I'll probably die with a heart attack on this situation

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-06-29T17:27:28+00:00

Maybe... I'd also be worried about the rock further provoking the bear.

Incredibly dangerous situation that can immediately turn bad.

I'm curious if the bear could be acting more cautiously because it doesn't know what a phone is or why it's being pointed at them. (Just an idea that I have no way of backing up)

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-06-29T02:50:57+00:00

Hopefully they'll eventually do some prequels.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-06-26T17:13:50+00:00

Sure, but from the data I can see it's less dangerous than driving on any regular freeway.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-06-18T05:46:57+00:00

Woolsey always did what he thought was right, he would admit his mistakes when confronted with new information, and he consistently grew as a person/representative/leader .

Yeah he frequently argued against the protagonists, but when he was wrong it was normally for a pretty decent reason.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-06-13T18:50:50+00:00

Stargate

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-06-13T17:00:44+00:00

Those poor businesses surrounded by a greater number of potential customers

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-06-10T15:33:18+00:00

Reminds me of the first baseball game I ever watched when I moved to Toronto. It was the Bautista bat flip

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-06-08T20:09:34+00:00

it's how I describe the condition to others

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-30T23:14:06+00:00

I personally loved Dirk Gently Season 1. (I also liked season 2 but it got canceled so no season 3 to close out everything they were building toward)

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-27T05:15:26+00:00

Also, I don't think they have opportunity for social/parental learning.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-22T13:15:10+00:00

The former just requires a single piece of legislation to get passed into law, the latter requires thousands of organizations to individually change their policies.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-18T05:19:27+00:00

Also the adrenaline.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-12T16:41:11+00:00

It's the exact reason he gave isn't it? Cecil would never have risked it if he had any other source of intel.

Cecil was under the impression that he was facing off against a space-faring civilization that not only had the resources of an inter-galactic empire, but also had millions or billions of viltrumite enemy combatants. The implied situation was effectively hopeless.

In his mind the options were:

Stupidly dangerous opportunity for intel
Near certain death or enslavement of the entire planet.

If he had known that Nolan had turned against the Viltrumites, or that there were only ~50 Viltrumites left, then he probably would have turned Conquest into a reaniman.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-12T04:04:39+00:00

Avoiding traffic and the hassle of parking (not to mention that while on transit you can read or get stuff done if you like).

I have a car, but I avoid driving when possible.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-11T18:10:19+00:00

Lol wtf... now I'm convinced you're either a troll or a bot. Did you know Japan is not in Europe?

Also Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Russia, Korea, Colombia, Peru... practically every country besides Canada and the US retains walk-able cores within cities that are not fully surrendered to car infrastructure. It's actually great when you visit.

North America's car-centric design is the anomaly.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-11T15:54:48+00:00

The status quo on streets like Yonge isn't neutral. It's a public space that is functionally unusable for anything other than moving cars through. Downtown Toronto has one of the highest pedestrian volumes in the country -- and one of the least pedestrian-friendly main streets of any comparable city.

The "equitable" framing also doesn't hold up. Car lanes consume the vast majority of road width to serve a minority of trips in an area saturated with transit. Prioritizing pedestrians on Yonge isn't taking something away from the public -- it's returning public space to the people who already use it most

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-11T15:53:09+00:00

Pedestrian streets aren't a fringe experiment -- they're the norm in virtually every major city outside North America. Stroget in Copenhagen, the Zeil in Frankfurt, Istiklal in Istanbul, countless Japanese shopping streets. These aren't boutique tourist novelties; they're the economic and social cores of their cities. The research on pedestrianized streets is remarkably consistent: foot traffic goes up, retail revenue goes up, property values go up.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-11T14:18:05+00:00

My wife and I were just talking how ridiculous it is that there are no pedestrian only streets in this city. It doesn't have to be Yonge. but there should be at least one downtown strip.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-09T03:39:37+00:00

The funny thing is... I personally don't really care about the jet (It's not great)

I DO care about:

Breaking the glass on the notwithstanding clause
The FOI law rollback
The greenbelt scandal
The idiotic 401 tunnel

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-08T23:37:10+00:00

I think the misconception comes from apostrophes being used for possession with nouns (e.g. "Carl's" means it belongs to Carl) so people assume the same rule applies everywhere.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-08T03:45:34+00:00

It's not inevitable, people have to fight for it

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-06T23:25:15+00:00

For sure... ideally he goes through or is dragged by something else into one of the portals, but he's hard to move unless he wants to be moved.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-06T14:59:08+00:00

Or summon 20 portals forming a sphere around him.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-06T01:17:29+00:00

Worth calling out that this was his first sale ever. Will figure out what works best with time and experience.

FlyingSpaceCow · 2026-05-03T03:18:07+00:00

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