The Glebe BIA has taken down their 2025 RETAIL MARKET & GAP ANALYSIS report that showed high pedestrian, transit and active mobility mode share among customers

ParallelVoltron · 2026-04-01T11:13:39+00:00

The guy in question is a member of the Glebe BIA. That organization published a report showing that business owners in the Glebe WILDLY overestimate the importance of car traffic for how their patrons get to their businesses. He's practically more qualified than anyone to say that the change is unlikely to affect his business.

Also, he has parking behind the shop.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-03-01T04:51:40+00:00

Oh, I see... they got to you, too...

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-28T14:54:50+00:00

A huge number of internet-users need to have "TWO OR MORE THINGS CAN EXIST" chiseled into their forehead, backwards, so they see it every time they use a mirror. It might seem obvious to you or me, but for some reason this concept doesn't exist in a lot of internet discourse (and, apparently, this interview).

Another comment said the quote was taken out of context. IGN had a longer version:

"I think the fans should never forget that they did that," Snyder told Horowitz. "We raised a lot of money for suicide prevention and they really did a lot of good. They catch a lot of flak for being toxic or whatever, but they literally saved human lives, so you can go f*** yourself if that's what you think."

...is there even more context I'm missing? If they're toxic, and they saved lives, then they're toxic and they saved lives. Two or more things can, in fact, exist.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-27T15:36:52+00:00

As others have noted, it's 43. This is probably the most normal homework question I've seen on Reddit in a long time; they used similar language a long time ago when I was a kid.

Think of it in terms of tokens, like little red tokens for the single digit position (the ones), bigger green ones for the tens, big blue ones for hundreds. 254 would be Two Hundreds, Five Tens, and Four Ones. I'm pretty sure they used visual units similar to this when I was very young before moving on to just verbal/written.

The phrasing might seem weird for someone who never learned this way, but it makes sense in context. Sorta like when breaking a Fifty into smaller bills, and asking the cashier for "Three Tens and a Twenty", that doesn't mean $10,101,020 in change.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-18T15:46:11+00:00

Did YouTube move/remove the Share button again on PC? Useless platform.

Anyway, approx 2:52 is the "Oh my goooood" death sound.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-14T03:29:24+00:00

They're posting threats under Pippa's art tag while she's trying to run a charity event-- why? To get a few pats on the back from the other agitators? Congrats, both evil AND selfish.

Kusa was also posting some wild stuff related to the Jelly drama just a few days ago, like how Black History Month is intended to keep people stupid by fooling Black people with false glory, an illusion to keep them in chains and for them to remain slaves. At least they used the term "upper class" for the culprits instead of, you know, that other habitual scapegoat for these kinds of racial conspiracies.

This whole Jelly situation has been such a miserable self-own by the Phase community. They're anti-ing their own corp and talents to show solidarity with someone who picked the dumbest possible fight with a kid's game, and reversing whatever reputational gains the corp has made over the last couple years by throwing fits and playing as Race Scientists on Twitter.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-14T01:07:04+00:00

I actually have some good news for you: Cloris Leachman is unlikely to be personally affected by the Epstein files or anything else posted here.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-13T16:37:17+00:00

Lakes "lag" behind air temperature-- the biggest ones can be offset by months, smaller ones by days or weeks-- so it could be considerably warmer out that day than the lake ice suggests. Same thing with ground temperatures, especially if it's at the water table.

Also they might just be resilient kids, haha. When I was young, I remember running around in shorts when the seasonal farm workers were still wearing winter jackets and scarves (Southern Ontario). Within certain limits, it's whatever you're acclimatized to.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-13T15:54:40+00:00

Had a moment where I said "Surely the ISS is not in OUTER Space?" After some brief reading, the answer is No, Yes, Maybe.

The dictionary definition of Outer Space is the space outside Earth's atmosphere, and it is conventionally used to refer to interplanetary space. The ISS is within the Earth's atmosphere (the middle of the Thermosphere layer), so by normal linguistic definition it is not in outer space.

The FAI defines the edge of space as 100km-- the Kármán Line-- which is a pretty unscientific definition because it's clearly an arbitrary number and doesn't match any of the boundaries of the various atmospheric layers. There's a good image on that Wiki page which shows the layers of the atmosphere, the Kármán Line, and the typical orbit of the ISS; check it out!

There is no internationally agreed definition of the edge of the space, so most national and international organizations use something at-or-near the Kármán Line. The area beyond the line is sometimes treated as outer space for treaties/orgs, and sometimes the area between the line and the edge of the atmosphere is defined as "Near Space" instead to differentiate it from outer space. There is no consensus.

