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Lawrence
@theinfoaddict.bsky.social
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Art-Sci prefigurative, #StayCurious #AI #GenAIoT #MedSci #EngSci #EconSci #BigData #McLuhan #Mann #Hayhoe #ClimateMatters #JusticeMatters #FossilFuelsAreToxicGarbage
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theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Back to "seasonal" weather - in Ottawa Canada today.

I ask "what season" ... summer?
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Doing some research, ends up Canadian beef is covered under CUSMA aka USMCA and not tariffed now. Ditto Mexico for now. But ...not Australia, Brazil, New Zealand ... Going to be a beef by consumers in the US ... no matter how u slice it ... :D
Country-Level Summary Table Country U.S. Beef Exports (2024/25) U.S. Beef Imports (2025) Net Trade Balance (approx.) Japan $908M / 99,410 tons — Large net exporter Korea, S. $965M / 76,350 tons — Large net exporter Mexico $785M / 87,740 tons 117,530 tons Importer slightly > exporter Canada $613M / 64,400 tons 146,468 tons Imports much greater than exports Australia — 239,181 tons Large importer New Zealand — 125,629 tons Importer Brazil — 176,371 tons Importer China $294M / 21,320 tons — Net exporter Key notes: The U.S. is a significant net exporter to Japan, South Korea, China, and Taiwan. The U.S. is a net importer from Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil.
August 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
The US needs "imports" to make lean ground beef as their stuff is too fatty. They have a trade deficit in beef, and a new record low herd size from 1951. With tariffs on imports, their consumers are going to try to eat beef but at much higher prices. Bottom 80% of Americans are CPI fk'd.
#cards
The most recent data for 2025 show that the United States is running a significant trade deficit in beef. According to USDA projections and trade reports for 2025: U.S. beef exports (2025): 2.7 billion pounds, down almost 10% from the previous year. U.S. beef imports (2025): 5.18 billion pounds, up nearly 12% year over year. This results in a beef trade deficit of about 2.5 billion pounds (imports minus exports). The deficit is expected to remain wide due to lower U.S. beef production, high domestic demand for lean beef, and continued strong imports from countries like Australia and Brazil.
August 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Billllleee Barr!!!!!! How quickly they forget him
pic of bill barr looking kind of dumbfounded ....
July 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Rescue from a Puppy Mill, 2014, to my care and all I got was adoration, laugher, love, n fun back. The 11 years affair continues as she turns 13 in December!!
Maltese, Age 12, rescue from a puppy mill.
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
100%

youtu.be/QrkgV5bl7kQ?...
Key Points Americans: Over 2,400–2,461 military deaths in Afghanistan (including Pakistan/Uzbekistan), plus 59 in other countries supporting the mission. Canadians: 159 military deaths in Afghanistan, 1 additional in UAE. Allied Forces (excluding US): About 1,160 military deaths in Afghanistan, plus a few dozen in other countries (mainly Spain’s plane crash). This makes the American military death toll in and around Afghanistan more than double that of all other coalition partners combined. Canada’s losses, while much lower in absolute terms, were significant relative to its population and troop commitments.
June 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Not my hero.
Key Point: The US federal deficit has risen by over $1.2 trillion annually since 1981, reflecting a more than fifteenfold increase, as Laffer’s ideas on tax policy were implemented through the Reagan tax cuts and subsequent fiscal policies. This does not account for inflation, but even in real terms, the increase is substantial. The national debt has grown even more dramatically, from about $1 trillion in 1981 to over $34 trillion by 2025.
June 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
ICYMI the pilot of #BattlestarGalactica1978 + a few subsequent episodes, the Cylon Empire is laid out as the crystallization of #GeofHinton's fears. The #AI and #Robotics race has 0 guardrails. #Neurallink? Elon's creationism for Cylons. Anyone get a vote? Now?

www.techspot.com/news/107706-...
Cylon 2004 Cylon The Cylons (Cybernetic Lifeform Node) are a race of sentient beings based on ground-breaking research by Zoe and Daniel Graystone. Created as military robots by Graystone Industries for the Caprican military, the Cylons quickly entered industrial and domestic sectors. Over a period of six years, the Cylons became widespread across the Cyrannus Star System. Inspired by their belief in the One True God, they launched a cataclysmic slave rebellion against their human masters, which became a genocidal war for both parties. In 40 BCH, the Cylons ended their war and left mankind to pursue their own evolution on a colony of their own, but forty years later returned to exterminate the near totality of mankind. In the next four years, their culture went through a series of shifts that led to the collapse of their political structure, spawning a genocidal civil war.
June 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
By province average donation claim? High income Albertan's
donated the most to bring up the median (half above, half below) to make that province the most generous! (also highest income per capita province). Median sorted in second table.

