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@Yuuki commenting on what?

Maybe get your international online shopping for the upcoming holiday season done sooner rather than later?..

Houthi rebels have used a drone attack against Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq oil processing plant, causing massive fires

@TrentHawkins ah yes. Another totally sane thing that happens under a totally sane leadership.

Aukland man hires professional clown for redundancy meeting

Follow up to the Scherer public transit tax credit cbc.ca/news/politics/…

The tldr is essentially the program got shut down because it wasn't actually good. So it's just another case of the PC party just dangling taxes since that's all their base cafes about.

> But independent experts who examined the effects of the credit's previous iteration say it ultimately did little to boost transit ridership and proved an unsuccessful measure to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

@Ash That's what the liberals decided to invest the money into instead

Public transit generally sucks wherever you are

Like, if you're in a major city like New York or London or Montreal or Quebec, it's adequate for the most part, because public transit is a good alternative to the car for most nearby travel, but if you live in a rural town like lac-saguay or Sherburne or Saint Marcel or Felmersham, you pretty much need a car because public transit is expensive to fund at such levels

@Ash I just picked places at random assuming none of us would live there and that they're far enough away from other towns and cities that a bus every half hour that goes to all nearby locations would be too expensive

@Ash Yeah, as I said. If you live in a city, you can mostly rely on public transit because you have a lot of it, but if you live in a rural area, either buses are driving at a loss most of the time because barely anyone is taking the bus from north humperdink to south humperdink at 2 PM

@Ash You need to do more than that though. You also need to ensure that there are good connections between major points, so you don't end up with a situation that I often end up with where my train arrives at the station 3 minutes after the most appropriate bus for me passes through

like, having enough transit methods is part of it, but you also need to make sure that everything hooks into everything else properly, because only a minority of people are likely to be able to take a single vehicle

@Ash Yeah. I guess part of the problem in Belgium is that here, trains are a national responsibility for a national company, but buses and subways are a regional responsibility for a different company, and because it's 2 companies it's harder to make transfers work

Because both of them occasionally change their schedules

@Ash oh, sorry, should have clarified: some of the places I mentioned were in the UK: London and Felmersham. Didn't mean the Canada London

Yeah, I think there was this joke that Canada is the only place where you can drive from london to berlin to dublin to Paris in a really fast time

@Ash ever been to New England? :P

So many places are named after English ones

@Stormblessed I mean, it's not called New France (that's Louisiana)

Like when I went to Vermont, maybe a little more than 3/4 of the places had original names

I feel like this stuff about “Trump won’t leave office if he loses” is overblown

@Wipqozn Ahhh there is is, lol

According to a genius man named Tucker Carlson, Bolton is drum roll a...left-winger?

The Pentagon is the world’s biggest consumer of fossil fuels

I regret to inform you that whoever writes the NY Times Opinion tweets is at it again

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Also fun a sitting SCOTUS Justice did the thing he said he didn't do at a separate dorm party so cool, cool