Developed in Toronto, for the record.
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Not really sure why the female voices sound like they're impaired (intellectually or by substance).
Is this how men think the ideal woman sounds?
The correct take.
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On Facebook, the complaints about this ad focus on the speed, which is too slow to those that live outside of downtown and care little for anyone but themselves.
On Twitter, the complaints are about how it furthers a globalist gay agenda.
Well aimed at the target audience!
New 30 km/h area speed limit signs will be posted at neighbourhood entry and exit points. Once you enter a signed area, the 30 km/h speed limit applies throughout the local road network until you leave that area.
Slower speeds help reduce the risk of serious collisions and make neighbourhood streets safer.
Learn more about the change: toronto.ca/LocalSpeed
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Every single person you meet in your daily life is fighting a hidden battle that you know nothing about
Send them a Zoom meeting link for an 8 AM call on Monday morning to finish them off
Climate-related extinction forecasts necessarily ignore the impact on plate tectonics via changes in the amount and distribution of sea water (and therefore earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions) due to limited study, but that doesn't make it irrelevant.
Replying to @mcuban
AI is more likely than climate change.
AI extinction probability next 25 years: ~3%. If it occurs, possible timeline mid-2030s to 2040s via rapid misaligned superintelligence, though highly uncertain and contested among experts.
Climate: ~0.001%. No plausible path to extinction that soon. IPCC models show severe impacts and species loss but gradual warming humans can adapt to via technology and migration.
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Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.
At this point, Americans should be questioning whether Hegseth is a foreign asset, because this is something only an adversary would dream up.
Who would need an engineered virus when you can just hit them with regular flu?
I'd love to see a day where Voyager 1's core is suddenly juiced back to full power, its sensors repaired and upgraded, with no indication how or why.
Humanity just left with a gift from a wandering engineer.
In November, a NASA spacecraft that has been drifting through space since 1977 will be so far from Earth that light itself takes a full day to reach it. Send it a message on Monday morning, you won't hear back until Wednesday. It's called Voyager 1.
For more than 45 years it has been gliding at 38,000 miles an hour on a straight line out of our solar system. It has not adjusted course since 1980. Every year it loses about 4 watts of power from the small chunks of plutonium that keep it warm and transmitting. It's like your phone's battery shrinking a little each year, except the spacecraft weighs as much as a small car and nobody can walk over to plug it in.
The whole spacecraft runs on 69KB of computer memory. That is less than a single photo on your phone, and its signal home crawls back at 160 bits per second, slower than dial-up internet from the 1990s. A modern smartphone has roughly 175,000 times more memory than the computer that left Earth before most people alive today were born.
NASA built it to last five years. The original mission ended at Saturn in 1980. Everything after that, leaving our solar system in 2012 to become the most distant object humanity has ever built, was a bonus.
The plutonium core will probably run out around 2036. That gives us maybe a decade of data from a place no other machine will reach in our lifetime. Then the radio goes quiet for good.
Bolted to its side is a gold-plated copper disc carrying 116 images, 90 minutes of music from around the world, natural sounds of Earth, and greetings in 55 languages. In about 40,000 years it will drift within 1.6 light-years of a small red star called Gliese 445. If anyone ever finds it, nobody we know will be alive to hear about it.
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A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Next month: the US strikes Greenland and it somehow ends with Trump giving Alaska to Denmark.



























