Rnote is currently the best for handwritten notes in my opinion, but its organization is minimal. I have never found a 1:1 replacement for OneNote, but luckily I no longer need it desperately like I did a decade ago.

Some of us still use devices that only support .mobi

Sadly, it is. It didn’t get any updates for years at one point, too.

Someone has been defacing OpenStreetMap with stuff like this for months as well. It’s pretty sad.

Blue Jays are the eastern type of jay, as seen on the Toronto sports team’s paraphernalia. Stellar’s jays are only west of the Rockies, I believe. Many people colloquially call them blue jays, though.

And it’s not even just a few of them. I recently looked at the Wikipedia page for Stephen Harper (former Conservative PM) and he’s been on Ben Shapiro lately, and started ranting about “woke culture.” It’s become pervasive.

Number of fires is honestly a terrible metric: you could have 1000 fires the each the size of a backyard and it would sound worse than one fire the size of New Brunswick, but the latter is obviously worse.

Looking at the amount of area burned, this is the worst fire season on record so far.

This is the worst part. I remember in 2003, BC had what was considered at the time a devastating fire season, with over 130,000 hectares burned. It was so bad that artists came together to create an art book to remember it by, and to sell to raise money for displaced residents. The largest single fire that year was 32,000 hectares.

Then in 2009 there was a 67,000 hectare fire.

Then in 2014 there was a 133,000 hectare fire.

Then in 2017 there was a 545,000 hectare fire, a 241,000 hectare fire, and a 192,000 hectare fire. Over 1.2m hectares total burned. The next year, 1.3m hectares burned. Now that has been exceeded in 2023, and the season is only half over.

Just think about it. In 2003, we couldn’t possibly imagine worse destruction than 130,000 hectares burned. And now we’re easily exceeding ten times that area year after year.

Look at how bad it is now, and imagine how much worse it’s going to get. The drought is only getting worse. Western red cedars have all started dying in some areas. The destruction the Interior saw as a result of the Mountain Pine Beetle will come to the south: the most populated area of the province, and the area with the fewest ways to evacuate, as it is locked between the border to the south, mountains to the north, and the ocean to the west.

The losses will be immense.

I’m really thankful for it, so thank you for pushing back. One of the biggest reasons I chose Lemmy over Kbin was the lack of overall user score. I’m fine with posts and comments having a score — it sort of helps one determine what is and isn’t good content for a community, or what might not be good advice — but summing those up on your user profile only leads to weird score measuring contests and a sort of “number go up” addictive cycle. Thank you also for giving us the ability to hide scores if we don’t want to see them.