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Now that the day is past, today I saw in the news what each candidate was doing yesterday. What's the story behind Á'a:líya Warbus being a Conservative candidate in Chilliwack?
I'm not surprised to occasionally see LGBTQ+ folks joining hands with conservatives because there's one thing that usually threads the needle there: class warfare. I can also understand the poor working class that votes conservative: rugged individualism and "traditional values". But I still can't understand indigenous voters going conservative... Rustad is clearly an enemy!? 🤷♂️
I doubt it. But I hope you're right.
I signed it but I don't really get what's the goal here other than rectifying a minor semantic issue
It's always a shame when iconic bits are disrupted by development, but I honestly can't say I care a lot about that cross staying there and I'd be fine with moving it. It's supposed to represent the un-gentrified Vancouver, so it's ironically on-brand to move it to a place that's less gentrified.
Just say yes to fuck up their metrics.
"Yes but don't contact me on this number again, it's my work phone"
To help fund this foreign tourists should pay an entry tax depending how long they stay.
Hmm, I mostly agree with the rest of your comment but you lost me there.
If it were free but buses and trains showed up 1/3 as often it’s not worth it.
I think free fare advocates aren't advocating for this hypothetical tradeoff, it's probably for increased funding to replace fare revenue
Squamish becoming a commuter town is a bit tragic, but trains would be nice yeah
Yep. It's cognitive dissonance. Presumed innocence & welfare for me, discipline and punishment & rugged individualism for thee.
I never understand why people don’t want criminals reformed, just locked up.
It is pretty easy to understand. People are interested in their personal safety above all else, way more than they care about inefficient use of public resources and human tragedies brought by a carceral system. Many favor systems that error to the side of unjustly punishing over a system that accepts the inherent trade-offs of pursuing common good.
In other words, to some folks, criminals aren't people so we shouldn't worry about what's good for them - all worry is dedicated to making the lives of white flighters as stress-free as possible. TLDR: snowflake conservatives.
I don’t think it is a “problem”, but it gets really boring / bleak when every single house looks identical to one another.
It looks boring at first, but over time they come to represent the times of their adoption. I think Vancouver Specials, despite their pathetic looks, have a charm that carries its history and significance. Something similar is bound to happen. And at least this time it's not a single design, there are quite a few.
that just because the UCP received 54-ish% of the popular vote in the last provincial general election, it doesn’t follow that 54% of the population of Alberta is anti-trans.
It does mean that 54% is willing to promote UCP even though UCP as an institution is supportive of anti-trans politics. So while not everyone in those 54% might be anti-trans themselves, they are consciously supporting anti-trans politicians, and are effectively helping the anti-trans ideology.
Blind spots are blind because there's no direct path from any part of the bike to the driver's eyes. If the design is specifically worried about being in a blind spot, ironically the better design is to concentrate the LED power with narrow beam of light so the bike can cast light further away outside the blindspot.
Anyway, being in a blindspot is dangerous even for cars that have those ridiculously overpowered bright headlamps. When a driver says the "cyclist came out of nowhere" it just means the driver was driving carelessly. More lamps won't solve that.
Interesting idea but I'm not sure the benefit is worth the cost and the bulky gadget. Regular bike lights don't have such a narrow beam of light, unless by "regular" they mean the most laser-focused bike lights of the market. My two lights are pretty diffuse.
In what situations are said cyclists hard for motorists to see that a combination of normal bike light and high viz material won't work? Foggy day, cyclist and driver are perpendicular on an intersection? If it's foggy, the fog works as light diffuser. If it's not foggy, any piece of reflective material would do the trick... unless truckers are not turning on their headlights in total darkness, at which point normal bike lights are enough again.
Having spent that much time in a truck, he understands what makes cyclists difficult to see.
lol no, that's not how it works, there are professionals that dedicate their lives to studying vehicle lighting
Welp, at least it's a non-profit and the amount of people under care is increasing.
I'd say this kind of thing is in the best 1% of UCP moments, considering everything else. It's a low bar but still.
It's exactly as (un)secure as I expected. It's a wireless device made by bike part manufactures... can't expect better, realistically.
