@gemelliz @jasononthedrums This is the constant challenge in looking at public services and trying to find efficiencies.
Maintaining surge capacity is, by its very nature, inefficient.
Until it isn't.
#Alberta is on fire.
Alberta had one of the BEST wildfire programs in the world until 2019.
Despite MULTIPLE warnings, the
#UCP cut TENS of MILLIONS from firefighting programs.
We’re now seeing the consequences.
MAJOR #wildfire cuts:
Cut 63-man Aerial RapAttack team
Cut 30 of the 127 wildfire lookout towers
Cut AirTanker program by 13%
Cut rural firefighter training in 2020.
Cut Wildfire Rangers in 2021
Cut Wildfire Prevention budget by $30,000,000 (23%)
#abpoli #yeg
@jasononthedrums
Welcome to all the new users fleeing twitter! It's important to remember that the Fediverse (the correct term to describe what people frequently call "Mastodon") isn't Twitter and there are different social rules here. In order to avoid upsetting people who've been here for a while already, here's some guidance:
1. Become ungovernable
2. No snitching
3. Otherwise, do whatever the fuck you want
Hope that helps!
By popular demand, I will try to cross-post and comment here, more.
On Bill Barr and Sex Workers: Whistleblower X Raised Hunter Biden's Baby Momma in Response to a Prostitute Question
Auto in die Werkstatt gebracht, mit dem Fahrrad die 10 km zurück, Bild für #fotomontag gemacht. Jetzt warten auf den Anruf der Werkstatt 🙈
Here is a delightful collection of historic illustrations of #cats
https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?tag=cat
It’s happened. Our department has lost a young faculty member to a better offer in a safer state.
Texas’s extremist government will end up wrecking the universities here. Given a choice, people don’t want to subject themselves to fascism.
I couldn't find anything about this in English.
But summarizing it, the article says that during the pandemic lockdowns in Santiago de Compostela, there was a chance to study pavement temperature. It was discovered that in places where the grass and moss was not removed, the temperature was up to 20 degrees lower than in places where it was.
More moss and grass make our physical spaces more liveable in these times of #ClimateCrisis.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (also spelled #Polesie) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs – #IdąPsięta.
Luddite working with hi-tech.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding in #Python. Dealing with dirty data, cleaning them when time allows.
#Atheist. I don't *believe* in #science – science is the *only* thing that protects us from belief.
Fuck nazis.
My account on Twitter is still up, for good reasons. https://twitter.com/szescstopni
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.