Just wanted to say I’ve had you marked with notes before as someone really good with your research, but each time I see your longer answers I make sure to take the time to read it. Really appreciate the knowledge transfer on a lot of your posts, please don’t stop!

I’m one of the people who have helped set up a community for skaters/longboarders in my city which has seen a great regular base of people coming back weekly. The ages vary from all spans. Do you want to know what I’ve found the key to be?

A) The meetups have to be accessible to the group, meaning something which doesn’t require people to pay for. People can’t afford anything right now, especially the younger people. Having somewhere public to go and hang out together and skate is a huge benefit. The costing leads us into the second more important step;

B) community willing to gift old gear to new riders. If people come join our community, there is often someone available with an extra board they don’t use as much and are happy to gift to new riders who seem interested in following meets. Finally, and actually the most challenging;

C) making sure to limit political discussions. People in our group of over 40 people obviously have a wide swath of beliefs, and if anyone gets discriminatory, we shut that shit down and explain to those people that the group is inclusive and has no interest in those discussions here. We always have the risk of members clashing, but with a larger group we’ve found over the past couple of years we’re able to at least shut that stuff down sooner, since the majority of people involved just want others to skate with and make friends with for their hobbies, and less so their beliefs.

All of this to say the most important part is free third places. If people don’t have places they can go together that doesn’t empty their wallets, then yeah, people are going to stop going out and will stay inside instead. It’s another failing from the generations that have come before closing down more public spaces and trying to monetize everything, including government services.

I agree, we have that problem in more ways than one.

then they vote left for unfunded spending

Explain how the Doug Ford victory falls under this with his $400M spent on rushing the beer in grocery stores policy instead of waiting 6 months and getting it for free, or the proposed $800B highway tunnel under the 417 (which would likely be over 1T). I suppose I just don’t see the left being the party of unfunded spending, because I don’t think he’s going to make the profits from this just by selling Ontario Place.

Maybe I’m missing something, but he ripped up a contract that was just recently signed. This seems to be related to existing contracts that are separate from the 100m contract.

It’s tough to balance the worth for me on this one. Should we expect these communities to have to rely on internet when they are clearly so broken off, or should we be providing these services as infrastructure as a country through installation of cables to connect them (which would likely admittedly be tough with the distances through bushes).

I’d argue the best option is to continue funding this service separately, just to keep the users up north online for their court visits, while working on establishing our own service. I’d prefer if we didn’t have to litter the skies with satellites for our solution as well, I don’t like the amount of space junk above us currently.

At which point that would require funding from our government, and it looks like regardless of who gets in, we’re going into austerity measures, so I won’t be holding breath that our R&D goes into this service.

Tough one and unfortunately it looks like the north is going to be underserved. Which, also unfortunately, with the number of voters/people up there, is likely to continue as I doubt this will be a focus on people’s voting decisions. Especially not 4 years from now when we have another provincial election.

Agreed with this. Started in the CIV world with 5, then a buddy introduced me to Rome:Total War and it was like finding crack. I still like to take over all of Europe at some point once a year.

Just a heads up OP, the games are limited to regions of the world, it’s never the full globe.

‘She did not die of the measles,’ he said of his daughter, Daisy. ‘If there’s one thing you should know, it’s that. She was failed.’

A direct quote from the father. He doesn’t realize he’s talking about himself.

Holy shit between this and the Governor hot wheels comment recently she’s just showing that she might be just as much a liability as she will be a newfound asset lately. The passion is great, but it feels like there’s not as much of a filter on what she’s putting out there in some heated moments. Not like I’m perfect, I’d probably pull some similar petty shit after enough speeches but that’s why I’m not in government.

If you don’t mind me asking, just because I’m curious, what age range do you place yourself in? I don’t want to know your actual age because I hate asking people for that direct of information online, but just using 5 year intervals, are you 20-25, 25-30, etc.? Only if you’re comfortable answering because I’m interested in understanding trends as best I can.

I’ll probably keep voting Democrat for local elections because I like the things my local reps have been doing

I also think this is important to note, because a lot of the time the work is done at the lower level. Obviously with the current admin that has changed for America, but I’m at least happy to hear you feel represented by your local reps.

Counterpoint, but CREATING content like this is 90% of the reason, and these people should be remembered in history as the cockroaches they are. I can at least understand people who get mad at bait.

So who do you plan to vote for next election then?

They have to live with the fact they didn’t vote as the next Hitler takes hold, it’s also the only thing their stupid little minds can use to go on without acknowledging their conscience that wants them to yeet themselves out a window.

We’ve been trying to warn you americans not to just do idle threats.

Do the not so idle ones without the warning. If you’re going to get sent to El Salvador, make it worth while.

The way I understand CSIS is it’s more focused on tracking online actions, akin to chats plotting terrorism. I dont think they focus on actual bodies in other countries or tracking other country activities.

“We need people to have the threat of death to work” isn’t the offer you think it is you fuck.

Yup, Ontario had it for a small community and the people on it were doing great. They’re still just running these programs in other areas to try and find the one with negative results so every country can point to that as their reason to not do it longterm.

That’s why you keep seeing 100 of these “trials”.

“Analog horror” is such a hilarious phrase.

Narrowly avoiding a collision where someone pulls out in front of you unexpectedly is the sign of a good driver.

If someone was driving along and a deer jumped out from the side of the road, would they be a bad driver for hitting them? No, because there was no logical way they could have stopped in time, even while following the speed limit.

The same applies here, this is a heavy load and really doesn’t seem to be travelling more than 30km/h. They can’t crawl along a road at half of the speed limit just because they have a heavy load, otherwise every dump truck would have to be followed by route navigators like wide-load operations have to be.

The guy was a great driver and sacrificed a small bit of his cement load for someone’s vehicle to not be totaled. I wholeheartedly agree with the other person who said they are a good driver.

Source: DZ Licensed driver who has driven plenty of these vehicles before.

Holy AI garbage, Batman!