Things are complicated. For some Canadians, the country really sucks because of its history and how it was made. I’m a Francophone old enough to have lived through the last referendum on separation. I remember the dirty tricks.

And based on that previous history, we respect each other so much that to this day, after multiple attempts, we never agreed on a constitution and just pretend everything is fine.

Going back further, the French speaking part was conquered by England and eventually forced into a union where English speakers had more rights.

So “respect each other’s differences” is relative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Solitudes_(Canadian_society)

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention this other piece of historical mutual respect.

EDIT2: I must seem angry for things that happened a few hundred years ago but as I mentioned, the constitution is still not fixed. And we should also mention everything shitty both the French and English did tonrhe natives. We do however tolerate and even respect each other through all this because otherwise we would still be in a perpetual state of war. Instead it’s “just” political bickering.

The article doesn’t mention any “miles per hour”. Do people in Australia use mph?

In December, the NSW premier, Chris Minns, announced a plan to halve ebikes’ power – and therefore reduce their top speeds – to 250 watts…

It’s another reason to avoid those things but TBF, I don’t really care about remote intervention on “autonomous” cars because I think the whole idea is stupid. It’s for car dependent people that shudder at the idea of taking a bus, but don’t mind being at the mercy of a giant corporation for getting everywhere. If your city is big enough to have a fleet of “autonomous” cars, it’s big enough to have public transit. And if you don’t live in a city, those “autonomous” cars will not be available anyway.

I am car free and I never ever use a taxi unless it’s absolutely necessary. My city has transit, with buses and trains. Otherwise I have a bike and can walk. Using a taxi means continuing to be dependent on cars.

When those first started to come out and be introduced, I was kind of enthusiast and thought it would be great to have a service that could bring me in places where public transit wouldn’t. Like, it would be wonderful to have an autonomous car drop me in a provincial park, or in the countryside somewhere. But they are not made for this. They are made to replace public transit in cities, which is absolutely stupid.

So if I am to pay to be driven somewhere by a taxi, I would feel safer and prefer to have someone behind the wheel locally rather than someone remote controlling the car from the other end of the world. Even if my experience with taxi drivers is less than stellar, it can’t be worse than being stuck in a car because it doesn’t know how to process a trafic cone placed on its hood.

And the media gives the business owners all the attention. Every fucking time. Fuck you Quebecor with your Journal de Montréal and TVA always interviewing business owners in front of future bike lane projects.

Those fuckers complain so much that they sometimes successfully kill bike lane projects and put thousands of cyclists in danger because they would obviously go bankrupt without parking dorectly in front of their business.

But they’re gonna continue to consoom and drive their individual giant SUVs everywhere. Don’t worry they will be electric so buy buy buy.

Anyway, AI running in datacenters powered by fossil fuel will surely find a technological solution to our consumption problems.

Surely we can’t just stop consooming.

And don’t forget to recycle!

This reminds me of a Republican politician interviewed on TV being told that crime rates were down, and him replying “but I don’t FEEL safe”.

Reality doesn’t matter.

Sometimes people forget what’s possible by laying in their comforting bubble.

I am car free and was looking for a place in the Carribean to go cycling a bit during my vacation. I looked online for a place that had public transit and ended up with Guadeloupe and the island of Marie-Galante for cycling.

Just to be sure I double checked online and every forum and comment I found was saying that visiting Guadeloupe without a car was impossible; that a car was a necessity. Yet, I knew there was public transit, I had the map and schedules in front of me. So I mentally prepared to have to use a taxi to go everywhere (like in St-Martin, ugh).

But I arrived at the airport, went outside, saw the panels and arrows to public transit, waited for a bus, and got to the hotel. The next day I took another bus to the ferry terminal then went to Marie-Galante. I rented a bike, cycled around the island, spent a few days there, then came back in reverse using public transit too.

Apparently what was impossible to visit without a car, can be visited without a car, when we just try a bit.

I get the same thing when cycling or walking more than a few km. People are like “you walked here?” Why yes, you put one foot in front of another and next thing you know, you’re in a different place.

It’s a tad ironic that this app runs on Android or Apple phones. People find it easy to avoid physical products but we will have to find technological alternatives too.

Microsoft, Google, Apple, they will also have to go, I hope.

My nation has been under occupation by the English since 1760 and I have no special love for the actual country that was forced on us. The patriots tried to fight against the English; they were captured, and hung. One capitalist master over another, I’m not fighting for that.

We survived for 260 years in a country that was stolen and in a union that was forced on us. We will endure the Unitedstaters if they take over, as we endured the English.

