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TBH there's a few too many Bill Smith signs in my neighbourhood for comfort. My family's all voting Nenshi I think, but my dad works in an industry that requires for him to ask for money from the civic government on a regular basis so we're kinda biased.
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I'm flying the day after election day so I oughtn't drink while watching the results roll in, but gently caress knows I'll want to...
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Oct 12, 2017 01:11
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There was a Slovenian pilot who showed up pisstanked to operate a Sunwing flight last winter. He passed out in the cockpit and it was later found that he'd had a fifth of vodka between showing up at his hotel at 1AM and reporting for duty at 6AM. That'd be a real challenge! I technically could drink since you only need to be sober and not have had anything to drink for 8 hours legally speaking, but it's recommended that you don't drink for 24 hours before acting as flight crew, and I see no particular reason to break with that recommendation. Err on the side of caution and all that. Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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Oct 12, 2017 01:21
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being a plane guy is like the male version of a horse girl right
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Oct 12, 2017 01:54
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It’s about the same level of bad with money so yes
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Oct 12, 2017 02:03
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Kly posted:being a plane guy is like the male version of a horse girl right Pretty much. They're either super old, super rich or super broke. It's also a massive sausage fest. When I switched to racing bikes I was amazed just how many women were around and cycling is known as a male dominated sport. Unfortunately bikes aren't that much behind horses planes and boats when it comes to being a huge money sink. But you do get to drink while racing if you race cross.
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Oct 12, 2017 02:56
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EvilJoven posted:Pretty much. They're either super old, super rich or super broke. It's also a massive sausage fest. When I switched to racing bikes I was amazed just how many women were around and cycling is known as a male dominated sport. As a hobby, yes it's a sausage fest, but in terms of commercial pilots it's getting closer and closer to parity, from what I've seen. Way better than the tech industry or the oil industry, by a long shot!
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Oct 12, 2017 03:26
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Flocking, just flocking I tell you!
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Oct 12, 2017 03:38
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EvilJoven posted:Unfortunately bikes aren't that much behind horses planes and boats when it comes to being a huge money sink. Pshawww... You can spend endless money on gear and parts if you want but the actual necessary upkeep racing bikes need doesn't even hold a candle to that poo poo. I got a great new bike for about $1500 3 years ago and I spend about $150 a year maintaining it perfectly. Wrenching myself ofc. That's like one tank of marine fuel or a single horse psychotherapy session.
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Oct 12, 2017 03:42
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Ya I think I've just spent a stupid amount because I'm just starting to get in to the bike thing and I have 4 different bikes for different conditions, two of which were pretty spendy and the other two cheap but both needed quite a few parts to make not terrible.
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Oct 12, 2017 03:50
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Democracy is the system of government where the people are punished with the government they deserve. How this shithead got so far ahead of Chabot who, for his failings, has been a reasonably competent councillor, is completely beyond me. And of loving course he's favoured by everyone's favourite fuckfaces, Misters Kenney and Levant.
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Oct 12, 2017 03:53
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I mean, to think of a world where "this candidate is supported by Ezra loving Levant" is not an automatic dealkiller with an outright majority of the population. smdh
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PT6A posted:I mean, to think of a world where "this candidate is supported by Glenn loving Beck" is not an automatic dealkiller with an outright majority of the population. smdh Hmm interesting
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Not CanPol but relevant to old white men and politics: US Congress resident pharmacist let slip that he's filling prescriptions for Alzheimer's, among things. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/so-do-some-congress-members-have-alzheimers-pharmacist-lands-in-hot-seat/
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Oct 12, 2017 04:04
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When your country is run by 70 year olds it should surprise no one you are writing scripts for that poo poo
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loving lol we're living in idiocracy. I hate the people living in this loving city.
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Oct 12, 2017 06:05
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Falstaff posted:There's no scenario outside of the completely absurd where this turns out to be a boon for the weaker party. I mean... Donald Trump. All possible scenarios are completely absurd.
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https://twitter.com/RolfDinsdale/status/918464905447079936 (For context the schools replace the word chief with manager out of respect for indigenous people)
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bunnyofdoom posted:(For context the schools replace the word chief with manager out of respect for indigenous people) Next step, TDSB symbolically switches all web serving from apache to IIS in solidarity with #IdleNoMore.
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Oct 12, 2017 14:23
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Gotta get rid of all the TP in the bathrooms, too.
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Oct 12, 2017 14:44
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The Saskatchewan Party continues to unravel. This time, a government official has come forward alleging that he had been told to use his private email address when discussing sensitive information to foil FOI requests. Pretty bold undermining of democratic rights. This after Brad Wall has been criticized multiple times already for use of private servers. And he's still polling 40%. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/...opics-1.4348314
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Oct 12, 2017 14:55
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All latches will be removed from lunch room kitchen pots.
