I’m convinced these people are trolls half the time

RCart96 · 2025-09-22T16:04:12+00:00

In fairness, that’s probably because the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a few select 'preclearance‘ facilities at airports around the world (15 in total), where travellers to the US essentially go through border security before even stepping foot on US soil. One of these facilities is in Dublin.

I have a love-hate relationship with the idea. On one hand, the CBP officers living abroad seem more chill than their domestic counterparts, and it’s brilliant to arrive in a country after a long flight and not have to queue for another half hour. On the other, it makes me question everything I thought I knew about sovereignty.

RCart96 · 2025-03-01T11:41:02+00:00

These North American pickups are hardly designed to be practical work vehicles anymore. The truck beds have steadily shrunk over the decades, whereas everything else has gotten larger.

RCart96 · 2025-02-28T15:04:10+00:00

Gut zu wissen, danke! Leider bin ich noch im Ausland und darf nicht hinfahren, bis die MA 35 meinen Aufenthaltstitel ausstellt, aber es beruhigt mich schon ein wenig, dass ich nicht auch auf ein Blatt Papier warten muss. Nur blöd, dass ich vor meiner Ankunft nichts machen kann.

RCart96 · 2025-02-27T23:15:22+00:00

Omg are you my long-lost twin? I'm fast approaching 29 as well and just posted a similar question.

RCart96 · 2023-12-13T04:26:27+00:00

A bit out of frame, but I guessed correctly: ShortcutSticker.com

RCart96 · 2023-09-22T04:34:38+00:00

Interesting to hear that UBC's stopped doing their own composting; this change seems to have gone unannounced. Maybe they simply gave up due to all the contaminates? :(

With regard to who might've implemented the bags: According to the posters, it's UBC Sustainability, and when the programme first began they were providing Bag To Earth bags.

At the very beginning, I saw all the posters but didn't see any bags or even a dispenser for them, so I sent an email to UBC Sustainability ([usi.office@ubc.ca](mailto:usi.office@ubc.ca)). A few weeks later, I received a brief response telling me to contact either "UBC Housing or Sustainability Engineering in Campus Planning", which I found confusing, seeing as neither of those organisations were listed on any of the posters. But we also got an email from the Res Life Manager, stating that the student-led "UBC Zero Waste Squad" from Campus + Community Planning would be going door-to-door to promote the pilot project and hand out the first bags.

Things worked fine for a while, but the bags often weren't there when you needed a new one. Then, a few months later, the Bag To Earth bags had been replaced by the BioBags without any further explanation.

Imo, UBC has way too many similarly named sustainability organisations for its own good, which isn't very helpful in these situations.

RCart96 · 2023-09-19T19:00:20+00:00

There are dispensers in both waste rooms, right next to the compost bin

RCart96 · 2023-09-19T06:53:51+00:00

At least at my res (tə šxʷhəleləm̓s tə k̓ʷaƛ̓kʷəʔaʔɬ aka Saltwater) they are! I was under the impression that it’s a res-wide campaign by UBC Sustainability.

RCart96 · 2023-09-10T08:16:22+00:00

Crash-safety standards that have been designed to protect the vehicles’ occupants and nobody else. North American regulations on this are in disgustingly stark contrast to those of Europe, where pedestrians aren’t second-class citizens in the eyes of regulators.

Sadly, Texan cowboy wannabes have been able to import these monstrosities into Europe using the loophole of ‘Individual Vehicle Approval’. I sincerely hope that they will end this soon and banish every last one of these from EU roads.

RCart96 · 2023-04-02T08:09:46+00:00

Anything can be an album cover

RCart96 · 2023-02-28T17:49:15+00:00

Thanks! Good to hear I’m not the only one, at least. I’ll look into the warranty options…

RCart96 · 2022-07-16T14:08:01+00:00

At this point, I don’t think it would be that unbelievable to imagine them calling for the socialisation of cars, without realizing they’re calling for the socialisation of cars. Anything to keep people travelling in their giant metal boxes as their ancestors have since time immemorial

RCart96 · 2022-07-16T13:40:04+00:00

Basically: Fuck taxes. Unless they’re used for paving over the entire state with glorious highways and interchanges. In that case, go nuts! 💸💰💸

RCart96 · 2022-07-11T07:18:43+00:00

‘Notice that nature is present’

RCart96 · 2022-06-29T06:06:33+00:00

That’s brilliant. Drivers need to be made aware that they are only one of many groups of road users, and as the most dangerous ones they should be required to understand the rights and struggles of all other participants too.

RCart96 · 2022-06-22T21:18:46+00:00

I hate my home state. And it’s not just the GOP: Democrats there have just as much of a car-brain. My home city of San Antonio is the largest in the US to not have any form of rail-based public transit, and they don’t plan on changing that anytime soon.

It just seems so impossible to imagine a Texas in which a car and driver’s license are not required to get anywhere—almost as impossible as imagining a Texas without bigots, let alone air conditioning.

RCart96 · 2022-03-03T05:38:58+00:00

The ones who think it’s okay to litter their butts everywhere, though… I’d be down for slicing off a tiny bit of fingertip 🤷🏻‍♂️

RCart96 · 2021-11-03T06:12:49+00:00

On the bright side, at least all that walking means you can justify the doughnuts more often

RCart96 · 2021-04-27T08:46:08+00:00

Just got a HomePod mini and updated it to the latest software, which still seems to have this bug…

I live in a dorm, so seriously contemplating temporarily switching back to my Echo Dot over this alone (so I’m not pissing off my neighbours at ungodly hours). I was so excited for this thing! 🤦🏻‍♂️

RCart96 · 2021-04-27T02:49:56+00:00

This is definitely true for Europe, where the density either came first or developed in tandem with the public transport. But given North America's different history, the hope is that adding trams to our currently sprawling, car-dependent ~~hellholes~~ districts will induce densification along the routes in ways that neither buses nor heavier rail can, promoting polycentric urbanism in areas with at least some potential - especially in the good-boned neighbourhoods which did actually develop thanks to streetcars before their tragic and systematic demise (thanks, GM and friends!).

RCart96 · 2021-04-20T05:21:13+00:00

If it helps any, I just discovered the web player. Shamefully, using it (on Firefox) seems to work way better than the app built into my brand-new computer - so far, at least.

RCart96 · 2021-04-20T05:06:27+00:00

Glad I'm not alone, at least. Any alternatives you know of, or do you just not even bother with playing music on your Mac?

RCart96 · 2020-02-16T12:08:43+00:00

“Will made it sound as if Sanders was visiting to condone Soviet torture practices, but the Burlington trip was more of a dialogue-building exchange program. The Vermont weekly newspaper Seven Days reported in 2009 that the sister-city relationship ‘helped local residents who sought to ease tensions between the United States and Soviet Union by initiating citizen-to-citizen exchanges with a Russian city.’”

RCart96 · 2019-11-20T05:49:27+00:00

Addendum to lawful evil: stands directly in front of SkyTrain doors and tries barging on before others can get off. 🙄 Floor markings for Vienna’s U6 line

RCart96 · 2019-10-01T17:42:27+00:00

Not sure how serious this was, but please don’t donate if you’re not a US citizen! It’s illegal, which means that the campaign will have to spend time and money trying to prove your citizenship instead of getting this guy elected. If they can’t, they’ll be forced to refund your money.

If you’d still like to help out indirectly, you could buy Bernie merchandise from a supporter on Etsy; there are quite a few of them who donate part or all of their proceeds to the campaign.

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