In two parts.
The heads have been taxidermized and arranged in a semi circle so that I can have a conversation with them.
There's no space for them in the fridge anyway, as it's indeed full of rotting leftovers. And even raw ingredients!
In my case they'll just rot in the fridge.
You're telling me that people like Steve Bannon don't go to Europe to spread their hateful shitty rhetoric all around the world? Or that 77 million that voted for Trump have nothing to do with his election?
I know it's not "all of them", but it's a good chunk. It lowers the trust level in general, want it or not.
There's only four left to clean after this one.
In 2014, there were five areas across all the oceans where the majority of plastic concentrated. Researchers collected a total of 3070 samples across the world to identify hot spots of surface level plastic pollution. The pattern of distribution closely mirrored models of oceanic currents with the North Pacific Gyre, or Great Pacific Garbage Patch, being the highest density of plastic accumulation. The other four garbage patches include the North Atlantic garbage patch between the North America and Africa, the South Atlantic garbage patch located between eastern South America and the tip of Africa, the South Pacific garbage patch located west of South America, and the Indian Ocean garbage patch found east of South Africa.
It can have a limited impact on the short term but I agree that it won't do much. I don't recall a "boycott giant corporations movements" that changed anything recently. Money comes first, and a mega merger to become even more monopolistic is much more important than a handful of angry customers. We're at the age of enshittification and fascism. See Reddit as an example. Or Imgur. Now the same thing is happening but with another giant media.
It's like people boycotting oil companies because gas prices are too high. They inevitably fail because there's still plenty of people addicted to oil and gas willing to pay anything to get it.
Hell, in the current climate, cancelling or boycotting over this could put you on a list of people disagreeing with the government, and get you harassed or imprisoned.
In my part of the world, old tram and train tracks usually become bike paths. And its pretty much the only way that we get new bike paths in the countryside.
We can expropriate and build 4 lane highways in the middle of corn fields but we simply have no space left for bike paths, so we take disused rail lines.
I can name at least 4 long distance bike paths here that have replaced rail lines, and there are others planned.
For example, this line closed in 1956 and is now a bike path: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_and_Southern_Counties_Railway
Or this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_Lin%C3%A9aire_Le_P%27tit_Train_du_Nord
They make very nice bike paths but it's also a reminder that I could be in a tram to travel those 80 km instead of pedaling them.
Thks reminds me to rewatch Daria.
I am. That's why I switched to DDG and deactivated it.
I don't want to seem unkind but a lot of people are not choosing between paying rent or being homeless just because they should/could reduce the usage of their cars.
I know poorer people rely on car dependency and that taxing their gas is genuinely upsetting. However, the average Canadian monthly payment for a new car is $1,019. Some people can buy cars of $60 000 but the gas to feed it is too expensive and threatens their food or housing safety?
Again, this is going to sound incredibly disconnected and privileged, but I changed city and moved somewhere with public transit and an expansive network of bike paths so I don't have to pay eternally for a car and its polluting fuel. It's what made me afford my rent while being poor. It also has the benefit of polluting less.
More than 80 percent of Canada's population live in urban centers. Some have public transit and is actively being cut. Some have bike networks where car drivers criticize every inch that's not theirs. Most people living in those urban centers could reduce their car usage, but they chose to drive cars, whine about gas prices, parking costs, cyclists, and vote for politicians reflecting that.
The sad thing is that people are voting for those politicians.
In Canada, the Liberals introduced the carbon tax around a decade ago. But one of the most popular points of the Conservatives was "axe the tax". Seeing how popular the slogan was, amd wanting to be re-elected, the Liberals did just that. They removed their very own carbon tax.
It makes gas cheaper so people want that. Cheap gas to power their ever bigger pickup trucks and SUVs. Who would vote to keep higher gas prices and use a smaller car? Or even worse, who would vote for bike lanes and public transit?
Politicians are pretty much just doing what people expect of them. They have to make sure gas is ever cheaper, that growth stays infinite, while also pretending to do something about the environment.
