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.
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.
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.
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.
Because the CAQ has conservative ideologies, comes from the rests of the right wing populist party ADQ, and people re-elected them.
The CAQ doesn't give a fuck about poor people, housing, public transit, health care, and social programs. It's not a bug, it's a feature. The EcONoMy FiRsT.
Nothing about the financing method, the Private Public Partnership and the non compete clause against public transit. Or the 99 years contract on which public money is paying a private operator.
If the REM is the future of Canadian Transit Expansion, it will be at the detriment of public transit agencies, and transit will become for profit only.
Liberals proudly inaugurating a Private-Public Partnership in transit that has a non-competitive clause against public transit, and that will slowly cannibalize its financing. It allows them to show the opening of a transit line without financing it directly.
They have something to smile about. The slow privatization of the transit system in Montreal is on its way, a gift from neoliberalism.
Gates has always used philanthropy as PR. He doesn't give a shit about climate change, famines or infant mortality. He was doing it for the PR while still investing and making money. Now that the political wind has changed and he doesn't need to pretend, he can just be neutral and still seem like the "good billionaire".
The Democrats, left? As someone not living in the US, to me, Democrats are just a light right wing party. At best they might be considered centrists, but left?! Sorry for your "choices".
When I started to use Linux more than two decades ago, Qt's license was not considered free software friendly. Because I didn't want proprietary software, I avoided KDE and Qt applications. I know the situation changed after a few years but it stuck with me.
Controversy erupted around 1998 when it became clear that the K Desktop Environment was going to become one of the leading desktop environments for Linux. As it was based on Qt, many people in the free software movement worried that an essential piece of one of their major operating systems would be proprietary.
Plus, it was much easier at that time to have themes and "rice" my desktop using only GTK apps.
So it's petty but even to this day, I kept the old habit and still avoid Qt applications.
I know it's not what your asking but I never used Discord because it's proprietary and, my friends and I stayed on IRC.
Now IRC is usually just text but we wanted something a bit more modern so we settled for The Lounge. It's a web IRC client that can display and host videos and images. It can also keep some of the channels history. It brings some modernity to IRC, as we can paste images directly onto a channel.
There's another similar client called Convos. Apparently it can also do video/voice chat but I never tried.
So I'm not sure we'd switch to an XMPP based protocol, as IRC web clients pretty much just already works for us instead of Discord.
Road traffic also kills more than a million people every year, and it's mostly powered by fossil fuel transported by pipelines.
Like, don't worry, the construction of pipelines is very gentle on the ecology. It's spewing black death at the end but don't mind that.
What's next? We won't believe how oil fields in Alberta are taking care of the environment and are as clean as clean coal?
However clean and ecologically friendly the construction of the pipeline is, the exploitation of the oil sands itself is causing ecological harm. The product it transports and sells is also causing ecological harm.
Why are you trying to convince me that cars are awesome and for adults that needs to get stuff done?
You think I go shopping using a kayak? There are literally the biggest retail stores of my country a few street corners away from where I live. There is a grocery store on the other side of the street.
And you know, people without cars have nothing to do all day. They don't work and don't do anything important. Only people with cars are busy people getting stuff done. It's impossible to get stuff done otherwise.
Not to mention that peole without cars will never feel like real adults.
I'm not an adult and I don't get stuff done because I don't have a car? I can't go shopping? WTF?
Keep your "freedom". I don't want it. There's already enough cars in the streets. You don't want me driving. Stop trying to convince people that don't want to drive. You have nothing to gain. Everyone already loves cars. I know that.
I'm glad that you love your car. You're not the only one. Now can some people actually want to live without one or are you going to force yours into my living room to tell me how useful it is, and how it makes you feel mature and important?
And people actually use that as an insult. "You're not an adult until you own a car". Which is a sad way of seeing millions of people that have been living without a car for their whole life.
And the freedom feeling depends mostly if you live in a region that is offering you ways not to be car dependent. Where I live, we have a very decent network of bike paths in the city but also going into the countryside and traversing the province. I live on the island of an archipelago and can pull my inflatable kayak with my bike trailer, explore the islands around, access nature nearby. I can also go camping and hiking and into the wilderness 200 km away by using this cycling network. I often go visit my parents and family 140-170 km away by cycling there. I could have start to drive and bought a car 25 years ago but I moved somewhere I wouldn't need one, and my bike represents freedom. I'm free from having to pay big oil to fill a tank to go anywhere. I'm free from monthly parking fees. I'm free from paying the plates and the insurance.
Over the years, what I learned about cars don't make me see them as freedom. I see them as a way to keep people perpetually paying for gas, sending billions to big oil. I see them as an endless sea and stream of pollution. They pollute the air and the sound. They are bad for mental and physical health. They take an ungodly amount of space. They kill about a million people every year. On the planet, every 30 seconds someone is killed in a car related "accident". Every year, two billion animals (yes, billions) are killed by cars.
Going to see my nephew for his birthday in the suburbs where my sister lives is comical. Twelve people invited to go park their cars around a house that only has space for the cars of the occupants. You have to find parking everywhere you go for this thing, then whine that there's no parking anywhere. Going to a funereal is also depressing, but even more so because you can see the traffic and congestion created by someone that died.
Cars are a horrible for humanity. They're like a drug that everyone tells you to try. You'll see. They're so useful. Of course you can't go back.
Yeah. I moved into a city and region with enough transit for my needs but my family still lives in a place where there hasn't been a coach or trains in 30 years. There were before but not anymore. And going to other regions or cities without a car is also becoming more and more difficult, if not impossible.
Unfortunately my province and country only care about cars. I really don't want to drive but I fear that I won't have any other choice at some point in the future because my other options are actively deteriorating.
As someone trying to live without a car, this is very disappointing to see, if not expected. Alto looks like any other new shiny highway announcement. I understand very well that this is badly needed, but beyond that, there's apparently no federal (nor provincial in my case) plan to have any kind of coherent transit system/network.
I could live with the delays and late trains but Via Rail's pricing scheme is literally discouraging people from taking the train. And that's if there are still trains (or even coaches). It's impossible to go in lots of cities without a car now, when it wasn't before. The town where I grew up was founded mainly by the Grand Trunk, had passenger trains for more than a century, but they were discontinued in the mid 90ies, by Paul Martin and the Liberals.
Meanwhile I'm watching videos about "rail route reactivation" and renewal in Germany. From the perspective of someone without a car, this is bad. It seems like the federal government wants people like me to abandon trains/buses/bikes and drive a car everywhere.
I wish Alto wasn't the new shiny thing where they'd dump all the money while forgetting about what's left of the current crumbling infrastructure. I've lived more than two decades without a car but by the time Alto is finished, I'll probably own one because every other coach, train, and transit service will have been cut.
It's excellent to see a project like Alto to be fast-tracked (heh) and have its funding reaffirmed, for now.
However some cities currently served by Via will not be by Alto, and so far I haven't seen anything concrete by the federal to improve the actual service.
Anybody know if there is a plan for the current and future Via Rail corridor route?
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.