This is what the "make transit free!" dweebs refuse to understand. It's not the dollar cost. It's the cost in time and aggravation when you can't reliably get to where you need to go in a reasonable amount of time. 76.9% on-time performance? Making it free doesn't make that any more acceptable.

We're already at war with Russia, exhibit 2342:

Genuinely curious if this is affecting Alberta Separatist bots

The crazy thing about the subway slow zones being so terrible and the subway being in such a bad condition right now is that probably no other city service is as widely viewed by the public. Hundreds of thousands every day get to see the result of neglect.

Here's that Leger referendum poll modelled out

Wynn's Law remains undefeated.

It drives me up the wall so much I specifically curated a list of books for a library assignment that had interesting and well-thought out religions instead of "Catholicism in a trench coat" and "Roman pantheon with the serial numbers filed off"

Sadly, the NDP arent huge fans of upzoning since developers can make money off of it

In hindsight calling an election with a stable majority just two years after the last election without a clear ballot box question or campaign plan beyond villainizing the chaotic opposition leader who resigned two days before the call might not have been a strong play. (Was also true in foresight.)

Danielle Smith said the quiet part out loud today on Jespo. "People do buy into a community, they choose the attributes of a community they want to live in because they want to live around the people that share those same values and attributes". Wonder what shared "attributes" she's talking about?

If you’re sharing an official statement or document from a gov’t or org, I think it really matters to share the link to the statement, not just a screenshot of it. I can of course easily look it up myself, but its not convenience that’s the issue, it’s unsourced screenshots taking on authority

Everyone keeps making fun of the "zero internality" AI guy and yes he is dumb and hollow but I think also he has just never done anything creative. The reason schools have art classes and you take humanities in college is so that you understand that the world extends beyond the surface of things.

Unfortunately we spent the last 20 years doing everything possible to push young people into STEM at the expense of every other aspect of education. "If they didn't have to take history and sociology they'd have more time for CS classes" is a little kid ass idea, and it creates people who have

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

Seriously. I see so many people on Twitter saying that they don't want multiplexes because they don't want so much immigration, and I can't help wondering if they noticed over the past bunch of years how a lack of housing never stopped immigration. It just forced the poorest into worse conditions.

Reminder that "Christian Nationalist" is not just shorthand for "asshole who calls himself a Christian." The same way "Nazi" is not a loaded word for "bully." "Death cult" is similarly literal. We aren't taunting. We literally mean it as an objective description and/or paraphrase of their own words.