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apatheticman posted:https://twitter.com/elisevonscheel/status/1506665023132815366 That's $2m out of their war chest and almost guaranteed Kenney gets dropped.
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Mar 23, 2022 17:23
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apatheticman posted:https://twitter.com/elisevonscheel/status/1506665023132815366 This is the part where we throw back our heads and laugh!
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Mar 23, 2022 19:17
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Powershift posted:That's $2m out of their war chest and almost guaranteed Kenney gets dropped. Why would they refund the tickets?
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Mar 23, 2022 19:19
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pokeyman posted:Why would they refund the tickets? What happens to the receiving party if you do a charge back on your credit card? Are they just out the money you initially paid them, or do the credit card companies also hit you with extra fees on top of that?
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Mar 23, 2022 19:36
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pokeyman posted:Why would they refund the tickets? Because they were purchased in bulk by major donors on other people's behalf, and they would be over the donation limits if they didn't their statement says they'll provide how to get a refund or tax receipt so they're obviously hoping people will just donate the $100 anyways, but most of the people who would are likely already at the personal donation limit. We'll clearly see if there's an outlier in next quarter reporting. the NDP has been consistently out-fundraising the UCP almost 2:1 Powershift fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Mar 23, 2022 20:03
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Oxyclean posted:you know what would also save businesses? dense mixed usage zoning. I do feel bad for small business owners who've had their customer base kind of ripped away from the because of the pandemic but it's been two years. You look at what a lot of downtown people are saying these businesses could be open later in the evenings or pivot toward catering to people who actually live downtown. Offer them something they can use and actually access outside of office business hours. It's such a shame, imo, that we had this opportunity to really reimagine a better society but the pull to "go back to normal" was always so strong.
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Mar 23, 2022 21:15
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HackensackBackpack posted:I do feel bad for small business owners who've had their customer base kind of ripped away from the because of the pandemic but it's been two years. You look at what a lot of downtown people are saying these businesses could be open later in the evenings or pivot toward catering to people who actually live downtown. Offer them something they can use and actually access outside of office business hours.
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Mar 23, 2022 21:30
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HackensackBackpack posted:I do feel bad for small business owners who've had their customer base kind of ripped away from the because of the pandemic but it's been two years. You look at what a lot of downtown people are saying these businesses could be open later in the evenings or pivot toward catering to people who actually live downtown. Offer them something they can use and actually access outside of office business hours. Ottawa is particularly egregious in this regard. Businesses north of Laurier basically all shut down after 5pm. It becomes a total ghost town. And even elsewhere in Centretown it’s hard to just find a tea or a snack after like 8pm.
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Mar 23, 2022 21:38
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Sashimi posted:When I lived in small cities in Japan I absolutely loved having everything I could possibly need within walking or cycling distance from my apartment. My workplaces, groceries, transit, bars and restaurants, banks, clinics, pharmacies, all at worst a 15 minute bike ride from my place. Most things were more like a 5-10 minute walk. I saw a great video about zoning in Japan recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfm2xCKOCNk ... and one a while ago about cycling in Oulu, Finland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU ... which serve to demonstrate that better things planning/urban design is possible and the 'but winter!' excuse is exactly that. Having said that, I mentioned a while ago that Toronto is planning a full redesign of Sheppard Ave (a mostly-suburban 4-6 lane road that has been slowly getting denser but still sucks poo poo for anyone but drivers). They also released a new report on cycling infrastructure with more promising initiatives. Meanwhile, the Toronto Sun is reporting about whiny concern trolls who want the Yonge St bike lanes removed because of poo poo like: "The schools in the area – more than 6 in the land-locked area- were not consulted prior to the installation. Parents are scared." See a bunch of images of gridlock with land boat SUVs and expensive sports cars that obviously would be solved if they just widened the street (and fit in street parking somehow because that's what a lot of it was before). Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Mar 24, 2022 01:57
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eXXon posted:The schools in the area – more than 6 in the land-locked area- Yeah, it's a real pity they don't have access to the lake
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Mar 24, 2022 06:30
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eXXon posted:I saw a great video about zoning in Japan recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfm2xCKOCNk I just want to make sure I’ve understood you correctly: parents of these schools are upset there’s… not enough cars near where their children go to school? And angry about infrastructure that would let their children bike to school safely? Am I having a stroke?
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Mar 24, 2022 13:47
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PT6A posted:I just want to make sure I’ve understood you correctly: parents of these schools are upset there’s… not enough cars near where their children go to school? And angry about infrastructure that would let their children bike to school safely? People who read the Sun are irredeemable. For some reason this seems to be true for all papers called the Sun, across a variety of countries.
