Ontario health-care workers warn of "brutal" nurse shortage as hospitals brace for 4th wave

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-25T04:01:38+00:00

LOL I don't think you know what I have or haven't been conditioned into.

At the risk of repeating myself, let me re-emphasize: this is Kissinger we're talking about. I wouldn't let Karl Marx lecture me about the benign nature of class warfare, or Pope Urban II lecture me on the gentleness of the Crusades. We've seen the effects of Kissinger's policies for decades now. That doesn't mean I won't entertain related or even marginally similar opinions by other people. Make sense?

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-24T16:23:11+00:00

MOVE 'ZIG'

(Between Percy's laser and Ingenuity, all your base works well...)

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-24T16:10:54+00:00

Engage Science Mode

4 LIFE

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-24T10:59:19+00:00

I think a better headline would be, "Should icebergs be towed to water-starved cities?", a question the article only partly addresses:

Calved icebergs, of course, don't have anyone towing them. Presumably, with enough planning and information, ship operators could minimize impacts on wildlife in Antarctica. But there is still potential for trouble at the end of the journey: How might vast amounts of freezing fresh water affect marine ecosystems farther north, where habitats are warm and salty?

Condron says this is among the chief environmental concerns that would need to be addressed before a long-distance tow ever happens. "Understanding how cold and fresh an iceberg makes the water, and whether it's something we should be worried about," he says, "would be critical."

The question would be even more thorny in the Northern Hemisphere, where multiple nations could presumably object to water being towed out of or through their coastal waters. Sounds like a bad idea, just like other designs for diverting freshwater from poleward regions...

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-24T10:56:54+00:00

I think a better headline would be, "Should icebergs be towed to water-starved cities?", a question the article only partly addresses:

Calved icebergs, of course, don't have anyone towing them. Presumably, with enough planning and information, ship operators could minimize impacts on wildlife in Antarctica. But there is still potential for trouble at the end of the journey: How might vast amounts of freezing fresh water affect marine ecosystems farther north, where habitats are warm and salty?

Condron says this is among the chief environmental concerns that would need to be addressed before a long-distance tow ever happens. "Understanding how cold and fresh an iceberg makes the water, and whether it's something we should be worried about," he says, "would be critical."

The question would be even more thorny in the Northern Hemisphere, where multiple nations could presumably object to water being towed out of or through their coastal waters. Sounds like a bad idea, just like other designs for diverting freshwater from poleward regions...

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-24T10:25:28+00:00

I am forced to ask - in the Northern Hemisphere, where would the icebergs be towed from? I have my doubts that nations like Canada or Greenland would accept this, somehow; the icebergs melt in or near Canadian coastal waters, which influences their salinity, and I imagine you could show that this is ecologically or climatically important. In the case of Greenland, you wouldn't want to create the perception of "mining" ice, or somehow accelerate the calving process. And Alaska doesn't generate icebergs like the Baffin Bay region...

This bad idea isn't new, and has an almost Soviet tinge to it. If we're going to engineer a solution here, I'd rather that we work on developing fusion power, which could enable us to distill saltwater in the coastal countries that require the supply...

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-24T04:31:54+00:00

Consciously disregarding a warmonger with a known and very public record is the same as suppressing all disagreement?

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-24T04:08:29+00:00

If Trump can be driven from major social media outlets, why are we giving this old fascist a platform now? Aside from all his other murderous associations, this overwrought criminal was literally too corrupt for the Bush II regime.

People like this should never have been consulted about or permitted any power toward even their own domestic regimes; what makes anyone in the 21st century think he should be consulted now on issues he plainly cannot possibly grasp?

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-24T03:32:24+00:00

I do too little life science reading, so I think I'll check out that source ASAP. The friendliness to octopedes in this sub is so heartwarming.

just didn't like one of the keepers and would blast them with water

Believe me, I can relate.

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-24T03:09:03+00:00

The octopus had been using its funnel to blast it with water at night, probably because it wanted the light off.

I hope I find this story in one of the sources you mentioned. That might be the most eloquent condemnation of light pollution that I've encountered.

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-23T18:51:57+00:00

I've been feeling the urge to create a post to highlight all the enticing lithologies we've seen along the delta front, but I've a lot on my plate as it is, and I'm definitely not the most well-versed student of geology reading this sub. FWIW, I am sure you're correct, because aeolian erosion has been significant at every landing site we've ever visited.

