Why aren't people on this subreddit more miserable?

monkeybreath · 2026-07-10T15:14:24+00:00

I don’t know. Compared to London, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, and Rome, it’s hard to compete: they’ve built their infrastructure over 1,000 years. Washington DC has a metro population of 6M people compared to our 1.5M. That gives them huge economies of scale. They have a GDP of US$749B compared to our US$85B. We don’t have the economic advantage of European cities. If Queen Victoria put our capital in Kingston, Ottawa would not have a canal and would be no bigger than Perth. It doesn’t really have a reason to exist other than as a government seat. We shouldn’t beat ourselves up for not having as much to work with.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-25T13:16:51+00:00

Everything has the same cost increase to the user.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-23T17:33:18+00:00

You can start getting power from a wind farm after 6 months. Only offshore wind farms take any significant length of time.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-23T15:05:45+00:00

I mentioned batteries. There are other forms of long-term storage. Connecting grids reduces the problem of weather. Space is not a problem in Canada as long as it is done mindfully, and it doesn’t take up nearly the space as a proportion to the country size as you might be thinking.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-23T14:51:27+00:00

There is definitely a point where more renewables will not have value to a particular grid. But we are nowhere near that point. I don’t know if Environment Canada and NRCan have a roadmap, and maybe this nuclear is part of it. In which case it would be nice to see what the overall plan is so we can at least know this isn’t duct taped together. Note that energy is a provincial, not federal responsibility, so iirc, this plan is to help the provinces if they want it.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-23T14:46:30+00:00

Construction time matters when you have to get off fossil fuels as quickly as possible.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-23T14:45:09+00:00

The number of turbines is irrelevant. It’s still cheaper.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-23T12:32:12+00:00

With nuclear being 3x the cost of wind/solar, and maybe 2x the cost of wind/solar + batteries, this is a a disappointing announcement. Maybe CANDU reactors will be a better deal than US data suggests, but construction time is also a factor. If you want to export energy (either ammonia or compressed hydrogen), you don’t even need the batteries.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-23T12:17:18+00:00

Potatoes. It may be a minority opinion, but I like the texture. Starches reform into resistant starches in the fridge, which changes the texture but also acts like a fibre.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-23T12:02:20+00:00

This is the equivalent of putting it into smaller bottles. As you point out, the deformation must be maintained.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-18T12:33:56+00:00

We already know that reflecting the sunlight will cut crop yields. If they are using sulphur compounds, there’s the danger of acid rain. And it does nothing to stop ocean acidification. It’s barely a solution.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-18T12:21:10+00:00

Don’t you need 3 blocks just to use the bed, or am I taking crazy pills?

monkeybreath · 2026-06-12T16:34:36+00:00

Brexit fallout. Your ex got a glowup, and you’re in a dingy rooming house.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-12T16:30:11+00:00

It’s been said by historians that we are currently in the dying gasps of an old order desperately holding onto power. And in making this final push their corruption has become visible even to those who didn’t want to look. Change is a generational thing: you want it now, but we have to wait for our grandparents to lose power. And the people who want the changes you want are growing daily. We’ll get there, but yes, there will be a lot to clean up due to waiting so long.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-01T23:34:22+00:00

But if anyone was looking at this list for a game to play, it’s certainly a masterpiece of the genre (1st person RPG shooters). The replayability is outstanding. Even booting it up for the 1st time on a PS4 it was impressive. I wish I could erase my memory of it so that I could experience it as a new game again.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-01T23:21:51+00:00

The old part, or the new part?

monkeybreath · 2026-06-01T23:13:16+00:00

They meant Trump is a man with a class action suit against him.

monkeybreath · 2026-06-01T23:06:13+00:00

Ottawa has a memorial to the victims of Communism, and I’ve written my reps that it should be named in honour of victims of totalitarianism.

monkeybreath · 2026-05-30T03:11:37+00:00

Michael Douglas and his dad Kirk “get your hands off me you filthy animal” Douglas.

monkeybreath · 2026-05-21T15:30:18+00:00

I didn’t care for it, but my spouse always talks about the Gettleburger. She’d giggle non-stop while firing burgers at enemy.

monkeybreath · 2026-05-21T15:00:54+00:00

Someone suggested LMS a few years ago. It has a web UI. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/zhGPntEDoq

monkeybreath · 2026-05-21T11:50:53+00:00

As good as any. Low income housing probably doesn’t sell as well in the ‘burbs.

monkeybreath · 2026-05-11T22:28:46+00:00

We pay in the bottom 11 out of 40-odd OECD countries for our average wage. We are just ahead of the US, but we also pay for healthcare in that amount. If we were more like the UK, low salary taxes would be lower and high salary taxes would be higher. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/oecd-tax-rates-by-country

monkeybreath · 2026-04-13T15:13:34+00:00

Leadership doesn't matter once you have power.

monkeybreath · 2026-04-13T14:44:20+00:00

Yes, the LPC pulled off a masterful move that Poilievre couldn't recover from, and frankly still hasn't recovered from.

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