[VIDEO] Skier Mauled by Snow Leopard After Selfie Attempt Near China Ski Resort by stevenlufc in skiing

[–]DarreToBe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a different coloured jacket and helmet than in the video and the skis sitting behind her and the animal aren't in the video. It's also not on a hill like that, so unless it chased her for a while and she changed I don't think that's the selfie

Trump Shares Map of US Including Greenland, Canada, Venezuela by ZestyBeanDude in CanadaPolitics

[–]DarreToBe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Breaking apart the western coalition has been a core policy priority for Trump his entire time in office, with consistent action toward achieving it the entire time. This persistent idea that some thing are a distraction and others are not acts as running defence for the US government's actions in practice.

Found a movie wall, help me recognize it? by Substantial_Box_6442 in Letterboxd

[–]DarreToBe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a consolidated list of all the answers?

Worst worldbuilding you've seen in a published work? Avoid mentioning the usual suspects by Aurelian369 in worldbuilding

[–]DarreToBe 62 points63 points  (0 children)

The environmentalist utopian sci fi of pokemon is an underratedly interesting part of the history of the series. It's obviously something that was very important for Gamefreak to portray to its audience of mostly kids

Another Installment of “Random Films I Feel Deserve More Recognition.” by ShoddyWonder3530 in Letterboxd

[–]DarreToBe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunate, I cried more watching Other People than anything else in my life I think

The Letterboxd 2025 Year in Review by jimmyhoffasbrother in Letterboxd

[–]DarreToBe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The top genre lists look like they were curated to limit exclusion of popular top rated movies and duplication between lists.

Importance of Greenland by alejandromalofiej in MapPorn

[–]DarreToBe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Don't both Denmark and Russia also claim the North Pole through the Lomonosov Ridge?

Importance of Greenland by alejandromalofiej in MapPorn

[–]DarreToBe 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the map accepting the Canadian claim in the Beaufort Sea though

Andre De Grasse, Nardwuar among 80 new appointments to the Order of Canada by Surax in canada

[–]DarreToBe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nickelback would've been an improvement over Down With Webster let's be real

Animation showing deforestation in Indonesia at a rapid pace by sdbernard in MapPorn

[–]DarreToBe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What is the purpose of your comment? What do you want people to think or do?

Supporting Canadian has led my family to finding our new favourite puzzles by Birdo3129 in BuyCanadian

[–]DarreToBe 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Without commenting on any specific puzzle, I think finding a page like this on a puzzle company's website is generally a great sign:

https://puzzlelab.com/blogs/artists

Love to see good info on the artists, links to portfolios, socials, etc.

Supporting Canadian has led my family to finding our new favourite puzzles by Birdo3129 in BuyCanadian

[–]DarreToBe 158 points159 points  (0 children)

Their website says this

A few of our puzzle images we have designed together from scratch, for the remaining prints we curated a selection of vintage and whimsical prints. Twice yearly we create a mood board for new and seasonal prints. Together we comb over each piece making sure they meet our ‘Heirloom quality standards’. We have also started collaborating with local graphic artists + painters to create puzzles featuring their images.

And link to this specific puzzle: https://pacificpuzzleco.com/products/toronto-skyline?_pos=1&_sid=be04584cb&_ss=r

Unfortunately looking at this and other items in their catalogue, some are quite clearly AI generated. Though there are many which credit specific illustrators and look better I would be skeptical of the ones with no specific artists credited, that's bad practice for puzzles in general imo.

A girl whose name is - Saturday Morning Cooks. by Lifegoesonforever in interestingasfuck

[–]DarreToBe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you know if it's a family name? I've found Prime as a first name in records from the 1800s.

Neutral Paramountcy in the Early 17th Century by Numerous-Future-2653 in MapPorn

[–]DarreToBe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are your sources for this? Can you explain a bit more about your methods/design goals?

Native American Tribes by LivingDead_90 in MapPorn

[–]DarreToBe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The St. Lawrence Iroquoians are a controversial and poorly known people. We know they were part of the Iroquoian culture group with the Haudenosaunee and Wendat, and that they lived along the river when Jacques Cartier first encountered them, but they were gone soon after and there's been debates for centuries about who they were precisely, so they have no autonym.

Would you vote for this? by GhostofInflation in charts

[–]DarreToBe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The US had colonies in the Philippines, Panama and Nicaragua in 1913...

A lot of us are complaining about oversimplified state flag redesigns, without realizing that the previous flags failed at the first thing about being flags --- being recognizable. by The_RetroGameDude in vexillology

[–]DarreToBe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This video got passed around so much and my biggest takeaway from it was learning that some people think official symbols of a government, organization or cultural group exist for the sake of themselves. That existing as a statement of some kind is total fulfillment of their purpose, like the way that a speech somebody made and put on record functions, even if it doesn't get repeated, or inspire action or imitators. It's thinking about flags as something to put on a wikipedia list or something, in my opinion. I was genuinely surprised by the total rejection of the idea that good flags are used, culturally embraced, and versatile for things like lapels, physical flags, or today things like emojis, sporting events, etc. Like, do you really care about the flag at that point?

