I bike or walk everywhere I go, so I'm familiar with having to watch out for drivers. That being said, I think the person operating thousands of pounds of steel bears more responsibility than anyone just walking around. You're controlling a machine capable of killing people, you should really pay attention to what you're doing.
A large percentage of your population approves of what is happening, while not requiring the propaganda to reach or hold that conclusion.
I agree with everything else here, but propaganda absolutely plays a role in the current fascist movement in the States. The Venn diagram of Trump supporters and people who watch Fox News is probably pretty close to a circle.
Bicycle insurance and plates? Why? That makes zero sense. We have these for cars because cars are dangerous, not just for funsies. Bicycles don't pose the same danger.
Walking... if you have time and physical ability, but who cares about that, right? It's so cool and eco-friendly to say "just walk 20 minutes".
Yeah it is cool and eco-friendly to walk 20 minutes (assuming one is able-bodied, as you mention.)
He said that in 2007. Things have changed a lot since then, Debian is as easy to install as any other big distro (most of them, including Debian, use the Calamares installer nowadays)
That I have a tendency towards addiction with drugs. I've been high (marijuana) more often than not for the past decade, with spurts of alcoholism peppered in throughout my adult life. I also had a phase for about a year where I did shrooms once or twice a week.
I still struggle with my consumption, but at least now I'm aware that it can easily get to the point where it affects my life too much and can cut back when I'm starting to feel like I'm getting sucked in. I think I'll always be an addict of some form or another, though.
That's well and true, but I think what the person you replied to is getting at is that the representation of an entire riding should not hinge on a single vote. Whether Terrebonne ends up Liberal or BQ, the entire representation of the riding hinging on a few votes is ridiculous, and proportional representation would avoid these issues.
I actually had somewhat of a dependency on sriracha at one point in my life. I was working at a summer camp, and the food being kinda bland I brought in a bottle of sriracha one day. Then a few others did the same. At the end of the summer, we were basically daring each other to douse our meals in unholy amounts of that rooster's sauce.
It took me three weeks after the job ended to be able to taste anything that didn't have sriracha on it.
I'd love for the place I work at to be an employee-owned co-op or something but those aren't really a thing around here, and sadly I'm not rich enough to start a business and open one myself.
Also, could you please cut back on the snarkiness a bit? It doesn't really make for pleasant conversation.
I'm not arguing for my employer to pay me less. I'm just saying I like the fact I make more money when I have to work more.
On a slow day, I'm basically chilling with my coworkers and my customers (both of who I do actually enjoy spending time with). On a busy day, I can be running around making food, drinks, cleaning, without even having a thought for myself or a second to relax and breathe for stretches of like 5 hours straight.
My wage before tips is fair to the amount of work I do if no one comes in. I would not be satisfied with my untipped wage on a day where we serve 80+ people an hour.
Obviously, I wouldn't complain if we eliminated tips and made the minimum wage close to what I make with tips on a busy day. That's not what I think would happen, though. Realistically, under the current economic system, most restaurants could not afford to pay their employees that much. Which is why I said in my original comment that we'd need some sort of change to the labour economy before I'd be willing to give up my tips (such as UBI).
I bike or walk everywhere I go, so I'm familiar with having to watch out for drivers. That being said, I think the person operating thousands of pounds of steel bears more responsibility than anyone just walking around. You're controlling a machine capable of killing people, you should really pay attention to what you're doing.