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You know we have the government emails vis a vis the lab leak?

Like the Steele Dossier?

Or that Hunter's laptop outlining his old man's corruption was fake?

What do you think are lies that should be censored and how quick are you to identify them?

" "fake news" typically amounts to false rumors, amplifying unprovable/unsubstantiated claims. "

Like the Steele dossier or the rumor of a pee-pee tape [1].

Look, Id love to silence Rachel Maddow as much as the next guy, but there is no objective function to reliably do that without also silencing inconvenient truths (Mai Lei massacre, fake WMD, Biden's corruption, etc).

[1] That's when I knew power was out to get Trump by any means. Journos seriously reporting that a hotelier is unaware that top hotels are riddled with bugs? Bullshit.

How bad? My college (8 diopters) was jealous of my "mild" 4 diopters of correction.

At what time? Where? How much?

Did you play an hour a day during solar noon?

(It would actually be cool to see if myopia rates change along towns near a time zone border -> kids getting out of school during the brighter time of the day)

Protection over a life time of exposure, whereas if you avoid myopia by age 20 you're probably good for life

Thats been tested and its not it.

The leading hypotheses a few years back is that the outdoors is very bright. Brightness levels that cannot be easily reached indoors.

surely when we squint from bright light we are straining the eye. The idea, then, is that our development expects some amount of eye strain growing up.

Ahhh, I knew it was important to keep my 20 year old SGI fuel. :P

Which implies 3 out of 4 US teachers aren't good teachers. :P

I forgot about Clark. I liked him.

The UK ruling party has much more effective control over their PM-> see how many times they ditched their PM since the last election. Otherwise, yes, the UK PM is a (semi) elected autocrat.

What does the Quebec legislature care about the RoC?

The majority of Canadian history? The Liberals have ruled for 70 years in the 20th century, and 15 of the last 24 of the 21st.

Also the beloved and so mourned recently deceased Brian Mulroney, a Conservative, came from.... the same incestuous Laurentian Elite from the YYZ-MTL corridor that all of the PMs except Harper (whom I dislike, but I digress) have hailed from.

In fact, Im old enough to remember Mulroney's government collapsing because of corruption surrounding the same companies, the same industrialists, that discredited Chretien's (whom I liked, for what it's worth), and would have take down Jr's were it not for him firing the justice minister.

As to the not withstanding clause, you're really clinging on to "only separatists and conservatives have used it" without addressing all the reasons the Federal government doesn't need to ever invoke it (power is concentrated in the PM hands in a way unparalleled in the West)?

Look, I've read Trudeau's autobiography. His "memoirs" as he called it. I recall vividly his lament that a flawed constitution is better than none. Flawed? It fails at its most basic task - limiting government power.

The important ones

They're being ripped down and replaced by coffee shops with plugs and wifi

"Land" doesn't mean just the stuff you can hold in your hand. It literally has several pages dedicated to it in the OED. The big one. "Ground" too.

It so happens that the word for "dirt" in many languages acquire meaning that transcends mere silica and humus, as our Japanese friend pointed out.

And why would this surprise anyone? "Terroir" is using the word for "ground", "land" as a poetic metaphor for everything needed to make a peasant happy (as opposed to content).

TIL Epicaricacy, from ancient Greek ( it was unlikely that the Ancient Greeks didn't have a word for something such a human flaw.

The problem, as I understand it, is that the wavelength of sound is very big relative to the microphone spacing.

Also. Its very scary the workd we live in

Of course. The clause doesn't cover how the country is divided into provinces, for example.

The clause covers, with no real check on power (see Quebec vs high court), the most important part of the constitution - the government's relationship with its people!

Keep what in check? The war measures act has been used twice in 60 years!

The trucker fiasco ended only when the Ukraine war substituted the COVID madness

Nothing. But they dont need to use it.

1. There is effectively one ruling party in Canada (the Liberals) representing the interest of the Eastern industrialists (the Laurentian elite). The supreme court is appointed from this incestuous group and the government typically wins (exception - truckers)

2. They have the War Measures act which the feds have proven very willing to use.

3. Canadians are extremely conforming. Really they are Scandinavians in their attitude.

Yes, yes we all know the history. "We didnt want it! We dont want it! We've never used it" As if 42 years are a long time.

Of course, the feds dont really need the clause. In less than 60 years they've invoked the war measures act twice. The last time the government lost the court case on its suitability.

Canada has always been the land of the free to conform.

Of course not. The dragnet surveillance is not to bother with your doobie habit. You and I and most of us are irrelevant losers doe the NSA

They dragnet surveil to get dirt on the ten thousand or so lawmakers that matter.

Furthermore, Canada doesn't have a (real) constitution since the TP they have since 1982 has a "not withstanding" clause, meaning parliament can just ignore their equivalent of the Bill of Rights

Not just restaurants and bars. Artificial sounds is everywhere.

There was a musician (fairly accomplished in his field) who woke up one day and started hating all music because he realized you cannot escape it. He wrote a book about it but I forget his name.

Instead of fancy shmancy AI, could a pupil tracker on eyeglasses be used to estimate where a person wants to hear and use phasing to amplify the signal from there?

You have two microphones already, spaced about 30 cm apart...

(Nothing here is to cast aspersions to France or the French whom Im rather fond of)

Again, English words for dirt, e.g. land, can be used for the exact same meaning. The word terroir is not elusive; rather this is just another case of upper class English speakers fetishizing French culture mixed with French cultural conceit all too eager to oblige.

Italians have the exact same concept of "terra" when they explain why a little village in Umbria makes the best prosciutto (it hits the best humidity level allowing for optimal drying rate). Or why not all the land in Montalcino bear the same quality wine (mostly due to the quality of the amount of sun/shade)

And the Spaniards have the same concept with their "Tierra", including to describe people's attitude from those regions (just go to Euskal Herria)

In fact, your entire message is basically the definition of the EU's DOC.

The idea that terroir is an elusive French concept is also incredibly Eurocentric. Im European (origin) so I only have European examples; but do you really think that advanced civilizations like the Chinese or Japanese don't have the exact same concept as "terroir"?

"Ledoyen attributes this to the elusive French idea of terroir. No translation accurately explains this concept [...]"

Terroir means earth, hence land (as in Terra for the name of planet Earth). Every peasant everywhere throughout all time understood and understands that the local soil and conditions affect the final agricultural product.

There's nothing elusive or untranslatable about the French word.

You mean a world where people still knew how to use a library catalog, still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there?

The internet is boring. And the trash is still there. Its just become reputable instead.

So I need a lab to test my Amazon products.

I have a lab. What do 99% of consumers do? This is why the grift works.