be strong for box

There’s some pretty deep analysis of 1960s horni posting going on here.

This is a good argument.

This is the most compelling argument. I find it gross that companies build a profile of me, but as long as that doesn’t change my life, it’s an annoying cost of using free services.

However, when the state, the only organization that can legally use violence, has access to that data, it’s a different story. Then it moves from gross to dangerous.

This study is led by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and tested over 24,000 students last year in Canada.

It found that Canadian teenagers scored higher than the organization’s average in math, reading and science. But results were significantly lower than a decade ago.

Time to invest in ships.

as a person who eats food, I will happily eat their food stuff

oooh the character arc

I’d kill for a robotic lower back

Pity that Masamune Shirow won’t be doing the art. He’s got a great drawing style.

You have big fingers

worst air gap evar

that’s the kind of nuance I expect from Lemmy

In 1872, a group of Toronto printers went on strike, fighting for a nine-hour work day. (The standard work day was 10 to 12 hours at the time.) The workers’ demand to reduce their hours had been refused by print shop owners, and in particular, George Brown, a respected father of Confederation and founder of The Globe, a predecessor to The Globe and Mail.

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Ten thousand people marched in support of the workers to Queen’s Park.

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Many of the printers lost their jobs, but the incident led then prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald, a rival of Brown’s who was keen to gain worker support, to legalize union activities. In the years that followed, unions across North America pushed for shorter work days, and the eight-hour day eventually became standard.

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There’s some dispute around the origins of America’s Labor Day, but some historians believe U.S. labour leader Peter J. McGuire, inspired after visiting a Toronto labour gathering, organized the first American Labor Day parade in 1882.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-lessons-from-the-birth-of-labour-day/

It’s a renewable resource!

For nuclear power plants to be reliable, they need operating conditions to be stable. With climate change intensifying by the year, one cannot expect predictability, control, and stability.

This is true for our entire society. It’s why climate change is going to hurt.

At this point, we should be building the fuck out of low-carbon power sources. With high cost, relatively risky technologies like nuclear, we need to build with the expectation that conditions are going to get much worse.

Five degrees by 2081 on southern Canada. Fuck.

TIL trailers have tongues