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Source: from Tom Gauld on Twitter

I know it's more complicated than that but this post gives me this kind of vibes. The soldiers invading on the other side are being told the same thing and are willing to kill others for the same reasons. How noble their sacrifice is! All soldiers! Thanks for fighting amongst yourselves and doing little bits of "collateral damage" in order to save your country from the barbarians.

If the US ever invades my country and I somehow need to kill Americans, I won't be a fucking hero, I'll be a murderer, just like them. It's nothing to be praised. Even if I just help others "defending" my country using my tech skills, it'll still be helping to murder others. I really really can't understand doing that willingly. If you have to, yes. But those doing this willingly are also those willing to invade other countries and take the lives of others based on what they see on their side. Again, nothing to be praised.

And Brightwell still uses a car from time to time. One reason he lives in LA is access to the mountains that border parts of the city. But when he wants to hit the trail, he goes with a friend who drives.

I unfortunately have other reasons to use a car from time to time but honestly I usually hate it because it perpetuates car dependency and reminds me of what could be, or what was.

I still need to have my parents drive me to their place from the bus terminal, but 25 years ago there were buses and trains going to their town. Now cars are the only option. I hate it because I know a car was not needed before, and now it is.

It makes me sad.

Another example, I went to St-Martin in the Carribean and was miserable for the whole trip because this little island was choked with traffic and I still needed to use taxis to go anywhere. It reminded me of Not Just Bikes's video on this very subject in the Bahamas.

In contrast, I went to Guadeloupe and there were buses from the airport to most parts of the island. I never needed a car. It was much more sensible to me and I know where to return for a carless vacation.

In fact, that's why I moved to Montreal, because I didn't want a car. I love the region and I'm also glad that there's a network of bike paths and possible transit to some national parks nearby.

For example, from Montreal you can bike or take a commuter train to St-Jerome and from there cycle a "road trip" to Mont-Tremblant National Park, using mainly a disused railway/rail trail (le P'tit Train du Nord) for the vast majority of the itinerary. It's 100 km if you take the train.

Other parks accessible by a combo of train and/or bike are Oka with its nice beach, and Voyageur on the border with Ontario.

Then there are also two other parks accessible by dedicated bike trails, the Yamaska park, 90 km away, and a bit further Orford, which is about 130 km away.

There are also a few buses going to national parks in winter. There should also be buses to national parks in summer because not everyone wants to cycle 200 km to and fro, but it's another discussion.

I still use cars but as I said, I really don't like it and usually think that no alternative is a policy/infrastructure failure from that place.

Don't worry I'm sure there will be consequences for rich people breaking the law.

If there is anything that life showed me at a young age, during gym classes, it's that sports people and competitive people will not stop for compassion or ethics.

They can come from the most democratic country, but those athletes will have trained all their life for this moment, and they would still go even if the Olympics were held in a North Korean torture camp.

Again, they trained all their life for this, so what's a few human rights violations, or even a little bit of blatant corruption, if you can say you won the Olympics?

Except for the emotional support vehicle.

Someone else like Canada.

I'm really bad at cooking but apparently I learned my lesson on this one, and measure the quantity I'm used to.

I use Eternity. AFAIK it doesn't have ads and it's pretty much what I'm looking for. I tried others but they had ads and I couldn't tolerate that.

It's so disappointing when you live in a region that has had multiple providers with even some that are offering decent services and competition to the monopolies, only to be bought by the monopolies a few years later.

For a while, I lived in a rural region in Quebec with a "big" town of 5000 people surrounded by small villages. Because the big telcos were considering the villages too small and were always late to offer any service in the region, multiple small providers (and even a cooperative) started offering phone (and later internet) service in their own village. So around 2010, when FTTH was not even offered in big cities, the small municipality of Béthanie, with 300 people and no village, had FTTH from its local cooperative.

Unfortunately, from the 4 local ISPs I knew growing up there, they have all been bought by Bell, except the cooperative. And villages that had plans to get FTTH now get nothing because they're not important enough anymore.

My parents still live on a rural road in that region and surprise, the monopolies are not offering broadband, but the local cooperative is offering them FTTH. It's always been a bit surreal that my parents living in the middle of nowhere have FTTH before me in Montreal. The power of cooperatives!

Arguably he made Tesla's autopilot shittier by removing LIDAR because it was too expensive.

DB doesn't hold a candle to VIA Rail. Germans and Europeans in general like to mock DB, and with reason, but as a Canadian, I'm still so very jealous of DB.

Due to [these] restrictions, 80 per cent of trips suffered delays of more than 10 to 15 minutes in February between Quebec City and Windsor, where the majority of Via trains operate. In January, 67 per cent of trains were late on the same corridor. Delays have been even greater between Quebec City and Ottawa this year, affecting 94 per cent of trains last month and 86 per cent in January.