pushed around. Question though? If we did join the states wouldn't that push the political needle to forever go in one direction? Could we save the world so to speak?

We’d be so much further ahead if we didn’t have to keep cleaning up the fallout from bad, dumb policy decisions. Drug decriminalization. De-industrialization. Privatizing and selling off public assets. Supercharged immigration. The list goes on. Is it really too much to ask for

Thinning dense coniferous increases biodiversity and reduces extreme wildfire behavior.

Elon Musk China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week

Welfare pays because you don't work. EI pays because you don't work. UBI pays, and no one wants to live on a pittance, but everyone would benefit from a baseline.

This paper changed my life. We live in a novel ecosystem. Pre-glacial and interglacial pollen records over the last 3 Ma from northwest Canada: Why do Holocene forests differ from those of previous interglaciations? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What happened here? Time (Million Years Ago) Elephant Species Alive 10 22 8 27 6 26 4

This is pretty amazing. Cheap power is coming down the mountain like an avalanche.

Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes." Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY PROVINCIAL DEBT NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED IN OUR DEBT-TO-GDP RATIOS EXPECIALLY WHEN COMPARING TO OTHER COUNTRIES. Canada’s decentralized fiscal structure significantly complicates international debt comparisons. Unlike unitary states such as France, Japan, or the

The key to basic income has always been the unconditionality. It is what is groundbreaking. This is more than robots and poverty. It is saying we value you, we trust you, we will invest in you as a member of our community.

Now hear this, we elect people not political parties.

The real question is why aren't people crossing the way you want them too. Don't blame others, blame yourself for not enticing floor crossers.

The Fifth Element (1997) is the kind of sci-fi that feels impossible today. Wildly creative, unapologetically weird, and full of heart, every frame bursts with imagination. It is proof that vision and style can outshine any modern CGI spectacle.