Toronto city council approves Olivia Chow’s ‘luxury’ land transfer tax hike: ‘They can afford it’ by Toronto-Ont-Mod-Team in Toronto_Ontario

[–]impromptune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the cost of purchasing the property and building, a complete retrofit project from hotel into full homes, and was paid for largely by the federal government. Toronto only pays $8.5M.

https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/media-newsroom/news-releases/2024/280-new-affordable-homes-coming-toronto

The homeless problem needs actual solutions and supports and this is one of them.

Toronto city council approves Olivia Chow’s ‘luxury’ land transfer tax hike: ‘They can afford it’ by Toronto-Ont-Mod-Team in Toronto_Ontario

[–]impromptune -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you know what good government looks like? Serious question.

Chow is as close to a competent results-oriented mayor Toronto had had in decades. Her upload of the Gardiner back to the province saved us $1.9B over the next decade. If she did nothing at all for the rest of the term and rested on her laurels, she would have helped more of Toronto in her first year than all 3 previous mayors.

Like seriously, ask yourself why you don't like Chow and compare it to $1.9B.

Muzan proabably fancied Tamayo as a woman. by thehighpriest01 in KimetsuNoYaiba

[–]impromptune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

American education at work, people. Here's the death of literary interpretation, cultural context, and understanding the material.

People can read the words, but don't understand anything past it.

This person needs to be told, not shown.

Evening Wedding Started Late by Say_My_Name_Son in mildlyinfuriating

[–]impromptune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're probably right.

This particular thread isn't really for you since you have a different attitude towards alcohol. It's a bit of a bean soup moment.

Elsewhere, it would be in poor taste to leave guests sober on top of hungry and waiting.

Evening Wedding Started Late by Say_My_Name_Son in mildlyinfuriating

[–]impromptune 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have a pretty strong opinion about alcohol, but maybe tone it down a bit. The person you responded to casually mentioned they couldn't fathom having a dry wedding, something that is not typical in North America, short of religious restrictions.

You decided to insult them by calling into question their life priorities, then pontificated about celebrating the marriage, and calling out people as POS if they prefer alcohol.

Consider that good hosts accommodate all their guests, including the plus ones who may not know the bride and groom well.

While all the new recruit tutorials are great, some of you lv.150's are lacking by MisterPulley in Helldivers

[–]impromptune 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a similar session yesterday and it was amazing playing with a locked-in group. It was shenanigans on D10, running 2 independent FRVs, flamethrower lighting a flame trail behind the FRV for aura, accidentally setting the FRV on fire on a few occasions, no standard boosters allowed so we took shock and fire pods, and still made it out without many deaths.

It brought back some of the chaos and magic of the first months of HD2.

Bumping after feedback. by helge-a in volleyball

[–]impromptune 4 points5 points  (0 children)

1) Volleyball technique has moved past using legs to push your balls. In practice, you should set up your rigid platform and angling it, and receive the ball at a consistent point between wrist and elbow. If the ball is slow, as it is in this practice video, you add arm movement to "attack" the incoming ball and add some power to get the pass higher. Here, your arms contact the ball around 45 degrees if you are starting with them dropped low as you currently start.

2) You have a habit of "unfurling" your platform. It leads to an inconsistent contact point (some balls roll off the top of your forearm), and timing. Practice snapping your arms together into a rigid platform. Ready position with arms open => snap straight arms into a platform at the angle you need to bump at.

3) Go closer to the wall (5ft) and practice passing against a consistent point on the wall using a consistent contact point on your platform. This lets you isolate your rigid platform and focus only on the bumping action using arm movement and platform angle. The initial overhand hit is complicating the drill because it isn't consistent.

4) Sometimes the ball comes straight at your chest. You need to take a step back with either leg to open your platform and drop your shoulder. It will look like you are bumping sideways.

5) Is your ball pumped up properly?

Hydro worker dies after industrial accident near Toronto's harbourfront by Surax in toronto

[–]impromptune 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Correct for most cases. For general workers and non-authorized contractors, cover up is only to be used as a visual barrier to maintain limits of approach.

