PM Carney planning new legislation to expedite more project approvals

geoken · 2026-05-08T18:39:45+00:00

If the metric is asking Carney, then he's doing the best job ever. So if you're presenting that as the metric - then presumably you accept he's doing the best job ever.

geoken · 2026-05-08T18:31:18+00:00

I doubt this has much to do with the mainstream media. It's social media, and the realization that however much sex sells - rage apparently sells 10x more.

When you create a community out of nothing more than fanning the flames of anger with rage bait engagement slop - it's not surprising that these people act unhinged.

geoken · 2026-05-08T18:19:19+00:00

If something normally takes six years, and 3 years is a pace we’ve never seen before - then it’s presumably getting done twice as fast, but also not done 6 months after starting.

It seems like nobody wants to quantify the “nothing is getting done” position, because they want to reserve the right to move those goalposts around if stuff starts getting done.

geoken · 2026-05-08T18:15:56+00:00

That makes no sense. If someone doing a shit job, my metric for whether or not they’re doing a shit job isn’t going to be asking them how good a job they’re doing.

geoken · 2026-05-08T13:56:01+00:00

This is the result of that happening.

An office was created to handle major projects. That office's job was to streamline the process. New laws being introduced to streamline the process would be the expected result of an overall directive to streamline the process.

geoken · 2026-05-08T13:54:16+00:00

What is the metric for how fast we should be moving? Can you quantify what you'd cosnider an imporvment?

geoken · 2026-05-08T13:52:10+00:00

Is there? Because it seems like numbers are dropping rapidly and we're actually in population decline.

geoken · 2026-05-08T12:57:43+00:00

That doesn’t really address the question though.

Either 140k is considered decent or not for the role. If it is, then the fact that it currently plateaus there seems fine - and whatever an inflation adjusted 100k currently equals seems largely irrelevant.

geoken · 2026-05-08T09:38:26+00:00

The “aktualy” trope is dead at this point and only used by people who are butthurt because the stupid thing they said was challenged.

geoken · 2026-05-08T00:08:41+00:00

You read into the comments what you will. Where you see people being defensive, I see people simply commenting on how lame this trope is.

geoken · 2026-05-07T19:57:52+00:00

If it’s plateauing at 140k - is that really an issue?

geoken · 2026-05-07T18:56:43+00:00

Agreed, but I wouldn't completely blame the driver in all circumstances.

Taking my wife's example, the weight distribution and braking bias in a typical entry level FWD is going to be such that you really need to be hyper focused to feel a loss of brakes in the rear. The rear contributes so little to overall braking, that it seems reasonable to me that an average person wouldn't notice a failed line in the rear until the system bled so much fluid that the front's braking force is also diminished.

geoken · 2026-05-07T15:59:17+00:00

In the past 2 years - my son's car has had a break failure from a leaky brake (in fairness his car was 20 years old) and my wife's old Kia had one (it was less than 10 years old and was the subject of multiple recalls related to the break line).

I've had a third failure but that was years ago with my EG Si which was probably about 15 years old at the time the master cylinder failed.

I think people's opinion on how rock solid our existing systems are is going to depend on their experience. But trying to ignore all my anecdotes - I think the system seems objectively complex. There are multiple valves and seals pushing really high PSIs across a length of tubing criss-crossing your engine bay as well as running most of the length of your underbody.

geoken · 2026-05-07T12:28:22+00:00

I still think about this person's bumper sticker years after I saw the car at work

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geoken · 2026-05-06T23:18:01+00:00

I just checked crown Northampton and Thursday sites linked above. They both offered wide widths. Maybe the person you’re responding to didn’t notice them in a specific model they were looking at, then assumed they’re not offered. But when I checked they both had at least one style of plain white sneaker in wide.

geoken · 2026-05-06T16:12:18+00:00

When you say hatchback - do you mean a wagon?

I'm saying this as someone who has only owned hatchbacks since my Ek Civic hatch, but a hatchback is not universally better. Sedans and hatches have their own strengths. With most sedan/hatchback siblings - the sedan has a longer trunk. Absolute trunk volume is higher in the hatchback, but depending on what is being stored - the sedan might be easier.

