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Dan Neuman 🇨🇦
@dan613@ottawa.place
hometown 4.5.10+hometown-1.2.1🇨🇦Recovering engineer, ex-military (#RMC), ex-Jazz musician, triggered by injustice. Everyone should have the same rights and privileges that I have. Born 318.5 ppm CO₂. Raised in BC, but in Ottawa since 1990. Generation Jones, but never conservative. Joined Mastodon in April 2022.
Profile pic: myself (white middle-aged male with graying hair) against Canada's warming stripes
Banner: Cityscape of Cyberpunk 2077's Night City at twilight
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Who is our biggest non-US customer? It is now the United Kingdom, who has stepped up as a very important customer for Canadian products. Huge thanks goes out to the UK for helping us get through these trying times. I'll grab some imported cheddar cheese the next time I'm at the store. The EU and China have both been slowly increasing their purchases, though this could also be a result of inflation (the values are in nominal dollars). (2/2) #CanPoli #CdnPoli
How do N95 masks catch particles that are smaller than the holes?
1. Particles are sticky because of static forces
2. Large particles go straight until they hit a mask layer
Tiny particles get knocked around by molecules until they hit a fibre
3. Fibres are given an electric charge so that they attract all particles (the mid-sized particles carrying the SAR2 virus need this)
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Apple Music link to Bryan Adams’ new song: 51st State
Interesting how the average gas price in Canada dropped by 10¢/L on April 20th, relative to the US average price, but has been creeping steadily upwards since then. #CanPoli #CdnPoli
Edit: It turns out summer-blend gas just came out, which ate up the gas tax savings. My bad. https://refdesk.ca/blog/summer-gas-blend-prices-rising-despite-fuel-tax-pause-how-to-save-april-2026
This is pretty much as I expected. The existing Liberal caucus members were elected under certain expectations and I can't imagine they would put up with Carney accepting people not conforming to those same expectations. Note that there were likely already LPC MPs whose *personal* beliefs were against abortion, but accepted that those beliefs were personal only, not to be enforced by government. #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://globalnews.ca/news/11771261/marilyn-gladu-liberals-abortion-carney/
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@human3500 @malducin One of Carney’s first moves was creating a trade corridor through the US between Canada and Mexico. While this hasn’t really increased our exports, it seems to have reduced the fees we paid to the US. https://international.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/corporate/reports/mexico-partnership/action-plan-2025-2028
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@sanpan@mas.to @lensco@mastodon.world @auxonic@ottawa.place @atpfm@mastodon.social Yeah, in reality I would turn off the transparency or choose a more suitable background. Basically subverting the intended experience.
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@johnefrancis Good point. Trudeau’s TMX opened up in May 2024. It ramped up to 85% capacity over the course of a year. As of January 2025 about 70% of the oil meant for export was already going overseas, but the energy regulator website doesn’t have data beyond that. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/dc343c43-a592-4a27-8ee7-c77df56afb34/resource/404fa9e0-73b1-4a8c-9f43-8045d7edb426
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@davidho@mastodon.world It's literally the reason the US EPA was created. Republican-voting sport fishers were losing their lakes and forced Nixon to do something about it.
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@yuki2501@masto.hackers.town @xinit@mastodon.coffee @OddJob@beige.party Would "immigration documents" be too on the nose?
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@hyc What happens is one side of a fibre is +ve, while the other side is -ve. This is part of the plastic as it is extruded. So the net charge is zero and there is no leakage. You don't actually notice a charge at our scale, but to a micro particle it is very apparent since the fibres are huge in comparison. Regardless, it doesn't really matter which side the particle is near. Like an uncharged wall holding onto a rubbed balloon, it will still attach.
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@llebrun @AndrewHenry Is Air Canada spraying chemicals, too? What about West Jet? Do they have any idea what's in them, or is it just something that is white?
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@kevpluck@mastodon.nz It'll happen one day, I'm afraid. Either by the slow and steady effect of global warming, or by a similar freak storm that caused the 2012 anomaly.
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social Curmudgeon, here. I'd rather not incentivize longer commutes and higher greenhouse gas emissions. I think there needs to be a compromise. Businesses like to congregate, but that puts nearby housing in high demand. Remote work is the obvious solution, but there are downsides to that, too.
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@ExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global While nets are a problem for entanglement, they don't get eaten. Plastic bags look like jellyfish and straws are probably just accidental meals along with kelp and sea grass. They also break down into micro particles quickly. And the bags and straws are most likely to blow out of open garbage cans into streams and down to the ocean, if not just outright discarded there.
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@uspolitics@mastodon.social Musk wants more kids, but he doesn't want to pay for them. That's also the women's job?
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@mho@social.heise.de @fediverse Hometown (iirc) is a Mastodon fork that just allows me to post to people on my server (though I have to use the web interface for it). I'm surprised the developer chose a different tag, but it does give visibility.
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@april@macaw.social That's been running since at least 2015. I'm surprised it isn't more widely known. I didn't learn of it myself until about 6 months ago.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social In this case I'm going to blame the icons. I'm getting too old to want to deal with a low contrast interface, and I'm not even on ios26. But I'm with you that seeing the blurred background through my interface can be jarring. Have I smudged my screen with jam again? Oh, no, it's just iOS.
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@FluentInFinance It’s 4.9%/ year, which is still a lot.
Inflation is compounded, ie, f = r²⁵, not r x 25. So to calculate the average rate, you need to calculate r = ²⁵√ f.
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@KimPerales@toad.social The US will not run out of oil or gasoline. The US is a net exporter of oil. Companies are emptying their tanks to get a great price outside the US, but they are still pumping sufficient fuel. It will be the same price (less taxes) as other countries pay, though, and that’s going to be a challenge.
If Trump really wanted to bring costs down, he only has to ban or limit exports.
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@jhpot RaspberryPiOS, which is running a bash script for an alarm that tells the cats when feeding time is so that they don't pester us at 3 am.
Apple's HomeKit, because I hate big lights (and I cannot lie) and so I have several small lights that all need to be turned off or on and I can have a single switch that does this.
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@helpmeskeletor@mastodon.social She should have stopped selling the books she wrote? Her and Taylor Swift are not typical billionaires, though I agree most billionaires do have unearned wealth.