paperBark

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Battery giant CATL showcases three innovations: 1500km range battery, 520km in 5 minutes ultra-fast charging, and 2025 mass-production sodium-ion battery in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] paperBark@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 minutes ago

Wow the cold weather stats on their sodium battery are awesome! So excited for this to be progressing

‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] paperBark@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 days ago

Interesting, so they change the narrative when its posted on social media apps vs on the web...

Does Canada’s future lie in the European Union? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] paperBark@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Ya as a Canadian I love the EU and support you guys; I hope we build stronger trade and relationships. I know I'm shopping more EU companies, just wish more could figure out how to ship to Canada.

However, why tf would Canada join the EU... We are not in Europe, its in the title folks 🤷‍♂️

The push to regain more control of our sovereignty does not sit well with the idea of joining yet another distant organization we will be beholden to.

Instead of whatsapp, fb messenger, imessage, go for skred in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] paperBark@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Matrix, XMPP, SimpleX, Molly (signal fork without closed source blobs) lots of good opensource options out there.

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Canadian Author Megathread? (slrpnk.net)
 

Who are some of your favourite Canadian authors? Remember to share the author's website if available, instead of an Amazon link. Your local library may have a lot of Canadian books too!

I saw a Silverwing book by Kenneth Oppel at a clearance sale and that took me on a nostalgia train. Looked him up and I didn't realize he's quite a prolific Canadian author!

Not sure if its all YA/easy reading, but that's what I grew up with. Both the Silverwing series and Airborn are top notch for that sorta thing and still hold up well for a re-read occassionally.

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Non-USA Ukulele Brands (slrpnk.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by paperBark@slrpnk.net to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
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Unnecessary BackgroundWell I've begun shopping for a reasonably-priced concert ukulele in anticipation of completing Bernadette Teaches Music's #30dayUKEchallenge. I'm already finding my little soprano (that I bought without research) to be a bit uncomfortably small. After watching a size comparison, I suppose I should have started with a concert instead. But, it will be a good excuse to reward myself for finally sticking with an instrument for an entire program after years of on and off interest. (Recently I've been finding (micro)rewarding progress is helpful with ADHD)

I suppose I should have expected most of the major brands to be USA based since Hawaii was colonized afterall.

Here's a list of Non-USA owned brands that I found in a preliminary search.

  • Ibanez

    • Country of Manufacture: I spy Made in China on all 3 uke models
    • Country of Ownership: Japan

  • Aria

    • Country of Manufacture: China and Indonesia, Japan for platinum line (no ukes)
    • Country of Ownership: Japan

  • Cordoba

    • Country of Manufacture: China
    • Country of Ownership: ~~Spain~~ Japan, owned by Yamaha now

  • Your Local Luthier

    • Country of Manufacture: Canada
    • Country of Ownership: Canada
    • Edit: Added this in for those who can afford it/are skilled enough to justify a handmade one!

Disclaimer: Always check the CoM for a specific model you are interested in if you want to make sure.

Would love suggestions for other quality brands too if you know of any others!

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Tim Hortons Hasn't Been Canadian-Owned For A Long Time (www.mashed.com)
 

Just a little reminder.

Pisses me off to no end that they use the Canadian identity for marketing when they sold out decades ago.

Also their coffee and food has been shit for a long time too, coincidence? I think not.

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Egli Farm - Wool and Sheepskin Products (eglifarm.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by paperBark@slrpnk.net to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
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I just wanted to shout out Egli Farm. I found them while doing my Christmas shopping this year and everything my partner and I have gotten has been great quality at fair prices. The sheepskin bucket hat was a big hit at Christmas since it enables year round bucket-hattery in Canada lol

They have hundreds of Made in Canada wool and sheepskin products including clothing, footwear, homegoods, raw wool and sheepskin supplies, etc. Seems like they contract some of the more processing-intense type products out to Stanfields but they're in Canada too 🤙

Family-owned in Ontario since 1952!

P.S. if you end up ordering something leave a note on the order suggesting they switch to a .ca TLD so its easier for people tell they're Canadian

Making Sense of the Giant Fire that Could Set Back Energy Storage in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] paperBark@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

archive.org link for those of us blocked by cloudflare for the audacity of using a VPN. Seems insideclimatenews doesn't really care about access to their messaging since they use cloudflare.

Saudi Arabia commissions its largest battery energy storage system - Energy Storage in c/energy@slrpnk.net
[–] paperBark@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

The Bisha battery storage facility features 122 prefabricated storage units, designed and supplied by China’s BYD. Each unit integrates a 6 MW power conversion system (PCS) alongside four lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery modules, each with a capacity of 5.365 MWh. This modular approach is decribed as a way to optimize space utilization, enhance system integration, and minimize potential failure points.

Emphasis mine.

Cool, was wondering what battery chemistry it was.

Mike Johnson vows to hold aid to California hostage after deadly fires in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] paperBark@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

Ya fuck these US annexation tweets, lets bring back Cascadia talks. The mountains divide us physically and culturally.

BC is tired of having our old growth forests raped, pipelines we don't want or benefit from rammed through our mountains against our will scarring the landscape, and our coastlines littered with trash from Alberta both literal and figurative.