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  • The practice must vary depending on the region and the tolerance level of the local police and parking enforcement. Around Montreal, when there's no parking near a work site, some construction workers just abandon their pickup trucks anywhere there's any amount of space, often in crosswalks because that's where there's "space" left, and jam a high-vis vest in their window to show "who they are", hoping they won't get a ticket. And apparently it works or they wouldn't be doing it that much.

    I find it dangerous for pedestrians as they are now emerging from both sides of a pickup truck higher than they are, making it difficult to see them from the vehicles passing that crosswalk, but it's unfortunately a frequent thing here.

  • Do these look like fake cigarettes or used tampons?

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  • I had those when I was a kid a few decades ago and they had the tip coloured in red. They were designed to look like fake cigarette, but in candy form, for kids. However because of anti tobacco movements, they renamed them to "candy sticks" and removed the red tip.

    I think OP is trying to recreate the old ones.

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  • Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?

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  • Where is the lie?

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  • I guess I don't fit anywhere because fuck guns.

  • The military plans for a volunteer force to defend Canada

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  • J'imagine que mes ancêtres qui ont refusés la conscription se sont fait dire la même chose.

  • The military plans for a volunteer force to defend Canada

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  • I don't have a house and my apartment is owned by a billion dollar company. If I had a house, it wouldn't be mine and I would be defending the mortgage/property of the bank. Home is where the heart is. The rest is a piece of land owned by the system. I've already left my native region because I've been told to leave if I didn't like it there.

    My loved ones are all conservatives and/or capitalists that would vote for the same shit Republicans are doing, while denying it. Last election, the country would have voted for Conservatives if it were not for the orange turd threatening us.

    The Québecois were conquered centuries ago by the English and oppressed into submission so they would be forced into this country. And to this day, we still even can't have an agreement on the constitution. We are still into a constitutional impasse and the country risks imploding and threatens the other parts to either agree or be kicked out, every time we're talking about it, to the point that we're just ignoring it.

    I don't think any of this is worth helping the military industrial complex into getting exactly what it's been wanting for the last decades.

  • The military plans for a volunteer force to defend Canada

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  • And no. I'm not leaving. I'm too poor and stuck here. You sound exactly like an American. So patriotic! So much to defend! Love it or leave it!

    It's exactly what they both wanted. An increase in military spending, and paranoia.

  • The military plans for a volunteer force to defend Canada

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  • You too can help defend our capitalist country where housing is unaffordable to most people and where natural resources are exploited to profit multinational corporations.

    It's your choice. It's either defending neoliberalism by helping to kill other poor people also convinced they are defending their country by invading another, or their fascism.

    Meanwhile the rich will watch the poor fight and kill each others with weapons that they sold them.

    I seriously think individuals should be prepared for general catastrophic events, but I'm personally not willing to "defend" this land that is not mine in the first place.

    Being a subject of capitalistic country A instead of capitalistic country Z is not worth helping an organization that has the goal of killing other humans. Even if it's just helping with driving a truck, or with the tech, it's indirectly assisting those that will do the killing.

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  • Less annoying than construction guys leaving their pickup trucks in pedestrian crossings with a high visibility vest jammed in the window.

  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

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  • It can be expressed by a graffiti that I saw on the side of a bike path in Montreal, in French: "L'humanité ne court pas à sa perte, elle y va en voiture". Or something like "Humanity is not running to ruins, it's taking a car".

    As much as I want to blame giant corporations and capitalism for a lot of our societal problems, this sentence resumes so well how common people also enable all of this by refusing to change and just going with the easiest option. I know we won't reach our climate change goals. I know because when I say I organized my life around the fact that I don't need a car, everyone tells me that they couldn't live without a car, that it's very useful, and that I should get one. I'm not even a real adult as long as I don't have a car. I'll feel so much freedom when I'll have a car. I should just get a car! Just get an electric one! Like, instead of encouraging people to live without a car, the vast vast majority of people will actually encourage others to get one.

