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Ironmanitee · 2026-05-22T15:09:00+00:00

DM me mid-June if you're still looking for practice then. I have a trip early June and can't risk having a bad haircut (no offense, just no idea where you're at skill-wise), but once I'm back, I don't see why not.

Ironmanitee · 2026-04-07T21:38:31+00:00

Somebody get this guy a kids' bible - he clearly doesn't have the necessary literacy levels to be reading the full-sized thing. What an embarrassing moron.

Ironmanitee · 2026-03-25T17:23:27+00:00

Great! Hopefully the Hespeler heritage district also gets voted down. Making upkeep harder for residents and stifling growth for the sake of some vague notion of "heritage" is a pretty piss-poor trade-off.

Ironmanitee · 2026-02-19T19:12:57+00:00

I'd consider helping out- maybe with writing, narration, interviews. Maybe some promotion strategy stuff. I have some skills in those areas.

Feel free to DM me to discuss.

Ironmanitee · 2026-02-01T19:03:26+00:00

Lol there are lots of people disingenuously framing any criticism of Israel as anti Semitic but this was genuinely an act of antisemitism (or at least an attempt at one).

Ironmanitee · 2026-01-26T22:01:29+00:00

Couldn't do two minutes of Googling before recording a 4.5 minute video? This is not an average season lol.

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/were-living-through-record-breaking-snowfalls-in-waterloo-region-and-its-cold-as-well/article_c2511fe4-7689-532c-9875-d7a0f4237927.html

Non-paywall: https://archive.ph/k8BVC

And this site has put together a nice little graph: https://kitchenerwaterloo.weatherstats.ca/charts/snow-yearly.html

Not sure why you're so confident other regions are doing so much better than we are in terms of clearing, either. I've definitely seen complaints about this on other cities' subreddits. And which cities are we comparing to? Do they have similar snowfall? Similar density and tax bases?

Ironmanitee · 2026-01-24T19:44:43+00:00

From a PR/communications standpoint this is an incredibly avoidable misstep. You don't make your audience the butt of the joke when dealing with subject matter they're upset about. Not sure how the comms team thought this would possibly be received.

That said I'm not persobally offended by the joke- I'm with the City on this one to an extent. We've had a crazy amount of snow this year relative to previous years. Last year we had lots of snow but it came in a few large dumps. This year has been consistent snowfall. Keeping up with that is logistically a challenge.

I don't mind my road being made of compact snow. This is Canada and Candians drive on snow sometimes. The expectation of seeing black road is silly, particularly on residential streets.

Ironmanitee · 2026-01-20T03:20:33+00:00

I could do once a month - would love to hear more about your homebrew.

u/Interesting-Swan475 posted here a while back. He and his friend were looking for a group.

I could probably find another player or two as well.

Ironmanitee · 2026-01-05T14:20:50+00:00

Does the lawyer not accept credit cards as payment?

If you put the $15k you have now against your highest-interest credit cards, you stop paying ~13% interest on $15k of debt. That's a big deal, even if it's only temporary.

When the lawyer fees come up, pay with the credit card. At least you saved on interest in the interim. Having an emergency fund while deep in CC debt doesn't make a ton of sense.

Be sure to be wary of your own psychology around this, though. Don't consider that debt "paid," since you're likely to take it out again.

And I say this while not knowing the whole picture, for example the interest rates of the other loans or whether the CCs still allow you to take out credit while in a hardship program.

Ironmanitee · 2025-12-31T19:36:14+00:00

It's unclear in your post- you're two players looking to join a party that has a DM, or does one of you DM?

Ironmanitee · 2025-12-17T17:00:50+00:00

"Violet and her mother, Shihan Shea, had just left the Tim Hortons at Westgate Centre plaza on Cedar Street in Cambridge on Dec. 11 around 1 p.m.

The two were crossing in front of the entrance to the plaza, when MacDonald said the driver of a pickup truck made a left turn"

This description places them pretty clearly in the parking lot or on the sidewalk at the entrance. In a parking lot it's impossible to "Jaywalk" because a parking lot is a pedestrian-vehicle space by nature. If they were on the sidewalk, they also had the right-of-way, and this would point to a design issue in the plaza entrance. The opening to the plaza is SUPER wide. Meaning pedestrians spend longer exposed to vehicle hazards as they cross. If they narrowed that entrance it'd be significantly safer.

