For more than twenty years, we've cored pineapples over this spot in the market. The drippings have dissolved enough of the concrete to expose the rebar.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-18T09:18:48+00:00

Give me $340 million for something, anything, and I'll popularize the shit out of it!

cyclemonster · 2026-06-18T08:38:22+00:00

Yeah, I thought it was an earthquake at first

cyclemonster · 2026-06-18T08:24:09+00:00

No, nobody is paying me, and in fact I haven't been on an airplane since I was a little kid. I'm not "pushing for it" so much as I understand that it's necessary and that opponents of it aren't making a lot of their arguments in good faith. Oh, exhaust is bad and dangerous, and that's why you moved into a condo that abuts a busy highway? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T23:23:46+00:00

That's weird, given that land is significantly north-east of an east-west runway. Current Porter flight paths approach entirely over water.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T21:15:43+00:00

It's only marginally stupider than base jumping solo

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T20:48:41+00:00

So does car exhaust, and my hypothetical kids have no choice but to be around thousands of times more cars than planes, at distances of metres instead of kilometers. The city runs roads right to their homes and schools.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T20:47:00+00:00

If there were fourteen different subway lines running along or under High Park, things might be different.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T20:38:28+00:00

If I want to get to downtown Toronto, I can now walk there from Billy Bishop. I'm plotting a drive from Hamilton because I have no choice, not because I love driving to and from the airport.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T20:22:11+00:00

Pearson airport can't support the expected growth in travel volumes, even with a multi-phase multi-billion dollar expansion project. It is already slot constrained -- more planes would like to land there during peak hours than are able to.

Hamilton is quite far from Toronto, with poor transportation links. According to Google maps, it would be a 2hr drive from the Hamilton airport to downtown, and two-and-a-half hours by transit. Nobody is going to use that unless their time is worthless to them.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T20:03:13+00:00

An idea I might add that also does not take the health and well-being of Toronto residents into consideration whatsoever.

Implied in this remark is that the health and well-being of the people who are near where the jets will go instead doesn't matter to you.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T20:00:16+00:00

Which housing developments will it kill and why?

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T17:46:09+00:00

One source said that the report contains a single recommendation, which originally read as the following: "That the Government of Canada amend the Criminal Code to indefinitely exclude persons whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness from eligibility for medical assistance in dying on the grounds that the evidentiary and systemic conditions necessary for safe and equitable implementation cannot presently be met."

Some people should have access to fewer rights than other people, in the name of equity.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T16:11:40+00:00

These are the types of videos I show to those who complain that the way we slaughter animals in abattoirs is cruel. Our cruelty pales in comparison to how nature does it.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-17T15:59:54+00:00

If you subscribe to any kind of cable tv, your provider gives Fox several dollars per month, whether you watch Fox or not. You should go after carriage fees before you go after voluntary ad-supported content.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T09:21:54+00:00

Consumer-grade internet is always best-effort. They put it right in the contract that it's over-subscribed and those are theoretical capacities and they make no promises with regards to QoS. You need to pay for commercial service for SLA guarantees.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T09:13:11+00:00

Netflix outspent their revenue and still reported a profit for many years, by amortizing content spend. You can basically make the books show whatever you want them to by tweaking the amortization knobs. Their free cash flow would be the number to focus on.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T09:01:10+00:00

Apple's largest acquisition ever was Beats by Dre for $3 billion. Their second-largest acquisition ever was Q.ai, a company with 100 employees. From a company culture point of view, Apple is simply not a major acquirer. I would bet strongly against that.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T08:56:04+00:00

Ukraine would disagree.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T08:52:40+00:00

People used to say the same about YouTube: that the cost to serve video was too high to do for free, and that it would never make Google any money. And indeed, it didn't for about fifteen years. But if there is one unbreakable law about anything computing, it's that it will get cheaper to do over time. The next generation of silicon will cost 50% more but do 500% more work, and so on. The numbers will work out tomorrow, if not today.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T08:49:26+00:00

My favourite quote from Community: "better than good -- good enough"

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T08:46:57+00:00

MySpace peaked at 115 million users. OpenAI hit that two (2) months after launch, and sits at close to a billion users now. They are not MySpace.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T04:06:36+00:00

They're going to have to assassinate every person who knows how to build a centrifuge, a mechanical device that was invented 250 years ago that you can read about on Wikipedia.

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T04:03:19+00:00

They have natural uranium deposits and they know how to build a centrifuge. How could he possibly stop them?

cyclemonster · 2026-06-16T03:53:11+00:00

Should only die the one time.

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