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my entire position on cities.

Chow & council now have to - must - own this but it really seems like Tory signed the city into a shit contract that almost has these contractors laughing at residents.

IMO this is more of a keeping up with the Joneses situation more than car price inflation Everyone is choosing to buy 80k+ trucks for no reason, and financing them. You can still get great civics for like 10-15k This is a choice

ANOTHA ONE

All these "small government" guys sure do love big government Sorry everyone, we have no money for teachers, nurses, or doctors, but do we ever have money to pay cops to do literally nothing all day. Jobs program for morons

One of the things that you can't say is that a huge amount of "poor" people are poor becuase of their own dumb decisions. Actually poor people are the best budgeters in the world, but there are an absurd amount of "poor" people who spend $1000/mo on their car

The thing about bike infra is that it's so comically inexpensive that you can build gorgeous stuff like this for a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what it costs to build infra for cars

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

Only 11% of people in Etobicoke have a grasp on reality and yeah that about checks out

broke: i can resell this and recover my money woke: i am lighting my money on fire bc i love a tiny clock

Barely better than Tory. What a disappointment. Every day I'm glad I voted for matlow instead of Chow

I'm actually surprised it took this long. A savvy billionaire would be able to scam these "markets" all day long, single handedly

I've been told by a bunch of supposedly progressive people that this is impossible

Doug Ford's Ontario

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

Your city councillors think you are so fucking stupid "Oops, I just spent 900,000 on a condo and never checked whether or not there was parking"

People need to start feeling more embarrassed about who they voted for

"hello [fence-sitting conservative], either cross the aisle or get voted out in an election, your choice"

The part that irks me the most about all the "the city is full" guys is that basically all of them live in parts of the city that have significantly *decreased* in population

The thing that I dislike the most about my fellow Ontarians is just how OK we are with being straight up lied to over and over again The Ford govt, Metrolinx, crosslinx, the TTC all habitually lie to our faces, and no one cares

Another decade of LPC prime ministers lmao

Zoomers on the streetcar talking on the phone: "yeah we were going to Uber there but it said the streetcar would be faster" We are so back

There is not a person on earth who hates Ford voters more than Ford Rural communities are falling apart, ERs closing etc, so he takes a 15-week vacation then comes back and tells his voters that they don't get to know what his policies are They'll vote for him anyway www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

i know i'm just a random undergrad but it really is astounding to me how many people get paid so much money to be professional politics-knowers who just completely dropped the ball on the biggest, most important political question of a generation maybe it's arrogant but i could do better than this

A minor thing, but I hope the NIMBYs who typically scream that safe streets and housing advocates are just paid shills or in the pocket of Big Bike or whatever understand that they're a lot closer to Trumpism than they probably care to admit.

The $113-million mess of a community centre I wrote about this week is 100% funded from “development charges.” It is going in a neighbourhood with zero population growth. In part, these charges are a tax on newcomers to subsidize existing wealthy homeowners. globalnews.ca/news/1163476...

I hope it's not lost on anyone that the exact same motherfuckers on the Canadian right who spent decades wielding the idea of Canadian Patriotism like a cudgel, talking about "real Canadians", accusing every opponent of "hating Canada", are now pivoting to a platform of literal treason

I think these moments of staggering condescension toward the rest of the world, by Americans of all stripes, at all levels, is the thing that gets me. It was neither boring nor insignificant to the Danes or the Canadians.

Renewable energy production could be a major earner for places like this but they don't want money, they want to be mad about being poor.

Been pretty critical on Carney regarding our relative spineless response to America this far but this is... Quite good Not directly attacking America but very very clear

AI is good at one thing: writing code This is why the tech bros think it's inevitable. It can do their job, they think their job is difficult, every other job is simpler than theirs, so it will take over the world Most people in my co. find it makes *more* work for them, as it's frequently wrong

Cannot stress enough that the American electorate is just catastrophically dumb

DOINK

Question I'd have for Doug Ford regarding Chinese EVs is which Canadian car models, exactly, would these cars be replacing? The answer is none. We don't make *any* smaller EVs He constantly ignores his provincial duties to try to overreach into either municipal or federal politics. Unserious

You’re failing because you’re not posting about sports, this is an app for sports

Moderately crashing out from what young people are telling me about their use of LLMs for university All they do is ask it to summarize the "most important 80% of the info into 20% of the words" Why even bother going to university? The whole point is *mastery* of a discipline, not a summary of one

This is the median Toronto homeowner by the way

"Less patriotic than a literal separatist party" is certainly a look for Canada's Conservatives.

There are only 2 real policy responses to a housing shortage. You can either get to work building enough housing for everyone or start making a list of the types of people you want to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

At the end of the day, this is it. We've already given billions and billions of dollars to our automakers to build better/cheaper EVs. They haven't done it (or even really tried), so IMO they should just open the gates

So the Ontario NDP stance is that allowing 49,000 Chinese EVs into a country that buys 1.9 million new cars/year will kill Ontario automaker jobs? I really doubt the Ontario plants making F-150s and Chevy Silverados are at risk of being put out of business by a shipment of Wuling Bingos

As usual, the people who call themselves "real Canadians" are actually cowards and traitors

Why even bother watching the games

The best part about living in Canada is that I don't have to know who this is

As usual, Toronto civil service, defending obviously unjust systems. Why should costs for transit be paid for heavily by a small number of new residents?

We've made a choice to tax landlords less than working individuals (aka people who actually contribute to the economy)

I'm by far not the first to call out how utterly terrible Line 6 is, but coming from a city renowned for slow trams I was in awe at just how badly they spent billions on this project. it makes the cheery advertising seem like it's mocking you. probably the worst modern tram I've been on in my life

Politicians can just do things, they don't actually need 4 years of consultations with the worst people imaginable to slightly improve something