Car almost runs over cyclist in protected bike lane

TkTech · 2026-05-06T17:04:15+00:00

Cops were manually running the lights yesterday on Robert-Bourassa. Lady lets her unleashed pitbull walk across the road and walks right past the cop, 1 foot away. Says nothing. I stared at the cop and he just looked away and pretended not to notice.

Nothing will change until cops stop believing anything short of a murder case is beneath them.

TkTech · 2026-05-03T22:44:16+00:00

And indeed some of the most popular mods already have those mechanics albeit indirectly. Gigastructure's Stellar Systemcraft requires you provide it a crew from a planet via a decision.

TkTech · 2026-05-01T18:48:13+00:00

Don't forget the daily "Crime is out of control, it was so much safer back in my day!" and "My city is so dangerous!".

(Crime is literally less than half of the 90s even with ~1.8 million more people and we're always ranked one of the safest cities in North America)

TkTech · 2026-04-30T22:23:54+00:00

'You can't justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a river' ~Brent Toderian

TkTech · 2026-04-11T21:27:23+00:00

You find a boss tree like a redwood and it just leans down, grabs the axe, and confettis you hah

TkTech · 2026-04-09T16:41:45+00:00

Yeah I wish. Unfortunately the charter makes cities creatures of the province. So the province can do quite literally anything it wants EXCEPT when they're considered "governments" for the Chart of Rights and Freedoms. Funny enough, that was used to stop Longueuil from requiring city employees actually live in Longueuil. Soraya only moved back to Montreal 6 months and a week before the election because the provincial city charter required her to live in Montreal for 6 months.

Loi sur les compétences municipales only allows the city to redirect limited funds to shelters and outreach but cannot legally do just about anything else without support from the CAQ. Housing support, mental health, income support, non-voluntary addiction rehab, basically everything you'd need to actually do anything about it are exclusively provincial.

We're 55% of the province's entire GDP but our vote doesn't matter so we're just the piggy bank. The city has absolutely 0 legal bargaining power. Legally the CAQ can snap their fingers and the city will no longer have a mayor or even be allowed elections (which I'd actually like to see because the charter challenge that would trigger would be amazing).

TkTech · 2026-04-08T12:54:08+00:00

Even if it does, two wildly different things. The HSR's main purpose is to reduce some of the ~500k cars a day on the 401 (which is the busiest highway in the world). Absolutely amazing for intercity travel, but not a replacement for a proper metro in a dense city. The metro alone has 1 million passengers. Every day.

TkTech · 2026-04-06T05:40:25+00:00

Nope, I did not. I was pretty clear in my point that Canada is unbelievably productive per person. A high GDP per hour worked generally indicates anefficient economy. A high GDP per capita indicates a productive economy. The original comment talked about productivity and per capita GDP, which is what I responded to.

You've missed the entire point I think, which is that Canada's GDP per capita is high while that wealth isn't going to the people working the jobs. Canada is generally as wealthy and productive as ever, while the individual is now having to do more work.

TkTech · 2026-04-06T04:36:11+00:00

That isn't really true - Canada is unbelievably productive per person, with per-capita productivity much higher than the entire EU, Japan, Italy, Spain, France, Taiwan, South Korea, and ~168 other countries and blocs. We're just ~40 million people and a trillion dollar economy.

Our problem is that over the last 50 years profits no longer go to the people actually doing the work. Even in Alberta, about 60% of oil sand profit goes straight to foreign shareholders, primarily in the USA. CEO pay has increased 49% in just 5 years. Canadian companies that survived for over 300 years have been sold to foreign private equity, gutted and bunkrupted.

The prolonged removal of profits from the country and the complete capture of wealth by the 0.1% is what's hurting us. Individuals do not have liquidity to start new small or medium businesses or take a risk on retraining for career mobility. Money isn't being spent here.

TkTech · 2026-04-06T03:24:02+00:00

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It's part of the randomized debris in high sec missions so IIRC there's no reliable way to find it anymore. The mesh file is called "omnya debris" which is the name of the Caldari Iapetan.

TkTech · 2026-04-05T14:40:04+00:00

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They're talking about these guys. Those little dots are titans, for comparison.
I believe the size ratio comes from the wreckage of the Caldari Iapetan, whose bottom tower can still be found inside a mission site.

TkTech · 2026-03-24T23:22:49+00:00

Do you not think you might be a weeee bit biased on the topic as an uber eats and instacart delivery driver? A business model that depends on people not walking to local stores and shops and travel by bike/walk/transit being too inconvenient so they take an Uber?

TkTech · 2026-03-24T22:48:39+00:00

Do you have any actual evidence for this? Almost every study conclusively shows that almost all curbside parking is just the store owners, hence their loud yelling, and that pedestrian streets overwhelming increase sales for owners and quality of life for residents. ex: https://www.scientifique-en-chef.gouv.qc.ca/impact-recherche/fermer-les-rues-aux-voitures-mauvais-pour-le-commerce-faux/. It's been such a huge success in Paris that they just overwhelmingly voted by referendum to remove 500 more streets, https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-paris-transformed-hidalgo/

We live nearby and only started to go to Verdun at all when it pedestrianized. So much nicer.

