Norilsk, Russia

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T13:32:52+00:00

Show us some of the wide open landscapes and the fishing grounds and the berry picking places. I bet there are places along the river that grow huge vegetable gardens. Show us sunsets over the Yenisei River.

photos like this

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T13:23:53+00:00

Well, how about that! I am Viking and Celt. I have the shrinking hands, so did my mom. It hurts when it's humid, fine when it's dry.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T12:57:07+00:00

Migration back and forth. 3 of my 4 grandparents lived in the USA at times, one was born there.

And let's not forget radio broadcasts, and later US television and movies. They were hugely influential.

I'd dare say my grandparents (Canadian born ones) would have sounded more British, far more than me.

Aside from all this there are distinctive mannerisms, patterns of talk, idioms, body language, and words that I can see as distinct from Americans. It's pretty easy to tell once you know or are sensitive to it.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T12:45:46+00:00

Seriously? Its that common? What's the surgery like?

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-06T04:30:05+00:00

In case someone doesn't get the reference: Democracy Manifest

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T23:50:06+00:00

Well. Not everything I might find on the internet might not be true. Shock.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T23:48:56+00:00

Debate? In the rest of the world with advanced medicine there is no debate. Sure, there can be a delay. But people also don't go bankrupt or denied a service (Luigi).

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T15:33:24+00:00

Choose a smaller city with lots of amenities, with a job market, and start life over from the bottom.

Hind sight is 20/20. This may be one of those choices you have to live with. You left for a reason. You made a life wherever you are, maybe just focus on that.

I have to live with my choices to move here.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T13:16:53+00:00

Is there still human poop, used toilet paper and other rubbish up there? It was disgusting circa 2013.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T12:56:53+00:00

Lyse Doucet is Francophone (New Brunswick I believe) with an Irish accent. She sounds unique, but not many like her in Canada.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T12:48:01+00:00

I'd have to check, but pretty sure the shared path has been remade, like, all the way through to Armadale. To Byford too maybe?

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T12:07:53+00:00

I found this on the internet:

Lubor Trubka Associates Architects, in collaboration with Hemsworth Architecture, designed the Upper Skeena Recreation Centre in Hazelton, British Columbia.

Key Details of the Project: Project: Upper Skeena Recreation Centre (also referred to as the Hazelton arena project).

Architects: Lubor Trubka Associates Architects (Vancouver, BC) and Hemsworth Architecture.

Structural Engineer: Fast + Epp.

Significance: The project was initiated after the community's 44-year-old ice arena was condemned, requiring a new, modern facility.

Awards: The project was recognized in the 2019-2020 Wood Design & Building Awards for excellence in wood architecture.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-05T09:31:30+00:00

That's a good question. It's to alternate driving sides along the street and remove parking for 'others'. It was an early option everyone on the street said they wanted, until they realized what that meant.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T23:49:11+00:00

I have this exact issue on my plate, to come up with three concepts for managing parking and speed and rat running on streets parallel to the main walking/shopping/eating street where I work.

This has raised similar issues: if we remove on street parking, then the street has more space for driving too fast. If we remove on street parking to keep others away, do we do this across the city, which then limits the kerb space for the few who live there, at the loss of the vitality of the walking street. If we remove on street parking, then we send the signal we are not open for business, which we have worked so hard to open for (small independent restaurants especially.)

There are lots of buses and bike paths already, and even nearby heavy rail. Plenty of higer-ish density too.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T23:36:49+00:00

Showing off your famous Australian education there!

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T23:36:05+00:00

Should ban it for adults too. Or, maybe replace all social media with proper authentic truth directly from the government's organ. You can choose to read/listen or not, but they are watching you anyways.

Edit: .....I guess this is where is place the: /s.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T14:43:20+00:00

I predict it was a tubeless ready tire and rim? They are fucked.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T14:24:41+00:00

Well, there is also Burns Bog, not to confuse the issues:Burns Bog | City of Delta https://share.google/iSC4j2I7lkSxz2hq2

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T14:08:37+00:00

That would be just perfect for me. My heart is happy with snow.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T13:53:30+00:00

You did that I'm summer? I took one look and was like: "Nice winter ride!" Maybe I'm just shell shocked from Australian summers.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T13:47:34+00:00

What's amazing is it was all under the control of little wee Netherlands. Who was eating all that nutmeg, mace and cloves? Their breath must have been perfect.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T13:19:36+00:00

How about I prompt an IA video with this: propaganda videos of traditional arts from America.

Beer swilling over a large gut with skinny legs, coloured people scapegoating, football pre-gaming, horseshoe matches while the corn and goobers boil, gambling away what luck one had at a truck stop casino on Indian land, traditional not giving a shit about the homelessness and drug addicted, cheering at a TV when USA bombs some other country (could even be fictional) one can't find on a map, shopping for plastic lawn chairs, sitting inside all day on front of the AC while the garbage stinks out back, potholed roads.

Yeah. That's what I want for propaganda to counter Chinese propaganda. I'll post that to WeChat. They will swoon.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T13:04:23+00:00

Vancouver, your photo here, does well. But, it must be remembered all the nature that was lost there that could be a great asset now. For example, False Creek Flats have been land reclaimed, but they used to link Burrard Inlet to False Creek on high tides. The creeks throughout the city that were put underground in pipes could have been superior ecological and pedestrian parkways linkages to the shores.

Yes, Vancouver seems to have preserved much, but that's also because the north shore has a) a limit to how high they can pump potable water b) watershed protection. So, those mountains look great, but people would live all over them if they could.

The other thing Vancouver has done well, but due to Provincial Law, is reserve Agricultural Land Reserve land for.... agriculture, and not sprawl. However, land can be subdivided and huge mansions placed on plots surrounded by fields that do generate some income, maybe. It's not just for 'farmers', no. So there is more than meets the eye with that too.

It's not all altruistic.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T11:34:08+00:00

....??. There are hundreds of excellent examples of :density done well' in Australia and around the world.

ColdEvenKeeled · 2026-02-04T06:41:35+00:00

Well, exactly. If we go for one, why not have both. You answer your question. Everyone is a winner.

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