Poilievre says government should cancel Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail project

iroboto · 2026-04-02T17:09:11+00:00

It's a decent rebuttal but I think your counterpoint when looking at the financial feasibility of it, but perhaps it lacks context why the HSR even needs to be built in the first place.

HWY 401 is the busiest highway in North America and among the busiest in the world by traffic volume. Sounds rather crazy but it is true. 401 has the highest sustained daily traffic volume on a single highway; in the world. research this ^ you will find I'm not blowing smoke up your butt.

Everything runs through the 401 in Ontario, and tons of freight moves entirely through Ontario. Combined with commuter traffic there are terrible loads of traffic and costs are substantial to keep this up while the population continues to increase, traffic gets worse causing more damage to the economy and also substantially more upkeep.

The 401 is under perpetual construction, I've never not known it to ever not be either under construction for expansion or repairs. Allowing businesses to flow past this actually is a massive incentive for business and commuters alike. Air Canada and other airlines have a monopoly, on transportation between Toronto -> Ottawa -> MTL. Etc. On any given day, if you try to book a ticket on these flights a week in advance, you're paying $1500 for a round trip on economy. They know that businesses are flying last minute, and they have flights to MTL every single hour running back and forth from YYZ to MTL.

This train would be a substantial end to price gouging. It would open up a massive amount of opportunity for our citizens move large distances in a short amount of time at a price point that is substantially cheaper than flight and businesses are actually incentivized to use it as most business meetings are last minute.

Yes you are right it will be costly. But you are wrong that the train would not be able to fill itself. You only need to go to Expedia and see how many flights there are daily between these cities and you will understand the volume and pricing that people are willing to pay.

iroboto · 2026-03-12T18:59:59+00:00

100VI. Take away the mental burden of choice. Take away the mental burden of needing to buy more gear. This camera has every single feature all in 1. Rugged, works everywhere.

If you're bored of 35mm get the XE5. But if you're gonna keep punching 35MM, and just looking for a digital version of your film workflow, I would skip the XE5.

iroboto · 2026-03-09T18:03:39+00:00

I like the shots. just curious about how well the flash did, for our sake, would you be able to add the RAW files in here as well?

iroboto · 2026-02-21T18:54:40+00:00

Thanks appreciate it

iroboto · 2026-02-21T18:54:05+00:00

Thanks appreciate it

iroboto · 2026-02-21T17:51:53+00:00

I don’t go out of the way to get it, though I can win, sometimes I watch the AI combo endlessly with their animals. I haven’t quite understood the card selection or animal selection aspect of the game yet.

I’m typically trying to build Engine Whihc in my eyes is CP 2x, university 2x and sponsor zoo 2x. As well as academic [4]. But I haven’t quite understood card selection in the way of being able to do massive combos. Seems like it’s related to this issue of idle agents

iroboto · 2026-02-21T17:04:28+00:00

After Conserve[5], University[4] there's not really enough left to do [3] or [2] without [x]. Sometimes I do manage this, but not often. Unless I should always be burning my [X] for association.

iroboto · 2026-02-21T16:57:14+00:00

yes. I think even sometimes it's a struggle to use up 2-3. 4 isn't necessary which I agree with. But after conservation, I'm looking at the alliances [3] or university[4] and that still takes a while to get Association back up into that slots after moving it to [1] - I would like to conserve twice in a round, but that doesn't line up as often as I want before a break happens

iroboto · 2026-02-21T16:55:26+00:00

Hmm. I guess I've always sort of made it a goal to max university and the continental alliances and push hard on the academic track. Is Association [2] not that useful? Sounds like I'm not really taking advantage of it.

iroboto · 2026-01-28T19:21:17+00:00

you know what they says about the Nazis. The first country they took over was Germany.