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Mar 24, 2022 13:56
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PT6A posted:I just want to make sure I’ve understood you correctly: parents of these schools are upset there’s… not enough cars near where their children go to school? And angry about infrastructure that would let their children bike to school safely? Car culture is a sickness. Also, this is Toronto, you can find a group of people that would protest a puppy rescue. Generally speaking the only reason anything gets built around here is because the city ignores "concerned residents".
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Mar 24, 2022 14:11
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Randalor posted:What happens to the receiving party if you do a charge back on your credit card? Are they just out the money you initially paid them, or do the credit card companies also hit you with extra fees on top of that? You're out the money and the credit card company will hit you with a fee up to $100-ish. If you get enough chargebacks they'll just completely drop you as a merchant. Event tickets are interesting because they're most often done through a third party like EventBrite etc. So technically the chargeback would be hitting that company and not whoever's running the event directly. I assume they would pass the costs on and do the same thing as banning an account if it gets too many.
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Mar 24, 2022 14:18
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PT6A posted:I just want to make sure I’ve understood you correctly: parents of these schools are upset there’s… not enough cars near where their children go to school? And angry about infrastructure that would let their children bike to school safely? There's a hyper-specidic complaint about 'land-locked" streets, which I think is about how it's now either harder to turn onto Yonge St from these smaller east-west side streets because of the need to look out for pedestrians at the crosswalk, cyclists in the bike lanes and often incessant oncoming car traffic, or because the city just banned turning left from them altogether (I haven't been there in a while to see). Old people are especially mad that they can't safely navigate their 1990 Cadillacs to church on Sunday without driving a bit further to a different intersection first, which is impossible for reasons What parents are scared of exactly, I don't know. Inattentive drivers flattening their children while trying to turn? Spandex-clad cyclists doing... something? I think those schools are mostly east of Yonge and so the cyclists would be going uphill on the right side of the street; it would take serious leg strength to push past the speed limit and even in the other direction there are too many intersections to pick up dangerous speeds easily. Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Mar 24, 2022 14:35
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I think there’s some cases where right of way isn’t clear in practice with poorly designed cycle infrastructure and that’s a valid complaint. For example, on our good bike lanes in Calgary, there are separate bike signals and/or signs indicating that cars must give way to cyclists when turning. On our poorly-designed bike lanes, without separation, you can have a situation where a cyclist is on a non-separated bike lane to your right. If you’re ahead, at a four-way stop, can you safely turn right without giving way? Well, legally, I’d argue you can because the cyclist is obligated to stop at the 4-way stop just as you are, and if you get there first, then you have right of way to proceed first. In practice… can you safely assume this will happen? I would say that you can’t. It’s stupid to have 4 way stops along a bike route because four way stops are awful for bikes. On the other hand, if you assume the cyclist is going to glide through, and they don’t, you’re loving everything up for the intersection. It’s a situation where there are no consistently safe, legal options for either a driver or a cyclist… and that comes down to poorly-designed infrastructure, not the existence of the infrastructure in the first place.
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Mar 24, 2022 15:12
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Mixed-use high density zoning makes cities more money too, you'd think they'd be on board for the soulless capitalist financial aspect if nothing else. I've always disliked suburbs but that Not Bikes dude really opened my third eye to just how much I hate modern North American cities. Even if I can find a decent place in downtown Halifax (which to be fair is like three streets and some old Victorian suburbs) there's almost no grocery stores etc. around. Never mind that my choices are either overpriced, rapidly gentrifying neighbourhoods (which feels gross to take advantage of and are still full of cars anyway) or Victorian apartments where it's like a 80-20 chance on whether they've been well maintained or not. The city narrowed Spring Garden Road over the last year which rules but it's all fashion and restaurants surrounded by condos. Whoopdeedoo. Maybe the Cogswell Interchange redevelopment will help but from what I saw in city plans it's mostly office towers and a bus terminal.
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Mar 24, 2022 16:59
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DaysBefore posted:Mixed-use high density zoning makes cities more money too, you'd think they'd be on board for the soulless capitalist financial aspect if nothing else. I've always disliked suburbs but that Not Bikes dude really opened my third eye to just how much I hate modern North American cities. But it's really hard to reconcile the problems of sprawl creates. Like, people love to complain about their taxes being spent on things they don't use - but the irony of suburbanites complaining about stuff like tax money spent on bus service is the fact that suburbs end up being so much less tax efficient then anything denser. But I have to assume it's a problem of short term thinking: There's more short term money in these big firms building new suburban developments then there is in density providing more efficiency in tax revenue per land/services. I'm fairly happy with the part of the city I'm in, there's a decent amount of stuff in walking distance, but it definitely is not dense by any reasonable metric, and god is there just so much space wasted on parking, and it's not terribly pleasant to walk places with how big and busy roads are.
