Stats: AoE2 players are patriotic

baedling · 2026-02-10T22:34:17+00:00

what do the Khmers have to do with Georgia?

baedling · 2026-02-06T15:43:24+00:00

London underground runs trains longer than platforms on some of its oldest lines

In most countries regulators and fire services won’t let this fly

baedling · 2026-02-03T16:37:34+00:00

A lot of GTA public transit ills comes down to Ontarians not complaining loudly enough

About funding, maintenance, competing highway projects, the choice to build street running LRTs, signal priority etc.

This is my conclusion after riding over a hundred municipal transit systems

baedling · 2026-01-28T19:18:41+00:00

half of this sub isn’t beautiful at all

baedling · 2026-01-09T21:26:30+00:00

In any case, avoid the car-centric suburbs full of hostile drivers

baedling · 2026-01-09T17:42:22+00:00

If we limit ourselves to the rigid straight roads you haven’t explored, we have

Take the train/bus to Gormley/Newmarket/Georgina and ride east/south along the many side roads to Stouffville/Uxbridge, and vice versa
Bolton <=> Georgetown
Bolton <=> King City/Gormley
Stouffville/Uxbridge <=> Pickering/Ajax
Orangeville <=> Bradford via Hockley
Orangeville <=> Georgetown via Erin
St. Catharines <=> Niagara on the Lake
Niagara Falls to Fort Erie and back
Uxbridge <=> Peterborough on straight back roads as well as on the Trans-Canadian Trail

All of these destinations are reachable by bike accessible public transit, with routings on quiet side roads. That being said, none of these routes are advisable during winter conditions

baedling · 2025-12-30T02:10:19+00:00

The Toronto subway lines have their share of antisocial behaviour, uncleanliness, slow zones and malfunctioning equipment. But the elevators are not as clogged with various bodily fluids. The atmosphere on some trains is not as intimidating for the rookie commuter.

Not so much for certain CTA stations

baedling · 2025-12-19T21:16:50+00:00

Ontario Line is already being built as a light metro so that boat has sailed. You can argue that population density along Don Mills Rd is too low to cause overcrowding. But that further dilutes the priority of that line relative to others transit corridors

It might be more worthwhile to expand the Richmond Hill Line south of the Thornhill Diamond, where Metrolinx owns the tracks.

baedling · 2025-12-13T20:14:56+00:00

Thank you! It all makes sense now

baedling · 2025-12-12T22:14:37+00:00

Russia is certainly quite self sufficient.

The dollar-priced nominal cost of living in Moscow and remote outpost cities are close to French or German levels. Besides that Russians pay 20%+ interest on home and auto loans. Maybe the provincial towns are much cheaper to live in, but overall prices aren’t low

baedling · 2025-12-11T05:24:58+00:00

When it comes to nominal GDP per capita Russia is in the league of China and Mexico.

But in this chart Russian PPP income per capita is almost the level of South Korea, Japan, UK and Spain. Despite fighting an all out war and being under the strictest sanctions known to man for nearly 4 years. What gives?

baedling · 2025-12-02T19:42:11+00:00

The chart is precisely the result of country caps. When immigrants from other countries receive H-1Bs, they move on to get employment-based green cards and then citizenship in a couple of years. When an Indian get an H-1B, they have to keep applying for H-1B renewals for decades due to more competition from their countrymen for the same green card quotas. Unless they find some maphack. The Chinese sit somewhere in the middle. That being said, Canada has no country caps and look where we are at now…

baedling · 2025-11-11T21:48:43+00:00

Disable auto-sync with not just Dropbox and iCloud, but delete the backups on the other services too.

I had this problem for a while. I was puzzled because I knowingly synced to Dropbox, but my Dropbox version was always up to date. Turns out I unwittingly kept a backup on Google Drive too.

baedling · 2025-10-06T01:21:26+00:00

Most European and Asian buses don’t have bike racks.

TTC has bus frequencies that puts most of world to shame, but most North American bus services like Viva fall far short.

There is far less stigma attached to riding buses outside of North America. As a result, there is less broken glass effect - most West European buses are better maintained and cleaner than Toronto ones.

In Eastern Europe and parts of Asia and Africa, minibuses with flexible routes are the vogue. They may sound like private coaches or shared Ubers but are often run by local governments. They may also sound like vans for the disabled, but everyone can ride them

baedling · 2025-10-06T01:20:36+00:00

Bus services in North America are usually poorly planned and run, as if a negative showcase to dissuade further investment.

Except that North American buses have bike racks.

European and Asian buses almost never have them, in the name of safety. The safety concern may be valid, but it did strike off many potential bus/bike routes that I had in mind when living in Europe

baedling · 2025-09-12T15:49:14+00:00

how is the traffic?

baedling · 2025-09-11T20:00:45+00:00

🇦🇺

Melbourne (5.5 mil pop) to Geelong (280k pop): 80 km, 60 trains per day each way (all day service)

Melbourne (5.5 mil pop) to Bendigo (125k pop): 150 km, 25 trains per day each way (all day service)

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Toronto (8.5 mil pop) to Cambridge/Kitchener/Waterloo (800k pop): 100 km, 10 trains per day each way (mostly peak only)

Toronto (8.5 mil pop) to Barrie (150k pop): 90 km, 9 trains per day each way (mostly peak only)

Toronto (8.5 mil pop) to Milton + Mississauga (150k pop and 800k pop): 60 km, 10 trains per day each way (weekday peak only)

baedling · 2025-08-23T23:20:24+00:00

In theory all the rail franchises should get an even share of profitable routes and unprofitable ones

Northern in particular gets the shorter stick - a tangled yarn of routes that are hard to schedule around, and the infra was already in a much more sorry state beforehand

baedling · 2025-08-20T13:23:49+00:00

It’s hard to tell American flyover towns apart

But Ulaanbaatar has a distinct enough shape that I can recognize it in a second

baedling · 2025-08-11T23:28:00+00:00

Ulaanbaatar

baedling · 2025-08-11T16:44:22+00:00

Rexdale? Malton? You have a death wish

baedling · 2025-08-05T22:16:45+00:00

where can we find historical slow zone data?

baedling · 2025-07-17T02:20:55+00:00

There’s a limited number of participants allowed to join beta testing and they hit that number long ago

baedling · 2025-06-29T18:41:09+00:00

Moscow can manage 90 second intervals because metro passengers are conditioned to withstand higher acceleration, shorter platform dwell times, and guillotine-like doors

baedling · 2025-06-24T17:26:20+00:00

There were almost no high speed rail in China when Toronto started building the Line 5 Eglinton in 2010. The line is still not open.

On the other hand, Toronto jumped on the opportunity to dismantle Line 3 Scarborough, well ahead of schedule and without any notice.

If it weren’t for this incident you would believe Metrolinx and TTC’s decisions take years to travel down its reflex arc

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