    So yeah, we're not "running" to our loss. We're wasting energy to move our fat asses in individual motorized multi ton metal cubes to go there faster. It's so useful! So practical! So fast! There's no time to waste. Like Marge Simpson once said: "Outta my way, Nature!"

    It's a giant metaphor for the rest of our society. Same with all the AI hype, food delivery apps, and over consumption in general. We're digging our graves out of excessive "convenience", and cars are one example of this.

  • Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI

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  • Am I so out of touch?

    No it's the users who are wrong.

  • The Current State of Apple Intelligence

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  • The revealing part is how much Apple Intelligence relies on ChatGPT. Nearly nothing works without it.

  • When people asked me about active and public transportation

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  • I won't lie, I have favourites.

    To me cycling is preferable for anything under 20/30 km. My city has a metro and it's my second option for this type of distance but I've had multiple issues with it in the past and always come back to cycling for short distances. It's never crowded and there's no ticket inspectors.

    Then for medium distances, I can cycle about 100 km but I prefer suburban rail as they allow me to bring my bike and continue from a station, for a reasonable price. The other option are suburban buses, that often also take bikes, but are overcrowded.

    Unfortunately I hate the intercity trains here, managed by VIA Rail, as they are super expensive last minute, and won't take bikes.

    As for coaches, their network and services are steadily shrinking throughout the years, with reduced departures. Some will take bikes if they are in a box, and for a fee.

    Taxis/ride sharing/Uber/Lyft, I hate these things. They perpetuate car dependency and it's just paying someone to use a car.

    And I'm undecided about micro transit like e-scooters. I don't like them dangerously zigzagging around pedestrians and/or slower cyclists.

    In essence, because transit is pretty bad here, I heavily prefer active transportation, but I will use public and private transit any time if it means to avoid using a car.

    Anything but a fucking car.

  • My city started rolling out electric buses

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  • Like a lot of things, this case has multiple sides and is not as simple as calling it green washing.

    On one side, a packed diesel buses is far more efficient and probably pollutes less per person than an electric car with a single occupant. So in a way, it's indeed putting efforts on something that's not very high on the list of things that pollute.

    On another side, diesel buses are still polluting and the local transit authority here has a multi decade plan to electrify them. It has its own studies, and studies from the nearby universities, showing that electric buses can be attractive and effective for different types of routes, and less for others. They are replacing the buses according to this plan and it's nothing to be against. I don't consider this green washing, coming from a transit society, but it's an easy target.

    But yeah, electric buses from your transit society is a nice plus. However diesel buses are also just fine, and even desirable, if you use them as an alternative to driving and to reduce pollution from car traffic.

    This reminds me of an old meme that I kept.

  • People who can understand multiple languages, or have moved to another country, or otherwise traveled abroad; Do you feel like you experience existence from a PoV that nobody else can understand?

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  • Yes because I come from a rural region where most people can only speak French, and I'm the only one of my family that can speak multiple languages. Sometimes it feels like I know different worlds unbeknownst to them.

    No because the languages that I know are not rare. There's millions also speaking those languages so my perspective and experience is far from being unique.

  • Totally understandable

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  • "They're eating the pets".

  • Why is Quebec Selling Public Land During a Housing Crisis?

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  • To me it's kind of the same thing. When a party campaigns and focuses on "the economy", this is what they mean. The Liberals (QLP) were the same with their friends / tinamis.

  • Definitely how it went for me

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  • I started tinkering with computers a bit before the 2000 and floppy drives were common at that time. Well, there is a right and a wrong way to plug the power cable, and the wrong way emits smoke.

    I now have assembled enough PCs to know what I'm doing, but I had to learn.

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    People who think an attack on another user is approproate for this sub, and the mods that enable them

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  • And that's how you learn that Lemmy is full people that can't tolerate diversity. I can read that person's comments just fine but apparently others downvote and whine.

    And they don't even need to learn another language, just a letter. But alas, I guess this is very hard to do.