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Mar 24, 2022 17:24
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Single family housing zones are massive net drains on city finances, most cities are entirely funded through their profitable downtown properties. That crappy block of run down old turn of the century shops with a few apartments on top are paying for the 5 blocks of big-box stores around them.
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Mar 24, 2022 17:35
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Do not attempt to make sense of the driving complaints of Torontonians. Plus it's not like we follow traffic laws anyways.
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Mar 24, 2022 17:39
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Which is fine, because nobody enforces traffic laws anyways
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Mar 24, 2022 18:05
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Man joins freedom convoy, donates life savings to truckers, now lives out of his SUV, has a few regrets, including realizing he doesn't really have a stance on vaccination mandates: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-convoy-protest-regrets-1.6394502 'I regret going': Protester says he spent life savings to support Freedom Convoy
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Mar 24, 2022 19:18
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PT6A posted:I think there’s some cases where right of way isn’t clear in practice with poorly designed cycle infrastructure and that’s a valid complaint. For example, on our good bike lanes in Calgary, there are separate bike signals and/or signs indicating that cars must give way to cyclists when turning. On our poorly-designed bike lanes, without separation, you can have a situation where a cyclist is on a non-separated bike lane to your right. If you’re ahead, at a four-way stop, can you safely turn right without giving way? Well, legally, I’d argue you can because the cyclist is obligated to stop at the 4-way stop just as you are, and if you get there first, then you have right of way to proceed first. In practice… can you safely assume this will happen? I would say that you can’t. It’s stupid to have 4 way stops along a bike route because four way stops are awful for bikes. As a primary cyclist who has been on the roads (and side of highways) for 25 years I've found that if a vehicle is signalling they are turning right and are in front of me as I get to the intersection then I'll stop a little behind the car but make sure I can see them in their side mirror (so they can see me). Even if they dont have signals on, before I will start moving forward I always verify that the vehicle next to me is ACTUALLY going straight because I dont trust that they didnt forget to put on blinkers. If there is any uncertainty when navigating the roads, no matter whether I'm on bike, foot, or whatever, I try to make eye contact and communicate using my arms/hands/head position so it's understood who is going and who is waiting. I wave others through all the time to ensure they know that I am not planning on moving and it's safe for them (and me) for them to proceed.
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Mar 24, 2022 19:21
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I have definitely hosed that up a few times, both as the cyclist and the driver. It's particularly dangerous when cyclists are moving faster than traffic, because no one is really expecting you. If traffic's moving faster, then they've (hopefully) seen you when they passed you, and are cognizant that there's a cyclist nearby.
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Mar 24, 2022 19:37
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InfiniteZero posted:Man joins freedom convoy, donates life savings to truckers, now lives out of his SUV, has a few regrets, including realizing he doesn't really have a stance on vaccination mandates: ”Anglehart is currently living out of his SUV, as he said his landlord kicked him out over his "point of view" concerning the protest. His “point of view” that he should give his rent money to the konvoy, right? How unfair.
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Mar 24, 2022 20:10
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I too have learned to frame all disputes as discrimination against my "unique views".
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Mar 24, 2022 20:29
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Glimpse posted:”Anglehart is currently living out of his SUV, as he said his landlord kicked him out over his "point of view" concerning the protest. I'm going to try and tell the bank that in my point of view I should spend all my money on modular synthesizers instead of paying the mortgage and if that doesn't work out for me I'll be calling the CBC.
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Mar 24, 2022 20:49
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InfiniteZero posted:I'm going to try and tell the bank that in my point of view I should spend all my money on modular synthesizers instead of paying the mortgage and if that doesn't work out for me I'll be calling the CBC. "I'm being cancelled by Big Mortgage!"
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Mar 24, 2022 22:17
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Looks like it's over, they're throwing Kenney under the bus. Twitter rumours that charges are coming against Kenney and Callaway https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/jason-kenney-kamikaze-campaign-investigations-1.6385745 quote:On a summer night in 2017, a wide-ranging cast of Alberta political operatives was sitting around Jeff Callaway's dining room table in northwest Calgary, eating Indian food, while the booze poured freely. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/jean-accuses-kenney-camp-of-cheating-breaking-the-law-in-leadership-vote-1.5831187 quote:Jean then said third-party money was being used to buy memberships for pro-Kenney voters and he called for an investigation by Elections Alberta. The budget vote is a confidence vote but i doubt UCP MLAs have the balls to bring down the clown.
