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a screenshot of a proposed bill headed Part XII.1, ROADWAY CAPACITY, repealing Section 195.3 of the Act and substituting a complete prohibition on reducing lanes available for travel by motor vehicles for any of the following purposes: a bicycle lane, or "any other prescribed purpose"

Hey Ontario! You've heard of the disastrous Ford bill to destroy tenant rights, but did you know that Omnibus Bill 60 would entirely wipe out the ability of cities to right-size their roads by reducing lanes _at all_, not even just for bike lanes?

#onpoli #OttBike #ontario #ottawa

I've been a daily driver of Linux for over 30 years, and that hasn't been my experience, in general.

YouTube video by Eddy Burback ChatGPT made me delusional

This video is wild and brilliant. 💯 youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q?...

Satirical news headline which reads: New ‘Screemers’ haunted house features men explaining politics to women

His numbers are stupid. Spend a lot of money to get less money back? How is that ever a good deal? What are we buying for this? Another shitty stadium that's shrunk? Some nice parking lots?

It is true for Linux, though you might need to read and understand source code to realize. It's been a few times I've figured out a problem because I can read the source and it's usually now one of the first ways I look. But that's probably not helpful for a normal person..

Please note: extreme sarcasm deployed above. The gatekeeping in Linux HAS honestly approved. At least if you follow those steps someone might pay attention to you now 😉

The Linux community does NO gatekeeping! They just don't want to talk to you if you're a normie, haven't spent at least three weeks googling, printed out the results, buried them in peat for three months and then recycled the results as firefighters. Simple, easy steps for help!

Arguably the same is true for mac and windows. You need a lot of detail to really troubleshoot a problem. The key is that you can just pay someone else to solve it. Either MS, Apple or a third party like Geek Squad. You won't be able to do that with Linux. If you're googling your already in the 1%

The reason the Linux model fails here is because a normie could contact MS or Apple and have a hope of resolving a problem with their help. With Linux, its self help or no help in general, unless you want to run the gauntlet of the support forum, which is incredibly intimidating or counterproductive

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I couldn't agree more.

Unfortunately this is also one of the biggest issues with the "Just put Linux on it" movement. It's great for power users and nerds, but the wild variation of Linux distributions makes troubleshooting for non power users very hard.

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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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if you think that’s what’s keeping left-leaning political takes from being seen on Twitter is that they aren’t being posted rather that they are being actively suppressed by the site’s white supremacist owner, you are either too dumb or too dishonest to listen to, even on Bluesky

This narcissistic attitude that sees a vote as a curated extension of your personal brand or a version of a celebrity endorsement is going to be the death of this nation.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Page 1 of Strong Towns Ottawa's Letter to city councillors regarding Lansdowne 2.0. Text follows : Dear councillor, Strong Towns Ottawa would like to express concern about the current Lansdowne 2.0 plans. While we recognise the need for improvements, replacements, densification and proper sports and event facilities, we are not comfortable with a number of issues. Strong Towns Ottawa has argued for over a year now that transit access to Lansdowne has to be improved, even without the new plans. During event days, Bank Street and the surrounding area are a nightmare for both visitors and residents. Bus schedules are becoming completely unreliable, with routes 6 and 7 having the most cancelled trips. Lansdowne 2.0 will be even worse for traffic. Visitors are stuck in traffic with engines running. The City has committed to promoting alternative forms of transportation. The current situation at Lansdowne does not allow for other modes to thrive. For Lansdowne 2.0 to have any chance of success, proper public transit in the form of fully dedicated bus lanes is required. We believe nudging people into transit and experiencing a fast and smooth ride is important for traffic flow and the environment. Therefore, we strongly recommend adding permanent bus lanes on Bank Street. We believe that current discussions about bus lanes on Bank Street in the Glebe are based on fear of the unknown while ignoring both existing travel and parking data and the bigger picture of traffic flow and air quality. While other city infrastructure is neglected or its maintenance postponed, the city takes on debt to help make Lansdowne a success, even after the Lansdowne partnership posted yet another loss. We are concerned about the lower number of stadium seats, which may, and likely will, increase event ticket prices. We believe higher ticket prices will undermine equality in our city. As consumers only have so much to spend, higher ticket prices also means that that money can not be

Page 2 of the letter to Councillors : Many residents have expressed frustration about the transparency of the project. If councillors and the media already express worries about understanding the financial consequences, how are citizens expected to understand what happens with their tax dollars? We don't think the City has communicated properly what happens if the plans don't pan out. The timelines are extraordinary and cost is always increasing. What are the worst case scenarios? What if the cost is going up faster than foreseen? What if a sports team moves on? What if bands decide on smaller venues? Given the situation south of the border, today's models can be worthless tomorrow. Many of us feel the plans are being ushered through Council to limit the sound of critical voices. Large city projects mean that many people and lots of public money is involved. At the tail end of LRT phase 1, we have seen several people quietly leaving their positions after a damning report on how phase 1 was handled. A project like this should have enthusiastic support from everyone at Council. It doesn’t. That possibly only around half of City council feels comfortable attaching their name to it, is very concerning to us. In short, we want to stress once again that we are not against further developing Lansdowne, in fact we encourage it, but we are nervous about accessibility, the many assumptions that are made to justify the cost, the way the plan is being ushered through Council, and the accountability of tax dollars being spent. May we ask one question? If you are planning to vote in favour, and you were asked to invest in it with your own money, would you remortgage your house to become a partner in Lansdowne 2.0? Respectfully

Strong Towns Ottawa has sent an open letter to all Councillors with our concerns regarding #Lansdowne.

We are not against improvements, but we do have concerns about transit accessibility, clarity surrounding the project, and affordability.

Here is what we wrote

#Ottawa

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Increase in Ottawa paramedic calls for overdoses near closed drug consumption site: data Data from the City of Ottawa shows an increase in the number of overdose incidents paramedics have responded to since the closure of the supervised consumption site at the Somerset West Community Heal...

Removing harm reduction services in neighbourhoods improves no one's safety - neighbours, people who use substances, anyone.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I'm definitely a Prompt Engineer.

advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: bsky.app/profile/pyth...

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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the Python Software Foundation is foregoing a large NSF grant that would have been contingent on their agreeing to terminate their diversity and inclusion initiatives and given the feds the ability to cripple them financially for refusing to comply

support them here:
www.python.org/psf/donations/

When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.

software has spent the last 20 years getting worse by people "utilizing best practices" spewing their garbage idiot code into the world and somehow motherfuckers think the statistical bullshit machine trained on a world of terrible software will magically improve software development are you high

I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Rife with symbolism..

I know you're talking about Toronto, but Sutcliffe here in Ottawa is just as dumb.