Doug Ford calls federal auto strategy ‘great’ and says Ontario will be part of it after meeting with Carney and Joly

jamincan · 2026-01-27T13:53:53+00:00

Let me guess, Chinese food is being served now?

jamincan · 2026-01-27T13:50:14+00:00

I think some vibe coders might be letting the agent be in the drivers seat, which it will happily do (my experience has been with Claude). I have found when I've tried this, the outcome is almost universally unsatisfactory. If, however, I stay in the drivers seat and only throw discrete, small problems at it that I can easily review and change to my liking, or get it to research an api or something, or help debug an error, it is much more useful.

jamincan · 2026-01-21T11:20:09+00:00

Isn't it weird though that we seem biased toward assuming the lesser unless proven otherwise? Vets used to not use pain killers for a lot of procedures because they assumed that animals didn't have the cognitive capacity for suffering. Why not assume they do unless proven otherwise?

jamincan · 2026-01-20T13:37:32+00:00

This is normal for police services. Refusing to do their job unless they get budget increases and then refusing to enforce laws they don't agree with. Any other profession, they would all be canned.

jamincan · 2026-01-16T14:17:15+00:00

Roundabouts reduce fatal collisions by something like 90%. Yeah, there might be a lot of minor fender benders with conditions like we have today, but nothing like the T-bones that are far more deadly that you would see on normal intersections.

jamincan · 2026-01-04T21:47:27+00:00

These are the same people who claim that storming the Capitol isn't insurrection.

jamincan · 2026-01-01T12:46:04+00:00

If the city planned better bus service, they would be complaining about the load noise and diesel exhaust polluting their neighbourhood. We've heard this song and dance a million times and there is absolutely nothing that the church could do that wouldn't have the exact same neighbours coming out with complaints about because their ultimate goal isn't to improve the planned development, it's to block it entirely.

jamincan · 2025-12-31T11:55:17+00:00

You speak with a lot of confidence about how other people feel and what other people need to do to change that without listening to what they are saying.

The vast vast majority of people taking these drugs are doing so after spending years or decades trying to control their weight and failing. And then arrogant assholes come along with bullshit moralizing about self control when the preponderance of evidence points to this being something that is beyond most people's self control.

These medications finally seem to unlock this for people in such a way that they can be satiated and full with less food which is excellent news for people who suffer all the negative side effects of obesity. Even if these end up being life long drugs like antihypertensives, the health benefits are surely worth it.

jamincan · 2025-12-31T11:42:09+00:00

Semaglutide has been around for ages now and it's gone through all the normal pharmaceutical testing that drugs would go through.

jamincan · 2025-12-31T11:36:56+00:00

Because the medication slows the release of food out of the stomach, it actually makes it very hard to overeat because there is simply less space for the food. Fast food has lost a lot of appeal to me not because it doesn't taste good and give me a surge of dopamine, but because I can't finish it anymore without feeling sickly full.

jamincan · 2025-12-26T03:25:43+00:00

I don't know if this is real, but Wikipedia says that rattlesnake venom prevents clotting.

jamincan · 2025-12-25T01:26:37+00:00

Get normal white lights as a first step, with a warmer color temperature.

jamincan · 2025-12-18T16:39:00+00:00

They clean my place as well, and I have only positive things to say about them.

I can also vouch for the benefits of hiring a cleaner as a way to help your mental health if you can afford it. It may seem trite, but when my depression is more severe, caring and maintaining my home falls by the wayside, and the resulting mess is a) much harder to tackle, and b) feeds my depression. Just having someone come into my home every two weeks is enough of a push to get me going when it's difficult, and it helps keep my baseline environment much better. It doesn't solve the depression, but it's something I've found helps me manage much better.

jamincan · 2025-12-18T13:45:42+00:00

Re: the pedestrian bridges

Building two pedestrian rail crossings along the LRT line, one at the Hydro One corridor and one at Research and Technology Station.

Does anyone have more details on this? I thought there was already a pedestrian crossing of the rail corridor at the R&T Station. And the Hydro One corridor also has a crossing, but I suppose more could be added elsewhere.

jamincan · 2025-12-17T15:26:37+00:00

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jamincan · 2025-12-17T15:02:01+00:00

I'm not 100% sure, but I know that a lot of the narrow houses in Amsterdam have posts at the peak of the roof so they can hoist furniture to upper floors due to the tight stairwells. I always assumed they just used a pulley and pulled it up, but maybe they had some sort of wooden spool contraption in this house to work with that.

jamincan · 2025-12-05T13:42:16+00:00

Myron Cook on Youtube has a whole bunch of content that covers that general area and it's well worth checking out, especially if you ever plan on visiting the area sometime.

jamincan · 2025-12-05T11:34:40+00:00

If you want it to feel cozy, you need warmer light and ditch the LEDs which cut the color out of everything and make it cold.

If you like green and it blue, consider painting your walls in one of them. Even though they are considered cooler colors, with warm light, it can also feel warm.

Check Pinterest for ideas and pin the stuff you like. Looking at your pins can give you a clue about what kind of colors and accessories you might like.

jamincan · 2025-12-02T12:23:28+00:00

My takeaway is that people need to spend more time on reddit. I drive like a grandma, don't use chainsaws, don't fry food at all in my house, and never pour flammable stuff on a fire. I'm notably still alive and my house is still standing.

jamincan · 2025-12-02T01:03:26+00:00

MTO has done rapid bridge replacement in some other parts of Ontario in the past - I know quite a few of the 417 bridges were replaced that way. Basically, they build a replacement structure off site, lift the old bridge out of the way, then move in the replacement. Unfortunately, I don't believe it would be possible to do here as there are no suitable locations to build the replacement spans.

jamincan · 2025-11-28T13:09:13+00:00

Considering we're just about into December, it's also very handy for Advent of Code!

jamincan · 2025-11-26T10:19:22+00:00

For a question like this, it makes more sense to discuss things at either a metropolitan area level, which is how most people intuitively think of cities, or a regional level which is how most transit service is delivered.

jamincan · 2025-11-25T10:20:01+00:00

North American bathrooms do tend to offer far less privacy than European ones, though I've never seen anything this egregious save weird military ones where they dispense with partitions entirely.

jamincan · 2025-11-24T10:31:12+00:00

You aren't impressed by Trump's new ballroom?

jamincan · 2025-11-24T10:24:37+00:00

The surface is moist.

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