I don’t know much about the US system, and I would chose the Canadian system any time, but ours sucks too, in a different way. Sure, if you break a leg or have cancer, you will be helped first and should not end up with crippling bills. However, I hope you don’t have a mental issue because seeing someone will take multiple months, if not years. I hope you don’t need glasses. Or a dentist.

I’m in Quebec and I don’t even know about the other provinces, but I have no family doctor since the pandemic. The previous one retired. At one point I was prescribed Concerta, after finally seeing neuropsychologists, but when my doctor retired, I wasn’t able to get a new doctor for a follow-up or renewal, so I just stopped. I still have no doctor since the pandemic. The system is so run down that we have to fight for appointments at the walk in clinics. You call at the clinic at 8 AM when they open but they’re already full for the day. In fact, they’re full at 00:01 AM. When I need to see a doctor, I have to call 811 and get a rendezvous at the walk in clinic.

I understand that it could be much worse, and I appreciate what we have, but it’s also very difficult to praise in any possible way.

Especially when I’m on a bicycle.

Like, they pass me dangerously then they get stopped at the next traffic light and I end up by their window anyway, looking at them with disappointment. Bravo, champ.

In French, il has always looked a bit weird when typed at the beginning of a sentence.

Il y a un I suivi d’un l.

Just click/tap the link to go directly on imgur. It’s imgur that blocks hotlinking and forbids other sites to display its images. They want people to go on their website, watch ads, stay captive.

Imgur is a terrible place to host images if they’re not intended to be viewed on imgur.

It’s always the cyclist’s fault.

You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault

After having my bike stolen while locked on the side of a Walmart, I am more protective of the new one. I’m a bit more aware of where I lock it, but I also bought a decent U-lock instead of just a cable.

But I also stopped using my own bike if it isn’t an absolute necessity. Sometimes I need the bike for the panniers or the trailer, so I take a risk. But if possible, I’ll use a bike sharing system when I go to some sketchy places.

I even got a bike stolen in the garage of my apartment complex, so now it lives with me, in my studio.

No I just live without a car and make it a point to cycle everywhere I go, and I’m pointing out what I find unrelatable about micromobility in a place about this.

Unfortunately that person seems to live in a region where cycling is reserved for specific places, and moving a bike around town is done with a giant pickup truck.

It’s a fun experiment but its not like this is useful for anything.

I like Seth’s videos but I absolutely cannot relate, as he brings his bikes to the trails using a giant pickup truck. I pull my bike trailer with a kayak through my city’s bike lanes, and I’m glad I don’t need another vehicle to carry them both from one place to another.

And this is only about the price of the vehicle. I don’t know the numbers but most Québécois I know also oppose electric cars and prefer to buy gas powered cars in case “one day they make a lifetime trip around the province and don’t want to deal with criss de batteries”.

So they continue paying and paying and paying for gas, that has to be imported because it’s not energy that the province produces.

My father is a nationalist, always repeating we should buy local, but he has no problem buying gas that comes from imported oil, that keeps getting more expensive.

Twenty years ago I was working as a cashier in gas stations and people were complaining about the rising cost of gas. It had just passed the $1 CAD/l “psychological bar”. And yet most people continued to pay while bitching and saying they were robbed.

They have no choice anyway. It’s not like they are gonna walk, cycle, use public transit, or demand any of this gets better.

Unfortunately, car culture is very much ingrained in most societies. It will be a long time before people realise they are being used by the oil and car industries. When it comes to cars, most people are like “TAKE MY MONEY!” while whining that they’re too expensive, but they can afford one, because status! They’re not poor people riding a bike. Look at their car!

That definition made me think of samaras floating in the wind.

Trump’s fat ass didn’t do anything to Venezuela. Soldiers followed his orders. Nothing would have happened if not for the goons doing all the illegal work for him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof

English is not my native language. I’m glad I learned it, because I just have an interest in linguistics and it’s very close to my native language, but I can clearly see how “imperialistic” this is, how my parents and friends struggle with that language, and how there could be something much easier, that would allow them to experience cultural exchanges without having to learn the “dominant” language.

Mi lernis Esperanton pli ol 20 jaroj. Ĝin estus mirinda, sed malĝoja, mi malrememoras multa, kay uzas Anglo kaj Germano pli.

As a Canadian, I have never seen a bag of milk “sealed” with a rubber band. Plus, standard bags are way bigger than these. Those bags are not Canadian.

En tant que Canadien, je n’ai jamais vu de sacs de lait “scellés” avec des élastiques. De plus, les sacs réguliers sont beaucoup plus grand que ceux-ci. Ces sacs ne sont pas Canadiens.

Ahem. Konformists.

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Ugh. That reminds me of the Microsoft admin fanboys where I worked, dissing Linux because its all command lines, while saying that MS inventing PowerShell was a stroke of genius making their lives easier.

Don’t forget to add some claims about weapons of mass destruction to help the case.

Seeing a metalhead in the snow reminds me of this gem: The Mighty Gates Of The Couloir Bonaventure

It can’t hurt to know this but to me PS is not intuitive, looks like SomeLongString-ActingLikeA-Command, and I avoid it as much as using Windows in the first place, unless absolutely necessary.

For a moment I thought that ‘commandName -’ was some PowerShell stuff.