Are there any electric tractors/combines on the market, let alone used ones? I mean industrial sized, not small yard work equipment.

EDIT: OK, yes, there are some small electrified tractors available now. Fendt has a line available to customers, John Deere has a prototype, etc… But they are the smallest size of industrial tractors, meant for work like greenhouses, feeding livestock, municipal work, etc…

Electrifying farm equipment has huge engineering hurdles. They need a massive amount of power, which would mean very large and incredibly expensive battery packs. Those batteries would take either a long time to charge, or high current charging stations.

During seeding or harvest the machines often run for 16+ hours a day, and are literally out in the middle of a field. Where is the super-fast charging station going to go? They can’t easily travel all the machinery back to home base every night, and there’s no way it makes economical sense for a farm operation to get chargers installed at every field.

These are not necessarily insurmountable problems. There are a number of similarities to trucking, for example, and that’s an industry that’s starting to see electrification now. But the logistical problems are much harder than trucking. The biggest reason that John Deere etc… aren’t making electric tractors right now is that no one would buy one, because no one has any infrastructure in place for it.

Exactly, it’s just regular old enshittification.

While I’m sure the obvious systemic issues contribute to not looking for alternatives, that does sound like largely an issue inherent to optical pulse oximeters. Engineers aren’t miracle workers, they can’t change physics to their liking.

I’m sure pulse oximeters now are more accurate than they were 20 years ago. The fact we’re still using them is because no alternatives have been found which are as easy to use, reliable, and non-invasive as pulse oximeters, even with the known downsides.

… is $1.40 high in Ontario? That’s barely higher than Alberta and Sask. It was ~ $1.60+ before January.

And you don’t need to take anyone’s second hand word for it. If you do a little looking, Israeli officials have said as much, in so many words, numerous times.

It’s intentional, systematic genocide. There’s no two ways about it.

Repository: a collection of computer code for a software program (or app if you insist).

Fork: a copy of a repository so you can edit it without affecting the original.

Pull request: a request to the owner of a repo to bring in some changes you made in a fork.

I think I even got the word count down.

Canadian here. A minority gov is one which has less than X seats (where X is 50% in Canada and I believe Australia too), and usually that requires a coalition. “Forming government” in a parliamentary system like these basically means “has a good chance of passing meaningful legislation.” Since the leading party can’t do so alone, they form an agreement with another party (or multiple) to help them reach that criteria.

It is entirely possible for the party with the most seats to also not form government, if they’re far enough below 50% and can secure no agreement with another party to push them across the line. In these situations, another general election would soon follow.

And all the Albertans who are so incensed about that have completely forgotten that they got a major pipeline expansion west through BC under Trudeau. In fact, Trudeau’s gov removed a bunch of red tape and poured a bunch of money into the project to make it happen. And yet, guess who they’re mad at…

Or at least demanding she resign. I bet there’s more support for that than for separation. You should all do it.

It’s the 5th largest of Alberta’s 37 ridings. I doubt it’s even in the top 20 nationwide, but I can’t be bothered to go compare areas that long.

I’d say it’s more like insisting your parents legally give you their basement as a separate property.

Yeah, the cost is so incredibly tiny. To take the full general election as an example, it cost each of us about $20. Is a fair and democratic election not worth $20 to you? It sure as heck is to me.

Maybe not PR. But ranked choice voting sure would have!

Yeah, this might actually be convincing to those in power now. The eternal problem with electoral reform is: why would you change a system which you just won with?

Thanks for the explanation! I’m familiar with the voting reform issue (and still salty Trudeau didn’t carry through on it), but some other readers might not be.

That reminds me - what the heck is up with the candidates in Carlton? Who are all these independents?

I had a past employer tell employees in a group meeting that you should stay home when sick, because coming to work just spreads it around and has a worse impact on the whole team, and therefore the business. We all stood there thinking, “OK, that makes sense… so why are you not paying for sick days, again?”

That’s not an answer. Why do you want Poilievre sitting across from Trump? What is the upside you see to that scenario?

Except when asked point-blank what his position is on his party wearing MAGA gear, Poilievre refuses to address it. Silence is complicity, plus Poilievre has been doing everything he can over the past several years to ape Trump.