I think we are fucked because to me this indicates this province is continuing to vote with 0 information on gut feeling and bigotry which means we are staring down the barrel of more of this kind of politics in the future

Welcome to democracy. The worst form of government aside from all the others.

Where do you expect to find a place where the people vote on a basis other than gut feeling?

Alberta basically just showed canada they are fine with the UCP and likely to vote them in again

Do you have a basis for this other than gut feeling? Current projections on 388 have the UCP ahead by a single seat, and of course that's based on polling that came out before the referendum. I think calling a UCP victory in the next election "likely" is not supported by the data.

The other 9 questions are just as stupid, they just didn't get as much press. Most of them were worded so poorly that they could be interpreted however you liked and most of those interpretations aren't constitutional, so it's a meaningless result.

And all of this was a non-binding referendum anyway. The government can do whatever it wants with the results, as it always could.

We're not "fucked", we're just sick of this waste of time and money.

And now neither of those parts of her base are happy.

We knew from the start that they were not very bright.

No, Alberta isn't trying to seceed. Our quisling premier tried rabble-rousing with a referendum on whether to have a referendum to try to seceed and the separatists got crushed at the polls.

Hopefully we can put this idiocy to rest now.

It was only "divisive" in the minds of fringe imbeciles. This should never have come to a ballot.

Cosmically abundant, but not abundant on Earth. Or any terrestrial planet, for that matter. The problem is that helium is both extremely light and chemically inert, so it quickly escapes into space from any celestial body smaller than a gas giant. Earth lost all of its helium almost immediately after it formed.

The helium that it does have is stuff that was produced deep in Earth's interior as a result of radioactive decay. When an atom releases an alpha particle as part of a radioactive decay chain, that's a helium nucleus. The helium seeps upward through the crust and gets trapped as a contaminant of certain natural gas pockets. The helium we harvest industrially is extracted from those particular natural gas wells as a byproduct of four billion years of radioactive decay. When it gets released into the atmosphere - such as when it's used in a party balloon or blimp - it disperses into the upper atmosphere and is lost to space. One use, then it's gone forever. Eventually those natural reservoirs it's being extracted from will run dry and that'll be it - no more helium available on Earth.

I really hate party balloons. What an utterly ridiculous waste.

I'm all for AI, personally. When using it as a programmer it's a huge force multiplier, just pay attention to what it's doing.

Nice. All available in a torrent; citizen journalists have at it.

Not just to boost the payload, but to reduce the wastage of literally irreplaceable helium as well. It's a completely non-renewable resource and there are other applications that there are no substitutes for (such as coolant).

Thanks for at least not being so angry you didn't bother adding that edit, I was very "wut?" There. :)