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Cannasaurus Rex

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Time for some organic gardening, still getting frost around the Holiday weekend as ALWAYS... wonder why my palm tree and cannabis don't thrive in this global warming environment...glad I'm not following the science LOL. Cheers folks, Happy Victoria Day, glad she was a visionary or well you know where we'd be here without her.
 

Cannasaurus Rex

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I'd like to see pride in ones community, building on what you were born and raised into. Moving specifically for work is sad, but in a lot of cases essential. How many young people I've witnessed moving west for work during oil booms and then returning to their place of birth with jack-all in their pockets is sad. Money is more important than family, friends and pride, until you get the lay-off notice. Economic emigration benefits only the emigrant, but at what price? Companies who encourage relocation, don't last as long as a mortgage.
 

Cannasaurus Rex

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Getting rid of every gas powered car in North America will do Fuck all for the environment and 'CO2' levels. Peeps expect hydro to become more 'affordable' when Hydro 1 has a monopoly on energy, fucking hilarious.
 

Cannasaurus Rex

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On another note, about the baby boomer, genx millenial characterizations. I notice a difference in behaviour among adults who were born after ww2 from men who served in WW2. As compared to those born to parents who lived during WW2 but were either too young or just not eligible to serve. My father was 19 yrs.old in 1945 as was my wifes father, so we are in the latter category.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
I stated cars NOT road transport. Pickups vans and tractor trailers not included in forced bans, yet.
Look at California. Heavy road transport is not exempt. Where we lead, all y’all will follow. Furthermore,
I'd like to see pride in ones community, building on what you were born and raised into. …
that strikes me as downright medieval. If you’re from a one-horse town, have you no prospect of being more than a ranch hand or perhaps carpenter? Where in this hometown vision are our aerospace engineers and particle physicists (or sculptors) supposed to come from? If someone was born and raised into a backcountry dead end, (or worse, a place where a/the church dominated the community) that’s something to escape, not hallow.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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I stated cars NOT road transport. Pickups vans and tractor trailers not included in forced bans, yet.
North America is behind most places in adopting EVs, China and the EU are doing better, so far. Ranges will increase, charging times will decrease and costs will come down. It will offer many people living in the burbs and rurally energy independence for home and transportation. It will happen because it will make economic and practical sense to make the switch. Electric tractor trailers make sense when you realize that less than 1/3 of the main routes can be electrified with overhead wires and trucks can charge on the move using pantographs. Electric trucks have no gears and clutches making driverless trucks on the highways feasible. There are a couple of systems in the EU under test and the truck owners like the idea because it saves money, if trains can use such a system, it can charge cars too.

Most compact and subcompact cars can charge to enough range for the average commute (less than 50 miles) overnight just using an internal 120-volt charger. Most EVs on a full charge will eventually outrange and ICE car on a full tank of gas and can charge from home or fast charge on the road. There will be little need to force ban anybody, an EV is cheaper to produce (battery costs are dropping and will continue to) has fewer moving parts, is cheaper to operate and has lower maintenance costs than an ICE vehicle. No oil, transmission fluid or antifreeze, even brake pads will last the lifetime of the car with dynamic braking. Chargers will become more common than gas stations and in a decade a lot of those will be closing down.

People will switch because it will be cheaper and more practical, the usual reasons. It's like the switch from labor and maintenance intensive steam locomotives to much cheaper to operate diesel locos, it happened fast in the decade after WW2 because it made economic sense. Solar is currently the cheapest kind of power generation per kilowatt, cheaper than fossel fuel generated power.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Glad your particle physicist/aerospace engineer attitude thinks real working people are shameful and worthy of contempt.
You don't think scientists work for a living? There is dignity in all work, even being a geek. "Working people" will adopt EVs, solar panels on their roofs, battery banks in their basements and heat pumps because it makes sense to do so. Yer granddaddy gave up the coal stove and got grid power for the same sensible reasons.
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
North America is behind most places in adopting EVs, China and the EU are doing better, so far. Ranges will increase, charging times will decrease and costs will come down. It will offer many people living in the burbs and rurally energy independence for home and transportation. It will happen because it will make economic and practical sense to make the switch. Electric tractor trailers make sense when you realize that less than 1/3 of the main routes can be electrified with overhead wires and trucks can charge on the move using pantographs. Electric trucks have no gears and clutches making driverless trucks on the highways feasible. There are a couple of systems in the EU under test and the truck owners like the idea because it saves money, if trains can use such a system, it can charge cars too.

Most compact and subcompact cars can charge to enough range for the average commute (less than 50 miles) overnight just using an internal 120-volt charger. Most EVs on a full charge will eventually outrange and ICE car on a full tank of gas and can charge from home or fast charge on the road. There will be little need to force ban anybody, an EV is cheaper to produce (battery costs are dropping and will continue to) has fewer moving parts, is cheaper to operate and has lower maintenance costs than an ICE vehicle. No oil, transmission fluid or antifreeze, even brake pads will last the lifetime of the car with dynamic braking. Chargers will become more common than gas stations and in a decade a lot of those will be closing down.

People will switch because it will be cheaper and more practical, the usual reasons. It's like the switch from labor and maintenance intensive steam locomotives to much cheaper to operate diesel locos, it happened fast in the decade after WW2 because it made economic sense. Solar is currently the cheapest kind of power generation per kilowatt, cheaper than fossel fuel generated power.
Had cold fusion been the promised Thing, we’d be back to *steam.

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*supercritical steam, a nascent technology nipped in the bud by Diesel
 

printer

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Let's go Brandon! :lol: The news of book banning from America is stripping away the cover from the religious lunatics in Canada. America your sacrifice has not been in vain, and all those kids being thrown under the bus will help others in more sensible places. This place is a religious lunatic hotbed in Canada, so this sends a message.

Which place is a religious lunatic hotbed, Brandon? Hardly. Wrong side of the province, the eastern side (where many did not believe in covid) will have a greater percentage of less open people.


"The school division was inundated with calls, letters and emails after a delegation at its May 8 meeting, led by former school trustee and grandmother Lorraine Hackenschmidt, called on the division to set up a committee to review the content of books available in school libraries, and remove titles deemed inappropriate, including "any books that caused our kids to question whether they are in the wrong body."

The only trustee to vote in favour of proposal was Breanna Sieklicki, who was criticized by a number of speakers for comments she made at the May 8 meeting, when she told Hackenschmidt it took "courage" to come before the board and raise her concerns.

Loni Powell, the last speaker of the evening, told the board Sieklicki should be removed from her position, which was met with a loud cheer.

Before the vote, Sieklicki said she supported the call to review all books, not only those dealing with LGBTQ issues.

"We need to look at these books because why are we trying to sexualize kids in our schools?" she said.

She stated that she did not think the committee should have the power to remove the books, but she wanted to "get the conversation started."

Several people in the audience cheered when People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier, who said he supports the call to remove the books, entered the gym. They were met with jeers and boos from other audience members.

 

CANON_Grow

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Let's go Brandon! :lol: The news of book banning from America is stripping away the cover from the religious lunatics in Canada. America your sacrifice has not been in vain, and all those kids being thrown under the bus will help others in more sensible places. This place is a religious lunatic hotbed in Canada, so this sends a message.

Hopefully the message received by Joe Public is that Canada is not insulated from the lunacy that is happening South of us. The ignoramuses will certainly copy whatever they see happening down there and do their best to import it, like we have seen so often.
 
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