Air conditioning just scratches the surface of the HVAC divide. Nine out of 10 brits smell of mildew because their homes are dank. Walk into an open-plan office you're struck with a blast of fungal growth and not the good kind.
Scotty Cameron
@cdnecon.ca
Public budgeting, forecasting, and tax policy in Canada & all over.
Appoint me as Canada's Permanent Representative to the European Union you coward
if i'm one of the countries long pushing for closer EU alignment (balkans and eastern trio) i might be a bit salty at this new "associate member" status #WesternPrivilege
Narrow-mouthed whorl snail more effective than the Democrats giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Tiny snail stalls Donald Trump’s Irish golf ambitions
US president arrives in Ireland on Saturday as environmentalists oppose his ‘other ballroom’ to protect the narrow-mouthed whorl snail
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Love the charity events with team costumes that would raise more money if the team just donated the money they spent on costumes 👍👍
Target is a flexible control range of 1%–3% to actively seek maximum sustainable employment btw. Curious!
EconReporter@econreporter.bsky.social · 2mo agoInteresting that Tiff just said "Inflation is too high" at 3% in the first Q And in the 2nd Q, he said he is not too worried about immediate inflation effect of counter tariff as they mostly focus on intermediate goods. [yes, i have a graph to tell you that]
The problem with data centers is the *why*. So middle-aged men can cosplay as software "builders"?
There are technically worse parts of the season for a team to start playing to its potential 👏👏👏
Just got chirped all day at work about Lake Ontario. Gutted i have to sit on this for a three-day weekend. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
US threatens Britain over Falklands
The United States has threatened to oppose Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending, The Telegraph can reveal.
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at least he brings an unlimited supply of smug, condescending and hubris to the party!
Now that his big rates and currency trades are both shitting the bed you sure can see how Bessent didn’t make in the hedge fund world.
Seeing more and more people refer to the national budget balance, revenue position, etc. as "The fisk". Gotta categorically, unequivocally and relentlessly nip that Sorkinian cringe in the bud.
This is incredible, and well worth two minutes of your time.
Asher is left to face the fall alone@asherball.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe A's just did one of the coolest things I've seen in their broadcast: Just unfiltered audio of the live director calling a Lawrence Butler plate appearance...that went about as well as they could have hoped for.
Saw a seagull eating a pigeon outside of an office building then a lady walked out and puked in her mouth and turned around and went back inside.
what point of the cycle is walter bloomberg changing his profile pic
AI a growing misery in tax authorities. Correspondence, disputes, appeals a mess. We've gone from a handful of well-known sovereign citizen cranks to universally empowering every taxpayer to dispute every assessment. Effort to formulate cohesive thought in an email used to dissuade most...
Saw a tweet that you can bring back dreaming as an adult if you lower your caffeine intake. Gave it a shot. Two observations: (1) wow totally works (2) why the hell did i want to do that dreams are horrible i'm waking up three times a night with feelings
Most of it is just auditing and merging work that has been done previously. But one change goes a little deeper, it repairs broken labels that StatCan sends down. And emits a warning to notify the user that labels were changed. And it has a surprisingly large blast radius...
Jens von Bergmann@jensvb.bsky.social · 3mo agoCurrent status: Implementing a downstream workaround in the cansim package so that data columns are accessible without users having to go to monkey-patch special characters into strings. Tired of responding to package users running into this. But really, StatCan should fix this on their end.
Omg he’s started sounding like Noah Smith
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo agoBenjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’
is part of the reason groceries are so expensive that we're treating animals nicer? cause it's getting harder and harder to find the cheap abusive stuff, especially chicken.