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This is an alt account used for scheduling posts ahead of time. While I check notifications periodically, please contact me at @otter@lemmy.ca for a faster response.

  • Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge

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  • Neat! Good to know :)

  • What are some physical items that should be available at libraries for people to borrow?

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  • Our university Astronomy club started a program like that, it's great! Community members donated their old scopes and now people can borrow them.

  • What are some physical items that should be available at libraries for people to borrow?

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  • I think it makes sense to pay a deposit and get it back when you return the item. It would make the library more comfortable to lend out quality items. The hard part is knowing what to look for when it's returned.

  • What are some physical items that should be available at libraries for people to borrow?

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  • Definitely, mine has been sitting around for the majority of the time but I still need it every now and then.

  • October Plans - Litterbox Comics

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  • It would be a cool way for the artist to sell merch if they wanted to

  • The Royal Canadian Mint recently released the "Canadian Symbol: The Beaver – Fine Silver Coin"

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  • For those that might not have clicked through:

    Be on the lookout for any colourful toonies in your change — you could add Canada’s newest circulation coin to your collection.

    The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled its latest $2 commemorative circulation coin honouring the work of Indigenous artist Daphne Odjig on Thursday.

    The toonie is limited to a mintage of three million coins, of which two million are coloured. It begins circulating on Thursday, Sept. 4, so keep an eye out for it in your change.

    The other variant:

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    ‘It costs nothing to dial 911’: Toronto man expresses gratitude to Good Samaritan

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  • I accidentally posted this twice and I'm going to delete this one since it has less activity. If you'd like to copy your comment to the other one: https://lemmy.ca/post/52811741

  • This tree contains cyanide, so I turned it into a bowl of ice cream | JustInTheTrees

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  • He makes the bowl and spoon, and flavors the ice cream with other parts of the same tree.

    This series is a weird mix of woodworking and cooking that doesn't fit perfectly into either community. Still, it's cool to see the process and the channel is about woodworking, so I usually post it in this one

    You can skip to 10:00 to get to the woodworking part

  • Owl and Seagull | Poorly Drawn Lines

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  • I've seen comics there before, so I think you can go for it :)

  • [Article] David Walker's Paper Clip Collection

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  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unified

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  • That's what I was thinking when I saw it

  • PinePods Release v0.8.0 - "Mobile apps and massive perfomance bumps"

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  • Thank you! I've edited this into the post, and noted for next time!

  • What are some uBlock Origin filters you're using to make the internet nicer to use?

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  • Try enabling some optional filters in the settings. There are some for common annoyances

  • What are some uBlock Origin filters you're using to make the internet nicer to use?

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  • Depending on what you are zapping, you can likely add some wildcards to the URL portion to cover all the fandom sites for example. You might even be able to edit it to just fandom.com to cover all the fandom sites

  • Montréal’s bike infrastructure hardly takes up any space from cars on city roads

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  • I actually use lemmy-schedule for these posts, which seems to do it in this format. Maybe I can add the other communities to the post body to make discoverability easier :)

  • Popular clothing brand [Arc’teryx] blasted for China fireworks stunt [in the Tibetan Plateau]

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  • I'll edit the title further to remove the "Canadian"

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    This community has been locked, please use this thread to share feedback

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  • Canada’s tariff wall on Chinese electric vehicles is deepening dependence on the U.S.

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  • We do manufacturer some cars

    The government justified its “tariff fortress” by pointing to China’s extensive industrial policy, such as subsidies, that artificially lower production costs. The tariffs were claimed to protect domestic producers by offsetting the cost advantage enjoyed by Chinese EV manufacturers.

  • New study shows how Amazon trees use recent rainfall in the dry season and support the production of their own rain

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  • Specifically, if the "flying rivers" of transpiration during dry seasons are from deep water tables or shallow groundwater:

    The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical forest, home to unmatched biodiversity and one of the planet’s longest rivers. Besides the Amazon River, the Amazon rainforest also features “flying rivers:” invisible streams of vapour that travel through the atmosphere, fuelling rainfall both within the forest and far beyond its boundaries.

    The forests play a central role in this system. Much of the moisture that rises into the atmosphere comes from transpiration. Trees pull water from the soil through their roots, transport it to the leaves and release it as vapour. That vapour becomes rainfall — sometimes locally, sometimes hundreds of kilometres away.

    In the dry season when rain is scarce, up to 70 per cent of rainfall in the Amazon comes from this moisture-recycling generated by the forest itself. This raises a key question: where do the trees find the water to keep the cycle going during the driest months?

    The results were surprising. Most water used for transpiration in the dry season did not come from deep reserves, but from shallow soil. In a year without extreme drought or floods, 69 per cent of transpiration on the hill and 46 per cent in the valley came from the top 50 centimetres of soil.

    Our research also found that water stored in the shallow soil had fallen on land recently, specifically during the dry season. In other words, the forest rapidly recycles the rain: it falls, infiltrates shallow soil, is absorbed by roots and is released back into the atmosphere, fuelling new rainfall — right when the forest needs water most.

    This is important because:

    This delicate balance is threatened by deforestation. When forests are cut down, fewer trees release moisture into the air through transpiration, reducing the formation of local and nearby rainfall during the dry season.

    Forest loss weakens the very system that sustains rainfall — the recycling of water through transpiration. Our study shows that embolism-resistant trees play a central role by quickly returning dry-season rainfall to the atmosphere, where it fuels new rainfall.

    The message is clear: without the forest, there is no rain, and without rain, no forest. The quick recycling of dry-season rain keeps the Amazon alive through its driest months. It also plays a crucial role in triggering the return of the wet season. If the forest loses its ability to recycle this water, the entire hydrological cycle risks collapse.