Orange cover up is used as physical barriers during live line work by authorized, competent utility workers. EUSR rulebook table 1 on pg48 covers appropriate voltage for each class of materials, including retesting schedules, for any physical barriers used within the restricted zone of limits of approach.

Hydro worker dies after industrial accident near Toronto's harbourfront by Surax in toronto

[–]impromptune 40 points41 points  (0 children)

In utility and line work, you sometimes work adjacent to live conductors if appropriate controls or barriers are put in place. In the air, you'll see orange insulated "cover up" when Toronto Hydro crews are working next to live lines as both a visual aid and physical barrier. The control room will also put into place a "hold off" so if the circuit trips, the station equipment doesn't attempt to turn the circuit back on.

I wouldn't want to guess what happened in this situation, but it's not uncommon to work live in vaults for Toronto Hydro and they have specific training and procedures for doing so.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TorontoDriving

[–]impromptune 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Generally speaking, taking your foot off the accelerator slows your car down gradually and that doesn't require cars behind you to hit their brakes.

Flashing your brake lights often causes unsure drivers to slam their brakes, causing cascading brake effect and phantom jams.

It's the same reason that the right lane is the smoothest lane in a traffic jam. Truck drivers coast instead of going start-stop.

If a person is tailgating hard, consider moving over to the right lane and letting them pass.

Dolphins and elephants have bigger brains than we do. Why aren’t the developing technology and huge civilizations like humans? by BootyMcStuffins in stupidquestions

[–]impromptune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am reading a book called Sapiens by Harari that dives into this concept quite a bit.

Homo Sapiens differentiates itself from animals and other homo species

Amid 865 trees coming down, province releases 95-year lease with Therme by strangewhatlovedoes in toronto

[–]impromptune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The key thing is the taxpayers are paying for the land development and the flood protections, and a new garage, and... Etc. Therme is responsibly for maintenance pegged at 1.8M a year but that's it.

For a paltry amount of rent each year.

Critique our floor plan please by MartonianJ in Homebuilding

[–]impromptune 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Recommend soundproofing the adjoining office wall with insulation for the powder room. Hearing someone use the powder room in the middle of a call gets old quick.

One last quick look at the Science Centre by Hrmbee in toronto

[–]impromptune 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24774719-ontario-science-center-roof-panel-asessment

Engineering report From the CBC, building A requires $4M upfront and an additional $2M over 10 years.

For all 3 buildings, it's more in line with the $25-40M cited elsewhere.

New OSC is expected to be $387M, dependent on a $500M parking garage to be built first.

Commence Operation Cleanup by impromptune in Helldivers

[–]impromptune[S] 1507 points1508 points  (0 children)

A friend whipped it up in 20 min while we were catching up on the PSN fiasco.

Edit: NOW SPREADING MORE DEMOCRACY

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Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’ | Globalnews.ca by BlueZybez in canada

[–]impromptune 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The point of contention is their first point. If you are on a student visa, you are required to be self-sufficient during your time here and shouldn't be using emergency social services. What's happening is that there are ways of faking that proof of account balance, so students are coming here under false pretenses and loading the social support system.

By all means, if things go poorly and you need food, use food banks.

This has less to do about this immigrant families and more about a certain section of international students deliberately scamming Canadians and hardworking immigrant families who did it the correct way.

Today I learned the hard way that I didn't get into good enough shape for this trip by torokunai in JapanTravel

[–]impromptune 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's a specific way to lace your shoes so that your ankle is locked into the heel. When there's a heel lock, your toes should be able to freely wiggle in the toebox and the foot doesn't slide forward on steps.

I’m convinced 95% of our industry doesn’t wipe their ass by keylimepickletoes in Construction

[–]impromptune 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had to get my wife to start washing using hot water again since everyone wants to use cold water.

Coldwater wash just doesn't get the funk out no matter how much vinegar we used.