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Cake day: March 14th, 2025

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  • Will I finally have more than one kind of maple syrup to choose from at the store? :-D
    On a serious note, I’d say it makes sense. The article mentions a trade agreement from 2016 making 99% of all goods tariff free both ways. Makes for ideal growth targets both ways.

    known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, which was signed in 2016. […]
    The European deals eliminate virtually all tariffs on goods and services, and include measures designed to break down non-tariff regulations.
    “Ninety-nine per cent of exports between Canada and the U.K. and EU are tariff-free,” Mr. Dunlop said.








  • “Why are online discussions about politics more hostile than offline discussions?
    A popular answer argues that human psychology is tailored for face-to-face interaction and people’s behavior therefore changes for the worse in impersonal online discussions…
    Across eight studies, leveraging cross-national surveys and behavioral experiments (total N = 8,434), we test the mismatch hypothesis but only find evidence for limited selection effects.
    Instead, hostile political discussions are the result of status-driven individuals who are drawn to politics and are equally hostile both online and offline.
    Finally, we offer initial evidence that online discussions feel more hostile, in part, because the behavior of such individuals is more visible online than offline.”

    This fits with our understanding of personality disorders, which is that they are a small percentage of our society—around 10.5 percent, according to the recent DSM-5-TR.3

    I try to avoid all politics online because it’s all raging and it’s honestly depressing that 10.5% can dominate a space like that.




  • “Shutting down the nuclear plants may put electricity supply at risk,” REE’s former chair Jordi Sevilla told Spanish news website Voxpopuli in January. Spain plans to shut down all seven nuclear reactors by 2035.
    The planned closure of two nuclear reactors at southwestern Spain’s Almaraz plant, starting in 2027, will increase the risks of blackouts, European power lobby ENTSO-E said in April.
    REE responded to ENTSO-E by saying there was no risk of a blackout and it could guarantee stable energy supply.

    Less than a week later, Almaraz temporarily shut down the two units citing abundant wind energy supply as making operations uneconomic. One unit was still offline on Monday.