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FireRetardant

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  • Roads in Canada (lifted from imgur)

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  • Its because farther north than that is barely inhabited. North of roughly the orillia line, geography and community size changes dramatically compared to what is south of orillia. Its a good seperatation for political purposes as the needs and cultures in these smaller communities are different from the southern communities.

  • Anon questions modern society

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  • Buts it not possible to play any sports without the dodge ram 3500 extra cab mega box extra large big horn edition.

  • 2 more Toronto speed cameras cut down, as Ford urges city to do away with 'tax grab'

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  • The effects aren't instant but over a longer period of time cameras have proven to slow down traffic leading up to the camera and after the camera, many streets still see a drop in average speed after the camera is removed. The main benefit is the cost of operating the cameras is quite a bit cheaper than paying a cop to do it.

    My area operated 6 cameras for 1 year for a cost of about 323k. Given those cameras took no days off, took no coffee breaks, and has no downtime while writing a ticket, i doubt they could have covered the same area and timeframe with 10x the cost running officers and their cars.

    The camera can also watch its road 24/7 as long as it is deployed. The camera cant be racist, can't rip up a ticket due to bribes or cleavage, and can't give special treatment to their buddies. Most places won't let you dispute the camera ticket whereas many speeding tickets sent to court see fines reduced and also clog up court house time, often taking the cop off duty to recall the events.

    The cameras are not perfect but traffic fatalities/injuries and the attitude towards speeding in this province is so out of control I'll take a not perfect solution over no solution.

  • The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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  • I feel this. I refuse to use dating apps and everyone calls me weird. You go back 10 years ago the sentiment was the oposite, it changed so fast. I'm not a selfie guy, i don't take photos of myself much, and imo my best qualities don't translate great over texting. The couple months i did try to use them was exhausting. Spend an hour chatting with someone just to get ghosted. I've even caught girls I've been on dates with swiping while we met up. Already looking for something else before even giving me a fair shot.

  • 2 more Toronto speed cameras cut down, as Ford urges city to do away with 'tax grab'

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  • In my area most of the revenue from the speed cameras goes to investing in more road safety such as bollards narrowing lanes, speed humps, and other traffic calming. They have my support 100% even if I've been dinged once or twice. We are at the point where we almost need a camera watching the camera for vandals.

  • Anon questions modern society

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  • This biggest argument i see is people somehow think things like transit will remove their freedom of mobility, when in reality it vastly improves mobility, especially for those who can't or don't want to drive.

  • Anon questions modern society

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  • America, fuck yeah

  • The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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  • I met or exceeded every single requirement for all sorts of jobs that were "urgently hiring" and after 8 months of applying to a few jobs a day, i still had 0 interviews. I eventually got a job at a small local business i discovered was hiring through some small talk. The days of a smile and handshake aren't dead yet for some places.

  • The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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  • A lot of people just copy and paste the job description in because that often contains some of the key words or certifications they are looking for

  • The 2nd biggest religion in each state (US)

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  • So not only are the non religious people confused, the (not)christians are all also confused as to who is Christian

  • The 2nd biggest religion in each state (US)

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  • I'm not religous so i always thought they were different enough to be counted as seperate

  • The 2nd biggest religion in each state (US)

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  • Are Christians and catholics counted as the same religion?

  • Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

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  • Most people have a hard enough time getting their car close enough to the window to get the food or to handle the card reader. I doubt many people would enjoy the toucn screen ordering as the would struggle tk get close enough and may have to lean way out of their window to order. The touch screen would also have to work reliably while wet or freezing cold.

    Then you've got the issue of someone has to clean it and even with regular cleaning it has a huge potential to spread germs. Ultimately with all the disadvantages i think it would be too slow, too inconvenient, and add extra real estate to the drive thru.

  • A conundrum

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  • Some places literally build cookie cutter subdivisions on a chunk of land in the middle of farms they bought so the classification may not be that far fetched depending on the circumstances. My parents house is technically zoned as agricultural yet the recent sprawl of nearby cities means there is now a mcdonalds less than 1km away and suburbs creep closer each year.

  • A conundrum

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  • In my area it means you can rent something out thats had nothing but the bare minimums of renovations for the past 40-60 years and still get a decent market price for the unit. The stuff that is farther out is newer, more spacious, and often considered in a safer area, so they can ask for more. You are getting a better unit farther out but you gotta pay for it vs living in something run down but saving on rent and transportation.

    There exceptions of course, it really depends on the age and desirability of the neighborhood

  • A conundrum

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  • It depends on the city. Smaller non touristy cities. Your cheapest rents are near downtown core with all the old buildings and the only place density has been allowed to be built for the past 60 years. Bigger cities the central downtown is defintely expensive, i guess in those cities im more so refering to anywhere with apartment buildings density, which can give a downtown feel if older buildings are still preserved nearby. Although a lot of the time they've been paved over and thats how we get apartments that stand 20 stories high surrounded by a sea of single story strip malls and box stores.

  • A conundrum

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  • The cost of owning vs renting can be very different depending on where you live and work and the amenities you want access to. Renting somewhere centrally located with good access to high quality transit and other amenities would likely be cheaper than owning. Unless we can start normalizing owning apartments again. You could own for cheaper on the outskirts of downtown, but you'll likely be sacraficing access to some amenities by doing so.

  • A conundrum

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  • Whats going on is decades of mismanagement of property taxes and city zoning. People fight tooth and nail to keep their property taxes low, and eventually the city has to do a big increase because they failed to increase incrementally. The bigger issue is how poorly we zone and design most north american cities.

    The average car dependant suburb costs more to maintain than it generates in tax revenue. A denser area like mixed use neighbourhoods and "missing middle" housing fares far better and generates enough that it often ends up subsidizing the rest of the city, the same is usually true for denser downtowns. That trend is dying off as those denser areas demolish tax revenue generating businesses and homes to pave parking lots that don't generate taxes to park cars from the suburbs that don't generate enough taxes.

    You can't afford a home because for decades suburbs were given a massive tax break while denser downtowns (guess where the poors have to rent and ultimately fund the property taxes) have to subsidize car dependant expensive to maintain subdivisions (which is usually for middle class or wealthier people, especially when built new). Add in some racial demographics and we've basically engineered every city to have secret tax cuts for anyone rich enough to get into the suburbs.

    The best part is, many cities are keeping the cycle going because the only way they are paying for maintaince of an old subdivision is by using the devleopment taxes and fees from a new subdivision. This is not sustainable and ultimately equates to kicking the can down the road to let a future generation figure it out (which is literally as simple as building cities densely again, as they had been built for 100s of years).

    This hasn't even touched yet on the urban sprawl, energy ineffeciency, and secondary effects of car dependancy that have all spawned from "the american dream" of suburbia. We seriously need to reconsider how we zone, build, and get around our urban spaces.

  • A conundrum

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  • The biggest thing we can do for the housing crisis is making density legal again and allocating more space in cities to housing instead of parking cars.