This city needs to fucking deamalgamate 10 years ago. Holy shit I hate the stranglehold these dumbass suburban consullers have over these types of decisions.

Like fuck,

“Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley said he’s not against the idea of four units in principle, but worries the transit system isn’t yet up to supporting those kinds of densities in the suburbs. In his view, even three units isn’t sustainable without proper transit, since it risks turning backyards into parking lots.”

He’s got it backwards, I don’t know if it’s out of stupidity or willful ignorance. The current single family homes and shitty road layouts of suburbs are the reason they’re hard to serve with public transit. You can’t design an obvious straight path where a route will go, it’s got to wind around weirdly. And each stop might serve ~30 people within a reasonable walking distance. If you allow higher densities that same stop can serve many more people making it much more profitable (not that every transit line needs to make a profit) and useful to people.

And what the fuck is he talking about turning backyards into parking lots? Such a car brain take.

Can someone get me into a room with this guy so I can talk about urban planning at him for several hours?

It’s after 9pm somewhere

Relevant video: https://youtu.be/DlTq8DbRs4k?si=y-muiI81MKk3gin0

Privatized railways are mostly failures most of the time. Besides Brightline, and I think a bunch of the Japanese railway companies, no nation really has privatized passenger rail. But I think the Japanese system has a weird setup.

Actually, I think Italy and Germany have started allowing private companies to operate on their railways, but I think they need to fit it between the nationalized services. I could be wrong about that tho.

It’s wild that this city (read: the suburbs and rural communities that shouldn’t be a part of the city of Ottawa) decided the dude with ZERO political experience and ZERO urban planning interest was the right choice for mayor.

It might be me being very tuned in to urban planning, but it feels like across the world, and even Canada, there’s a huge wave of urban planning progress being made. People are begining to realize that we cant continue to build car dependant suburbs, but our own mayor hasn’t caught up to this fact. There’s huge improvements in Montreal, Toronto, even places like Calgary and Edmonton are getting proper biking infrastructure. Granted, do see it slowly progressing in Ottawa, but my god it could be done so much faster and with less of this bullshit.

Like, maybe before this he didn’t know anything about cities and shit like this, but you fucking hire someone who does and have them explain it to you. You’re a mayor now, you MUST be into urban planning and all it entails.

Apologies for the long rant, this bugs me to no end. Can I protest somewhere? Can I give the mayor some book recommendations? (Walkable Cities by Jeff Speck, and Strong Towns by Charles Marhon.)

I know on Windows there’s settings to enable moving torrents automatically when the category changes. Also make sure to enable automatic torrent management otherwise I don’t think it will work properly.

I’d also check the default download paths too, there’s also a setting to keep inprogress torrents in a different spot. Hope that helps

Edit: see screenshot elsewhere in the comments: https://pawb.social/comment/2238730

I kinda slowed down on his videos since that Tom Nicolas video, but I watched his video from a few days ago about blimps because blimps are cool. But it just seemed like a corporate ad. The amount of the video that’s renders of products vs actual products is pretty bad.

It didn’t feel like a science video about blimps, it felt like half blimp startup ad, half simple blimp explanation. I don’t know, it just felt a little devoid of depth.

I hate the passive way headlines are written when it comes to crashes involving bikes. “Tossed” is such a light word for what happened. “Passing RV” as if it wasn’t the cause of it all and just happened to be there

That driver should never be allowed on the road again. There’s no excuse.

Glad the guy is alive.

I’ve run this twice for with a mix new and seasoned players both times and it’s always great!

I will def be stealing playlist as well

Thanks for posting

“I am Justin Rozniak I’m the person who is talking right now. My pronouns are he and him.”

Not an answer to your question, but if the instruments are USB (I assume they are), you could also checkout Clone Hero. It’s a free PC version of Rock Bank/Guitar Hero, people will make custom songs for it as well, I’m sure some have drum tracks too.

Yes, it seems like a really recent term to me. I first heard it when the writers strike began and never before that.

When I think streamer I think of people on Twitch or YouTube who stream themselves. No idea where calling streaming services/sites “streamers” came from but it always confuses me.

You’re very welcome!

Bullshit Jobs is actually the only thing I’ve read from him, besides maybe one article. What else do you recommend?

Thank you for spreading the gospel of Bullshit Jobs! Its not mentioned enough.

Anarchist library link: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs

OP is correct, this is from Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Here’s a link on the anarchist library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs

Highly recommend the book, really changed how I view work.

I remember when Voat came out and the slight exedous that brought. I made an account and everything but it never properly took off. I checked on it two or three years later and it was just filled with alt-right/racist/transphobic garbage. Sad it never took off as a reddit alternative, reddit likely would have greatly benefited from a proper alternative, not sad it closed down after I saw what it ended up.

So far the fediverse feels really different tho, very explicitly anti that type of shit. I’m sure it will pop up, they always do, but maybe now people know how to deal with it. Block it, defederate, deplatform.