Yep. He could have been driving an F-150, bump over the sidewalk, drive over the CEO, then said “ooh, sorry, I didn’t see him, he must have been wearing headphones or something”, and it would probably have been a valid defensible position for the system.

This way we can vote for a neo-liberal dystopia instead of having a fascist one.

They say people tend to move on the right as they get older but as a middle aged man, I’m growing more cynical.

I’m not American but every government my country had in my lifetime has been working for corporations and big money instead of for the citizens. At every level.

I always voted progressive for the last 23 years but never once a progressive party won or had any significant influence on social politics. Vote for the major conservative party and we have the police violently displacing native protesters on their own land, or vote for the major alternative, a neo-liberal party that will also send the police to violently squash protests of natives against a pipeline going on their own land.

Whatever the party I vote for, oil is going to flow. The police will continue to happily apply the “necessary” violence to squash protests of people demanding better conditions or less corruption. The politicians will still collude with big corporations.

Everyone tells me to vote but my actual MP was a Greenpeace militant and is now bought and paid for, as the Environment minister, pushing for the oil industry to continue its operations for the good of the economy.

In the US you have the choice between a far right party and a party slightly less to the right, but still heavily on the right.

How the hell is voting for the lesser of two evil but still clearly evil party is going to help us out of this?

How would the Democrats fix this, if they have full control of the government? Will they give Americans free health care, or stop financing genocides? Have Obama brought the change he was supposed to? Guantanamo was closed? Was it because he/the democrats did not control enough of the government? Maybe if people vote more next time the Democrats will tackle social issues.

Just like every other government in every country. If we just all vote hard enough, the centibillionaires and their corporations will have no chance at buying our politicians?

So are lots of Americans. Their military also torture, violate and abuse human rights in other countries. They even have a special place in Cuba just for this.

Oh noes! I hope the poor cars will be all right! It’s so sad that we can’t leave 2 tons of personal property in the streets, in public spaces, expect nobody else will touch it, to finally end up getting it vandalized!

However, if I want to keep my vehicle safe, I store it in my private property, because it’s been stolen multiple times already and nobody cares about bikes. So from my point of view, if people want their vehicle to be safe, they should have garages instead of leaving them on the streets.

Sadly this reminds me of conversations I have when I visit my family in their little town.

“-They rebuilt the drive thru and it even worse than it was! They did a shit job! They should make a longer queuing area! It’s too close from the intersection!”

I’ll show them studies, images, explain how drive thrus naturally cause congestion but nope, it’s because those drive thrus are built by idiots, apparently. I try to explain induced demand and how cars are super inefficient space wise, but they can only see how if the town only bought the land next door it could expand the drive thru there and thus fix congestion issues once and for all!

It’s honestly disconcerting how they can’t see it’s the cars that are taking space.

And while being at it, it also reminds me about the e-scooters that were banned in my city because they were “taking too much space”, and were a danger to pedestrians. Yet, I also know about a big metal box that takes much more space and is much more deadly to pedestrians, but we don’t talk about this one.

I’ve always liked the Genii Cowen played by Colm Meaney. He’s an important Genii but more importantly, also the most important man in Starfleet.

Others include Armin Shimerman as a Nox, and Quark. Robert Picardo as Woolsey and the Doctor. Connor Trinner as Michael and Tripp. Jolene Blalock as Ishta and T’Pol. Marina Sirtis as Dr Markova and Troi. Ronny Cox as Kinsey and Jellico. And more.

Aside from Babylon 5, the amount of actors that have played in both Star Trek and Stargate nearly makes them related.

My only issue with Stargate is that at some point I realized they were gun shots and guns being fired in nearly every episode, if not multiple times by episode, and now I can’t ignore it. To me the soundtrack of Stargate is now composed mainly of guns being fired.

I do that too but only because it’s much easier to help my relatives with Linux than those with Windows.

I even “convert” some people because Llinux is easier for them if I just manage it. I had a neighbor that was using Window on a very old computer, it was slow and choking under the weight of simple updates. Plus, she was always asking me why her computer kept rebooting by itself while it was obviously Windows update. So I installed Mint and all the problems went away.

Anyway I don’t want to have to deal with Microsoft accounts, licenses, office365, the general bloat, the ads, the new versions of Windows… I have enough at work, so if I am going to help on my free time, it has to be on the OS I find easier to deal with.

Le singe est sur la branche.

I don’t really have a choice as heat is provided by my building, and they just keep it on at all times. So in winter it’s pretty much always around 26/27C except when it gets really cold outside and it “drops” a bit. I do like the heat but it’s a bit too much. Sometimes I have to open a window. 24C would suffice.

They even keep the heat on in summer so it can rise up to 35C during sunny days, but I have a portable AC to fight the building’s system and bring it back down to a “cool” 24/25C.

