CBC's clickbaity title aside, the findings show that with Facebook Content Monetization:

''There are two beneficiaries of this. One is the grifters who are monetizing. They are engaged in this activity because it is financially profitable for them,'' said Aengus Bridgman, director of the Media Ecosystem Observatory at McGill University in Montreal. ''The other is the platform itself... the ad revenue monetization around the attention that they're getting.''

Unfortunately, those grifters have chosen a particularly loaded political topic in Canadian current events on which to flood those who are easily persuaded by online slop.

PAL's lower frame rate made for visible flicker, which viewers conditioned to NTSC could wearily detect.

Film is 24fps which is lower than PAL.

The 30fps of NTSC is actually associated with "cheap-looking" video.

NTSC's rate was 29.97 and its lesser line count made images seem blurry to those who were used to PAL and SECAM. Folks viewing PAL after NTSC felt that the flicker caused eye fatigue.

Going way back, in Canada the jokes were:

NTSC = ''never twice same colour''

SECAM = ''système électronique pour confondre les americaines.''

That's ''diabetes''

"biabetes" made me click on a headline I otherwise would have skipped. I just wanted to know what it is.

I incorrectly assumed it was Brian Badonde (memory of old British sketch comedy resurfaced by the spelling) pronouncing diabetes, as in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYU6M8B1xxw

NFS == Need For Speed

> I love learning about pre-internet ways of transferring data on the back of other things

See Minitel from France and Telidon from Canada as other examples of data systems riding on analogue TV and/or POTS telephone systems.

The same author dabbled in a similar project, so maybe there's a Teletext over ham radio tie-in possible?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/run-a-meshtastic-bbs

Author of the OP article here: Yes, you could 100% send teletext frames over meshtastic: if you're using the unlicensed bands you could even send full carousels with many pages, which is something that isn't really kosher under my reading of the FCC regs for amateur radio, which is why I stuck to a single page SSTV replacement in the article!

I'm familiar with the author's past work on ieee.org and have a sense that he likes to write to/for both hobbyist and professional camps:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/u/stephen-cass

You have me pegged correctly :)

''The beer that made Milt Famy walk us''

https://www.realnothings.com/famous%20jokes/miltfamyjoke.htm

"When you're out of Bud, tough Schlitz"

Since you are comparing Canada and the U.S.A., let's look at some popular phrasing from each's Constitutions:

U.S.A. ''life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness''

Canada ''peace, order, and good government''

Those are fundamental to the identity of each nation's people. Are they core beliefs of the majority of their citizens? Probably. Are Canadians ready to fight a civil war over Alberta separatism? Not at this point, even slightly.