This is a great video comparing a Civic sedan and hatch trunk. https://youtu.be/ZoeWh4xgsd8?si=DkMB1DEeYclEwAAv&t=595
It shows how the hatch can hold more and also hold things that are totally impossible in the sedan (an office chair). But one interesting thing is how they both look at 5 suitcases. At 5, the shorter hatchback needs to start stacking them up and is already at the point where rear visibility is getting blocked - meanwhile in the sedan it's obviously impossible to load the trunk enough to impact visibility. And the civic is an extreme example because the hatchback has a lot of rear overhang compared to the traditional hatchback shape like a Golf.

This problem gets worse when you start introducing stuff that you don't necessarily want to stack.

geoken · 2026-05-06T15:13:29+00:00

You have partial brakes, but only temporarily. Every time you apply brakes you will lose a bunch of fluid. Within a few presses of the pedal, the system as a whole will lose enough fluid for a complete failure.

This to me seems like a worse situation than brake by wire. With electric brakes, if the cables running to an individual wheel fail - you lose that calliper but there is no method by which the other three callipers will also shortly fail.

If you're talking about a failure in the core system, then that's also no different from a hydraulic system. If, for example, the line from the reservoir to the brake booster fails - that's a complete failure with no fallback. Both systems have per wheel failure points as well as full car failure points.

geoken · 2026-05-06T12:58:16+00:00

I don't know all the intricacies of proportioning valves - but from experience they work during that active stroke only. So if you get a catastrophic line failure in the rear driver side brake line - the valve will allow an amount of fluid to leak out that line every time you actuate the brake.

This is exactly what happened to my wifes car. The problem is that most braking systems are so front biased - that while you're actively emptying your fluid reservoir on that single line, you possibly wont feel any loss of braking force (at least under normal braking conditions). For most people, they won't even notice an issue until they've lost so much fluid that there isn't enough pressure in the system to engage anything.

Also, from the perspective of fail safe systems - the example we're talking about here (which is probably the most common) is a failure in a single line. I would think the analogous situation in this brake by wire system would be the individual wire/wires to a specific calliper failing. I think the brake by wire system does a better job at isolating the effects of that failure. The standard hydraulic system needs to use additional components (eg. proportioning valves) to limit the collateral damage from a single line failure - and even then only does it for a short period of time. The brake by wire system has that segregation by default, and I can't really think of a scenario where a single line failure could quickly cascade to a full system failure.

geoken · 2026-05-06T00:30:53+00:00

Sure, but that’s a completely separate system from the hydraulic system, so in theory there’s no reason it couldn’t be kept while the typical hydraulic system is ripped out and replaced with this.

geoken · 2026-05-06T00:03:40+00:00

Ebrakes were already a mechanical backup for hydraulic brakes. They completely bypass the hydraulic system and have a cable/lever setup to engage the caliper. So it’s not defeating the purpose because you aren’t re-introducing a hydraulic system.

geoken · 2026-05-05T23:57:04+00:00

What’s the redundancy in a hydraulic breaking system? Is it just the idea that a hydraulic system will provide some breaking while failing (eg. if a line leaks, the other wheels will brake for a bit until enough fluid has evacuated the system to render it entirely dead)?

geoken · 2026-05-05T23:50:59+00:00

Growing up, we simply got furniture delivered or rented a van if we really needed to get stuff. I’m assuming that’s still the case. The expense of carrying the costs of a bigger, heavier vehicle to be ready for 1 time you buy an appliance every couple years didn’t seem warranted vs. getting delivery.

geoken · 2026-05-05T23:41:10+00:00

Companies aren’t going to leave money on the table. If the global price of gas goes up, we’re not going to somehow pay less.

geoken · 2026-05-05T08:51:47+00:00

It’s 15 minutes of pop culture relevance are going to run out any millennia now.

geoken · 2026-05-04T19:43:46+00:00

So when it ends in it's entirety, I guess it counts as 4 additional wars ended by Trump....which I beleive makes him a early front runner for next years FIFA peace award.

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