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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • No, the number one cause is not building efficient high density transportation networks.

    If you build efficient high density transportation networks like streetcars and subways, then people plan their lives around taking those forms of transportation, and thus will gravitate towards living near the stops and you naturally end up densifying housing around your network.

    Endless suburban sprawl is caused by only building road networks so everyone plans their lives and housing around owning and using cars.

    And at a fundamental level, corporations building out and then operating high density towers, is not building out a pleasant future to live in, it’s building out a cyberpunk dystopia where the municipality expands vertically but cedes control of that expansion to exploitative corporations.

    Canada has the existing space in our cities and towns and should be focused on turning more communities into Toronto’s relatively dense ‘streetcar suburbs’, where you have a mix of lots of townhomes, semi-detached housing, and short apartment buildings, where people can for the most part actually fully own their property and building, while still supporting a relatively high density of housing. But we need to build out actual streetcar networks in cities other than Toronto for that to happen.





  • so that you can feel good about yourself while doing nothing to prevent climate change.

    [citation needed]

    Denying that we can do anything about climate change, is just the modern form of climate change denial.

    Don’t be a selfish whore who will destroy their own fucking planet because it’s the laziest path to economic productivity.

    You want to know what a path to be poor is? Paying trillions of dollars to mitigate the effects of climate change.

    Alberta has pissed away all of its oil wealth on “low taxes” that have bought it literally nothing but billions in oil well debt, meanwhile Quebec pooled and saved a tiny portion of that amount in its public retirement funds, and turned that into one of largest sovereign wealth funds in the world.

    Like I said, Alberta needs to shut it’s fucking mouth and diversify its economy rather than whining and bitching like the oil and gas puppet that it is.

    I understand Saskatchewan’s complaints about the auto tariffs against China causing their agricultural exports to suffer and that not being fair, but Alberta has had every opportunity at every turn, has kept electing piss poor PC governments no matter how much money they blow, and has then whined like a fucking child to the rest of the country at every turn about their own incompetence.



  • This is trash content. She says literally nothing of value.

    If you actually listen to what she says / read the transcript (not worth it), her complaint is that PP avoided one on one interviews with real journalists… and then … nothing … there’s no actual complaint about him going on a podcast that will lob softballs, she just calls Joe Rogan a dumbass a bunch of times and pretends like she’s making a point.

    There’s a reason that people invented writing and essays, here’s a hint: back in the dawn of writing era, it was entirely possible to go to the town square and go off on an ill-informed, half cocked, diatribe about what ground your gears. But guess what? People discovered that ideas that are written down, thought through, and edited, are more compelling.










  • I feel like all the coverage of this leaves out a massive gaping logical hole.

    Like anti-venom / anti-bodies are produced by injecting a horse with venom and then collecting the anti-bodies it produces as a result.

    In this situation our man Tim is that horse, and he had to inject himself with 900 different venom injections to produce these broad anti-bodies.

    Is the plan going forward, to give horses 900 different venom injections to try and recreate this? Is there a synthetic way of making a known anti-body that they’re not mentioning? If there is, then why are we still injecting horses with so much snake venom?


  • Lmao, the fuckepic and ‘Tim Sweeney is a bastard man’ sentiments were always wildly overblown.

    The fact that anyone took Apple’s side in this case (because the Epic game store paid for a couple exclusive games to try and break into the market) is laughably childish.

    Apple literally rips off the entire world to the tune of billions of dollars a year through app store mafia extortion fees alone, let alone the rest of their anti-competitive bullshit.

    Epic was just trying to break into the Apple / Google / Steam monopolies and made a couple unpopular / anti-consumer business moves on a couple games (all the while taking afar smaller cut of profits than any other store), meanwhile Apple has based their literal entire multi-decade business model on anti-consumer choices and done that for every single hardware and software device they sell you.

    They are not remotely comparable. Epic was always fully in the right in their anti-monopoly legal battles.