Rhyme Repartee

@rhymerepartee
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The original idea was to have witty, rhyming repartee. Reality is somewhat less than that. Always supportive of conversations worth having.
Bird site refugee.
InterestsSustainability, climate resiliency, history, heritage, design, technology
OriginCanada, westcoast, Vancouver, Victoria
AgeOver middle
OutlookOptimist/Glass Half-Full
#3226 - Home Solar
French economist Adrien Bilal, famous for developing the model predicting that if policies remain unchanged, "climate change will cost 50% of gross domestic product by 2100" - six times more than previous models had predicted - has won the 2026 Best Young Economist Award.

@Ralph @OpWereld @MiBaWi

"Recent elections in Europe and beyond have shown that the left is winning back ground... partly as a result of the unpopularity worldwide of Donald Trump’s authoritarian and aggressive presidency".

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hard-right-left-britain-europe-us-b2947574.html

The right are not taking over Europe, they’re falling apart

As protestors march through London to oppose the far right, recent elections in Europe and beyond have shown that the left is winning back ground, says Ben Judah, partly as a result of the unpopularity worldwide of Donald Trump’s authoritarian and aggressive presidency

The Independent
PNE Skateboard Park closure for FIFA

The PNE Skate Park will be closed for FIFA, another distruption to the use of public outdoor space. Hosting FIFA is having more knock-on effects for outdoor space and parks in Vancouver. The PNE Sk…

CityHallWatch: Tools to engage in Vancouver city decisions

@PIK_climate

Not the now frequent storms washing actual billions of dollars of highways, buildings and bridges away. Not the massive 80 million acre loss of Canadian forest in wildfires. Not the droughts ending crops, NONE ARE THE CRISIS.

They are the WARNINGS of the coming never ending crisis, the ever more costly destructive crisis.

Build the new energy.

#climate #cdnpoli #uspol #eu #oil #dolar #wind

speaking of, this idea that " #mozilla should know that their web browser is only used by power users, and so they should just listen to what those power users want instead of trying to attract new ones with a.i. features"

#firefox also collects telemetry, and according to it, less than half of its users have any add-on installed at all, and that includes language packs and browser themes, which afaik firefox will outright suggest to you if the version you installed doesn't match the system language settings

only 10% of users have uBlock Origin installed, even though, imo, it is practically a necessity

(in particular, i'm surprised by how few users have any add-ons in india, not even language packs, despite india's language diversity, and the most popular language packs they use are for different dialects of english, including canadian in the first place?)

i'm as annoyed by their decisions as you are, but i understand that people like you and me are, sadly, in the minority, and from pure statistics, mozilla will take a 5% chance to attract new users from the 97% of people who don't user firefox over even a 90% chance to piss off one of the 3% that already use firefox

Firefox Public Data Report

If you can

You can help Fair Vote Canada hand out literature in support of Proportional Representation, in front of the Liberal Party convention this Thursday in Montréal. This is to support a motion in the convention.

#Montreal #CdnPoli #ProportionalRepresentation
More info here:

https://secure.fairvote.ca/en/action/join-fair-vote-canada-group-outside-liberal-party-convention-in-montreal-rejoignez-l-quipe-de

Join the Fair Vote Canada group outside the Liberal Party convention in Montreal / Rejoignez l'équipe de Fair Vote Canada devant le congrès du Parti libéral à Montréal

Join Fair Vote Canada volunteers on Thursday April 9 5 PM outside the Liberal Party convention in Montreal. The event is at Palais des Congrès in Montréal at 201 Av. Viger O, Montreal. We will be wearing Fair Vote Canada buttons (we'll have them for volunteers) and handing out flyers (available in French and English). The more Fair Vote Canada volunteers attend, the stronger the message we will send that leadership on proportional representation matters. When you sign up to RSVP, Thomas or Anita will be in touch!

Fair Vote Canada

FCC reply comments are due by 5pm EDT Monday 30 March on Reflect Orbital. If you wrote in a comment, please please please write in again saying that they did not address your concerns in their letter (which is very hard to find in the FCC dumpster-fire-of-a-website). Instructions here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

The most horrifying part in their "consolidated reply": they agree that they could in fact cause permanent eye damage to people using medium-sized telescopes. WILD.

I don't think #Trump intended this: "Edmunds data shows electrified vehicle consideration hit 23.8% of all shopper research activity for the week of March 9-15 — the highest weekly level of 2026. Online car shoppers were 17% more likely to research an #EV than the week before, with most of the increase driven by battery #ElectricVehicles specifically, not just hybrids." https://electrek.co/2026/03/26/car-owners-turn-to-evs-gulf-energy-infrastructure-destroyed/
Car owners turn to EVs as 30-40% of Gulf energy capacity is destroyed

France confirms 30-40% of Gulf refining capacity destroyed by Iran strikes, creating an 11M barrel/day shortage. EV searches spike 20% as gas nears $4.

Electrek

Hmm, writing a thing and, without thinking about it, used the verb “enslopify”. I can’t be the first. I think it’ll catch on.

#GenAI