Less rain than you'd imagine falls on the oceans, due to the land having varying elevation and temperature, whilst the oceans have far more constant elevation and temperature so the conditions needed for rain happen less.
My understanding is that cloud seeding has been going on for quite a while over Texas and the rest of the southern Plains.
It's hidden in plain sight, and the only people who ever seem to talk about it are total wingnuts who also believe things like climate change is real but manufactured by the US and other world power militaries (using secret technology) for geopolitical purposes, often conflating real cloud seeding with variations on the classic chemtrails conspiracy theory.
It's a largely unregulated continent scale weather and climate modification experiment. I haven't booked too deep into the research on it, but because powerful agricultural interests are involved, I'm sure nobody is looking too closely at externalities and would prefer to keep it that way.
Except most of the posts pointed out to places like Twitter stayed up with no moderation applied and the worst thing that's happened to Twitter recently is it's acquisition by Musk.
when do you think the British Museum will be able to publish an article on the neoclassical watercolors of Adolph Hitler without mentioning antisemitism, the holocaust, or WWII?
Babur conquered India about as peacefully as Ashoka did a millennium and half before him. Both were warrior kings who took what they wanted, spared the compliant and punished those who resisted. Their killing or mercy had nothing to do with vengeance, hatred, ethnic superiority or preserving the master race.
You really need to catch up on history, barring the revisionist junk being preached by the ruling BJP in India. If the British Museum had led a display on Genghis Khan or Aurangzeb, that would have been in bad taste. But this is Babur for God sakes, about as cultured or docile a king could get in 16th century while still being a conqueror of India.
Babur, in his own words (the Baburnama), explicitly talks about the slaughter of apostates and infidels, creating towers of their skulls, the glory of being a killer of non-Muslims.
The ethnic hatred is not only everpresent, it is celebrated.
there's got to be a reasonable point on the spectrum between "child labor is legal" and "government mandates color of post-it notes in offices"
if a company decides they function best with all their employees in the same physical space, and hires with that condition as an explicit criteria for working there, do you really think that's a violation of human rights?
A reasonable point on the spectrum between "child labor is legal" and "government mandates color of post-it notes in offices" is "People should be allowed to work from home for a job that can be done from home"
It doesn't take place in Antarctica, but The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard describes such a future - the last remnants of civilization have retreated to Greenland, and London is a flooded tropical lagoon.
but... this is not true? McGaugh himself [1] mentions that there are mass discrepancies even using MOND analysis, and that this favors the dark matter paradigm [2].
The tweets above are good questions! This is how to do science!
Meanwhile it's good to restate the obvious.
Modified gravity (MOND), where acceleration at galactic scales isn't just GM/R^2 but modeled as sqrt(GM/R^2 * cH/(2pi)), works for 100s of galaxies, and is more precise than cold dark matter (CDM).
Modified gravity only has one free parameter. cH/(2pi) = c^2 / 87 bly.
are you saying an environment is only appreciable if it's a biosphere? why? that seems utterly arbitrary.
i'd quite enjoy bouncing around in 1/4 gravity, or sailing over lakes of hydrocarbons if i could. sure it's equally arbitrary, but it would be more novel than any environment on earth.
So does UofT - I myself and at least a dozen other 1T7 grads I know personally are headed south as soon as we graduate. This is a Canada-wide problem which won't be fixed unless salaries equalize.
Spot on. This new institute (and other govt efforts like it) all fail to answer this fundamental question - why would someone work at half the pay (or less) if they were a Canadian citizen? It is a chicken-and-egg problem .. salaries and labour pool quality go hand in hand.
Equal society? Lets see you buy a detached house in Toronto if you are a first generation immigrant, and your parents are not loaded. If you do not own property today, I don't see a way to EVER afford it in Toronto. Our society is hell-bent on taxing income when we should really be taxing wealth. The latest budget is fairly against young people in favor of old people. But to each their own I guess.
Being able to buy a bit faster doesn't make up for how badly poverty is treated in America. I would argue, in fact, that although it may be harder for a tech worker to break into ownership in Canada, your family can still take advantage of the countless social programs that aren't available to all hardworking people in America :)
And there's more to Canada than Toronto. Montreal has great rent prices and a fun-loving tech scene, and a very unique culture. Quebec has $5 a day daycare, free healthcare for all, and McGill university which is ranked as one of the best research institutions in the world despite having the cheapest tuition in North America (although prices for non-residents are quite a bit higher).
I never said Canadian society is perfectly equal, just more equal than US society. Sure property distribution is a massive issue but that's the case in any urban centre. There's a lot of progress left to be made but that doesn't mean we should just give up and head south.
Exactly. To invite people to stay here we need unicorn companies that young talent actually want to work for. I don't think this solves that problem as efficiently as possible. Would they be better giving that money to local startups in the space in hopes they become a unicorn and stay in Canada?
UMontreal has Bengio, UofT has Hinton. Toronto also has Google Brain, and many UofT phd students and postdocs have ended up there (Sutskever, Karpathy).
