Canada actually produces very little vaccines because in the 80s the Conservative government thought it was a waste of tax money. Thankfully that’s changing since the Covid pandemic.

See also: Nobel Disease.

I found this government report on the Canadian Field Vegetable Industry

Tomatoes are the most popular field vegetable grown in Canada making up 23.9% of production. That equates to around 543,000 tonnes produced per year. 98% of all tomatoes are grown in Ontario and most tomatoes are used in “processing”. However, Canada is one of the top importers of vegetables in the world with tomatoes being 5th place in most imported vegetable. An additional 177,000 tonnes are imported (mostly from Mexico and USA) to supply demand.

So while we produce a lot, it still isn’t enough to cover domestic consumption. I’m sure we could make domestic ketchup, but it would be taking away from tomatoes already being used somewhere else in Canada.

The lead developers of Lemmy. They also develop the mobile Lemmy app Jerboa (personally, not my first choice).

He has the cards and by cards I mean kompromat.

There’s still lots of moderation on Lemmy, but thankfully it’s all public. The lemmy.world modlog can be found here https://lemmy.world/modlog.

Ah yes, now I remember why Trudeau was forced to resign. I almost forgot because he spent the last few weeks explaining we must stand against nations that bully their neighbours and threaten their sovereignty.

You don’t program in Rust because you want to finish a project.

French films.

Here in Canada, primary education is paid for by the province

Via property taxes.

Rushing your decisions is a common red flag in scams. I’d say it’s probably enough of a red flag to stop talking with them. You can try to slow play things and if they continue to hound you then it’s almost certainly a scam. They’re probably going to do something like:

Ask you for money to purchase things you’ll need for your job (MLM/pyramid scheme)

Give you a large cheque, ask you to cash it, give a certain amount of the cash to someone, and keep the rest for yourself (cheque fraud).

The “Fuck Trudeau” people sure are having a hard time saying anything negative about Trump.

I don’t want to make this political

• Woman who was part of a political campaign

The prime minister also made a series of new commitments to Trump, including a promise to appoint a new fentanyl “czar.” And he promised to list Mexican cartels, one of the top purveyors of fentanyl and other drugs in Canada and the U.S., as terrorists under Canadian law.

I can almost hear how that conversation went.
“YOU HAVE TO APPOINT A FENTANYL CZAR”
“uhhh alright”
“AND DECLARE MEXICAN CARTELS TERRORISTS” “sure thing, Donald, can you remove the tariffs now?” “ONLY UNTIL I COME UP WITH SOMETHING ELSE”

This is almost exactly how I found out my ex-wife was cheating. She bought a ticket to a concert and then freaked out when I bought one too. Why wouldn’t I want to go to a concert with my wife? She said it was just going to be a thing with her friends from work. When we arrived there was exactly one friend from work. A guy friend.

Valve wrote literal research papers on player experience and level design. The stuff they came up with have just become the norm in other games. For example, Valve found that players never look up without a reason to. They came up with ways to get the player to look up without directly telling them to with level design choices. Things like rays of light coming in from above, or ropes hanging from the ceiling.

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