Alrighty, I live in BC. Next pandemic I vote we close the road passes to Alberta to anyone not vaccinated.
Alrighty, I live in BC. Next pandemic I vote we close the road passes to Alberta to anyone not vaccinated.
Also the cost of starlink is well known, I looked into it and found it to not be affordable for our situation myself and decided against it. It’s a few hundred for the equipment itself and then I believe at the time it was around $140 a month.
I work in mosquito control, it’s been generally fairly well known as far as I know. Light traps use black light bulbs as one of the methods to attract mosquitos because the lack of visible light cuts down on the number of bycatch like moths but the bulb still generates heat to attract the mosquitos, usually paired with dry ice for CO2.
Universities make money hand over fist, not sure they need any more public funding. They tend to have more administrators than professors and teachers and it just seems super wasteful.
There should almost be some sort of technological transfer to nearby empires, like cultural influence. If your neighbour is at 10000 tech points or whatever while you are at 1000, you should be able to leech some tech points from your neighbour to develop faster.
Transfer rate increases with the disparity between nations and decreases with distance.
So a super advanced empire on continent A will contribute to nations on continent A and B, but those on continent A get more of a bonus than those on B.
This aligns fairly well with reality as neighbouring countries would transfer students to universities all the time, less so the further the nations are apart.
Technically most of the fires in Canada happen up in the north where it’s dense spruce and pine conifer stands which don’t turn into your typical “old growth” type forest that you picture from the movies. Stands that are hundreds of years old will burn almost just as easily as a decades old stand. Forest fires are a natural part of their life cycle.
The typical “old growth” forests that are fairly fire resistant are found in the coastal rainforests which don’t typically see much fires as it’s pretty rare in the damp and humid environment.
Plus I prefer to have things in writing so I don’t forget a small detail, or if someone fucks up and I can point out exactly what I told them needed to be done.
Where do votes from abroad get counted? Last state you lived in? State you were born in?
Why allow rental rate hikes instead of allowing the tenants to purchase the building dirt cheap?
They would if they paid more.
If you aren’t finding employees, offer more money, don’t look abroad for people.
If you need to increase your prices to afford it, then increase your prices
If your restaurant doesn’t survive because people think it’s too expensive, that’s the free market.
I always get thrown off with ACAB and read it as A Cop at Birth like AMAB AND AFAB for male and female at birth for transgenders.
Is he trying to eat those microphones?
Of course if the right situation were to arise, if it’s either conscription or Russia somehow takes over Canada who would choose the latter?
Corvids like Crows, ravens, and magpies/jays are very susceptible to West Nile virus and are often indicators that the virus may be spreading in an area. If you find a dead Corvid you should report it so that the corpse can be tested to see if it died due to the virus.
There’s not much you can do personally other than avoiding mosquito-prone areas and wearing proper clothing.
Municipalities and other governing bodies can implement mosquito control programs though if residents feel they would benefit from reducing the mosquito populations. WNv isn’t a huge threat in Canada yet, it’s much more prevalent in the United states, so most mosquito programs up here are to control them for nuisance for more enjoyable summers, tourism and business, outdoor labourers and farmworkers, etc.
I work in mosquito control and it’s a pretty safe product that’s used, no aerial spraying of chemicals in our area it’s just targeting the larval stage of mosquitos by applying a bacteria which kills pretty much only mosquitos or black flies. Leaves everything else untouched.
Places like roadside catch basins can produce a lot of the mosquitos that transmit WNv, just sampled a townhome complex the other week and found that pretty much every one of their 30 catch basins were producing over 1000 mosquitos, likely on a weekly basis for months.
If you feel a mosquito control program is needed residents need to contact their municipal or regional representatives to get the process started. You may already have one going as well, where you may be able to get any stagnant water on your property treated for free (depending on the program). A lot of people don’t even know their city has a mosquito control program, even ones which have been going for 20+ years.
I don’t have anything for scale but something about this man makes me want to say 5’8" and overcompensating.
I’m curious if it would be similar to that of the moon, less than, or moreso.
It is made entirely of metal which is super dense and has a lot of mass, but a lot of it is also open space I imagine. Curious if the smaller amount of dense metal would have a larger or smaller mass than a solid moon.
I was told the “effectiveness” as toilet paper was as a prank by foresters to newbies and purportedly causes an itchy butt hole when all the little fibres from the leaves which make them soft then break off and coat your crack.
I do hate them, though, as they totally take over disturbed areas and are difficult to remove.
I’ve always felt that land zoned for residential without anyone living on it should be heavily taxed, and residential land should be exponentially taxed depending on the size of it.
I see all this empty land in the middle of large cities doing nothing because someone bought a few acres 20 years ago and they are just sitting on it waiting for the price to go up and up and up when someone else could be building housing on it.
It’s been tanking for a lot longer than that