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-22T16:49:36+00:00

Doug acting like a dragon hoarding his treasure

LOL I like where you're going with this, but honestly, comparing him to a dragon is giving too much credit. He reminds me more of the trolls from Dragon Quest.

I think it is worth asking Conservative supporters and voters just how Ford plans to actually help on a per-family financial basis. More beer bribes and pre-election tricks, or something enduring?

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-22T16:20:48+00:00

I consider Ford directly responsible for many pandemic deaths. I am 100% opposed to building highways like the 413 and the Bradford Bypass. I am volunteering to help a nearby non-Conservative riding campaign.

And I completely agree with you here. The hateful partisan mentality I've seen on this sub for well over a year now (and, admittedly, elsewhere on social media for longer) means that I try hard to steer others away from such forums. If we can't (or, as you see in this thread, won't) engage with those who have previously voted Conservative, we have no right to speak of democracy. Volunteering has both re-energized me and worried me in this sense. I don't think this sub is the best representation of Ontario, but I am still absolutely sure that way too many people on the left will resolutely refuse to learn from failures like Brexit, Trump, Corbyn, and yes, Ford. We literally have someone in this thread below saying people are terrible for having a different voting intention. That's the kind of "critical thinking" that people want to associate with boomers, rural people, Albertans, you name it - but apparently not themselves.

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-22T16:05:26+00:00

This is precisely how you lose an election - congratulations. And I say this as someone who has been volunteering on a non-Conservative riding campaign. Do you think that people, voters, in general, cannot pick up the vibes of your intolerance, contempt, and lack of feeling for others?

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-21T22:15:00+00:00

This most recent discovery, made May 6 by a team from China’s Institute of Karst Geology, brings the total number of sinkholes found in China’s Guangxi region to 30.

First I've heard of the Institute of Karst Geology, but when the climate and the geology conspire to make such an extensive area, you should appreciate it. (UNESCO says it's 500,000+ sq. km - I didn't know it was that big!)

I wonder if this sort of place would be of interest to the astrobiologists. It's not easy to wall off species/ecosystems that are exposed to the surface and atmosphere... should be a lot to learn here. Hell, the geochemistry and groundwater should be no less interesting. Given that Israel did the right thing and preserved the Ayalon Cave, I expect nothing less from the Chinese.

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-21T17:55:11+00:00

After Brexit and Trump's victory, I'm impressed by the gall of pollsters and the media outlets that parrot their "scientifically-derived results". Let David Cameron and Hillary Clinton tell me that half the adults in the USA want to be tracked in every public place.

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-20T12:42:48+00:00

They have every right to be proud of their work ethic, and I am lucky to have relatives like this as well. I learned from them how psychologically stabilizing and motivating it is, knowing that your own hard work can help you, and one's entire community.

Those very same people, however, taught me something else, directly related to their hard work. They don't know how to look up, look around, see what's going on. We all know about the old man who works himself to death, or the elderly parents lost in their retirement years because they have to be constantly occupied. The fact that things changed so radically after their prime working years astounds them, and they don't seem cognizant that it happened partly because their hard work was often being exploited. They tell me how good it is to work on a farm, but I have to tell them that city and suburban kids are cut off from the land and the environment, it was taken from them. Tell me about their freedom to be more athletic, be outside? How can you be when you're the urban working poor, when you have to pay user fees for everything?

I wish more people understood that hands working hard isn't enough - the eyes and brain have to, as well.

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-20T02:50:37+00:00

I'm not sure whether to downvote this for the alarmist headline, or just appreciate the fact that this might raise awareness of the Lakes. To my mind, this is the most underappreciated collective body of water on the planet, worth defending for its beauty alone.

The basin undergoes a roughly 30-year cycle of rising and falling water levels, so this net outflow following a huge peak is not a surprise. In the mid-late 2000s, levels were so low that some wetlands were at risk of disappearing!

As a native of the basin, I am far more concerned about Enbridge's leaky f***ing Line 5 oil pipeline under the Mackinac Strait, which would be utterly devastating for decades to come. It is just about the worst place to situation such a thing, and it has been poorly maintained for decades now. (It is worth noting that the Trudeau government is defending Enbridge fiercely.) The super-invasive Asian carp constantly threaten to invade L. Michigan from the Mississippi system via Chicago. Sometimes it feels like so few people care, and that these disasters are almost inevitable...

FlingingGoronGonads · 2022-05-19T11:29:09+00:00

Mmmmmmm... ultra-chilled sulfate meringue pie on a Thursday morning...!

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