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Daria Morgendorffer
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Yeah. American heroes only do that to other people in other countries when they bring them democracy. How dare they do it to their own people.
Where I live everything is electric for the vast majority of people. The norm here is to have electric stoves and electric water heaters. Even heating houses is mainly done through electricity.
I was so surprised to learn as a teen that this is not the norm everywhere, and that some people are actually still lighting fires in their houses to cook food.
I'm convinced they are planning some sort of annexation/invasion anyway. They'll just find a reason at some point. It can be anything. We have water and plenty of natural resources that would be good for American billionaires to own.
Just look at what Trump requires of Ukraine in order to help them. They're gonna make some bullshit up, like our resources are critical to their national security, or something like that. It's good to delay this as much as possible and not antagonize them - maybe they'll be busy invading Venezuela or Mexico first - but it's probably going to happen regardless.
Aaah St-Hya. J'y ai habité pendant quelques années car je viens d'Acton Vale et je ne voulais pas d'auto. Il y a du transport en commun et c'est à l'extrémité du territoire métropolitain alors je trouvais ça parfait. J'ai bien aimé mais justement, je crois que le réseau cyclable dans la ville n'a pas changé en 20 ans, sauf pour l'extension de Casavant.
Puis, pour faire beaucoup de cyclotourisme dans le sud du Québec, je trouve que l'attitude des automobilistes change selon les régions et les villes. Parfois c'est pas seulement une question d'infrastructure cyclable, mais aussi l'infrastructure routière et l'attitude des automobilistes qui l'accompagne. Quand une ville est composée d'un quadrillé de boulevards à 4 voies, ça donne une certaine attitude aux automobilistes. Avec ou sans pistes cyclables.
La seule "excuse" de St-Hyacinthe est d'être une ville relativement compacte avec peu de grands boulevards. J'ai beaucoup moins peur de faire Douville à Ste-Rosalie que de faire St-Nicéphore à Grantham, par exemple.
Autre comparaison, Vaudreuil (et Dorion) est super étendue et a une population comparable à St-Hyacinthe. Il y a des pistes cyclables qui longent les boulevards, mais il y a aussi des "beg buttons" à chaque intersection. Si on appuie pas sur le bouton, on traverse pas. Parfois quand on arrive au mauvais moment dans un cycle, faut en attendre deux avant de traverser. Et la ville installe des petits drapeaux orange que les piétons doivent agiter, pour inciter les automobilistes à arrêter aux traverses piétonnes. Cette ville a plein de pistes, mais elles sont majoritairement désagréable à utiliser car les piétons et cyclistes passent toujours après les autos, s'ils ont appuyés sur le bouton. Bref, comme à Drummondville, plein de grands boulevards, la priorité aux autos, et ensuite ils se demandent pourquoi les automobilistes arrêtent même pas pour laisser traverser les piétons.
Hmm, I wonder if there's a coordinated effort by lobbies to have this kind of plans scrapped. Knowing the car and oil industry, probably.
Or this is probably just a coincidence: Quebec government lifts planned 2035 ban on gas-powered vehicle sales
Je me sens tellement plus en sécurité à Montréal que dans une plus petite ville. J'ai de la famille et des amis à Drummondville et je m'y rend fréquemment à vélo, et c'est un tout autre monde. C'est un peu ironique car les gens qui habitent dans ces plus petites villes ont souvent tous la réaction "ah mon dieu, tu fais du vélo à Montréal, moi j'aurais peur!!", mais c'est surtout de la projection car faire du vélo dans leur ville est effectivement effrayant.
Aussi, vive l'interdiction de tourner à droite sur les feux rouges. Ça aurait jamais dû être permis ailleurs au Québec.
LLMs can't say they don't know. It's better for the business to make up some bullshit than just say "I don't know" because it would show how useless they can be.
It's one of the things that made me prefer using Linux a long long time ago. It's nice to be able to rename, move, and delete files while they are used.
It was difficult to accept but after talking with a therapist, and years of being discouraged every time I talked to her, I made the same realization and stopped telling her about most of my life. Everyone is much happier if we don't talk about this. Otherwise she will tell me I took all the wrong decisions and that I should have stayed miserable because that's how it works.