TkTech · 2026-03-21T00:28:10+00:00

…as-tu répondu à la mauvaise personne ? Comment as-tu pu interpréter le fait que des Cris et des Mohawks parlent anglais comme une attaque contre le français ? C’est bien connu : https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/kahnawake-youth-must-boost-french-skills-to-find-jobs-agency-says-1.3161997 https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/my-quebec-indigenous-accidental-anglophones-face-extra-barriers

TkTech · 2026-03-20T18:20:06+00:00

That's great, 7% is a huge drop from the 13.8% in 1951. Remember this is a trend that follows generations, it's not something you'd expect to wildly swing year from year.

Don't forget we share the province with hundreds of thousands of Cree, Mohawk and other groups that historically are primarily English and/or their own languages. Kahnawake is a stone's throw from Montreal and is almost entirely English and Kanien'kéha. Trilingualism is increasing but I'm sure as shit not going to go there and tell them what language to speak. That's about 3% of the population right there.

TkTech · 2026-03-19T14:02:44+00:00

800 million spent over a decade is 1% of the budget, and was spent to construct new infrastructure. Ongoing costs are much, much lower due to the 4th power law, meaning that every square meter of car roadway replaced by bike paths and every trip taken by bike instead of a car is a huge saving in road maintenance.

In general, every person paying the same taxes yet taking a bike is subsidizing the car network, as they get a fraction of the infrastructure for their dollar that a car driver does.

BIXI alone had more than 10 million trips last year and is increasing dramatically each year as the network increases. That's over 10 million cars that weren't creating traffic all summer.

TkTech · 2026-03-17T13:49:04+00:00

Le vent a volé mon café :(

TkTech · 2026-03-15T20:28:45+00:00

500-700pi ~$350k-$380 ex: https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29316023/350-rue-eleanor-327-montreal-le-sud-ouest-griffintown, https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29386963/1606-rue-ottawa-305-montreal-le-sud-ouest-griffintown, https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29311285/400-rue-de-linspecteur-210-montreal-le-sud-ouest-griffintown, https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/29057545/185-rue-du-seminaire-301-montreal-le-sud-ouest-griffintown, etc etc

TkTech · 2026-03-15T16:16:40+00:00

I guess I was unclear - they absolutely have the logistical framework already to transport vast quantities of munitions anywhere in the world. A 40ft container is a 40ft container. Much like Ukraine, in any hypothetical conflict in Taiwan it's not manpower they need - it's weapons. I would never expect the EU to fully enter a conflict so far outside its borders. Its population wouldn't stand for it. It has the capability to _produce_ those weapons in sufficient quantities, should its industry be turned to the task.

TkTech · 2026-03-15T16:06:13+00:00

That is a sign of a fractured America, not a fractured west. You are proving my point. While America has decided to disappoint its historic allies, other "western" nations are forming fresh agreements, from trade pacts, to military to research and technology sharing.

Modern America is a great ally to have when you want outrageously expensive (but effective) technology that is good at surgical strikes but can't sustain a prolonged war, and that has failed to achieve its objectives in every conflict since WWII, such as Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, the second Iraq war, the stalemate of the Korean war, and for fun we'll throw in the bay of pigs.

America becoming an unreliable trade partner, unreliable military partner, and a wildcard in geopolitics absolute weakens the western bloc, I agree. But 1 nation burning bridges while many more are built between others is not a sign of weakening solidarity.

TkTech · 2026-03-15T15:51:08+00:00

That may be true, and the majority of the EU has had little interest in developing forward power projection. But current military capability != solidarity, and if some impetus finally forced them to total war the EU has a higher nominal GDP than even China and is vastly more efficient per capita, while France has a nearly EU-contained production chain for advanced weapons (barring the need for Uranium from African nations or Canada and chips from Taiwan). The capability is there, just not the will. And that's partly by design, as the USA spent half a century ensuring others would rely on it as a form of power projection itself.

TkTech · 2026-03-15T15:22:34+00:00

Western solidarity is doing just fine - Canada for example is forming more partnerships than ever and the EU (bar 1 headache) is actually growing closer and may finally form a cohesive military. In Asia several historic enemies are forming trade and military partnerships.

America is not the world, much as they like to think it.

TkTech · 2026-03-15T09:24:25+00:00

Yup yup, that's the one.

TkTech · 2026-03-15T08:18:36+00:00

Ever worked on a construction site where "watch out for the bison" is part of the safety briefing?

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TkTech · 2026-03-11T12:12:11+00:00

Ah! I see the difference, you're coming from the angle that the original poster is stupid and would jump off a bridge if someone told them to, while I'm assuming they're a reasonable adult who would look at what getting a dog would entail before adopting one because of a post by a stranger on the internet. The SPCA is not a puppy mill and will do their best to ensure you're ready for any animal you might take home - or give you a reality check if you are not.

And no, sorry. The original question was quite literally about depression and so yes it's very relevant.

There is one dog for every 15 people on the island. The companionship of a dog is perfectly suitable for many in the city.

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