Kijiji has definitely declined over the years. The ads are bad, but I find the worst aspect is the amount of accounts on there that are just shops selling new products rather than people reselling their old stuff. It makes it very annoying trying to find second hand shit.

Oh that actually makes a lot of sense, thank you!

This is much needed, but im confused by all the municipalities signed on to the resolution that use insane amounts of salt on roads and sidewalks (like Toronto). Surely they have the ability to reduce salt usage before waiting for some lackluster action from the province

Europe is in a good position to capitalize on this but Canada does not seriously fund scientific research.

Aluminum foil maybe?

Do you know what fried bees taste like? I imagine they have a more interesting taste if theyre consuming nectar and honey.

I found roasted crickets very bland and tasted like oats. I assume thats what they were fed.

I’d probably eat them if they were extremely cheap and accessible but I dont see the point when chickpeas, beans, lentils, and soy all taste better, are cheaper, and easily sourced.

I think they are making a good data-driven argument: If supply is the issue, why are prices so high compared to the 70s when supply per capital was lower? I think one could make the argument that this doesnt address where this new supply is distributed vs where people are distributed, but I would wager that since places like Toronto and Vancouver experience the most construction that it wouldn’t change the story much.

I think if I were being very critical of the article, you could say that while it provides a simple but compelling argument as to why supply is not the cause of the housing crisis, it does not adequately show that financialization of the housing market is the cause. Personally, I believe that is one big aspect of it, but if you compare other statistics between now and the 70s, you could make arguments that things like the reduction of social housing stock being the cause of the housing crisis.

Pretty ironic coming from a mayor of a suburban city. Im sure Old Toronto would like to stop subsidizing roads for Scarborough, Etobicoke, and North York. Personally, I would be a fan of property taxes reflecting how much it actually costs to maintain infrastructure around your home.

Love that cities are forced to pay this expense and have close to zero oversight or control over how big the budget is or how those expenses are allocated.

Is that frisk?

Im with you. I got a beater bike with drop bars and o ly rode it a few times before giving up on it. They felt extremely awkward and uncomfortable. The only advantage was being able to squeeze between traffic more easily, but its not worth it.

I’ve never seen sagduction so beautifully illustrated before

Unless you have literally 0 start up cash, I feel like youd be better off with a bike. An old 26 inch mountain bike isnt the fastest, but can handle this sort of weather pretty well. Speaking from experience, unless the place you are going is very close to a subway station, downtown transit can be pretty unreliable for getting places promptly, a bicycle almost always wins.

I think you have your robot in “Quebec mode”

What do you have against providing an address? I believe its so that your local riding association can get in touch with you.

I’ve settled on publishing all researxh-related code under AGPL. My reasoning is that academic research is funded by the public, so naturally the code should be public. Taken a step further, by licensing it under AGPL, I am ensuring that companies who may use the code for profit have to keep that code public and cant just privatize it and lock the public out.

Its unlikely anyone would ever even use my code though so 🤷

Are you talking about the episode where the enterprise first encounters the borg? One thing that sticks out about that episode after rewatching it is how well those sorts of scenes build dramatic tension. The score really contributes to that in a way that I dont think we see in modern television. Its incredible how scenes that are mostly just people staring at a screen looking concerned felt so intense.

I had seasoned roasted ones, but they are farmed and probably fed a diet of oats so they taste pretty oaty. I compare them to, for example, roasted chickpeas which are also a relatively high protein salted snack and I find the roasted chickpeas are far more flavourful and dont require as much seasoning to bring out that flavour.

Ive only tried crickets and they’re very bland compared to shellfish