PS no intention to rain on the NS parade.
Number Amout Median Average Canada 5,048,780 $12,782,690,000 $390 $2,532 Alberta 579,830 $2,100,070,000 $510 $3,622 British Columbia 658,660 $2,172,850,000 $570 $3,299 Nunavut 1,080 $3,115,000 $910 $2,884 Manitoba 192,200 $548,695,000 $600 $2,855 Ontario 1,996,640 $5,621,620,000 $490 $2,816 Saskatchewan 142,770 $370,780,000 $550 $2,597 Northwest Territories 3,030 $7,695,000 $580 $2,540 Yukon 4,340 $9,460,000 $520 $2,180 New Brunswick 92,990 $193,085,000 $420 $2,076 Prince Edward Island 21,670 $41,955,000 $550 $1,936 Nova Scotia 122,570 $232,005,000 $440 $1,893 Newfoundland and Labrador 64,490 $85,980,000 $400 $1,333 Quebec 1,168,530 $1,395,385,000 $160 $1,194 Number Amout Median Average Canada 5,048,780 $12,782,690,000 $390 $2,532 Nunavut 1,080 $3,115,000 $910 $2,884 Manitoba 192,200 $548,695,000 $600 $2,855 Northwest Territories 3,030 $7,695,000 $580 $2,540 British Columbia 658,660 $2,172,850,000 $570 $3,299 Saskatchewan 142,770 $370,780,000 $550 $2,597 Prince Edward Island 21,670 $41,955,000 $550 $1,936 Yukon 4,340 $9,460,000 $520 $2,180 Alberta 579,830 $2,100,070,000 $510 $3,622 Ontario 1,996,640 $5,621,620,000 $490 $2,816 Nova Scotia 122,570 $232,005,000 $440 $1,893 New Brunswick 92,990 $193,085,000 $420 $2,076 Newfoundland and Labrador 64,490 $85,980,000 $400 $1,333 Quebec 1,168,530 $1,395,385,000 $160 $1,194
May 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Statistics Canada from 2023 T1 Individual tax data shows Nunavut at the top. Individuals donated $12,782,690,000.

The $3,576,542,708 in the article through CanadaHelps is a PR'd, all time number :(

PS surprised journalists' story did not do the StatCan thing or read the financial reports.
2023 – Donors 2023 – Total Donations 2023 – Median Donation number thousands of dollars dollars Canada 5,048,780 12,782,690 390 Newfoundland and Labrador 64,490 85,980 400 Prince Edward Island 21,670 41,955 550 Nova Scotia 122,570 232,005 440 New Brunswick 92,990 193,085 420 Quebec 1,168,530 1,395,385 160 Ontario 1,996,640 5,621,620 490 Manitoba 192,200 548,695 600 Saskatchewan 142,770 370,780 550 Alberta 579,830 2,100,070 510 British Columbia 658,660 2,172,850 570 Yukon 4,340 9,460 520 Northwest Territories 3,030 7,695 580 Nunavut 1,080 3,115 910 Note(s): Amounts are expressed in current dollars.
May 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Striking resemblance to the Salt Vampire with her gaping mouth, a creature of danger.

#weirdbuttrue
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nancy_Crater_(creature)
May 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Gaslighting the public. She sets the priorities.
Provincial Policing Through the RCMP Albertans have a say in how they are served by the RCMP as their provincial service through the Provincial Police Service Agreement, which gives the Government of Alberta control of setting priorities for the Alberta RCMP. Through survey results collected by Pollara Strategic Insights, 70% of Albertans agree that RCMP officers have personal connections with their communities, and that RCMP officers are accountable to their communities.
May 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Wait till the lowest cost producer SA realizes that there is no future in oil n gas and goes for market share. It's a matter of time as electrification progresses rather rapidly - outside the tariff walled US and who it can muscle along.

From www.iea.org/reports/glob...

