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Evkob (they/them)

@ Evkob @lemmy.ca

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  • Powerful Canadian Politician attacks City Council for building a bike lane.

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  • I mean, he's not wrong that many of Halifax's residents don't care for bike lanes; it's an inevitability of how Halifax is made up.

    The Halifax Regional municipality is huge, clocking in at 5475.57 km^2. That's almost 10% of the entire province of Nova Scotia by area. Here's a street view picture of a random spot I picked in Halifax, this is what most of Halifax looks like:

    (Of course, most of the population lives in the urban core. Density drops from around 1500 inhabitants per km^2 to just 64 when looking at the whole municipality)

    This is just one of the many reasons urban amalgamations are a scam, one often proposed by conservatives to (among other reasons, like subsidizing suburbia) drown out progressive voices in cities that support things like bike lanes. Toronto is a great case study in this, where the surrounding suburbs have been choking the city proper and slowing progress since 1998.

    It's frankly ridiculous to entertain the notion that someone living in Tangier (location of the above street view) should have a say in how streets and neighbourhoods are organised in downtown Halifax. Let them decide what happens on the road in Tangier, and let the people who actually live in the neighbourhoods of downtown organise them to their wants and needs.

    In conclusion, Tim Houston is an absolute fuckwit. And his coffee and doughnuts suck.

  • Anyone here "quiet" ADHD?

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  • Your parents sound like shitty psychiatrists.

  • Plant Slurs

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  • I think this is something I might be too French-Canadian to understand, here we'd call it "pot" or perhaps "herbe", both of which don't translate to "bad grass".

    Unless overseas "herbe" translates to weed. We use it pretty interchangeably with "gazon" (which just means grass)

  • What's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?

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  • Yeah because making clearly false claims and refusing to back them up is totally in good faith and the peak of civility. I don't tend to be civil with people who'd gladly take away my rights.

    I know what you're selling too, and don't consider not having to talk to you to be a loss :)

  • What's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?

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  • I'd love some examples if you care to share!

    There is a difference between "calling everyone a nazi, racist, and transphobe" and calling out Nazis, racists, and transphobes, and a lot of people fail to grasp that nuance. From what I've seen so far in your comments, you're giving off the vibe of someone who either doesn't understand that nuance, or willfully avoids it.

    Again, would love some examples if this isn't the case.

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    How are you doing fellow kids

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  • I've learnt that never reading Twitter replies is actually a form of self-care. No matter how vile the tweet, the replies are always somehow an extra level of unhinged.

  • What are The signs about you being trans that your pre Crack self ignored/overlooked?

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  • I spent so, so much time in trans subreddits, especially /r/egg_irl.

    It took over two years of basically exclusively looking at trans memes, "to get a better understanding of the trans experience as an ally", for me to start considering I might be trans!

    I also recall a time near the beginning of that trans meme phase where I said to a friend "I think I'm probably non-binary". He was like "what?" to which I answered "what?" and I just left it at that, not even a hint of introspection.

  • What was the last image you saved from the internet?

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  • I work in a café and the comments I overhear men saying to my feminine coworkers are insane. I get some weird comments sometimes (I'm pretty visibly queer) but it's nothing compared to them. I honestly don't know how women deal with it.

  • Veggies Burgers

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  • Tomatoes would be odd, I've never seen that. Onions, or at a minimum garlic power, should be in any burger recipe, IMO. Carrots would totally work for a veggie burger, I found this recipe that looks pretty tasty and uses both carrots and onions.

    But disregarding all that; I very rarely eat burgers that don't have both onions and tomatoes as toppings :P

  • Veggies Burgers

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  • To add to idiomaddict's great points, the animals don't eat exclusively grass. In Australia (assuming based on your instance): "the latest estimate (2017-18) of annual feed use in Australia is 13.58 million tonnes" (SFMCA).

    This includes "cereal grains, legume grains, vegetable protein meals, animal protein meals, cereal milling co-products, minerals and vitamins" as per that same source.

    I often see people use the deforestation of the Amazon for soy crops as a sort of gotcha for vegans, even though most soybeans are grown for use as animal feed (in the Amazon, mainly cattle). Incidentally, cattle farms are also responsible for much more deforestation in the Amazon than soybeans, but I digress.

    I'll also note that grass-fed beef has often been shown to be as bad (or sometimes worse) for the environment than feedlot beef. It also can't scale to meet current meat consumption.

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    How are you doing fellow kids

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  • Even though OP specified it's a real tweet, I honestly didn't believe them. Until I checked.

    Fuck, man. I've been getting more and more desensitized to the absolute bullshit that abounds in this world, and most of the insane stuff fascists do barely registers anymore.

    But this hit me like a ton of bricks, for some reason. These people are gonna gas minorities and make memes about it. What a fucking pathetic waste of atoms these assholes are.

  • Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off

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  • Sometimes adding the installer as a non-Steam game and running it through Proton works, otherwise I use Lutris. You can find tutorials online for setting it up to use with FitGirl's installers.

    Although specifically for Cyberpunk 2077 I had issues with the install, so I found a no-install version, I believe from DODI.

  • What's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?

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  • I'm very curious at to what these "far-left" extreme views that the media (owned by billionaires) are espousing. The only news I see is either aligned with fascists or the milquetoastiest of liberalism.

    (I'll bet anyone here 5$ that this guy considers "racial minorities and trans people deserve human rights" to be an extremist position)

  • Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game

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  • Ooo I've never heard of this! Kinda sad I only saw this comment after the Summer Sale :P Thanks for sharing!

  • The Bloc Wants to Break Up Canada—but Not Yet

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  • I'm honestly curious, how would you define anglo-Canadian identity?

    I feel like more and more, English Canada is becoming culturally Americanized. Less gun-obsessed, sure, and hockey over football/baseball, but apart from that the difference seems to be waning.

    Not that francophone communities, including Québec, aren't also influenced by the US, but the impact is a lot lesser. I'd be super curious to see how much Canadian music/TV the average Canadian listens to, versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes.

    There, to me anyways, seems to be a much higher emphasis on national identity in Québec than anywhere else in Canada (for better and for worse).

  • Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off

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  • If you know where to look, a certain athletic woman can give it to you for free if you're on a Steam Deck!

  • Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic Portal 2 as Steam’s top-rated game

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  • In a similar vein to Superluminal, I'd also recommend Viewfinder, it's kinda like Portal but with a camera rather than a Portal gun.

  • prediction

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  • Fun fact: there exists black women other than Oprah Winfrey! Experts say there are at the very least 12 non-Oprah black women.

  • WestJet agent rejects First Nations elder's ID card, prevents him from boarding

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  • If your job mostly revolves around checking people's documentation and you fail to recognize government-issued ID (from the country in which you work, no less), you're objectively shit at your job.

    I don't understand why you're making excuses for the airline. I did a better job than this as a 19 year-old cashier selling lotto tickets.

  • RCMP charges CAF members with trying to create 'anti-government militia' and seize land

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  • I would definitely put my money on white nationalists.

    Seperationists don't tend to join the Canadian military, nor would they typically display stickers of the American flag on their trucks as you can see in one of the images on the article. Also, when's the last time the souverainiste mouvement got violent? I can't think of anything more recent than the early '70s.