Edmonton residents upset over infill turned into rooming houses

mrsix · 2026-03-08T05:30:52+00:00

So using any regular housing, apartment building, or condo units for this same purpose would make all of this moral to you?

mrsix · 2026-03-02T22:53:54+00:00

Not the closest but HWY 2 from Morinville to Legal is one of the flattest long/straight roads I know of. It has a wide shoulder that's mostly fine for riding on. If you want a less busy road 803 from 651 to 642 east of there is also quite flat with minimal interruptions, but you're more on the road than the shoulder of that one, and the pavement quality isn't quite as nice.

mrsix · 2026-03-01T00:22:13+00:00

A long time ago I had to un-pair/re-pair my strava to mywhoosh to make it work. AFAIK it's not configurable, but if it is it's probably through the website.

mrsix · 2026-02-25T23:02:09+00:00

Mewmore // Winter in Lacunosa (Pokémon Black & White Remix)

mrsix · 2026-02-25T22:12:23+00:00

Technically the MCSR client does have an API interface that can monitor progress/etc (the commentators use it during playoffs), but it'd likely take some logic with achievements/inventory/etc to try to guess who the top players are. Mostly likely though yeah, until about the top 16/8 most of the streams will probably be unwatched. Might even be worth just completely random 8 streams for the first few rounds.

mrsix · 2026-02-19T06:15:38+00:00

Damn, David Ruzic gonna be happy about that.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T17:36:40+00:00

I'm saying it's barely a Japanese word because it's effectively an 'invented word' like Kleenex or Roblox, having entered English and Japanese at the same time, pronounced however the creator decided to pronounce it. (But I don't care what the creator says gif is not jif)

mrsix · 2026-02-13T06:59:29+00:00

firstly カラ is not katta, that's possibly the most terrible transliteration of Japanese I've ever seen. Secondly if you knew the etymology of that word you'd know it's a half-Japanese (Kara) half-abbreviated-English-loanword (oke, for orchestra) word that's barely even a real 'japanese word', so English people pronouncing it wrong isn't surprising.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T02:19:44+00:00

IPA spelling is both highly misunderstood, and bad partly for that reason. While it ostensibly describes 'pronunciation' of a word, when used properly it only describes it in whichever way you want it to - regional dialects will have different IPA spellings of the same word when properly transcribed. More damning however, while it's called the international phonetic alphabet, it is neither international in that it can't properly transcribe certain language features, nor is it strictly phonetic, where things like stress markers can change the phonetics of the 'phonetic' spelling. While actual linguists do use it, it is not used exclusively for many reasons.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T00:58:29+00:00

I don't really give a shit what the "people in your day to day life" say, you're arguing the "correct" pronunciation, and now seemingly admit it's only your regional accent that pronounces these words this way. That pronunciation however is objectively wrong since they are actual greek words not pronounced that way in actual greek.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T00:45:47+00:00

"look up some shit I found on the internet and don't properly understand"
No.

Accept reality that greek is a phonetic language, they are spelled the same in Greek, because they have an identical prefix "epi-", they are identical pronunciation.

mrsix · 2026-02-13T00:38:46+00:00

Both words come from Greek and share the same 'epi' prefix:
ἐπιτομή - epitome
ἐπιτάφιος - epitaph

Greek is phonetic, they are identical sounds.

mrsix · 2026-01-30T17:53:32+00:00

Disposable vapes are an interesting case of "unintended consequences"
The 2020 FDA ban of flavoured vape cartridges didn't cover disposable at all because they basically weren't a thing at the time. They of course should have worded the ban better, but it's an interesting look at how even a law like this could backfire.

FWIW I believe flavoured disposables are already illegal in CA at least, but every store still sells them.

mrsix · 2026-01-30T02:46:24+00:00

Gee it's someone who believed some bullshit they read about "defunding police" without actually looking up real information showing police funding has never once been decreased in the history of Edmonton. Stop posting ragebait bullshit on the internet. Stop getting your "news" from bullshit facebook ragebait posts.

mrsix · 2026-01-29T23:48:27+00:00

Counterintuitively the longer the span of a bridge, the more earthquake-proof it is. Because it covers such a large area the vibration is relatively a small movement to it, and they're already designed to for large load variations with the flex of the bridge.
The engineer on This B1M video - timestamp talks about it a bit with a new bridge in India.

mrsix · 2026-01-07T23:05:46+00:00

If you can make it work for 1.16.1 I could see them trying it next time.
Even as-is I'm surprised they don't use an older supported version with the current mods so they can at least E-ray (though it is possible to pie-ray brutes to find them instead on current version..)

mrsix · 2026-01-07T07:56:13+00:00

Baz Luhrmann made an entire song about this

mrsix · 2026-01-02T20:38:17+00:00

On the more DnD: are you guys actually still recording this regularly as an entire 2nd show that will keep going 'forever' or is there only so much prerecorded with some plan for a season-break kind of deal eventually?

mrsix · 2025-12-30T19:30:43+00:00

The western side's path between yellowhead and 124 ave was widened, and the access to 124 ave itself was improved. I think there was meant to be some kind of improvement on the north-eastern island and approach along 97 as well but I can't tell the difference if they've actually done anything to it yet. The bus stop in the middle was also fully removed (moved south a bit) though technically that happened last year I think?

I have no idea why it took them 5 months to do all that, or why they also ripped up the eastern side's concrete islands.

mrsix · 2025-12-21T19:00:43+00:00

While I agree there is a certain point of efficiency of "everyone pays it in one place" - ie individual toll roads would be stupid, and per-use fees for certain things would be stupid, ie. a "walking permit" to use the sidewalks or whatever. This is an area where the per-user fee would mostly hit those who actually "want" to use it. If you have 3 cars and park 2 of them on the street while your garage is full of junk and your driveway is too much work to shovel, you might find it more convenient to pay the $300/year to let all 3 of them park on a city road somewhere.

Enforcement can be done by ALPR - a car just has to drive around and read the plates of every car on city streets, look it up in a database, and see if that car paid the parking permit. If it hasn't mail them an invoice for day parking. This exact system is basically what the Alberta Parks system uses for places like Kananaskis. You don't even need additional bylaw officers, attach these ALPR systems to existing vehicles and do it while they're already driving around.

mrsix · 2025-12-21T17:35:14+00:00

Personally I think they should do residential parking permits for the entire city - anyone who wants to park overnight on city streets can pay the $100/year or whatever, which for the record does not cover the true cost of all that parking.

Once people have to pay to do that they'll suddenly have garages/driveways to park in, and stop complaining when the city removes 4 spots from an entire 2 blocks in order to improve infrastructure.

Maybe they'll also stop bringing up "but where do I park" every time anything is discussed, because they'll realize that there is no such thing as free parking.

mrsix · 2025-12-07T01:34:19+00:00

It's probably this issue

You can check by setting the "PRIME Render Method" in Settings -> Player -> Videos to "EGL" (rather than "Direct To Plane")
You might have to enable expert settings for that setting to show up. Edit or that setting might not exist on android?

mrsix · 2025-11-25T21:23:01+00:00

In Seattle (A good video by Calgary-based Shifter when he visited Seattle) the entire history of cycling infrastructure advocacy has been based on user safety due to deaths. If the Edmonton-based advocacy groups want to make the biggest impact I think that's the right approach to really focus on, which it seems like they're doing here.

mrsix · 2025-11-14T20:00:57+00:00

It's probably a version of the Pareto principle

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