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Oct 12, 2017 14:59
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"hide and go seek" will now be called "look and find"
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Bombardier stock didn't even blip.quote:Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, told President Donald Trump on Wednesday he would block his country’s armed forces from buying Boeing aircraft if the US presses ahead with plans to slap import tariffs of 300 percent on Bombardier aeroplanes. quote:"We got a great price," Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC on Wednesday. He declined to disclose how much the airline paid.
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I wouldn’t bet on bombardier ikantski, stick to WEED.TO
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Speaking of rental housing in Toronto, here's an article about a Ryerson study on that very topic:Toronto Star posted:The Toronto area needs 8,000 new rental units a year — more than four times the number it built last year — to restore the region to a healthy vacancy rate. Four recommendations and everyone single one is to give developers more tax breaks and incentives.  At least I learned something new - why the gently caress are developers getting tax breaks on construction materials when they sell units? Sorry, that was a rhetorical question, we all know why.
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eXXon posted:Four recommendations and everyone single one is to give developers more tax breaks and incentives. We have an ideological commitment to market based solutions, it doesn't give us a lot of tools to work with. As long as condos are more profitable, or profitable more immediately than rental construction, the market is going to continue to favour condo development. Who knew?
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Yeah. Rental development in this country dwindled to nothing when the Federal Liberal government of the day ended some favourable tax incentives, but at the same time, condos were becoming more popular and they're inherently a more attractive product for developers. This is the most relevant section from the posted article: quote:The odds are stacked against rentals and those buildings were probably on the edge, he said. Developers are always going to build condos unless measures are made to make rental development more attractive. Alternatively the government could decide to resolve the issue by getting much more involved in rental development like Vienna is, where something like a third of the population of the city lives in residences owned by the city government.
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Femtosecond posted:Alternatively the government could decide to resolve the issue by getting much more involved in rental development like Vienna is, where something like a third of the population of the city lives in residences owned by the city government. Counterpoint: TCHC is the largest landlord in the country and they are an absolute goddamned trash fire. Not to say that it can't be done, but it sure as hell can't be done the way we're doing it. Over $1 billion in capital repairs backlog, with thousands of unit becoming literally unfit for habitation in the next few years. The city is on the hook for social housing and it is both perennially underfunded and grossly mismanaged.
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Risky Bisquick posted:I wouldn’t bet on bombardier ikantski, stick to WEED.TO Old news though, I need the industry that Libs are going to signal with next election.
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Measures don't have to mean more tax breaks, they can be disincentives for condo development, like saying not giving either of them a pointless tax break on construction materials. Or how about regulating condo fees better so that developers don't just advertise super cheep $100/month fees so their buddies can buy up units to resell at a profit within a year, when fees inevitably double or triple? Or I suppose sometimes they don't and the capital fund remains eternally underfunded until the building crumbles.infernal machines posted:Counterpoint: TCHC is the largest landlord in the country and they are an absolute goddamned trash fire. Not to say that it can't be done, but it sure as hell can't be done the way we're doing it. Ha ha, speaking of which: quote:Peter Milczyn, a former Toronto councillor who was appointed Ontario housing minister on Monday, pulled no punches in his assessment of the lousy state of repair of Toronto Community Housing Corp. (TCHC). Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Oct 12, 2017 |
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eXXon posted:Measures don't have to mean more tax breaks, they can be disincentives for condo development, like saying not giving either of them a pointless tax break on construction materials. Or how about regulating condo fees better so that developers don't just advertise super cheep $100/month fees so their buddies can buy up units to resell at a profit within a year, when fees inevitably double or triple? Or I suppose sometimes they don't and the capital fund remains eternally underfunded until the building crumbles. Because those would be needless regulations stifling development, duh. Government intervention in the market is only acceptable in the form of incentives for business.
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So, college teachers are on strike in Ontario now.
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I wonder how long before a Conservative candidate runs on the platform of completely busting public unions.
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bunnyofdoom posted:So, college teachers are on strike in Ontario now. But midterms! And grad! ITS SO INCONVENIENT
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DariusLikewise posted:I wonder how long before a Conservative candidate runs on the platform of completely busting public unions. Negative several years? Depending on how you define "completely"
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PT6A posted:Negative several years? Depending on how you define "completely" Like elimination, not just giving unions a hard time, but like actually eliminating them.
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It's not a vote winner, so probably decades or never. If you're the most extreme option on one side of the political spectrum every move you make towards that extreme is just going to bleed votes away.
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