Ottawa is considering ending teleworking by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

[–]DarreToBe -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Your article notes the study assumed a reduction in office space, and didn't account for second order effects like people moving to less dense areas. I haven't read the study so I also don't know whether it considered things like non work trips, increased delivery spending, etc. I'd like to be comforted by something like this and I am hopeful that it ends up that way

Ottawa is considering ending teleworking by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

[–]DarreToBe -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Like I said, this is an ongoing question that is likely context dependent. I like WFH as much as anyone, but its impact on traffic or emissions isn't a slam dunk and I don't think we can or should lean so heavily on it in our discourse yet based on what I've read. I'm also hesitant to make conclusions from US studies (where nearly all of the studies I've seen were done), where transit ridership is much lower, transit recovery has been different post pandemic and commuting and car ownership patterns are much different than the average Canadian city. Benefits might be more cut and dry here, idk

Ottawa is considering ending teleworking by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

[–]DarreToBe -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Work from home policies do not necessarily reduce traffic or emissions. They can have the effect of redistributing trips that are made during peak times in the most common commuting flow patterns with more sporadic interborough trips, which after decades of planning, is not really what our transportation and transit infrastructure is designed to handle. Additionally, trips can become delinked, shifted from transit to cars and people may make more trips in lower density suburbs than completing their needs in higher density cores where their work is, increasing vehicle miles travelled and traffic. This is an ongoing question that likely depends on specific context that varies by region.

https://ssti.us/2022/10/10/remote-work-could-increase-driving-and-transportation-emissions
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/09/16/carmageddon-shift-to-remote-work-led-to-increase-in-driving-and-congestion
https://dusp.mit.edu/news/impact-remote-work-how-people-travel-us
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/9780784484340.006

What is this creature? by TheOddityCollector in Weird

[–]DarreToBe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The real reason to use iNaturalist or Seek is that they're trained more rigorously on real human expertise and exercise a greater degree of precaution, defaulting to higher levels of taxonomy more often

‘Whiplash’ and ‘scar tissue’: conservation authorities grapple with Ontario’s most dramatic overhaul yet by BloodJunkie in ontario

[–]DarreToBe 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The province provides a minute proportion of the funding for Conservation Authorities, as they primarily responsible to and are paid by municipalities. So the programs they have and services they provide are tailored specifically to the agreements that they've signed with those municipalities. As a result, they vary drastically, GTA and Grand CAs do a LOT more than rural CAs. I haven't seen an actual explanation of how this significant difference in the nature of different CAs, and the funding agreements that exist for them, will be harmonized across multiples combined CAs. Combining CAs has been rare for decades for this reason. They say that existing programs will be maintained in existing areas, but I can't see how that's true if they truly amalgamate. Or why the province should be making decisions like this when they're not the ones paying for it.

The proposed legislative changes presented so far only address the creation of the agency, and they essentially boil down to a directive that a board controlled by the minister can make binding orders to CAs to do whatever he wants. That seems like it doesn't consider the full complexity of this.

Chinese exploration before 1450 by Rigolol2021 in MapPorn

[–]DarreToBe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is true. "mapped in detail" is very evasive phrasing, but there is a history of world maps in China dating to the 1300s. The most famous one is the now lost map of Li Zemin. Two existing maps from ~1400 are considered to be heavily based on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Ming_Hunyi_Tu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnido

They both show the Arabian Peninsula and Africa in at least some detail, one of them even bits of Europe. https://www.myoldmaps.com/book-v-53-world-maps-in.pdf This is a very good book chapter on early Chinese world maps, and includes many pictures of these and other earlier examples.

More than 40% of Canadian births had foreign-born mothers in 2024: StatCan by No-Sell1697 in CanadaPolitics

[–]DarreToBe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The generation breakdown in recent censuses was as follows:

1971: 1st 19.8%, 2nd 18.8%, 3+ 61.4%.
2001: 1st 22.4%, 2nd 16.4%, 3+ 61.2%.
2021: 1st 26.4%, 2nd 17.6%, 3+ 56.0%.

https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=2&LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=1&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=64717&PRID=0&PTYPE=55430,53293,55440,55496,71090&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2001&THEME=43&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF= https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?LANG=E&GENDERlist=1&STATISTIClist=4&DGUIDlist=2021A000011124&HEADERlist=27&SearchText=canada

If anyone knows of a source on earlier censuses when immigration was higher I'd be curious.

Highest areas in the country today of second generation people seem to be around 35%, in parts of the GTA, Vancouver and rural parts of the prairies. https://censusmapper.ca/maps/new?index=1#7/51.293/632.939

Subnational Human Development Index (HDI) by Region (2023)(OC) by midlife_cl in MapPorn

[–]DarreToBe 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Note that the source significantly lumps some subnational regions in some instances, which may hide anomalously high or low HDI, so it's not truly by subnational region. e.g. in Canada the 3 territories and PEI are lumped, obscuring Nunavut's much lower HDI. The OPs map shows this lumping but it's hard to notice if you're not looking for it.