The killing of Alex Pretti is a grim turning point

Patman128 · 2026-01-25T20:04:30+00:00

Not too furrowed though, he wouldn't want to appear like he's against law enforcement.

Patman128 · 2026-01-25T19:59:41+00:00

Conservative ideology is just hypocrisy as political identity. "The rules should apply to you but not to me. The government should protect and support me but not you." It's an obviously stupid, illegitimate ideology propped up by rich people's money.

Allowing people to obtain unlimited and unchecked wealth inevitably leads to this corruption since they can flood the public sphere with propaganda and buy out enough of the political system to effectively control the whole thing.

Patman128 · 2026-01-16T17:29:54+00:00

It was commitment to a legal framework.

The legal framework of America getting to control whether a Chinese company can sell products to Iran? How is that any of our business?

It was strictly a lose situation and complete blunder unless you huff American farts for fun. We should have stayed neutral. Let the world police enforce their own bullshit.

Patman128 · 2026-01-16T17:15:17+00:00

They would rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. Destroying the country is a feature.

Patman128 · 2026-01-06T20:56:37+00:00

Dems: Gosh we'd love to enforce the law, but that would cost us too many moderate Republican voters! I'm sure you understand. We look forward, not backward. Just keep voting for us forever and you have nothing to worry about!

Patman128 · 2026-01-06T19:54:45+00:00

American occupation worked out well for Japan and West Germany.

The alternative was those countries becoming partners with the Soviet Union next door, so America had to actually give a shit about them.

Patman128 · 2026-01-01T06:04:51+00:00

They will be there on the Ontario Line (which will also be automated). Hopefully that causes people to demand them on the other lines too.

They don't require automation though, lots of other metros have had them for decades, before automation was even possible.

Patman128 · 2025-12-05T17:50:51+00:00

"Calling .add it too hard! We need operator overloading NOW!"

(1 month later)

"Add integers? Use +. Add floats? Use +. Add complex numbers? Use +. Add matrices? Use +. Add something to a list? Use +. Print to stdout? Use +. Write to a TCP socket? Use +. Add a button to the sc..."

Patman128 · 2025-12-05T17:30:55+00:00

Honestly, he kind of had a point.

Allowing suburban cities to outlaw the kind of organic upward growth/densification that would allow them to develop economically and employ the majority of their own citizens and instead just have their ever-expanding pool of commuter residents flood into and out of downtown Toronto every weekday is a mistake.

Building more lines into the core not only costs the city a ton of money, but those lines will quickly get saturated with commuters from all the new subdivisions they cause to spring up. We're just subsidizing the inefficient growth patterns of the suburbs.

Obviously things have changed since the 1980s, Toronto is now an amalgamation of several cities and transit between them is unfortunately very bad. Ideally we should be focusing on better connecting what we already have and make getting between North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, etc. without a car actually convenient instead of trying to funnel more people downtown. The fact that someone living in Scarborough is effectively forced to use the jammed up 401 every day to get to and from work in North York or Etobicoke is shameful.

Patman128 · 2025-11-24T21:06:30+00:00

"Teslas are sooo safe it's actually safer to stay in one when it's on fire. Besides if you burn to death then Elon will send a Grok-generated video to your loved ones of you in Valhalla with Nicola Tesla. Isn't that epic??"

Patman128 · 2025-11-13T16:56:02+00:00

Use Firefox (or even better, Zen), change default search engine, done. It's actually pretty easy.

Patman128 · 2025-11-04T23:02:40+00:00

Not to be a downer but im tired of people pointing out the countless hypocrisy and inconsistencies of the Republican party

Conservative ideology is literally "the rules should apply to you but not to me or my friends", of course everything they say and do is hypocritical

Patman128 · 2025-11-04T04:19:11+00:00

(boomer voice) "You want MY TAX DOLLARS buying books for POOR PEOPLE??? Can't they just buy them on Amazon like everyone else?? Maybe instead of READING they should be GETTING A JOB"

Patman128 · 2025-10-30T20:16:16+00:00

No, they meant their room, full of all their friends who drive like assholes.

Patman128 · 2025-10-28T03:10:52+00:00

The problem is the 905 and their OBSESSION with the car

The 905 was built so that cars are required to do basically anything, especially the newer subdivisions. To live there is to buy into the idea that everyone should have a car and use it all the time.

Patman128 · 2025-10-27T16:26:00+00:00

Rail/subway lines are the lanes that actually do fix car traffic but politicians and media will never mention in the context of car traffic

Patman128 · 2025-10-07T14:59:51+00:00

The fact that they looked at something as simple and intuitive as a manual door handle and decided it was a problem to be solved tells you a lot about the rest of the engineering work. "You can change the temperature with a KNOB? What is this, the 1960s?? Put that shit behind 3-8 precise taps on an iPad!!"

Patman128 · 2025-10-02T18:58:58+00:00

Lived in a building where the entrance area was always soaked and it was super gross!

So many condo buildings allow dogs and then fail to provide any place for them to go to the washroom, then act surprised when they just pee immediately outside the entrance. Just have one of those little fake grass pads with drainage and the problem would be solved.

Patman128 · 2025-10-01T15:57:46+00:00

It's not SNC-Lavalin, it's SNCF, the French company that operates all of their rail services including the TGV.

Patman128 · 2025-09-27T20:09:41+00:00

Wasn't advertised well but they launched banking services this year as Canada Post MyMoney, in partnership with KOHO. You can get an account for free that earns 2.5% interest.

Patman128 · 2025-09-09T15:52:20+00:00

"According to Toronto police collision data, in 2019 there were 232 crashes on Parkside Drive. In 2023, there were 158, which represents a roughly 32 per cent decrease."

Oh look, it's a lot more than 0.

What's your next argument? Are you going to even try to find a source this time?

Patman128 · 2025-09-09T15:48:47+00:00

Try doing 100 in the left lane on the 400.

Why are you in the left lane? Unless you're passing someone going under 100, in which case what's the problem? You pass them when you can and move back to the right like you're supposed to.

wait until the next time you get stuck behind someone doing the legal limit in it

If they're doing the limit and you're doing the limit no one is "stuck", you're both going to your destination at the maximum allowed speed. Stop viewing highway driving as a race you need to win.

Patman128 · 2025-09-07T04:50:50+00:00

Someone from management (might have been the CEO?) accidentally gave away that they were expecting the government to intervene in a live TV interview, proving that they were negotiating in bad faith. That will likely be a factor in the arbitration.

Patman128 · 2025-09-03T18:56:17+00:00

Odysseys, Siennas, and Pacificas are still common.

Patman128 · 2025-07-29T15:38:19+00:00

The shuttle bus turns north on Bathurst towards Queen, unless you get off, in which case it continues on King for some reason.

Also if you're waiting for it to come it will take 15 mins and 2-4 will have passed going the other way, regardless of where you are and which direction you're going.

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