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The reality of everything in this world is that if you have to wait for things to be perfect, you’ll be waiting forever.

Sure, cycling infrastructure isn’t great in North America. And some places (like, Ontario, Canada) have actively hostile campaigns against cyclists and remove any safety implements that have been established.

But if we don’t get on our bikes, it only proves that “nobody wants to cycle”, and the infrastructure will never get built.

And really, it’s not even about infrastructure anymore. We had a 13-year-old killed on cycling infrastructure because a driver ignored a stop sign.

We (like the entire world) need to make driving so inconvenient that it becomes the last choice to get around. Only then will people who 100% need to drive be behind the wheel. And because they need to drive, maybe they’ll pay attention to what they are doing.

I do sympathize with people who are afraid or put off by the risk of cycling in some places. I do get it, and there are areas where I live that I avoid cycling through. But I do cycle with the mindset that drivers are all idiots who aren’t paying attention and/or want to run me over. So even when I have the right of way, I assume that drivers will not acknowledge it.

Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that night in January 2022 as the family from India set out on foot to meet a waiting van.

Someone didn’t want them to survive.

… this means cutting corners on environmental assessments for the last vestiges of rural land in the GTA. The proposed route is set to raze 2,000 acres of farmland, pave 400 acres of Greenbelt land in Northern Vaughan, and disrupt 220 wetlands.

Wanting to make his buddies rich aside, the destruction of this land is by far the most insidious part of his plan. This is land we will never get back if it’s turned into another highway.

I wish the “Con” in Conservative meant “Conservation” rather than “con job”!

Miller and this guy. Two confirmed Nazis… this is going to end up great. /s

Brilliant! That worked!

If we do, this virus will make covid look like child’s play, apparently.

This was one of the rare times I installed a firmware update without waiting. They even sent an email telling me how urgent it was to get my NAS patched.

To that note, anyone have any idea how to get Hyper Backup to stop telling me that my backups are “partial” because Video Station is no longer found? It’s not even on the list of apps, but tells me that it’s been disabled as an option to back up because it’s not available. Annoying!

I can vouch for Mailbox, too.

It’s also easy to get it set up on third part email clients.

Does this new version fix the issue where it ends up capturing “choose your country”, cookie popups, and generally something NOT intended?

I was having problems like that all the time, so I had to uninstall it.

Compared to something like the FF extension “SingleFile”, I wish Linkwarden worked better :(

I think it’s fair to say that there are a lot of cases that can be expedited without the need to drag them along.

The problem with our current justice system (at least in its current state) is that it HIGHLY favours criminals.

Rapists walking free, drunk drivers getting their fourth or fifth “warning”, people being arrested for crimes while breaching a previous court order, people murdering cyclists and getting off with a minor traffic ticket, etc.

With more judges, a more efficient process, and more Crown prosecutors, hopefully things will move along more quickly. That won’t happen unless our government gets their priorities straight.

Either way, victims should always come first; society second; criminals last.

It has more about the courts not having enough judges or enough rooms to process every trial than the police.

Maybe we should get rid of court buildings and do everything virtually. If you’ve even been to a court, 90% of the time is basically wasted for everyone involved, simply due to how slow things are when you are in a physical building.

If we don’t modernize our justice system, we’ll never have enough judges or rooms to prosecute every criminal.

Maybe Dougie wants to explain why he’s able to find money to rip out existing bike lanes, or to build a FUCKING TUNNEL UNDER THE 401, but not have enough to make sure that our justice system moves as the speed of crime.

Kind of sucks that they have to do it indoors in November.

The one in Toronto is done outdoors while it’s still warm, and the atmosphere is way more festive than an indoor venue.

The majority of criminal cases in the province have ended with charges being withdrawn, stayed, dismissed or discharged before a decision at trial since 2020.

Meanwhile, 30% of my property taxes go to police services, and doesn’t matter in the end whether a criminal is caught or not.

Concerning, to say the least.

Consider this.

Trump is…a life-long conartist, a convicted felon, adulterer, rapist, womanizer, misogynist, racist, a twice impeached President, a guy who somehow had nearly a dozen close associates found to be guilty of crimes … Breathes

Someone who “gets along” with some of the most brutal dictators alive like they’re buddies, has been caught on tape describing sexually assaulting women, who has lied over 30,000 times in a span of 4 years, who has made threats against journalists, who has publicly mocked a disabled person, who has publicly shat on veterans, who criticised a POW for getting caught… Breathes

A guy who denied COVID, who promoted unproven treatments while condemning those who wanted to safeguard public health, who rambles incoherently about topics he has little to no grasp on, who thinks everything he does is “perfect” and "nobody has done a “better job”, is in obvious mental decline, has never admitted to being wrong or apologized for anything…

And so on!

Now, would you invite someone like that to dinner? Or have him work in your small business?

Probably not. Nobody would, not even if they were related to such a person.

Why then, would over half the voting public stake the future of their country on giving him a second term as President?

You don’t have to like Harris, or even agree with most of her policies, but she is not a trainwreak of a human being and would most certainly be a better person for the job. Any job.

As a Canadian, to know that a garbage heap of a person like Trump could be freely given excessive power by the voting public only tells me that it could happen in Canada, even if the alternative candidate was 1000x better in every way.

North America, and democracy as a whole, seems doomed. And with rich idiots, podcast morons, and domestic terrorists actively supporting a candidate like that, I worry about the future stability of our global community. And we aren’t even close to being prepared for what malicious use of AI could do during an election.

It takes far more effort and time to build a peaceful, balanced society. And less than four years to completely dismantle that progress.

I’ve been very happy with FreshRSS (docker install) running on my Synology NAS.

You can run this right from Windows: https://jan.ai/

You’ll need a lot of RAM, and processing is decently fast, even on a basic laptop.

edit: holy hell. Grammar.

Because when a new Government has to put them back in, this current Government’s supporters can say “see, they’re just wasting money!”.

Literally creating a problem for someone else.

Just let them take it out and see how much it impacts traffic and let the provincial government stew on those results at election time.

The problem is that we already know how it will impact traffic: it will get worse, a lot worse.

The real issue is what will he go after next? Sidewalks? Removing streetcar and bus priority lanes?

And when that fails? What comes after that?? Remove buildings? Stores?

This madness will only get worse, because the root cause of traffic congestion (people driving) isn’t being addressed, and won’t be with Ford calling the shots.

"Oops, we accidentally hit the sewage line, Mr. Premier!’