This isn't just about putting them in the same category, this about calling municipal councillors - people elected democratically to try to manage a town on fundamentally broken municipal finances - a threat at all. They are your representatives.
Why have the boomerhumour crowd lost sight of this?
Did Jeffrey Epstein have ties to BC? And why are his Wall Street friends backing Eby’s big economic move? 🤔
#bcpoli #epstein #lng
(1) Police unions aren't unions
(2) Because it gives them more power to handle people with less oversight and more sweeping powers, which is all they care about.
Why is it that literally everyone who is rich and powerful or with any kind of ties to rich and powerful people ends up being a straight pedo? Like actually, what the fuck?
Dr. Jey the Science They still goes hard. Just saying.
"Canadians are perfectly happy with only Conservative and Liberal party options, they must be, they keep voting for them!"
When you have no choice, that doesn't represent an informed view of the options.
We have stuff like that in our city too. Demand better connectivity, don't demand bike users just accept that some users will need to die.
I'm still baffled why this is an issue at all - there's a massive painted median there. Why not eliminate it, replace with a centreline, and provide PBLs?
Then don't tell people to just share a fucking road with death machines as the solution.
Speaking as someone who has been hit by drivers twice while wearing hi vis, fuck off with the "safer to just stay visible" victim blaming bullshit. Cheers.
Sniff test:
Would a seven year old be able to go north with the design you think is adequate (cyclists sharing the road with trucks a thousand times their mass)? If not, do not pass go, do not collection $200.
Not all cyclists are confident fearless macho people who like riding with cars.
Wtf there's a giant painted median, take space away from the nothingness between car lanes, not from the measly scraps left for cyclists.
They pulled that gag once in the Pitt.
Only correct answer here. Americans are paying far more, we have a slightly devalued currency (and our government seems intent on keeping it that way) so things look more expense. The issue is that we earn less than Americans too.
No thanks I'll pass on salmonella in my milk.
Canadian politics everyday right now is just another story of Carney's Liberals doing Harper Conservative policies and going up another five points in the polls.
It's bleak folks
No, sorry, our schools instead force parents and teachers to have no say whether students can use AI for anything on a computer. And most of our teachers proudly use AI in a ton of their planning and especially in their writing of report cards.
This conversation is only even happening because our politicians refuse to properly fund transit.
Our municipal politicians do not even want to put up the minimum required budget to maintain existing service. Our provincial politicians chose to cut service hours outright.
Translation: we should stop feeding humans to save some energy for the AI models.
This is remarkable considering how much smoking has dropped off. Why are more people dying when fewer are smoking? Are we basically catching the tail end of people who started smoking in before 2000 but survived into the 2000s?
It is so fucking demoralizing showing kids a photo of the astronauts going to the moon in April and the top response I got wasn't "that's cool," it was "I'm pretty sure that picture is just AI."
We have destroyed anything and everything interesting. Good job, soul-sucking fuckup companies.
YYJShuttle. It's dead, much like every other bus route Wilson's Group takes over (and some of their passengers... Sorry for the gallows humour, but screw Wilson's).
Nor is it a busy enough airport to merit direct, frequent, insanely money-hungry service. Unlike ferries, flight schedules are unpredictable and inconsistent. When you have an hourly fairy, you have an hourly bus. When you have flights that are clustered at the whim of airlines, you can't schedule.
RE #yyj airport service with BC Transit. It shouldn't take someone pointing this out on social media. These survey results are there for the transit commissioners to see for themselves.
Not with our useless provincial budget right now, that's for sure. The hours it would take to expand the running time of the 72 could go instead to expanding the 88 between McTavish and the highway. It just simply cannot come at the expense of the people who already rely on the bus.
What this does, though, is makes the thousands of residents and workers north of the airport have an even worse commute for the few dozen who work at the airport who might want to use the bus. The airport needs better transit, but not at the expense of everyone else getting worse transit.
@timfordwrites.bsky.social this comment sums up the issue perfectly, and if you are still unwilling to accept the harms this will cause regular transit users for the benefit of occasional users, our conversation is definitely over.
Tilly GPT and the amazing shape-shifting nose.
I am not straw manning. The majority of the population does not fly. Those who do fly, fly less than once a year. That's not straw manning.
I want transit equity for people who need it every day. Not for people who might want it once a year for a flight.
I'm not poor. At all. This is about transit equity for people who need it every single day. Believe it or not, people on the peninsula rely on transit daily. Needing a bus twice a year to get to the airport should come at the expense of worsening their daily commutes. How is that "dick measuring?"
88 should have its operating window expanded for earlier and later connections. That's what we need. Not telling everyone in Sidney they should just spend and extra hour a week on the bus so a tiny minority of the population that wants to travel can save like 2% the cost of their flight.