Plus, an escalation and more spending on the military is exactly what the orange turd wanted in the first place. You are being played over FUD.

The world will be such a better place when the poor will fight one another for a line on a map while the rich pockets the money from military equipment sale. But at least everyone is employed and has a job!

What a wonderful way to keep people employed, by pivoting from engines destroying the environment and killing people to, well, exactly the same. It’s certainly a win for them, and us to continue being paid to make death machines. Their union is smart to want to get a piece of the military budget pie.

Just like the US, let’s have common folks earn a living from making military equipment, and depend on those jobs. Great idea. It’s not at all contributing to spending public money on the military instead of useless social programs.

Yes , that’s how Trump and his administration operates. Whether it’s on purpose or just the product of a chaotic idiot, that’s how it works. Every day is a shit show to make people forget the previous shit show. It’s how they can do anything without consequences.

My city does it for raccoons because tourists find them so attractive that they approach and feed them.

In fact the southern regions of Quebec are frequently doing it for raccoons, skunks and foxes, in localized areas.

There’s articles in the news on this subject but most people don’t pay attention to this.

Anything but reduce car usage or invest in public transit. No, the solution to everyone wasting energy to move a personal multi ton vehicle around, and prevent parking lots from worsening climate change, is to install solar panels on top of every parking lot and road.

Cars will one day be made by green energy, powered by green energy, recycled by green energy, and be entirely carbon neutral, of course.

They will still emit tons of microplastic particles but we’ll eventually find a technoloical solution for that, I’m sure. They will still kill billions of animals every year but it’s not related to climate so no biggie. They will still kill one human every 30 seconds but again, not a climate issue. They augment the risk of cardiovascular diseases and make people fat. They are also a source of noise pollution and stress for millions of poor people living near freeways. And they are also an expensive status symbol. But none of this matters because they will be electric, and have solar panels on top of parking lots, thus solving the problem once and for all!

Personally I’d prefer we get rid of parking lots and build housing on top of it but, where will people park their climate friendly cars?!

Anything but to admit cars are an environmental problem.

EDIT: Sorry about the abrasiveness. I did read a study a few months ago about installing solar panels on top of parking lots and they did have a positive impact, but it’s just impossible to do this on every open air parking lot and road because of material and cost. Even if it could have a positive impact on localized areas, it’s never gonna be enough to have an overall impact.

Just to give you an idea of how much parking there is in the world, you can look for those maps where parking lots are highlighted. This is for Flint, MI. This is for Philadelphia. I tried to do it for a town of about 80k people in Québec (Drummondville), and just gave up before being done. And that’s just counting parking lots, not roads. How many solar panels do you think we should produce to cover all this?

Oh yeah. A car shows your social status and you want to impress others. If you drive an expensive car, of course women will want to be your girlfriend.

I wonder what his father drives? Did he also give his mother cookies because he didn’t have the correct car to impress?

Cue the comments from people not subscribed to the community saying “I have nothing against cyclists but they’re in the way!11!”

Same but with the current geopolitical situation.

These are so disappointing nowadays that I don’t bother trying anymore.

Two or three decades ago, the inside was gooey and runny. Eating one of these was a messy but delicious affair. Now every time I buy one, it feels like a dried paste that has nothing in common with what I was eating as a child. For a while I thought they were just old or bad but apparently it’s just how they are now.

It’s been pretty easy because most updates are mainly just new mobs and they spawn on existing terrain. I pruned/trimmed the world only once, maybe about a decade ago, because we wanted better terrain and caves than what was originally generated. It left a big cube of the original map and everything around is relatively new. I haven’t had to do it since. We just go further and further for new chunks now.

For example, I just updated to 1.21.11 and now there’s just nautili in our waters. This world started well before bees, horses, polar bears, turtles and all that, but after updates, they are just there. It makes a somewhat weird mix of old terrain with new mobs, that gets progressively newer the further we go from the spawn point. Like, villages that are close were generated before professions and trading, and are very simple and boring. But as we venture deeper into the world, they start to look like modern villages, with profession blocks and trading now possible.

My nephew wants to play Roblox but we won’t let him. However I have a Minecraft server that we can control and it’s been running for longer than he’s been alive. So with any luck we should be able to keep the map/game for a while longer.

But I also realized what you’re saying when he was watching YouTube videos. When I was a kid I was watching cartoons and kids shows that now I can simply stream/download and rewatch. It’s however going to be much more difficult to do with random videos on YouTube.

Isn’t that the Canadian version, avec l’emballage bilingue?!