T Chu 朱

Science and Climate Communication
PhD candidate in communication (science)

Founder - Whyshouldicare.ca

Believer in Energy Reduction

Fan of Chinese history and culture - making up for growing up in the cultureless vacuum of my youth.

Cantonese speaker - looking for fellow parents teaching Cantonese.

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2024-05-15 03:30:22

What does the hivemind here have for recommendations for something to help monitor seniors if they fall or have some kind of health issue? Dad is north of 70 now, mom isn't far behind.
My friend recommended a Garmin watch that has fall detection. Not cheap, but willing to spend if that's the product. Want something that will last a bit and not be instant landfill ready e waste so definitely willing to spend on that front.
Seeing what else people are using and if you'd recommend. Thanks!

2024-05-02 03:25:15

Thought y'all get a kick out of these back to back toots on my TL.
https://climatejustice.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/368/875/427/224/807/original/b259a35bd39bc863.png

2024-03-23 14:36:27

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@npub1hyk…3p33
Super enjoyed the Toronto talk last night.
I was the Mastodon question. I didn't know about the text file thing!

2024-03-22 15:23:32

I'm very curious about the avg cost of say a sandwich vs min wage over the last half century.
I stopped at a local sandwich shop yesterday, not particularly fancy, nothing special, no meat in it or anything super costly. Just maybe slightly above average tasting toasted sandwich. It was good, maybe a tad too sweet but satisfying.
After tax and tip it cost about an hour at Ontario's minimum wage.
I'm curious what the cost of prepped food in relation to min wage has been historically. When I actually stopped to think about it, it seems really ridiculous that a single sandwich was an hour of top line wages.
Was this always the case, is this just a ridiculously expensive shop (I know I'm downtown near transit), or is this part of the artificial inflation going on?
What's a sandwich near you cost in terms of hours of work at min wage?

2024-03-19 01:22:43

@npub1mmf…eknq
I support a two state solution.... Oh... Not that way 🙄

2024-03-13 03:16:24

Let's play a game of "how the Republicans will spin this into 'this is gonna hurt the little people the most' 😭😭😭"
I'll go first.
Think about the single moms with kids in private school who can no longer afford to fly her kids home in their private jet.
https://apnews.com/article/fuel-tax-business-jets-biden-budget-aefab96e0479ac174d624374f30a5870

2024-03-07 02:40:46

This photo is everything you need to know about how #Toronto treats people in wheelchairs, parents with strollers, and basically anyone not a car.
https://climatejustice.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/051/854/742/916/685/original/181c994c15fc04e4.jpg

2024-02-23 14:33:16

You can't go after stupid with logic.
You gotta go after it with equally, if not more outrageous levels of stupid.
If am embryo is a kid, go for child support from the date of conception.
Sue for life insurance rights/benefits.
Get voting rights lowered by a year since the time in the tummy counts as life.
Just do the most outrageous things you can possibly think of and get legal precedent set based on the new state of stupidity.
You can only fight stupid with stupid.
Go do your best stupid.

2023-09-20 02:17:48

While there's a lot I disagree with in China, I appreciate how it's the Chinese Netizens who demand celebrities get cancelled for tax evasion whereas in America, they elect tax evaders for President.

2023-09-10 23:46:35

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@npub1hyk…3p33
I've used vista print in the past and they were alright.
I haven't had any done in a while though so don't know if things have changed

2023-08-31 04:52:32

I was born and raised in Southwestern Ontario. I carry a SW ON accent. In the pre zoom days, colleagues thought I was a blond girl when they only heard my voice on a conf call and didn't see my face. They would later be shocked when they finally met me. (They admitted this to me).
No matter where I travel in Canada, some variation of this conversation inevitably takes place (this just happened).
Them: "where are you from?"
Me: "Toronto"
Them: "whereabouts in China?"
🙄🙄🙄🙄

2023-08-30 23:50:44

The corporate oligarchs are reminding us again and again that they will not stop murdering us. If we have a problem with mass murder, that is just too bad. They don't care how many dead bodies there are in the #ClimateCollapse.
The only thing that will stop them is complete societal overthrow.
They are forcing us closer and closer to that day. Hungry peasants will overthrow an empire. Always give people a way out. If you give us the choice between death and a fight, you will get a fight to the death.
The oil men are forcing our hands into a fight to the death.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suncor-oil-production-guilbeault-cap-emissions-1.6950886