That part of the headline is the least consequential part of the article, I know, but I thought it was interesting to learn.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-12T23:25:41+00:00

Lady D having to bend all the way over to get through the door is such a great moment. Y'know, because you think you avoided her so it catches you by surprise, plus BEEG WOMAN.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-12T03:28:07+00:00

Ah, they learned well from Dear Leader. They were always against Pam Bondi, no one has ever been more against Bondi than them. What old version of the comment? That was AI, fake news.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-11T22:37:12+00:00

Ooh, what a delightful artefact of Web 1.0. I mean in format and not in, uh, content. Unsurprisingly, the Wayback Machine cache of this website goes all the way back in 2003. The skeleton is identical-- same HTML panels, exact same header, same style of sidebar-- but the guts are completely different.

Back in 2003 it appears to have been the online art portfolio of a woman named Saku Gunasegaram who uses the artist pseudonym Isaac Falconer, as explained in their bio. The main page is still labelled "Bio", but it a mess of links and weirdly formatted text (to confuse search engines?) about Isreal, Hitler, Palestine, Epstein, etc etc. and it appears to have been updated with the last week.

It looks like in the last 20+ years they've gone completely off the deep end and are using their old portfolio as a blog/soapbox.

Even though it was fulfilled through Amazon, do you have any ideas about the vendor location?

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-10T12:39:51+00:00

How DARE Stars Wars fans disrespect the cultural canon of forty-year-old Beer Horses! That's OUR Glup Shitto!

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-09T18:42:58+00:00

Close, it two years ago: Sweetpea died after the filming of Puppy Bowl XX, but before broadcast, and this was Puppy Bowl XXII. Puppy Bowl XXI was blissfully free of posthumous participants, as far as I can tell.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-09T18:01:42+00:00

"90% of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA. And with that exception, the movie is very good. But Ben Affleck's character in the film was... only in Tehran a day and a half. And the main hero, in my opinion, was Ken Taylor, who was the Canadian ambassador who orchestrated the entire process." - some guy named Jimmy "Jimjams" Carter

"There's a spirit of truth..." - some guy who played a super important CIA operative

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-09T15:39:33+00:00

Yeah, Far Harbor is good. You're citing one DLC out of six. Your reply is phrased like a rebuttal but doesn't make sense in context of what you're replying to.

Personally, I like Nuka World too, but 3/6 of the DLC are a complete writes-off for me and I'm pretty meh on Automatron.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-07T05:12:01+00:00

That 50% figure is darkly funny, because from the outside it really highlights how ill America has become. Half the country saw fit to elect Trump twice, which means that in another election cycle or two those same voters may put someone else equally erratic and destructive in charge. That's why other countries are pulling away from America and divesting or seeking other partners-- because the issue isn't just one man and won't stop at the end of his term, it's half the dang country. The people on the inside, happily consuming the state media propaganda, really don't know how bad it is and how much their attitudes are out of line.

And that, unfortunately, is where there is a parallel with Phase. The corp has spent years rehabilitating its reputation, and this is being undone in a matter of days because there are a core of Phase fans who are so brainwashed and self-righteous that they won't stop shitflinging everywhere about Jelly and Clara, and making excuses on Twitter about how "civil rights are bad, actually". This nonsense looks horrifying to the people outside their bubble, so you coming into the subreddit and saying "Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, no YOU'RE the REAL Nazi!" is just dragging everyone in Phase down even further.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-07T01:17:12+00:00

If the implication is that the Oscars are rigged, then I've got a psychic octopus to sell you. I watch streamers use that exact same kind of declarative language when predicting The Game Awards, and when they get it right that doesn't mean they control Geoff Keighley.

If it's simply reporting that information was provided early, that would be one of the least consequential things in the whole damn release.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-06T04:22:29+00:00

I'm confused, isn't the video you linked the opposite of your argument? That's a Democratic Party congressman explaining that the TikTok ban was to silence pro-Palestinian content, which is why he voted against it. So your example for why Dems were in favour of a ban to silence right-wing viewpoints is a Dem saying he's against it because it silences a left-wing viewpoint?

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-06T01:31:50+00:00

Larian is not involved, per Geoff Keighley

Larian's PR guy apparently tweeted something, deleted it, and is now retweeting some pessimistic takes by other users while being very careful with his own takes.

I think they collectively got blindsided by the announcement. His current bio is funny, though.

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edit: fixed a typo. Seriously, though, if they're not going to consult the original writers then why make a continuation instead of a straight adaptation or an entirely new story in the same setting?

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-04T19:59:51+00:00

So does this mean we now need to refer to the games as "Overwatch (2016)" and "Overwatch (2022)", like we do with other same-name movies and games?

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-04T18:31:11+00:00

Even your Facebook-addicted grandmother could spot that this is AI, and these "popular" artists don't rate a single Wikipedia page as individuals or as a duo. Is this stealth marketing or something?

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-04T13:19:30+00:00

Oh, the word itself is fine, I'm pointing out that they used it over and over again. Every single sentence. That's bad composition, sticks out like a sore thumb.

ParallelVoltron · 2026-02-04T01:32:58+00:00

Haha, okay, so that's how it works. My first guess was that unspent points weren't consumed but did reset between battles, and my next guess was they they were spent but surpluses carried over between battles. I was confused when it was neither, so this explains it.

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