Apparently you can also try with Labubus.
It's so fun to waste energy!
AI drives 48% increase in Google emissions
I love those energy hungry assistants! It's wasting resources even faster than everything before but it's so fun and useful!
I grew up with DOS and used Windows 1 (barely, DOS was better), 3.1, 95, 98, etc... But curiosity made me try a bunch of OS in the beginning of the 2000s, like BeOS, QNX, and Linux (Kheops, Mandrake, SuSE). I dual booted for many years, keeping Linux as my main OS but having to boot Windows for games. I preferred Linux but I was pretty much OS agnostic for a while. I even worked as level 1 tech support for many years, helping people with Windows and Office products.
But then came Windows 8, 10, and now 11, + Office 365 + OneDrive. It's very difficult to stand any of those new versions, with the ads, the constant peddling for Microsoft products, the "forced" login with a Microsoft account, the updates whenever they feel like it if you don't pay enough for Windows, if the updates are not breaking something. A few years ago I was helping a friend and discovered a version of Windows 7 where you can't even change the wallpaper.
TBF, I knew it was coming. Anyone in IT knew for years that Microsoft planned of having everything subscription based. To me, every new versions of Windows or Office, or Teams, is now more intolerable than the previous one.
Anyway, at some point I stopped gaming/dual booting and pretty much kept exclusively on Linux. My workplace used Windows, and I use Linux at home. I've been using Debian for 15 years now and despite minor issues with sound recently, since pipewire, every time I use Windows, I'm reminded of how much worse it could be.
Recently I quit my job as a level 1 tech. I can't help people with Microsoft products anymore. Having calls from people telling me they cannot delete files from their OneDrive when it tells them it's full, then discover it's a bug and users with their drives full cannot delete anything, is just disconcerting. Before all that, I could at least see/understand the reason why things were working like they did; I could help and explain it to the users. Now, I'm as frustrated as they are when I use Microsoft products.
I think they are more akin to living rooms on wheels.
I'm Canadian and don't really wish it because it would be a very messy thing, but in a way, I'm thinking, if the US is stuck in a civil war, at least the chances of it invading my country should be much lower.
Like, it would be shitty, but at least countries that are now threatened to be annexed or invaded by the US could maybe breathe a little easier, and see Americans killing Americans for once, instead of people in other countries.
One time I was working as a customer advocate in a hosting company and I had one supervisor that never wanted to concede and refund the clients. It wasn't an issue with other supervisors, I was following policies and he was kind of an asshole.
At one point I told him he was wrong and he replied with the French expression "you will not live on love and water alone", meaning do what I say or you will be fired and won't have money to live.
Well, as this happened before lunch break, I went to lunch, wrote my resignation letter and sent it via email. When I got back at the office he was incredulous and asked if I was joking. Nope.
I didn't have the monetary meams to quit and I had to go back to my previous job, that I also didn't like, but at least my old supervisor was not such an asshole.
I'll believe it when I'll be in one of the trains. This has been promised for years, along with other major rail overhauls, that have never materialized. This time it seems like it may have a chance of being constructed, but so far it's also just money dumped into consulting firms. And for multiple years still, without anything being physically constructed.
I'm unfortunately a Via Rail user. I'd like to get excited for this project but the proposed route is not going to help me with my current needs along the corridor. I'll still need to use Via Rail trains, they'll still be late and I'll still miss my connections. They'll still promise to take bikes in a few years without actually taking bikes. They'll still charge $75 for a last minute 60 km trip, in economy. They'll still only have a few trains a day.
When the federal announced Alto/high speed rail, it apparently forgot about the high frequency proposal from Via. So I guess things will continue to be shitty on that side.
I'd really really like to get excited for any type of new transit, but rail projects and services in Canada are so abysmal, that I prefer to have very very low expectations. If it eventually gets built, I'll happily be wrong.
Whatever you do, they will slowly lose their original colour over time and a patina will form.