It’s like living on a busy road. People adjust, while life degrades.

The article addresses this. Data must be fresh to be valuable. Yes old data can be useful, but can it be sold? That’s the main vulnerability to surveillance capitalism that hiding exploits.

Consider this: every record I play has a faint recording of the room, every time it has been played, since no turntable or cartridge is perfectly isolated, and, being diamond rubbing against vinyl, will leave some trace of the room sound behind.

Natty Natto

No no, after initial degradation, the battery health levels off and stays around 90% for a long while, generally.

My ICE vehicles are maintained but don’t have the new car fuel efficiency either. I wouldn’t be surprised to find they have lost 15% since they are pretty old.

Recent research shows that batteries are likely to outlast the body of most EVs, if the battery is not abused.

Also, people overestimate the typical daily range used with the primary or secondary vehicles, but even short range EVs cover the average daily drive for most.

Just for Leafs and some of the short range compliance cars like Golfs that don’t have active thermal management of the battery. The old SparkEV batteries are following the expected curve mostly: about 10% loss in the 8yr warranty period, followed by relative plateau of slow degradation mitigated somewhat by its overprovisioning. Hyundai and Kia etc. batteries should be fine, for example.

Telemetry is just as much a problem though.

I bought glasses recently and, like the dork I am, loudly complained about trying to find a pair that didn’t have advertisements in the form of logos on the arms. Since they aren’t discounted as compensation for fluffing their marketing department, and all that.

Clerk said ‘yeah they actually charge more for the stupid name’ and shoppers laughed so people mostly know but comply. The supply chain is perverse, ok. Life is full of struggle so the small ones slide.

In BC, Rustad makes Smith look smart and diplomatic. Yet the last election had these mouth breathers losing by a handful of votes.

Foreign influence, social media, lies damn lies, and the failure to implement media literacy in schools in the 1990s led us to this. Well, add the flapping tatters of colonial settler ideology as a base layer, I guess.

Oooo, sepi gets it!

User LemmyKnowsBest publicly claims that all laws are just, fair, and teasonable.

Yes, by .25%. Mandarin is .3% less at 6.36% – splitting hairs.

I am in favour of franco-anglo bilingualism, but would like a postcolonial and regional approach.

I fully expect salish languages to become more popular as well in the next couple of generations.

In BC, Punjabi, Mandarin, and Cantonese each have roughly equal numbers to French speakers, and there are few French speaking enclaves, unlike Manitoba. If you’re in Richmond, retail signs and ads are often Chinese first, etc.

Thank you!

It is important to remember while Alberta’s carbon emissions are very high, it is not their most toxic export.

That honour goes to The Right Dishonourable Stephen Harper, whose guidance of the deceptively named International Democracy Union will send ripples of suffering and extinction throughout the timeline.

Well, we all have varying degrees of parochialism in our local outlook.

It’s also, in the simplest way, incompetent.

All those weeds provide some ecological service in some way. If you look at my yard and note it’s covered in tall straggly white flowers, you could say weedy, and be right. I would clarify that wild carrots are helping convert our heavy clay soil into good tilth, and supporting a massive number of pollinators and pest predators.

And why would we put up with yellow dock going to seed everywhere? It’s the most nutritious chicken fodder, and it also gives tilth to heavy clay.

Don’t get me started about dandelion!!

Yes, I generally think that is the case too.

Fraser Institute strikes again! Traitors to Canada and humanity.

You may be right, but ostensibly, tariffs and other barriers are an attempt to make trade more fair, as the business conditions in China are significantly different and give various unfair advantages over jurisdictions that have higher labour standards, safety standards, environmental standards, and fewer subsidies.

So in that sense, we don’t want to subsidize the oppression of workers who give up a decent living to save us some money, etc…

I realize that things like safety standards can change much faster than legislation.

You meant to type right turn on a red.

Slept in. Talked about layers of post colonial identity over coffee. Worked on our resilience garden. Now working on all the little dishes for a mezze table for and cleaning up the BBQ.

Patriotism sucks and it’s particularly bad right now because it’s nose-holdingly necessary.

Happy not-fukan-amurrican day.

Going to add a few Iranian dishes to the menu in that spirit.