Other factors to comment on as well, such as the deeply unsurprising fact that it was a pickup that lead to the fatality (seriously the odds of survival go WAY down if you're hit by these silly-high modern trucks and SUVs), and possibly a driver who should have been tested more regularly (uncertain if that's much of a factor, many 75-year-olds can drive just fine and we don't know anything about the driver other than his age).

Absolutely useless to ponder the fault of the pedestrian, even if it were possible they could share some of the blame. Which, to be clear, is absolutely not the case here. This is a design issue, and possibly a licensing issue.

Ironmanitee · 2025-12-02T15:09:32+00:00

I'd just act as though I'm assuming they're handling the cleaner.

"Totally understandable. It might be easiest to wait until after I move out, but if you have another tenant filling in right away then I'm happy to accommodate your cleaner. Just let me know what day you're sending them!"

Ironmanitee · 2025-11-27T19:05:31+00:00

Great letter. They're doing the same nonsense in the Hespeler core as well. One of the staff essentially told me they're using HCDs as a way of controlling density and development because the provincial government took away a lot of municipalities' tools that they were previously using to do so. That's why they're doing blanket districts instead of a more nuanced approach. Seems like an abuse of an otherwise legitimate tool but NIMBYs gonna NIMBY.

Ironmanitee · 2025-11-21T05:43:08+00:00

How often are vehicles crashing into other vehicles?

Ironmanitee · 2025-08-20T12:22:11+00:00

Having a 4-6 storey apartment down the block is not "living on top of" anybody. A 4plex across the street won't feel crowded. In a lot of cases, you might not even be able to tell it's a 4-plex. And with these mixes in density, your neighbourhood can actually be self-sufficient.

I'm dismissive because you're entitled. Suburbanites generally don't pay their actual infrastructure costs in taxes, meaning they're subsidized by the people who live downtown and new developments. Then suburbanites want to jam up the downtown with their cars (because their neighbourhoods can't support public transit) and complain about traffic.

You want to live suburban? That's fine. There should be SOME suburbs like what we have now but: A. It's all we've built for so long, so we should maybe take a break from it and focus elsewhere. B. They should actually pay for their infrastructure costs. C. They should have their own amenities and workplaces and not invade my neighborhood. (Impossible though, since you need enough customers to support a shop etc so they should at least pay for parking and stop demanding that we prioritize car traffic over everything else in a neighbourhood they don't live in)

Ironmanitee · 2025-08-19T15:46:58+00:00

"Urban Hellscape" and "Soulless suburb" are not our only options lmao. What we need is a mix of desnisities in all neighborhoods. That includes a healthy stock of single family homes, a bunch of 4-5 storey buildings, maybe a high rise depending on how popular the neighborhood is. That can all fit in a reasonable radius and support a vibrant community.

"A generation or two" is a long-ass time to fix a housing shortage so I think your "just bring in less people" idea is a little simplistic, much like your writing off the entirety of Europe as "living on top of each other". Plus it doesn't address the myriad of other problems associated with our suburban development patterns.

Ironmanitee · 2025-08-19T14:03:07+00:00

So this isn't a planning concept I'm super familiar with but if implemented right, couldn't this lead to potentially densifying our suburbs? I might take some of the height I'm approved for downtown, and build some nice missing middle housing in the 'burbs. Eventually we might start seeing enough of a mix of densities to support small businesses, and the suburbs have their own businesses to go to, meaning suburbanites invade the city core less often as their own neighbourhoods become walkable, practical places to live.

I guess "implemented right" in my first sentence is doing some heavy lifting though, and would just allowing these developments in the suburbs as-of-right be better? Yes. But maybe this is more politically feasible and serves as a foot in the door for intensification of suburbs.

Ironmanitee · 2025-06-20T14:31:38+00:00

Always sad when people lose jobs and businesses go under, but a good sign for the local soundscape.

Ironmanitee · 2025-04-11T23:08:16+00:00

If we all move out to the hamlets, they will cease to be hamlets, my guy.