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Mar 24, 2022 22:28
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On the plus side, if our lovely defense spending causes us to get nuked to oblivion, we could probably implement some real mixed use civic planning. Also, I think everyone underestimates the power of NIMBYism that is so embedded in our country as a deterrent for warmongers looking to overtake our sovereignty. Those folks would be first in line at the new governance office to ensure literally nothing changes.
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Mar 24, 2022 22:56
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Xaranthius posted:As a primary cyclist who has been on the roads (and side of highways) for 25 years I've found that if a vehicle is signalling they are turning right and are in front of me as I get to the intersection then I'll stop a little behind the car but make sure I can see them in their side mirror (so they can see me). Even if they dont have signals on, before I will start moving forward I always verify that the vehicle next to me is ACTUALLY going straight because I dont trust that they didnt forget to put on blinkers. Yeah, exactly, I’d rather play it safe even if it takes an extra few seconds. My time is just not that valuable, I can take time for safety. What I did in this case was signal and basically change lanes (with more than adequate space for the cyclist behind me) into the painted bike lane to turn right. Even if that’s not the right way to do it in Alberta, it had the least chance of anything bad or unexpected happening.
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Mar 24, 2022 23:16
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Powershift posted:Looks like it's over, they're throwing Kenney under the bus. Twitter rumours that charges are coming against Kenney and Callaway Like barely anyone showed to the vote. So loving stupid.
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Mar 25, 2022 02:25
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We got to be careful. While I'm about 80% sure that Kenny's Kamikaze rise to power is real, we still don't have a smoking gun for his leadership review fraud. Until that happens, this sounds a lot like what Trump was doing that caused Jan 6th.
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Mar 25, 2022 03:02
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shades of eternity posted:We got to be careful. Except the you see pee party being eaten by nonsense is actually cool and good, because they're all miserable bastards who deserve any shred of misery that visits them. It's less like Jan. 6 and more like, well, a good thing.
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Mar 25, 2022 03:32
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InfiniteZero posted:Man joins freedom convoy, donates life savings to truckers, now lives out of his SUV, has a few regrets, including realizing he doesn't really have a stance on vaccination mandates: The kicker: quote:When hearing Anglehart's story, University of Ottawa law professor Joao Velloso said he was not surprised. 
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Mar 25, 2022 05:57
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PT6A posted:Yeah, exactly, I’d rather play it safe even if it takes an extra few seconds. My time is just not that valuable, I can take time for safety. Yeah unfortunate that that's not what you're intended to do apparently? Any street with a bike lane that also has right turns should have the bike lane become a shared bike lane/right turn lane when it gets to within x meters of an intersection. If there's enough space the bike lane can even transition to the left of the right turn lane. https://nacto.org/publication/urban-bikeway-design-guide/intersection-treatments/combined-bike-laneturn-lane/ I'm not going to blame this on Alberta because the majority of cities everywhere in NA are extremely slow in adopting well-researched designs for mixed spaces like this. I can only assume it's because people riding bikes are evil socialists. Let's not forget that one Washington state politician that said riding a bike is not zero-carbon because it makes you breathe really hard which is polluting.
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Mar 25, 2022 13:47
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Oxyclean posted:But I have to assume it's a problem of short term thinking: There's more short term money in these big firms building new suburban developments then there is in density providing more efficiency in tax revenue per land/services. I mean here in Calgary it's literally corruption (though we don't call it that because we live in Western Civilization); the city historically didn't charge developers the cost of putting in infrastructure like roads and sewers and such, which meant that low density detached buildings were by far the most profitable thing to build. You could charge a lot for them since the culture says suburban homes are good, but all the buildings are dirt cheap to build, requiring none of the specialized labour and project coordination costs inherent in building denser housing. Sure the city administration calls foul and recommends not building more suburbs, or at least increasing development fees to match what it costs to put in and maintain the infrastructure, but the developers
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Mar 25, 2022 20:21
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Here we play the world’s smallest violin for Jason Kenney, a good lad who means well and finds himself, through no fault of his own, surrounded by lunatics. Ah, such pity in my heart. How could such a thing have happened? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/kenney-recording-ucp-alberta-leadership-review-staff-1.6396647
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Mar 25, 2022 22:41
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Fidelitious posted:Yeah unfortunate that that's not what you're intended to do apparently? This is what Nacto tells you to do but it is in fact a terrible lifehack to avoid putting into proper separate signaling for your bike lanes.
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