All of the above? And you’re not willing to try any of them again?

Find a passion that isn’t porn, or alcohol, irrespective of the season. Since (I assume) you have time off, use it to find something else to try and get good at. Such as improving your strength and endurance at the gym, learning a new language, starting a new project, taking up a new instrument, read a history book or any book, etc., going to a new place, learning to cook a new kind of meal, etc. etc.

What’s your total budget roughly? What do you want to see? More cities, more nature, more mountains, more plains, more tundra, more rivers and lakes, more oceans?

On average my short-term travelling escapades average out to $200-250 Canadian a night, but that includes local souvenirs, a nice meal, round-trip travel fare, metro transit tickets, hostel or hotel and I’m budget conscious but not trying to stretch every dollar to the limit.

The cheapest way to cover long distances is by air, but you will miss all the country there is to see between and there are limits to the stuff you can bring in your luggage (no camping stoves, etc.). It’s also the only way you can get to many places in the Arctic (such as Nunavut).

Rail is a beautiful way to travel the country, without the stress and costs of driving, but you are at the mercy of freight rail traffic so the schedules of The Canadian or The Ocean trains basically mean nothing. You can mostly get away with public transport if you are staying within the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area, île Montréal, Metro Vancouver. These largest cities also have decent commuter bicycle rental programmes for small, inexpensive trips.

The intercity bus can take you some places but it’s not too comfortable and there are huge gaps within Canada so it’s not reliable for everything.

The car’s cost is depending on how much hassle you want to have. Rental agencies based on my very brief search seemed to cost $900/week plus gas (estimate 10c/km). I’m a member of a carshare co-op (with $500 refundable buy-in) and the rates for me are $100/day for 500km and $0.35/km above that, gas included. Buying and selling a car I have no idea how expensive that would be, but it would be quite a bit of paperwork for buying selling and getting insurance, and finding a good car to travel around with then finding a buyer later seems like a lot of hassle. Maybe app-based car sales might make things easier but IDK. Parking it in the cities is another hassle and expense.

If you can get a car cheaply and you love nature: get a tent, food and camping supplies and spend time in Canada’s many national and provincial parks. Many of them are beautiful, and when it comes to cost they are rather cheap places to stay with most campsites having toilets and showers, which you can base yourself at then explore the woods. The popular ones may get booked out for the summer, and especially around Canada Day (1st of July), so be aware.

I’m an OG Fortnite player (c. 2017)…

E: Ok it was meant to be a joke, I’ve played 3 solo games, as if it’s something to be proud of.

Seems alright for this high volume drive, fwiw it’s just a hair above the mythical $20/TB benchmark (though with inflation you never know when we’ll get that).

Can this wait until Feb 1? Give Canadians a bit more of a chance to see the US get fucked first.

Top counts Net votes.

I like Hot, but if I haven’t been on for a bit then I check Top [timeframe since I last checked]

The reporting on Brian Thompson feels similar to as if Igor Kirillov (Russian general killed in the scooter bombing) was being reported by Russia Today on how his two kids and wife love him and anonymous staffers praising his work.

Then STFU and move to fuckin Canada then all you CEOs, I dare ya.

The robot dog passed the canine version of the Turing Test.

Your new desk:

“They’re the same picture”

There’s always a bit of “no-true-leftist” dynamic within left-leaning circles. Vegans have gotten upset at each other for stuff like feeding their pets a diet with or without meat, boiling over into Fediverse drama (not trying to open that discussion here but just highlighting that it has been hotly debated). If we let small differences get in the way of big progress, of course conservatives will win and take us backwards because they will use any opportunity they get, and are somehow better at setting aside differences on unrelated issues than leftists. I don’t have much of a solution besides putting my focus and attention on issues that are more important to me, such as the class war over culture war stuff.

Call me a lib, but I occasionally agree with things conservatives say even if a lot more times I disagree. That doesn’t make me a conservative but there are some that act as if I was.

In Belgium I knew there are quite a few French people that are very particular about using French there. I should have supposed there was the same type of person but in Dutch.

You are correct. That’s why I said specifically not accounting for filtering from the jury selection questionnaire, when extrapolating the ABC poll to statistics for a hypothetical 12-person jury. Of course the actual jury is not selected once and entirely randomly, but I was hoping to provide an interesting statistic.

Statistically speaking: if 17% of people say that the murder of the healthcare CEO is even somewhat acceptable, if you were to pick 12 people randomly from that group (so not accounting for any other potential filters from a jury questionnaire), you’d only have a 10% chance that all 12 answering it is unacceptable.

Solidarity for Bezos and his yachts, can’t have him suffer from these rabblerousers living paycheque to paycheque taking a stand - NYPD.

Mark it as $1.50 + $0.50 Trump tax.

For a medium sized city without a nearby metropolis to lean on, Kingston’s transit is quite decent.

The double whammy of the new app, and slick new UI is a great catalyst for wider adoption.