I have the dogs and only two hands, I wish I had three hands so I could pet them all at once instead of having to alternate depending on who shoves who out of the way
Did the same for FFXI but game cards didn’t exist so I had to beg for my dad’s cc number which was a huge deal in 04.
I keep telling my family to just give me steam cards for Christmas but they don’t like giving gift cards cause there’s “no thought” but don’t understand that I don’t buy physical games anymore.
I don’t want it if I don’t need it. Considering where this country is at with housing, education, transportation, food, etc. I think those billions going to well off seniors rather than back into communities that will make life better for everyone is fucked.
The Rainbow Bridge, which connects motorists and pedestrians between Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Canada, was closed for two days following the incident.
We’ve just started celebrating Truth and Reconciliation Day on Sept 30 in Canada but I don’t think anyone but the First Nations and the try hard use the day for any kind of truth or reconciliation. I played video games all day myself. Not sure if the day itself had any historical significance, we still celebrate Thanksgiving in October.
I’m pretty sure the band had an actual name, I’ve suppressed the hundreds of hours of bullshit skits and bad cover songs I had to listen to when I worked there so I can’t remember what they were called but I remember all their names .
Left to right: Charles, Helen, Munch, Jasper, Pasquale.
I’ve been pretty happy with him as a premier who far. Seems like he’s the only politician right now who’s actually doing anything substantial to fix the issues we have. The cities are crying right now and that’s a good thing.
What’s the statscan definition of homeowner? Aren’t myself and my partner considered owners because we live with my parents in their house, so there are 4 “homeowners” living in the house.
I could be wrong but I remember reading what they consider a homeowner does not match what common sense says it is. Please point me in the direction of something if I’m wrong, I’ve tried looking but can’t find anything.
And kids don’t want to eat their vegetables or go to bed on time… Sometimes people need to be encouraged to do the thing they don’t want to do, but is only in their best interest.
I work as a public servant and I say this like once a week. The general public acts like a spoiled child who wants to eat candy for dinner. The public do not care that candy isn’t nutritious, they do not care that they will rot their teeth out if they eat out for every meal, they do not care that it will give them an upset stomach. They know what’s best for them and candy is what’s best.
The alternative to the status quo is the incentive to change. If you build the transit and make it a viable alternative in terms of costs and time, people will take it: millennials, gen z, and soon gen alpha aren’t driving at the rate of previous generations for many reasons, they want public transit but they are forced to drive. If cities actually start to prioritize public and active transit infrastructure improvements over those for single occupancy vehicles in a meaningful way people will take them. This is one of those candy for dinner scenarios where the public wants what they want without understanding why it’s not good for them and the gov’t needs to step up and do what’s right instead of caving to the pressure.
Adding a cost to driving will force people to reconsider their habits and when enough people have to change, we can demand the city do better with transit. Right now, if you have money, you will not take public transit. It doesn’t make sense for people with money and poor people have no choice to take public transit.
And if there is no viable alternative for then to turn to they will not change their minds. We build the infrastructure first, and change the public’s mind second with improved commute time, more money in their pocket, etc. I’d rather not wait several years after the public has finally got it through their “me first mentality” to start the decades long process of expanding our pathetic transportation infrastructure to bring us to s21st century standard. We are a half a century behind countries in Europe and Asian in regards to our transit infrastructure, the best time to build it was 50 years ago, the second best is today not in 5 years when driving a car is no longer possible for the majority of people.
I could take the bus to work, but it turns my 2hrs of driving a day into 5 hours of commuting. I would never give up my car until that option is viable, and that’s not going to happen until we have the infrastructure to make it viable.
Public transit is viable if it means you’re commute is faster. There will always be people with an excess amount of money but why do we give a shit what they want, they are a demographic who doesn’t need support. Better public transit for those who can’t afford to drive means less cars on the road for those who need to or choose to drive which means faster commutes for everyone. It’s a win win situation but people are too short sighted to see that.
Cities, provinces, and the feds have the money to build out our public transit infrastructure they just don’t want to because it means more work and a chance they will lose votes. Much like parent of the child who wants to eat candy for dinner, the gov’t needs to step up and act like the leaders they claim they are, and not roll over like some weak ass parent who is scared of their kids. Vancouver Island, where I live, has a rail corridor going from Courtenay to Victoria that could realistically serve the majority of the islands population yet the municipalities refuse to look at it because the people who vote (seniors) think it’s a waste of money, don’t want change at the end of their lives, and have all the free time in the world to organize, to write letters to politicians, to go on media campaigns, etc.
Also, I find it laughable that you think I have a me first mentality for not wanting to waste 5 hours of my day commuting when my government refuses to give me a real alternative. If the rail corridor was open and I still chose to drive then sure, that’s valid criticism. Until I can move closer to my job (doubtful with $2000+/month for a 2 br) or there’s a viable alternative that doesn’t mean I lose all agency in my life to save $20 a month then I’m going to continue to drive and if the govt wants me to stop because they “care about the environmental impact” then they can do their job and uphold the public interests and give me and everyone else on the island a real, practical, and economic alternative to driving. This is no different than blaming the consumer about all the plastic bottle waste instead of regulating the industry that produces them.
Every single time (lemmy.world)
Economic Theory is Fun tho. (lemmy.ml)
The Toyota war proved peak engineering rule (lemmy.ca)
Japanese chip flavors (startrek.website)
kids would rather have subscriptions and in-game currency [children of the ages 10-17, with 59% of girls and 86% of boys plan to ask for video game gifts for the holidays (not actual videogames] (web.archive.org)
Subsidies to rich seniors make no sense (www.theglobeandmail.com)
The OAS bonus is being given to well-off seniors. As more and more affluent Boomers retire, that’s going to put a strain on federal finances....
They're basically the same right? (lemmy.world)
Rainbow Bridge: Police identify couple killed in US-Canada border crash (www.bbc.com)
Home prices could drop by 10 per cent in early 2024: TD (www.ctvnews.ca)
TD Bank says home prices could drop as much as 10 per cent on average by early 2024 thanks to a surge in housing supply in some provinces.
Group chat (lemmy.world)
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupt Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (abcnews.go.com)
Abcnews.go.com
They knew all the wicked hits (lemmy.world)
Eby says governments must step up on housing, can't rely on private sector (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They’re Rich - Owners of the multi-million-dollar properties still see themselves as middle class, a warped self-image that has a big impact on renters (thewalrus.ca)
Pokémon go to the polls (lemmy.world)
No matter how many times they've declared PC gaming dead over the last 30 years, it's kept on kicking (www.pcgamer.com)
Public support for carbon tax waning quickly (www.nationalobserver.com)
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