2023-08-22 22:03:58

Our fundamental problem is capitalism.
As an environmentalist, I tend not to buy things that I don't need. My daughter knows better than to ask for lemonade at the fair because it'll come in plastic. We brought water bottles for a reason. She can drink that perfectly fine.
She knows I get annoyed at grandma buying all that plastic trash from the dollar store because it gets played with a few days and turn into landfill.
This behaviour is terrible for the economy. The big businesses need infinite economic growth. They need us to buy 3% more trash a year. We have so much stuff that there are industries making legit coin storing our trash that we will realistically never use again. We have entire sectors that make a lot of money off of throwing out our trash for us.
Environmentalism means that many of these new industries will disappear very quickly. It means that fossil fuel billionaires will lose a lot of wealth very quickly.
Does this sound like a system that will change because we sent some politicians backed by rich people to a summit somewhere to talk about it?
The reality is that billionaires' wealth is at stake and they would take complete social and ecological collapse before a dent in their wealth. They want the entire ship to go down believing that they have enough flotation devices they'll come back out on top.
It's not that billionaires don't believe in climate change. They just lied to enough people to convince them of it. They plan on taking advantage of climate change eliminating a lot of the population so they have more resources for themselves.
This is nothing short of murder with a borrowed hand.
#ClimateCrisis

2023-08-07 22:03:54

We have no idea what this means for our food systems (among many other things).
#ClimateCrisis deniers are pushing us towards mass death via starvation. These whack jobs are dangerous and we absolutely must take political power away from them.
We've known for a long time that keeping them in power means the death of many people. Those deaths are coming faster than we anticipated.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66387537

2023-08-04 20:00:22

There's mounting evidence that the best way to "reform" police forces is just to decommission them all and then start again from scratch.
https://apnews.com/article/rankin-mississippi-deputies-civil-rights-brutality-2c2154e67cc6cd3b9a28cb16686f2a5c

2023-08-04 17:08:52

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@npub1qzc…yetl
thanks!
Gave them all a follow.

2023-07-30 21:09:57

I think the thing I hate most about visiting people who live in suburbs are lawnmowers.
Honestly they are the worst. They make so much noise and you're burning fossil fuels to maintain something that is neither food, nor a cash crop. The entire idea of a lawn that needs this much resource is just beyond stupid.
At least switch to a push mower. When I visit my parents, I pull out the push mower I bought them. When neighbours see a gas powered mower out, they cross the street to avoid the noise and fumes. When they see me with my push mower, they stop to chat.
Lawnmowers are horribly antisocial and the lawn lovers don't even realize this.

2023-07-23 19:20:29

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@npub1mqh…7z4t
This book by Dr. Steingraber is a great place. There's a documentary too: https://www.livingdownstream.com/
I also highly recommend reading "Merchants of Doubt" by Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway (2011).

2023-07-19 17:43:02

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@npub1jup…77gr
And when the wet bulb temp reaches 35C, the body cannot sweat to cool down. Healthy adult male will die inside of 6 hours. When this happens, bodies will literally litter the streets because we won't have remaining capacity to deal with it. We are close to this point in parts of the Mid East. If the rest of us are lucky, it'll hit the oil pumping regions first and at least strictly limit world supply so maybe the rest of us have a chance.

2023-07-18 16:52:17

This is not normal. This should not be a "new normal". This is rich people induced #ClimateCrisis
https://botsin.space/@torontostar/110735622616484853

2023-07-12 04:54:40

"Experts" have to contend with a history of public deception.
"Experts" told us smoking was safe. "Experts" told us fracking water was safe to drink. "Experts" told us DDT was safe.
The public has a right to be distrustful after a long history of deception. I'm not saying that this is the case, but this is the historical context in which communicators are trying to get their message across.
https://press.coop/@business/110698773830034537

2023-07-11 19:47:39

We have a #ClimateCrisis
Why are "progressives" tooting about Amazon prime day? Do they not understand that buying shit you don't need is part of the problem?
Why is everyone living in this alternate universe where science doesn't matter? What is wrong with people?

2023-07-11 16:41:52

The fossil fuels burned for this entitled dip shit
The rich are the problem
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/10/united-airline-amsterdam-flight-diverted-airplane-food

2023-07-09 17:45:29

I honestly don't get how we, as a society, created people that both complain about the wildfire smoke and how someone has to do something about it and cyclists getting in the way of their SUVs.