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Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 1 day ago:
By that logic, grocery stores exploit hungry people.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 1 day ago:
Hmm, what’s your toilet situation right now? Cassette, tanks, composting, other? I hope it’s not rude to ask in this context.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 1 day ago:
I sure wouldn’t. If anything it sounds like these rentals will be worse than the free to look at ones. It’s only 5 bucks, but it’s 5 bucks.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 1 day ago:
Is anybody actually going to pay this? I’m limited in how mad I can get over someone deluding themselves.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 1 day ago:
What’s the biggest thing you miss? The idea certainly appeals to me; you have to pay to exist as a person in a building but there’s free parking everywhere. And you can do a bit of nomadism.
- Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite 2 days ago:
Okay, see no evil, hear no evil, sure.
I would hope that one of the scientists involved “accidentally” gives away the access codes.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 3 days ago:
Well, they kept a few of the design bureaus, I guess.
When their whole economic model was obviously failing, I think the West thought they’d given up on Marx, when in reality they just decided to become the bad guys from Marx.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 3 days ago:
Because it’s an incantation to you?
I’d be inclined to respond and explain further, but I don’t think learning and understanding is the point of this exchange anymore. Bye.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 5 days ago:
Yeah, and I was wondering if this was a “commie democrats” thing.
You’ll probably disagree with Putler being wanted by the ICC for warcrimes as well? Or at least make some excuse for how he’s not responsible or how the ICC or the UN are somehow the bad guys or smth?
No, Putin is shit and I hope he ends up in the Hague where he belongs.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 5 days ago:
Because you posted him with no context. It wasn’t clear you meant Russia.
but modern day Russia has inherited a lot of policies and values from them.
I’d disagree with that. They inherited autocracy, but it’s not even a vaguely similar model of it. In a lot of ways current Russia is a backlash to the USSR, although they shoehorn communist stuff together with Tsarist stuff and everything else from even earlier to pretend they have some kind of ideology.
They still see the West as enemies or at least competition, though, that’s true.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 5 days ago:
A change in architecture to accompany the change in form of government.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 5 days ago:
I really don’t think the funny shoe man from the 60’s is to blame for this.
- Comment on Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts 14 seconds 1 week ago:
Maybe they mean relative to space.
- Comment on Apparently we should shame people for selling at affordable prices 1 week ago:
I wonder why artists even bother at this point. Doesn’t LiveNation offer some way they can sell tickets at their actual value without people knowing?
- Comment on How to make a Lemmy user look like an asshole, in three easy steps 1 week ago:
Eh, don’t worry. People like this fight each other at least as much as outsiders. They’ll undo themselves before they can do any real damage.
Pug isn’t even a mod listed on that community.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 weeks ago:
And then you’ll need to use a VPN if you’re in the UK, which is recommended anyway.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 2 weeks ago:
I highly suspect he’s full of shit, too. Most likely, he counts all kinds of non-work activities as work, because he does them in an executive-ly capacity, and in general claiming you’re a hyper-optimised work machine is fashionable in Silicon Valley.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 2 weeks ago:
I question how much value this guy actually generates, too. Probably a normal amount for however many hours of work, but he and his immediate colleagues set the wages.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 weeks ago:
I do like 15-minute videos! Thank you!
It’s interesting it still was decent to ride, according the the video, in spite of the nightmare backstory.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Cashes into.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the Wikipedia article is pretty long and I can’t really make out what’s going on easily. Did they not have funding to maintain both?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 weeks ago:
Yes, like I said to someone else, I actually don’t know much about the rail system specifically. That was just an example of typical corners to cut.
The state of public transit in Canada is truly dire. Vancouver’s system seemed useable, but I haven’t personally spent enough time abroad to know if it is, or if it just is by comparison.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 weeks ago:
You have to adjust for labour cost. For reasons that have to do with certain industries not existing in the third world, it’s much higher in the West.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have rail-specific knowledge here. It’s just generally how construction works in places like China or Laos. Many other things, too.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 weeks ago:
Off of the remaining size of the Chengdu network after you correct for the other issues in OP’s representation.
Regardless of the ethnicity and mother tongue of the workers, smelting and extruding rebar, shipping it and pouring concrete around it is the same process. They can’t magically go faster over there, and the reason their labour seems cheaper on paper has to do with the West producing things they can’t (yet). If correctly presented, it would be pretty obvious it’s not apples-to-oranges like it looks in OP, I think.
I’m wondering WTF happened to Toronto line 3, though.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 weeks ago:
I have family from out that way. It’s absolutely a thing in the third world in general, and then in China you have an enormous case of single metrics being used for success (like speed of project completion) and so becoming useless.
In the West, people would become outraged by unheated, crumbling train terminals and it would become a political issue. In China, they tend to censor negative political commentary, so the only people who’s opinion actually matter are other party officials.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget Chinese corner cutting. You probably have to knock 25% off of that if you want infrastructure of a level of quality and safety tolerable to Westerners.
I think it’s fair to guess China is less car-obsessed than Canada, and more serious about fighting climate change. That being said, without cheating it becomes pretty obvious we’re working with the same technology and fundamental logistics.
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 2 weeks ago:
Ah! that one of the worst parts of the internet, and they’ve figured out a way to make it real.
At least they mention the arbitration upfront, I guess.
- Comment on I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product.. 2 weeks ago:
It’s in the “agreement”.
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 3 weeks ago:
There’s three factors at play: depletion of the easiest reservoirs, sociological changes and increasing feasibility of competing technologies. The answer is going to depend on which things you’re assuming away.
Like, in this parallel modern world, is everyone using EVs, or horse and buggy? Early cars sucked - you basically had to be a mechanic just to own one, on top of the low speed, range and features - but they beat the shit out of no cars. It’s also worth noting petroleum products were burned in lamps first, so there was already a limited infrastructure for cars to use. If all the easy oil still isn’t there I doubt we’d bother, but with those gushing deposits of sweet crude just below Texas that used to exist the process would be much simpler.
The sociological one might be the easiest to answer. There’s plenty of heavy industry that’s nasty to be around, oil isn’t unique or even the worst offender, so that’s fine. If it’s the horse and buggy world people aren’t going to tolerate tons of steel whizzing them by with no enclosure, though. Most of that kind of thing was outlawed in the mid 20th century, but cars were just so ubiquitous. So, by that count, gas powered trains would be the application. There’s a chance the greenhouse effect would be predicted and managed actively from the start, because science has come a long way. I’d guess urban air pollute regulation would end up in about the same place.