As long as the tech or the software doesn’t become obsolete, or the company doesn’t go bankrupt.

You know about the blind people that were able to see for a while but the company making their implants went bankrupt, leaving them blind once more, as their their implants will eventually all stop working?

Yet in 2020, Byland had to find out secondhand that the company had abandoned the technology and was on the verge of going bankrupt. While his two-implant system is still working, he doesn’t know how long that will be the case. “As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m fine,” he says. “But if something does go wrong with it, well, I’m screwed. Because there’s no way of getting it fixed.”

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

It’s obviously understandable to want to try something, anything, to help with a disability, but relying on private for profit companies for experimental medical devices is far from ideal.

Addendum: Also, disabled people are unfortunately often used as an excuse to push agendas. “We can’t have a bike lane there! Think about handicapped people using their car!” Or like "Tesla’s FSD will help disabled people get around No need to fund dirty dangerous public transit!! " Or again “Neuralink is going to help disabled people so they must have good intentions and obviously not plan on selling these to the general public eventuality. It’s purely for the embiggening of society!”

FSD is soooo full self driving that blind people can’t use it as it requires constant babysitting, and more importantly, a driver’s license and thr ability to drive a car… for a car that’s supposed to drive itself.

Anything coming from Musk is obviously a scam. He’s a con artist. He will say anything to convince people. He keeps promising his shit is always just on the verge of revolution but it’s mainly just empty words for hype.

Helping the disabled is probably just an afterthought for Neuralink. People are so desperate, they will try anything, and Neuralink will be the creep profiting off them.

The only acceptable vehicle in North America is a giant pickup. Anything else is too dangerous and takes too much public space. /s

I wonder if this can go through the chicanes installed on most cycling paths around here.

Unfortunately I also struggle to find where such a vehicle could comfortably ride here. My province is slowly banning electric micro vehicles because “they are too dangerous for others on bike paths and also too dangerous for themselves when mixed with car traffic”. Hell, people here call child services on parents riding cargo bikes with their kids because it’s “dangerous and irresponsible”.

I’ve been interested by a variation of these for years but realistically speaking, places to ride it are limited, and my landlords won’t let me park this in the garage instead of a car.

The whole concept of being a very small and light vehicle has unfortunately no place in current legislation where I live. It’s already difficult for plain simple bikes. Things like this are often in a “grey area” and sometimes they even end up being banned when they become popular, so getting one is kind of risky.

Huh, I’ve seen a French version of this while passing in Liège, Belgium. Ironically I’m pretty sure it’s still in construction and don’t have trams running in their streets yet.

I live in a place where people oppose to the construction of tram lines, so all I can hear is their usual complaints and criticism.

It MuSt CaUsE sO mUcH CoNgEsTiOn! TrEes MuSt HaVe BeEn CuT fOr ThIs LiNe. AnD ThUs TrAmS ArE BaD FoR ThE eNvIrOnMeNt! ThEy tAkE pArKInG SpAcES aWaY! LoOk aT aLl tHoSe UgLy WirEs! ThEy dOn’T WoRk In WiNtEr! PuBLiC tRaNsIt iS YuCk! ThIS sPaCe CouLd bE uSeD bY ReAl PeOpLe WiTh CaRs!

Aaah, North America!

I was 15 during the 1998 ice storm.

It’s obviously not as dangerous as a tornado or an earthquake or a flood, but it’s still a natural disaster, and disrupted society in the region for weeks and months.

At first it was difficult to realize the size of the catastrophe but then millions went without power, the infrastructure crumbled under the ice and roads became impracticable. The magnitude of the disaster became apparent when the army had to come and help.

Luckily I lived in a rural area at the time and we relied on a wood furnace for heat and hot water. We also shared a generator with other family members so I had power a few hours a day. Compared to people without heat water, food or electricity, it went ok for my family.

It took about 10 days for my region to have power back, while others had to wait for up to 30 days.

This left its mark on me and now I try to be prepared, have batteries charged, solar panels, water reserves, food for a few days, a camping stove, ways to keep warm, etc., just in case.

You can also start an orgy instead of killing, but I guess the sex can also happen while slaughtering.

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I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

Thus solving the problem once and for all.

Instead of just announcing and promising high speed rail every few years, can’t the federal government help or do something about the “sharing” issues?

Like, force the CN in some ways, or in buying or building routes that VIA would own. Wouldn’t it be needed for high speed trains anyway?

It’s both sad and frustrating to see VIA struggle like this, and have the federal government not really helping in any other ways than empty announcements.

They did in rural areas 20 years ago. I grew up on a rural road and it was totally a thing to send mail by putting it in the mailbox and raise the flag.

Maybe it’s just a rural thing for people with individual mailboxes, or maybe they stopped doing this, but it was possible a few decades ago.