Not as much as people who wasted their vote.

Besides, this is his one most shit opinion, as far as I’m aware; not a representative sample. C’mon, you felt that way before this article, too, right?

Well, it’s more often “don’t got mine, blame immigrants, and don’t like gays either”. The richer parts of the population leans pretty progressive.

Albertans are not a ‘people’ in a way that international law would recognize

And we all know that. It’s not about cultural distinctness from Saskatchewan, because lol.

Separatists are pretty up front about what this independent Alberta would do. Basically, it’s a power grab so they can build some kind of imaginary far-right wonderland. They don’t have much support, either, as of last I checked.

[Bugs Bunny “no” gif]

Yeah. Now that our government is actively fighting him, it’s a lot easier to just laugh at stupid Trump stories.

Your article is primarily about nitrogen fertilizers, which is usually made by processing fossil fuels.

Air, actually! (Well, nitrogen from air, and hydrogen. Which might come from fossil fuels, but that’s a relatively minor consideration)

It’s just a really energy intensive process, so fuel is the main input in cost terms.

Also, fun fact about phosphorus: it’s expected deposits will be depleted in a few decades. Efforts are already underway to start recovering it from sewage, instead.

Yeah, but we kind of need/like some of the stuff you send back. Plus, if we were really aggressive, you could just invade, and then we get to live in a version of Afghanistan with an even worse climate.

Cutting off your oil or fertilizer is an option, but it’s a card we’re saving for a long way down the road, basically. For now, we’re roughly matching whatever your government does, proportionately.

FWIW we know, and if anything this community gets kind of tired of hearing it, and kind of grumpy about it. Appreciate the thought, though!

No u.

I don’t know, they seem like they could be handy. All the screen real estate you could want or imagine, with a phone level of portability.

The covert recording problem is huge, though.

Cameras of any kind are banned in change rooms. Like, not all of them literally post that, but I think it’s implied.

Billionaires tend to be buisnesspeople, plenty of multinationals (most, actually) aren’t owned by a billionaire, and non-billionaires can run businesses that operate in multiple countries (again, probably most of them).

A leader that is elected by their country, represents it.

Well, that’s basically the propaganda. Says who? God? Physics? Neither. And, elect how? Some countries have proportional representation, which neither the US or Canada do.

At the end of the day, a state is anything that has a monopoly on the use of force. Some allocate political power within themselves through elections (of many massively different kinds), while some do it other ways.

You could say, “okay, elections have nothing to do with it, but we’re still responsible for what we let our governments do”, which covers the “it’s a collective responsibility” bit. And there’s a strong argument for that. But, by that measure pretty much everyone sucks everywhere, which you can take however you want.

400 million people is 400 million distinct people. Nobody could or does represent them; the idea that someone can represent “the will of the people” is propaganda. Same with every other government; they actually just have control.

Well, plenty of lives depend on petroleum products, too. And you can use sand or similar to prevent icyness, as well, although you need more of it.

And oil. And critical minerals. Apparently road salt too…

Emissions have measurably dropped under carbon pricing.

Yeah, there is that legal fiction, and typical way of looking at things, so it’s not an incorrect phrasing. It’s just kinda funny.

Yeah, IIRC the force between nucleons is actually mediated by virtual pions, which are themselves composite particles. The direct nuclear force gets stronger with distance instead of weaker, which obviously doesn’t happen with whole atoms.

It turns out that glueballs don’t come from “taking the quarks out” of regular matter but by some kind of direct excitation of the colour charge field – a thing I didn’t even know was a thing.

Yep. It’s like if photons (which are the fundamental particles of electromagnetism) had a magnetic or electric charge themselves. That was a known property, but it wasn’t clear until now if it was enough to weave together into a larger particle like this.

The Mr.Beast Movie feels a bit like cotton candy flavoured cotton candy.