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As someone who's lived fairly near the Canadian border for ~30 years, yup.

It's hard to conceive that up until 2008 you could cross the border both ways without a passport. We treated them like the culturally and economically linked neighbors they are. Now it feels like a pointless, hostile interrogation in both directions.

> the more we did to help students (as a cohort) with their mental health, the worse it became

An equally plausible explanation is that when the school had zero resources to help kids with depression or other mental health problems they choose to keep their mouths shut and suffer it in silence.

Once the school started paying attention to the issue, it started surfacing people with pre-existing problems who had not previously had anyone to talk to about it.

I really recommend the book "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande. It helped me process the drawn out and unpleasant death of my grandfather and look at end of life care in a different light. There's an important difference between extending life and providing quality of life that a lot of patients and doctors both misunderstand.

The book is written from the author's own experience as a doctor but also includes his experience with his own father's death from cancer.

> How much of China's military command is a crony boys club full of people who never had to militarily prove anything?

Have you even glanced at the current leadership of the US military?

... you don't think the highway construction firms are continually keeping the wheels greased to make sure the funding keeps flowing to them?

"Big light rail" must really be putting in some huge donations considering the lightning fast pace of expansion and astronomical number of new rail lines in the US.

> Every time I think about EVs, I become filled with dread thinking about what will happen if an area loses power for an extended period of time

A mid-size EV battery can easily store 60kWh of energy. That's enough to power a domestic refrigerator for ~12 days (assuming 200w average power usage, which is on the higher end).

I lost power for about a day last year and was very happy to be able to keep my fridge and some emergency lighting powered from an EV battery.

> So we had to derive from them derived streams that didn't show temporal dependencies any longer, at least not as strongly

Could you expand on that (or at least point me towards some keywords to read up on)?

I think I understand conceptually what this means (network latency increases at noon CDT each day because YouTube load increases during the lunch hour, as an example) but I'm wondering how you normalize data streams for temporal dependencies with unknown frequencies (nominal change #1 happens each Sunday, while nominal change #2 happens each day at noon).

Given that steam turbine efficiency depends on the temperature delta between steam input and condenser, unlikely unless you're somehow going to adapt Nvidia GPUs to run with cooling loop water at 250C+.

> Something or someone really, really wants you to be comfortable with violence.

Instagram started serving me violent content out of the blue recently. My reels feed went from mostly hiking and skiing videos to POV videos from Ukrainian and Russian grenade drones and accelerationist "joke" videos normalizing the idea of war with China.

It was like a switch had flipped with how suddenly the app was like "let's warp this guy's sense of normalcy".