Sunday, August 13, 2023

News roundup, 13 Aug 2023

- Disconcertingly, there's been a decline in sales of meatless burgers recently.

- Also disconcertingly, the Manitoba Tories are running on a platform of fighting the federal carbon tax. I'd like to think Manitobans know better than to be sucked into that, but my faith in the electorate is not high. We'll have to see.

- Researchers in Saskatchewan are trying to learn about potentially invasive pests before they arrive.

- Some grim before and after pics from Lahaina. The death toll now stands at 93, and concerns are being raised about how little warning residents had.

- Only two Liquor Marts in the city are open this weekend. Some might note that both locations - Crestview and St Vital Square - are in the suburbs, and in fact quite some distance from downtown.

- Netflix's algorithms appear to be able to infer things about you that you haven't figured out yourself yet.

- It seems like wherever you go, be it here or even in such a low crime society as South Korea, there seems to be an outbreak of random violence in recent years. Not sure why, but I still think the pandemic broke a lot of people.

- Belarus is being accused of trying to destabilize its neighbours.




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