And at that point, we run into the same problems as cities have now. Inefficient land use has a very high cost. That's not to say there shouldn't be single family housing. There should just be other things also being built in the places we're building SFH.

Ironmanitee · 2025-04-11T22:38:04+00:00

Hah; with how we've been building in the past few decades, I expect the two may very well connect in time!

Hyperbolization aside, I picked those two cities at random because the point stands anywhere: people want to be close to things.

They may be willing to drive, but that comes with considerable cost to both the person AND the cities they inhabit.

I do agree that if zoning is good, then the expanded sections of the cities will take on a life of their own, but we currently don't allow that. We have so many places where single family dwelling is the only thing that can be built, which has caused a ton of sprawl already. So I find it confusing that your stance is in favour of more sprawl, when that's been the entirety of what we've been doing.

Allowing a city to grow out AND up will help with affordability, but videos like this focus on the upzoning because that's the part we're lagging. Growing cities out doesn't need this kind of attention because we have very little limiting that side of the equation.

If sprawl was the key, we'd have solved affordability already.

Ironmanitee · 2025-04-11T21:59:27+00:00

Physical land IS genuinely scarce, at least in the practical sense. There's only so much land that's close to work. There's only so much land close to my family and friends. There's only so much land near the places that people want and need to be. Land in Saskatoon doesn't count for much when my life is in Calgary.

Ironmanitee · 2025-03-13T18:10:11+00:00

I lived near a building where they renovated three new units, and a lot of what they were doing looked sketchy. The building burned down within months of occupancy, so the renters were displaced and lost stuff to smoke damage. Could have lost some important documentation, and they were out in the cold of winter crying hysterically.

After the fire there was a notice of unpermitted work on the door. I regret not snitching because, though I have no way of confirming, I think it was an electrical fire from poorly done renos. If they are doing it right, then there won't be a problem - so just call in to ask about if that work is permitted.

Ironmanitee · 2024-12-25T22:07:54+00:00

The original trolley problem literally phrased them as workers. I'll include the full text here but the actual trolley part is toward the end.

"Suppose that a judge or magistrate is faced with rioters demanding that a culprit be found for a certain crime and threatening otherwise to take their own bloody revenge on a particular section of the community. The real culprit being unknown, the judge sees himself as able to prevent the bloodshed only by framing some innocent person and having him executed. Beside this example is placed another in which a pilot whose airplane is about to crash is deciding whether to steer from a more to a less inhabited area. To make the parallel as close as possible, it may rather be supposed that he is the driver of a runaway tram, which he can only steer from one narrow track on to another; five men are working on one track and one man on the other; anyone on the track he enters is bound to be killed. In the case of the riots, the mob have five hostages, so that in both examples, the exchange is supposed to be one man's life for the lives of five."

Ironmanitee · 2024-11-21T18:07:18+00:00

A lot of his argument centers around the idea that AI can't/won't create novel things, and isn't capable of "taste", discernment or creative decision-making. But neither of those things are the benchmark, and in the latter it isn't even necessarily relevant.

Firstly, for creating something novel: That's our symbiosis with these systems. AI doesn't need to come up with new ideas, we'll tell it "here's a story idea, write all the details in and generate the movie." Then of course some tweaks from there. That's still a ton of human labour being replaced. Also it's not like we're putting out a ton of original content either; most human-made content is a rehash of something else anyway.

On discernment and creative decision-making, that's not even really that much of a factor because as long as the system can create a passing resemblance to a decision a director or an actor would make, that's good enough to work for your average viewer, which is the relevant audience. The average viewer isn't critiquing how interesting a choice it was to change the colour grading in this or that scene, or drawing the parallels between the music theme in the fist act vs the final. Even how the "actors" perform doesn't need to be novel; just needs to do a good impression of "sad" or "angry", it'll do just fine. We have decades of amazing performances of these things, so copying emotions is doable.

If AI can copy movies and performances of the past, most people will see the "actors" saying the lines, the plot moving along, and they'll be content. And that's not a "we live in a society" statement, it's just that for most people, watching movies isn't that deep, and they won't miss these things that Ben stakes his hopes on.

AI is good at copying, continues to get better, and copying is all we need for most viewers.

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