Still, I wouldn't recommend someone against buying one because of this. The threat model for cyclists is getting maimed by vehicles or psychopaths laying booby traps out there. Hackers messing with my gear shifting is the least of my worries.
I don't understand. Ending Translink to fund who?
If you're sure it's more than you'd expect, then you have some idea. You can just say how much you expect and then we have a lower bound to verify.
In any case do we even know who commissioned the poll? Might as well have been some institution with discretionary spending. Maybe I missed it in the article but it's not clear that this is government funded research in the first place.
How much money is being currently "wasted" on this? And how much of it is taxpayer funding that could be redirected?
IMHO Canadians are not significantly friendlier than most nationalities. At most they are friendlier than the average big-city dwelling Americans, and that's where the meme came from. Up until a few years ago Canada was a country of small cities, and these comparisons are all inherently flawed given the myriad of factors involved.
There is a LOT of conservatism brewing in Canada, and this hasn't much to do with friendliness. Some of the most astoundingly friendly people I've met were midwesterner Americans... and these same people were very bigoted in some regards. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.
Of course there's a theme, and big truck jackasses playing heavy metal with "Fuck Trudeau" & MAGA stickers abound. But visit an assembly from any affluent neighbourhood residents association and you will see highly educated and courteous old ladies parrot genocidal talking points.
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This Week in Coffee: New Automatic Pour-over, Diamond Moccamaster, Coloured Aeropress
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Found Compass Card
Found it on the street a few weeks ago in downtown, last used Jan-24-2024 06:57 PM. Sorry for the long delay, I went on vacation right the next day and forgot about it. Hit me up if it's yours and you want it back.
Card number is 0164 0235 7941 0194 ABCD
Proof of ownership will be telling me via DM the last digits and/or the CVN.
It has about 15 dollars on it. If the owner doesn't bother to claim it in a few days I'll just donate to someone on the streets.
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Harvest Haus this weekend
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Is there an app that allows me to to plan a route explicitly prioritizing AAA lanes that works in Vancouver?
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Specialty Cafés of Vancouver
A community maintained selection of specialty coffee businesses in Vancouver. Forever a "Work In Progress", adjustments and amendments suggestions always welcome.
Chinatown
- Aiyaohno / 425 Carrall St / Tue-Sat 7:30am-4:30pm
- Matchstick / 213 E Georgia St / 7DAW 7am-5pm
Davie Village
- Matchstick / 1305 Davie St / 7DAW 7am-5pm
Downtown
- 49th Parallel / 689 Thurlow St / Mon-Sat 7am-6pm, Sun 8am-4pm
- [Elysian]
- Pallet / 980 Howe St / Mon-Fri 7am-5pm, Sat-Sun 9am-3pm
- Palate Kitchen (Pallet's Restaurant) / Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, weekends & holidays 8am-4pm
- Saunter / 321 W Pender St / Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, Sat 9am-4pm
Downtown Eastside
- Pallet HQ & Roastery / 395 Alexander St / Mon-Fri 8am-3pm
- [Prototype]
Gastown
- Kafka's / 151 W Hastings St / Mon-Fri 8am-4pm
- Nemesis / 302 W Hastings St / Mon-Sun 8am-4pm
- Revolver / 325 Cambie St / Mon-Sat 7:30am-5pm, holidays 9am-5pm
- Timbertrain / 311 W Cordova St / Mon-Sat 9am–4pm
Grandview-Woodland
- [Agro]
- [Oidé]
- Pallet Plus / 323 Semlin Dr / 7DAW 8am-3pm
- [Timbertrain]
Kensington-Cedar
- Pallet / 1398 Kingsway / Mon-Fri 7am-5pm, Sat-Sun 8am-4pm
Kitsilano
- Pallet / 2002 W Broadway / 7DAW 8am-3pm
South Cambie
- Pallet / 3820 Oak St / 7DAW 8am-3pm
Yaletown
- [Analog]
- Kafka's / 860 Richards St / Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm, Sat-Sun 7am-6pm
- Matchstick / 1328 Richards St / 7DAW 7am-5pm
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