Really, all he's doing is announcing additional spending on programs that are already in the works. All of these things are already a focus of the Department of National Defense's 2025 departmental plan.

Super useful thread. I've been considering many of these questions recently. I'm so embedded with Google, and I hate it. I need to pull my storage, which is the hardest bit. I'll still use maps, I guess, but I'll do my best to limit how much data I give them. 🤷‍♂️

I've hosted my own under my own domain for over 15 years, but after a security breach, I moved everything to Microsoft.

If you need the advice of a local, feel free to reach out. I was raised here and recently moved back here with the family.

Come to British Columbia. We have bears, lynx, mountain lions, and lots of farms. Apex predators are essential for a balanced ecosystem. Read Aldo Leopold's "Think like a Mountain".

Yeah... growing up, I had really hoped "Wizard" would be a viable career option.

Given my teenage son's visceral reaction to "skibidi," I think I'm going to start using this!

It was perfect given all I really wanted was a little emergency help to bridge a gap. He was very professional and knowledgeable, but that's not all of them.

I went back to University and did a second degree in the mid-aughts. At the very end of that we ended up seeing a social worker when some funding didn't come through. This person was 100% focused on keeping us out of the system.

Even if this were true, having lived in the Pacific NW, in Canada, in a town where we got our water from a glacier, I can say with some authority that we do not have limitless amounts of water. The misconception that we do is dangerous.

Elizabeth May is doing pretty good, but the greens have a pretty lousy track record of trying to replace her

I'll never understand people from either side of the political spectrum that see politics, even morality, as a zero-sum game. That approach is fine if you're a preschooler but quickly falls apart in the real world.

As a [former] musician, I love this!

I just re-read the series for the 3rd time. It really is, in so many ways, a story for our time.

You're not alone there. It's very demoralizing. Like so many, I have family down there.

How about an angry beaver? 😆