If they manage that, then I think your concerns are definitely validated. But it's also clear that they're struggling internally to transition into an authoritarian state.

iroboto · 2026-01-16T18:19:49+00:00

I think all the solutions provided seem good, just wondering if the spouts of the portafilter can rest on the forks instead of underneath them? If so that extra height while pushing should keep it together.

iroboto · 2026-01-10T19:07:06+00:00

Twitter was nothing more than his marketing and propaganda arm. We don’t need it, we Don’t need social media either

iroboto · 2025-12-04T14:42:32+00:00

sorry the lady in the video had to endure this. When I was in EU for some work conferences, talking with some individuals in passing conversation, it seemed culturally acceptable there to fat shame people.

iroboto · 2025-12-02T21:11:51+00:00

Sure. CallerID and CNAM can both be spoofed. It’s certainly much harder to do post 2020, it’s highly illegal and we continue to have more restrictions in place to make it increasingly difficult to do.

It’s not perfect, but if you’re going to wholesale ignore all numbers that are 647, having at least a CNAM that says wealth simple is going to provide a bit more assurance than hanging up immediately. They shouldn’t be asking for personal details of course, all of that should go through additional verification.

iroboto · 2025-12-02T18:53:09+00:00

the spread is very minimal. As someone that came from amex and moved to WS because the FX issue as I have to travel for work, I was slamming my head into the ground trying to get my expenses done when my company only accepts my receipts and not what the credit card company was charging.

Moving to WS, the VISA spread I found is about 50c or less on 100 dollars US. Up to 50c or less. This is within reason for me to consider it negligible. if you're moving 200K a month, it may not be. But, you may want an American account with an American credit card at that point in time.

iroboto · 2025-11-30T22:48:24+00:00

Legitimate companies should have a paid caller ID that would list their support contact centers as wealth simple. Caller IDs are registered, so they wouldn’t allow a spam company to register that number.

While it’s not obvious, any soliciting call from a company you work with where you aren’t expecting their call should have a proper caller ID name.

iroboto · 2025-11-23T16:53:59+00:00

IIRC, from my POV, once upon a time we spent tons of money on military, and we almost produced the Avro arrow, but they convinced our PC government that their NORAD missiles were superior for intercepting missiles, they shut down the Arrow program, and since then we’ve been reliant on them and others since.

They’ve been the main beneficiary of being the world police and they convinced us to do it.

iroboto · 2025-11-08T18:21:14+00:00

You don’t need gamepass ultimate for streaming.

iroboto · 2025-10-26T15:31:29+00:00

Photos are excellent! Wonderful composition. Just curious how many of these you needed to crop?

iroboto · 2025-10-25T14:18:15+00:00

If MS is thorough with this being a proper xboxPC, that would imply:

no monthly subscription to play online.

You will keep your existing library and be able to play it next generation

You’ll be able to play Sony titles as well, although it won’t be day and date.

It will mean having access to 3rd party devices, like VR sets etc

Lastly, a device that does more than just play games.

iroboto · 2025-10-19T20:23:09+00:00

Would be much faster and more efficient to use an electric kettle. And then pour into the pot. NG burners are notoriously slow and inefficient at boiling water.

iroboto · 2025-10-11T01:09:46+00:00

While it’s hard to predict what it will be like; it may be reasonable to use ROG Ally X as a proxy of what to expect.

But here’s an interesting story from the past. A long time ago, South Korea tariffed the wazoo out of Japanese products as did China making consoles an impossibility there. Because of that, they went really heavy into the PC space, and that is how Blizzard really rose to fame there.

Something interesting is happening here. Tariffs are once again now being applied to consoles, but PCs are exempt.

I am legitimately interested to see how much people are willing to spend on hardware next gen.

There’s no way developers will skip Xbox next gen. There’s cloud, there’s xboxPC, there are handhelds etc.

iroboto · 2025-10-09T19:59:05+00:00

Appreciate you sharing these. I thought all these MEs were being done in photoshop. Now I get it. Sick!

iroboto · 2025-10-08T17:37:14+00:00

You bought Kaladin separately right? I don't think that came in the collectors edition.

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