She (and all of her family) is afraid of pretty much everything. So as soon as you can secure a job, you keep it; for life! Even if it destroys your body or your mental, you have a job so keep it! Don't go to school, it's just a waste of money. Don't look elsewhere because it's not going to be better anyway. It's even causing conflict in her family because one of her sister is a nurse and is "too educated". They consider her snobbish.
It's my mother, I love her, but I can't tell her anything or it's going to be worse for both of us.
The Route Verte network is great, but just like Germans wanting better trains, I want better cycling infrastructure too. Most of the dedicated network is made out of rail trails. Even new stretches that are opening are because of disused rail lines being converted to rail trails, which in a way does make excellent bike paths. However there's a lot of parts shared with cars and you have to be very careful with the network and the map. Sharing with cars to connect two parts is fine in small residential streets, but not on provincial roads in rural areas.
For example, there's a Route Verte between Montréal and Gatineau but it's just an itinerary on provincial route 148 where cars are zooming around you. There's three Route Verte itineraries between Montréal and Québec City, but none are entirely dedicated. And yet, I know that a network like this is not very common in North America, or even in other parts of the world. I'm very grateful to have what we have. Some parts are beautiful and very much worth cycling. Just choose carefully.
Also, what's helping me a bit is being in Montréal, I can take advantage of the suburban Exo trains to access paths that are a bit far. The St-Jérôme line is very popular for that reason and there's always a few cyclists with panniers in every train. So I'm wondering, is this something also possible from Toronto? Is it possible to take a GO train to Barrie or Hamilton and explore a few paths from there?
AFAIK they did that because of GSM interference and the phenomenon mostly disappeared not because those cheap little speakers are mostly extinct, but because the technology used by cell phones changed. In fact, GSM is being phased out in most countries.
That reminds me of a story I saw about a handicapped athlete in Montreal's metro. He was literally dragging his wheelchair while going upstairs and holding to the handrail.
He shouldn't have to do that but the metro here is only partly accessible, and not his station.
Add a handrail and this might be for him.
If you consider god as capitalism then it makes sense.
J'ai un moins gros jugement sur l'avion car c'est quand même un transport collectif où les gens ordinaires sont cordés comme des sardines pour un voyage qu'ils ne feront que quelques fois. C'est difficile de prendre l'avion pour aller au dépanneur, à moins qu'on soit milliardaire.
Of course. It was so predictable. And by Drainville, which has no qualifications to be there.
Plus, he's the fucking idiot that literally cried because at some point his stupid conservative party said it might not build a 10 billion new bridge/tunnel in Québec city. Which is BS because they really wamt their damn new bridge instead of funding schools and hospitals.
Fucking corrupt and incompetent CAQ. We laugh and think Americans are stupid for electing Trump and Republicans but the Québécois re-elected Legault and his conservative right leaning party.
Les mots me manquent pour exprimer à quel point je déteste la CAQ et ses acteurs. Je me souviens du jour ou ils ont été élus, en discutant avec ma soeur et en se disant qu'on venait nous aussi d'élire un populiste de droite. Criss qu'on a juste des osti de partis de droite qui sont élus, ou bin des fanatiques linguistico-religieux, avec le même criss d'opportuniste Drainville qui passe d'un parti à l'autre pour bien étaler sa marde et son incompétence. Pis on vote pour ça!
L'humanité ne court pas à sa perte. Elle y va en voiture.
Seeing how we also do this with public transit, hospitals, libraries and other public services, this point of view is disappointing and unfortunately very prevalent. The only thing where we can dump billions without ever asking if it's profitable, is roads. We can expropriate and build a 4 lane highway extension in the middle of a corn field for a little half a billion, multiple times, but funding hospitals, schools, public transit, clean water, the mail... ugh, such money pits!
Whatever you do, they will slowly lose their original colour over time and a patina will form.
In two parts.
- The before map would be of the only high speed train the US currently has, and it's the Acela Express. So, something like this.
- If lots of people are consuming Tylenol in day to day life, and it causes autism, and some autistic people love trains, then the US should have a system like the map posted.
Have you worked as a Customer Advocate for a hosting company at some point? Because that looks like the training material they showed me when I did this job.