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  • The cost of living polycrisis is estimated to be 45-70% caused by oil energy prices; yet very few provinces, and certainly not the feds, will do anything about oil dependency.

    I'm all for extracting oil, since we're still a resource economy, but don't get high on your own supply!

  • Somewhere shy of a hundred back in the 00's when I was an electrician apprentice. Part of the reason I didn't stay in the trades was all the bullshit I saw. My boss was always on code and he always kept us on code, but that wasn't the case for all the other trades running around.

    I personally never saw a FOB worker cutting code, but that's probably because the inspector was racist as fuck who would double check out work and hand wave all the white guys.

    I fell into the FOB category at the time, but marginaply. I'm an immigrant flavour that's considered white now.

  • Each refugee can keep 1 home for every 3 homes they build. Obviously one human isn't building 3 homes, but if a squad of 50 refugees build 150 homes, they keep 50 and sell 50. This includes turning single family homes into plexes.

    Im conflicted on multi-use buiness sapce. Either homes can be replaced with businesses at a ratio set by each city, but probably somewhere in the 1/5 to 1/10 range; or business are excluded from the sell 2/3rds rule (aka you could build a 4 plex with 3 homes and one business, than keep one home and one business, selling 2 homes)

    Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

  • Two men stand in a pool of gasoline. One man has 20 matches one has 5.

    The man with five matches gives up his matches under the promise that the man with 20 matches won't hit him. A couple other men with matches at the edge of the pool of gasoline promise to uphold this agreement.

    20 years later the man with 20 matches takes the man who now has no matches' arm. All the signatories let it slide because the man with 20 matches had a decent claim to the elbow. 10 years after that, the man with 20 matches tries to take the entirety of the man with no matches; the men with matches on the edge of the pool are afraid to do anything less matches get thrown back at them.

  • I was far from the only person winter cycling in Yellowknife, nor Ottawa, nor Montréal, and now, nor Kingston (though I had a -25° cut off this winter due to bringing my toddler around; I chose the temperature because that’s when kids stop having reccess outside).

    One of Canada's biggest cyclist YouTubers is from Calgary. Montréal has a ton of people winter cycling (and a low barrier to entry now that bixis are available in the winter). Edmonton has cyclist coffee hour year round on the bike paths. Winnipeg has a big winter cycling community as well (that's second hand though, ive never been there). It's been to long for my to speak intelligibly on how Ottawa winter cycling is going.

    Maybe it's my bias as an immigrant to Canada, but the number of people that think being outside in the winter is somehow impossible is mind blowing. I was fed that this country was founded on rugged individuals who brave the elements to eke out a living. This makes Canadians hardy, kind, and enduring. Instead I look at Xth generations and many have fallen into a contemptuous malaise where winter is somehow something to be endured, rather than embraced and enjoyed.

    If you think that being outside is impossible, that's fine. I don't know you, your history, or your limitations. But if you're interested in reconsidering your preconception, I'd recommend the book Frostbike by Tom Babin. Children play outside until at least -25° across the country, and colder the further north you go; the rest of us can too.

  • I take my kid to daycare every day on my ebike. It's only 5km one way, but I used to do 14km pedal power when I lived in Montréal.

    I don't do it to be a smug prick, I do it because it's faster than driving.

    Frankly, the infrastructure choices in my city (Kingston) make driving on average slower than 30kph. If bicycles weren't also stuck in traffic lights (same thing that slows all the cars) cycling would be faster than driving is now, and driving would be faster than it is now. Basically our problem is traffic lights.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    Nouveau_Burnswick @lemmy.world

    Call for help - Ontarians

    Ontarians, I need your help.

    This week I was pulled over by the police for having a kid's seat on my e-bike. I was informed this is illegal in Ontario as Sec. 38 of the HTA doesn't allow anyone under the age of 16 to be on a power-assisted or motor assisted bicycle.

    In 2021 the Moving Ontarians More Safely Act came out that separated power-assisted bicycles (like e-bikes) from motor assisted bicycles (like dirt bikes). This will finally allow child seats on e-bikes.

    Please call your MPP to get this bill that passed and assented 3 years ago into law.

    Details on the wording of the current and assented laws:

    currently the Highway Traffic Act, section 38, states : "No person who is the owner or is in possession or control of a motor assisted bicycle or power-assisted bicycle shall permit a person who is under the age of 16 years to ride on, drive or operate the motor assisted bicycle or power-assisted bicycle on a highwau"

    the Moving Ontarians More Safely Act, 2021, S.O. 2021, C. 26

    Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Substitute teachers also get the short end

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    The student has becalm the maester.

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    art enthusiast

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    These aren't the droids you're looking for

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    Why can't we be friends?

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    Nouveau_Burnswick @lemmy.world

    why are you so obsessed with me?

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    The Star Wars Trek, or the Star Trek Wars?

    Edit: please excuse the typo. I probably shouldn't use Sunforged as an editor.

    Bonus gif!

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    Hanger leads to the dark side

    Template and the Reverse template for use.

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    Testing the rules

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    I don't even know how Lemmy works

    The drama is related to a Science Fiction community mod and and admin. I don't know enough to write on it, so check there.

    Edit: MFW I just wanted to make a meme but dragged all the drama here

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    No house Skywalker?

    Transcription:

    [Visibly upset woman] : I bet he's thinking about other women.

    [Man deep in thought] : We continue to see that force sensitivity passes generationally, but no one has bred for it.

    The Jedi deny sex to their order and recruit through child abduction.

    The Sith are obsessed with extending life and cloning, despite family legacies being perfectly viable methods to consolidate power.

    Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
    Nouveau_Burnswick @lemmy.world

    Has Sabine ever made something better?

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    Only the Sith deal in absolutes

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    General on the move

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    Did the Empire silence Sunforged?

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    My last Wednesday rhyme, submitted just in time.

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    The rule of two started with a Sith from the mines; but when push comes to shove

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    The older I get, the more I agrees

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    Nouveau_Burnswick @lemmy.world

    Good luck admins!