#ChineseCards
Growth in global oil demand slowed markedly in 2024, with consumption rising by 0.8% (1.5 EJ or 830 kb/d) to 193 EJ after jumping by 1.9% in 2023. This reflected the end of the post-pandemic mobility rebound, slower industrial growth and the increasing impact of electric vehicles. This 0.8% increase in demand – below the pre-pandemic growth rate of over 1% in the decade to 2019 – was closely in line with the IEA’s first forecast for 2024 set out in June 2023, which noted that structural macroeconomic trends would reassert themselves as Covid pandemic effects eased. Oil’s share of total energy demand fell below 30% for the first time ever, 50 years after peaking at 46%.
May 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
4.2 percent in January 2021
This update, prepared by Dallas Fed Senior Economist Jim Dolmas, provides an in-depth analysis of the latest personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation data. NOTE: Terms in bold are defined in the Inflation Update Glossary. The headline, or all-items, PCE price index rose an annualized 4.2 percent in January after rising an annualized 4.5 percent in December. The price index for PCE excluding food and energy rose at a 3.1 percent annualized rate after rising an annualized 3.7 percent a month earlier. Prices for energy goods and services as a whole were up sharply, reflecting a steep increase in the price index for gasoline and other motor fuel. Food prices were down for the month.
May 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Am kinda thinking this got the page secured.
May 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
My girl likes her toys ....
May 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Scary part? Non-peer reviewed stuff gets sucked into the training set as well as peer reviewed stuff. A lot of shite will never get peer reviewed and published formally, becoming nonscience.

And well, you will have non-experts at the wheel.
From "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, World."
April 22, 2025 at 5:42 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Kind, Fierce, Free, Beautiful, Strong
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/reports-publications/military-law/military-justice-summary-trial-level-2-2/annex-a-the-canadian-charter-of-rights-and-freedoms.html
April 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Canada's Carbon Fibre Industrial future?

DId a workout on Canada's Bitumen to Carbon Fibre industrial opportunity, after hearing @markhamhislop.bsky.social talk about it on his Energi Media Youtube channel (recommended: www.youtube.com/@EnergiMedia )

Here: www.perplexity.ai/page/canada-...
Canada: Carbon Fibre from Albertan Bitumen - Economics, Industry, Policy and Likely Future Promise Curated by theinfoaddict 8 min read Apr 17, 2025 Converting bitumen from Alberta's oil sands into carbon fibre represents a transformative economic opportunity that could triple revenue per barrel from $50 to $213 while reducing emissions by 70% compared to traditional carbon fibre production methods, creating a sustainable value chain that extends from Alberta's resource extraction to manufacturing hubs in Ontario and Quebec.
April 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
"I need help here. She has me owned. Can one of you guys who I back in the white pointy hats, help?
April 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Please give credit for this item to: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Visualizer Andrew J Christensen (SSAI) Technical support Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.) Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.) Scientist Benjamin Hamlington (NASA/JPL) Release date This page was originally published on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. This page was last updated on Monday, March 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM EDT.
April 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
It can get worse: US job losses: 15-20 million if the nation's who don't have "cards", actually, play their "cards."

Trade can be substituted by one party with a different party, and still have gains.

Who wants to trade with the US atm?

#RoyalFlushCards
If the United States suddenly lost all its export markets for goods and services, the economic impact would be severe and far-reaching. The immediate effect would be a significant contraction in GDP, potentially reducing it by 15-20%, from around $26 trillion to approximately $21-22 trillion. The unemployment rate would spike dramatically, potentially rising from the current 3.5-4% to 12-15%, representing job losses of 15-20 million across various sectors. This scenario would likely trigger a severe recession or even a depression, with ripple effects throughout the economy including currency devaluation, reduced foreign investment, and potential trade retaliation. The impact would be felt unevenly across regions and industries, with export-dependent sectors like agriculture and manufacturing hit particularly hard. Such a drastic change would fundamentally alter the structure of the U.S. economy and its global economic position.
March 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
theinfoaddict.bsky.social
Had to ask my friendly neighbourhood AI for an economic forecast if say, the countries that have don't have the cards, um, who are tired of the threats, stopped buying US exports of goods and services. The cardless do trade between themselves for those US goods and services.

#RoyalFlush.
#cards
If the United States suddenly lost all its export markets for goods and services, the economic impact would be severe and far-reaching. The immediate effect would be a significant contraction in GDP, potentially reducing it by 15-20%, from around $26 trillion to approximately $21-22 trillion. The unemployment rate would spike dramatically, potentially rising from the current 3.5-4% to 12-15%, representing job losses of 15-20 million across various sectors. This scenario would likely trigger a severe recession or even a depression, with ripple effects throughout the economy including currency devaluation, reduced foreign investment, and potential trade retaliation. The impact would be felt unevenly across regions and industries, with export-dependent sectors like agriculture and manufacturing hit particularly hard. Such a drastic change would fundamentally alter the structure of the U.S. economy and its global economic position.
March 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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March 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The grift of ICE comes out. Who gets paid? Who gets donations? #journalists
The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit. Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts. The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly. What I had experienced was finally starting to make sense.
March 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM