Oh I’m with you on the prevention side; especially with oil sands - it’s a marginal product at best with huge env. Damage.

For reference, they don’t backfill because it’s stupid expensive and the operation wouldn’t be profitable. You would also likely have major subsidence issues.

You can reclaim TSFs, though. It is certainly not easy, but it is doable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YpF-SE3AwEo

This rec is coming up on 15 years old, and is the top of the TSF. The sides of it date to the 90s or earlier, and look pretty good. Trees were about 20 ft or more tall on the sides the last time I was there. The top is shoulder height.

The primary issues related to the cost of placing a cover that is thick enough to entomb the tailings (assuming they have metal leaching potential) that plant roots won’t compromise. The other problem is geotechnical stability issues if you use trees to revegetate, as their roots can go deeper or you get blow down that creates a hole in the reclamation cover, creating an erosion channel over time.

Or take up several valleys.

Or be kilometers in size and 30 m high

Miners WISH they had deposits the size of the grand canyon.

Imagine the tailings storage facility, lmao. I know, it’s the Great Salt Lake! That explains the high metal content from the windblown sands as it dries out

Lies. No one made anything off of shitcoins

There’s some good advice below. I’m not a programmer (vastly different field), but the most important things you can do are to:

• get to know your technical people; their skills, and their personalities

• trust your technical people when they say something is difficult to do.

These two steps will help you get a lot of ‘good will’ from your team and make them feel like you’ve got their back.

Their algorithm is already abrasive enough. I routinely find myself following people I did not elect to follow. Throw some stupid adds in there, to just make it worse…

What were the reasons he cited? I am not a brain surgeon or tech expert

Hey! Our health care system is going to be broken soon right away! Go Poilievre!*

Better link with fewer ads: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-fuel-cell-taps-energy-from-dirt-dwelling-microbes-to-power-sensors

Link to paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3631410

Seriously

I played a ubi mobile game for 2 years, and then they just flat abandoned it. Stopped support. No new content. Nothing. No warning either

As gamers grow comfortable in that aspect… you don’t lose your progress. If you resume your game at another time, your progress file is still there. That’s not been deleted. You don’t lose what you’ve built in the game or your engagement with the game. So it’s about feeling comfortable with not owning your game.

Yeah, you know I don’t lose my game either saved on my CPU or Xbox with a copy of the game I don’t have to pay for more than once for a predetermined value.

This.

I had an iPhone for a decade with my work. Quit both of them and got an android. I’m way happier being able to do things more than one way and to be able to customize everything.

Phones in general suck, but if the shitty, android at least let’s you do what you want.