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thisorthatorwhatever

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  • Tennessee group petitions to end state's 4% grocery tax

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  • Good, these are the real taxes to cut. Instead of the ones on private airplanes.

  • Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things draws media attention.

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  • Inspections were cancelled because it was shown that they actually led to more accidents. A small percentage of the time mechanics didn't tighten bolts, back on correctly, after removing a wheel to inspect brake pads. The vast majority of accidents are caused by speeding, not because a wheel brakes free and the car swerved.

  • Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.

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  • It's about how successful your parents were. If your dad is a mechanic, has his own shop, then you might want to consider some form of trade school that also teaches the business side of running a shop. Or becoming a machinist to complement his skills, and still make use of his tools and floor space. If you're going to be a plumber but end up working for a large corporation, because you don't have capital to start your own business, things will be tougher. You'll hours might be bad, the pension they offer might not be good.Everyone's situation is different, and the future will be different from now.

  • At least 11 Toronto speed cameras attacked in the middle of the night. A local resident says many drivers in her neighborhood are dangerous.

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  • Definitely need some speed bumps on that stretch of road, all along Parkside. I really don't understand why some have already not been installed.

  • At least 11 Toronto speed cameras attacked in the middle of the night. A local resident says many drivers in her neighborhood are dangerous.

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  • Ironically, people that are severely physically disabled are the ones that won't be owning cars so a good wheel-chair accessible city with reliable public transit is needed most for them.

  • Ontario leader Doug Ford announces plans for five-storey $400-million parking garage

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  • 400 million =400 single family, 4 bedroom, homes. That's a roof for 1600 people.Probably 3200 people could be housed, if the province decided to get into the condo building game.

    Instead we are building a parking garage on a lake, on the most expense land in N. America, beside a GO and subway station, for a private company that has an insane business plan of creating a luxury spa and its crack-pipe dream of 4,000,000 ultra-wealthy visitors a year.

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  • 38% support some privatization of Canada Post

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  • Such a dumb and badly run country.

    Every TTC subway stop should have a post office in it. The TTC should be run 24hrs a day. You should be able to pick up your package at the post office within the TTC subway stop easily.

    Post offices within the GTHA really should be walking distance for most people. Go pick your package up somewhere close by, open 24hrs.

    Putting post offices in Shoppers Drug Mart isn't too bad, but it would be better if they where in 24hr donought shops.

    We need to use community postal boxes more.

    We need traffic cameras to automatically ticket couriers that block traffic.

    We need to get ride of this 'independent contractor' nonsense. It's a scam.

    But for this to happen the Fed/Prov/City and Crown Corps all need to work together...so it'll never happen.

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  • Turn them in community centers.

    Rework how how education is done, by mixing programming you'd find in a community center and a regular school.

    People complain that education is not currently working, here is your chance to re-envision it. Build large spaces with welding/3dpriners/car repair. Have mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens.

    Musk bought Twitter for $50B, in comparison the price tag for repairing any of these schools seems like half a peanut in cost. There is money.

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  • It's one economic unit.

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  • The rest of the world sees the USA, Mexico and Canada as basically one country, and laugh at this.

  • Make no mistake, my whole life has just been me watching america circle the drain.

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  • They were slave owners, who fought a violent war against a democratic country. They could have asked for representation in parliament, but they decided to go to war. Why, because England, was about to clean up the colonies and eliminate slavery. With peace between England and France in the 1760s, England's attention was once again on domestic issues, and people in England were getting sick of slavery in the colonies. The rich slave owners, most educated in law, knew slavery was about to end when the ruling of Somerset v Stewart (1772) was handed down.

  • Make no mistake, my whole life has just been me watching america circle the drain.

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  • I think it's also important to compare America to other Western countries, and see what other paths it might have chosen.

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    TIL ancient Greeks built the Antikythera Mechanism, a gear-driven machine that could calculate solar and lunar cycles, proving advanced scientific knowledge existed long before the modern era.

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  • Ancient Greeks had a sophisticated understanding of astronomy, and math. The Antikythera Mechanism is a gadget for demonstrating their knowledge, much like our planetariums and more advanced children's educational toys.

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • Most of America's suburbs are designed to have a supermarket somewhere on the outside of the zigzagging streets of the residential homes. Golf carts would be perfect, in the vast existing suburbia. Legalize golf carts for slow streets in the burbs, and you'd get a massive reduction in car use. A quick electrification of vehicles.I like bikes, I get it that many people don't. But at the very least legalize golf carts on slow streets. I feel that the average suburban home wouldn't mind getting a golf cart as a second vehicle. It's a quick way of hopping to the strip mall to get milk, or a morning coffee.

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • I think there needs to be an effort to advocate for reduced car use, many of the suburbs would be much nicer if people could be allowed to use golf carts on the roads. It would be a step in a better direction, break the obsolete car industry, and bridge to walk-able communities in existing burbs that can't be easily or quickly redeveloped.

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • It's all about protectionism for an obsolete car industry. If we legalized golf carts, and ATVs, most families in the suburbs would buy one of those. They'd use it for groceries, school runs, dentist appointments, and getting coffee down the street. Their main car would sit idle the majority of time, because it's a hassle to drive a large car. It would make living in suburbia someone more tolerable, as you would see your neighbors more in golf carts.

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • I wish my city would ban the loud sport cars.

  • Investors dump bonds globally as U.S. credit downgrade, Trump's tax bill ignite fiscal worries

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  • The banality of stupidity.

    *You consulted no one. You did no research. When peopled pleaded with you to stop, you forged ahead with reckless abandonment. When you plan started to fail, you doubled down. When it was time to clean up the mess you go lazy.

    But I thought it would work, I felt it in my gut. It's not my fault, it's your fault.*

  • Amid its worst ever crisis, Tesla offers discounts on its best-selling car just weeks after new Model Y launch

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  • He also forced some dumb features in the electric car...like the stupid door handles, and lack of buttons.